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POPSLike the Basque country, Northern Ireland must prepare for occasional terrorist outrages more @ clip source Eta's current nihilistic campaign probably provides an even better comparison. We may in fact have to accept that – just as Spain and the Basque country will be shaken occasionally by the odd Eta outrage – the same goes for Northern Ireland and extremist republican groups. Basque nationalism has actually enjoyed more compromises from the Spanish state in the areas of language, culture and devolved power than Irish nationalists experience presently under their own devolved settlement. But for those in Euskadi who dream of an independent UN-recognised state straddling the Pyrenees the struggle must go on. And just as the uncompromising Etarras (militants) will continue with their futile terror, so too will an eternally insolent minority on the republican fringe
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POPSChicago's "CeaseFire" program uses social interventions to lessen gun violence The program sends "reformed" shooters into the community to defuse violent situations and accustom potential shooters to other ways of resolving conflict, while simultaneously working with trusted, local opnion leaders (e.g., clergy) to spread the message that violent actions are unacceptable -- not just wrong, but also foolish ("uncool"). Described as employing an approach drawn from epidemiology, but I don't really see the connection.
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POPSSri Lankan beach was 'unimaginable hell' Funny how we always talk about the evils of ethnic cleansing when we read about it in history books. Yet the world sits and watches innocents die. Gaza, Sri Lanka, half the countries of Africa, etc. Add a few countries with madmen in charge Nth Korea, Zimbabwe etc The expendables. I'll wait for the movie. :eek:
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POPSNew York's Operation SNUG But other than that, it's basic common sense. "Commitment to SNUG" will "put a stop to that deadly trend"? Really? How? I mean aside from coming up with an insipid, meaningless acronym? This initiative developed is modeled after the highly successful Cease Fire Gun Violence Prevention Model currently used in Chicago. Chicago? That wouldn't be "gun-free" murder capital Chicago, would it? I guess New Yorkers are about to find out what Malcolm Smith and Kathleen Tice mean by "highly successful."
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POPSApartheid Israel Gaza Massacre 'The Lancet' reveals horrendous Israeli war crimes «The horrendous mortality and morbidity statistics revealed by the paper 'The Wounds of Gaza', just published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet are truly shocking – 1,350 killed (60% children) and 5,450 severely wounded (40% children) in reprisals for zero (0) Israeli deaths from Gaza rockets in the preceding year. This demands International Criminal Court and intra-national prosecutions (e.g. in major Israeli military R & R destination countries Australia, the US, the UK and India) and Sanctions and Boycotts against Apartheid Israel by all decent Australians and indeed all decent people around the world.»
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POPSThe Forgotten War Sri Lanka continues to fight a civil war and innocent people are caught in the middle, please ask Ms. Clinton to increase pressure to stop fighting.
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POPSIsrael has History of Deliberate PROVOCATION as pretext to INVASION. In 1981-1982, when it launched violent raids on Lebanon in order to provoke Palestinian escalation preceding the Israeli invasion of Lebanon; and between 2001-2004, when PM Sharon repeatedly ordered assassinations of high-level Palestinian militants during declared ceasefires, provoking violent attacks that enabled Israel's virtual reoccupation of the West Bank. Israel's current assault on Gaza bears many trademark elements of Israel's long history of employing "strategic escalation" to manufacture a major crisis, if not a war.
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POPSObama Endorses Two-State Solution for Arab-Israeli Conflic
This "two-state solution," has been proposed for decades. It would seem like a "solution,' to those who don't want to continue supporting Israeli aggression -- and non-stop expansion and collective punishment and apartheid policies. Would they be two equal states? Would Israel stop invading Gaza? Would assassinations of Palestinian leaders end? Would extraordinary rendition (kidnapping and jailing) of thousands of innocent people end? Would the blockade and slow starvation of over a million and a half people in the Gaza Strip end? Will even a pretense of accepting a two-state solution be endorsed by Israel? Will the Palestinian puppet government buy the deal? Will Hamas go away? I can only wonder what mess will be made of this. The President's willingness to declare it important and directly tackle the problem is admirable...certainly much better than uncritical, blind support for Israel, hundreds of millions every year for murder, and see no evil, speak no ev
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POPSCeasefire deal must lift Gaza siege: Hamas It's great to see that the 18-month long slow starvation of over a million and a a half people in the Gaza Strip is coming into focus as a prime issue and getting some coverage in the Western world. Maybe some of us have heard the Israeli propaganda about: "What would you do if your neighboring country was shooting off rockets into your cities" (with very, very bad aim). What would El Paso, Texas, USA do, for example, if rockets were being fired in from Chihuahua? What would London do if it came under attack from Eidenborough? etc. In thinking about that it should be considered: Is Texas enforcing a blockade of basic needs to Chihuahua, Mexico? Is London starving over a million and a half people to death in Eidenborough? A 2nd point is who is actually firing the rockets? Is it the government of Mexico behind it or is it drug gangs? Was it the government of Scotland or a breakaway rogue political splinter group? The issue is far from black and white.
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POPSHamas Members Stopped With Suitcases Stuffed With $15 Million
The incident is a sensitive one for Egypt, particularly now when Israel is demanding a halt to Hamas smuggling into Gaza as part of truce negotiations. Israel complains that Hamas - which gets funding from Iran, Syria and donations from supporters - smuggles money and weapons through Egypt into the Gaza Strip. Mostly the smuggling is done through tunnels at the border. But in the past - before border crossings were tightly sealed in 2007 - Hamas officials had brought in cash as well. In 2006, a senior Hamas official bragged about successfully carrying $42 million across the border. Arab banks have generally refused to transfer money to Gaza for fear of running afoul of the United States, which considers Hamas a terrorist organisation Hamas demands that any truce include the full opening of borders into Gaza, which Israel and Egypt have largely kept sealed since Hamas seized control of the territory from Palestinian rivals Fatah in 2007.
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