A sense of double standards in the Whitehouse and the UN Building.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-conflict-israels-great-fear-is-realised-as-soldier-is-seized-in-ambush-that-killed-two-more-9643912.html

Obama calls for immediate release of captured Israeli soldier in Gaza

President Barak Obama

Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon

President of the United States Barak Obama, Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon and other "western leaders" reveal more than a degree of hypocrisy with their close to hysterical rantings on the capture, (many commentators insist on using the word kidnapping, just to generate some emotive prejudice against Palestinians), of 2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin during yesterdays Israeli ceasefire breaking operation, to extend the destruction of tunnels and other infrastructure in Gaza. Finger jabbing rhetoric demanding the "immediate unconditional release", or "condemning in the strongest terms" or even being "shocked and profoundly disappointed", may sound very good on television and in the media, but does little to contribute to resolving the issues and moreover fails to recognise or even acknowledge a very simple truth. 2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin is a soldier of an invading army operating in a war zone where people risk being killed or becoming prisoners. For western leaders to threaten all sorts of retribution and punishment for this action is little more than posturing for the benefit of certain sections of the world audience.

2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin

Were they to express the same degree of indignation and concern for the ninety civilians killed during the Israeli retaliation strikes during the last 24 hours, or the 1400 killed since Israel commenced this aggression over three weeks ago, they may have a little more credibility. Every day, even yesterday, videos and photographs were beamed around the world by certain, but not all television stations, showing images of some of the 250 children from newborn infants to toddlers, killed by Israeli tanks artillery and airstrikes on schools, hospitals, mosques and homes or buried under the piles of rubble which used to be towns and villages in Gaza.
The President of the United States and the Secretary general of the United Nations along with much of the worlds media and many commentators would do well to remember that in some peoples estimation the obscenity is the deaths of thousand of civilians.

The President and the Secretary General owe the world an apology for daring to suggest 2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin, who may or may not be a prisoner of the Palestinian resistance, is somehow of more value than 250 (or more) dead Palestinian children and demands more shock, condemnation, or indignant threats.

A perverse and rather sinister media obsession to discredit, smear and undermine Jeremy Corbyn

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/venezuela-jeremy-corbyn-blasted-for-not-condemning-president-maduro-a3606156.html#commentsDiv Venezuela: Jeremy Corbyn blasted for not condemning socialist President Nicolas Maduro as violent conflict escalates There is a perverse and rather sinister obsesseion with the media and particularly television "interveiwers", in seeking to secure from Jeremy Corbyn a "condemnation" of some person or organisation or event. This time it is connected with events in Venezuela and the actions of President Nicolas Maduro and the bloody crackdown on protests against the result of last weeks poll which inaugurated a constituent assembly . The media "stories" and the interrogation by the television interviewers, are as subtle as a sledgehammer being nothing more than a variation on the "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" question, which so many repoters use in order for them to make themselves appear very ...

Northern Ireland and Brexit. The return of "The Troubles"

Northern Ireland: police attacked in another night of disturbances | Northern Ireland | The Guardian When the "Brexit" debate was still filling our newspapers and our television screens, readers may remember why I had changed my mind since voting to leave at the referendum vote. Apart from the economic arguments, which had become crystal clear after peeling away all the lies and misrepresentations trotted out by Bozo Boris and his "Get Brexit Done" conspirators, there was always the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Would it be possible to have a border between the European Union and the United Kingdom where people, goods and services could pass freely between the two nations without customs restrictions, tariffs, duties and all the other formalities? Would it be possible to have one part of the United Kingdom treated differently from other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly when Scotland for example had voted overwhe...

Enough of this hysterical nonsense

http://style.uk.msn.com/royal-baby/how-will-the-royal-baby-look-as-he-grows-up Media generated hysteria. This is too much. For the last 36 hours (thought it seems more like 36 days) there has been wall to wall news coverage, media and television comment and reporting, with Sky News taking first prize for frenzied minute by minute reporting from the Palace, the hospital, from a village somewhere in England, from the studio and anywhere else that Burley, Botting and company could stick a microphone into some obscure "celebrity's" face and ask for yet another banal quote. All this galvanising the mass hysteria of some elements of the public, (who the media would have you believe is the reaction of "the whole world",) with their flag waving, dancing, singing and cheering over what is after all, no more than a woman having a bab...

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