How can denial of "personhood and existence" be a technical mistake?

"Arbitrary" is a sad way to describe persecution. A fire turns into indignation from the world. Those firefighters came to stop the flames, but you, Israel, seem to insist on fanning the flames into a smoky excuse..

Very typical of Israel to do something like this. They keep shooting themselves on the foot time and again until, one day, they're gonna realize they don't have a foot any more - or the leg to with it.

Maybe one of the Hasboro trolls who likes to post on commondreams will be good enough to tell us: what is the Hebrew word for accepting someone's help and then kicking him in the teeth?

The Israelis are accustomed to spitting in the face of people offering help. It must be second nature by now.

Of course, the American government, under whichever party, is also accustomed to being the recipient of that spittle, and so we keep handing them three billion a year, vetoing anti-Israel motions in the UN, and may soon be involved in another war, with Iran, at their behest.

Ahmed Rizek, the Palestinian fire chief whose permit arrived too late for him to attend, said “entry refusals for no apparent reason were routine for many Palestinians….and many complain that Israeli approval or rejection can be arbitrary.”The usual Israeli ‘let’s keep ‘em in their place’ before giving them their due.

Senate Republicans blocked a bill to provide up to $7.4 billion in health care benefits to 9/11 firemen and other rescue workers who ran into burning buildings because first they want their tax breaks for rich people.

The usual‘let’s keep in their place” –NO by refusing benefits and compensation due to them resulting from actions of doing the jobs they were obviously paid to do as public servants.

Israeli fire victim denied Jewish burial because her mother wasn't Jewish:
http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=97255

So , if your putting out a major fire, and saving lives and property, it does not mater that humans are working together, if you honor the efforts of the humans involved , only certain ethnic groups are allowed into the party.

So , I wonder how many people of different ethnic backgrounds helped defeat Natzi Germany and end the Holocaust .

You remember the Holocaust right, the persecution and murder of millions of Jews, but do the Jews remember who saved them? Americans from all ethnic backgrounds.

Jesus said , love your enemy? Turn the other cheek , or in this case , turn your back on a fellow human fire fighter.

I am not a Jew or a Christian, I am a loving , caring human being, and I do my best to behave like one.

What this article fails to note is that the forest that burned is not natural to the area. Before 1948 there was no forest here. These trees were brought in and planted to disguise and hide the fact that this entire areas used to be Palestinian and that they had been removed from this land and replaced with Jews. (You know, the way Jews were removed from German houses and other places and replaced with Nazis).

It literally hid views of old Palestinian towns and homes and other living areas, still not fully occupied with Jews.

It also should be noting that the trees had to be artificially induced to live and had to be replaced all the time. The type of trees planted don't belong in those dry conditions and were continually drying up and dying. All of which made them even more prone to burning. Basically a tinder box, just waiting to be a major fire.

Next time Palestinian firemen...just let it burn!