When this is "restrained" it shows how futile the hope for peace in the middle east is.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/02/world/meast/mideast-fatah-skulls-facebook/index.html?hpt=hp_t4
QuoteThe political party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas posted a drawn image online showing a large pile of skulls and skeletons with Jewish stars on them.
An Israeli government spokesman called it "despicable."
Along with the image, posted Wednesday to the Facebook page of the Fatah party, are the words "lingering on your skulls."
When contacted by CNN on Friday, a member of the Fatah Central Committee disavowed the image.
"Fatah did not design this image," Mahmoud al-Aloul said. The person who posted it to Fatah's page "is currently being asked to remove it. The image and the text do not reflect the opinions of Fatah." The image was then pulled from the page.
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The image, which also includes a rifle and the Fatah flag, quickly drew the ire of some people who saw it on social media. Some, including Ofir Gendelman, spokesman for Israel's Prime Minister, pointed to it as a sign that Fatah is not as "moderate" as it's often described.
Fatah is considered the more moderate of the two major Palestinian political parties. Hamas, which controls Gaza, has engaged in repeated battles with Israel in recent years. Fatah controls the West Bank.
("Fatah may not be moderate, but relative to Hamas, it is restrained," Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute said in congressional testimony in 2013.)
The image was posted as part of an online celebration of Fatah's 50th anniversary. The group was founded on January 1, 1965, carrying out its first major attack against Israel.
Ehud Yaari of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy called the latest image "typical of their ongoing propaganda."
It's not the first time Fatah Facebook images have sparked anger. After three Israeli teens were kidnapped and killed last year, "The Facebook page for Fatah, the Palestinian Authority's main party, had a number of cartoons, including one showing the three teenagers as Jewish rats, wearing yarmulkes, caught on a fishing line," world affairs columnist Frida Ghitis wrote on CNN.com.
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I like the playful Arabic font.
With a title like that, one would expect the article to say who or what Khorne is. Or at least mention the word in passing.
I assumed Tim meant Korn and just misspelled it. :blush:
You sicken me! Never again pretend to be a nerd in my presence. :angry:
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Khorne
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Not all nerds enjoy painting tiny statues. :rolleyes:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 05, 2015, 07:59:32 PM
Not all nerds enjoy painting tiny statues. :rolleyes:
:yes: Interest in WH40K isn't the definition of nerd, it is the definition of moron.
Quote from: grumbler on January 05, 2015, 08:27:48 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 05, 2015, 07:59:32 PM
Not all nerds enjoy painting tiny statues. :rolleyes:
:yes: Interest in WH40K isn't the definition of nerd, it is the definition of moron.
Harsh toke!
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 05, 2015, 07:59:32 PM
Not all nerds enjoy painting tiny statues. :rolleyes:
I've never painted any statues. The setting still rocks though.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 05, 2015, 07:59:32 PM
Not all nerds enjoy painting tiny statues. :rolleyes:
Or are into shit that is so sophomoric.
Quote from: garbon on January 05, 2015, 08:28:58 PM
Quote from: grumbler on January 05, 2015, 08:27:48 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 05, 2015, 07:59:32 PM
Not all nerds enjoy painting tiny statues. :rolleyes:
:yes: Interest in WH40K isn't the definition of nerd, it is the definition of moron.
Harsh toke!
Shhh! I'm hunting wabbits.
Man, Tim likes something and the gloves really come off.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 05, 2015, 08:29:40 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 05, 2015, 07:59:32 PM
Not all nerds enjoy painting tiny statues. :rolleyes:
I've never painted any statues. The setting still rocks though.
I think 'rocks' is a heavy overstatement.
Quote from: Valmy on January 05, 2015, 08:32:36 PM
Man, Tim likes something and the gloves really come off.
Yeah, but he was wearing them as a silly hat, so it doesn't carry quite the same weight.
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QuoteHarperCollins omits Israel from maps for Mideast schools, citing 'local preferences'
Morning Mix
Washington Post
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Well, that didn't go over well.
For months, publishing giant HarperCollins has been selling an atlas it says was "developed specifically for schools in the Middle East." It trumpets the work as providing students an "in-depth coverage of the region and its issues." Its stated goals include helping kids understand the "relationship between the social and physical environment, the region's challenges [and] its socio-economic development."
Nice goals. But there's one problem: Israel is missing.
There's Syria. There's Jordan. There's Gaza. But no mention of Israel. The story was first reported by a Catholic publication, the Tablet.
On Wednesday, HarperCollins was backtracking fast. "HarperCollins regrets the omission of the name Israel from their Collins Middle East Atlas," HarperCollins UK said on its Facebook page. "This product has now been removed from sale in all territories and all remaining stock will be pulped. HarperCollins sincerely apologizes for this omission and for any offense it caused."
It apparently caused quite a bit. On Amazon, the atlas has 39 reviews. Every reviewer gave it one star.
"It's incredibly sad and sickening how one of the world's largest publishers has failed to recognize Israel," one reviewer wrote, calling it a "travesty and international shame." "Failing to recognize its existence is horrifying and it's a shame that in 2014, such nonsense still goes on."
How did this happen? Collins Bartholomew, a subsidiary of HarperCollins that specializes in maps, told the Tablet that it would have been "unacceptable" to include Israel in atlases intended for the Middle East. They had deleted Israel to satisfy "local preferences."
Strangely, however, the West Bank is clearly marked on the map, but not Israel. Nobody seems to grasp quite what HarperCollins was thinking. "The publication of this atlas will confirm Israel's belief that there exists hostility toward their country from parts of the Arab world. It will not help to build up a spirit of trust leading to peaceful co-existence," a British bishop named Declan Lang, who chairs a conference that first highlighted the omission, told the Tablet.
Others were less diplomatic. "What a piece of inaccurate garbage!" one reviewer said.
That's nothing, the ones marketed in Russia omit over a dozen countries.
:hmm: I'd hate to see their textbook that covers Passover that satisfies local preferences.
Moderate Muslims. :wub:
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 05, 2015, 07:52:39 PM
You sicken me! Never again pretend to be a nerd in my presence. :angry:
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Khorne
Maybe they worship Khaine? Those two are often confused.
Quote from: Razgovory on January 05, 2015, 08:31:36 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 05, 2015, 07:59:32 PM
Not all nerds enjoy painting tiny statues. :rolleyes:
Or are into shit that is so sophomoric.
It's so funny when you talk shit about other people, seeing how you are the Languish's lowest life form.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 05, 2015, 08:29:40 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 05, 2015, 07:59:32 PM
Not all nerds enjoy painting tiny statues. :rolleyes:
I've never painted any statues. The setting still rocks though.
I agree with Tim. But now the Warhammer setting is tainted. :cry:
I have always preferred the Old World setting to W40K, by the way. And RPGs to battle games.
Quote from: Martinus on January 06, 2015, 01:57:06 AM
you are the Languish's lowest life form.
Not according to the polls I've seen.
Quote from: Martinus on January 06, 2015, 01:57:06 AM
It's so funny when you talk shit about other people, seeing how you are the Languish's lowest life form.
Be careful, Raz probably knows where you live. :ph34r:
Quote from: Martinus on January 06, 2015, 01:57:06 AM
It's so funny when you talk shit about other people, seeing how you are the Languish's lowest life form.
He's not the M&A lawyer, filth.