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Gaza Carnage Sets West Bank Aflame
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Anger, shock and revulsion at the continuing carnage in Gaza has ignited spontaneous demonstrations and riots across the West Bank and Israel, sparking concerns of a possible third Palestinian uprising or Intifada.
A Palestinian girl is carried into Shifa hospital in Gaza City following the strikes. (Hatem Moussa/AP) More
than 300 Palestinians were killed and at least 900 wounded following an
intensive Israeli air bombing campaign over the Gaza strip through the
weekend.
This followed a barrage of rockets fired by Palestinian fighters at Israeli towns and cities bordering the coastal territory in the last few weeks which caused some damage but no casualties.
Hamas leader-in-exile, Damascus-based Khaled Meshaal, has called on Palestinians to rise up against Israel. The Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank called for a three-day strike in sympathy with Gaza's plight.
Following Israel's aerial assault, one Israeli was killed and several wounded in retaliatory rocket fire from Gaza Saturday afternoon. This was Israel's first fatality in many months.
The first Palestinian Intifada broke out in December of 1987 when Palestinian refugees from a camp in the north of Gaza clashed with Israel soldiers following the death of several Palestinians after an Israeli settler's car plowed into their vehicle.
The Palestinians claimed the victims were deliberately mowed into, while the Israelis said it was the result of a traffic accident.
Following the initial clash, rioting and protests spread spontaneously to all of Gaza and the West Bank, leading to a popular uprising which lasted for several years. This followed years of Palestinian resentment and bitterness towards a brutal Israeli occupation.
Israeli-Arabs, descendants of the Palestinians, clashed Saturday with Israeli police throughout Israel.
In the Bedouin village of Rahat in the Negev desert, around 400 residents protested the attacks, while mosques throughout the town broadcast prayers of mourning. Many Bedouins, descendants of a nomadic tribe, join the Israeli army, where they are valued for their tracking skills. They are regarded as traitors by fellow Palestinians.
Several hundred left-wing Israelis marched through the streets of Tel Aviv towards the Israeli defense ministry headquarters chanting "No to war, yes to peace".
The left-wing protesters carried signs saying "Israel's government is committing war crimes", "Negotiation instead of slaughter", and "Lift the siege from Gaza".
Several Israeli protesters were arrested. Matan Kaminer an Israeli student who took part in the protest told the Israeli daily Haaretz that "no one can tell us that slaughtering the citizens of Gaza is meant to protect the citizens of Sderot and Ashkelon (two Israeli towns bordering the Gaza strip)."
An Israeli police officer was deliberately run over by a Palestinian in East Jerusalem as groups of Palestinian youths clashed with police in the city, stoning them and setting dumpsters on fire.
Palestinian protesters from West Bank towns and refugee camps took to the streets and marched on Israeli checkpoints and Israeli settlements. Many were injured by rubber bullets -- marble-sized metal balls covered in half a millimeter of rubber -- and tear gas shot by Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldiers.
In Ramallah hundreds of protesters from the various Palestinian factions waved banners and flags, and decried the Gaza slaughter. They called for unity and for Gaza's Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and West Bank Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas to bury their differences and put the Palestinian cause above their personal politics.
Many in the crowd waved Fatah flags, associated with Abbas and the PA, showing clearly their empathy with fellow Palestinians despite the political divide between the two Palestinian territories.
IPS joined the demonstration as it marched around Ramallah city. In the crowd were people from all sections of Palestinian society. Elegantly turned out middle-aged women from Ramallah's Christian minority marched side by side with tough young men from the surrounding refugee camps.
Grandmothers, journalists, factional leaders, and mothers with toddlers walked linking arms with a scattering of international sympathizers based in the cosmopolitan central West Bank city. Many countries have representative offices to the PA in Ramallah.
This was one of the largest demonstrations that Ramallah witnessed in the last few years of conflict.
"I couldn't just sit at home. I felt overwhelming anger at the situation in Gaza and I needed to show my solidarity," Munther, a young computer programmer from the Palestinian Legislative Council who voted for Abbas in the last election told IPS.
As the crowd circled the city center, the Palestinian police looked on quietly and stood back. But when the demonstrators marched on the Muqata, the government headquarters of the PA where Abbas was in his office, the mood of the Palestinian security forces changed.
On approaching the Muqata's entrance the crowd was met by Palestinian soldiers who took up positions and held their weapons at the ready. But the Shebab, or youth in Arabic, decided to head towards the nearby Israeli military checkpoint of Beit El.
While the more cautious in the crowd stood back, the young men headed towards waiting Israeli military jeeps and tanks and started to sling stones at them, and set tyres alight to block the road.
The Israelis responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, injuring a number of youngsters who were rushed to nearby hospitals in Palestinian ambulances.
This IPS correspondent helped two youths injured by rubber bullets to hospital. They were shot as they stoned the soldiers.
As dozens of Palestinian riot police arrived on the scene to disperse the protesters, one of them remarked that the police arrival had been coordinated with their Israeli colleagues on the other side of the checkpoint.
"They are nothing but quislings and a militia of the Israelis. Hundreds of Palestinians were killed in Gaza, and who do they aim their weapons at? Not the Israelis but us, their brethren protesting the slaughter," said one of the youths.
"There will be more protests tomorrow and I will be back," he added, as he stepped out of the taxi and limped towards the emergency room.
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Show AllFor every national threat we turn to reactionary leaders, conservatives all. They will get something done, whether its the right thing or the wrong thing, legally or extralegally, morally or immorally, while libs talk of peace and turn the other cheek.
The problem is that once conservatives are in power, they surround themselves with like reactionaries and become the greater problem.
It's just nature's way of killing us off when we become overpopulated.
Sadly I think you are onto something there ezflyer.
I hope the Palestinians will not listen to Hamas leader-in-exile, Damascus-based Khaled Meshaal.
He enjoys the good life in his Damascus house. They have suffered enough already.
I hope the Israelis people will not listen to it's own corrupt war mongering leadership and will hit the streets in force to protest it's governments latest atrocity:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1822069,00.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/114297
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/14/world/fg-olmert14
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/07/africa/07olmert.php
What's sad is this massacre could just be a "wag the dog" to preserve Kadima from losing to Likud. :(
Are you claiming that the latest Israel attacks on Hamas strongholds had nothing to do with the thousands of rocket attacks on Israeli civilian targets?
.The "thousands" of attacks are in your mind and not in this reality. Take your Zionist crap elsewhere.
Did you suppose that the young girl pictured was in a "Hamas stronghold? You are really a piece of work trying to justify such horrific acts against civilian populations!
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We see things, not as they are, but as we are.
Anais Nin
No that little girl wasnt in a Hamas stonghold...but she was right next door! Hamas places their weapons in peoples homes, builds their offices in populated areas and launches their attacks on Israeli Civilians from school playgrounds.
Yes there were thousands of attacks in fact there were an estimated 5,000 rockets launched at Israel this year alone...several hundred in the last few days alone.
¿ So how many Israeli Police stations are n_o_t placed in populated areas ?
¿ Do Israeli Police stations actually contain weapons ?
¿ How come you capitalize "Israeli Civilians", are they so much closer to God than the rest of us ?
And out of those 5000 very DEADLY seriously egregious "rockets", we have what ~ 2 Israeli's dead in one year, who were illegally settled in Gaza ?
I meant to just cap Israeli, not civilians, it was a typo.
Those police stations are maned by the police agents that executed Fatah members last year so you could say Israel is tying to protect Palestinians from Hamas...hehe...that's what happens when your ruled by terrorist.
Hamas has integrated their militants into the police force, its well regarded by Palestinian officials, and with Hamas declaring that both the truce is over and that they are sworn to Israel's destruction the Hamas police force is a legitimate Military target.
What are you 8 yo, and writing a comic book here :
"Israel is tying to protect Palestinians from Hamas...hehe..."
Keep going, the more you spew, the better for the world's enlightenment
( Seeing how concerned Zionist are ACTUALLY for human life, after the big spiel about horendous Israelis deaths and asserted respect for law, UNIVERSALITY, and balanced treatment ).
I'd give you a spot on CNN, because you're just soo good …
Namaste
.You have worms in your head, sadly. I trust that, in the rest of your world, you are a far more normal and well balanced person than you appear to be here. The facts are there for anyone not blinded by partisanship. The numbers of Palestinians killed during this conflict , when compared to the numbers of Israeli dead, plainly shows the lack of concern Israel shows for innocents, plainly shows the indiscriminate slaughter of anyone and everyone. Hamas performs many services in Palestine, aside from their militant wing. It is the duty of a sane nation to make rational and considered responses to threats and attacks. Israel has not shown any capability to act in even a sane way towards ending a situation they themselves caused.
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We see things, not as they are, but as we are.
Anais Nin
You've made a lot of allegations --- now back them up with PROOF.
So the little girl was "right next door" to a Hamas stronghold, eh?
How do you know? Were you there taking videos of it all?
So it must be all Hamas' fault that she got hurt, right?
Israelis are not guilty of harming Palestinian children, right?
As for the "5,000 rocket attacks," were you also there counting them?
How many Israelis did they kill, by the way?
The homemade rockets are no more than glorified fireworks, let's face it.
Letto, I wouldn't waste time with ardee, he has an antisemitic bent, and is just baiting you.
You are, of course, completely right about the rocket attacks against Israel.
Even Obama agrees,
In a July interview with The New York Times, Obama said he didn't think that "any country would find it acceptable to have missiles raining down on the heads of their citizens," in reference to rockets fired from Gaza into Israel.
"If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that," Obama said. "And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing."
As for talking with Hamas, the Islamist movement in control of Gaza, Obama said in the interview that it was "very hard to negotiate with a group that is not representative of a nation state, does not recognize your right to exist, has consistently used terror as a weapon, and is deeply influenced by other countries."
Or, as Obama adviser David Axlerod stated quite succinctly on Meet the Press, "As Hamas began its shelling, Israel responded".
If my government had invaded, killed and and ethnically cleansed a nation of poeple for 60 years, I would fully expect them to be firing their crude rockets st me and for the more despairing, coming at me with suicide bombs.
Obama is an imperialist, Zionist piece of vile shit.
---USAn---
You mean the center right Obama who spoke at AIPAC and who appointed militant pro Zionist Hillary "I will obliterate Iran" Sec of State? I have no problem with Jewish people like Amy Goodman and Noam Chomsky who call Israel out on it's crimes, I very much have a problem with the disastrous policy engaged in by the state of Israel.
Down with Zionist aggression.!
.Your childishness is showing, as is your lack of understanding of what is posted here. But that is certainly in keeping with my (very low) opinion of your grasp of politics and world affairs.
As I have stated before, you dolt, I AM a Jew! As I have stated before, and as everyone with an IQ above the level of a moss covered rock ( that would NOT be you) understands, this is not a question of religion but of the actions of a nation against a homeless people.
Seriously Joe, why post here, you have no respect for truth, no regard for justice, no understanding of much of anything discussed here, so why come here?
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We see things, not as they are, but as we are.
Anais Nin
"As I have stated before, you dolt, I AM a Jew!"
Yes, and I have replied that your reasoning appears to be "I am a Jew because I am a Jew." Or "I am a Jew because I was born a Jew" - never mind that there is no such thing as a Jewish race.
"this is not a question of religion but of the actions of a nation against a homeless people."
Now you're talking about Gaza, not Jewish identity.
And frankly, since you mentioned religion, I'll say it again. Everyone knows what a religious Jew is, they are a person practicing Judaism. There is no controversy over the religion of Judaism. I'm talking about "atheist Jews" which claim to be part of a "Jewish People". When I ask what is meant by "People" they ignore the definition of the word and instead focus on vague antidotes about "Jewish culture" (though no one knows what that is) or implying that there is such a thing as a "Jewish race".
You are frustrated because you can't answer my questions, can you?
If you want to shut me up, which apparently you do, just answer my questions. When you insult me, I don't care, I ignore it.
I just heard a live interview with Michel (Mikado) Warschawski, of Alternative Information Center www.alternativenews.org in Jerusalem on "Beyond the Pale", a radio show by progressive Jews, sponsored by JFREJ, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, WBAI www.wbai.org. (show archived for 90 days,free) There are stories, up to date, on the AIC/alternative news website. Warchawski, who was critical of Israel, called it aggression to instill fear in the Palestinian population.
.That is about the mildest definition of what that nation does to the civilian population of Gaza and in refugee camps.
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We see things, not as they are, but as we are.
Anais Nin
Is this an atheist or non-atheist Jewish program?
.Are you a regular imbecile or a specialized one?
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We see things, not as they are, but as we are.
Anais Nin
You don't like my questions, do you ardee?
Care to say why?
lets protest here in the USA, lets go to the jewish center. How about the jewish center in San Francisco on Geary street?
AldoinSF
aldo:check out Jewish Voice for Peace, who I learned about on CD. It's in your area. www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
Are these "atheist Jews"?
Not a good idea;
A protest at a Jewish institution would be too easily depicted and dismissed as mere antisemitism.
Not if there were Jews doing the protesting :-)
Not the jewish center but if there are any Israelis conciliates or government representatives office in San Francisco I'd say go for it. It is Zionists we ought to be angry at, not Jews in general. Remember Jewish people like Noam Chomsky and Amy Goodman have been very good about calling out the little bully Israel on its crimes.
Here is an idea.
If you care about stopping the violence in Gaza, how about protesting against the Hamas continues rocket attacks on Israeli civilian targets?
If the Hamas is convinced to stopped their attacks on Israeli civilian targets, Israel will stop attacking the Hamas.
This is the surest way to ensure peace, security, and prosperity in Gaza.
However, if you have other goals - maybe you should protest against Jews.
Letto,
I am a Jew. Your veiled reference to anti-semitism is both offensive and wrong-headed. The huge disparity in weaponry, military strength, and violence by the Israelis against the Palestinians (this week in Gaza) has not gone unnoticed by Jews around the world.
I, in no way, shape, or form, can support such state-supported aggression against civilians - be they Arab, Israeli, or anyone else. Knowing that Israel is killing so many with weaponry that I have helped fund makes me furious and sick to my stomach.
This is wrong! This is wrong! This is wrong!
"All Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace." Alexander Pope
Ted Markow: "I am a Jew."
Ted, is it alright if I ask you if are you a religious Jew or an "atheist Jew"?
I'm wondering if you call yourself an "atheist Jew", how you define what that is?
Unlike being a religious Jew, I'm not at all clear on what is meant by the term "atheist Jew".
I've noticed that some (ardee & NYCartist) find the question offensive, though I can't see why. I've asked them to explain, but apparently they can't be bothered. Thanks.
Joe,
I was bar-mitzvahed as a Jew. I am not religious, but have some cultural connection to Judaism. That cultural/historical connection is how many Jews define themselves as being Jewish. This, however, does not make me an atheist. I don't believe being non-religious has anything to do with being an atheist.
Does that help?
"All Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace." Alexander Pope
Thank you very much for polite reply.
But honestly, I'm afraid I still have quite a few unanswered questions regarding this subject. Perhaps they seem confrontational, but I don't mean to be. I'm only trying to be clear, because I feel that I've never gotten a clear answer.
I'll start with a question which will sound incredibly loaded, like I'm baiting you. But frankly I know of no other way to ask it. It is: how is the concept of a Jewish People different from the concept of an Aryan People? I apologize, since this is an awkward question, but I'm not sure how else to ask it.
The reason I ask this, is because I am uncomfortable with people who adopt an Aryan identity (do I need to explain why?)
I still have other questions, like can anyone become Jewish? If I understand the answer, it's yes in some Jewish circles, and no in others (like Orthodox and Ultra-orthodox). But then (if they are able to convert) are they then permanently Jewish? Are their off-spring? What if after converting they reject Judaism and adhere to a different religion, are they still Jewish? I ask this because I know people who were "born Jewish", converted to Islam, yet their relatives still call them Jews. Does that make sense?
It appears that the vague concept of a "Jewish People" and the religion of Judaism have fused into a single immutable word. Jew.
Interestingly, some secular people say they are Jewish because they were born Jewish, whereas others say they are Jewish because of history or culture. I'm not convinced either way it really applies.
I also wonder what is meant by Jewish culture and can it be be defined in universal terms that aren't racist? For example, what is the common Jewish culture shared by an atheist Jew living in New York, an orthodox Jew living in Moscow, and Christian who had a Jewish mother living in Buenos Aires? Knowing nothing about these imaginary people, can we really expect them to share a common culture?
Would I be considered Jewish merely because I have a cultural connection to Judaism? Or must my parents be Jewish?
I have had many cultural/ancestral connections to various Native American Tribes, but I am not considered Native American. Why is it different for Jews?
How would you define me if I had two religiously Jewish parents, had a Bar Mitzvah, yet as an adult I practice no religion and have no connection to any form of Jewish culture, am I still a Jew?
It as though we were discussing race. But we aren't. So I'm confused what you mean what do you mean by "historical connection"? That seems like a vague term that could be applied to almost anything. Are you actually making a genetic argument that Jews have a pure lineage? This seems to be the elephant in the room. That people are born Jewish and stay Jewish no matter what.
When you mention being bar-mitzvahed, it seems like being baptized is a fair equivalent, yet when Christians give up their faith they are no longer Christians, regardless of their baptismal. Likewise when someone leaves every other religion they are no longer considered a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, etc...
NYCartist, who agreed that Jews are not a "race", had defined Jews as a "People". Yet the definition is "a body of persons sharing a common religion, culture, language, or inherited condition of life." I don't mean to be thick, but honestly I can't see how this definition applies.
If you agree that the term "People" cannot apply to Jews, then how can you be born a Jew?
Clearly the definition for race - (n) a human population considered distinct based on physical characteristics - does not apply.
If you disagree, I'd be curious which (or how many) of those four conditions you feel apply and in what ways. Thanks. This is not a obviously not a conversation I could have a work.
Go to a temple and ask a Rabbi, they should be able to explain it much better than anyone here.
Joe,
I am the wrong person to ask. I am a Jew by definition of the fact that I was bar-mitzvahed, not because of the way I pray or whether I practice Judaism. Some would say that I am not a Jew, others would say I will always be a Jew. I hesitate calling myself a Jew, but there are times when I feel obliged to. There is no black-or-white answer - at least, not from me.
I think the other poster is right - these are good questions for a rabbi. Perhaps this one can help: http://tikkun.org/rabbi_lerner
"All Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace." Alexander Pope
Ted, thanks.
I'd say you have given me a reasonable and honest answer.
I'm curious when you say you are Jewish because you were bar-mitzvahed, is that in your own view, or is that how others see you (such as family and friends)? Or both?
Obviously, unlike when I see a black person or a white person, I cannot tell who is a Jew unless they tell me "I consider myself Jewish". I guess I've heard it so many times I'd like to know what people mean when they say it.
What frustrates me, are people like ardee.
He is apparently offended that I have asked my questions, and keeps repeatably telling me that everyone knows what an ""atheist Jew" is. He says there is a simple answer, but he won't tell me what it is.
I don't think there is a clear answer. I'm sure seven different Rabbis could easily give seven different answers. But because this is such a loaded question it rarely gets asked. We are supposed to assume we know the answers, but from what I've learned in this forum, many people don't even have answers because they haven't thought it through. And certainly, there doesn't seem to be agreement about what the term means.
Personally, I don't think it makes sense or is a good idea to look at Jews as a race or a People. "Cultural Judaism" might apply if anyone could tell me what that is. And, of course, (obviously) when people are Jewish because they practice Judaism, there is no confusion.
Thanks again for taking the time to reply.
Frankly I think this big hang up on who is a Jew and who isn't is a big problem and explosive when it comes to having a Jewish state that is defined by ethnicity and/or membership in a religious group. It's the 2st century and I wish people would grow up already and just concern themselves with people and not this endless hairsplitting about what tribe we belong to and whether that tribe is better or worse than some other tribe. It's very childish IMO and as an atheist I blame religion and say we ought to over it before we make Armageddon a self fulfilling prophecy. See the end of Religilous to see what I mean.
This is where a community board at CD would be helpful. Not just actions, but resources, and links. Why is there nothing like that at CD and why does no one reply to e-mails here? If they did then I'd fork over some cash. But how can I when no one replies. I'm not giving money to a way relationship.
Silence is Consent.
I've asked for the same. Like you, I've been ignored. And like you, I now ignore their pleas for money.
"All Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace." Alexander Pope
They say it's because of Hamas. Don't forget about the sanctions against Palestine, which is a form of economic violence. Who suffers most, the leaders? No, it's the already poor and destitute there. Palestine isn't innocent in all of this, just less powerful at present. Is Israel guilty of the genocide it claims to abhor? And do they really believe their massive bombing raids will stop the rocket attacks? It's obvious that the present Israeli leadership would rather squash the Palestinians than make peace with them. Perhaps if our economic collapse is deep enough, we won't be able to provide Israel with arms. Then they'll be forced to try a different approach. Otherwise, it will continue to remain a game of 'tit for tat.'
Chessgame, the sanctions against the Palestinians were put in place as a way, not of inflicting 'economic' violence, but as a method of preventing actual, real violence. Keep in mind, that this war was began by the Palestinians with the intent of slaughtering each and every Jew in the mideast, which they would have done (and would still do) if Israel didn't protect itself. If you know the history of the area and of the conflict you can't possibly blame the Israelis for the war. It's simply not true.
"So far, every thing Israel has done has led to more problems for it. "
Actually, no everything Israel has done has made it safe and prosperous, and has greatly benefited global Jewry. Who are much safer and more prosperous than they've ever been. Israel has been a great success. It's better established now than it's been at any time in its 3,000 year history. It's unfortunate that the Palestinians are so obsessed with war, but that will pass in time (as wars always do). Jews don't need to feel any guilt about what Israel is doing. It's just self-defense. Every individual criticizing them would definitely do the same thing if the rockets were falling on their families. No question about it.
Did you get the call on "megaphone" "mikep?" Oh eek some web site is questioning Israel's atrocities quick descend in force.
And yes I do think a call has been put out I notice MANY new posters here SUDDENLY who are using scripted talking points.
I Notice the very same. A sudden Influx of pro-Israeli voices repeating "talking points" that The Israeli Governmnet uses.
These people also seem only to post on issues relating to Israel . No other topic or thread concerns them.
Some responses happened so quickly that I wonder if some posters had advance knowledge of the Israeli attacks and were on the alert to watch for articles at Common Dreams.
That or the megaphone software that alerts Zionists any time a web site questions Israelis policy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaphone_desktop_tool
So far, every thing Israel has done has led to more problems for it. They thought Hamas couldnt possibly get democratically elected, they thought for sure they would destroy guerrilla fighters hiding in trenches in Lebanon...
Makes you wonder what's coming next for the Chosen people of the One True God.
Not much will change as long as people like Abbas or governments like Egypt keep serving the US and Israel.
The arabs really need to respond better.
When Israel says its up to Hamas to stop all rocket attacks Hamas should be saying: how do you propose we stop people from lobbing homemade rockets at those that are occupying (and shooting) us?
They might as well mock the events in the press. "We now understand that hundreds of us had to die because one Israeli was killed due to rockets we were stupid enough to launch against a country that is blocking our borders and denying our freedom. Shame on us for wanting to be free! We are nothing! The Chosen people know best!"
What's sad is the next round of Israeli stupidity we will have to endure.
You just know a bunch of israelis are going to get killed and then the corporate media, western governments, and Israel will be going: we are shocked! shocked! that anyone would attack us!
Indeed. Its not like they have killed thousands of people, assassinated UN representatives and bombed UN shelters, attacked unarmed US sailors as they got into lifeboats(claiming they mistook the hi tech vessel for one made of wood used to carry horses), used citizens as human shields, had their children write messages on bombs to be dropped on civilian areas of an occupied land, polluted the coastline of Lebanon because 2 soldiers were captured.
And if Iran says anything once again we will hear about how they said Israel's Zionist regime should be wiped off the map, and nothing about why Europe didnt create a homeland for the jews inside Europe.
I don't get it.
Are you proposing that Hamas should continue firing rockets and mortar bombs?
What do expect if you disrupt a regions democratically elected leaders, steal their land, destroy their orchards, shoot their children with sniper riffles, wreck their houses, and blockade them, simpering gratitude?
Get real!
I really don't think that Hamas rockets attacks from gaza on Israeli civilian targets is in the best interest of the Palestinian people.
Israel has withdrawn from Gaza in 2005. I truly don't see what they hope to gain by these war crimes. Will it make things any better to Palestinians?
I personally think that peace is a better solution for all. But that's just me
.The truth of your post is in those four words, "I really don't think"...
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We see things, not as they are, but as we are.
Anais Nin