I said I wouldn't be starting threads on controversial issues for a while (Ralph Nader and my body don't count) so I wasn't going to go and start a thread on that and regardless today is my busy day so my posting time is limited. There will be no thread starting from me today. Anyway, of course Britain was to blame and we had absolutely no right to be in Northern Ireland. Show me a thread about it and of course my views would be laid out bare.

You keep on harking back to the flotilla which we have more than covered. You have today gone into the creation of Israel a little which we have dicussed. What about the numerous and many violations commited by the Israeli's?

How about...

1. Forging international passports to commit international terrorism?
2. Destroying Palestinian farmland and infrastructure?
3. Denying planning permission for Palestinians in Israel?
4. Trying to sell nuclear weapons to apartheid South Africa?
5. Building settlements on illegally obtained lands?
6. The denial of sufficient aid shipments?
7. The denial of Gazan rights to export?
8. The routine murder of Palestinians by Israeli forces

The list could probably go beyond 20 if I could be bothered.

When I asked you about your background reading I wasn't asking you about a report on the flotilla. I was asking you about your actual knowledge of Israeli acts of aggression and resistance to peace. Nameless already recommended Finkelstein to you. The other name I would add is Chomsky. It sounds to me like you have absorbed a whole heap of Dershowitz, Israeli state propaganda and the Bible and put them into a great big melting pot. If this is how you really feel on the issue then fair enough, but if you haven't read more then you should. Likewise, I'm always open for intelligent suggestions too.