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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-says-the-media-should-have-covered-attacks-in-beirut-and-ankara-as-well-as-paris-a6736381.html The media should have covered Isis attacks in Lebanon and Turkey more prominently Lebanon after deadly Beirut blasts A bomb in Turkish capital   Yesterday, I posted a very similar story and I asked the same questions. There were a number of responses to the post in Guardian, Independent and even here of Facebook, which were in the same vein. These nasty, ignorant, pathetic "comments" actually suggested, or even stated, that the atrocity in Paris was the only story which should be reported because the bombings in Lebanon, Turkey and the continuing attacks in Syria and Gaza were  the victims own fault. I can tolerate being labeled by some as "stupid" or  "a worthless piece of Corbynista trash" or "scum like you" and other, even more colourful descriptions, but ...

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/26/syria-us-un-inspection-kerry  US signals intent to take action against Assad regime John Kerry. Hypocrite The obscene hypocrisy of Kerry and the United States generally is as  breathtaking as it is nauseous. Kerry leaps in with open mouth to lecture the world that the " indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity". and "This international norm cannot be violated without consequences,". Lebanon Damascus   To any right thinking person, it is ironically bizarre that when Israel violates the norm and attacks Gaza, or Lebanon or hundreds of other "targets" in the neighbouring countries generally and in the occupied territories of Palestine, the silence from Kerry and the Untied States is thunderous. White phosphorous (banned by International law when used against civilia...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-forgotten-massacre-8139930.html 1,700 Palestinians were killed at the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps Many people will have forgotten, if they ever knew, what happened at Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in September 1982. A timely reminder from Robert Fisk. link:  http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-fisk180903.htm "............w hat we found inside the Palestinian camp at ten o'clock on the morning of September 1982 did not quite beggar description, although it would have been easier to re-tell in the cold prose of a medical examination"

  http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/26/auschwitz-how-relevant-is-it-in-todays-society/ "Holocaust"How relevant is it in today’s society? The relevance of the "Holocaust" is diminished every time it is used as a justification or reason for another act of aggression by Israel against Palestinians or some other neighbour. The "Holocaust Card" has been played by successive Israeli governments since 1948 in order to generate a collective guilty conscience in the outside world with the purpose of giving credibility to the "right to self defence" argument, so favoured with numerous government spokespersons. As  former Israeli Minister Shulamit Aloni stated in an interview on Democracy Now, " We always pull out the holocaust/anti-semitic trump card ". (You Tube video). Using the Holocaust as a justification for aggression against others is an insult to those who died during the Nazi period, be they Jews, Gypsies...