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2007-04-16 Europe

Irish artists' call to boycott Israel meets with mockery

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Posted by tu3031 2007-04-16 08:41|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...Israelis were hardly likely to feel threatened by the "stern lecturing of a bunch of state-subsidized artists who mostly reside in well-deserved obscurity."

That is the hardest verbal bitch slap I have ever seen from a newspaper!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-04-16 09:52|| 2007-04-16 09:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Verbal bitch slap? More like a verbal shillelagh.

Posted by Mike 2007-04-16 10:40|| 2007-04-16 10:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Mel Brooks is way ahead of ya:

"Ok, we'll take the niggers and the chinks, but we don't want the Irish!"
-- Blazing Saddles

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-04-16 12:47|| 2007-04-16 12:47|| Front Page Top

#4 "I wonder that the Irish government does not immediately break off diplomatic relations with Israel for your absurd violation of those articles in the UN Charter of Human Rights that guarantee free expression," D'Arcy declared.

All right. Right here, right now, I am inventing a new superhero: Captain Bitch Slap. Captain BS travels the world, administering bitch slaps to all who are truly in need of one. Like this woman, who -- like so many of her kind -- can't distinguish criticism from oppression. It would be infra dig for the Israeli ambassador to give D'Arcy [aye, and a fine old Irish name is that] her richly-deserved smacking. Captain Bitch Slap to the rescue!

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-04-16 13:21|| 2007-04-16 13:21|| Front Page Top

#5 We need to stop calling the Paleo's. There is/was/never was such a place expect as a roman province. And it was populated by Jews.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2007-04-16 14:18|| 2007-04-16 14:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Silentbrick, the Palestinian thing is a claim that they are actually the Philistines, and therefore the original inhabitants of the land, predating the Jews. Still wrong of course -- the original inhabitants were the Canaanites, and the Philistines were foreign colonists during the Judges period who never got beyond their coastal cities except to raid the Hebrew tribes of the interior. But then, the Palestinians have never been famous for their intellectual achievements.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-16 16:41|| 2007-04-16 16:41|| Front Page Top

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