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mr.drs.Bou:

Dear Occupiers, Sorry If We Hurt Your Feelings

Not one Israeli statesman today intends to apologize for the Nakba – not for the ethnic cleansing, nor for the exiling. But Abbas had no choice but to apologize for his Holocaust remark

By Gideon Levy

May 07, 2018 “Information Clearing House” –

It’s hard to imagine a more unfounded, bizarre and insane scenario than this: The leader of the Palestinian people is forced to apologize to the Jewish people. The one who was robbed apologizes to the robbers, the victim apologizes to the rapist, the dead to the killer.

After all, the occupiers are so sensitive – and their feelings, and only theirs, must be taken into account. A nation that hasn’t stopped occupying, destroying and killing, and has never considered apologizing for anything – anything – gets its victims to apologize for one measly sentence by their leader. The rest is known: “apology not accepted.” What did you think would happen? That it would be “accepted”?

You don’t have to be an admirer of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to understand the depths of the absurd. You don’t have to be an Israel hater to understand the extent of the chutzpah.

mr.drs.Bou:

Eclipsing Factionalism: The missing story from the Gaza protests

By Ramzy Baroud

May 08, 2018 “Information Clearing House” –

The Gaza border protests must be understood in the context of the Israeli Occupation, the siege and the long-delayed ‘Right of Return’ for Palestinian refugees. However, they should also be appreciated in a parallel context: Palestine’s own factionalism and infighting.

Factionalism in Palestinian society is a deep-rooted ailment that has, for decades, thwarted any unified effort at ending the Israeli military Occupation and Apartheid.

The Fatah and Hamas political rivalry has been catastrophic, for it takes place at a time that the Israel colonial project and land theft in the West Bank are occurring at an accelerated rate.

In Gaza, the siege continues to be as suffocating and deadly. Israel’s decade-long blockade, combined with regional neglect and a prolonged feud between factions have all served to drive Gazans to the brink of starvation and political despair.

mr.drs.Bou:

Roger Waters gaat naar Rusland, hij geeft op 31 augustus een concert in Moskou. Het volgende interview door The Saker gaat daarover en over veel meer. Voor de fans:

Roger Waters: “You want to start a war with the Russians? Are you crazy?”

Lees het hele interview, het heeft geen zin om er uit te citeren. Ik plaats alleen het commentaar van The Saker:

Comment by the Saker: first, I want to say that it is a big joy for me to see one of my favorite composers, musicians and singers speak up on behalf or Russia and, even more so, on behalf of common sense. Especially at a time when Russian singers like Boris Grebenshchikov and Iuri Sevchuk display a total lack of moral compass or care and spend all their time either bashing Putin (Sevchuk) or partying with the worst russophobic scum like Saakashvili (Grebenshchikov). I wrote about this disgraceful behavior here. As for western singers, let’s not even go there. They are more concerned with transgender toilets or banning firearms then about an openly Nazi regime in the Ukraine (or in Israel, for that matter). Generally, I think that artists should stay out of politics because being a good artist does not necessarily qualify you to comment on issues where you have no expertise in whatsoever. Roger Waters, however, is unique in that 1) he does have the courage to go against the hyper-politically-correct fad of the day and that 2) he has always looked at social, civilizational and political issues, which brings him very close the the Russian tradition of poets and authors being the “conscience of the nation”.

The Ukronazis are, of course, absolutely furious and they have immediately declared that Waters is a “criminal”. See here for more details on the latest Ukronazi hysterics. The original Ukie page is here: https://myrotvorets.center/criminal/uoters-rodzher/ (with some Ukropop music with Nazi slogans to boot!).

It is good to see that honest men still exit.

The Saker

mr.drs.Bou:

Roger Waters: Neoliberal propaganda keeping voters ‘asleep’ like Orwellian sheep

mr.drs.Bou:

Nog even over Roger Waters en de boycot tegen Israël:

Invoking ‘anti-Semitism’ to silence people works – until it doesn’t. Then what?

Musician and activist Roger Waters is the latest public figure targeted for cancelation on charges of anti-Semitism, but the heavy-handed pressure tactic is actually doing advocates of Israel more harm than good.

Waters got advertisements for his concert tour yanked from Major League Baseball platforms, after the Jewish organization B’nai Brith wrote an angry letter to MLB last month.

The former Pink Floyd guitarist is an “individual with an alarming history of anti-Semitic hatred” and his views on Israel “far exceed the boundaries of civil discourse,” the letter said. The MLB responded in private, then announced on Saturday there were “no plans to schedule any more ads.”

What got Waters ‘canceled’ was his support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. The Palestinian movement is modeled after the campaign against apartheid South Africa, which eventually led to the adoption of majority rule there in 1994. Israeli authorities have declared that the true aim of the BDS is to delegitimize Israel and wipe it off the map.

The US has become a major battleground for both sides in the BDS fight, however, with 27 states passing laws that refuse contracts to anyone engaging in a boycott of Israel. Former RT host Abby Martin – who most recently produced a documentary about Gaza that was highly critical of Israel – recently ran afoul of that law in Georgia, where she was blocked from speaking at a media literacy conference.

Dat de Zionistische staat Israël de Palestijnse bevolking eerst heeft verjaagd en nu plaagt met een militaire bezetting, met bombardementen en het plat bulldozeren van hun huizen, met een betonnen muur en “checkpoints”, daar mag men niets van zeggen, want de Holocaust…

Die inhumane onzin moet STOPPEN. Koop dus geen producten die uit Israël komen. De barcode van Israël begint met 729.