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MY RESPONSE TO WILKIE The vast majority of Israelis have hatred for the barbarity of war. It is not something that we have chosen, but have had inflicted upon us since 1948. If you have hatred for the barbarity of war, then why are your misgivings directed solely at Israel and not the palestinians? Do you honestly believe that Israel has waged war on them and their actions constitute self defence? Perhaps you can visit the following link to truly appreciate what I am saying: http://www.all4israel.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=faces David UPDATE: Wilkie responds "Thanks."

RESPONSE FROM PROFESSOR WILKIE I just received this response from Professor Wilkie: Thank you for your further comments. My hatred is for the barbarity of war, not for the Israelis in particular. I don't get applications from the countries you mention, I would also have grave misgivings about them although, as I have been taught by this episode, academic freedom means turning a blind eye to any such misgivings. I will finish by saying that if you met me, I don't think you would find me the monster that you envisage. Yours sincerely Sorry again Andrew Wilkie

PROFESSOR OF HATRED I am sure some of you of you have already read about anti-semitic Oxford professor Andrew Wilkie, who wrote the following email to an Israeli student requesting the oportunity to work in his laboratory: Dear Amit Duvshani, Thank you for contacting me, but I don't think this would work. I have a huge problem with the way that the Israelis take the moral high ground from their appalling treatment in the Holocaust, and then inflict gross human rights abuses on the Palestinians because they (the Palestinians) wish to live in their own country. I am sure that you are perfectly nice at a personal level, but no way would I take on somebody who had served in the Israeli army. As you may be aware, I am not the only UK scientist with these views but I'm sure you will find another suitable lab if you look around. Yours sincerely, Andrew Wilkie I first read about it on Yobbo's blog and immediately felt my blood pressure rising. I have since ...

NICE GUYS DON'T ALWAYS FINISH LAST A moment of on-field sportsmanship from Australian wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist has led to him being signed up to play a role in the corporate world. Gilchrist has joined foreign exchange company Travelex as a non-executive director. The company already sponsors Gilchrist but says it chose him after his decision to walk in the World Cup semifinal despite being given not out. Company chairman Lloyd Dorfman says Gilchrist has showed strong ethics in a high-pressure situation. "Here you've got a guy who is prepared to walk himself out in the critical moment in the semifinal of a World Cup tournament, and in terms of integrity I don't think you can do much better than that." (Taken from OurBrisbane.com ) Go figure....being a nice guy actually helping you climb the corporate chain. Next thing you know, politicians will be telling the truth. At any rate, way to go Gillie! I wonder if Lleyton Hewitt will be ge...

STICKS AND STONES WILL BREAK MY BONES The media generally loves to portray the middle east conflict as a battle between David (the palestinians) and Goliath (Israel). The image of the stone-throwing palestinian teenager juxtoposed against the soldier has become the weapon of choice for the left-wing media. After all, what chance does a stone throwing kid have against an M-16? One fallacy is that having big rocks thrown at your head is not liable to cause any severe damage. Try telling that to a friend of ours whose life has been irrevocably affected by such an occurrence. Another fallacy is that the palestinian teenagers only ever throw rocks. Those of us who actually live here and either serve in the army or have family and friends serving, know that these kids are involved in far more malignant activities. In many cases, their rock-throwing exploits occur in tandem with the firing of real weapons. The idea is to cause our soldiers to think twice about firing back. When ...

"TOUGH CROWD" I just read this article from The Sydney Morning Herald : Man killed for singing Sinatra off-key A 25-year-old Filipino man has been stabbed dead for singing a Frank Sinatra classic out of tune during a birthday party. Police officer Noel Albis said the victim, Casimiro Lagugad, was asked to sing Sinatra's popular song My Way during the party in the Manila suburban city of Caloocan on Sunday. "Witnesses said the suspect, Julio Tugas, 48, one of the guests and a neighbour of the victim, got irked because Lagugad was singing out of tune," Officer Albis said. "Tugas suddenly attacked the victim and stabbed him in the neck," he added. Guests rushed Mr Lagugad to the hospital, but he died while being treated. In my opinion, singing in tune is no easy task. If the assailant felt he could sing the song better, perhaps he should have taken a stab at it.

SUICIDE MISSION I know I talk alot about suicide bombers. But check this out for a suicide mission (taken from The Age, June 23 2003 ): In an unscheduled preliminary to the world heavyweight championship fight in Los Angeles, three spurned autograph seekers took on Mike Tyson in a Brooklyn hotel lobby early on Saturday. Big mistake - everybody lost. Police said the former heavyweight champ was standing in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel at 5.30am, waiting with his sister for a ride to a local airport to catch a connecting flight to the Lennox Lewis-Vitali Klitschko title fight in Los Angeles. Just then, two men and a woman returned to the hotel, drunk, after a night on the town, a police official said. When they asked the former champion for his autograph, Tyson refused and took an escalator up one level, sources said. The three followed. "There is a verbal exchange," said the official. "One of the males (later identified as Samuel Velez, 22, 162 c...

BELGIUM B.S AND BOYCOTTS What is the deal with Belgium?? Firstly, they have taken it upon themselves to mete out "justice" on behalf of the world, by enacting a war crimes law whereby foreigners can be tried no matter where alleged crimes are committed. The law has attracted a score of lawsuits accusing world leaders of all sorts of abuses, including Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (over his role in the killings of palestinians in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982), U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair (over "war crimes" in the war in Iraq). Then we see that they are involved in trying to boycott Israeli-made fruits, as evidenced by this lovely little poster that made its way into my email inbox. This is the same Belgium that was involved in some of the worst atrocities of the last century in the Congo . Their hypocrisy has reached France-like proportions. I feel a retalitory boycott coming on.. ...

TO TRUCE OR NOT TO TRUCE Many segments of the media decried the fact that Israel attempted a hit on Hamas leader Rantisi's life at a time when the palestinian authority was said to be attempting to secure a truce from Hamas. Israel has repeatedly come out against a truce, saying that anything short of the full dismantling of terror groups is insufficient. Is Israel being inflexible? I think the answer lies in the definition of truce ....to Hamas. Perhaps Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Yasin can answer this one.... "It is impermissible for Muslims to stop jihad as long as an Islamic territory is occupied, only in [ie except for] cases of truce with the enemy and until a sufficient force for liberation is gathered." (Hamas leader Sheikh Yasin, in an interview in al- Muharrir (Paris), published 26 December, 1994) "Reconciliation with the Jews is a crime ... If reconciliation means a truce and a cessation of fighting for a specified period of time, I...

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING A LITTLE LIGHTER... Here are some great one-liners from Steven Wright , a very funny guy indeed: I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back. Half the people you know are below average. 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met. OK, so what's the speed of dark? How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink? If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense ...

FUZZY LOGIC These excerpts taken from Islam - The Modern Religion : "Both Jews and Christians believe in that part of the Bible which Christians call the Old Testament. The Old Testament contains references to the prophet Muhammad, on whom be peace and blessings. That Book declared him to be a true prophet...." Nowhere does it say that Muhammad is a true prophet. He is not even mentioned in the Old Testament. "..So it is necessary for the Jew and Christian to believe that Islam is true.You therefore do not need to argue over the details of Islam with a Jew or Christian." Well, I guess if you have such great proof, then why bother debating? "..If he thinks Islam is wrong on any point he has to answer for himself why his Bible recommends Muhammad if he taught a false religion. If he wants to reject the prophet Muhammad (pbuh) then he has to also reject his Bible. But then if he rejects his Bible he is no longer a Jew or a Christian and you ...

COMPLICIT IN TERROR Israeli radio reports today that senior Palestinian cabinet minister Mohammed Dahlan has reportedly demanded that as part of a future cease-fire accord, Israel free Marwan Barghouti , currently on trial for murder, and pardon a number of senior Palestinian officials, including Tawfik Tarawi and Rashid Abu Shbak , currently on Israel's lists of wanted fugitives. Maybe I am missing something, but the new palestinian cabinet is supposed to FIGHT terror, not support it. But then again, look at the credentials of their "prime minister", Abu Mazen, taken from The Media Line : "..He then continued to Moscow where he studied for his doctorate. This doctorate, written in 1982 was entitled "The Truth about the Secret Nazi-Zionist Relations." In this essay he asserted, while quoting Holocaust deniers, that the Zionist movement collaborated with the Nazi Party, not only in order to confiscate the Jews' belongings, but also to anni...

(SELF-HATING) JEWS FOR A JUST PEACE? I have just started hearing about an organization called "Jews for a Just Peace". While I do not know too much about them, their letters to the editor in some Australian newspapers are indicative of what they stand for...palestinian rights and moral equivalency between Israel's responses to terrorism and the terrorism itself. Take the following letter written to the Age newspaper today: Keep talking Jews for a Just Peace vigorously condemns last week's hideous and depressingly ongoing carnage in Jerusalem - the suicide bombings by Hamas against Israeli civilians in response to the "accidental" slaughter of Palestinian civilians by Israeli helicopter gunships in the hunt for Hamas militants in Gaza. These murders make it clear that there are those in this conflict who prefer the slaughter to the peace. Despite this, we urge prime ministers Abbas and Sharon to re-energise their commitment to negotiations - e...

THE TRUTH ABOUT ISLAM AND ANTI-SEMITISM Check out this link: http://www.conceptwizard.com/pipeline_of_hatred.html

WHY I WISH ISRAEL HAD KILLED RANTISI Yesterday's attempted assassination of Hamas leader Rantisi was only regrettable from the point of view that he escaped and still lives. This is a man who coordinates terror operations against innocent men, women and children. To those who say "but he is only resisting the occupation of lands captured in the six day war", I would respond by providing a few excerpts from the Hamas covenant . You decide whether Hamas only wants Israel to withdraw to pre-1967 borders. "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory)." "Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts. It is a step that inevitably should be followed by other steps. The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islami...

JUST IN CASE YOU THOUGHT THE ROAD MAP WAS GOING TO WORK OUT... This just in from the associated press: The Palestinian prime minister said Monday he will not use force against militant groups under any circumstances, despite their stated determination to derail a U.S.-backed peace plan with attacks on Israelis, including two weekend shootings that killed five soldiers. The prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, also defended himself against complaints at home that he has been too conciliatory to Israel, including in a speech at a Mideast summit last week, and that Israel has given little in return. Abbas said he has coordinated every move with Yasser Arafat - a barb at the veteran leader who said in public last week that the summit yielded no achievements. Observations: 1. It is good to see that by giving up more land and security we will receive in return......nothing. 2. It is good to see that Arafat is irrelevant now that there is a new palestinian prime minister.

RICHARD GERE, STICK TO ACTING Some Hollywood actors mistake their acting talents for insight into complex political situations. Take one Richard Gere, who thinks that playing King David on screen means that he should get involved in the middle east conflict. Mr Gere recently visited Israel and met up with various Israeli and palestinian politicians and dignitaries, ostensible to advance the cause of peace. I say ostensibly, because I suspect that his sympathies lie with the palestinians. Take the following excerpt from an article in the Baltimore Jewish Times : "All the people here are involved in action for peace between Jews and Arabs in Israel," Ms. Tamir [Israel's former absorption minister, Yuli Tamir] told Gere, "but we are also working hard on dialogues with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza." For a moment, Mr. Gere threw Ms. Tamir off balance when he asked whether she trusted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's commitment to peace . A...

THE ROAD (MAP) TO HELL This from today's Debka : After Bush departed Sharm al-Sheikh Tuesday, his 5 Arab co-summiteers issued negative statement. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain and Palestinian Authority voiced support for Arafat as elected Palestinian president and endorsed Palestinians right of return to pre-1948 lands, with no mention of need to halt terror and Palestinian armed confrontation. This really sums up the position of the Arab states. Their goal is not two states living in peace side by side but ONE state - Palestine. If they cannot beat us militarily, they will use the so-called "right of return" to vanquish us demographically. Are our leaders oblivious to all of this? Why are we embarking on this suicidal road map? We know that a return to the 1967 borders will only invite more trouble for as long as we breathe air in this land. The best solution I have heard so far comes from Effie Eitam from the NRP who espouses the view that ...