tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13169838.post114476490447290228..comments2023-07-31T15:17:30.792+01:00Comments on Christian Hate?: Unlawful killingCyrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00512481025183200804noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13169838.post-1144874032483562572006-04-12T21:33:00.000+01:002006-04-12T21:33:00.000+01:00Jonty, I wouldn't take issue with O.K. except to s...Jonty, I wouldn't take issue with O.K. except to say that I feel one does at least have to give these people credit for commitment and courage - it's their politics and ethics which stink.<BR/><BR/>"The best lack all conviction, while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity..."Cyrushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00512481025183200804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13169838.post-1144844371052640322006-04-12T13:19:00.000+01:002006-04-12T13:19:00.000+01:00I don't disagree with you, Cyrus. But you're too ...I don't disagree with you, Cyrus. But you're too generous by far to Hurndall, his family, and the ISM.<BR/><BR/>Oliver Kamm's comments in 2004 about Hurndall's death are still very relevant:<BR/><BR/>"I can understand Mrs Hurndall’s wish to map what she believes to have been her son’s personal qualities to his political convictions. There is, however, absolutely no reason that the rest of us should take her judgements seriously…<BR/>Tom Hurndall’s political affiliations were despicable. So far from being a ‘peace activist’, his favoured cause was hostility to Israel [through the ISM]…<BR/>This is the unworthy and mendacious organisation to which Tom Hurndall gave his allegiance. So far from being a humanitarian protecting Palestinian children from harm, Hurndall was a neophyte aggravating a tense and inflamed conflict by methods that exploited the essential decency of those he was protesting against. ‘Human shields’ do not operate against nihilists who have contempt for human life (the ISM has no record of shielding Israeli civilians from suicide-murderers by travelling on Jerusalem buses); the ISM’s rationale is rather to make it as difficult as possible for Israeli Defence Forces to carry out their work, on the correct presumption that the IDF will wish to avoid risking the life of anyone not directly connected with terrorism."<BR/><BR/>See the rest at:<BR/>http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2004/03/a_pointless_dea.html<BR/><BR/>Jonty GoodsonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com