Internet Commentator

Peace Society?

Mark Humphrys publishes his email exchange with "The Irish Peace Society" a Pro-Castro, Pro-Hezbollah group which, you might be unsurprised to learn, isn't all that interested in Peace.

Doctor Death

David Carr wittily notes that she is bang up to date with her Root Causes 2.0 upgrade while Melanie Phillips is rightly appalled at LibDem MP Dr Jenny Tonge's astonishing remarks about Palestinian suicide bombers:

If I had to live in that situation - and I say that advisedly - I might just consider becoming one myself.

It is depressing that so much effort is expended, and morality suspended to empathise with such fanatical killers and yet the far easier task - to empathise with the ordinary Israeli who has much in common with the average British person except that he or she must face the risk of being blown to pieces while enjoying a pizza or boarding a bus - is so casually shirked.

UPDATE: Great post on this by Oliver Kamm, sample quote:

First, Dr Tonge’s insistence that she “understands … why suicide bombers opt for this most desperate of actions” is factually wrong. She doesn’t understand. She has made no attempt to understand. Instead of so attempting, she has merely retailed an idle stereotype that shifts the moral responsibility for acts of barbarism on to the victims and away from the perpetrators.