A continuation...
I rarely post on Opiophile. It is almost entirely devoted to drugs and once a junkie reaches a certain point in life he no longer gets high, he simply maintains. Posting on Drugs Forums doesn't act as a "Trigger" for me. I simply find it boring to see basically the same questions asked over and over. I remain fairly active on BL because of this blog and because CE and P Forum is fairly well rounded.
Every once in a while though I check in at Opiophile. In its Lounge Forum there is a tiny sub-forum, "World Politics." It doesn't have very many threads but I examined it to see what had been posted since my last visit several months before. I was a bit suprised to see a thread relating to Israel's last campaign against Gaza, "Pillar of Defense." The poster discussed the Hacker Collective "Anonymous" and how it had shut down vital Israeli Government websites at thr height of Pillar of Defense.
The problem is, Anonymous did nothing of the sort. It claimed it had, yes, but other than a static Tourism page that had several minutes of on and off behavior Israel's intranet (as opposed to "internet") was uneffected. Anonymous claimed it was undertaking its endeavour because, according to Anonymous, an Israeli Government spokesperson allegedly threatened to shut down Gaza's internet. Aside from no Israeli official ever saying this, it would hurt Israel immensely were it to actually happen.
Israel owns the conduits that supply Gaza's internet service providers. In other words, Israeli SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) gains treasure troves of information via these conduits. Shutting it down would lead to Gazans accessing the internet via Egypt and would represent a catastrophic failure for Israel intelligence cabilities.
So I pointed all this out and predictably the conversation immediately shifted to Israel's "genocide" against "Palestinians" and how Jews (not Israelis) treat "Palestinians" in much the same way Nazi Germany treated Jews. I then pointed out that the Germans never allowed Jews water parks, equestrian clubs with lessons and polo matches, amusement parks, world class golfcourses, a 5 Star hotel, Olympic-sized swimming pools, Western-ste malls, Michelin-rated bistros and on and on- the way Israel has allowed for Gazans. I reminded posters that while Jews were being made into lampshades, wallets and book bindings and Jewish infants were being injected with antifreeze and placed in freezers, Gazans have gone from zero universities in 1967- the 1st year in which Israel controlled Gaza- to 7 in 2013, from zero primary health care facilities to roughly 260, from zero hospitals to 12 and so on and so forth.
Somehow the conversation segued to the "Armenian Genocide," the "Bosnian Genocide" and the "Rwandan Genocide." I replied that of the 3 only Rwanda qualifies as genocide. One poster, a Mod, took great exception over my denial of the so called "Armenian Genocide." I explained that before you can begin to weigh incidents or actions as to whether or not they do in fact constitute "genocide" there is a precursor that MUST be established, "Mens Rea." Literally translated as "Guilty Mind," which relates to premeditation. This must be proven via written orders, Government publications, officials' depositions.
In this case there are two strands of evidence that purport to contain this. The first is the "Memoir of Naim Bey" (London: Hodder and Stoughton) (1920) by Aram Andonian. The story goes that a leader of the Armenian Insurgency in Ottoman Turkey paid a small fortune for the handwritten memoir of an Ottoman official who had worked in Aleppo during the period in question. The memoir purportedly contained 31 telegrams and military orders personally signed by then-Minister of the Interior Enver Pasha in which Enver ordered the destriction of the Armenian People.
The Insurgency leader entrusted the purchased materiel to Aram Andonian for the latter to transport from Syria to Europe where it was to be published in Andonian's own name.
To be continued...
I rarely post on Opiophile. It is almost entirely devoted to drugs and once a junkie reaches a certain point in life he no longer gets high, he simply maintains. Posting on Drugs Forums doesn't act as a "Trigger" for me. I simply find it boring to see basically the same questions asked over and over. I remain fairly active on BL because of this blog and because CE and P Forum is fairly well rounded.
Every once in a while though I check in at Opiophile. In its Lounge Forum there is a tiny sub-forum, "World Politics." It doesn't have very many threads but I examined it to see what had been posted since my last visit several months before. I was a bit suprised to see a thread relating to Israel's last campaign against Gaza, "Pillar of Defense." The poster discussed the Hacker Collective "Anonymous" and how it had shut down vital Israeli Government websites at thr height of Pillar of Defense.
The problem is, Anonymous did nothing of the sort. It claimed it had, yes, but other than a static Tourism page that had several minutes of on and off behavior Israel's intranet (as opposed to "internet") was uneffected. Anonymous claimed it was undertaking its endeavour because, according to Anonymous, an Israeli Government spokesperson allegedly threatened to shut down Gaza's internet. Aside from no Israeli official ever saying this, it would hurt Israel immensely were it to actually happen.
Israel owns the conduits that supply Gaza's internet service providers. In other words, Israeli SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) gains treasure troves of information via these conduits. Shutting it down would lead to Gazans accessing the internet via Egypt and would represent a catastrophic failure for Israel intelligence cabilities.
So I pointed all this out and predictably the conversation immediately shifted to Israel's "genocide" against "Palestinians" and how Jews (not Israelis) treat "Palestinians" in much the same way Nazi Germany treated Jews. I then pointed out that the Germans never allowed Jews water parks, equestrian clubs with lessons and polo matches, amusement parks, world class golfcourses, a 5 Star hotel, Olympic-sized swimming pools, Western-ste malls, Michelin-rated bistros and on and on- the way Israel has allowed for Gazans. I reminded posters that while Jews were being made into lampshades, wallets and book bindings and Jewish infants were being injected with antifreeze and placed in freezers, Gazans have gone from zero universities in 1967- the 1st year in which Israel controlled Gaza- to 7 in 2013, from zero primary health care facilities to roughly 260, from zero hospitals to 12 and so on and so forth.
Somehow the conversation segued to the "Armenian Genocide," the "Bosnian Genocide" and the "Rwandan Genocide." I replied that of the 3 only Rwanda qualifies as genocide. One poster, a Mod, took great exception over my denial of the so called "Armenian Genocide." I explained that before you can begin to weigh incidents or actions as to whether or not they do in fact constitute "genocide" there is a precursor that MUST be established, "Mens Rea." Literally translated as "Guilty Mind," which relates to premeditation. This must be proven via written orders, Government publications, officials' depositions.
In this case there are two strands of evidence that purport to contain this. The first is the "Memoir of Naim Bey" (London: Hodder and Stoughton) (1920) by Aram Andonian. The story goes that a leader of the Armenian Insurgency in Ottoman Turkey paid a small fortune for the handwritten memoir of an Ottoman official who had worked in Aleppo during the period in question. The memoir purportedly contained 31 telegrams and military orders personally signed by then-Minister of the Interior Enver Pasha in which Enver ordered the destriction of the Armenian People.
The Insurgency leader entrusted the purchased materiel to Aram Andonian for the latter to transport from Syria to Europe where it was to be published in Andonian's own name.
To be continued...