Iran condemns 'Israeli spy' to death

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Seriously, their top speed is like 10 or 15 miles per hour. It's not like you can't run away from a bulldozer.

7.3 mph forward, according to wiki.

Should she have put on a US Army uniform, go to war and you'll get killed- it's almost Darwin at work. :wacko:

red herring - it must be what's for dinner.

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It wasn't me. I do not support the bulldozing of homes.

i know sousuke.

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7.3 mph forward, according to wiki.

red herring - it must be what's for dinner.

yr pal mawilson is throwing out even stinkier ones. you might try barking over there too.

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yr pal mawilson is throwing out even stinkier ones. you might try barking over there too.

So where's the Syrian flotilla? It was unconscionable to stand back and allow Syrians to be butchered.

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even when there are multiple bad things going on in the world, it's ok to talk about one specifically, and take action on one specifically, at that moment. it hardly means that one is oblivious to or ignoring the other bad things going on, or thinks that those other bad things going on are ok. but if that's how you want to play it, go right ahead. since you keep banging a drum about syria, in a thread that's currently discussing the gaza flotilla, i'm going to advance the opinion that all of yr screeching about syria here means that you don't give a rip about the congo. you're talking about syria?! why do you hold congo to a different standard-women are being mass-raped there, and the slaughter is unparalleled. it's unconscionable to bring up syria, when there's congo!

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http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/ths/article/Humanitarian-group-Zakat-Foundation-donates-50-000-to-Syria372

Due to ongoing humanitarian needs in Syria, the Zakat Foundation of America (ZF), a humanitarian non-profit in Bridgeview, Illinois, will be donating $50,000 to Syria.

Halil Demir is the executive director of ZF and he spoke about the crisis in Syria. ZF also has representatives in 46 different countries around the world.

"Due to our established presence in this region before this crisis, we were able to mobilize quickly. ...[T]he situation in Syria continues to worsen and the need for assistance becomes more dire each day," said Demir.

Zakat is a development and relief group that helps Africa, South Asia as well as the Middle East.

pwned.

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So, asking you to be honest and post something truthful is personally attacking you? Nice to see your perspective on this.

You won't know truth if it spit in your face, which it often does. You also wouldn't know how to comment on the topic.

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There's no such thing as a "peaceful flotilla". Any flotilla sailing towards the

Gaza Strip is an intentional violation of Israeli law and is a deliberate act of

provocation.

** "Israeli law". On the one hand, they want to say they're not occupying Gaza, on the other hand, they actually occupying Gaza, The flotillas are a necessary act of civil disobedience against a rogue, provocateur nation.

My point is, feel free to be brave but don't complain when you get shot in the head.

I bet you give dead Israelis the same advice, no?

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red herring - it must be what's for dinner.

That's odd because you're serving up cow patties.

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You think it's a fuсking game? Israel's laws are a fuсking joke to you and you can just break them when you feel like it?

Well it's not a game - Israel is very serious about its security. If you fuсk the system, the system will fuсk you back and Furkan Durkan and anybody else who gets in the way.

Does Israel rule the world?

With many of the major powers bowing to Tel Aviv, those aboard the Freedom Flotilla should be praised for risking their lives

By Linda S. Heard, Special to Gulf NewsPublished: 00:00 June 1, 2010

Yesterday, the Israeli military attacked and boarded one of the Turkish aid ships sailing to Gaza as part of a flotilla, killing 19 and injuring many more. As this occurred in international waters, it is not only an act of piracy but could also be construed as an ‘act of war'. This attack on unarmed civilian men and women illustrates the moral depths to which the Jewish state has sunk. An Al Jazeera reporter on board the vessel says the Israelis fired live bullets even after a white flag was hoisted. This atrocity and the potential fall-out should merit loud condemnation from the international community ... but don't hold your breath! We have yet to witness the extent of Turkey's response.

Why are so many nations bending to Israel's will or staying silent on its crimes? What is it about this minuscule country that enables it to have so much control on decisions made by larger and more powerful nations? It refuses to abide by international laws and treaties. It illegally occupies great swathes of Palestinian land and it's imposing an illegal blockade on Gaza. Moreover, it is the only country that could get away with assassinating its enemies on foreign soil.

If any other country or territory with a smaller population than New York behaved as outrageously as Israel, it would be isolated, boycotted and, perhaps, even invaded. Yet, Israel gets away with ignoring a long list of UN Security Council resolutions — as opposed to Saddam's Iraq, which was invaded, plundered and occupied on those same grounds.

Israel has a stockpile of undeclared nuclear weapons and, as documentation recently released by Pretoria confirms, was prepared to sell nuclear warheads and technology to South Africa during apartheid; a reality that counters US claims that Israel is a responsible democracy that would never supply weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to rogue states. Iran, on the other hand, which does not have nuclear weapons — and, unlike Israel, is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) — is being subjected to UN sanctions.

Last Friday, all 189 signatories to the NPT — including the US — agreed to hold a conference during 2012 "on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons ..." Sounds good! President Barack Obama has espoused the idea of a nuclear-free Middle East. The entire Arab world has been pushing for a nuclear-free Middle East and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has long called for a nuclear-free region.

But wait! The usual suspect, Israel, is none too pleased because it believes it is being singled out. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the call as "deeply flawed and hypocritical", while his office has issued a statement that reads: "As a non-signatory state of the NPT, Israel is not obligated by the decisions of this conference, which has no authority over Israel".

No surprise there! But then Obama promptly does an about-turn, saying, "We strongly oppose efforts to single-out Israel and will oppose actions that jeopardise Israel's security". His message begs the question, how on earth can the region ever be free of nuclear weapons if Israel is kept out of the equation when it is the only nuclear country in the area?

Change of heart

Now here's a turn of events that makes me wonder whether America's capital city is actually Tel Aviv. When the proposed uranium swap between Iran and Brazil that is slated to take place on Turkish soil was recently announced, the White House dismissed it as a delaying tactic on the part of Tehran and began to pressurise UN Security Council members to agree to a new round of anti-Iranian sanctions. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says a proposal that buys time for Iran "makes the world more dangerous, not less".

In response, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the US and its allies of "lacking a fair and sincere approach". He is absolutely right and it appears that the Brazilian president agrees with him.

In a break from protocol, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has leaked a letter he received from his US counterpart in April this year in which Obama warmly supported the uranium swap, provided Iran were to agree to Turkey holding its low-enriched uranium "in escrow" for up to a year.

"Iran has never pursued the ‘escrow' compromise and has provided no credible explanation for its rejection," Obama wrote. Now that Tehran has rubber-stamped the very procedure Obama advocated in the missive, it seems that he is unable to take ‘yes' for an answer. Could it be because Netanyahu has denounced the fuel deal as "trickery" intended to avoid international sanctions?

The US is far from being the only country allowing Israel to call the tune. Greek Cypriot authorities attempted to prevent a group that included 17 Irish, Bulgarian and Swedish members of parliament from travelling on small ferry boats to join the aid flotilla attempting to break the siege of Gaza in order to protect the island's "vital interests".

When much of the western world bows and scrapes in front of the Israeli standard, those aboard ships in the Flotilla should be applauded for risking their lives to do what is right. It's beyond time that the international community grew a backbone and followed suit!

- Linda S. Heard is a specialist writer on Middle East affairs. She can be contacted at: lheard@gulfnews.com

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So where's the Syrian flotilla? It was unconscionable to stand back and allow Syrians to be butchered.

But Palestinians are OK, apparently.

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And, Israel is tomorrow's South Africa & Rhodesia. They also used to tout their "democracies" and their friendship with the US.

Cardinal Richelieu famously opined,"treason is only a matter of dates." Today's Hamas is yesterday's Irgun, it all depends on your P.O.V.

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I have difficulty feeling sorry for a people that rob and steal to become a nation, then complains that they are victoms when their neighbors don't like having thieves and liars in their neighborhood.

i have a difficult time feeling sympathy for someone who intentionally stands in front of a bulldozer - it's almost darwin at work.

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Then, why do Israelis keep reelecting them?

Is it any more demented than electing a known terrorist organization to represent your national interests?

The way Israel ignores international law makes it a joke, a political game, dominated by interest groups.

When "international law" is applied singularly to one country, unequally, it's not a law - it's a joke, a political game, dominated by interest groups.

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Seriously, their top speed is like 10 or 15 miles per hour. It's not like you can't run away from a bulldozer.

Did you also make fun of this guy?