The infamous lgalea strikes again (and again, and again, and again…)
Here’s more wit and wisdom from lgalea, posted beneath an interview with the Israeli ambassador to Malta, on www.timesofmalta.com yesterday.
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The ambassador clearly reflects the arrogance of the Israeli leaders in robbing the Palestinians of their homeland and continuously trying to eradicate them.What would anyone do if someone goes to his/her home, kicks them out and steals their home and continuously harasses them and murders their relatives?Is it any wonder the Israelis were expelled from a lot of cities and countries throughout the ages by different people and rulers Mr Ambassador?
Don’t even try to tell me that they were victims and that all those who expelled them were wrong and hated them. Something must be wrong with the Israelis and the world can see what it is.
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Comments like these leave a bad taste. They strike me as not just criticism of Israeli policies (a lot of criticism is indeed warranted there) but as essentially anti-Semitic.
I do get the impression, especially in reading some Malta-based internet groups, that anti-Semitism is pretty widespread in Malta and probably has religious roots.
The Israelis were not, of course, “expelled from a lot of cities and countries”. It was Jews who were expelled but this lapsus of Igalea makes it clear that he is not anti-Israeli but anti-Jewish or, to use a more common term, anti-semitic. By attacking Israel he is, in his small bigoted mind, attacking Jews (I’m almost sure Igalea is a man).
I’m not surprised as I had already arrived to the conclusion that this person is a racist; blacks and Jews are the two most obvious targets of racists.
[Daphne – I have a growing suspicion that lgalea is the very same Dr Lawrence Galea who is currently being prosecuted on charges of having scattered, around the university grounds, hundreds of photocopied flyers with my photograph and various horrifically appalling obscenities in my regard, and racist sentiments. When the police lifted his home computer, they found similar ‘planned attacks’ on other people who he had deemed to be ‘in favour of illegal immigrants’, and – wait for it – a mock-up of a ‘santa’ with a prayer calling for divine intervention to smite them. He’s about 60 years old and works for the State Aid Monitoring Board. He became a lawyer late in life.]
Ah, you’re wrong there. Antisemitism does not have religious roots. Not in Malta, nor anywhere else.
lgalea must be both flattered and satisfied. Such propagation is always appreciated.
Then of course we got the staple mantra from the one who thinks he knows it all. And he is definitely right as far as his tiny, conditioned, politically correct box is concerned. It explains why he preys on what he sees as heretics in the full medieval sense of the word.
[Daphne – What in god’s name are you on about, Kevin – you haven’t been washing yourself with some of that cannabis by any chance?]
Actually, cannabis soap exists and I’m informed it’s healthier than the ones we paste ourselves with. As to what I’m on about, you know perfectly well.
[Daphne – No, I don’t. You’re very vague sometimes.]
Stupid, ignorant twit (Igalea). He is now even writing for and on behalf of the world.
[Daphne – If he’s the one I think he is, he’s about 60 years old and very nondescript. And like all bullies, he’s a coward: he passed out during interrogation and had to be taken to the doctor.]
@Daphne
Seems like you hit the nail. Today (up to now 11:5o) there is no trace of lgalea in The Times’s comments. Very unusual. Good to note that he never comments outside office hours.
I always thought lobotomized people couldn’t type. Maybe they only did a half-assed job.
This fellow oozes hatred. When people protested in Valletta against Israel earlier this month he wrote against that too. I guess he wishes to be impartial and so hates Jews and Arabs in equal measure.
IGalea’s rants should be kept for future textbooks on the study of insecure people with unstable minds and a constant negative outlook on life.
One can find his pearls of wisdom on any subject on various blogs which indicates that his law degree has improved his life so much that he can spend so much time writing crap since he has earned so much money from his profession that he can now afford to enlighten the rest of us for free and full time!
[Daphne – Actually, he’s on the tax-payer’s payroll. He is a public servant and works for the State Aid Monitoring Board. Perversely, I feel the odd twinge of sympathy, wondering what went wrong in his life that he is so bitter and disappointed. He clearly bears a grudge against the world.]
Well at least we know what his objections to the immigrants are based on. So, all blacks are scum who will destroy our culture, all Jews are the scourge of the world (and have always been so) – he’s anti-EU (if I remember correctly, he’s vehemently anti-British as well), but he doesn’t like all Maltese either since he delights in expressing his disgust at the half of the population who voted for ‘GonziPN’ – sad, pathetic man!
Haha “Such propagation is always appreciated”. I think you meant propaganda.
I see his name on nearly every article and jahasra he never gets anything right. I had to reply to him on some other backwards comment of his, something to do with how Germany is a dictator that controls Malta (Dr Gonzi meeting Merkel) and amongst other stuff indicating how Germany should help us.
Then he went on rambling about how foreign investment is bad and he wants everything Maltese. Doesn’t it ever occur to him that his so-called blood-brothers are responsible for the influx of illegal immigration and not the Germans? Either that or hes sleeping with Norman.
The Maltese paradox – openly hostile and xenophobic towards Arabs, yet supportive of the Palestinians.
@ Jack : in the US people are not shown what is really happening in Palestine. If there wasn’t a strong Jewish lobby even the Americans would be supportive to the Palestinians.
Jack – That’s probably brainwashing coming from the Mintoff days
@Jack – About the Palestinians, I mean
lgalea’s comments are vile although Louise Vella tops the charts for ARROGANT (quoting lglea HIMSELF- he has a fetish for capital letters) person of the year. lgalea’s comments on immigrants just don’t make sense whatsoever – his arguments are banal.
Nevertheless, Ms Louise is a different story altogether…her arrogance supercedes that of Mr Galea. She thinks she is the ‘guru’ of anything related to illegal immigration – and by god does she quote laws, websites and other material (usually irrelevant) left, right and centre. Thing is, her arguments are just as flawed and futile as Igalea’s…
@ Amanda Mallia – If the US media is pro-Jewish, the local ones, barring few exceptions, are definitely pro-Palestinian (take Xarabank as the most blatant example).
I believe that the Maltese have a rather warped vision of the Palestinians, because of a lingering, misguided affable, buddy-buddy image of Arafat and his connection with Malta.
Without going into the merits of the conflict, and at the risk of sound audacious, I also believe that most of the hostility towards Jews (and consequently to the Israelites) is propagated, directly or indirectly, by the Catholic Church. Let us not forget that just a few years back, one particular prayer asked God to deliver us (Catholics) from the “perfidi gudei”. How xenophobic is that?
[Daphne – The only part of the prayers said during the Good Friday Seven Visits that I remember is the reference to “the cruel Jews” who killed Christ. And the only reason I remember it is because my mother made a point of leaving it out and explaining why she was doing so, and why it was wrong.]
Jack: You place all Palestinians in the same bag and assume that all Israelis are Jewish. The categories are simplistic.
Many Jewish people are not Israeli. Many Israelis are not Jewish. Arab Christians in Israel are Israeli too. Some Jewish Israelis and some Palestinians do not approve of suicide bombers and other forms of terrorism. Some Jewish Israelis and Palestinians are friends. Some Israelis do not approve of their government’s action.
Where, in your simplistic typology, would you place these groups?
Jack – “I believe that the Maltese have a rather warped vision of the Palestinians, because of a lingering, misguided affable, buddy-buddy image of Arafat and his connection with Malta.” – That’s exactly what I meant.
Jack, you’re absolutely wrong on that count. “Propagated by the Catholic Church”? Where exactly did you hear the Pope urging Catholics to hate Jews?
Besides, the prayer that you mention called for the conversion of the Jews, for them “to see the light of God’s love”, or something along those lines. There are Jewish prayers calling for God to smite the goyim. So? Does that mean that the Jews are being urged to hate gentiles?
H.P. Baxxter
“Jack, you’re absolutely wrong on that count. “Propagated by the Catholic Church”? Where exactly did you hear the Pope urging Catholics to hate Jews?”
In the past, the Catholic Church was in fact hostile to Jews, which is the reason why Pope John Paul apologised to them. This was however long ago and concerned the universal Church rather than the Maltese one. To find systematic persecution of Jews in Malta we have to go back to the time of the Knights and earlier.
I do not think our home-grown racists needed any promptings by the Church to be anti-Jewish. After all, they find it easy enough to target Somalis and other Africans. It’s a reflex action: as soon as they come in contact with anyone different, especially if weak, they gang up on them.
H. P. Baxxter: Maybe Jack thinks Jesus was Christian, not Jewish.
The prayer was something along these lines ” Nitolbu ghal-Lhud li qatlu ‘l-Kristu” “Let us pray for the Jews who killed Christ” But that was before Vatican Council II !
There are people who are stuck in the sixties.
After the second world war ended , the state of Israel did not exist, there was only Palestine under British control.
The survivors of the Holocaust went on ships to land on Palestine,after a long standoff ,the first Jews were left to land on their ancestors’ soil, then there was Sabra & Shatila , then there was the bombing of the King David Hotel , then there was an exodus of Palestinians from their land.Hijacks by PLO members , suicide bombers , the wall ….. and the suffering of civilians who virtually do not have rights in their country, continues.
The Palestinians were lead by a corrupt leader who would not even consider changing his uniform and the Israeli soldiers continue to scare away the people.The same people who spontaneously rejoiced on 9/11, because a very loyal friend of Israel was successfully attacked.
I still think that Jews and Palestinians can live together , provided that no war mongering politicians are backed by other countries .
As long as millions of uncontrolled ‘aid’ money keeps pouring in the region there will be no peace.
Look, Antoine, I understand your point, but like many before you, you’re using historical factoids which are not entirely correct. Suffice it to say that there was no “systematic persecution of Jews in Malta”. Indeed, Malta was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe (taken as a fraction of the population, of course) between the 11th and 15th centuries. So, with a Catholic king and all, how could that be? Simple. It wasn’t that the Catholic Church, or anyone else, was particulary hostile to the Jews. Before this outbreak of flowery pacifism and human rights, everybody was hostile to everybody else.
Now, Pope John Paul II apologised to just about everyone on the planet. Jews, Muslims, Orthodox Christians, indigenous peoples, you name it. I suppose that’s the 21st century Catholic way.
The point that I wish to impress upon you, to come back to our topic, is that we have two truths which should not be confused here: 1) Igalea may or may not be an anti-Semite. That’s neither here nor there. And 2) criticism of Israeli policies is not anti-Semitism.
“Indeed, Malta was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe (taken as a fraction of the population, of course) between the 11th and 15th centuries. So, with a Catholic king and all, how could that be”
Forgive my ignorance, but wasn’t that during Norman rule. The Jews were pretty much chucked off the island when the knights came. I’m not saying anti-Semitism is rooted in religion, but it has certainly not helped.
[Daphne – Nobody knows whether there was a Jewish community in Malta in the 11th/12th century. The expulsions didn’t occur during the period of rule of the Order of St John (Jewish families returned during that period). The difficult period for Jewish people in Malta was during Aragonese rule.]
@ John Schembri
Without venturing into the greatly dubious role of Pius XII (we can debate this ad nauseum), the hostility towards Jews remains. Back to our times, the great liberal – Pope Benedict XVI, in 2007 relaxed various restrictions, including restoring prominence to a prayer for the conversion of Jews recited during Good Friday. Essentially the prayer maintains that Jews can only find salvation through the conversion to Christianity.
@ Corinne
I never made for such a simplistic distinction – the region is a melting-pot of intermingling peoples. I actually think of Jesus as a Jew usurped by the Christians and championed in their faith.
@ H.P Baxxter
The apologies, long overdue, are welcome.
John Schembri: The first shipload was turned back.
Jack: You make a simplistic distinction when you say “the Israelites” and “the Palestinians”.
It is, most probably, him…
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090122/letters/language-question
He solidifies his pitiable arguments by resorting to the Constitution.
Hah! Can’t believe I found this topic! What a coincidence! The gentleman (ahem) in question is at it again here:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090122/local/thieves-help-themselves-to-cash-from-take-away-outlet
I couldn’t NOT comment. The guy was totally off subject to start with, which gives us great insight into his mindset, choosing instead to question the employment of a poor guy who’s just been robbed at knife-point while simply trying to make an HONEST euro! Incredible.
[Daphne – He’s a righteous Catholic, a racist, a Labour supporter, a homophobe, a xenophobe and anti-EU. The only thing missing from his comments is ‘respect’ for women of the sort that doesn’t want them going out to work biex ilahhqu mall-gholi tal-hajja meta posthom id-dar mall-familja qishom il-Madonna mqaddsa, and the picture of a Maltese rightwinger is complete.]