Current Affairs Israel is an apartheid state

[Noisy noise annoys]

The bias in reporting shows sign of relenting. It's the smaller, deliberate misrepresentations that are really getting to me at the moment.

Listening to 5Live yesterday and during the 30 second segment on the protests in London, half it was devoted to how two(!!) people were arrested, one for assaulting a police officer. No mention of the cause, just the planting an act of violence in the ear of the listener. One person of an estimated half a million. It's not even news!

This morning, it was an interview with Yocheved Lifshitz's daughter on Radio 4. The interviewer asks about how she feels about the pro-Palestinian marches, in particular ONE MAN was reported to have been heard calling for a jihad. Again, from half a million people marching for an end to mass killing.

It's so depressing to hear and see journalists spreading this kind of dangerous and dishonest information every day. Worse that it's done by design.

Honestly, I thought we were better represented than this. I thought we’d have balanced reporting but, as you say, it’s just highly weighted bollox

 

[tsubaki]

This deserves a new thread!
Scriptures, I forgot they were even a thing since school. I’m obviously not a religious man, and would never judge someone who is, but why pay attention to them ? Aren’t they just 2000 year old, obsolete tales containing some highly controversial ideals?

I’m genuinely fascinated and clearly talking out of my depth on the subject

Anyway, as I said, should be in a new thread but intriguing to read about.

Sorry for yet another "what the readings were in today's Mass" post, but this was the first reading (its from Exodus 22, 21-26) for every Catholic today:

“You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not afflict any widow or orphan. If you do afflict them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry; and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor, and you shall not exact interest from him. If ever you take your neighbor’s garment in pledge, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down;"

 

[tsubaki]

The bias in reporting shows sign of relenting. It's the smaller, deliberate misrepresentations that are really getting to me at the moment.

Listening to 5Live yesterday and during the 30 second segment on the protests in London, half it was devoted to how two(!!) people were arrested, one for assaulting a police officer. No mention of the cause, just the planting an act of violence in the ear of the listener. One person of an estimated half a million. It's not even news!

This morning, it was an interview with Yocheved Lifshitz's daughter on Radio 4. The interviewer asks about how she feels about the pro-Palestinian marches, in particular ONE MAN was reported to have been heard calling for a jihad. Again, from half a million people marching for an end to mass killing.

It's so depressing to hear and see journalists spreading this kind of dangerous and dishonest information every day. Worse that it's done by design.

It should be worth referring people to how journalism (and politics) got into that position:

 

[orchard]

It should be worth referring people to how journalism (and politics) got into that position:

I do wonder what the blow-back from all this and current issues will look like. I don't think it will bode well.

 

[tsubaki]

I do wonder what the blow-back from all this and current issues will look like. I don't think it will bode well.

Possibly, though I hope the horror of what they are going along with (and the reasons for it) will finally cause the scales to fall from people's eyes, in term of in whose interest the country is being run.

That even before they went in 76% of the population wanted an immediate ceasefire, despite all the efforts from politicians and the media to promote something else, is heartening.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Sorry for yet another "what the readings were in today's Mass" post, but this was the first reading (its from Exodus 22, 21-26) for every Catholic today:

“You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not afflict any widow or orphan. If you do afflict them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry; and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor, and you shall not exact interest from him. If ever you take your neighbor’s garment in pledge, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down;"

Amazing! Do the people of Israel consider the scriptures at all? This is the ironical (real word?) irony of all time

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

 

[Bluerover]

Sorry for yet another "what the readings were in today's Mass" post, but this was the first reading (its from Exodus 22, 21-26) for every Catholic today:

“You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not afflict any widow or orphan. If you do afflict them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry; and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor, and you shall not exact interest from him. If ever you take your neighbor’s garment in pledge, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down;"

The Scripture Study Group to which I referred supa, studies all texts for the following Sunday Mass each Thursday, so this 'stranger' and 'widow/orphan' text was fresh in my mind this morning.

Well done @tsubaki !

As I posted earlier Netanyahu and his mob don't bother with Hebrew Scripture if it doesn't suit their agenda.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

There is something very wrong about this:

https://news.sky.com/story/israel-h...arper-laws-in-dealing-with-extremism-12995579

 

[Wizard]

Sorry for yet another "what the readings were in today's Mass" post, but this was the first reading (its from Exodus 22, 21-26) for every Catholic today:

“You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not afflict any widow or orphan. If you do afflict them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry; and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor, and you shall not exact interest from him. If ever you take your neighbor’s garment in pledge, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down;"

I’m not religious so apologies if this is a stupid question. Does every mass on a Sunday across the country read the same passages? (Sorry for being off topic but I’m not going to start a thread to ask this one question)

 

[tsubaki]

I’m not religious so apologies if this is a stupid question. Does every mass on a Sunday across the country read the same passages? (Sorry for being off topic but I’m not going to start a thread to ask this one question)

As I understand it, the content of Sunday Mass (at least the two readings and the Gospel) will be the same across the entire world for Catholics, as everyone follows the same calendar (it was the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time today).

 

[Bluerover]

It should be worth referring people to how journalism (and politics) got into that position:

If anything the pressure and influence is even worse now than in 2009. Ireland is now a pariah in Israel. Israeli ambassador attacked our President, and when you see only 8 of the 26 EU States supporting the UN Resolution with four against and the rest lily livered and abstaining, it really is depressing.

I am only surprised the UK didn't vote against rather than abstain.

 

[Wat Tyler]

 

[Bluerover]

I’m not religious so apologies if this is a stupid question. Does every mass on a Sunday across the country read the same passages? (Sorry for being off topic but I’m not going to start a thread to ask this one question)

Every Catholic church in the world follows the same lectionary. There is a three year cycle, A, B and C, and we are coming to the end of Year A. Last Sunday of Year A will be 26th November after which all Christian churches move into the four weeks of Advent then the season of Christmas which ends on the 6th January (Epiphany). The Baptism of the Lord is the next Sunday and will start Ordinary Time in year B..

In Ireland at least, the Anglican Church of Ireland follows pretty closelyt the same cycles - I used to conduct my local RC Church Choir, but was also a chorister in St Canice's Cof I cathedral Choir. Thus I often found that the readigns I had heard at 10 am Mass were the same as at the 11.30 Service the same day !!

The only differences are that different countries have particular national Feasts - e,g St Patrick's Day is a Holy Day in Ireland; 23 April St George is a RC Feast day in England and Wales,; 30 November, St Andrew is an RC Solemnity in Scotland; etc

I no longer sing or conduct due to reduced hearing , so i can't say what the CofI readings were today, but definitely the RC Churches all over the world will have had the same Readings.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

There is an interview of a woman with a little four year old girl that I saw earlier. The woman is the girls aunty who is looking after her as all her family were killed in a bomb blast, mum, dad, brothers and sisters. How any adult can ignore such things is beyond me.