I read this Guardian story with special interest, because I was told only... Allegations of “ethnic cleansing,” “destruction and desecration of Islamic religious sites,” “apartheid,” “racism,” “land theft” and “conducting medical experiments on Palestinian prisoners” are directed every day toward Israel by Abbas and his top officials and spokesmen. These charges are often backed up by threats to launch a “third intifada” or to resume suicide bombings against Israel. Given Abbas’s growing predicament, the likelihood of a new wave of violence in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip seems to be more realistic than ever. In Canada, the fact that the University of Toronto is hosting this odious travesty has caused one of its alumni, Howard Rotberg, to return the degrees he obtained there. He wrote to the President of his old university thus: The real problem in the UK, moreover, lies not simply in the fact that jihad is being waged in and against Britain, but even more crucially in Britain’s spineless and indeed suicidal response to it. Consider, for example, the reaction to last night’s Channel Four Dispatches programme which exposed the infiltration of the Labour party in east London by militant Islamists of the Islamic Forum for Europe, and whose findings were extensively reported in the Sunday Telegraph....
Wednesday, 3rd March 2010
The marginal faith in the Ashcroft alchemy
Tuesday, 2nd March 2010
Here we go again?
Anti-Israel Bigotry Week
The Muslim Militant Tendency
11:37am
The Guardian carries a story about the whizz-bang computer technology behind Lord Ashcroft’s marginal seats offensive -- the one being touted in some quarters as being on course to deliver victory to the Tories regardless of poor overall national polling intentions. Lower down the story, however, there is an admission that all may not be entirely hunky-dory with the way this ‘full hand-held integration’ is supposed to deliver on polling day itself – although apparently, through some mysterious alchemy not divulged to the reader, it will be all right on the night. But election campaigns are not won on polling day but through the kind of long-term, devilishly focused and manipulative targeting of susceptible voters that we are led to believe the Ashcroft offensive is delivering.
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