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London mayor defends the use of Palestinian suicide bombers
Haaretz Service ^

Posted on 07/20/2005 10:24:03 AM PDT by jmc1969

Less than two weeks since the London terror attacks, the city's Mayor Ken Livingstone has sparked controversy by defending the use of suicide bombers in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and charging that Israel had indiscriminately slaughtered Palestinians in acts that "border on crimes against humanity."

"Given that the Palestinians don't have jet planes, don't have tanks, they only have their bodies to use as weapons," Livingstone told Sky News in an interview.

"In an unfair balance, that's what people use," said Livingstone, who has often been strongly critical of Israel in the past.

On July 7, more than 50 people died in four London bombings believed to have been carried out by suicide terrorists.

Livingstone said that Israel has "done horrendous things which border on crimes against humanity the way they have indiscriminately slaughtered men, women and children in the West Bank and Gaza for decades."

Livingstone also said that he does not distinguish between members of Likud and Hamas, branding them "two sides of the same coin."

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: antisemiticahole; dropdead; heymayorkissmyass; mayorisanidiot
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1 posted on 07/20/2005 10:24:03 AM PDT by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969

This man is not a clear thinker.


2 posted on 07/20/2005 10:25:10 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: jmc1969

he's no Rudy Giuliani.


3 posted on 07/20/2005 10:26:47 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (In Honor of Terri Schiavo. *check my FReeppage for the link* Let it load and have the sound on.)
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To: jmc1969

Welcome ladies and gentlemen, too Eurabia.

Jeff


4 posted on 07/20/2005 10:27:20 AM PDT by mosquewatch.com
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To: jmc1969
Livingstone has been nothing but a socket puppet for bin Laden for years.

This parody of that chump was done back in 2003.


5 posted on 07/20/2005 10:27:59 AM PDT by Prime Choice (Thanks to the Leftists, today's deviants will be tomorrow's oppressed minority.)
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To: jmc1969

With this kind of liberal politician in power, London can expect more of the same. Wonder what he will say when they suicide bomb his neighborhood.


6 posted on 07/20/2005 10:29:04 AM PDT by BigFinn
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To: jmc1969

London was better off all those years without a mayor.This guy ia a moron.

Red Ken Rising !!!!!!


7 posted on 07/20/2005 10:29:13 AM PDT by Mears (Keep the government out of my face!)
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To: jmc1969
More:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1446540/posts
8 posted on 07/20/2005 10:30:34 AM PDT by SmithL (There are a lot of people that hate Bush more than they hate terrorists)
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To: jmc1969
And remember how the media elite went on about his beautiful speech? "Now this is coming from Ken the Red," they said--implying that even a hard-leftie gets it.

You simply cannot trust Communists.
9 posted on 07/20/2005 10:30:41 AM PDT by Das Outsider
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To: jmc1969

So if I drive 110 miles per hour through the streets of London, my excuse should be "but officer, I didn't have anything faster!"


10 posted on 07/20/2005 10:32:39 AM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: jmc1969

Good God.


11 posted on 07/20/2005 10:32:47 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: johniegrad

red Ken is a muddleheaded buttboy for jihadists..


12 posted on 07/20/2005 10:33:05 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment

They don't have tanks and jets? What happened to all that stuff the Russians sold to them? Oh, that's right. Israel destroyed it the last time the Arab world attacked.

Zol en krenken!


13 posted on 07/20/2005 10:34:50 AM PDT by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: jmc1969
"Given that the Palestinians don't have jet planes, don't have tanks, they only have their bodies to use as weapons,"

Fair enough comment, if the Palestinians used their "weapons" to attack soldiers or policemen.

14 posted on 07/20/2005 10:34:51 AM PDT by Restorer (Liberalism: the auto-immune disease of societies.)
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To: jmc1969

The Americans need to go over to London a show them how to tar and feather people like this. They have forgotten what it was like to have it done to them.


15 posted on 07/20/2005 10:40:27 AM PDT by handy old one (It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle)
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To: jmc1969; snugs; Eurotwit

Londoners voted for this guy, one presumes.


16 posted on 07/20/2005 10:40:51 AM PDT by John Filson
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Mayor of London?

I thought we in the U.S. had the only dumb-as-rocks elected politicians, a la Boxer and McKinney.

Guess I was wrong.

17 posted on 07/20/2005 10:43:37 AM PDT by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)
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"London mayor defends the use of Palestinian suicide bombers"

It' hard to fathom this fool is the mayor of London.

19 posted on 07/20/2005 10:44:37 AM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is not free)
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To: jmc1969

I wonder what the impeachment rules are in Britain?

Surely this A-hole is a candidate!


20 posted on 07/20/2005 10:45:47 AM PDT by aShepard
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