Sunday, October 11, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
JPost: 'Accepting Goldstone may tie UK's hands' - 'Israeli officials on Sunday responded harshly to remarks British ambassador to the UN John Sawers made about the Goldstone Commission's report on Operation Cast Lead, saying that London could become a target of legal action if it decided to back the report. "London, which is also in the midst of a war against terror, could find itself in handcuffs if it supports the document," officials told Army Radio..."We do not intend to let terror win," Ehud Barak said in a statement issued by his office. "We will not apologize in any way for our just struggle against terrorism. We will do everything possible so that the representatives of Israel, security officials and soldiers of the IDF will continue to freely travel the world. The theater of the absurd whereby those who defend their citizens need to be on the defensive has to end. Otherwise, the world is likely not only to give a prize to terrorism, but to encourage it."...' [What goes around, comes around.]
Think of this in the context of WWII and it's even more absurd.
Goldstone is the tip of the iceberg.
http://boycottscotland.com/
Interesting link Eddie.
Looking at the world through the lens of the oil industry is also pretty revealing.
This is particularly true vis a vis certain British policies vs the Yishuv, victims of the Shoah and subsequently policies and bias against Israel.
It's tempting but inaccurate to put this all down to antisemitism. I'm convinced there were and are commercial interests involved also. This probably applies as well to the "realist" philosophy here in the US.
How many "realists" define American interests in terms of the petroleum industry?