Hullabaloo
Friday, January 02, 2009
Totally Different
by digby
Jonathan Schwarz takes a trip down Israel's Memory Lane and finds something interesting:
The funny thing about the Israeli attack on Gaza following its long blockade is that Israel's original justification for taking over Gaza in 1967 was that Israel was being subject to a blockade. This is from the official Knesset history of the Six Day War:
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser blockaded the Straits of Tiran on May 21st and 22nd to all shipping from and to Eilat; the area was open to Israeli ships under UN supervision since 1957, and Israel repeatedly stated that such a blockade will be considered as casus belli (justification for acts of war).
Ooops.
Jonathan also does a search and finds that nobody in journalism seems to drawn attention to this obvious parallel in all the talk about blockade and retaliation.
How odd.
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Posted by Eric at January 3, 2009 01:00 AMWhat a cool video, Mary. And great links, thanks!
Posted by iamcoyote at January 3, 2009 07:24 AM"I'm glad to see that the movie set that gave us so many memorable "moon landings" is still up and running." ...Joe the "evolution is a theory" republican.
Posted by TIKI AL at January 3, 2009 09:07 AMSince this is an open thread. What's going on over at Huff Post?
Harold Ambler
Posted January 3, 2009 | 11:36 AM (EST)
Mr. Gore: Apology Accepted
"Mr. Gore has stated, regarding climate change, that "the science is in." Well, he is absolutely right about that, except for one tiny thing. It is the biggest whopper ever sold to the public in the history of humankind."
Amazing, even for Huff Post, Gore is the alarmist now. The consensus seems to be with those of us who don't believe in man made climate change. This guy even addresses the Arctic melt...
"P.S. One of the last, desperate canards proposed by climate alarmists is that of the polar ice caps. Look at the "terrible," "unprecedented" melting in the Arctic in the summer of 2007, they say. Well, the ice in the Arctic basin has always melted and refrozen, and always will. Any researcher who wants to find a single molecule of ice that has been there longer than 30 years is going to have a hard job, because the ice has always been melted from above (by the midnight Sun of summer) and below (by relatively warm ocean currents, possibly amplified by volcanic venting) -- and on the sides, again by warm currents. Scientists in the alarmist camp have taken to referring to "old ice," but, again, this is a misrepresentation of what takes place in the Arctic.
More to the point, 2007 happened also to be the time of maximum historic sea ice in Antarctica. (There are many credible sources of this information, such as the following website maintained by the University of Illinois-Urbana: http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.anom.south.jpg). Why, I ask, has Mr. Gore not chosen to mention the record growth of sea ice around Antarctica? If the record melting in the Arctic is significant, then the record sea ice growth around Antarctica is, too, I say. If one is insignificant, then the other one is, too."
Christina's been there, she's been rather silent lately. What model had last years temperature down turn, retreating back to earth temps of the 1890's. The rise of the 1900's all gone in one year. Better insulate your homes folks, we may be having some very cold winters lasting longer into the year.
Pants pissin pete AKA as full of shit pete..
Posted by headxray at January 4, 2009 05:37 PM