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So then after his two years of being in TB he was not dead.

His only option at the time was to take a ship to America.

He settled the hard-core out there part around Montana where the whiskey traders were selling the slush north causing creation of the RCMP.

He did not mention that it was a reporter from a Fort Benton newspaper to mention that it was an American reporter to invent the phrase "RCMP always get their man", which was impressive around there any time so serious was the desire of the good people to get away from evil then.

He came over mateles, then one day word went out there was a trainload of Norwiegain women pulling into town looking for husbands... that's how screwed up things were in Europe.

He rushed to put on his best cloths and jumped on his fasted horse, and in the Fort Benton community hall they held their hats at their chests and told each woman what they were doing, and what they were about, and bla bla bla, and after a moment of intelligence nobody knows anymore they got together for life, and I love love loved my great grandparents... every time we as kids visited it was wonderful.

The only two questions I has as a kid were: why does he not have a thumb. That was explained how it was because he wrapped a rope around his thumb and told his helper not to stick a pitch-fork into the rump of the randy horse, but oops.

The second was ... how come I can tell you all are a bunch of hyper-analytical northern Europeans who could only be blessed have met a family like my dad's the coolest hillbilly's in all Americana in order to spawn me and you didn't abort me plus you raised me up so anybody who threatens my parents within 100 meters gets destroyed.
 

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Israel deports more 'flytilla' activists

JERUSALEM — Israel on Tuesday expelled 22 foreign pro-Palestinian activists detained after flying into Israel for protests at the weekend, and more were due to leave in the evening, an official said.

Immigration service spokeswoman Sabine Hadad said that those who left during the day were put on flights to Italy, France and Austria. "Another 11 are on their way to an Alitalia flight," she told AFP. "There could be more during the night. At the moment we have 23 (still in custody)."

The detainees were part of the "Welcome to Palestine" campaign in which up to 800 people from Europe and the United States planned to fly to Israel and head to the Palestinian territories to visit Palestinian families.

Israeli authorities marshalled diplomatic and security resources to try to head off the incoming activists.

Officials said that by notifying foreign airlines of ticket-holders who would not be admitted to Israel, they had prevented hundreds of people from boarding at their ports of departure. Of those who managed to arrive, 120 were denied entry to Israel and taken into custody, although a handful were later admitted after signing pledges not to take part in public disorder.


They were held in two detention facilities, one near Tel Aviv, another in the southern Negev, while authorities found flights on which to expel them. The "Welcome to Palestine" campaign took place as a flotilla of ships trying to break a blockade on the Gaza Strip was prevented from leaving Greece.

The timing of the fly-in campaign led some to dub it a "flytilla," although organisers denied their mission was linked to the attempt to run the blockade.


AFP: Israel deports more 'flytilla' activists
 

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Oh The Humanity!!!!!!!!

Athens, July 12, 2011

At 10 am today, the shore electricity was cut off to the Audacity of Hope, the US Boat to Gaza, leaving us with no power. The boat has been imprisoned at the US Embassy/Greek Coast Guard dock, near Piraeus, Greece, just outside of Athens since we tried to sail to Gaza on July 1 when the Greek Coast Guard intercepted our small boat and hauled us into this compound.

Its over 100 degrees inside the boat, and a Russian ship loading grain is spewing grain and dust over the entire area. In addition, the off-loading noise the ship is making is above environmentally acceptable limit, sounding like a bad rock concert playing at the back of the boat! Six women are staying on board to protect the boat, since two boats heading to Gaza were already sabotaged in an attempt to prevent us from sailing to Gaza. Four of us are over 60. The Greek naval facility is co-located with a US Embassy compound which has one warehouse exclusively for the U.S. government, as well as a ramp for loading vehicles onto a ship. It also has a parking area for the wrecked cars of Americans who have been involved in traffic accidents plus a secure warehouse compound behind the ubiquitous high fence topped with razor wire and signs printed in both English and Greek in the US government block style lettering.

Elder of Ziyon: Flotidiot whining reaches a new level

Wait, I'll call the WAHHHmbulance!

Israel deports more 'flytilla' activists

JERUSALEM — Israel on Tuesday expelled 22 foreign pro-Palestinian activists detained after flying into Israel for protests at the weekend, and more were due to leave in the evening, an official said.

Immigration service spokeswoman Sabine Hadad said that those who left during the day were put on flights to Italy, France and Austria. "Another 11 are on their way to an Alitalia flight," she told AFP. "There could be more during the night. At the moment we have 23 (still in custody)."

The detainees were part of the "Welcome to Palestine" campaign in which up to 800 people from Europe and the United States planned to fly to Israel and head to the Palestinian territories to visit Palestinian families.

Israeli authorities marshalled diplomatic and security resources to try to head off the incoming activists.

Officials said that by notifying foreign airlines of ticket-holders who would not be admitted to Israel, they had prevented hundreds of people from boarding at their ports of departure. Of those who managed to arrive, 120 were denied entry to Israel and taken into custody, although a handful were later admitted after signing pledges not to take part in public disorder.

They were held in two detention facilities, one near Tel Aviv, another in the southern Negev, while authorities found flights on which to expel them. The "Welcome to Palestine" campaign took place as a flotilla of ships trying to break a blockade on the Gaza Strip was prevented from leaving Greece.

The timing of the fly-in campaign led some to dub it a "flytilla," although organisers denied their mission was linked to the attempt to run the blockade.


AFP: Israel deports more 'flytilla' activists

You understand, of course, that Israel enjoys sovereignty, and has NO obligation, legal or ethical, to let any useful idiot stay on their soil.......
 

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It's funny how that little fact is swept under the rug while the same people condemn North Korea for their own crimes against humanity.

Prove that it has not slowed down arms shipments.Yes arms get thru - But it would increase without the blockade - You know that as well as I

Question - Would you consider that Isreal is in a State of War with Hamas -sometimes quite active others not so.

A govt the Israeli's do not like - Really - What would your opinion be if some group promised to kill your whole extended family. Oh yeah, I guess they do not like me and the family. The blockade has been declared as legal. So put a sock in it. Legal regardless of your view - Legal in all the sense of the word.

Now those other questions posed by others.

1 - What Israeli War Criminals is Canada supporting.

2 - Please name their supporters, not just use the word Canada as that implies all 33 million or so are then complicit. Yep even you.

3 - Where have they been indicted for War Crimes.

4 - Weapons would increase to Hhamas if the Blockade is lifted - Anyone with an ounce of sense would see that.



EAO - Questions again - I see you did not like the term Fart Face so I will cease to call you Fart Face in the future.
 

earth_as_one

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The point of the flotilla is to draw attention to Israel's crimes against humanity. They have succeeded in that effort.

Peaceful international protests organised by pro-Palestine activists are capturing the attention of media and challenging Israel's security and diplomats.

Israel is being confronted by what observers call an increasingly formidable form of pro-Palestinian activism - foreign nationals staging non-violent publicity stunts.

Israel's reaction to these international incidents, critics said, have played into the hands of activists, who blitzed news organisations to cover their protests.

The latest protest, organised through social-networking websites and e-mails, featured American and European activists planning to fly to Israel's Ben Gurion Airport during the weekend and declare their intention to visit "Palestine".

Israel responded by deploying hundreds of security personnel to the airport to help deport arriving activists and pressuring European carriers to hand over passenger manifests and prevent suspected activists from flying into the country.

The activists' plans were quashed, with more than 120 detained at the airport and many more denied boarding their Tel Aviv-bound flights.

Those held at the airport would be deported within the next "24 to 48 hours", a police spokesman said last night.

Only weeks earlier, Israel faced another news frenzy surrounding hundreds of foreign activists who tried, and eventually failed, to sail into the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip from Greece. The participants were branded by Israel's military as radicals possibly carrying lethal chemical agents on their ships.

Flotilla organisers, calling themselves peaceful, replied with headline-grabbing accusations that Israel had sabotaged their boats.

Writing in Israel's Yediot Ahronot daily last week, Haim Zisovitch, the head of the communication unit at Bar Ilan University's School of Communication, compared Israel's response to a wayward "child who was late to come home at night, and in order not to alert his sleeping parents used drums and trumpets to cover up the sound of his steps"....
Israel challenged by publicity stunts - The National
 

earth_as_one

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Speaking of useful idiots:

Israeli Knesset Bans Free Speech for Jews

Monday, July 11, was a historic day for the movement to abolish the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. The right-wing dominated Israeli Knesset gave the campaign to boycott the Israeli occupation a Good Housekeeping seal of approval - a hechsher, if you will - by passing legislation to punish it.

Of course, the effect of this legislation will be to rejuvenate the Israeli peace movement ("Israeli Left launches public campaign against new law banning boycotts," Haaretz reports) and promote the boycott. It is a sign of the political bankruptcy of the Israeli Right that it is now condemned to take actions which promote the agenda of its opponents.

This month, the right-wing Israeli government shone a spotlight on its illegal blockade of Gaza when it made giving free publicity to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla the top Israeli government priority. Every day, it seemed, there was a new Israeli government statement calling attention to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, more outrageous than the last: 67-year-old Alice Walker was going to pour sacks of sulfur on Israeli soldiers and light them on fire; journalists who reported on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla were going to be banned from Israel for ten years.
Fresh from that propaganda "victory," the Israeli government then decided to devote its resources to publicizing its illegal collective punishment against Palestinians in the West Bank. A few hundred peace activists gave the Israeli government an opportunity to do so by announcing their intention to fly to Israel to participate in solidarity actions with Palestinians in the West Bank. Again, rather than ignoring a few hundred peace activists, the right-wing Israeli government devoted its resources to promoting their agenda, by pulling out the stops to block the activists from traveling to the West Bank.

"Israeli commentators and some politicians have described the Israeli preparations as excessive and bordering on hysterical," The New York Times reported.

The Palestinian hosts decried the Israeli measures, but also chalked up a small victory. Fadi Kattan, a Palestinian organizer, said at a news conference in Bethlehem that he was "pleased - sadly pleased" that the episode had exposed what he described as Israel's draconian anti-Palestinian policies.
And now this. The Parliament of "the only democracy in the Middle East" has passed legislation to punish Israeli Jews who call for a boycott of the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. "The bill would affect boycotts like the artists' boycott of the cultural center of Ariel," Haaretz noted, prior to the bill's passage, referring to an Israeli artists' campaign that drew international support.

Will this stop the boycott movement? It will surely promote it, by making it more sexy...
Israeli Knesset Bans Free Speech for Jews | Truthout
 
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earth_as_one

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Interesting tidbit regarding Israel's Likud charter from 1999:
The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting.
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The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river.
M of A - Hamas vs. Likud Charter

Yet Hamas' leaders have stated repeatedly and publicly they are willing to accept a Palestinian state with 1967 borders and thereby will effectively recognize Israel. So from Hamas' side, a solution of the conflict is possible.

M of A - Hamas vs. Likud Charter
 

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The point of the flotilla is to draw attention to Israel's crimes against humanity. They have succeeded in that effort.

Oh... I thought they were delivering the mail.

This is too sweet.

Tell me again how some letters being delivered to Gaza directly is a threat to Israel?

Interference with the mail used to be a hanging offense, knocking over a rural-mailbox is still a federal crime.

You all better get your stories straight.
 

Colpy

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Interesting tidbit regarding Israel's Likud charter from 1999:
The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting.
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The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river.
M of A - Hamas vs. Likud Charter

Yet Hamas' leaders have stated repeatedly and publicly they are willing to accept a Palestinian state with 1967 borders and thereby will effectively recognize Israel. So from Hamas' side, a solution of the conflict is possible.

M of A - Hamas vs. Likud Charter

Oh SPARE me!

Hamas promotes the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the blood libel.

Hamas promotes mass murder of Jews as in the Hadith.

Likud can be removed at any time by a simple vote.

Likud has to share power with moderates in order to maintain its position.

Likud is part of a democratic, rule-of-law state........

The two are not comparable.
 

earth_as_one

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...Likud can be removed at any time by a simple vote.

Likud has to share power with moderates in order to maintain its position.

Likud is part of a democratic, rule-of-law state........

The two are not comparable.

Suffice to say, the The Israeli PM's party has just as an intolerant charter as Hamas.

You are partially correct.

Yes, the two situations aren't comparable. Palestinians voted out the corrupt Fatah party in their last election and democratically elected Hamas. But the legal transfer of power was thwarted by Israel and the US arming the election losers Fatah, who then started a civil war to remain in power:
The Gaza Bombshell | Politics | Vanity Fair
Hamas gained power in Gaza, only because they were able to intercept arms destined for Fatah and gain the upper hand. Hamas got their butts kicked by overwhelming firepower in the West Bank where Fatah's leader Abbas continues to rule as dictator. Most of the democratically elected leaders of Hamas ended up assassinated or imprisoned. Our pro-Israel news/propaganda usually describes this process as Gaza seizing power by force in Gaza.

Israelis don't have the same level of outside interference in their elections.

I disagree that the Likud party are extremists. Compared to the other parties in their coalition (Liebermann), they are moderates:
Who is Avigdor Lieberman? | J Street
 
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