David vs Goliath, cont.

Some more random thoughts.

Really random, too – it's Friday afternoon and I don't have the energy to order my thoughts properly right now. I'm sure you know the feeling.

Here's an article, by the always excellent Naomi Klein, on the proposed boycott of USrael. Finally someone with something sensible to say about it.

If you can read Swedish and you're interested in the Gaza conflict, both the ongoing savagery and in general, this is a fantastic blog on mainly that subject. He has lots of readers and often gets great discussions going.

You may have heard about the two Norwegians who went to Gaza soon after the attacks began, Drs Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse. They came home to Norway a couple of days ago, after two weeks in hell. While in Gaza, they gave such reports as they could to international media who were all denied access to the area. Dr Gilbert sent an sms to a Dagbladet reporter, an sms which quickly spread across the country. My translation:

They bombed the central vegetable market in Gaza city two hours ago. 80 injured, 20 killed, the lot came here to Shifa. Hades! We're wading in death, blood and amputated limbs. Lots of children. Pregnant woman. I have never experienced anything this horrible. Now we can hear tanks. Tell it to others, pass this message on, shout it out. Everything. DO SOMETHING! DO MORE! We're living in the history books now!

That's his experience. He has chosen to go through all this and he has shared it with the world (which came asking). And then he's criticized for being 'biased'. 'Biased'. WTF is that?? How can he POSSIBLY not be biased?? He's standing there, right in the middle of it. What should be done to report this objectively?? Should there have been some deluded Zionist there too saying … what … Amputate, schmamputate, that arm would have fallen off anyway. I mean, WTF? When you watch little children dying in terror and pain, I don't think it's fair to expect an objective account of it afterwards. It sucks. That's a fact.

And that's the problem, isn't it? The facts. It doesn't matter what people report from Gaza now – it doesn't matter if it's reported objectively or not. The facts speak for themselves. Whatever we hear, however it's presented, it will all be bad for USrael. And don't they know it.

Dr Gilbert and Dr Fosse are heroes. I say we take Peres' Peace Prize back from the old scumbag and give it to them instead.

Next: something to keep in the back of your mind. USrael are saying that they had to do something, right, because Hamas ended the truce? Wrong. Another lie. Hamas were ready to extend the truce. That's the underreported fact. The problem was that they had terms. They wanted a real truce. No more blockade and no more raids. That's what they wanted … and that was the excuse that the USraeli government needed to carry out this particular part of their election campaign. Disgusting, sickening, immoral. No one could get away with this but USrael.

In closing, a question. A serious question, I'm not trying to be a bitch or a troll or anything. What exactly is the fundamental difference between the National Socialism current in Germany in the 1930s and -40s on the one hand, and on the other the National Zionism thriving in USrael today? I can spot the surface dissimilarities. But fundamentally, deep down, at the core – what is the difference? I can't spot that.

How ironic would it be if what the Jews primarily learned from their experiences under the Third Reich was how to carry out an efficient genocide?

And people still think there is a god. All I can say is, if there was one, he must really hate us humans something awful.

'Gaza's Reality'

Must-watch video.

Brace yourselves.

Question for Shimon Peres

We deemed it necessary to strike the people of Gaza a hard blow.

Why was that, Mr Peres?

Because the way it was before, they didn't hate you enough??

I wish we'd award the Peace Prize with an option to take it back later. >:-(

David vs Goliath

In which, since this is the real world and not an ancient book of irrational fairy tales, Goliath stomps on David and brutally crushes him.

I said yesterday that my next post would be about something serious, so ... here you go. Some random thoughts on the brutal slaughter now ongoing in the open-air prison known as Gaza, referred to by Western media - for some incomprehensible reason - as a 'war'.

First of all: I am not an anti-Semite. Despite the fact that I am Norwegian. Whatever you may have heard, anti-Semitism is not rampant in this country. Forces in USrael clearly have an interest in tarring us with that brush. This is because they either are incapable of distinguishing, or because they do not wish to distinguish between entirely valid criticism of policies carried out by the government of USrael on the one hand, and dislike of Jews in general on the other. These things are unrelated. It's obvious that there are many who have great political interest in the blurring of the line between them. Don't let them get away with it. Anti-Semitism is not more widespread in Norway than in any other European country - and to the extent that it is in fact growing, I, for my part, blame the current USraeli regime for that - but the political climate here allows more criticism of USrael than in certain other places. (Sweden, I'm looking at you.) And that is exactly what the powers that be in USrael don't like and would rather stamp out if they only could.

I am not an anti-Semite - to be honest I don't care about the Jewish people either way, for or against. I am against their religion, as I loathe and despise all religions of Middle Eastern origins. But that's another story. What I am, though, and not ashamed to admit it, is an anti-Zionist. I don't believe these people should have their own state. Look at what those that they have elected are using it for. They're doing to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to them. It makes me sick. USrael use the Holocaust for all it's worth - it's an industry, literally - and there's a significant group of USraelis always banging on about how we must never forget the Holocaust, never forget the Holocaust, on and on. (Despite the fact that they, percentage-wise, clearly suffered less than other groups who are almost never mentioned in this connection.) But personally, I think I could have managed to remember the godawful Holocaust with only verbal reminders - I do not need a reenactment.

Random thoughts ...

The reason for the offensive against Gaza now is that there is an election coming up in USrael, and Kadima want to win. That's it. 'Defending against aggression from Hamas' = LIES AND BULLSHIT. Lies, lies, lies, that's all the USraeli regime spews out into the world. It's worthless. They offend my intelligence with their blatant mendacity. They're dropping bombs on Gaza to 'take out' Hamas rocket firing ramps. Are you fucking kidding me??! Those things are portable!! They're so goddamned tiny that one person can probably carry a dozen of them at a time. This lie is so obvious that it's ridiculous. But the Western media swallow it hook, line and sinker. A lot of people ought to be really ashamed of themselves.

Two Arab parties have been denied participation in next month's elections. Has this been reported in our media? I haven't seen it. Allegedly, they can't be allowed to participate because they have the political goal of destroying USrael. Another lie. What they want is to create a true democracy in USrael, one which gives equal civil rights to every citizen regardless of religious affiliation and/or ethnic background. But of course, that would destroy USrael from the point of view of many.

The Wall. A complete and utter abomination. The UN should go in and physically tear it down. But oh no, it's so useful, it's decreased the number of suicide bombings by umpteen! Bullshit. You can get over the wall if you want. It happens. The suicide bombings dropped in number because Hamas leaders ordered it - because they realized it was costing them foreign support. Something USrael itself ought to learn from.

An average USraeli citizen is 34 times more likely to be killed in traffic than by a Hamas rocket. That's according to USraeli statistics. NO, it's not right for Palestinians to kill USraelis. That's not what I'm saying. It's not right for anyone to kill anyone. But if some random unknown family had come to your house (backed by the police), taken your house for themselves and forced you to live in the filthy dangerous basement, based on the claim that their great-great-great-great-great grandpa lived there first. You would not take that sitting down.

This makes me so fucking angry. I have more random thoughts ... but I probably ought to take a walk round the block before writing more just now. People absolutely suck.

Arne Næss, 1912-2009

He died today.

Yes, it's sad. But what a life. We should all be so lucky. Except that his nephew died before him, that must have been hard to bear. They were such close friends.

Arne would probably say that he's off on his newest adventure. The best of luck to him.

This just in

The official Eurovision Song Contest homepage has gotten its makeover for Moscow 2009. I kind of miss the old look now. :-) But yeah, I know, it was soo 2008. ;-) To visit the site, click here.

Bosnia & Hercegovina has chosen their entry, but it's not available to us ordinary mortals yet ... the composer's called Aleksandar Čović and the entry is a song called Bistra voda. It's going to be performed by a band called Regina. But it won't be revealed to the world until March 1st. Ooh ... the excitement ... !!

;-)

My next post will be about something more serious, I promise. But check out the article on eurovision.tv about the B&H entry. 'The band dissembled soon after' ... ! LOL!

Getting there ...

At Spaceworld at Tveita mall this afternoon. I must resist ... must ... resist ...