If they treat their own like this...

Kudos to the Independent Group for yesterday's detailed report on the 8 Iranian woman and 1 man sentenced to death by public stoning for adultery.

As Natan Sharansky says, if they treat their own people this way, how do you expect them to treat their neighbours? Sadly South Africa continues to provide Iran with diplomatic support, edging them towards full blown nuclear capability.

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[TC]

"As Natan Sharansky says, if they treat their own people this way, how do you expect them to treat their neighbours?"

Just like they say they will.

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Steve,
I've got a fantastic idea...
You might have guessed it...
Yes, its about the South African Human Rights delegation...
In particular Judges Dennis Davis and Edwin Cameron...
They get flights to Tehran....
They find out when and where the stonings take place...
They witness the stonings and check the size of the stones....
And they return and write some aricles about whether anybody's human rights have been infringed.
And Drew Forrest publishes the articles in The M&G.

[Steve]

Excellent plan BD. Perhaps the Jewish Report would publish your idea?

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Thanks Steve,
Baldrick would probably describe the plan as "cunning".
Maybe Judge Davis will actually respond to my plan in an article in the Jewish Rept??
Only problem is financing their air tickets to Tehran. I will pay for Judge Davis's ticket if somebody on the blog will finance Edwin Cameron's. Any offers?

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Thanks Steve,
Baldrick would probably describe the plan as "cunning".
Maybe Judge Davis will actually respond to my plan in an article in the Jewish Rept??
Only problem is financing their air tickets to Tehran. I will pay for Judge Davis's ticket if somebody on the blog will finance Edwin Cameron's. Any offers?

[JoeTalin]

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_Middle%20East&set_id=1&click_id=123&art_id=vn20080723061856515C871928

"Bulldozer protester shot dead in Israel

July 23 2008 at 10:15AM

Jerusalem - A Palestinian rammed a bulldozer into vehicles on a busy Jerusalem street ahead of a visit by US presidential candidate Barack Obama, and wounded 16 people before being shot dead.

Tuesday's attack, just down the road from the hotel...."

Protestor... PROTESTOR? He was not protesting ANYTHING. He was a terrorist, and deserved to die.

[JoeTalin]

PS excuse my spelling of 'protester'

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Joe Stalin,

He was just driving the bulldozer down the road. Unfortunately, due to his "protesting" he lost concentration and hit a few cars. It could have happened to anyone. A bit like talking on the cell phone whilst driving.

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Why no offers to pay for Edwin's ticket to Tehran?? Surely someone could organize a fund-raiser?

I have contacted the Tehran "stoning department" ( I was actually put through to "minerals and mining") and they say that it is fine for Edwin and Dennis to just rock up. They aren't, however, allowed to throw rocks.

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Joe Stalin,

Uri Avnery (a M&G stalwart) writes...
"This week's attack is especially instructive. It is quite unclear what actually happened: did Ghassan Abu-Tir plan the attack in advance? Or was this a spontaneous decision in a moment of excitement? Was this an attack at all - or did the bulldozer driver run into a bus by accident and try, in a state of panic, to escape - running over his pursuers, becoming a target for a shooting spree by passersby and soldiers? In the atmosphere of suspicion and fear that pervades Jerusalem now, every road accident involving an Arab becomes an attack, and every Arab driver involved in an accident will in all probability be executed on the spot, without a trial. (It should be remembered that the first intifada broke out because of a road accident, in which a Jewish driver ran over some Arabs.)"
http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery07262008.html

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The following report is from the BBC.

"Ronit Tamari stands trembling by a damaged bus shelter, a battered maroon pick-up truck and a badly dented litter bin.
She rushed to Jerusalem's King David Street as soon as she heard the driver of a construction vehicle had begun ramming into cars just metres from where her 14-year-old son Liram was at a YMCA summer camp.
Knowing three people were killed in a similar incident three weeks ago, she says she "almost had a heart attack".
The bus shelter marks the start of a trail of damage left in the wake of the yellow earth-mover, which was turned into a weapon by its driver, injuring at least 10 people.
Further down the hill sit the remains of a heavily-crushed white Peugeot 205, an upturned silver car and then the mechanical digger itself, which came to a halt after the driver was shot by a policeman.

Yohanan Levin, 16, was returning home to his apartment, just across the road, at the time of the attack. He says he froze in panic when he saw the digger ram into a bus."I was 10 metres away. I saw him. He saw me. I looked him the eye," he told the BBC.
"I heard people screaming. After five or six minutes, I heard the gunshot. Then it went quiet," he added.
Ms Tamari is relieved to have found her son, but angry, especially at the news that the attacker Ghassan Abu Teir was a member of Jerusalem's Arab population.
Some 240,000 Palestinians live within the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem, including some like Mr Abu Rahma whose village was formerly designated as part of the West Bank.
This population came under Israeli occupation in 1967 and most have not taken Israeli citizenship. But their Israeli residency permits allow them to move and work all over the city, though they say they face widespread discrimination.
"They are working in hospitals and restaurants. They earn money from Israel and then they go home in the evening and plan terrorist attacks," Ms Tamari said.
"They found a new trick - tractors," she says. "And later, they'll find another trick.""