tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post116461805775477469..comments2024-03-29T04:30:50.738+00:00Comments on nourishing obscurity: [litvinenko] the vexed issue of whom your sources areJames Highamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-1165644439591688742006-12-09T06:07:00.000+00:002006-12-09T06:07:00.000+00:00The struggle for Palestine is a nationalistic move...The struggle for Palestine is a nationalistic movement, comprising of both Muslim and Christian Palestinians, supported by a large number of Jews in Israel. The attempt to present it as 'Islamic terrorism' is a zionist ploy, that has resonated well with the US press and congress, to keep the $3Billion aid flowing to Israel, at the idiot taxpayer's expense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-1165644394073989432006-12-09T06:06:00.000+00:002006-12-09T06:06:00.000+00:00The struggle for Palestine is a nationalistic move...The struggle for Palestine is a nationalistic movement, comprising of both Muslim and Christian Palestinians, supported by a large number of Jews in Israel. The attempt to present it as 'Islamic terrorism' is a zionist ploy, that has resonated well with the US press and congress, to keep the $3Billion aid flowing to Israel, at the idiot taxpayer's expenseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-1164631246909354712006-11-27T12:40:00.000+00:002006-11-27T12:40:00.000+00:00Thanks for the comment and as usual, it is well th...Thanks for the comment and as usual, it is well thought out. Reply will be forthcoming but first a working day and then I'll address this this evening, if I may.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-1164623745599506632006-11-27T10:35:00.000+00:002006-11-27T10:35:00.000+00:00James I still want evidence that Politkovskaya was...James I still want evidence that Politkovskaya was on the side of the Chechen rebels. What you've proved is that she had associations with some of them- well she was a reporter and that's ultimately what being a reporter means- if you sent someone to Serbia and they didn't have relations with Milosevic they would be failing to do their job. That doesn't mean that she was on their side.<BR/><BR/>As to the Muslim Litvenenko, sorry if I can't spell it, even if he was a Muslim that wouldn't confirm that he was neccessarily an affiliate to Chechen extremism- all that that proves is that he was a Muslim, it doesn't prove anything else. <BR/><BR/>I take what you say about Israel- but don't you think just as interesting a comparison is to what's happening in Sri Lanka- a war which involves nationalism, religion and terrorism but not Islam. Isn't the problem that we keep on drawing straight lines and saying that there is an Islamic nationalist movement here, here and here- and there is an Islamic plan for global conquest here- therefore they must all be related. Isn't there another way of looking at these conflicts to say that though there is some relationship- there is also a lot of difference between them. That in Israel and Chechnya- what we are talking about is antional struggle with an actual greivance which can be addressed- ie independence for Chechnya, a two state solution in Palestine whereas Al Quaeda can't be negotiated with. That's not to say that there aren't Islamist forces in Chechnya or Palestine but that simply conflating this all into a global struggle against Islam actually is a failure to understand the fact that there are local elements in each case.Gracchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06344262838391424797noreply@blogger.com