Celebrity war criminal Clinton interferes in Palestine

Palestinians risk "irking" the international community by refusing to re-open 'peace' talks with the Zionists, says veteran war-criminal Bill Clinton, ex US President.
"This is the first time that any Israeli government has said we will not issue any new permits and not have any new settlements and that should be enough to open the door and start talking," said Clinton, as yet more palestinian homes were bulldozed all over the West Bank and the 'Judaising' of Jerusalem proceeded by leaps and bounds. His position has always been that the US base known by the invaders as Israel must come well before any consideration of the rights of its inhabitants. Any interventions he makes in world affairs must be judged against his first major act of international diplomacy: the bombing of Bagdhad in June 1993, killing 60 innocent God-fearing citizens, including artist Leila al Attar, in retaliation for an alleged plot to assassinate the previous president, George Bush Senior.
The attack "was essential to send a message to those who engage in state-sponsored terrorism".

Bill Clinton: US settlements policy has changed
Former US president Bill Clinton urged the Palestinians on Sunday to accept America's modification of its anti-settlement policy and return to the bargaining table. "Take where we are and the reformulation of the settlement issue and find a way [to move forward]," Clinton told a Jerusalem gathering of high level American and Israeli policy makers at the Saban Forum in Jerusalem.
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The Public Liability Scam

Art Fairs have always been a seriously expensive risk for the participants. And no matter how hard they try to keep the wall prices down, from the public's point of view everything on offer seems terribly costly, even at the 'affordable' fairs. This is because the overheads are gigantic: hiring the venue, raising and striking the stalls, paying the staff and advertising, no matter what the style of show may be.
I took part in one such fair, The Big Art Fair, in London's Alexandra Palace, 1994. The expense wasn't too great as we were allowed to enter a fixed number of paintings and they would be hung wherever there was room. The fact that the organisers forgot to insist on a maximum size, resulting in a certain chaos, is another story.
There is something about the Aly Paly that seems to attract artists and businessmen with grandiosity problems the way flames attract moths. Another such fair, the Great Art Show, took place there in 2006. I know all about that because again, dear readers, I could not resist.

Having paid a large fee to hire a stall, I found there had been a 'sea change'. During the intervening years, the creep of litigation culture had engulfed the art world; Public Liability Cover was now mandatory for all exhibitors - another expense to eat into our tiny earnings.
I took part in what I swear will have been my last art fair ever, in the sweltering summer of '09, Chelsea Old Town Hall. Before, during and after forking out our hire fees, we the artists were continually reminded by the organiser that we Must Have Public Liability Cover - checks would be made, and if we were found to be without our figleaf we would be out on the street.
In the event, no such checks were made, but it all made it look so obvious that the litigation industry has everyone by the balls. Even little local art trails now expect all artists to have Cover.
A friend of mine who has set up an erstwhile empty shop in South Bristol as a low-rent artspace also has to have a certificate of cover - her landlord insists. And I'll bet the Council are doing the same to him.

It was not so when I took over a Marylebone High Street shop for a month under the wing of Alternative Arts, back in 1995.
I have spoken to the Government Department for Business, Innovations and Skills (http://www.direct.gov.uk/) and they could tell me nothing about the reason for this new and onerous demand, but the Health and Safety Executive (http://www.hse.gov.uk/) were able to tell me "This is not a health-and-safety matter in law. It is only optional."
The Citizens' Advice Bureau was able to assure me that "There is no known single original source of this necessity, just a general move towards the requirement by companies."
As the country grows more litigous?
"Yes, as the country grows more litigous."
This can only get bigger and more invasive; it has not reached some kind of plateau, that is certain. As long as law firms recognise the chance of turning a profit and the American culture of blame smothers any sense of our personal responsibility it can only get worse. Artists who have no material possessions (most of them) have nothing to lose by risking a court appearance over some brat's stubbed toe, and they should stand against this. Unfortunately it tends to be those with their own car, computer or even house who find themselves in this position; they do have something to lose if a stranger suffers a broken high heel or bangs a head on a low ceiling and is incapable of simply communicating, asking for an apology, as we used to do ten years ago.

Egyptian authorities destroying Gaza aid

By Iqbal Tamimi

The headlines came in some newspapers two days ago screaming ‘ The poor of Sinai are looting the aid of the poor of Gaza’...this is alarming I thought, the aid was there for a very long time, no one from AlAreesh’s poor ever touched a grain of rice before, what was happening?

It was found that at the early hours of dawn, a few boys ran towards the sport stadium in AlAreesh where tons of humanitarian aid for Gaza was piling up, they have started to loot whatever their hands could reach, and then tens of grownups followed them to take what remained of the food and other urgently needed aid for Gaza.

Is this possible I thought? Why there were no security forces to guard those tons of aid in food and other consumer goods especially that they were supposed to reach the orphans and the needy in Gaza who suffered the Israeli bombardment and the siege?

It has been reported that one of the witnesses said that ‘the poor kids were able to loot a large amount of food aid which has been lying there in the sun since last January’...But then he burst to tears.

I guess he was crying because both the ones on the Egyptian side who committed the looting and the people of Gaza on the other side who are supposed to get the aid are extremely poor. At least one of them should have benefited from the food.

Other witnesses said that there were some Egyptian police security present but the children threw some stones at them and kept them away; others said that they have phoned the police and reported that there is looting going on, but the police never responded.

One wonders, why this aid that was laying there since January has not been looted before or delivered. The answer came from the poor of AlAreesh themselves. One boy carrying a bag of rice on his shoulders in a hurry said: ‘we are not thieves, we are only poor. We came to take whatever we can benefit from because the authorities piled everything here to burn it; we are taking rice, flour, tinned food, oil, cheese, and blankets’.

The Egyptian police refused to comment on the looting, but confirmed that the tons piling there were gathered to be burned down because all of it was inedible any more; all expired and no more safe for human consumption.....WHY on Earth has such a thing been allowed to happen? Why were tons of food aid to starving people not allowed to go through to Gaza? Why feed the fire instead of feeding the people on either side? Why did the North Sinai Governor Mohamed Shousha and the Red Crescent official fail to respond to all the attempts to call them? Why burn all this effort that has been a collaborative effort of millions of people and charity donors around the world? Why has Egypt stooped so low?

It was found that the authorities in Egypt have already burned down in May more than 250 tons of food aid that came originally last January as a donation from the Libyan people, after months exposure to the heat of the sun and finding out that it was no longer edible or fit for human consumption.

Why would Egypt not facilitate the delivery of the food to the starving poor in Gaza? Through the sea...through the crossings...through the air...or even through the tunnels that were gassed by the Egyptian authorities to deter any hungry soul from reaching out for a loaf of bread.....why Egypt are you frightened of being caught red-handed while trying to feed the hungry orphans? Why Egypt? WHY????