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How London’s Evening Standard Covers Israeli Elections
By Andy Hume / February 10, 2009
Here’s how London’s main daily newspaper, the Evening Standard, was covering the Israeli elections – in the news section, mind you, of its website – this morning:
By lunchtime it had been replaced with the rather more vanilla “Israelis go to the polls in tight election race”. I preferred the original version; so much more revealing – in every sense of the word.
[via Alex Massie]
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Hey, honor always has a name and cowardice – thousands of excuses. I am not "progressive", BTW. Conservartive Republican, Founding Member of R.Reagan Republican Center in Washington.
In my expereince I find “progressives” tend to be malcious and vicious therefore I keep them in the dark. Thanks for your concern.
Changed the word "people" to "a guy". The argument itself stays the same. How’s my English now?
BTW when you speak about people not having courage to say things under their own names, notice that you hide behind a nickname while "no good English reader" me writes everything under my own name.
OmyG-d, a guy in that gym did not like civilians being blown up by tonnage rockets as an answer to homemade flying olive cans! And dared to call us "Israelis and Jews", while everybody knows that not all Jews are Israelis and not all Israelis – Jews!
Animals! Call the UN session… Oh, wait a second, we do not want UN session… Call Bush then! Oh, he is not… Call… what’s that schwartze’s name again?..
It was the UK Foreign Office diplomat who was the "enlightened progressives" so cocerned about civilians that he expressed hs "righteous indigation" and the other gym users who expressed offense.
You don’t read English very well do you Alex?
Of course the opposite of warmongering is surrender and surrender in this context means destruction. When confronted with sophisty simply follow the logical conclusion to find the speakers true intent. Of course editors of the Evening Standard and various Zeek trolls do not have the courage to say what they mean like for instance UK Foreign Office diplomat, Rowan Laxton as reported in The Daily Mail.
while watching TV reports of the Israeli attack on Gaza as he used an exercise bike in a gym:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3338211/antijew-frenzy-at-the-fco.thtml
I have lived in the UK and have personally witnessed several examples of this kind of sophisticated, witty and urbane repartee
abraham lincoln- a warmonger
franklin roosevelt- a warmonger
winston churchill- a warmonger
the phrase itself is meaningless without context.
"A government under my leadership would topple Hamas in Gaza using military, economic and diplomatic means…" Tzipi Livni
"I think we are going to have to deal with neutralizing the power of the mother regime (Iran)…" -Benjamin Netanyahu
And of course Barak conducted the recent savagery aginst the people of Gaza.
And although he won’t be PM,
"For the first time we are examining the boundary between loyalty and disloyalty…We’ll deal with (them) like we dealt with Hamas."-Avigdor Lieberman, discussing Arab MKs
That first headline looks just about right to me.
I guess Melanie Phillips is not so crazy after all.
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