tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342930056419073948.post6242571541193667386..comments2023-12-19T20:01:48.859+00:00Comments on Disaster history: Palestine - a scandal ignoredJohn Withingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02208997907356282053noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342930056419073948.post-45789567976148950262009-02-27T09:38:00.000+00:002009-02-27T09:38:00.000+00:00yes, when I started the blog, I hadn't expected to...yes, when I started the blog, I hadn't expected to write so much about contemporary events - especially not the financial crisis and the police-state-by-stealth project, but events in these arenas and Gaza have become so pyschedelicly surreal that they seduce constant comment. It reminds me of what someone on "That Was the Week That Was" (David Frost?) said - that however outrageous and satirical they tried to be, they were constantly outflanked by what those in power were actually doing.John Withingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02208997907356282053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342930056419073948.post-85179561403297305232009-02-22T15:31:00.000+00:002009-02-22T15:31:00.000+00:00Great blog; just for fun you should stick it on th...Great blog; just for fun you should stick it on the Telegraph site, if only to witness how such a wretched and upsetting situation for the Palestinians will be used as just another excuse to incur much indignant fury, immediately whipping up a torrent of eaccusations ranging from gullibility (fool, didn't you know the BBC is still run by a cabal of Guardianistas?) to out-and-out anti-Semitism. Sometimes the big one is thrown in early on, so you can't make any appeals whatever to basic human sympathy. But, anyway, you probably know that...<BR/><BR/>What is interesting is that you are developing your blogs to focus on disaster as a way of life; where ordinary people, whose lives cannot conceivably continue in this way, still have to manage to coexist with outrageous, catastrophic neglect, something that seems to go with territory, and pretty much taken for granted by veryone.<BR/>Remember the trouble poor old Cheri got into all those years back for muttering something vaguely sympathetic about the plight of the ordinary Palestinian people? Something along the lines of, if there's no future, well what can you do? It might not have been even that inflammatory, but she got it in the neck almost as soon as she said it.Johnny Bullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03025464373041140890noreply@blogger.com