Last night I was privileged to be invited by a friend to sit Shiva at the home of his father, a survivor of both Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Ravensbrück, who died, aged 82 in London on Tuesday 28 December. Two fellow survivors, who came to London after the war as part of the ’1945 Group’ [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Jerusalem Post reports 'no international pressure to end op' (Gaza ethnic cleansing)
December 29, 2008 – 5:21 pm
“After all, who remembers the Armenians?” (Adolph Hitler). By John J Kelly. Israel is feeling “no real pressure” from the world to end the operation in the Gaza Strip, and the amount of time the international community will sit relatively quietly on the sidelines depends on how things develop, senior diplomatic officials said Sunday. According [...]
UN Resolution 446 revisited and another Neo-coincidence
December 29, 2008 – 12:05 pm
The US and its ‘allies’ pursued an aggressive ‘war’ counter to the 4th Geneva Convention against Iraq on the spurious justification that Iraq had ignored a UN resolution. Israel is in breach of more than 65 UN Resolutions, but the most significant, Resolution 446, passed in 1979 with abstensions from the UK, Norway and the [...]
Israel delivers a housewarming present to Obama – Armageddon
December 28, 2008 – 7:18 pm
Remember the PFLP? Well, they’re back, thanks to helicopter gunship diplomacy. By John J Kelly from sources in Gaza There is still time for Israel to pull back from the endgame, but we are being told that the wanton slaughter of the past two days has met with ‘widespread public approval on all sides [...]
Update – Turkey condemns Israeli airstrikes as Gaza death toll rises to 225
December 28, 2008 – 12:44 am
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose country has been playing a key role in attempting to mediate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, became the one of the first ‘western-style democracies’ to openly condemn Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza. Silobreaker.com posted the following interview with Erdogan from the International News. Turkey, traditionally a close economic and political ally, has [...]
Update: Israeli F-16s blitz Gaza in a run-up to the February elections
December 27, 2008 – 11:29 am
Forget about sending aid – the previous post has unfortunately been rendered redundant by the news that Israel has attacked Hamas-run security compounds in Gaza, killing hundreds of civilians and wounding others – including the almost-obligatory deaths of two small girls allegedly killed by Hamas – in the process. See Gaza attacks. Although rocket attacks [...]
Inhumanitarian aid to Gaza before the turkey shoot?
December 27, 2008 – 9:47 am
Posted by John J Kelly – story by Sameh Akram Habeeb, supplied by Patrick MacManus The good news is that it has been reported that Israel is allowing 100 trucks with desperately-needed ‘humanitarian aid‘ into Gaza. The bad news is that is is probably part of a publicity campaign to divert attention from incursions into [...]
Bob be Nimble, Bob be Quick. Resign from the enquiry now.
December 22, 2008 – 1:27 pm
Although THUS promised to stop wittering about the Damian Green arrest and various attempts to paint the Tories in the unlikely role of supporters of terrorism, yesterday’s ‘revelation’ that Bob Quick, Head of the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Unit, who is coincidentally leading the investigation into the Home Office leaks which resulted in the arrest of [...]
Loss of Phorm at adware company – and we can't wait for those ID cards, allegedly
December 19, 2008 – 7:27 pm
ZD Net reported that Delaware-registered adware company Phorm (THUS passim) has lost its UK CEO, Hugo Drayton, who leaves the company ‘by mutual agreement’ at the end of December. Lyn Millar, Finance Director has also resigned. They have been replaced by London-based deputy chief executive officer Nan Richards, and UK managing director Nick Barnett. Richards [...]
A Victory for Local Oddballs Everywhere
December 19, 2008 – 7:06 pm
The news that Rachel Nickell’s killer, Robert Napper, has been convicted of the crime, will doubtless bring relief to Ms Nickell’s long-suffering loved ones. But perhaps no-one will be more relieved than Colin Stagg, the eccentric but completely innocent man whom the police decided had dunnit, and who, despite having had his trial for the [...]