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 ...
"London mayor defends the use of Palestinian suicide bombers".
What's he using them for?
It's so much easier for him to kiss 'em "where it counts."
Hmm...the muslims have been at war with hindus for hundreds of years. I guess they knew what the West would do in the future, and that's why they did it...yeah...that's the ticket!
Ken the Red needs to have an up close and personal experience with the jihadists to understand their true threat....ie Nick Berg style.
Dress him in one of the outfits from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", drop him into one of those West Bank Goat farms they call a metropolis, and then see what he thinks.
and he can partake five times a day! Arrghhhhh!
Agreed. If they attempted to attack soldiers or policemen using these methods they would not be very successful.
Well, ONLY their bodies and 20 pounds of explosives for their butchery Ken. WOnder where they keep getting the explosives and cash for explosives?
Couldn't be that your vaunted EU spending billions a year on the pali's funded all this violence against jews, could it ken?
That would be racist, wouldn't it?
Thought you people were supposed to be TOLERANT of other races and ideas, Ken!
Wouldn't this also make it acceptable for the suicide bombers to bomb london. Oh, they did !!!
So I guess terrorists are also justified in blowing up the tubes in london. After all, london has planes and jets and tanks and the "poor" mass murderers do not.
The victims familys should lynch this fool.
What an ass-kissing coward. I can just imagine the reaction of the British people if London's mayor in May 1940 said that Hitler's use of terror bombing by the Luftwaffe was "justified."
His wretched, dismembered carcass would be hoisted up in Trafalgar square.
Mad Ivan,
How is it that someone has not stomped the living dog feces out of this pandering jackass?
The Brits should have an immediate recall (or its British equivalent) of this terrorist apologist.
If they don't, I can't help but wonder about the judgment of Londoners.
Good grief, what a dunce. Wonder what his chances at reelection are?
"imagine the reaction of the British people if London's mayor in May 1940 said that Hitler's use of terror bombing by the Luftwaffe was "justified"..."
Red Ken may actually do some service to the cause of identifying the enablers and apologists for terrorism in the west - charlatans like him have been making these sorts of fatuous attacks on Israel all along, but now that bombs are going off in the London tube maybe some of his constituents and fellow travelers in the EU will re-think their casual, brainless embrace of the pali terrorists???? or am I dreaming?
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What an embarrassment!
Any comments Tom Tancredo?
Ken Livingstone is Mayor of a political entity known as "The City of London," a geographical area a little more than 1 (one) square mile, in the approximate center of "Greater London."
The 50,000 or so inhabitants of the "City of London" are largely of three classes:
1. Government career bureaucrats.
2. Wealthy, guilt-ridden idlers who inherited their fortunes and feel terrible about it.
3. Members of the shallow-brained professional entertainers' class.
.......i.e., abnormal, even by British standards.
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