Wednesday, January 20, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Colonel Tim Collins: Hamas are committing war crimes - 'Gulf War veteran Colonel Tim Collins has told the BBC that he believes Hamas is committing war crimes. Col Collins, who grew up in Belfast during the Troubles, visited the town of Sderot in Israel and Gaza in a programme for BBC Newsnight, to give a soldier’s view of the Middle East conflict. He was shown around Sderot bomb shelters and the police station, where he inspected a rocket from Gaza and pronounced it to be an indiscriminate weapon. He said: "From growing up in Belfast during the Troubles, I can sympathise with the people of Sderot, this is just no way to live."...'