It's communism. Except instead of worshiping some ideal system of
relations, they celebrate a cruel and vicious god.
Question of the day: can these people outdo the communists? Can they
outdo Rwanda? Can they do it?
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:45 PM, doug <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
I am not a supporter of any state, or political system, or any
religion and as close to being a pacifist as one can be without
being one. I don't support terrorism either, whether it be by a
so called liberation or revolutionary organisation, or by a nation
state. Having said that, and after reading the confidential
Israeli Project Report of 2009, available on Cryptom*e.
* see url:
*2014-1040.pdf
<http://cryptome.org/2014/07/il-global-language-dictionary.pdf> *
I did some research on Hamas and where they came from and what
they believe in and what actions they have taken since coming to
power in Gaza. Their history is that they developed out of the
Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, many, many decades ago. The same
group which was recently deposed from power in a military coup
organised by the Egyptian armed forces, after their elected leader
was arrested for advocating and organising violent methods to
spread the cause of the Brotherhood, whilst state President.
Hamas advocated a policy in the past which they have yet to
revoke, which says that Jews are the lowest scum on the planet
and to be removed from their lands and that Israel should not be
recognised as a state. You can look it up on the web if you don't
believe me...
see url:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Covenant
And, I have to say that I am not surprised that Israel are
calling up their reservists and preparing to attack Gaza again, if
not occupy it. They have already resumed returning fire after
Hamas fired rockets at them killing a 4 year old boy. I don't
know what one does to stop these rockets being fired on the
civilian population of Israel willy nilly and I don't know what I
would do if someone tried to take my home away from me with no
legal redress for me to get it returned. I do know how I would
feel being told that I had to get out of my house or area because
it is going to be targetted by bombs and rockets though...full of
resentment, and I dare say, hatred towards the perpetrators; to
say the least. Hitler thought that he could get the British
people to submit to him by attempting to bomb London and other
major cities out of existence. He thought that they would blame
and turn on Churchill...didn't work of course...doesn't work like
that. Hitler wasn't the first to think that...and he obviously
isn't the last. The USA tried it in Vietnam.
The Middle East is becoming a right old mess, with masses of
people being murdered, raped, abused, tortured, captured,
enslaved, made homeless and countryless. The "western" powers
have really helped screw things up too, and have to take their
share of the blame. Now they don't know what to do, except a bit
more bombing and violence, and supplying arms, logistics and
intelligence to people who were once enemies and now being
considered as friends...or the lessers of two evils...or the evils
of two lessers. They are sending in some humanitarian aid,
peanuts of course, compared to the massive expenditure on war
materials over the last 15 years. As Christian countries we don't
want to welcome even Christian refugees from the Middle East to
our countries, even though our Christian governments are a large
part of the problem.
I don't understand why cutting off someone's head whilst they are
handcuffed and still alive, filming it, putting it on youtube and
boasting about what a great achievement it is, and saying how
brave and revolutionary they are; or how such an act will get me
to support Islam, or Moslem philosophy, or how it is supposed to
make me either fear them, or make me fall in love with their
religion and adopt their belief systems either. To think that
some of these extremists were educated and lived in the UK for
most of their lives, they didn't starve, they have decent
homes...there may have been discrimination at some point in their
lives, but surely the UK wasn't that bad. There is some kind of
sick and faulty logic there. I know that there are some nasty
practices and theories described in the Christian Bible and know
about the Crusades of early Christianity, and I assume that there
must be similar descriptions in the Koran. Those books are not
the only sources of inspiration or ideas or imagination in the
world, and never have been.
I don't understand why, either, those rich Arab States such as
Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain or Iran are not sending lots of
humanitarian aid to Gaza and encouraging peace, helping it to
rebuild instead of supporting the likes of Hamas, whilst doing
little or nothing to help the citizens of Palestine. Arabs have
lived in the Middle East since time immemorium, for at least 3000
years. The Jewish religion has been around for 2500 years and the
Christian religion for 2000 years and the Muslim religion for 1600
years. There have been many mass migrations into and out of the
Middle East in that time. Is it a struggle for dominance, for
ownership of land and resources between Muslim and Jew, is it
religion, is it beliefs and if so, is this really the best, or the
only way to go about it. Huge sums are being spent on armaments
for the region which are then supplied by the U.S. and the U.K.
and other European countries, to various countries, such as Egypt
and Israel, and Saudi Arabia and Qatar, whilst huge amounts are
spent by the Russians and the Chinese on the likes of Iran. The
terrorists appear to get supplied by everyone, one way or another.
I am old enough to remember the IRA and Protestant terrorist
organisations in Northern Ireland using bombings, kidnappings,
kneecapping, torture and other forms of violence to punish or keep
certain dissenting sections of the population in check,
self-policing they called it, showing their might and strength.
They also raised money from businesses by using protection rackets
of various kinds, as well as fund-raising from gullible people and
states abroad. The money was used to buy arms from the likes of
Libya and through back doors from some of the main arms
manufacturers. And I remember too, the bombings in London, I was
living and studying there at the time. Though the explosions were
frightening, they didn't change my mind or stop me from carrying
on as I have always done. In fact they made me more determined,
that the peaceful protest is and always will be the best way to
progress and move society forward. Eventually, the IRA and the
Protestant groups screwed the nut, realised that they were on a
hiding to nothing and negotiated a ceasefire and eventually, a
peace agreement and destroyed their weapons and adopted the
political route. People are now a lot better off, alive and
kicking, even though the economy has slowed down a lot.
It is no use, it seems to me to allow Gaza to have a free right
to import what it likes, when even the cement given by the
Israelis for building and rebuilding homes and other facilities is
used to build tunnels, where the terrorists can move banned goods
such as armaments and hide and launch attacks on Israel, yet the
ordinary people cannot get access to them for protection from the
bombings by Israel. Elected or not, Hamas is a terrorist
organisation, in my mind, and being elected does not mean that
terrorist methods should be used to subdue the population, or to
attack another state just because they are different and don't
want to recognise their existence.
The Vietnamese used tunnels to protect their populations and
industries when they were fighting against a foreign state
occupying their land and which was attempting to take it over
permanently, for the reason of killing off the communists and
proving the "Domino Theory". In fact there were tunnels under Da
Nang Air Base with quite a sizable community producing goods to
help their war effort, unsuspected by the USA. Wouldn't happen
nowadays, of course, such projects are well known around the
world, the element of surprise has gone, and all sorts of
technology can be used to find out where the tunnels are, and
attacks have to come from somewhere. In Gaza there are tunnels
which not only bring in goods which break the blockade, but
penetrate into Israeli territory, where attacks are made on the
civilian population.
It's a crazy ole world right enough...
ATB
Dougie.
