Those of you who didn’t like hearing all this from someone with a "dodgy-sounding" Arab name, living in London, and away from "the reality" in Iraq..... well, first of all, you’re probably racists, but secondly, have a look at the article i’ve linked to below (which backs it up a bit, and ought to have been on the front page, in my opinion). This is written by the British (British/Irish, actually) journalist Robert Fisk, the toughest and most respected of the English-speaking journalists in the Middle East. This is a man who lived through all fifteen years of the Lebanese Civil War, including the period when almost every other Westerner fled the place; the man who worked 24/7 for the release of his great friend Terry Anderson, the hard-as-nails former Marine who spent nearly seven years in various cellars in Beirut and Baalbek. Robert Fisk is a man who in pursuit of the terrible Middle Eastern truths has been seconds away from death almost as many times as some of the respondants here have sniffed Dick Cheney’s underpants. Do you think that he’s naive, or promoting some subversive commie anti-Zionist "agenda"? Yes, I’m sure you probably do. I myself am fairly sure he’s just trying to report what he sees, but have a look, please do.....
Can I just add that I would like to agree with the sender who was responding to the rather open and rabid anti-Semitism of Mr. "Terry Butcher BS4 Crew". Although it’s all a bit muddled and I hesitate to pass judgement on where he’s coming from, there’s a faint whiff of BNP in there which has me running for the sickbucket. (I’m very sorry for the famous footballer Terry Butcher, who always sounds like a decent bloke, to have had his name abused by such a bad ’un.)
However, I’ll just defend the webmasters a little. I imagine that the reason why "anything goes" on the English part of this site (yes, the Wild West is still with us) is precisely for the reason that the people running it are not anglophones - hence the dodgy English - "caractere defamatory, abusive, xenophobe...." Ce sont des francais. They’ve got enough to do without reading these long threads in English, so i wouldn’t utterly condemn them there. If you read French, then have a look at the French version of the site. You’ll find quite a lot of stuff responding to the recent upsurge of anti-Semitism in France. Try hitting on this link:
Those of you who didn’t like hearing all this from someone with a "dodgy-sounding" Arab name, living in London, and away from "the reality" in Iraq..... well, first of all, you’re probably racists, but secondly, have a look at the article i’ve linked to below (which backs it up a bit, and ought to have been on the front page, in my opinion). This is written by the British (British/Irish, actually) journalist Robert Fisk, the toughest and most respected of the English-speaking journalists in the Middle East. This is a man who lived through all fifteen years of the Lebanese Civil War, including the period when almost every other Westerner fled the place; the man who worked 24/7 for the release of his great friend Terry Anderson, the hard-as-nails former Marine who spent nearly seven years in various cellars in Beirut and Baalbek. Robert Fisk is a man who in pursuit of the terrible Middle Eastern truths has been seconds away from death almost as many times as some of the respondants here have sniffed Dick Cheney’s underpants. Do you think that he’s naive, or promoting some subversive commie anti-Zionist "agenda"? Yes, I’m sure you probably do. I myself am fairly sure he’s just trying to report what he sees, but have a look, please do.....
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4455
Can I just add that I would like to agree with the sender who was responding to the rather open and rabid anti-Semitism of Mr. "Terry Butcher BS4 Crew". Although it’s all a bit muddled and I hesitate to pass judgement on where he’s coming from, there’s a faint whiff of BNP in there which has me running for the sickbucket. (I’m very sorry for the famous footballer Terry Butcher, who always sounds like a decent bloke, to have had his name abused by such a bad ’un.)
However, I’ll just defend the webmasters a little. I imagine that the reason why "anything goes" on the English part of this site (yes, the Wild West is still with us) is precisely for the reason that the people running it are not anglophones - hence the dodgy English - "caractere defamatory, abusive, xenophobe...." Ce sont des francais. They’ve got enough to do without reading these long threads in English, so i wouldn’t utterly condemn them there. If you read French, then have a look at the French version of the site. You’ll find quite a lot of stuff responding to the recent upsurge of anti-Semitism in France. Try hitting on this link:
http://bellaciao.org/fr/mot.php3?id_mot=32