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In this week’s edition of Shire Network News, we speak to Venezuelan blogger Daniel Duquenal about Hugo Chavez and the way he’s killing democracy while the global left stand on the sidelines applauding.

Podcast wonders what’s worse for Venezuela- Socialismo or Muerte - or Chavez #92
However, as those of you you who saw the Joss Wheedon movie Serenity will know, Chavez can close down all the opposition TV stations he wants, but you can’t stop the signal. A website protesting at Hugo Chavez’s crushing of dissent “Free RCTV” is now available with video clips, news and a petition to sign. And you can read more about the anti-Chavista resistance at Harry’s Place.

And our thanks for those links goes to our friend in the underground, “Nighthawk”. This is London calling Nighthawk. The package has been received, Stand by for further instructions.

Chavez’s Bolivarian “Socialismo O Muerte” revolution gets the Doug Payton treatment in “Consider This”, and Israeli Tomer in “Push the Button” slags off Israel. Criticism of the Jewish homeland on SNN, home of the last unreconstructed red-in-tooth-and-claw neoconservatives in captivity? Strange but true.

In Blog News, the US and Iran hold talks, I feel safer already, don’t you?

A British Foriegn Office diplomat thinks the Air France hijacking that led to the Entebbe raid was … you guessed it, a Zionist conspiracy. It was reported on the BBC, so it’s gotta to be true, innit?

The latest bizzare Islamic pronouncement sheds new light on the origin of the pious phrase “piss be upon him”.

And Australia apologises to an Indonesian politician suspected of involvement of the murder of Australian citizens, for having the temerity to want to ask him one or two questions about the event. Naughty kuffar, extra jizya for you this month!

Haveil Havalim #119 - The Winning Goal Edition is UP!

(h/t to Seraphic Secret for the name! See now I’m getting professional help. Writing help that is.)

Learn about selling vacuum cleaners is like outreach.

Arabs are building homes at an astonishing rate in Israel, where’s the money coming from?

My Fair Imam?

A Japanese priest living in Israel?

More fauxtography?

The friend of my friend is my enemy?

All that and more at  Haveil Havalim #119.

Another day, another call for Israel’s destruction by a member state of the United Nations.

Not that the UN is going to do anything about it. They never have.

“The arrogant superpowers and the Zionist regime invested all their efforts during the 33-day war, but after 60 years, their pride has been trampled and the countdown to the destruction of this regime has been started by Hizbullah fighters,” the president was quoted as saying by Iranian news agency Mehr.

Ahmadinejad added that “with the help of all the Lebanese and Palestinian fighters, we will witness the destruction of this regime in the near future… Anyone who works for God and believes in the power of the people will prevail.”

Meantime, Hamas plays the pretend-truce game, where they say they’ll observe a one-year truce as long as Israel extends it to the West Bank. The reason? Hamas wants to arm its West Bank contingent, which is much smaller than its Gaza branch. The reason the West Bank Hamas is so much smaller is because the IDF has been arresting terrorists and breaking up Hamas cells on a regular basis. It’s a “hudna” all over again. There is no truth to terrorist truces. Israel shouldn’t play this game any more.

It’s time for a diplomatic offensive against Iran, an enemy nation that is fighting a proxy war with Israel.

The dust of the UCU boycott brouhaha is still in the air, but the first glimpses of the practical effect the resolutions might have could be already seen. When the leading UK universities such as the ones belonging to the Russel Group reject the idea outright, there is not a lot left of the resolution in its practical meaning.

But the boycott, I am afraid, wasn’t at all about a short term practical goal. The people who spearhead the boycott drive could not care less about the scientific freedom or about cooperation on the joint projects. Moreover - they know very well that scientific cooperation cannot and will not be stopped by a Stalinist style embargo on knowledge.

No, this is not what they work for. They pursue a different long term target - that of stripping the hated Zionist entity of legitimization. The mere fact of Israel’s existence is the thorn in their side, and nothing, including the most unholy alliances, will deter them from that goal.

To see the real face of the boycott movement leaders, it is sufficient to view the clip that recorded the amazing treatment of the last Israel-Lebanon war by John Rose* - the leader and main sponsor of the boycott motion. I have made the effort and made it to the end of the clip, so can you (although it may make you sick, so be warned).

While the wild mix of lies, half-truths and sheer ignorance is peerless, there is another feature of the clip that is really exceptional: the level of hate displayed by this character. It distorts the speech and it distorts the face so strongly that there really is only one historic prototype that comes to mind.

No, it is not a submission to the “separated at birth” contest, and I apologize in advance before every reader that may be offended by the comparison. Still, there was nothing else that could be compared to this extraordinary eruption of hate - not even the speeches by Rose’s spiritual mentor - one Sheik Nasrallah, levelheaded and balanced in comparison.

And if you have the patience to view the clip to the end, you shall see that nothing short of destruction of the Zionist Entity will satisfy our good speaker. And that his hypocritical care about Lebanese and Palestinians’ lot is a very minor theme of his hate speech.

Topple, disband, eliminate… of course, Mr Rose does not mean “kill them all”. There is no need to add that part, really. Just to lick the chops in eager anticipation.

Not in your lifetime, quisling.

(*)Tell me who your friends are, they say. Just as a reminder - professor Rose, besides his other doubtless intellectual achievements, is one of the leaders of the notorious SWP - the so called “socialist” party that would be difficult to distinguish from the no less notorious BNP lately.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews.

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