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Topic: Nobel peace laureates call for Israel military boycott over Gaza assault |
Nobel peace laureates call for Israel military boycott over Gaza assault
Guardian [UK], by Chris McGreal
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Posted By:earlybird, 11/28/2012 9:52:57 AM
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Jerusalem - A group of Nobel peace prize-winners, prominent artists and activists have issued a call for an international military boycott of Israel following its assault on the Gaza Strip this month. The letter also denounces the US, EU and several developing countries for what it describes as their "complicity" through weapons sales and other military support in the attack that killed 160 Palestinians, many of them civilians, including about 35 children. The 52 signatories include the Nobel peace laureates (Snip) the film directors Mike Leigh and Ken Loach; the author Alice Walker; the US academic Noam Chomsky; Roger Author's name corrected by staff
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Comments: "Pink Floyd"?
Israel the aggressor.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Pilot222, 11/28/2012 9:58:32 AM (No. 9037373)
More proof that the Nobel prize should be rename the Alfred E. Neuman. Award. What a joke.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
big red navy cheif, 11/28/2012 10:46:46 AM (No. 9037474)
It´s as if all the missiles and rockets Hamas launches, the bus-bombings, the mortars fired - as if all those never existed in these people´s world.
Reality evidently isn´t impacting their brains.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 11/28/2012 10:50:35 AM (No. 9037482)
International communists running to the defense of their sub-human fellow travellers...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jonr, 11/28/2012 10:52:39 AM (No. 9037489)
I am sure that another anti-Semetic POS would have been glad to sign this petition too had he been alive: Arafat! These Nobel "winners" are a disgrace to civilization! Where were their petitions and concerns when Hamas was raining down missels on the Israeli civilian population? Only when Israel fights back do these fools get concerned for the barbarian cockroaches that make up "Palestine"!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
pockets64, 11/28/2012 10:53:49 AM (No. 9037494)
The nerve of Israel to defend herself!!
Now, more than ever, I am convinced that the Nobel is a booby prize. If you get one, you have been recognized as a total doofus.
Think about it: A peace prize created by the inventor of TNT. Awarded to Yasir Arafat, Jimmy Carter, Paul Kurgman, Barack Obama, these nuts, ...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mickturn, 11/28/2012 1:00:58 PM (No. 9037734)
Once again the Nobel awardees are proven to be idiots!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
zoidberg, 11/28/2012 3:30:41 PM (No. 9037992)
To Roger Waters: Wrong, do it again!
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