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Israel, Israel Crimes

The state of Israel: A critical Swedish assessment – Pearls and Irritations

Israel Claim “we are only defending ourselves” has never rung true historically

After warning the flotilla to end its attempt to proceed to Gaza, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) sent an elite commando unit to board the Mavi Marmara and other vessels in order to stop their progress, impound the vessels and detain all the protestors (with the assistance of Israeli Navy vessels). The activists were not armed with guns but some used bars (and the IDF said knives) to fight back against the IDF personnel boarding from helicopters and ships. The IDF commandos came armed with guns, tear gas and stun grenades. Nine protestors were shot dead (peppered with bullets according to the Guardian) and around 30 were injured. Several IDF soldiers were injured, some seriously. Mankell was not injured, but along with hundreds of other, he was detained in Israel and then deported to Sweden. Mankell died of cancer in 2015, aged 67.

Source: The state of Israel: A critical Swedish assessment – Pearls and Irritations

LNP Government, Uncategorized

Bushfires and blame – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Moreover Morrison could have done a lot more to reduce the magnitude and impact of this disaster. These fires were not impossible to predict. They actually HAVE BEEN PREDICTED by climate scientists with uncanny accuracy in previous years. Even if he wanted to remain dogmatically against renewable energy, the Prime Minister could still have listened to warnings he has been receiving, by providing greater funding and resources to the fire services (as Bill Shorten would have). But he didn’t because he didn’t like the optics. Declaring a national emergency (which seemed a no-brainer at the time), increasing funding for firefighting services or appealing for international aid might have given greater ammunition to critics of his government’s climate policy at home and abroad. So he did nothing. He is such an empty PR-driven fraud that he is more concerned about the damage these fires can do to him politically than about the damage they are doing to real people’s lives.

And that is the true measure of him. Empty. Fraudulent. Useless.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your Prime Minister and the party he leads.

via Bushfires and blame – » The Australian Independent Media Network