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 ...
This man is not a clear thinker.
he's no Rudy Giuliani.
Welcome ladies and gentlemen, too Eurabia.
Jeff
This parody of that chump was done back in 2003.
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.
London was better off all those years without a mayor.This guy ia a moron.
Red Ken Rising !!!!!!
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!"
Good God.
red Ken is a muddleheaded buttboy for jihadists..
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!
Fair enough comment, if the Palestinians used their "weapons" to attack soldiers or policemen.
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.
Londoners voted for this guy, one presumes.
I thought we in the U.S. had the only dumb-as-rocks elected politicians, a la Boxer and McKinney.
Guess I was wrong.
It' hard to fathom this fool is the mayor of London.
I wonder what the impeachment rules are in Britain?
Surely this A-hole is a candidate!
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