Israeli academic peace activists, as rare as rocking-horse shit

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Jews sans frontieres: On unicorns and those radical left Israeli academics
9,000 Israeli academics were individually asked by a few of their colleagues to express support for academic freedom in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Nothing more.

407 signed. That is 4.5%.

So where are all the academics wholead the peace movement in Israel? Where is that bastion of progressivethought, that beautiful Israel that is soooo different from the brutalofficers and the shameless politicians?

This is Israel's conscience. This is Israel's intellectual genius and liberal heart. This is the Peace Movement. 4.5%.

Invented in the USA - The Car Bomb

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The deadliest weapon of the 21st Century
http://www.ndpci.us/media/car_bomb.jpgForget about nuclear missiles, the decisive weapon of the 21st century is the car bomb. All you need is a battered old car, a couple of hundred pounds worth of homemade explosives and you can attack a superpower, start a civil war or just blow up your own government.

When people think of car bombs, they think of insurgents, splinter groups, the Middle East. But surprisingly, the car bomb was invented in America.

The tracks of their tears

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Jews sans frontieres: Bulldoze this!
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The bulldozer as a destructive and even lethal weapon was not invented by the Palestinians. They are merely imitating an Israeli "fashion" that is as old as the state, or at least as old as the occupation. Let us forget for a moment the 416 villages Israel wiped off the face of the earth in 1948 - that was before there were D9 bulldozers - and focus on a more modern fashion.

In Israel's hands the bulldozer has become one of the most terrifying weapons in the territories. The only difference between the Palestinians' murderous bulldozer and the Israeli bulldozer is in color and size. As usual, ours is bigger, much bigger. There is no similarity between the small backhoe the Palestinian terrorist was driving and the fearsome D9 driven by Israel Defense Forces soldiers.

(Good)By(e)- Election?

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SNP delivers political earthquake
Margaret Curran started her campaign in Glasgow East by declaring that the "Labour fightback starts here".

In Tollcross Park Leisure Centre on Friday morning that fightback crumbled under the force of an SNP-inspired "political earthquake". The party's John Mason did the unthinkable and took one of Labour's safest seats - overturning a majority of 13,500 with a swing of 22%...Yet it all seemed so unlikely right up until polling day.

Labour enjoyed a lead in the opinion polls and, in Margaret Curran, had a feisty Glaswegian who could strike a chord with many voters. The bookies, who are very rarely wrong, predicted a tight contest, but still made Labour firm favourites.

And with a better turnout than the ludicrous recent David Davis by-election, at 42%. The SNP didn't win this by default. Labour are in the shit in Scotland. Perhaps we'll see some humility now and they will start taking the SNP seriously. If they don't, and they lose their Scottish base, Labour are finished as a political force in the UK. Simple as.

Help a struggling music executive guv?

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First they came for the miners and I did not speak out

Then they came for the steelworkers and I did not speak out

Then they came for the nurses and still I said nothing

However, they have now come for the decadent drug addled parasites at the top of the music biz and I for one feel the need to pen an utterly unfunny little column before selling my latest promo copies down at Record and Tape Exchange.

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