'Lawfare' in Londonistan

Noa Zrk

And as the UK cravenly attempts to turn itself into the world centre for Islamic banking it's unlikely that we will see these trends reversing. Such activities are funded from two sources; internationally, from the proceeds of crime and terrorism and nationally, from collections in the mosques, contributions from individuals and of course, indirectly from our own Government benefits and grants systems.
The chances of the present or a future government freezing or withdrawing these twin fiscal lifelines is at best remote.

Merlyn

If the UK is the weakest link, it is because we are the most dependent on Arabian oil.
The technology [electro-magnetic] has been in existence for a century to free us all from this tyranny, however each time it has been demonstrated, the inventors have been bought out, threatened or even murdered by the 200 or so companies that own the oil rights or depend on oil for their power.
//www.theorionproject.org/en/

Miranda Rose Smith

Don't those fools realize that, as I've said numerous times before, once the precedent has been set that it's a war crime for the ISRAELIS to shoot back when Arabs are shooting at them, it will be a war crime for the BRITISH to shoot back when Arabs are shooting at them? Surely these people know that the Arabs use children as human shields and that nobody tries harder to avoid killing civilians than the Israelis. Do they know how many German and Japanese civilians were killed in air raids during World War II? Did anybody who wanted civilization to survive call Roosevelt or Churchill a war criminal?

smog

Londonistan is the centre of a multi-pronged assault this December, which not only includes lawfare, but also cartoonfare.

One only has to walk around some of the capital's bookstores to see the piled up stacks, some in prominent positions, eg next to a lift, of Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza to realise how pervasive this war really is.

Not footnotes perhaps, but huge great clunking boots of propaganda, with which most appear to quietly agree, or even, as is the case of the Government perhaps, assist (ref: ominous example of EU Rep for Foreign Affairs, Baroness Upholland's recent remarks).

YA

Hamas is responsible for hundreds of delibearate attacks agains unarmed civilians, including many dozens of 7/7-style suicide bombings.

When these certified terrorists openly provide somebody "in Britain with documents, information and evidence", - that at least should raise question on relevance and legality of this activity.

daniel maris

Yes, it's a scandal that the law can wielded against a civilised democracy like Israel in this way.

Anne Herzberg

For more on this issue, see my monograph: NGO Lawfare: Exploitation of Courts in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

http://www.ngo-monitor.org/data/images/File/lawfare-monograph.pdf

www.ngo-monitor.org

Joe Strummer

We have IRA "war-criminals" who openly and publicly supported the indiscriminate mass-murder of civilians and the kidnapping, torture and murder of innocents amongst numerous other crimes against humanity now sitting as Government Ministers in Belfast. The Northern Irish Assembly building isn't far from London by aeroplane. Why aren't these "human rights" lawyers paying them a visit. ?

phil

They tried with 50 million backing them in 1948 and lost then again 1967 lost again ,1973 lost yet again ,have continued ever since to commit atrocity heaped upon atrocity with the sole intention of pushing the Jewish people into the sea ,and now have stooped to the role of cry babies and liars (as usual) to denigrate a democratic state whose only wish is to live in peace with them .I know this is a waste of time but I feel better for having said it .

Tancred

World centre for Islamic banking?

Perhaps we missed a trick in the Thirties and should nave been cornering the market in Zyklon B.

When will our leaders ever learn?

Is money all that matters? Do our people, our culture and civilisation count for nothing?

We are entering a new Dark Age - with eyes wide open.

Libertarian

I don't think Democratic Values are worth defending, because the word Democracy does not appear in the American Constitution.
Democracy is "the rule of the mob" in Greek- literally. America is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy, the constitution and bill of rights limit the powers of government because ALL government (including liberal democracy) is inherently evil and must be strictly limited. If there was a British Style Democracy in Iraq, you would end up with a Shiite Theocracy that would oppress the Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.

YA

Hey Libertarian - strictly speaking what you refer as "rule of the mob" is Ochlocracy.

Democracy is supposed to be better order, ruled by elected representtives of peer enlightened citizen (well-informed, capable of thinking rationally, and have adequate quality of moral/consciousness).

UK is supposed to be a Democracy with some elements of Meritocracy (rule of decent).

Yes you are right presently in the UK everything becomes skewed by a dreadful quality of population, and all types of related - corruptions, brainwashings, sanctifications of mediocrity, and even open betrayals.

History says that Ochlocracy is unstable order and short lived because it is functionally ineffective and can't sustain external competition. Usually it is transformed into dictatorship (but also might desintegrate).

Tarino

Israel and her supporters continuing to claim that it is totally innocent and all the fault is on the Palestinian side is ludicrous. There have been grave violations of human rights and much killing of innocent citizens by both sides. Both sides will have to acknowledge this, compromise, stop killing and negotiate or there will never be peace. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza right now continues to be a stain on the conscience of the world and brings Israel into disrepute, as they have created it.

Colin

I laughed out loud when I heard on the BBC news today [New Year's Day] that Gordon Brown is convening a conference in London to discuss how to deal with Muslims who are radicalised in Yemen.

What better place for such a conference than London UK, AKA Londonistan, that is, if only it were admitted by the Brown government that it is here in the dark corners of the Islamist recruiting ground in mosques, Islamic centres, university Islamic societies, or even in Quaker Meeting Houses, that the radicalisation is accomplished. It is only when Londonistan has done it’s job and the psychosis of the bomber recruit is sufficiently fired up that he is packed off to a place like Yemen for field training. The next time we’ll get a chance to discuss radicalisation with him will be somewhere like in the tube or on board a plane.