For example...

Ten eyewitnesses saw Israeli forces execute 23-year-old Palestinian Mahmoud Salah (right) on an open street in early March, 2002.

‘He was arrested on the street and immediately handcuffed. Then the policemen raised his arms and through him against my car’, said 56-year-old Yehiya Al Waari.

‘A policeman had put his foot on his neck. Another was holding his legs. All the neighbours and myself saw from our windows how he was executed half an hour after his arrest. Members of the special units who executed Salah were repeating “Let’s kill him”.’

Why did the Israeli forces stand right by Salah for half an hour if if he was loaded with explosives? He obviously wasn’t even carrying any weapon at all.

My opinion?

It’s all very well for madman Bush and his lapdog Blair to rant on about their ‘Axis of Evil’ and quote UN resolutions about the wrongdoings of Sadam Hussein, but 50 years of UN resolutions about the Palestinians’ right to their own homeland have been consistently sidelined by the US government and its supporters. Until that conflict is solved we can expect more September 11ths. Unless we stop Sharon and his thugs from committing the kind of brutality shown here we are asking for more.

Another story about these 3 pictures

In August 2002, my immediate line manager here in Montreal asked me, quite politely, to withdraw the pictures, shown on the right, from my website, in order to avoid offending certain individuals.

Since I was new in the job and the city, I felt obliged to comply, but since that time, with increasing knowledge of the real causes of the atrocities in New York on 11 September 2001, I have decided to allow these pictures to re-appear. The reasons for this decision are:

[1] this is my personal website which can in no way be seen to represent the ideas, policies or opinions of anyone else, let alone those of my employers;

[2] given the amount of propaganda for the war in Iraq and for the Israeli régime’s actions in the occupied territories, a different view, presented by one individual on a personal website, can hardly be regarded as a major threat by those denying Palestinians the right to their own homeland;

[3] Zionism is incompatible with the basically humanistic character of Judaism; therefore, opposing the actions of the Israeli occupation forces and the ideology of Zionism ought to be seen as pro-Jewish;

[4] to appease those who want to confirm their belief in the unjust world order we suffer under, I have included a barrage of anti-communist propaganda on this site;

[5] I still have the right to express my opinion publicly, as long as it is not racist or anti-human.