Just been reading an Observer magazine piece about Annie Lennox. This bit made my eyes widen:
‘I was critical of Israel’s policy of bombing Gaza,” she explains, “that was populated by mainly children in a space where they couldn’t escape from. I said that it was not the way forward to peace.” However some felt that, in attending the demonstration against Israel, she was effectively supporting the Palestinian Islamists, Hamas, a suggestion she flatly rejected. Even so, she was accused of naivety and even antisemitism.’ [1]
Is the word ‘Islamist’ a lazy euphemism for ‘terrorist’? I reckon so. And who was accusing Annie Lennox of naivety and antisemitism, Andrew Anthony? I expect it was those anti-human people who think nothing of repeatedly providing justifications for the bombing of innocent Palestinians. But I might be wrong…
Meanwhile, while I’m ranting, the latest Gaza aid convoy is making good progress… [2]
[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/10/annie-lennox-eurythmics-christmas-cornucopia-universal-child
[2] http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/10/20101013203915141175.html
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