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32.060...SodaStream<br />NASDAQ: SODA - Aug 12 6:57 PM ET<br />32.060 That's DOWN .97 or (2.94%) just today.<br /><br />August 13, 2012 share value was $64.73<br />Today it is $32.06<br /><br />And then Starbucks backed out of that Sodastream 'deal'<br /><br />http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/starbucks-may-face-a-boycott-if-it-partners-with-sodastream-12008<br /><br /><i>Starbucks is rolling out handcrafted sodas across the Southeast on ... New Fizzio Soda Machine </i><br /><br /><a href="http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2014/08/11/starbucks-ceo-howard-schultz-wakes-up-and-smells-the-boycotts/" rel="nofollow">Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Wakes Up and Smells the Boycotts</a><br /><br />http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2014/08/11/starbucks-ceo-howard-schultz-wakes-up-and-smells-the-boycotts/Farmer Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04758671613961287976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12490005247909340412014-08-12T23:59:16.094-04:002014-08-12T23:59:16.094-04:00Now that the Israeli are committing genocide under...Now that the Israeli are committing genocide under Section C of Article II is obvious.Rat is still a figment of your imaginationnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18718105547335159662014-08-12T23:57:17.994-04:002014-08-12T23:57:17.994-04:00Should we define "Genocide", again?
Not ...Should we define "Genocide", again?<br />Not a problem ... It is not based upon the death count, but other factors as well<br /><br /><i>"Article II: In the present Convention,<b> genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:</b><br /><br /> (a) Killing members of the group;<br /><br /> (b) <b>Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;</b><br /><br /> (c) <b>Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;</b><br /><br /> (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;<br /><br /> (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.<br /></i><br /><br />To claim that the Palestinians are not a "real" people, is a form of genocide.Rat is a figment of your imaginationnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25897162455948691972014-08-12T23:52:17.079-04:002014-08-12T23:52:17.079-04:00Good ole "slam dunk" Rufus! His view is...Good ole "slam dunk" Rufus! His view is clear as day this evening from his arm chair.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-15267817855613517442014-08-12T23:51:40.346-04:002014-08-12T23:51:40.346-04:00http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/...http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/11/british-protesting-gaza-iraq-israel-oppression-palestiniansFarmer Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04758671613961287976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85376701267223433532014-08-12T23:50:56.398-04:002014-08-12T23:50:56.398-04:00The hundreds of thousands who have taken to the st...<i>The hundreds of thousands who have taken to the streets of Britain over the past month in support of and solidarity with the people of Gaza have seen their protests denounced by neocons and rightwingers because they aren’t about some other group of people, somewhere else.<br /><br />The “why don’t they march against something else” crowd accuse us of silence on those atrocities. There are certainly many terrible humanitarian disasters in the world, most recently that of the Yazidis in Iraq, about which we must all feel anguish. Our argument is that our government and the US’s past intervention have not helped the people of the Middle East, but made things worse. The point of a mass demonstration is to put pressure on our government and to alter public opinion in this country. They have had an impact. Public opinion remains strongly anti-intervention and anti-war, and last year, mobilised public opinion was instrumental in stopping David Cameron’s attempt to bomb Syria.<br /><br /><b>Last Saturday’s demonstration was the biggest ever pro-Palestine protest at 150,000. </b></i><br /><br />Hamas won!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59207364621464938032014-08-12T23:48:54.956-04:002014-08-12T23:48:54.956-04:00UK to suspend military exports to Israel, if fight...<b><i>UK to suspend military exports to Israel, if fighting in Gaza resumes</i></b><br />International-Jerusalem PostAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-5698118651710136612014-08-12T23:47:31.243-04:002014-08-12T23:47:31.243-04:00.
Surely, you don't expect consistency from t....<br /><br />Surely, you don't expect consistency from the rat.<br /><br />The habitual liar's biggest problem is trying to keep track of his own lies.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87647927283367914422014-08-12T23:45:16.122-04:002014-08-12T23:45:16.122-04:00War college?? I think his arm chair us in the liv...War college?? I think his arm chair us in the living room.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-24479831213302355382014-08-12T23:44:18.674-04:002014-08-12T23:44:18.674-04:00More propaganda from the Zionists, but the reality...More propaganda from the Zionists, but the reality is that Israelis are in Cairo, negotiating with Hamas.<br /><br />Hamas exists, Hamas was not destroyed.<br />It has been legitimized.<br /><br />Hamas won.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12326212147680723622014-08-12T23:41:51.801-04:002014-08-12T23:41:51.801-04:00Genocide is not determined by the death toll, but ...Genocide is not determined by the death toll, but by the goals of the perpetrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18408826258456029342014-08-12T23:23:16.271-04:002014-08-12T23:23:16.271-04:00Got to LOVE the bravery of the ISIS/Hamas/Moslem B...Got to LOVE the bravery of the ISIS/Hamas/Moslem Brotherhood Clerics...<br /><br />In a Friday sermon delivered among the ruins of the Al-Sousi Mosque in Gaza on August 8, 2014, the cleric said: "The Palestinian nation is ready to sacrifice two million martyrs." The sermon was broadcast by the Al-Jazeera network.<br />Following are excerpts:<br />Unnamed cleric: Oh sons of Judaism, oh sons of slavery [i.e., Arab rulers], no matter how much you kill us, we will not let go of our weapons.<br /><br />We will not let go of our weapons, even if the number of martyrs exceeds two million, not just 2,000. The Palestinian nation is ready to sacrifice two million martyrs, for the sake of the holiest and most just cause on the face of the Earth. We are ready to sacrifice all the sons of the Palestinian people for this holy cause.<br />[...]<br />Oh Allah, destroy the Jews. Oh Allah, destroy the Jews, those who support the Jews, those who side with the Jews, cooperate with the Jews, trade with the Jews, or open a gateway for them into the land of Islam.<br />So he is pretty much calling for the death of all Europeans, Americans, Indians, Egyptians, Jordanians, Moroccans and the many others who trade with Israel publicly or privately. <br /><br />Amazingly, this brave man is willing to have millions of his own people killed, yet he is apparently not willing to do any fighting himself.What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6264797850763009492014-08-12T23:21:56.752-04:002014-08-12T23:21:56.752-04:00"Hamas' media, along with the media of th..."Hamas' media, along with the media of the MB, still insist on inciting against our big sister Egypt and on blaming it for the aggression and the continuing Gaza siege. They do not understand that the Arabs, and especially the Egyptians, read [the map] correctly and are well aware of what Hamas wants [to achieve] in its propaganda and political campaign against Egypt, which has been going on since the June 30, [2013] revolution [against the MB rule in Egypt].<br />"What concerns us today is the fate of the oppressed people of Gaza, who have lost every aspect of a [normal] life. Where will [we] find housing for all the families that have lost their homes and cannot find shelter except in public facilities? Who will undertake to find them new housing, and how long will it take to end the catastrophe, rebuild the ruins, and heal the deep wounds caused by the oppressive aggression and by the Palestinian side's mishandling of the campaign? This is where Hamas begins to shirk its responsibility and place the responsibility upon [the shoulders of] the PA and the national accord government, which [only] on paper."<br /><br /><br /><br />Can we say "winning"?What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62101169199069092262014-08-12T23:21:32.761-04:002014-08-12T23:21:32.761-04:00"Of course, some will say that this is the pr..."Of course, some will say that this is the price of the homeland and of liberty. It is a price that the Palestinians have indeed been paying for 66 years, or for the last 100 years – but never has the number of losses been so high. Hamas could have inflicted pain on the enemy without bringing such a humanitarian catastrophe upon the Gazans, had it understood from the start the decisive significance of the Egyptian initiative and negotiated to improve the terms [of the ceasefire] and to achieve the legitimate humanitarian demands that it placed at the top of its list, namely ending the oppressive aggression and lifting the unjust siege. [Instead,] it regarded the Gazans and their concerns as [mere] ciphers...<br />"As a people under occupation, we Palestinians have the right to employ every kind of resistance sanctioned by international law in order to end this hated occupation. But there is [such a thing as] responsibility and delicate considerations, which resistance movements must place at the head of their priority-lists and calculations. Such tremendous destruction in a tiny area like Gaza... cannot be viewed as a victory, even had the Palestinians agreed among themselves about all their terms and demands, [a goal] they have not yet achieved. [Now] we will have an unconditional ceasefire, followed by a longer ceasefire which will eventually deprive Gaza of its ability to act – as though the objective of all the bloodshed and all the terrible suffering was to find a formula for improving the living conditions and the livelihood of the Gazans. [It seems that] the greatest demand and aspiration of the resistance is to lift the siege from Gaza, without linking this to any political demands regarding the [Palestinians'] national rights and principles. As we feared, [the hostilities] are likely to abate and end like this, without any of the Gazan's rights having been realized.<br />"Where is Hamas leading?... Will the ceasefire be renewed again and again, while rigid negotiations take place that will not yield much in terms of [realizing] the demands that were set? Or will we go back to pouring oil on the fire and beating the war drums, which will not change the equation but [only] take us back to square one?!<br />"Furthermore, we cannot ignore the fact that Egypt made every effort, in every way, to end the aggression – but Hamas erred and stubbornly rejected the Egyptian initiative from the start. [This,] in a bid to promote the role of Turkey and Qatar, in line with the MB's views, while engaging in an unfortunate attempt to marginalize the role of Egypt, [even though Egypt's role] is indespensible, for pan-Arab, historical, geographical and strategic reasons. Having failed [to achieve its goals], Hamas came back to Egypt – which has shouldered the Palestinian cause throughout [the history of] the Arab-Israeli conflict – [and participated in the negotiations] under the official mantle of the PLO.<br />What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75604852660294487322014-08-12T23:20:59.095-04:002014-08-12T23:20:59.095-04:00Palestinian Columnist: Hamas Did Not Win The War, ...Palestinian Columnist: Hamas Did Not Win The War, Only Brought Suffering Upon Gazans<br /><br />In an August 7, 2014 article titled "We Did Not Win," which was posted on the Amad.ps website, Palestinian columnist Dalia Al-'Afifi challenged Hamas' claim that it won the Gaza war. She wrote that Hamas had shown ignorance of Israel's rationale, had caused innumerable losses and damage to the Palestinians, and had erred in rejecting the Egyptian initiative. She added that the immense destruction in Gaza cannot be called a victory by any standards, and that Hamas' tactics are not likely to bring about an improvement in the Gazans' living conditions, not to mention promote the larger political goals of the Palestinian people.<br /><br />"There is no doubt that this [current] Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip is different in all its forms, methods and contents, and even in the scope of the losses on both sides, from all the previous wars and intifadas that occurred in the course of the Israel-Arab conflict... The main Palestinian side that is leading the field campaign against the oppressive Israeli aggression in the present stage is the Hamas movement, and all it represents as the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood [MB]. It was [Hamas] that led the campaign, even if the Islamic Jihad movement played a prominent role as well, and so did the other armed factions and elements, to some extent.<br />"The strange thing is that Hamas showed considerable ignorance of the rationale of the fascist Israel, and failed to understand many things. True, Hamas made some military achievements on the ground and achieved considerable success in terms of public morale. But it failed in the political management of the campaign, due to several reasons, [including] its views as a party and futile calculations [stemming from] its understanding of the power [relations] in the region – which inevitably caused the Palestinians to pay dearly in lives and [damage to] property.<br />"The immense losses suffered by the Palestinians in lives and [damage to] property, whose tragic results are currently difficult to delimit or assess, prove that partisan interests largely overshadowed the interests of the Gazan public. Had Hamas' various branches and political and military leaders understood the Palestinians' living conditions in the last seven years, we would not have reached this situation [and suffered] these tragic casualties... mostly among children and elderly people – the highest number [of casualties in the history] of the Palestinian problem, even higher than in the two intifadas.What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11729438777124481272014-08-12T23:18:19.512-04:002014-08-12T23:18:19.512-04:00In another Hamas victory over the IDF, Egyptian se...In another Hamas victory over the IDF, Egyptian security forces seized today (Tuesday) in northern Sinai a launcher with three Grad rockets that were ready to be launched into Israel. State security officials told the site Al Masry al Youm that according to intelligence officials the plan was for radical Islamists (ISIS/Hamas) to shoot the rockets to Israel from the launcher located south of Rafah. According to the source, the rockets have been smuggled through tunnels from Gaza to Sinai, and Egyptian forces now surround the area. <br /><br />Pizza and KFC was given to all the Hamas members killed as a tribute to their success against Israel. It was reported that the pizza and KFC was in fact eaten by the Egyptians all the while congratulating the dead ISIS/Hamas terrorists on their victory...What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86991763702497068682014-08-12T23:16:13.308-04:002014-08-12T23:16:13.308-04:00Egyptian Army forces celebrating the Hamas victory...Egyptian Army forces celebrating the Hamas victory over Israel decided to destroy a large store of Hamas's missiles in central Sinai using airstrikes. Sources confirmed to Masrawy that the information received by the security services, confirmed the smuggling of large quantities of Grad and Katyusha missiles through the tunnels, stored in an abandoned house on the outskirts of the village of Wadi Al-Amr in central Sinai.<br /><br />Egyptian helicopters bombed the missile storage and a car transport loaded with rockets, killing two Hamas members.<br /><br />The government of Egypt sent a congratulations telegram to the Hamas on their victory over the IDF and requested Hamas to continue to allow Egypt to blow up Hamas's rockets and kill their fighters as it was an uplifting event...<br />What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8704456548232134052014-08-12T23:14:05.444-04:002014-08-12T23:14:05.444-04:00LOL
.01 percent of the population and just a few ...LOL<br /><br />.01 percent of the population and just a few days ago you were talking about "genocide"<br /><br /><br />LOLWhat is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69913036834009117982014-08-12T23:02:22.055-04:002014-08-12T23:02:22.055-04:00Jeff Jacoby | Globe Columnist July 21, 2014
...Jeff Jacoby | Globe Columnist July 21, 2014<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50940956378670729632014-08-12T23:00:32.815-04:002014-08-12T23:00:32.815-04:00It is not a question of who lost the most, it is a...It is not a question of who lost the most, it is a question of who WON the most.<br /><br />And that would be Hamas.<br />The cost of that victory, negligible.<br /><br />A few hundred dead, less than 0.01 percent of their population.<br />And Israel is seen as an aggressor, a tyrant an illegitimate apartheid state by more and more people across the Western World.<br /><br /><i><b>Israel is seen through jaundiced eyes.</b> There has been an unprecedented moral inversion, illustrating the power of a noxious idea to seep from the ideological fringe to the mainstream.<br />The United States is not yet down to one pro-Israel party. But the seepage among Democrats continues. At the 2012 Democratic convention, a fight erupted over the deletion from the party’s platform of standard language acknowledging Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. It took an order from the White House to restore the pro-Israel clause, and even then it had to be gaveled through over the vocal opposition of half the convention delegates.<br /><br />Not long ago, such a hostile gesture would have been unthinkable. Now, with each new poll confirming Democratic chilliness toward the Jewish state Democrats once loved, can it be anything but a precursor of worse to come?</i><br /><br />http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/07/21/israel-democrats-are-losing-their-moral-clarity/0Mx4k2WoZfyVhdCtEObP6O/story.html<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27145832260597311012014-08-12T22:49:02.982-04:002014-08-12T22:49:02.982-04:00According to the Hamas lovers Hamas has won.
Acco...According to the Hamas lovers Hamas has won.<br /><br />According to the people of Gaza? Hamas are FEARED more than the IDF.<br /><br />Hundreds of children, executed by Hamas that were used as slave labor to build terror tunnels.<br /><br />The real big win?<br /><br />the full discovery and destruction of the terror tunnels and the disruption of the Hamas plan to put 10,000 terrorists inside Israel for a mass murder/kidnapping on Rosh Hashanah.<br /><br />Hamas lost about 900 of it's fighters. Hamas lost all it's tunnels on the egypt side and on the Israel side.<br /><br />IRan was silent for the last month, Hezbollah, silent.<br /><br />Only Qatar and Turkey did any yelling...<br /><br />But the entire Sunni Arab world? Wanted Hamas to be punished...<br /><br />Israel lost???? hardly...<br /><br />I'd say the palestinians once again lost the most...What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44073385559630273962014-08-12T22:33:28.060-04:002014-08-12T22:33:28.060-04:00Double down on that dittoDouble down on that dittoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34854249272180611392014-08-12T22:32:31.433-04:002014-08-12T22:32:31.433-04:00The vaunted IDF unable to take out some rag-tag in...The vaunted IDF unable to take out some rag-tag insurgents ....<br /><br />Israel lost in Lebanon, has lost twice in Gaza.<br />Hezbollah has grown into a regional force., <br />Hamas has gained legitimacy, <br /><b>Israel had its airport closed.</b><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-91395493869767412152014-08-12T22:28:56.402-04:002014-08-12T22:28:56.402-04:00dittodittoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36655955167315454892014-08-12T22:28:00.901-04:002014-08-12T22:28:00.901-04:00The very fact that Israel is in Cairo, negotiating...The very fact that Israel is in Cairo, negotiating, makes Israel the loser.<br />Hamas has gained legitimacy and has not been destroyed, root and branch.<br />Hamas wins.<br /><br />LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com