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Palestinian bloggers protest Daily Kos | 104 comments (104 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
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Flash from Britain, Jews sans frontieres reporting, something for the Euros:

October 26, 2010

Spain is not the Costa del War Crime

Brits have long known Spain as the Costa del Crime because of its lack of extradition treaty with the UK though I think it has one now. Now, ironically, whilst the UK has changed its laws on universal jurisdiction to facilitate the comings and goings of Israeli war criminals, Spain has yet to fall into line. According to Yediot Ahranot or YNET, Israeli Knesset Member (MK), Avi Dichter, has been warned that he could face arrest if he turns up in Spain. Check out the crimes he is alleged to have been involved in. All the links in the YNET piece have been added by me and they link to wikipedia but remember zionists are all over that site and it shows:

MK Avi Dichter (Kadima) was planning on taking part in an international peace summit in Spain over the weekend, but was forced to cancel over fears he would be arrested, and possibly imprisoned, by Madrid authorities, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Tuesday.

According to report several days ago, a Spanish organization called The Madrid Coalition, invited Israeli and Palestinian representatives to take part in a summit focusing on the peace process and the Saudi initiative. Senior officials from the Palestinian Authority, including Mohammed Dahlan had RSVP'd to the event.

The Madrid Coalition works in cooperation with the former Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos. The summit organizers decided to invite a small group of MKs from Israel to take part in the summit. Former Shin Bet Chief MK Avi Dichter was set to lead the delegation.

Earlier this week, Dichter requested to look into the possibility that he may face legal action in Spain over complaints against him for his involvement in the Salah Shehade assassination, which took place when Dichter was head of Shin Bet) and for his involvement in Operation Cast Lead, Dichter was Minister of Public Security at the time). After looking into the legal aspects of the situation,

Madrid officials told Dichter that Spain did not intend to offer him immunity from arrest or interrogation, after which he cancelled his participation in the event.

Salah Shehade is the Hamas chap who was killed by way of a one ton bomb dropped on an apartment building he was in. 14 other people, including Shehade's wife and 9 children, were killed in the same attack, though he was supposedly the target.

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by shergald on Wed Oct 27th, 2010 at 10:37:42 AM EST
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Here's the link.

Now, can you tell us in what way this is on topic in your diary re DKos - while at the same time you maintain that Helen's comment re DKos is off topic?
 

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Oct 27th, 2010 at 11:27:43 AM EST
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To be fair, posting "newsflashes" like this as comments to his diaries was found to be a workable way to allow shergald to give a higher profile to news items than he believes that they would get in the Salon while not spamming the recent diary list with cut-and-paste jobs (I personally doubt they actually get more readers here than in the Salon, but that was the feeling he expressed at the time). I still think it's a workable solution. But then, I never had much of a problem with threads going off topic in the first place...

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Oct 27th, 2010 at 01:36:28 PM EST
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Re. Salon. Salon is about 50 times larger than ET and just for reference, Daily Kos is about 250 times larger in its lull moments. During elections, Daily Kos has had as many as 2 million daily visitors.

This diary about the banning of Tom J was actually about a great loss of publicity concerning the Palestinian plight. And that is why it was posted.

by shergald on Wed Oct 27th, 2010 at 02:11:49 PM EST
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Re. Salon. Salon is about 50 times larger than ET and just for reference,

Not Salon the web site. The Salon on ET. The yellow-themed thread on the front page.

This diary about the banning of Tom J was actually about a great loss of publicity concerning the Palestinian plight. And that is why it was posted.

I wasn't disagreeing with that.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Oct 27th, 2010 at 02:37:20 PM EST
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Meta is by definition off topic. Otherwise, see Jake.

by shergald on Wed Oct 27th, 2010 at 02:13:01 PM EST
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And on topic is anything you say.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Oct 27th, 2010 at 03:16:57 PM EST
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Well, here's an on topic flash:

Here today we have yet another banning at Daily Kos by the now infamous Meteor Blades, just two days after Tom J's demise. Hard to believe after reading the diary complaining about troll hijacking by the right wing Zionists, which is demonstrated in the diary itself (see the comments).

Even my merciful nature has its... (14+ / 0-)

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...limits, Jane Stillwater. This time you're gone for good.

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by Meteor Blades on Tue Oct 26, 2010 at 06:29:07 PM PDT

Ya gotta love it, the censorship, that is.

You can read the diary itself here and judge for yourself: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/26/913726/-Palestinethe-Daily-Kos:-Dog-whistles-Or-Google-Aler ts

by shergald on Wed Oct 27th, 2010 at 03:26:11 PM EST
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