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Sun-Il beheading; English persecution of Holocaust survivors
Posted on: Sunday, June 27, 2004
I saw yesterday the video of the beheading of that South Korean guy who had been kidnapped by al-Qu'ida. He was first shown pleading with the Korean, American and other administrations to rescue him, cried about how he wanted to live, how he didn't want to die. It was an agony to watch; can anyone begin to imagine how that man must have felt? He was on his knees with three masked gunmen standing behind him. The video then jumped to the point of decapitation. Kim Sun Il is still kneeling before his three captors, one of whom now has long knife about hit waist. There is a fourth masked "man" in the shot now who is pompously reading out a note in Arabic. Toward the end of his delivery, the animal with the machete is seen taking it out, grabbing Sun Il by his hair and literally slicing off his head, within a matter of second--five, seven seconds maybe. He then takes the severed head, hold it up in the air, and the whole pack of these beasts shout like possessed: Allahu akhbar. This goes on and on... The head is finally put down on top of Kim's inanimate body.
What can I say? On the one hand there is a lot, on the other there is nothing. Can a normal human being get his or her head round this? Religion or no religion, how can someone look another person in their eyes--the window of the soul--and then terminate that life the next moment, and in such a savage, beastly way? I was vehemently opposed to the invasion of Iraq and I still think it was a mistake which played right into al-Qu'ida's hands. I have come to the point of abhorring the United States: its administration as well as a large section of its people and history. But actions like these only make me go back to them, convince me that this IS about a clash of cultures--barbaric, zealous animals (al-Qu'ida) versus a culture of humanism and life (everyone else). How can people like me who find this "war on terror" spurious NOT side with the United States when we see what the choices are?
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On another note, nothing less lugubrious, and I watched an edition of Israel National News earlier today, which carried an account from the survivor of the Akko (Acre) prison. Akko prison was the main jail in the Palestinian Mandate where many Jewish fighters against the Britisher occupation were incarcerated and murdered by the damn teabags. More information here: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/Acre.html. The important point to note was that people who were helping Holocaust survivors reach Israel following the end of WWII were imprisoned here. (More on that in one of my previous posts.) It's amazing how the arrogant, callous and Nazi-like British bastards treated Jews. But they got their comeuppance when Etzel organized the breakout from that jail--the biggest successful breakout ever. And afterward, when the courage of Etzel and Lehi got too much for the cowardly Britishers, they put their tail between their legs and buggered off from Eretz Tzion. And still it wasn't enough: Ariel Sharon recently had to shout a presumptuous teabag out of his office with the words: Do you think you're still running the mandate here!?? I cannot understand why the Britishers don't just stick to their own shitty little island and leave the rest of the world alone. You would have thought that after centuries of screwing up countless nations on all continents, they'd have learned the lesson. But no. Their schools, hospitals, transit system, law and order, social security, and societal fabric are falling apart. It's one of the most over-priced and over-hyped places in the world. People are often incompetent, lazy and dishonest (try getting your heating or drainage fixed and see how much you're charged and for what). There is racial strife: Asian European and African European communities are so oppressed that there are regular riots all over central and northern England: Oldham, Burnley, Stoke-on-Trent... Not a day passes that the "foreigners" are not exposed to a barrage of Europhobia, homophobia, racism, bigotry and general xenophobia from the media, politicians and general population. And still, they think they should run world affairs; or at least play the second fiddle to the USA in doing so. Pathetic. And that's not even mentioning their vitriol against destitute refugees and asylum seekers--more on that later.
Shavua tov!
Posted on: Sunday, June 27, 2004
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I saw yesterday the video of the beheading of that South Korean guy who had been kidnapped by al-Qu'ida. He was first shown pleading with the Korean, American and other administrations to rescue him, cried about how he wanted to live, how he didn't want to die. It was an agony to watch; can anyone begin to imagine how that man must have felt? He was on his knees with three masked gunmen standing behind him. The video then jumped to the point of decapitation. Kim Sun Il is still kneeling before his three captors, one of whom now has long knife about hit waist. There is a fourth masked "man" in the shot now who is pompously reading out a note in Arabic. Toward the end of his delivery, the animal with the machete is seen taking it out, grabbing Sun Il by his hair and literally slicing off his head, within a matter of second--five, seven seconds maybe. He then takes the severed head, hold it up in the air, and the whole pack of these beasts shout like possessed: Allahu akhbar. This goes on and on... The head is finally put down on top of Kim's inanimate body.
What can I say? On the one hand there is a lot, on the other there is nothing. Can a normal human being get his or her head round this? Religion or no religion, how can someone look another person in their eyes--the window of the soul--and then terminate that life the next moment, and in such a savage, beastly way? I was vehemently opposed to the invasion of Iraq and I still think it was a mistake which played right into al-Qu'ida's hands. I have come to the point of abhorring the United States: its administration as well as a large section of its people and history. But actions like these only make me go back to them, convince me that this IS about a clash of cultures--barbaric, zealous animals (al-Qu'ida) versus a culture of humanism and life (everyone else). How can people like me who find this "war on terror" spurious NOT side with the United States when we see what the choices are?
* * *
On another note, nothing less lugubrious, and I watched an edition of Israel National News earlier today, which carried an account from the survivor of the Akko (Acre) prison. Akko prison was the main jail in the Palestinian Mandate where many Jewish fighters against the Britisher occupation were incarcerated and murdered by the damn teabags. More information here: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/Acre.html. The important point to note was that people who were helping Holocaust survivors reach Israel following the end of WWII were imprisoned here. (More on that in one of my previous posts.) It's amazing how the arrogant, callous and Nazi-like British bastards treated Jews. But they got their comeuppance when Etzel organized the breakout from that jail--the biggest successful breakout ever. And afterward, when the courage of Etzel and Lehi got too much for the cowardly Britishers, they put their tail between their legs and buggered off from Eretz Tzion. And still it wasn't enough: Ariel Sharon recently had to shout a presumptuous teabag out of his office with the words: Do you think you're still running the mandate here!?? I cannot understand why the Britishers don't just stick to their own shitty little island and leave the rest of the world alone. You would have thought that after centuries of screwing up countless nations on all continents, they'd have learned the lesson. But no. Their schools, hospitals, transit system, law and order, social security, and societal fabric are falling apart. It's one of the most over-priced and over-hyped places in the world. People are often incompetent, lazy and dishonest (try getting your heating or drainage fixed and see how much you're charged and for what). There is racial strife: Asian European and African European communities are so oppressed that there are regular riots all over central and northern England: Oldham, Burnley, Stoke-on-Trent... Not a day passes that the "foreigners" are not exposed to a barrage of Europhobia, homophobia, racism, bigotry and general xenophobia from the media, politicians and general population. And still, they think they should run world affairs; or at least play the second fiddle to the USA in doing so. Pathetic. And that's not even mentioning their vitriol against destitute refugees and asylum seekers--more on that later.
Shavua tov!
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