NewsWatch

Zionists Thirst for Palestinian Blood

TheCollegeFix.com, 3/21/22, “‘Zionists’ have ‘unquenchable thirst for Palestinian blood,’ Duke speaker says” [Excerpts]: Duke University’s Student Government voted on March 16 to give over $16,000 to an upcoming event featuring a speaker who is a staunch critic of Israel and Zionism.

The event [was] called “Narrating Resistance and Agency: Shifting the Discourse on Palestine” and is hosted by the campus Students for Justice in Palestine chapter.

The allocation to the event raised concerns for some student senators who objected to past language used by El-Kurd to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“Across the country Zionists are beating, gassing, shooting, lynching Palestinians. They’re unhinged. The videos we’re seeing are reminiscent of the Nakba. State-settler collusion emboldening an unquenchable thirst for Palestinian blood & land. Terrorist, genocidal nation.”

“Would this not send the wrong message and potentially promote violence against Jewish students on campus by providing $5,000 for this individual to speak, despite his antisemitic tweets and statements?” student senator Nicole Rosenzweig said at the meeting….

(https://www.thecollegefix.com/zionists-have-unquenchable-thirst-for-palestinian-blood-duke-speaker-says/)

Crocodile’s Last Supper Was a Dinosaur

Creation.com, 4/14/22, “Flood-buried crocodile’s last supper was a dinosaur” [Excerpts]: A fossilized crocodile discovered about one metre below the surface in the Winton Formation in Queensland, Australia, had a young dinosaur in its stomach. That ornithopod (a bipedal herbivore) under 2 kg became the last supper—either scavenged or ambushed—for the extinct crocodyliform. This reptile, appropriately named Confractosuchus sauroktonos (broken crocodile, lizard killer), was dated between 92.5 and 104 million years old. They recovered about 35% of the crocodile’s 2–2.5 m body, with an almost complete skull. However, “the abdominal region preserving the ornithopod was badly damaged by excavation equipment prior to its discovery.”

Both evolutionists and creationists believe crocodiles were contemporaneous with dinosaurs—albeit at vastly different time scales—and at times these different animals might well cross paths. No surprises here (apart from maybe the little dinosaur, if it was ambushed).

C. sauroktonos is believed to have died in a flood. That too is nothing new to creationists or evolutionists.

A co-author of the study reviewed here said, “The fossilized remains were found in a large boulder. Concretions often form when organic matter, or say a crocodile, sinks to the bottom of a river.”

Even if the remains of a dead animal were to immediately sink to the bottom, they would still need to be covered fairly quickly, before decay and scavengers commence their work of disposing of the tissues that keep the bones from becoming disarticulated, i.e. scattered. For instance, the young dinosaur “remains displayed clear evidence of oral processing, carcass reduction (dismemberment) and bone fragmentation.” In other words, the eating process of the crocodile caused the dinosaur to be broken apart. The same fate would be awaiting the crocodile, unless it was preserved by some means, for example rapid burial followed by relatively rapid hardening.

(https://creation.com/crocodile-eats-dinosaur)

Doctor Assisted Suicide Conviction Upheld

NationalRightToLifeNews.org, 4/14/22, “Danish doctor assisted suicide conviction upheld” [Excerpts]: Danish physician [Svend Lings] who was convicted in 2018 of assisting the suicide of two people and assisting in another’s attempted suicide lost his attempt to overturn his conviction at the European Court of Human Rights.

After his final appeal failed before the Danish Supreme Court, he complained to the ECHR, arguing that under the right to expression, guaranteed by the convention which created the court in 1959, what he did should not be considered illegal.

The seven-judge panel disagreed, writing that Lings “had not only provided guidance, but had also, by specific acts, procured medications for the persons concerned, in the knowledge that it was intended for their suicide.” It was clear, the court wrote, that he had gone beyond simply providing general information about suicide.

Similar to other euthanasia activists, Ling openly challenged the law. He likely hoped that his actions would result in an acquittal, thus striking down the law.

(https://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/2022/04/danish-doctor-assisted-suicide-conviction-upheld/)