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		By: kev		</title>
		<link>https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/01/at-last-a-balanced-statement-about-the-crisis/#comment-20041</link>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Antoine Vella - I think your own outpourings are a greater embarassment to your goodself. Can&#039;t you go through an argument without relying on false labels and dastardly warnings concerning third parties? I am my own person, and what people of your ilk think is of little concern to me, but I see what you mean when dealing with grown-up children.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Antoine Vella &#8211; I think your own outpourings are a greater embarassment to your goodself. Can&#8217;t you go through an argument without relying on false labels and dastardly warnings concerning third parties? I am my own person, and what people of your ilk think is of little concern to me, but I see what you mean when dealing with grown-up children.</p>
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		By: Antoine Vella		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Antoine Vella]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kev

You post links to two hysterically anti-semitic webpages thus giving them publicity and disseminating their views. Then you say you don&#039;t subscribe to some of the ideas expressed in those writings but you&#039;re not convincing. You just sound confused.

I hope you realise that your outpourings are embarrassing a prospective candidate for the EP elections. Is that how you want the electorate to refer to her: the one with the loony husband?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kev</p>
<p>You post links to two hysterically anti-semitic webpages thus giving them publicity and disseminating their views. Then you say you don&#8217;t subscribe to some of the ideas expressed in those writings but you&#8217;re not convincing. You just sound confused.</p>
<p>I hope you realise that your outpourings are embarrassing a prospective candidate for the EP elections. Is that how you want the electorate to refer to her: the one with the loony husband?</p>
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		By: kev		</title>
		<link>https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/01/at-last-a-balanced-statement-about-the-crisis/#comment-20039</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[@ Antoine Vella - I don&#039;t subscribe to that particular theory, but I would want to know the basis upon which others subscribe to it and why volumes have been written, based on volumes of sources upon sources. Your likes suppress freedom of expression by very disgusting means.

@ Ganni - sure you have nothing against Palestinians. You just love to justify their oppressors&#039; actions and disparagingly label anyone questioning the basis of claims made on their forebearers&#039; land. (And by the way, Hamas started, yes? Like when prisoners go on a rampage, you mean?)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Antoine Vella &#8211; I don&#8217;t subscribe to that particular theory, but I would want to know the basis upon which others subscribe to it and why volumes have been written, based on volumes of sources upon sources. Your likes suppress freedom of expression by very disgusting means.</p>
<p>@ Ganni &#8211; sure you have nothing against Palestinians. You just love to justify their oppressors&#8217; actions and disparagingly label anyone questioning the basis of claims made on their forebearers&#8217; land. (And by the way, Hamas started, yes? Like when prisoners go on a rampage, you mean?)</p>
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		By: Ganni		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ganni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kev, I&#039;ve got nothing against &quot;Palestinians&quot; (which, if applying the term to all Arabs living under the mandate of Palestine, would include the Jordanians). I think the worst mistake which Israeli politicians ever did was that of occupying Arab lands (maybe with the exception of the Old City) beyond the &#039;49 armistice boundaries. However, Israel has to fight for its existence. After all, it was Hamas who started this war/battle.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kev, I&#8217;ve got nothing against &#8220;Palestinians&#8221; (which, if applying the term to all Arabs living under the mandate of Palestine, would include the Jordanians). I think the worst mistake which Israeli politicians ever did was that of occupying Arab lands (maybe with the exception of the Old City) beyond the &#8217;49 armistice boundaries. However, Israel has to fight for its existence. After all, it was Hamas who started this war/battle.</p>
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		By: Antoine Vella		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Antoine Vella]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kev

What about the &quot;theory&quot; (that you apparently subscribe to) that Hitler was a victim of the Jews and that they had and still have plans to take over the world? How big is the box that this particular gem is coming from?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kev</p>
<p>What about the &#8220;theory&#8221; (that you apparently subscribe to) that Hitler was a victim of the Jews and that they had and still have plans to take over the world? How big is the box that this particular gem is coming from?</p>
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		By: kev		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kev]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[@ Antoine Vella - try looking for the Hobbits inhabiting the tiny box you&#039;re speaking from.

One thing I realise: social conditioning does wonders, especially on those who consider themselves to be The Learned.

[&lt;strong&gt;Daphne - Take me, for example, Hobbits, trolls and Lord of the Rings were way beyond my capacity to notice their brilliance. I couldn&#039;t work up any interest as a child, as a teenager or as an adult, for the simple reason that they bore no resemblance to reality. To this day, I won&#039;t read any fiction that doesn&#039;t bear a strong resemblance to reality. But for some strange reason, that antipathy doesn&#039;t extend to films, so even now, I will happily watch children&#039;s films, disaster movies and cartoons, and my difficulty over the last few years is that I haven&#039;t had an acceptable cover for going to new releases of cartoon feature films, so I have to wait until they&#039;re out on DVD. I even watched Teletubbies quite a lot, but I did have a valid reason for that: I was fascinated by the accurate way they reproduced baby-speak and baby-gestures, in such a way as to communicate directly and intensely with toddlers in their own &#039;language&#039;. I could never understand why the show was dissed by so many people; it was a brilliant exercise in communication.]&lt;/strong&gt;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Antoine Vella &#8211; try looking for the Hobbits inhabiting the tiny box you&#8217;re speaking from.</p>
<p>One thing I realise: social conditioning does wonders, especially on those who consider themselves to be The Learned.</p>
<p>[<strong>Daphne &#8211; Take me, for example, Hobbits, trolls and Lord of the Rings were way beyond my capacity to notice their brilliance. I couldn&#8217;t work up any interest as a child, as a teenager or as an adult, for the simple reason that they bore no resemblance to reality. To this day, I won&#8217;t read any fiction that doesn&#8217;t bear a strong resemblance to reality. But for some strange reason, that antipathy doesn&#8217;t extend to films, so even now, I will happily watch children&#8217;s films, disaster movies and cartoons, and my difficulty over the last few years is that I haven&#8217;t had an acceptable cover for going to new releases of cartoon feature films, so I have to wait until they&#8217;re out on DVD. I even watched Teletubbies quite a lot, but I did have a valid reason for that: I was fascinated by the accurate way they reproduced baby-speak and baby-gestures, in such a way as to communicate directly and intensely with toddlers in their own &#8216;language&#8217;. I could never understand why the show was dissed by so many people; it was a brilliant exercise in communication.]</strong></p>
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		By: kev		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well that seals it I guess, Ganni. Freedman must have been cuckoo. Gone all wrong!

But you don&#039;t have to agree with everything one says to discover interesting gems to investigate, especially when mainstream despotism is so vehement in defending the indefensible. And since you have been so gung-ho against the besieged Palestinian people, I thought you should know what others had to say concerning ancestral claims that form the basis of these atrocities.

After all, these are all theories... but I shouldn&#039;t mention that word as some people are conditioned to associate it with &#039;conspiracy&#039;, which merely describes the type of theory.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that seals it I guess, Ganni. Freedman must have been cuckoo. Gone all wrong!</p>
<p>But you don&#8217;t have to agree with everything one says to discover interesting gems to investigate, especially when mainstream despotism is so vehement in defending the indefensible. And since you have been so gung-ho against the besieged Palestinian people, I thought you should know what others had to say concerning ancestral claims that form the basis of these atrocities.</p>
<p>After all, these are all theories&#8230; but I shouldn&#8217;t mention that word as some people are conditioned to associate it with &#8216;conspiracy&#8217;, which merely describes the type of theory.</p>
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		By: Antoine Vella		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Antoine Vella]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;em&gt;Kev
&quot;I am not responsible for the language used in the intro. It is the person who wrote the speech (and the letter) that interests me.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;

You should also pay more attention to what is being said, not only to who is saying it. Have you actually read the stuff in your links? Do you believe that in the 1930s Hitler re-armed Germany because he wanted Europe to remain Christian? This is what your article says: &quot;...the Germans had decided that Europe is going to be Christian or Communist: there is no in between. And the Germans decided they were going to keep it Christian if possible. And they started to re-arm.&quot; So that is what Hitler was trying to do, miskin: defend Christianity from the Jews.

As for the history of the &#039;Khazar kingdom&#039;, I started reading it and then said to myself: &quot;Hey, wait a minute. Where are the Hobbits? How come there&#039;s no mention of The Shire&quot;? That&#039;s how I know it&#039;s a fake, Kev, because the author is obviously intent on hiding from us the existence of the Halflings (who are actually very short Khazars/Jews).

How can you waste your time reading such rubbish? It&#039;s true then: life in Brussels is mind-numbingly monotonous.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Kev<br />
&#8220;I am not responsible for the language used in the intro. It is the person who wrote the speech (and the letter) that interests me.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>You should also pay more attention to what is being said, not only to who is saying it. Have you actually read the stuff in your links? Do you believe that in the 1930s Hitler re-armed Germany because he wanted Europe to remain Christian? This is what your article says: &#8220;&#8230;the Germans had decided that Europe is going to be Christian or Communist: there is no in between. And the Germans decided they were going to keep it Christian if possible. And they started to re-arm.&#8221; So that is what Hitler was trying to do, miskin: defend Christianity from the Jews.</p>
<p>As for the history of the &#8216;Khazar kingdom&#8217;, I started reading it and then said to myself: &#8220;Hey, wait a minute. Where are the Hobbits? How come there&#8217;s no mention of The Shire&#8221;? That&#8217;s how I know it&#8217;s a fake, Kev, because the author is obviously intent on hiding from us the existence of the Halflings (who are actually very short Khazars/Jews).</p>
<p>How can you waste your time reading such rubbish? It&#8217;s true then: life in Brussels is mind-numbingly monotonous.</p>
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		By: Ganni		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ganni]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kev, ok let&#039;s ignore the anti-semitic bit. Let&#039;s just focus on the Khazar theory. This theory has been proved wrong after DNA testing  - just read that wikipedia page. And anyway, even if this theory was right, non-Ashkenazi Jews would still be Israelites...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kev, ok let&#8217;s ignore the anti-semitic bit. Let&#8217;s just focus on the Khazar theory. This theory has been proved wrong after DNA testing  &#8211; just read that wikipedia page. And anyway, even if this theory was right, non-Ashkenazi Jews would still be Israelites&#8230;</p>
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		By: Corinne Vella		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Corinne Vella]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Go easy, Kevin Ellul Bonici. You sound like a Viva Malta die hard.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Go easy, Kevin Ellul Bonici. You sound like a Viva Malta die hard.</p>
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