While Palestine burns, the World fiddles "The Blind Eye" (Galway's IPSC tune is otherwise).

Sieg Heil !

Activists from the Galway branch of the IPSC spent seven hours yesterday outside Lynch's castle in Shop st leafleting pedestrians and encouraging them to boycott Israeli Blood Diamonds and Woodie's/Atlantic Homecare DIY stores on account of their unethical selling of Israeli Keder plastic garden products, we've been at it outside Lynch's castle every Saturday for months now, because there's something more to our conscienses than the blind eye and repellent hypocrisy, not so, unfortunately, in the case of the passerby who, focused and full of hate slimed us with a "Sieg Heil" as he passed by.

We should be used to this stuff by now but it still shocks - at least, we have parity of demonisation, as it were, with the Palestinian people who according to the then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in a speech to the Knesset "are beasts walking on two legs." and according to a "high-ranking" IDF officer in January 2002, are all "terrorists" : '’We eliminated all the terrorist squads except one. The problem is that this one consists of 3.5 million Palestinians.’

Lest we forget, the real criminals are the Zionist Israelis in the endless barbarity they visit on the Palestinian people: "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population." (David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff).