Sim-O

W00t!!!1!!

Got trackbacks again, not just those crapy blogger (back?)links

Labels: Blogging

As a matter of fact, I had forgotten. Thanx Justin.

Labels: Demostrations, Freedom of Speech, Government, Law/Legal, Politix

Jonathon Cook, Electronic Intifada:

After seven years of rumors and self-serving memoirs, the Israeli media has finally published extracts from an official source about the Camp David negotiations in summer 2000. For the first time it is possible to gauge with some certainty the extent of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s “generous offer” to the Palestinians and Yasser Arafat’s reasons for rejecting it.

In addition, the document provides valuable insights into what larger goals Israel hoped to achieve at Camp David and how similar ambitions are driving its policies to this day.
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The [Camp David] negotiations, in July 2000, were Barak’s attempt to wrap up all the outstanding points of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians that had not been addressed during a series of Israeli withdrawals from the occupied territories specified in the Oslo agreements.
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Perhaps not surprisingly, the Israeli document does not acknowledge the most generous offer of all during the six decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the PLO’s decision in the late 1980s to renounce its claim to most of the Palestinian homeland, and settle instead for a state in the two separate territories of the West Bank and Gaza — on only 22 percent of historic Palestine.

So given the massive territorial concession made by the Palestinian leadership 20 years ago, how do Barak’s terms compare? The document tells us that Barak insisted on three main principles in agreeing to end the occupation and establish a Palestinian state…

Read the rest, it is very interesting.

Labels: Israel, Palestine

I’m not feeling the lurve from my MP,
Was it something I said?

Labels: Iraq

BBC:

Prime Minister Gordon Brown will oppose an above inflation pay rise for MPs, according to Downing Street sources.

Reports suggest the Senior Salaries Review body has recommended a rise of nearly 1% above inflation.

Mr Brown is said to oppose this, but some MPs say their pay has fallen behind. MPs will have the final say in the Commons.

It’d be a bit rich for MPs’ to go ahead with an above inflation pay rise after asking the police to do so.
Especially when you think about how many MPs that can’t afford to by their own home.

Labels: Government

The funniest people I have ever heard.
Part one

Parts two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Labels: Odds and Sods

Click for the video.

Labels: Palestine

Click for the video.

Labels: Palestine

“Dr Evan Harris MP,
Please sign EDM 401, at least, or tell me why you won’t.
I really don’t want to get a name for myself as a stalker.
Even Micheal Howard has put his name to it. And we all know what a tosser he is.

Thanx

Sim-O”

Is your MP on the list?

Labels: Iraq