As an American studying in London, I interviewed several protesters at the G20 protests earlier this year. Outside the American Embassy, a crowd gathered to protest the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. ‘I don't think al-Qaeda exists,’ one man told me. ‘If you went to Arab countries, you'd see the peace.’ Many in the crowd shared his sentiment that al-Qaeda is simply a convenient myth used It appears that clashes took place in Gaza today between Egyptian forces and a Viva Palestina ‘aid’ convoy, including George Galloway, which was bringing supplies to Gaza. In Hamas-inspired riots following the delay to the convoy, an Egyptian border guard was shot dead and several others injured, along with a number of Palestinians. It appears that Egypt has finally decide to put an end to the smuggling of weapons (along with food, electrical goods and just about everything under the sun) through the tunnels under its security wall with Gaza, and is trying to seal the border by constructing an underground steel wall to cut these tunnels off. Note: Egypt’s security wall; Egypt’s attempt to seal it; because Egypt controls that...
Thursday, 7th January 2010
It's the thirties all over again
6:52pm
A piece in American Thinker by Steve McGregor, a former student at University College London where the Christmas Day bomber Umar Abdulmutallab studied between 2005 and 2008, makes an important point which does not receive enough attention. This concerns the general climate of opinion, not just at UCL but in the wider British society, which is doing so much to undermine Britain’s role in the defence of the free world. McGregor writes:
...Wednesday, 6th January 2010
The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable (or the other way round)
7:18pm
Which is more objectionable – George Galloway’s behaviour in Gaza, or the way the Guardian chose to report it?
Friday, 8 January 2010
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