Ever-maverick Mike Moore [he of the movie Fahrenheit 9/11 fame] has in an item on his web site, with no small dose of cynicism, sarcasm and bite [some would say misplaced venom] had a go at Pres. George Bush [or, as I noted in a posting the other, Pres. George Shrub as Phillip Adams calls him] in relation to his handling of Hurricane Katrina. Pity that we in Australia do not have either a press or the Mike Moores of this world [Mike Carlton who writes for the SMH gets close in some respects] who are gad-flys and prepared to challenge and probe what our political "leaders" do - or, more often than not, don't do!
From Mondoweiss - Israel's supposed "most moral army in the world", the IDF, engaged in immoral, and according to international law, illegal action.... "Israeli forces have demolished every home in the Bedouin village of Khirbet Taha in the northern West Bank district of Nablus during three separate demolitions since the start of the year. Unlike most Bedouin villages, the residents in Khirbet Taha own their own land. However that land falls in Area C, territory in the occupied West Bank under full Israeli control. The village’s only school was also destroyed, leaving children to study in a dilapidated 100-year-old mosque — the only structure left standing in the village. According the United Nations, Israel has demolished half as many Palestinian buildings in the first few months of 2016, as they had in all of 2015. In February alone, the UN found that more Palestinians homes were destroyed than any other month since 2009, when the organization began its docum...
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