Thread: The State You May Not Criticise

Originally Posted by Paleo Robbie

No they cannot not .
Everything written on Wiki is checked for factual correctness .
Want to prove me wrong ?
Go on the page that I provided and change the facts .
Then come back here and repost it

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Originally Posted by Paleo Robbie

Sorry, could you explain the "bollox" ?
What is "bollox" ?

It means, quite correctly, that you're full of shit . . . and wrong.

Originally Posted by lom

bollox

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Originally Posted by Paleo Robbie

Could you please write what I am wrong about ?

No.


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Guardian fires columnist over 'joking' about US arms sale to Israel


A longtime contributor to British daily the Guardian has been dismissed after criticizing US arms sales to Israel in a Twitter post, which he described as a joke. The newspaper fired Nathan J. Robinson after he said in a post on Twitter that US Congress is legally obligated to buy weapons for Israel.“Did you know that the US Congress is not actually permitted to authorize any new spending unless a portion of it is directed toward buying weapons for Israel? It’s the law,” read the tweet.“Or if not actually the written law then so ingrained in political custom as to functionally be indistinguishable from law,” another tweet said.

Robinson said he was “appalled and depressed to see new funding for Israeli missiles being passed at the same time as pitifully small COVID relief.”

He said that the tweet was a “joke,” in which “I relieved my anger.”

Astonished & grateful at the number of emails I've received from people who have switched from subscribing to the Guardian to subscribing to Current Affairs. We are a small independent media outlet totally reader-funded so we both depend on and appreciate your support. Thank you!
— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) February 12, 2021



Guardian editor John Mulholland who described the tweet as misleading and inappropriate called on Robinson to delete the post and apologize.Earlier this month, Israel approved a nearly $3 billion arms deal with the United States.

Under the agreement, Washington will provide Tel Aviv with F-35 and F-16 fighters and Chinook helicopters.

Israel has long been the largest cumulative recipient of the US military aid.

To date, Washington has provided Israel with $146 billion in bilateral assistance and missile defense funding, according to a report published by the US Congress in November.

It said that almost all US assistance to Israel is in the form of military aid. The regime had also been receiving significant economic assistance from 1971 to 2007

.Guardian fires columnist over 'joking' about US arms sale to Israel (presstv.com)

Oh but of course, if the same Journalist fired off a disparaging tweet comparing Covid relief with a Weapons charity deal to, say, the UK, India, or Thailand- Why the silence would be deafening!

Gina Carano hits back after ‘The Mandalorian’ firing: ‘They can’t cancel us if we don’t let them’

Controversial actress Gina Carano has spoken out about being “cancelled” after she was sensationally dropped from The Mandalorian series.


Actress Gina Carano has finally surfaced after being fired from Disney+ series The Mandalorian earlier this week.

In a statement provided to Deadline, Carano revealed that she is developing and producing a new film for The Daily Wire, a right-wing outlet run by pundit Ben Shapiro.

“They can’t cancel us if we don’t let them,” said the mixed martial arts star turned actress.
Carano, who played former Rebel Alliance soldier Cara Dune on The Mandalorian, was fired from the Disney+ series late Wednesday night, just a few hours after she shared an Instagram post that equated being a modern-day Republican to being a Jew during the Holocaust.

Gina Carano hits back after ‘The Mandalorian’ firing: ‘They can’t cancel us if we don’t let them’ (news.com.au)


Did the gun-toting Right wing biatch deserve that too? Oh but of course- only Jews may use the term Holocaust [TM] in the Post-Truth era. Guess us Goyim will just have to settle for the term Nakba instead.

Originally Posted by sabang

Guess us Goyim will just have to settle for the term Nakba instead

...not unless you're a Palestinian...otherwise, something less dramatic but equally painful to describe the travails of white folks...like tRump in 2016...

Ooooh, so now you are one of the 'offended about everything' brigade.


It took you so long to get in touch with your feminine side, luvvie.


Anyway, No. It was absurd, and laughable. Thats all. Does anyone remember laughter?


You really only need to laugh at idiots, that's all.. Not give them a platform.

Originally Posted by sabang

Not give them a platform

...careful what you wish for......

"O'oooh, as a Republican these days I feel just like a Palestinian during the Nakba." I reckon that one might even get Tom Cruise fired.

^^It seems you don't know what that means.

Tbh, I have no reason to think Gina Carano is anti-Semitic at all. Stoopid and verging on illiterate, sure. Trumpista, obviously. She's just an actress, who's character is probably the most potent symbol of PC Womanpower in the Mandalorian series- but her Twitter account just got a massive boost, and if Jack Dorsey does the Cancelcultural thang and bans her from Tweetypie, she just goes to one of those parrallel RW sites, the Faithful duly follow, and she gets paid a whole lot more commission. Thanks for the free platform.

And now she's a Martyr!! She'll probably Tweet next that she feels just like Joan of Arc.

‘Where do Palestinians go for accountability?’ AP asks a dozen times as State Dep’t flounders

US policy denying Palestinians any avenue of redress against Israeli violations is a public joke, as Matt Lee grills State Spox Ned Price, "Where do they go?"

The International Criminal Court’s decision to investigate war crimes in Palestine continues to stir things up. Israel and its lobby are incensed by the move, and yesterday Vice President Kamala Harris had a call with her friend Benjamin Netanyahu and the two agreed on their opposition to ICC jurisdiction “over Israeli personnel.”

The jurisdiction issue was central to State Department spokesperson Ned Price’s rejection of the ICC case when asked on Wednesday. “The Palestinians do not qualify as a sovereign state.”

But Matt Lee of AP wouldn’t let the question go, demanding 12 times, Where do they go. And all the State Department spokesperson could do is talk about the two state solution and the Jewish state. This is heroic. Transcript:

Lee: Considering your position on the Palestinians now, so where – where do the – where should the Palestinians go to get accountability for what they claim to be problems? To Israeli courts? Where do they go?
Spokesperson Ned Price: Matt, look, we – of course the United States is always going to stand up for human rights. We’re always going to stand up —
Lee: Where do they go? Where do they go?
Price: Matt, that is why I think you have —
Lee: Where?
Price: That is why you have heard us continue to endorse and —
Lee: Ned– where?
Price: — to call for a two-state solution to this long-running conflict. A two-state solution —
Lee: Should they go to the Israeli courts? Where do they go?
Price: — because it protects Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state, but also because it will give the Palestinians —
Lee: Where do they go?
Price: — a viable state of their own and fulfill —
Lee: Where do they go?
Price: — their legitimate aspirations for dignity and self-determination.
Lee: Where do they go? Where do they go? Where do they go?

The Institute for Middle East Understanding summed up the exchange: “State Dept Spox refuses to answer where else Palestinians should turn for justice.”


The IMEU takes up the “Where do they go?” question:

If the list of things the US deems unacceptable includes Palestinian armed resistance, non-violent protest like BDS, conditioning aid to Israel, and seeking out a third party to investigate Israeli war crimes, then how are Palestinians supposed to resist their oppression?

Yes it’s a joke, and a public joke. Yousef Munayyer echoes the point.

Does this standard exist anywhere else in US policy? The idea that there can be no avenues for human rights violations accountability for a people outside an all encompassing political solution to settle all claims which may never happen? I don’t think so.

There is now critical mass on the left in American politics, and support for ICC has resonated from the squad to Bernie Sanders. Rep. Rashida Tlaib:

No one is above the law. The @IntlCrimCourt has the authority and duty to independently & impartially investigate and deliver justice to victims of human rights violations and war crimes in Palestine and Israel. The U.S. should not interfere with its ability to do so.

‘Where do Palestinians go for accountability?’ AP asks a dozen times as State Dep’t flounders – Mondoweiss