Comments on: UK trade unionists visit Israeli and Palestinian counterparts

By: freddie

freddie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:42:52 +0000

You can suggest it….

By: Iain

Iain — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:33:11 +0000

You’re all like a bunch of schoolchildren playing stuck in the mud. None of you seem to have grasped that people who comment on blogs tend to be quite puerile in one way or another. Rather, you choose not to grasp this because you’d rather talk about Mr M than the article – Ben was the only person to raise a point about its content. I suggest everyone here grows up a little.

By: Abu Faris

Abu Faris — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:12:08 +0000

Mr M, you are clearly quite stupid.

My point was that *all* the leading players in the PLO (Fateh, PFLP and DFLP) supported this Palestinian Trade Uniuon movement (and by extension its links with its Israeli equivalent). WHo were you to know better than Palestinian organised labour, I was asking – and further to go against the line of the Palestinian people’s internationally acknowledged representatives, the PLO?

My other point was that contrary to the (mostly) secular PLO, the militant Islamists not only rejected the Palestinian Trade Unionists’ links with Israel, but also the right of labour to organise in any way. This was, I pointed out, premised on a McCarthyist and violently anti-socialist set of clerical fascist premises.

If you want ot line yourself up alongside such religiously bigoted scum as Hamas or Islamic Jihad, then be my guest.

Can I suggest you learn to read?

By the way, it is Abu Faris – not, as you have it, Abu Farios.

By: Lbnaz

Lbnaz — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:44:21 +0000

Correction: “there just aren’t enough puritanical ideologues in the world who will do the brave work of counseling others from their cushy comfy chairs to smile upon or join a supra-legal paramilitary organization, take up arms and threaten, torture or kill the enemy and especially the most accessible of enemies, the traitor, the collaborator”.

By: Lbnaz

Lbnaz — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:16:35 +0000

Mr. M wants “collaborators” threatened, tortured and killed, because he knows history. I’m convinced opinions like his will change the world for the better. After all, there just aren’t enough puritanical ideologues in the world who will do the brave work of counseling others from their cushy comfy chairs to take up arms to kill the enemy and the traitor.

I am dismayed and discouraged that Mr. M has yet to be adequately recognized for his courageous contributions in righting the world’s injustices by authentic human rights luminaries in the UK like John Wight and Richard ‘Lenny Lenin’ Seymour.

But I do not despair because I know Mr. M cares not a whit for personal fame and glory and will continue fighting as a heroic keypad soldier on behalf of the deeply humiliated who he well understands have neither voice nor any agency of their own even without recognition of his dedicated work. Long live the bigotry of low expectations! Long live irredentist ultranationalist violence!
Death to politics!

By: Mr M

Mr M — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:06:56 +0000

Bennet,
You think Israel is humanitarian, so I think the next proposal for you would be to request the special Arab unionist labour to wear red hats so the good Arab can be distinguished from the “Jew-hating” ones.

By: Gordon Bennet

Gordon Bennet — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:40:23 +0000

the occupying junta?

Anyone tell you yet that you are an ignorant, Jew-hating fuckwit?

By: Mr M

Mr M — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:14:20 +0000

Abu Farios,
Pro segregation Americans use claim it was communists behind the civil rights movement, so I am not surprised you doing the same since you have learnt nothing from history.

You see work gives man dignity and we all know the constant humiliations Israel is involved with against Arabs. Even if they went to work for Jewish people, do you think they will be respected more than they are by the occupying junta?

I don’t care whether it is Fatah or Hamas, those who collaborate with Israel are summed up by Homer Simpson:

“If you don’t like your job, you don’t go on strike, you just go in every day and do it really half ass, that’s the American way.”

I guess there is an Arab version of that since it will add no value to their existence except further humiliations.

What is wrong with “Islamist hordes” if you tolerate Talmudic hordes. My sh*t is better than yours is it as if one smells better than the other?

By: Israelinurse (the real one!)

Israelinurse (the real one!) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:41:03 +0000

I don’t think there’s a connection Zkharya – they’re probably so occupied with their own agenda that they just didn’t realise what day it falls on.

By: zkharya

zkharya — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:47:26 +0000

Oops. I can’t distinguish 9/11 from Armistice day. But why Armistice day?