Stephen Hawking’s hypocrisy, double standard and a whiff of racism

As far as I am concerned, the imperialists can stuff the torch up their American elbow. All my family, as far back as I can trace, have fought and detested English imperialism.

 

Up until very recently, that struggle doesn't seem to have been very productive.

 

The whole "look over there! Other nations are doing things kinda as bad as us! Why aren't you condemning them?! Therefore Israel hasn't done anything wrong" constant mantra of Israeli apologists tends to fall short when Stephen Hawking also blatantly called the US/UK's actions a "war crime".

Try again?

 

We won, kid. You just got a gang of fat masters and obey them like dogs. Enjoy!

 

How did you win when Wales is still economically dependent on England?

 

war crimes

they are easy to document


[video=youtube;UVY4NUKowzg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVY4NUKowzg[/video]

 

I was talking about destroying colonialism abroad. When you were last burgled, did you become dependent on the thieves? We still have to cut off the thieving paws of the London capitalists, obviously, but now we have a government of our own, the utter incompetence of your UK puppets will soon do that job for us.

 

The whole devolution thing would matter considerably more if you left the EU. If you remain part of that, you merely have "masters" in Brussels rather than in London.

 

No, I'm not confusing those at all. Lame, useless lip service is what you do and concrete actions are the details you ignore when they don't suit your propaganda.

Your logic is invalid. One does not HAVE to boycott ALL known purveyors of wrong doing in order to avoid being hypocritical in boycotting one specifically based on the specific conditions of the wrong being committed. If the USA or UK were waging an apartheid against the Palestinian people, collectively punishing the civilian population for resisting further land theft in the form of demolition of Palestinian buildings and the subsequent settlement by US or UK citizens on those lands, then I could see a potential case for criticism of his targeting of Israel for such actions. Alas, that isn't the case.

You apparently don't understand what "hypocrisy" means nor what a "double-standard" is. You can see cowardice in the video of IDF thugs beating and terrorizing children.

 

Right...of course not, what was I thinking? LOL One can keep paying taxes and do absolutely nothing about his own country involved (according to one's views) in several illegal invasions and occupations and responsible for tens of thousands of death and millions of refugees. One can happily accept awards from another country despite the fact that he labels that country war criminal...One can completely ignore hundreds of hotspots all over the world... But it's safe and convenient to brandish one's "humanitarian" credentials by concentrating all the efforts on one tiny besieged country half the world away, surrounded by a sea of enemies refusing to recognize its right to exist and committed to wiping it off the map sooner or later...Hey why would anyone consider this double-standard, cowardice and hypocrisy is totally beyond me. LOL

 

and this poor tiny defenceless country at the mercy of the big bad arabs is Israel I presume? By what right does it have to exist?

 

Yep, you got that right, it's Israel. And unlike all other countries on the planet created by war and conquest, Israel was created by the will of the world expressed in UN resolution 181...And lest we forget it successfully defended its right to exist against multiple invasions and attempts to annihilate it and always will. Nothing your ilk can do about it, huh?

PS do you actually see the irony of you being an Australian of European descent and questioning the right of Jews to live in Israel? Hmm, I don't think you do.

 

Why not, I question our right to occupy Australia.

 

Don't question it, lead by example, GTF out of occupied Australia. From the Indian Ocean to the Tasman sea, Australia will be free. LOL

 

jerusalem aint israel

Chapter 1: Holy Places, Religious Buildings and Sites
Existing rights in respect of Holy Places and religious buildings or sites shall not be denied or impaired.

In so far as Holy Places are concerned, the liberty of access, visit, and transit shall be guaranteed, in conformity with existing rights, to all residents and citizen of the other State and of the City of Jerusalem, as well as to aliens, without distinction as to nationality, subject to requirements of national security, public order and decorum.

Similarly, freedom of worship shall be guaranteed in conformity with existing rights, subject to the maintenance of public order and decorum.

Holy Places and religious buildings or sites shall be preserved. No act shall be permitted which may in an way impair their sacred character. If at any time it appears to the Government that any particular Holy Place, religious, building or site is in need of urgent repair, the Government may call upon the community or communities concerned to carry out such repair. The Government may carry it out itself at the expense of the community or community concerned if no action is taken within a reasonable time.

No taxation shall be levied in respect of any Holy Place, religious building or site which was exempt from taxation on the date of the creation of the State.

No change in the incidence of such taxation shall be made which would either discriminate between the owners or occupiers of Holy Places, religious buildings or sites, or would place such owners or occupiers in a position less favourable in relation to the general incidence of taxation than existed at the time of the adoption of the Assembly's recommendations.

The Governor of the City of Jerusalem shall have the right to determine whether the provisions of the Constitution of the State in relation to Holy Places, religious buildings and sites within the borders of the State and the religious rights appertaining thereto, are being properly applied and respected, and to make decisions on the basis of existing rights in cases of disputes which may arise between the different religious communities or the rites of a religious community with respect to such places, buildings and sites. He shall receive full co-operation and such privileges and immunities as are necessary for the exercise of his functions in the State.

Chapter 2: Religious and Minority Rights
Freedom of conscience and the free exercise of all forms of worship, subject only to the maintenance of public order and morals, shall be ensured to all.

No discrimination of any kind shall be made between the inhabitants on the ground of race, religion, language or sex.

All persons within the jurisdiction of the State shall be entitled to equal protection of the laws.

The family law and personal status of the various minorities and their religious interests, including endowments, shall be respected.

Except as may be required for the maintenance of public order and good government, no measure shall be taken to obstruct or interfere with the enterprise of religious or charitable bodies of all faiths or to discriminate against any representative or member of these bodies on the ground of his religion or nationality.

The State shall ensure adequate primary and secondary education for the Arab and Jewish minority, respectively, in its own language and its cultural traditions.

The right of each community to maintain its own schools for the education of its own members in its own language, while conforming to such educational requirements of a general nature as the State may impose, shall not be denied or impaired. Foreign educational establishments shall continue their activity on the basis of their existing rights.

No restriction shall be imposed on the free use by any citizen of the State of any language in private intercourse, in commerce, in religion, in the Press or in publications of any kind, or at public meetings.(3)

No expropriation of land owned by an Arab in the Jewish State (by a Jew in the Arab State)(4) shall be allowed except for public purposes. In all cases of expropriation full compensation as fixed by the Supreme Court shall be said previous to dispossession.

Chapter 3: Citizenship, International Conventions and Financial Obligations
1. Citizenship Palestinian citizens residing in Palestine outside the City of Jerusalem, as well as Arabs and Jews who, not holding Palestinian citizenship, reside in Palestine outside the City of Jerusalem shall, upon the recognition of independence, become citizens of the State in which they are resident and enjoy full civil and political rights. Persons over the age of eighteen years may opt, within one year from the date of recognition of independence of the State in which they reside, for citizenship of the other State, providing that no Arab residing in the area of the proposed Arab State shall have the right to opt for citizenship in the proposed Jewish State and no Jew residing in the proposed Jewish State shall have the right to opt for citizenship in the proposed Arab State. The exercise of this right of option will be taken to include the wives and children under eighteen years of age of persons so opting.

Arabs residing in the area of the proposed Jewish State and Jews residing in the area of the proposed Arab State who have signed a notice of intention to opt for citizenship of the other State shall be eligible to vote in the elections to the Constituent Assembly of that State, but not in the elections to the Constituent Assembly of the State in which they reside.

2. International conventions



http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/un/res181.htm

anyone ever read the whole thing?

 

Bull(*)(*)(*)(*).. Europe is infinitely preferable to the much conquered Easterners with their desperate desire to bully and thieve to cover up their own drear history and inadequacy.

 

I suspect that you would still be unhappy even had Hawking included everyone for criticism.

 

' the will of the world expressed in UN resolution 181. ' also ..er....' created ' Palestine- unless you think that dividing a country in two results in just one division, like the neoZionists do.

 

The fact of its existance. Same as all countries.

 

???? 181 was nothing more than a plan to create Palestine. The Arabs rejected it.

 

Fair enough, too bad they rejected the creation of Palestine at the time and resorted to war and terror. Now they need to compromise and beg to get what was theirs for the taking 65 years ago.

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I'd be happy if he put his money where his mouth is and boycotted the UK and the US for starters. Singling out and boycotting Israel while ignoring the log in your own eye is way to simple...kind of similar to 2,000 of the persecution of Jews.

 

The EU does plenty of bullying and thieving. Look at how Germany essentially took advantage of smaller economies like Portugal and Ireland.

With Greece, it was more their own fault, but a lot of the other countries that have suffered in this crisis were taken for a ride by the promises of prosperity that the EU gave.

 

Give me foreign bureaucrats every time as compared with flabby peasant bullies who rob me and tell me I shag sheep. Right wing Englishers really are the absolute scum of the earth.

 

Why not simply embrace independence altogether?

 

I do, kid. Some of my countrymen have a vain hope of getting some of the swag back from the thieves, but I'd prefer just to be shot of the (*)(*)(*)(*)s.