Mr Bigstuff

Rachel Corrie was a US citizen, she was involved in peaceful protests against human rights abuses by the Israeli military. She was deliberately killed by an Israeli bulldozer. How did America react? With indifference.

The biggest problem is the bias in the US media on this issue. Until that changes then people will remain ill-informed and misled.…[Read more]

But it doesn’t work as the examples I gave you proved. Westerners who get killed like Tom Hurndall and Rachel Corrie get a lot of media coverage, the average palestinian peace activist gets little coverage if he gets beaten up or shot dead during a protest. The pro-Israel lobby is too powerful to lose influence over human rights abuses otherwise…[Read more]

I’m not anti-american, I just oppose certain aspects of US foreign policy. I know a lot of people in the US including serving and ex members of the military. Opinions about government policy vary but my friends are grown up enough to realize that criticism of US foreign policy doesn’t equate to hatred of America. They’d be far more offended by the…[Read more]

I’m looking at the issue from a legitimacy perspective. The law is not on the side of the Israeli government but is on the side of the ordinary palestinian. If it seems one-sided that’s because legally it pretty much is. Yes the militants break the law when they target civilians but the scale of violations on the Israeli side is much higher. Even…[Read more]

White-trash is just an old american term, commonly used in the South. I guess it’s what they called trailer-trash before they had trailers. It’s used all the time on US tv shows and is not considered racist.

@rubyred wrote:

/apologies to mr bigstuff for warbling to him other night..*shrug* ..I admit my faults :)

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Getting back to the point, all I’m hearing is just a repetition of the same old stereotypes. You people are obsessed with the size of families which is not really relevant. If a country is poor, the size of a family…[Read more]

1 You said attacking a tank was an act of terrorism. You were wrong.
2 Of course if there are clashes between the IDF and militants then the IDF are entitled to shoot enemy combatants.
3 Members of Palestinian militant groups are Palestinian. They are not born to carry out terrorism they are just ordinary people whose frustration with life under…[Read more]

Once again Emma you can’t tell your ar$e from your elbow. Trade is the most important issue with regard to poverty and absolutely nothing was achieved in relation to that issue. At the G8 the excuse was made that everyone had to wait until the WTO talks last december but at the WTO talks nothing was done to create a fairer trade system or to cut…[Read more]

Once again you make the mistake of calling all military action by Palestinians terrorism. If a suicide bomber targets a military target then it’s not an act of terrorism. The Palestinians have the right to self-defence and so if Israelis invade their land and attack them they are perfectly entitled to take up arms to resist the Israeli state…[Read more]

You’re off in cloud cuckoo land. First of all, the points I made about national liberation were all valid and germane to this situation. Secondly you keep saying that there’s nothing to stop farmers from farming and fishermen from fishing when obviously there is. You’re in a state of denial. You’re so convinced that your point of view is right…[Read more]

All the critics of France are now eating humble pie. Zidane was incredible today. Ribery gave France an extra cutting edge too. There’s a good chance France could go all the way. They would probably meet Germany in the final and it’s hard to predict the outcome, but France are starting to play like they should play and they are the team with the…[Read more]

Didn’t Britain hang lord haw haw? Let’s string up these nazi propagandists too. String them up and then beat them down with sticks like pinatas. Fun for all the family.

You’re just ignoring the facts and basing your opinions on how you think the situation should be, not on how it is. You say that there’s nothing to stop an orange farmer from maintaining his business when his orchard is taken from him but how exactly do you grow oranges without an orchard?

You’re just not being realistic. You say that the…[Read more]

I only seem to make accurate predictions when I don’t place any money on a game. Strange thing about the England game is that nobody remembered Ricardo has a reputation for being good at stopping penalties. He reacts to shots rather than guessing, so you have to hit the ball hard and accurately to beat him like Hargreaves did.

It’s fanciful to imagine that the Palestinians can just get on with their lives while the occupation exists. How is an orange farmer for example supposed to sustain a viable business when his orchard gets chopped down and the land gets taken by the Israeli military. How can Palestinian fishermen conduct their affairs in a normal manner when their…[Read more]

I think France might cause another upset and beat Brazil. Brazil are vulnerable at the back and Henry is one the best strikers in the world.

The England Portugal game is too close to call. England have match winners who can win any match even if the team is playing badly but so do Portugal and Portugal probably have more pace in their side. Figo…[Read more]

What’s stopping Israel from keeping its troops inside Israel? They need the troops there to protect the settlements. Why are there settlements illegally placed on Palestinian land? The hawks in Israel view the Occupied Territories as land given to them by God and therefore theirs to conquer by divine right.

Fatah bent over backwards to accomodate…[Read more]

The fatah government under Arafat and Abbas recognized Israel and made reforms to please the international community but Israel kept moving the goalposts. It said it didn’t want to negotiate until Hamas decommissioned its weapons and disbanded. This was an absurd demand because there was no way the Fatah government could possibly bring this about…[Read more]

The attack on the Israeli military outpost wasn’t an act of terrorism, it was a legitimate act of resistance. There is no law against shooting enemy soldiers in a conflict. There is no law against taking enemy soldiers captive either. The wisdom of the act is questionable but its legitimacy is not.

I feel sorry for the family of the soldier taken…[Read more]

The police and the courts will always make mistakes and that’s why the death penalty is not an acceptable punishment.