@JTT,
Chossudovsky is right up your alley J.
Quote:At the time of the Kosovo war Mike Karadjis accused Chossudovsky of setting out a 'meticulous frame-up', 'full of half-truths, assumptions, and innuendoes about the Kosovo Liberation Army's alleged use of drug money', seeking to discredit the KLA.In his book Bosnia, Kosova, and the West, Chossudovsky is referred to as a noted 'apologist for the Milošević regime'.
A 2005 article in The Jewish Tribune criticized GlobalResearch.ca as "rife with anti-Jewish conspiracy theory and Holocaust denial." B'nai Brith Canada had complained that there were comments on a forum that questioned how many Jews died in the Holocaust. Website editor Michel Chossudovsky responded that there was a disclaimer that the website was not to be held responsible for the views expressed in the forum, and he had the comment removed. He also said that he was of Jewish heritage and would be one of the last people to condone antisemitic views. The same article also reported that B'nai Brith Canada wrote a letter to the University of Ottawa (Chossudovsky's former employer) asking for the university "to conduct its own investigation of this propagandist site."
Terry O'Neill, in the Western Standard included Chossudovsky on the list of "Canada's nuttiest professors, those whose absurdity stands head and shoulders above their colleagues"; criticizing Chussodovsky's thesis and views — that the U.S. had knowledge of the September 11 attacks before they happened; that Washington had weapons that could influence climate change; and lastly, that the large banking institutions are the cause of the collapse of smaller economies — as "wild-eyed conspiracy theories".
This theme of American climate weapons seems to run through the rants of a lot of the nuts you quote. I'm surprised that his website doesnt have a yellow background.
Here's just one mischaracterization of the the facts
Quote:The Israeli government has seized on Hamas’s failure to immediately observe a cease-fire about which it was never consulted as the pretext for escalating its one-sided war against the nearly two million Palestinians confined to the narrow and densely populated Gaza Strip.
No, they
seized on Hamas's failure to stop firing rockets into populated areas of Israel.
Well, at least he reported on the Israeli casualty of these rockets.
Quote:Meanwhile, the crude and mostly homemade rockets fired from Gaza in response claimed their first victim on Tuesday. A civilian was mortally wounded by shrapnel while bringing candy to Israeli troops massed at the Erez crossing between Israel and the northern end of the Gaza Strip in preparation for a possible ground invasion.
Everyone should take note, though, of the reference to the quality of the rockets. This is a common theme among the dedicated critics of Israel, as if it makes a difference to the Israelis that the rockets that are raining down on them are "crude" or "homemade." Most of the IEDs responsible for killing thousands of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians in Iraq were crude and homemade (Hint: That's why they call them "improvised"), but the dead and maimed fail to find this a matter of significance.
It isn't for lack of trying by Hamas that their rocket attacks have killed only one Israeli. Are they to get some sort of credit for being ineffective in their efforts to slaughter thousands? C'mon Israel, you can put up with thousands of crude and homemade rockets being fired at your people. Especially if they're only going to be able to kill one or two Israelis. If and when Hamas gets lucky and is able to kill a large number of Israelis how will people like Chossudovsky report the incident?
And why didn't Hamas, like Israel accept the Egyptian cease-fire proposal?
Quote:The cease-fire proposal was striking in that it included no references whatsoever to the demands made by Hamas, which included the release of hundreds of Palestinians taken prisoner in last month’s Israeli crackdown on the West Bank, an end to the seven-year blockade of the territory and reopening of border crossings sealed by Israel and Egypt, and Israel’s respect for a cease-fire agreement brokered by the Mursi government after the Israeli war on Gaza in 2012.
Well let's see, the cease-fire proposal was specifically designated as being "without pre-conditions," so while Hamas may have rejected it because it didn't meet their conditions, they can hardly argue that they were in any way tricked on that score.
This is why there is never any peace. The Palestinians demand concessions just to get a temporary cease-fire which they can then break and try for more concessions for yet another temporary cease-fire.
