If the Holocaust hadnt of Happened (9)

The UN is largely at the mercy of the USA, and the USA has a nasty habbit of using its power of veto to block any resolution that does not serve its own interests. As George Bush once said, "What we say goes".

I know they say 'would of' 'could of' and should of' in the soaps, but that doesn't make it right.

You can't have "of" and " happen" next to each other.

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Edited 26 Jan 09, 11:56 PM by syndeetoo

Ah but did you understand what the OP was getting at?

Interesting you should answer as such to a post about that referenced the Nazi Atrocities.....

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As a point of pedantry. In the Anglo-Boer war at the end of the 19th century, the British housed Boers (Today's White Afrikaans if you don't know) in Concentration Camps. This may have been the first instance of them even.

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I think you mean Rhodesians

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You're right. It was a method used by the British to put the widely dispersed civilian population into one place. (Literally to concentrate the population into a manageable location). It was intended to put pressure on the male Boers who were fighting a guerilla war by holding their families to randsome and at the same time denying them the physical support of places where they could rest and feed while hiding from the British.

Conditions were pretty appaling and a number of Christian groups went into the camps to try to improve the lot of the captives. However, there's no evidence that I'm aware of that the British were attempting a deliberate policy of genocide by neglect.

They differ significantly from the German "Death" camps where there was a policy of deliberate extermination. Even before the Nazis decided to systematically kill the occupants of the camps, the political motives and the purpose of their concentration camps was different to that of the British.

I saw the DEC appeal last night. It was truly sickening and brought home the effects of war on a civillian population. I don't understand all the intricacies of the politics involved, but I can appreciate why certain media have chosen not to show it. It made me angry that Israel can do this and then expect the rest of the world to clear up the mess they've caused, although I appreciate that's a simplistic reaction.

How can this be the way forward? Surely this war will only have served to radicalise yet more Palestinians. It's a mess, and I don't see what good it can bring in the long term.

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* Hamas stores arms and explosives in schools and hospitals.

* The bodies of children are 'recycled' and ferried out to the sites of missile hits in ambulances for the cameras.

* The sugar in humanitarian aid deliveries is confiscated and used in the propellant of the Qassam missiles that are launched at Israeli towns (this has been determined by chemical analysis of unburned propellant).

* Hamas opportunistically murdered approx 300 dissidents/ moderates and their families, adding their bodies to the count.

* The border walls around East Jerusalem and Bethlehem were originally constructed to stop snipers shooting cars passing on main roads.

* Most of the Middle East conflict was caused by the inept carve-up of the Ottoman Empire by the British and the French at the end of World War I.

* Much of the trouble in Central Africa is still agitated by conflicting British and French “sphere of influence” disputes.

* China, Russia and America are still fighting “proxy” wars in Africa in order to gain access to mineral wealth.

* Some serious time spent studying the history of regions and present day interests is essential before going anywhere near most newspapers.

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Edited 27 Jan 09, 10:33 AM by Mad_Monk

When he walked out of the gates of prison on 11 February 1990, signalling the beginning of the end of white rule in South Africa, hundreds of thousands of full-time agitators and protestors found themselves without a target and therefore without income or occupation.

There was dallying with Tibetan, Burmese and other issues but the agit-niks soon found that those aggressor regimes i) didn't give a shit ii) couldn't be effectively touched by anyone.

An easier target was required. One where the target wasn't going to hurt them personally, was vulnerable to public opinion, where powerful and wealthy sponsors had a vested interest in donating to the protestor's cause.

There is only one real democracy in that neighbourhood (that doesn't round up and torture its opponents before elections – Egypt – or after them – Hamas – or just bury them alive in the desert – Syria - ) and it's worth supporting.

"He took a single sip of her pain and found it exquisite"

Tender and affectionate, it is her highest bliss to minister to the wants, the convenience, or the pleasure of those she loves; and hence, her inventive powers have been, in all ages, called into early and active exercise, in the fabrication of those articles calculated to accomplish those desirable ends.