Boogie Beebies Israeli Airstrike Dance

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 25 Jul 2006, 19:13

Hi, gurny smiley Pete here.

And here's Nat with her too-small over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder.

Now, clear a space at the border - put a wry smile on your face - and get ready to launch those US-made missiles!

Now make a throwing action as we throw those missiles. That's a great missile you threw there - you flattened a whole residential block!

Next, pretend to be a cowering Lebanese civilian. Curl up in a ball - it won't make much difference though!

Now, wave those UN resolutions at Hezbollah - wave them - wave them - then laugh at your ones and ignore them - yeah - we're laughing, we're laughing - now tear up the UN charter - that's it!

OK Nat - your turn!

Thanks Pete. I'm Condaleeza Peas & Rice - and I'm here to nudge and wink at the Israeli PM - nudge nudge - wink wink - then we go back to throwing missiles again - then I deliver new missiles - here's me handing over the missiles - nudge - wink - then we throw the missiles. Don't worry - we'll be repeating this a lot. Back to you Pete.

Thanks Nat - those were some great diplomatic moves!

Now I'm the Israeli soldier - watch me as I look around, put my foot over the border - just a little - then pull it back. Now do that with the other foot - over - back - over - back - not an invasion - an incursion - not an invasion - an incursion.

Here's the US civilians - now wave those passports at the border - that's great!

Phew! Take a bow - you were great!

Make yourself tall :

Blow up a Hez-Ball-Ah!

You've danced with Ehud Olmert!

susie · Post by **susie** » 26 Jul 2006, 09:16

thats sick, there are human beings being killed!!!!!!!

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 26 Jul 2006, 09:31

susie wrote:thats sick, there are human beings being killed!!!!!!!

I'm sorry that you find this satire in poor taste.

Personally, I find that the only antidote to the attitude of some politicians and media to "collateral damage" and "civilian casualties" is humour.

The IDF, Hezbollah, the US government and other regimes are the really sick ones here, in my opinion.

Cleopas · Post by **Cleopas** » 26 Jul 2006, 09:45

I am reminded by the above exchange of some years ago when former councillor (now MP) Donald Gorrie was heard to say that he felt personally offended with the amount of litter and other rubbish in the Capital's streets ... and an unremembered Labour councillor replying that what was even more offensive was the amount of homeless who were lying about in the city's streets.

I hope the analogy doesn't fail to hit home and Dada won't mind me associating myself with his sentiment. As my old hippie of a dad often says "Right on, bro!"

xxxx · Post by **xxxx** » 29 Jul 2006, 12:52

Dadaist wrote:
The IDF, Hezbollah, the US government and other regimes are the really sick ones here, in my opinion.

I don't know why you lump in hezbollah with warmongerers, they didn't methodically plan the destruction of modern lebanon, Israel did. Indeed, hezbollah would not exist but for israels repeated invasions and atrocities there.

As hezbollah's external security organisation is designated as terrorist though not the organisation as a whole, I might be breaking the law if I said that there is much to admire in hezbollah, so I won't.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 29 Jul 2006, 14:11

xxxx wrote:
Dadaist wrote:
The IDF, Hezbollah, the US government and other regimes are the really sick ones here, in my opinion.
I don't know why you lump in hezbollah with warmongerers, they didn't methodically plan the destruction of modern lebanon, Israel did. Indeed, hezbollah would not exist but for israels repeated invasions and atrocities there.

As hezbollah's external security organisation is designated as terrorist though not the organisation as a whole, I might be breaking the law if I said that there is much to admire in hezbollah, so I won't.

Very true.

gilo · Post by **gilo** » 31 Jul 2006, 19:57

Thought I'd catch up with a bit of Channel 4 news. Seldom have I felt so sick. What the

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 31 Jul 2006, 21:32

Agreed.

I was very happy to participate, a few years back, in a Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign protest where we barricaded the IDF head (who made the mistake of visiting Scotland) Shaul Mofaz into the Glasgow Hilton where he was supposed to be making a speech to the JNF (Jewish National Fund - a bunch of racists who buy up land in Israel and then designate it Jewish-only).

We managed to force the hotel to close, and stopped the dinner going ahead - not to mention restrict the movement, if only for a short while, of a bloody killer who is more used to restricting the movement - or indeed life - of innocents just a short distance away in the Mediterranean.

I turned up early to the demo - it was raining and there were only a few of us - much to the amusement of the police and hotel security. It's always interesting at these things to come early and get the lie of the land - there were coppers in vans "hiding" like they usually do round this or that corner - but those stationed were highly dismissive of our numbers.

We got a few chants going, but were outnumbered and would have got lifted if we'd tried anything. Cue the chortling polis and hotel security.

Not for much longer.

We were just the individuals who had come off their own back and hadn't been at that day's SSP gathering - the contingent of which appeared over the horizon, chanting freedom for Palestine.

Needless to say, there were some very pleased looks between our wee group and the march - and our chants united. Peel and his wee helpers started to look a bit shifty.

When the march reached the Hilton forecourt something I've never seen before happened - it broke into a spontaneous run at the hotel - crowd barriers got kicked over, and we mingled with our bretheren. "Names" had pitched up by now - Aamer Anwar the human rights lawyer, folk like that.

From then until dark we shut the hotel down with a ring of furious (but humorous) protestors for Palestine - and with modern comms being what they are, we knew that they knew in Gaza that we had shut down Mofaz and the JNF racists, which was priceless.

Peel brought up his reinforcements, bit of helmet tipping, nothing serious. For a while the chant was "We want a room!". We did merit a helicopter though which was nice - I wasn't as much of a digi-cam head then which would have made for some nice snaps.

Before I left the demo I wandered round the entrance bit and saw some anxious-looking Shin-Bet guarding some stairs. I made sure I made eye contact - nothing threatening mind - but it that act of passive resistance is one of the things that means I can watch the news these days and keep a lid on my anger.

seanie · Post by **seanie** » 01 Aug 2006, 21:51

Don't worry.

The situation in Lebanon has Tony Blair's full attention.

I'm sure he'll sort it.

After all what the situation really needs is a lame duck fantasist with a messiah complex, the atttention span of a goldfish, and the intellectual rigour and historical perspective to match.

Especially one who's opinion is irrelevant to everything but the size of his retiral memoir book advance.

Kerching!!!!

gilo · Post by **gilo** » 01 Aug 2006, 22:04

I don't know much about this, but isn't Cherie a Human Rights Lawyer? How does that work then?

seanie · Post by **seanie** » 01 Aug 2006, 22:31

A criminal defence lawyer doesn't have to believe in crime to be successful.

They just have to know and argue the relevant law.

A human rights lawyer is not necessarily any different.

It's a gig.

Kerching!!!

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 01 Aug 2006, 23:07

It makes you at least appreciate the honesty of the evil of Maggie and Denis - at least they were quite openly satanic. Tone and Cherie got this sheeps clothing bit that makes it so much more - what's the word - insidious?

Cleopas · Post by **Cleopas** » 02 Aug 2006, 08:54

Tony's a lawyer by profession too, isn't he?

"First thing we do," says one of the followers of the rebel Jack Cade in Henry VI, Part II, "is kill all the lawyers."

In Tony Blair and Maggie Thatcher we had Prime Ministers WORTHY of assassination ... so how come nobody really got near enough, though they have time for Tony yet.

Personally, I'm STILL for handing Thatcher over for a public beheading!

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 02 Aug 2006, 13:10

The words of Phil Oakey, from the 1984 Human League hit, The Lebanon:

She dreams of nineteen sixty-nine
Before the soldiers came
The life was cheap on bread and wine
And sharing meant no shame
She is awakened by the screams
Of rockets flying from nearby
And scared she clings onto her dreams
To beat the fear that she might die

And who will have won
When the soldiers have gone
From the lebanon
The lebanon

Before he leaves the camp he stops
He scans the world outside
And where there used to be some shops
Is where the snipers sometimes hide
He left his home the week before
He thought hed be like the police
But now he finds he is at war
Werent we supposed to keep the peace

And who will have won
When the soldiers have gone
From the lebanon
The lebanon
The lebanon
From the lebanon

I must be dreaming
It cant be true
I must be dreaming
It cant be true

And who will have won
When the soldiers have gone?
From the lebanon
The lebanon
The lebanon
From the lebanon

ali · Post by **ali** » 02 Aug 2006, 14:06

Jackson Priest wrote:The words of Phil Oakey, from the 1984 Human League hit, The Lebanon:

She dreams of nineteen sixty-nine
Before the soldiers came
The life was cheap on bread and wine
And sharing meant no shame
She is awakened by the screams
Of rockets flying from nearby
And scared she clings onto her dreams
To beat the fear that she might die

And who will have won
When the soldiers have gone
From the lebanon
The lebanon

Before he leaves the camp he stops
He scans the world outside
And where there used to be some shops
Is where the snipers sometimes hide
He left his home the week before
He thought hed be like the police
But now he finds he is at war
Werent we supposed to keep the peace

And who will have won
When the soldiers have gone
From the lebanon
The lebanon
The lebanon
From the lebanon

I must be dreaming
It cant be true
I must be dreaming
It cant be true

And who will have won
When the soldiers have gone?
From the lebanon
The lebanon
The lebanon
From the lebanon

well remembered, JP.

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 02 Aug 2006, 14:13

ali wrote: well remembered, JP.

Yes, I think if any protest song ever really nailed its subject, then this was it.

I can still remember my dad laughing at the line about the shops when it was on TOTP (rip). Don't know why.

seanie · Post by **seanie** » 02 Aug 2006, 20:31

Dadaist wrote:It makes you at least appreciate the honesty of the evil of Maggie and Denis - at least they were quite openly satanic. Tone and Cherie got this sheeps clothing bit that makes it so much more - what's the word - insidious?

What's scarier is that Tone may well be "honest", at least in the sense that he may genuinely believe whatever trite tautlogies, delusional drivel and ideolgical imbecilities trip off his tounge.

It's all but an inevitable part of the job that politicians have to talk crap. That's par for the course to curry favour with a fickle public. But I prefer a politican who knows their talking crap to one who thinks they're an oracle of truth...

...or a "pretty straight guy".

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 07 Aug 2006, 22:02

George Galloway at his inspiring best :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=249JaIaubVw&NR

...laying the smack down on Sky News over Lebanon.

George, consider the leotard thing forgiven.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 10 Aug 2006, 13:44

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Maria · Post by **Maria** » 11 Aug 2006, 11:28

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