Comments on: Open Letter to Annie Lennox Regarding Israel and Gaza

By: Misanthropist

Misanthropist — Tue, 24 May 2011 06:59:13 +0000

”or the refusal by British museums to allow for repatriation of iconic heritage cultural art treasure heirlooms by the African countries of origin , from whom they were stolen during days of “Empire”(which other Brits have protested”

Firstly,
I am English, we have done bad things, many bad things.
Although I cannot say I care. I do not feel bad for any of it, why should I. The national guilt we have is bullshit. We’ve become all to accommodating because of it. Sometimes we might even be better off going back to the old days of the empire where we didn’t take any shit. That isn’t to say it was right but we were a lot safer back then.
Now, on to that quote, the reason we refuse to give these artifacts back to their native countries is because they do not, will not or cannot take care of them. I explicitly agree with us keeping their national treasures if they are going to care for them inadequately or not at all.

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By: Misanthropist

Misanthropist — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:54:25 +0000

Taking my usual stance, however, they’ll just keep on killing eachother with the same evil in their hearts and minds. The true nature of humanity will rear it’s ugly head again and again. Little men, Big guns.

Let them continue this idiotic conflict or just remove the people and destroy the gaza strip, no strip, no strip to fight over.

ISREAL…..PALESTINE……….ISLAM…..JUDAISM…. two wrongs never make a right.

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By: deathtoisrael

deathtoisrael — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:35:27 +0000

Israelis are vermin from the sewer. Einstein called them Nazis and fascists in his famous letter to the NY Times.

All people of conscience want Israel destroyed..especially Jews, who are sick and tired of having our heritage associated with Nazi filth and racist psychotics.

Fuck Israel.

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By: andyfox1979

andyfox1979 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:47:04 +0000

great comment Arikcarlo. Very well thought out.

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By: Arikcarlo

Arikcarlo — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:18:00 +0000

Annie Lennox’s statement to the press relating to the Gaza war is surprising by its total disregard for Israeli suffering.
Israelis have had to submit to hundreds of terrorist attacks, ie. attacks against their civilian population for over 40 years now. In a recent eight day period, 300 missiles were sent into Israel with missiles at times hitting southern cities, towns and villages. The constant psychic toll of never knowing if a missile will claim you is a staggering demand to make of any individual.

As Canadian Nobel prize for literature nominee, Irving Layton once put it, “Why should they be expected to sit there like clay ducks in a shooting gallery?”

And as we speak of Canada, Canada has not been hit even once by a terrorist attack and yet it has enacted legislation that allows for “security certificates”, ie. the right of Canadian enforcement agencies to detain and charge anyone suspected of planning to commit a terrorist act, without them knowing what the charges are. If Canada can go that way without even one attack, surely Israel has the right to properly defend itself considering the kind of long history it has had to endure relating to attacks against its civilian population.

The war in the Falklands was a British war over a wisp of a land mass in the middle of nowhere in the Atlantic over a very questionable British possession. In effect the war was fought for ego reasons alone, but approx. 300 Argentinian sailors were blown out of the Atlantic by the British navy. Where was Annie Lennox? Did she protest? In contrast Israel is fighting for the survival of its population and its towns and villages.

Is part of the truth that: Annie Lennox knows who’s buttering her bread in the U.K. ; that it’s ok to kick the Israelis but that to keep one’s nose clean in Britain is imperative. I checked Ms. Lennox’s website forum sub-section, “Activism”. Actually her scope for activism is puzzlingly restricted for someone so vocal and passionate in her attack against Israeli force. There ‘s not a sign of any activism to fight British Petroleum, known to be not only corrupt in its predation but a company with one of the world’s worst pollution records (which other Brits have protested); or British presence in Iraq (incl. abuses) (which other Brits have protested); or the refusal by British museums to allow for repatriation of iconic heritage cultural art treasure heirlooms by the African countries of origin , from whom they were stolen during days of “Empire”(which other Brits have protested).

Although Ms. Lennox is a Scotswoman, it’s clear she has been infected by English sanctimonious finger pointing hypocrisy, and is cow-towing to it.

Alexie Sayle (an English Jew), Harold Pinter (an English Jew), and Annie Lenox ( a woman married to an Israeli )have all needed to “make penance” for the sins of Israel. They have no need to make pennance for days of Empire. Neither Sayole or Pinter or Lennox have ever protested BBC TV drama programming that glorifies the days of the British Empire, an Empire that enslaved hundreds of thousands of Africans , that pillaged their resources and art treasures and hung signs on their whiskey cocktail lounges saying, “No entrance to natives”.
They make penance while Israelis wonder where and when the next missile is coming.
What I’m really ranting about is not her expression of compassion for Gazans. That’s totally understandable. It’s her Calvinist dualist view that makes her blind and does not allow her to stand up at the same news conference and show some compassion for the Israeli side.
Yes, I confess that though Ms. Lennox is an admirable artist, I will NEVER AGAIN PURCHASE any of her recordings.

“I am battling against the worst of the English vices: hypocrisy” – Oscar Wilde

“We live in a country with structured hypocrisy” – John LeCarre

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