Monday, July 18, 2005

THE INABILITY TO LEARN FROM THE PAST Observer: "Likening the Israelis' treatment of Palestinians with the Holocaust is outrageous to most Jews. But Jacqueline Rose has dared to do just that in The Question of Zion. Israel stands on the brink of an abyss, and there are forces in the society that prefer to leap in than to pull back. Fundamentalists of all faiths are besotted with the redemptive power of destruction." Uri Davis, Ilan Pappe, and Tamar Yaron: "We believe that one primary, unstated motive for the determination of the government of the State of Israel to get the Jewish settlers of the Qatif (Katif) settlement block out of the Gaza Strip may be to keep them out of harm's way when the Israeli government and military possibly trigger an intensified mass attack on the approximately one and a half million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, of whom about half are 1948 Palestine refugees." Israel is a state created by terrorism. From all over the world Jews were transported to a country that was the land of the Palestinians for ages. At that moment quite understandable. But the new immigrants had no roots in this land at all. The raison d'être of the state of Israel is that it was the Jews' promised land and to give all Jews a safe haven. To realise that myth they are now actively involved in ethnic cleansing. Racism is rife in Israel; Russian immigrants don't have a high regard of the black Jews. What started as a genuine attempt to rescue the Ethiopian Jews, ended in widespread discrimination. There is not one country in the world that has so much discriminatory laws. 11:44:14 AM    comment []

COCA-COLA AND WATER SHORTAGE BBC: "Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola has threatened an Indian photographer with legal action for using its logo in a poster depicting water shortages." I wonder why people still buy Coca-Cola, it tastes awful. KillerCoke: "Some villagers want to close the bottling plant because they say Coke uses too much water, making wells go dry and crops suffer. They've joined global anti-Coke activists whose campaign has already closed, if temporarily, one of 68 plants that make Coke products in India. In 2003, an independent Indian group, the Center for Science and Environment, tested Coke and Pepsi products and found pesticide residues in excess of European Union standards that were used as benchmarks. Late last year, an Indian high court ruling left both Coke and Pepsi looking at possible product labels warning consumers their drinks might be contaminated. That issue also remains up in the air." 11:12:51 AM    comment []

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