I’m really happy to have come across this and no doubt I will email soon. I happen to be looking at exactly the same incident for which I’ll be focusing on with my masters thesis.

I’m starting a blog to open a discussion on this topic, and hope to have a central point for discussion as I hunt for related blogs. I hope you, and any viewers with constructive arguments, take a look and once the content increases participate in discussion.

As for the Israel involvement in DR Congo, I can’t help but feel this is an unnecessary argument. Indeed they may have been involved but only at the behest of the larger elite nations such as USA, Britain and France. Therefore it seems like a weak argument, and a pointless one.

All the best,
Simon

Israeli state apparatus propped up the Mobutu dictatorship for years, laying the foundations for further conflicts in the country. Israeli interests are actively involved in the plundering of DR Congo’s natural resources, in liason with European actors.

http://gaza-peace-n-freedom.blogspot.com/2009/01/michel-hamas-is-responsible.html

From a very different but valid perspective:[/i]
- Really?

[i]In Africa, women with uncovered breast is absolute normal ubiquitous sight, provoking no criticism nor outrage: one can see naked people on documentary movies in abundance and we just shrug…[/i\]

I lived in Nigeria for 23 yrs and i never saw even ONE such “normal ubiquitous sight”. Please tell me where they are i would love to stare too.

[i]In Africa anything goes: genocide, rape, murder, tribal warfare, you name it – this is the normal state of all things ever since Lucy stood up on two feet.[/i]

Wow what part of Africa did i live in? Must be a different one from that Thomas is describing. Thomas must be living on another planet.

Nice how you pusrposefully misunderstood my sentnce in order: the people Mr Deave doesn’t give arat ass are Darfuris.

And now I remind you the best of them (Fialstinians) voted nearly two to one for a government who advocates genocide in addition to handle candy when a child is killed in cold blood and try to boimb maternities. Also, do I need to remind you that in Darfur you don’t need to look for the very best of them, not even the average one to find peoplewho dodn’t do the repugnant things the Filastinains do? Then why are you caring about nthem instead of the Darfuris?

You are not only lying: if IUsrael had wanted to kill them at will or, simply hold to a strict interpretation of Geneva: “avoid bombing civilian zones where no enemies are stationed but go for enemy and if civilians die because it has intermingled with them it is enenemy’s fault not ours so shhot prisoners for the war crime ofg endangering civilians” (yes taht is what Geneva says, that makes war crime not pay) there would be a hundred thousand dead by now.

You are also avoiding to ask my question. How many times have you demonstrated in front of the Soudanese embassy? How much time have you spent for them? And given that, unlike Palestinians Black Sudanese are being killed at will and that unlike Palestinians they have never tried to bomb maternities tell me why you don’t give a rat ass for them and care so much for people repugnant enough to try a suicide bombing on maternity.

And also to kill them at will.

The Congo is one of the worlds resources for high tech materials including tantalum, cobalt, coltan and manganese. The Belgian Government and US interests made sure that when a leader emerged that could bring independant self rule and self determination to the Nation ( Patrice Lamumba), the leader was assasinated by those same foreign interests, factories must have low cost supply.

If Israel had large deposits of minerals, or petroleum, or any other resource that corporations require for their survival, then Israel would suffer the same fate as the Congo.

If a large group of topless and skirt-less white women walked about casually in a western city and in a supermarket, many spectator would express harsh condemnation and accusations of lascivious, indecent behavior.

In Africa, women with uncovered breast is absolute normal ubiquitous sight, provoking no criticism nor outrage: one can see naked people on documentary movies in abundance and we just shrug…

This is because we have different expectations from different people and we are conditioned this way ab ovo (from the beginning).
In Africa anything goes: genocide, rape, murder, tribal warfare, you name it – this is the normal state of all things ever since Lucy stood up on two feet.

Israel and the Jews however a perpetual, challenging enigma like a tennis ball: no matter how hardly you try to hit, it always bounces back and this is beyond the comprehension of many, – even on this forum. A nursing black woman or a decapitated African provoke no challenging thought for the true mystery lies with the pesky Jews:
how come they are still around us?

It’s no wonder Israel and Jew bashing became an industry in which every basher has his/her own theory as to which is the best way to crack the Jewish secret open and purge the world from their polluting presence. If you have enough stamina and saliva just read some of the posters right here, you will be amazed how much sh***t they try to dredge up from hell to support their Jew hatred.