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It amazes me to no end that the Economist use civilian death totals to highlight Israeli heavy-handed militarism. More non-holocaust German civilians were killed in World War Two than England, France, and America combined. I suppose, then, we should retroactively indict the murderous villains Roosevelt, de Gaulle, and Churchill for their atrocities committed on the poor German population. After all, motives had nothing to do with it.
The double standard which the Economist practices when it comes to the only Liberal democracy in the Middle East is frustrating and obscene.
I still remember the Economist issue explaining to the world the atrocities Israel committed in Jenin during the days when Israeli troops, as a last resort during the second merdorous Intifada after 1,000 dead civilians and a horrified Israeli populace and an economy in a depression, had to reclaim the West bank cities which Arafat had made the homeland for suicide bombers (all this after Barak had offered that war monger over 90% of the West Bank land swapps). The Economist had basically written an article which in fact was blood lible of the worse kind and would not dishonor der sterner. It was of course all proven to be false but the Economist of course never admitted it. The amount of Israeli soldiers which died in that hell hole then was extremely high precisely since Israel, unlike Britain, US and Nato in Serbia, Iraq and Afghanistan, had taken a great caution (stupidly I may add) not to hurt civilians.
It also amazes me that the great minds of the Economist (which Arthur Neville would be extremely proud of) claim that Israel kills a lot of innocent civilians during their fighting in Gaza. With all due respect Israel left that g-d forsaken place over 2 years ago and had continuously received daily bombardements of rockets which had literaly emptied entire towns in Southern Isrel (just as they did from Lebanon) (economist claims that hardly anyone has died-that my dear brave warriers is because over half the population has left those areas (Sderot and the neighbouring towns-the fear of the rockets falling on your head-does that). I sincerely wish that the citizens of London, Birmingham and Liverpool live under the threat of hourly rockets falling (while constant Sirans won't allow children to learn and to sleep-) Why should any country care about a neighbouring entity which shoots rockets at its citizens? Would England? Would the US? Would any sane country? NO. England, The US and others had attacked Serbia, Afghanistan and Iraq and had killed thousands of civilians (including bombing wedding cerimonies, schools etc...when their own country was not under threat. It seems that comparing Israel's defensive assasinations of terrorists who bomb its cities (and yes these are terrorists-NOT FIGHTERS) from civilan territory. What should Israel do-just evacuate the whole Southern part or should we all just go back to the European countries and Arab countries that loved us so much. It is obvious that Israel can finish this rocket shooting at its cities in 1 day. They can just massively bomb the area and leave thousands dead-Chechnia style (as I am sure the US, England and any other sane country would do if they would be under daily rockets attacks (v2 style)
The Economist's self rightiousness and humanitarian stance when it comes to the Jewish state has gotten it completely wrong (in true defeatist, appeasing Chamberlain, Carter style (another moral master when it comes to Israel (from the man who brought us Humaini). Feeling bad for Palestinains and appeasing them for being extreme, corrupt, and non sensible and basically never truly willing to live side by side with Israel (although Israel has offered everything short of suicide) and being accountable for the complete destruction they have inflicted on themselves while always blaiming Israel and holding it to double standards (don't do anything to those killing your children in restaurants and bombing your citys-(all this while you had offered them over 95% of the West Bank and had left Gaza), Oh yah-you should speak to Hamas which does not recognize you or any treaties signed with you and calls for your destruction and bombs your cities although you left Gaza and says it will only uses any ceasfire to smuggle more rockets to harm you). That is obviously a sad joke of that Great British Prime minister Nevile- Until the Palestinians understand that they are not getting back into Israel they will never allow their corrupt degenarete leaders to make real piece with Israel and will ignore any treaties signed with Israel as the Hamas has done . I have news for you-Palestinians will never recognize that they ain't coming back to Israel (at least not in our life time). All Israel can don is fight those wishing to destroy it (as any other sane country would). It is obvious that if the Arabs truly wanted to solve this reletively small matter (the amount of Palestinain refugees was rather small in 48-even less than Jewish refuges from Arab countries)they could have done so. However this suits the Arab leadership just fine-can always blame Israel for everything (besides the Arabs truly dislike the Palestinians). Economist should stop with the truly double standards it demands of Israel and recognize just once how truly humane Israel is behaving under such circumstances
1981b wrote:May 02, 2008 11:14NB12,I do find it humorous that you criticized me for "Jewish conspiracies" (which they hardly are) but then proceed to speak of what I can only call Muslim conspiracies. I suppose interpretations are accurate when they favor your goal, and conspiracy theories when they favor the other side.***********************These are no conspiracies because Hamas has an official manifesto that everybody can read. It's not hard to get what is the world these people are living in. You can find clips on youtube right from the al Aqsa channel. I also used to be a regular poster on some Arab blogs, Lebanese in particular. I am still in touch with some of these people. One of them, a Palestinian expat from Dubai by the way, has translated quite a lot of stuff for me from Youtube. Actually these people are more scared of Hamas and their friends than Israelis are. We have a fence but they have nothing :D :DSo there are no conspiracies here. Just regular Islamic fundamentalism if you know what it is."You claim Israel can't negotiate with Hamas because their only goal is genocide, and this movement is spreading all across the world."I did not say that this is the Hamas only goal. Hamas main goal is recreating Islamic Caliphate. It's a movement that's oriented towards the past. But they do have genocidal stuff in their programs. They are not vegetarians.In the same way it's stated in their manifesto that they are a Palestinian branch of Muslim Brotherhood. I don't put words in their mouth. It's written in their covenant. Muslim Brotherhood is a global movement. And right now they are the main opposition in Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Actually all around us. The Sudanese regime is packed with them. Turabe's NIF used to be a local branch of MB. After Bashir's coup many of them switched sides and joined him."Maybe you can englighten us with your solution?"The Middle East does not have solutions, honey :D :D It has only troubles. And if the world won't stop messing with this hornet's nest, it will be soon up to its neck in these troubles :D :D The westerners, right or left, have no idea what a mess this region is. Don't mess with something you don't understand. It's violent place and right now it's losing its point of equilibrium.And Israel is one of the places in this region where people, Jews and even Arabs, can enjoy some sort of normalcy. All around them is one big Iraq. There are more Iraqs here than meet the eye :D :D
Dear 1981:
I simply don't get the answer regarding neighbours conquring other neighbours which is OK while Israel after being attacked and keeping the land which was used to attack it by 3 neighbours not being allowed to keep that land and instead must return it to the the entity which state their continued wish to destroy Israel . How can anyone try to make rational out of your statement? Your statement is there is one rule for the world and another for Israel.
I simply don't understand your previous statement regarding "no one firing rockets at Jerusalem or Tel Aviv". Firstly they are firing rockets at Sderot and Ashkelon and surrounding kibbutzim-around 200,000 people-what is the difference. How can anyone make rational out of your statement?
I'm sure that when Hizbullah were firing at Haifa-around 250, 000 people and Israel fought back you said Israelis are savages for doing that.
Also your claim regarding colonization is plainly wrong since a colony means according to Miriam Webster dictionary "a body of people living in a new territory but retaining ties with the parent state"-Jews had always lived in Judea/Palestine and as I mentioned most the present day Palestinians did not the parent state was always Israel for the Jews as I said if you think Israel is so bad why don't you expect the Americans, Australians and others (which we can all agree never, unlike the Jews, lived there prior to arriving a few hundred years ago, to just give back everything and go home).
As I said and keep on saying please stop asking Israel to stand by and commit suicide and instead please demand from the lovely Palestinans to stop bombarding us, sending suicide bombers. Until that happens it really is fruitless to discuss anything.
By the way thanks for bringing up the Economist's link-the whole argument started by me claiming that the Economist and other self rightious (as long as we are not in harms way types)morally high types compare Israel to Sweden or Holland-while our neighbours are the biggest murdering savage regimes around. Thanks for reaffirming my double standard argument-try to compare Israel's military behaviour (purely for survival to latest wars of the US (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, British -(Iraq, Afghanistan, Nato (Serbia) wherever they are out fighting (not for survival).
Dear 1981b:
I simply stated that Israel treats those trying to annihlate her with silk gloves compared to her neighbours and I imagine any sane country. Thus there is no mistreatment since mistreatment is against someone who does not try to harm you. When someone tries to kill you and you hit back or try to avoid him killing you (roadblocks for example) that is not mistreatment but survival.
Israel did not start building settlements until 1973 (5 years after the Arab league in Khartom, Sudan (another great Arab bastion of democracy) famously said No to peace with Israel or recognition of Israel under any cirucmctances although Israel put the freed territories on the table (No other country would offer to give territories to those who began a war of innhilation against it-territories which never belonged to the Palestinians and were grabbed by Jordanian and Egyptians and the liberal Syrians in 48 (Assad killed in 1 day more Islamic fanatics than died in the whole of the Israel-Palestine conflict and so did Hussein in September 71)
In fact Europe is made up of countries which rule over other nationalities as a result of war which was started by the other nationalities (see Rumania, Poland, Czecklovakia etc...-do you expcect the Poles to return Gedunsk to the Germans or the Czechs to return the Sudetlands to the Germans?-and they are all friendly today (Germany is not threatning them). However, from Israel, it seems you expect to return land to those still seeking to annhilate it. Again Israel should commit suicide.
Anyway only in 73 did settlements begin and very slowly (since the Arabs were not willing to even talk to Israel and for mostly security reasons). The settlements were built in order to make sure that Israel will not be put in a situation as in 67 which was complete annihalation. Until 77 (Likud election) there were a very few settlements and they were built for security reasons (please see the pull out from Gaza and Lebanon and the consequence of a little Iranian proxy of South Lebanon and Gaza shooting rockets into Israel). Israel, again ulike any other country in the world, wishing to make peace by any means (stupidly so) believed the great democrat Arafat and started to pull out of the West Bank cities in 93, then in Camp David Barak offered Arafat over 91% of the West Bank land swapps which would be equal to almost 100% pre 67 land(including destroying most settlements). You would think that considering they started a war in 67 to destroy Israel they would be greatful to get a state on that territory (which the Arabs had never granted them). what was the response of the supposed Independent seeking Palestinians- a 2nd murderous killing spree of 1,000 dead and destruction of the Israeli economy by virgin seeking young Palestinain lads.
So let us summerize- Israel is attacked in 67 by armies wishing to get rid of the Jews. The Arabs who occupy the West Bank and Gaza prior to 67 don't give the Palestinains a state and keep their people intentionly as refugees. Following the war of defence by Israel luckily Israel wins and still offers to return land for peace-the Arabs once again say no in Khartom. Then Israel offers 91% land swapps and they still say no and begin killing off children in restaurants. Then Isrel wishing to just disconnect pulls out as a first step out of of Gaza and it gets bombarded by rockets (also from Lebanon which they pulled out from in 2000). When Olmert wishing to continue the disingagement from Gaza into the West Bank ran on a platform of destroying settlement in his the Palestinians were also against that instead screaming that Israel must only leave under a treaty (which Hamas does not keep anyway and Fatah is too week to keep).
Again you reaffirm my stance regarding the ignorance on the part of israel bashers or simple double standard which the Jewish state must adhere to by those great "moral forces".
To 1981b:
The root of the problem here is that we have two diametrically situated populations, at least as represented by their leadership: the one just wants to go about their business of living in a Western democracy, the others mulling the redressing of historical wrongs going back to the crusades and the establishment of a theocracy. As we say here in America, "s**t happens" and the best revenge is to live a happy life. This requires the concentration on creating happiness, not screwing someone else's.
I traveled to Egypt and was amazed at how backward the situation is. I mean, they have unlimited land and unlimited water! what else do they need? Why isn't there a single democracy with human rights in all Arab states? why are they not prospering and creating value outside of pumping black oil from the ground?
Same thing with Gaza: the Israelis, when they left, gave them greenhouses, orchards and other facilities to make a living. They didn't want to close off Gaza to the outside world, they only did it when the rockets started raining on their head! What else could they do? let them bring in more Iranian weapons and bombs?
You ask what can be done? well, unfortunately, not much. As long as the Palestinians are not ready for peace, there will not be peace, only enforced security. When they're ready, they'll let the Israelis know. In the meanwhile, they need to continue with military actions to the best of their ability to protect their people.
1981b wrote:May 01, 2008 10:46Paternalism and propping up Fatah will not work, it has not worked. Military might will not work. These are band-aides over festering issues that will eventually rupture if not remedied.*************you mean: "In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers." ???Yes. I remember the guy. Though to his credit it should be said that unlike you he was less into indulging himself into the "Jews behind the scenes" conspiracy theories. But in all other respects he was just as smart as you are. :D :D
You mention mistreatment. The Palestinainans have never been treated as good as they have been by the Israelis. In fact I will go as far as to say that next to Egypt and Jordan (see:Black September) Israel has treated them with silk gloves and had given them a certain amount of prosperity next to other Arabs.
I had asked you before-What other nation would allow a foreign enemy to exist while they are bombing its towns (Sadam would just gas them as did Egypt when it fought Yemen). In fact as someone who lives in Israel I can tell you that if you sat down with a regular Palestinian he would tell you that being under Israeli control was the best time for them-they worked in Israel (had jobs-better paid than any other Arabs) and did not pay taxes and could make a decent live for themselves and their family. They will also tell you that since Oslo and the arrival of the corrupt leaders (Arafat's wife alone ran off with more money than the GDP of the Palestinian Authority) from overseas and the semi closure into the Israeli market they had become poorer and treated worse by their own thief leaders and corrupt quasi military-security forces(which is made up according to clan/criminal membership) (before the 1st Intifada Palestinians worked almost freely in Israel, could stay in hotels in Israel and go to the beach-in fact over a hundred thousand married Israeli Arabs-either fictitiously or for real to stay in Israel).
Last word: Most Israelis I know would like to disconnect completely from the Palestinians (Ehud Olmert was voted on that platform). We would like to live and let live. We don't want to be in the West Bank (Israel had to go back and take contorl in 2002 after 1000 dead from suicide bombers).
It is the Palestinains (who are killing each other and can't agree between themselves what they want) that simply don't want to disconnect from Israel. Their whole national aspiration is built on the hope ofcoming back into Israel proper and their leaders too will never give up their right to come back into Israel proper or be killed. It is very depressing but the Palestinains will never agree to 2 states (Israel has shown it is willing to leave almost any place when the other side is serious (Egypt) and sometimes not serious (Gaza, Lebanon-look what Israel got in response).
Dear 1981:
Here is what you are offering to the obviously very suicidal Israel. Make a ceasfire with Hamas (which is in its own civil war with its supposed bretheren in the West Bank-so make ceasfire with whom exactly?). Hamas which clearly says we will never make peace with you and our only existence is for the aim of to throwing you out of Israel (since you are pigs and infedels and all the rest of the very lovely language they call Israel-or as they say (since we don't exist)-the Zionist entity) but since you are stronger now we will make a ceasfire with you while we continue to get stronger and arm ourselves to the teath with rockets, while you stand by and give us more territory to do so with (territory which Israel conquered as a result of a war which the Arabs began to innhilate Israel). Not even Chamberlain would be that silly. What you are saying simply reaffirms my stance that all the great moral warriers which just love to make Israel, one of the most open-liberal and democratic countries, into a monster, simply talk what ammounts to crazy talk and hypocritical mambo jambo which in other words says-we expect the silly Jews to perticipate in their own suicide-well I and my fellow countrymates like our lives just fine and don't plan on committing suicide just yet. Instead of expecting Hamas should just stop firing rockets into Israel, accept that Israelis are not going anywhere, recognize Isrel and previous traties signed with the PA and most importantly try to create a better future for their children living side by side with Israel- you accept Israel to commit suicide-thanks for reaffirming my thoughts.
Last word: Not only Jews should worry about these lovely guys-they are not crazy about Christians or secular muslims either (unless they are thrown from rooftops), by the way.
Dear 1981b:
There is nothing balanced about being hypocritical. I repeat-there is no sane country in the world that would act as humane as Israel while its towns are being emptied (by hourly rocket attacks) and attacks on its borders by a foreign entity. The Economist fierce humanitarian stance I imagine would disappear if their respected families would be under daily rocket attacks and children loosing their childhood. Even the very "humane" League of Nations-oops- UN, which has made Israel the punching bag for every degenerate mass murderer dictator, allowes (in theory-except when it comes to Israel) countries to defend themselves against anyone shooting from civilian areas by shooting back. A country can stop that attack even if there is a school there (see the British and US attacks on schools in Afghanistan or in Nato's attack on Serbia-a radio station). What the Economist and other humanitarian (as long as it's not us under fire) are asking Israel to be the first country in the world to turn the other cheek and basically not do what a country must do-protect its citizens. The blame should be put on the Hamas which is intentionly shooting from civilain areas so moralists such as yourself can then blame Israel for defending itself.
By the way how do you know how many civilian dead there are- since the Gaza Strip and West Bank are not (as Israel is) a bastion of democracy and liberal press. In fact there is almost no foreign press there since they are kidnapped and harassed by those which the Economist is asking Israel to reach a ceasfire with (North Korea can learn). The only press there is there is very sure to follow the "right" line of the Palestinian hosts-which is we can do whatever to Israel but if they shoot back to defend themselves they are children killing monsters.
In any case Israel has no obligation except one-protect its citizens (which they have not been doing because of their humanitarian-suicidal tendency). Israel has no obligation to the Palestinian civilians who had voted for Hamas which is shooting rockets at its populace and trying to infiltrate Israel to kill more civilians (that would be like saying that Britain has an obligation against German civilians in WW2 when London is being bombed). Again as I said expecting Israel not to protect its civilians from a foreign entity is just plainly unbalanced and morally wrong.
The answer to anyone expecting the Israelis to sit back and let its children be killed is that you should be ashamed of yourself.
The only answer by all the "morally superiors" who are very quick to cancel Israel's right to defend itself should be to the Palestinians-stop shooting rockets and sending suicide bombers to kill off children in restaurants and clubs and concentrate on making your life better-let the Israelis live and you will live.
"1981b wrote:
May 01, 2008 21:21
I'm sorry but I missed where the conspiracy theory popped up..."
Not here but on another thread you were entertaining me with "the British goal in Palestine was to establish a Jewish state" and other conspiracism.
"In terms of the Chamberlain quotation...I was not attempting to paraphrase, nor was my message even remotely similar. In war there can be victors, in this situation it is not an all out war...
The military strikes have not worked because Hamas is still in power in Gaza, enjoys widespread public support amongst Palestinians and continues to carry out small attacks against Israel. Essentially Hamas is engaging in quasi-guerilla warfare. These types of war cannot be clearly won, as long as the general population supports them."
And so what? Chamberlain was making the same point in 1938. Clearly, if the German population were not rallying behind the regime there would have been no reason to feed Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
You see man, Stalin's useful idiots were guilty of taking Communist propaganda at its face value. But you don't have even this excuse for your fallacies since this movement hardly pretends to be what it's not. It features clearly genocidal stuff in its official manifesto, its children education programs feature Micky Mouses promising the establishment of Global Islamic Caliphate. Hitler was less obvious with his Mein Kampf than these people. In a way you beat both Stalin's useful idiots and Chamberlain together
Never mind that Hamas is a part of the global movement. It's absolutely not limited to Israel/Palestine. The last detractor from Hizb ut-Tahrir (dont remember his name) wrote in his book how Qutb's Milestones are driving Islamic radicalism across Europe (Milestones is a kinda Mein Kampf of Muslim Brothers). All across the Middle East and beyond it the Muslim Brothers rising. To think that the misbehavior of a small country populating one and half square kilometer of this wasteland can produce world's problem of such a scale is a sheer idiocy.
"As weapons will continue to become more and more advanced as time goes on, and the longer economic opportunities are sparse, the hatred for Israel will grow strong while the weapons grow more powerful. This is really, really basic stuff you can read in hundreds of articles across the Economist, BBC, CNN, etc. This is hardly a conspiracy theory. Continuing down this road will lead to the problem worsening. I cannot take credit for this analysis, it is a widely held concern."
I don't care for what some articles on the BBC and Economist
say. Some articles are right. Some make me laugh. But in general the regular stuff the media is daily feeding to the herd has zero quality in terms of analysis.
As to their hatred of Israel I don't care for it since with our current friends one can hardly be afraid of having more enemies. In this region those who are afraid of upsetting somebody don't live and it's not us who established these rules. From a host of Middle Eastern minorities we are one of the few who survived the tide of Arab nationalism and now holding on against the Islamic one. The Alawis are still holding Syria in their iron grip but it won't be for long. The Kurds may get a state of their own. But the rest are done, massacred, chased away. You can trust me that Israel knows what it's doing. To stay alive in the middle of the Middle East is beyond the reach of amateurs.
Joe100 wrote:April 30, 2008 11:29Astonishing!! Are all western democracies financing a « Palestinian Authority » who took control by power, against the democratically elected government of Hamas, or did I miss something?********************Yes. You missed a few funny episodes in Gaza when Hamas and Fatah supporters were throwing each other off towers but then Hamas came up with a brilliant technique of catching Fatah supporters and shooting their kneecaps out from behind. They may even still have some cool clips of this on Youtube. After a few dozens of people have their limbs amputated or were just left permanently crippled by this method, the democracy and its democratic government were restored, at least in Gaza, to everybody's satisfaction.
1981b wrote:April 27, 2008 12:49I might add, as far as Hamas goes, while they do not recognize Israel they have offered a long term cease fire if the pre-1967 borders were returned. While a long term cease fire is not a permanent cease fire, periods of peace could allow the groups to mend their differences. Hamas has said they would leave the recognition of Israel up to future generations. At this point in history, given the mistreatment, it should come as no surprise they do not wish to recognize Israel.*******************Israel won't agree to the situation in which it cedes control of the borders and territory to Hamas and then sits idly watching them importing to the West Bank/Gaza arms and foreign Jihadists. Jews may not be angels but they are certainly not idiots. If Hamas is ready for a permanent solution it can start negotiating it right now. But the thing is that the only permanent solution Hamas is looking for means no Israel around. Let alone anybody can see what another section of Muslim Brothers is accomplishing right now in Darfur. It does not take a genius to guess what these people have on their mind.
Dear 1981b:
It seems, sadly, are once again ingnorant of history or plainly are hypocritical regarding the Jewish State.
There was no Arab state prior to the creation of the state of Israel. There was a British Mandate of Palestine which was given to the Brits in 1917 with the intended aim of creating 2 states -a Jewish one and an Arab one (there were at that time Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews). Palestinian Arabs-most were immigrants from other Arab entities in the Mideast such as Syria) which had arrived in the Area during the Automan period. The Brits who did what ever they wanted gave as a present the by far larger part of Palestine called Trans-Jordan to an ally of theirs from Saudi Arabia which was an Arab. Thus the Arabs had received by far the greater mass of territory and the Jews the residue (not to mention that in the Peel commission prior to WW2 the Arabs were offered a much larger part of the East Bank than the Jews of but had said no to that also-in fact they said no to everything). You should also know that there were Jews in Palestine throughout history (unlike for example Anglo Saxons in the US or in Canada or in Australia or in New Zeland or Spaniards in the whole of South America or English people in Ireland). You should also know that there were many more refugees from the former German areas of Poland and Czeclovakia and from India and Pakistan and from Greece and Turkey and from Bulgaria and Turkey. Jews have alwasys lived in Judea/Palestine. Thus the Jews have a real historical (not just biblical)cliam to Palestine (much more than any of the nations mentioned above). Would you think that the nations above would sit still if they were hourly attacked by their indegenous populations (which the Arabs were certainly not more than the Jews )-They would kill them off as they have done until today--either by murder or by alcohol.
You should also know that Israel did not just one day say let us go into the West Bank and Gaza and take them over. There was a war in 1967 which was to destroy Israel. What sane country would return territory to those seeking to destroy it from within it. In fact that would be like saying that the Germans were right to start WW2 to reclaim their lost territroy in the East. You start a war and you pay for it. The Golan Heights is the most strategic part of the area and prior to 1967 Syrians would bombard Israeli towns from it. What sane country would return a piece of land to a country that started a war with it and used that land to bombard it?
I am really surprised that you were not aware that Israel left Gaza in 2006. Since then the Palestinian entity have been bombarding Israeli towns. For your knowledge Israel did not close off Gaza right away-only once Hamas took over. Even prior to the close off the rocket attacks were continuing. What would you expect from Israel? The Hamas says that they intend to destroy Israel and to keep on fighting it, they build tunnels to smuggle rockets and other weapons into Israel-should Israel allow the borders to be open so they can have a Hizballah style state there and can basically fire rockets into the whole of Israel. What sane country would allow a foreign enemy entity which only existence is to destroy it and says we will not keep any previous treaties with you to freely import weapons which will be used against you?
With regards to the assasinations of the heads of the military wing of Hamas. Israel sadly has not assasinated any of the heads of the Political wing (except for Yassin) it has only assinated the heads of the murderous wing which will not recognize Israel and is managing the shooting of rockets into Israel. This is very strange on your part and goes to strengthen my view that you don't even recognize your hypocritical view-If Israel assinates the particular terrorists that is terrible-if Israel bombs the areas they are shooting from-that is terrible-your answer-Israel should just not do anything and commit suicide-you can do that but we cherish our lives.
As I had said before Israel left Gaza in order to let them be. Instead they had bombarded Israel with rockets and daily killings (the killings are done against those who are sending food and petro into Gaza). All that needs to be done is for them to recognize Israel's right to exist, stop bombarding Israeli towns, smuggle weapons and try to create a better future for their children.
You expect Israel to have a ceasfire with those who don't recognize it, call for its destruction and state that during the ceasfire we will keep smuggling weapons so next time we can bombard Isrel even harder (Hizballah style)-Israel is not that stupid and will not behave like Chamberlain-we did that in Lebanon and got a month of blitz style bombardments.
Lastly, please show me where the US or England (war criminals according to you) ever apologized to the Japanease or Germans for indescriminatly bombing their towns?
When two parties to a dispute come to court to seek legal redress, the first words out of the judge's mouth are, "start from the beginning and present any evidence you have." I shall present the following for the Israeli side:
The earliest mention of the Holy Land as Palestine (probably in reference to the Philistines, a non-Arabic, non-Semitic people from the Greek Isles who invaded the southern coast of the Holy Land in the 2nd half of the
12th century B.C.E) is by the Greek historian, Herodotus (5th Century B.C.E).
In contrast, one of the earliest mention of the Holy Land as Israel is the archaeological find the Mesha* Stele or Moabite Stone (9th Century B.C.E): "As for Omri**, king of Israel, he humbled Moab*** many years . . ." [1]
The ancient Philistines, who hailed from the Aegean Sea area, are not related racially or culturally to the Arabs, who only began referring to themselves as "Palestinians" in the 1960s: [2]
-- 1) The Arab "Palestinians" speak Arabic; the ancient Philistines' language is still being deciphered.
-- 2) The Arab "Palestinians" practice circumcision; the ancient Philistines did not.
-- 3) The Arab "Palestinians" are monotheists whose god is called Allah; the Philistines were polytheists, whose chief god was Dagan (Dagon).
[1] James B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (Princeton University Press, 1969).
[2] "There is no such country! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. 'Palestine' is alien to us; it is the Zionists who introduced it."
-- Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, before the Peel Commission, whose 1937 report never refers to the Arabs as 'Palestinians.'
* Mesha, king of Moab (an enemy of Israel).
** Omri, king of Israel mentioned in the Bible (1 KINGS 16:16)
*** Moab, ancient kingdom east of the Dead Sea, what is now part of Jordan.
So now you know: Israel precedes Palestine.
To the opposing side: Please present your evidence.
No one is saying Hamas has done no wrong. However, regardless, it has become wholly apparrent Hamas is not going anywhere anytime soon. Attempts to seige Gaza in hopes of destabalizing Hamas have failed. Their approval ratings have NOT plummeted. Therefore is is necessary to involve them in the peace process. Any attempt at peace that does not involve Hamas is merely an immaterial gesture for the media/public until Hamas is involved.
Paternalism and propping up Fatah will not work, it has not worked. Military might will not work. These are band-aides over festering issues that will eventually rupture if not remedied.
I might add, as far as Hamas goes, while they do not recognize Israel they have offered a long term cease fire if the pre-1967 borders were returned. While a long term cease fire is not a permanent cease fire, periods of peace could allow the groups to mend their differences. Hamas has said they would leave the recognition of Israel up to future generations. At this point in history, given the mistreatment, it should come as no surprise they do not wish to recognize Israel.
I am well aware of the history. I simply do not view it as black and white as you might.
Although there was no Palestinian state, prior to the Belfour Declaration of 1917, there was a very small Jewish population in the area. England facilitated Jewish settlement. Much of the local Palestinian population was eventually expelled. Israel was founded as a Jewish State. This simply could not be accomplished if the Palestinian population was close to the same as the Jewish population.
This was not land that no one was occupying. It was not a Palestinian State, but it was part of the Ottoman Empire. When it dissolved the land was essentially given to recent immigrants (Jewish people) by the British. This is still conolinization. Palestinian people had largely inhabited the land for roughly 500 years with a relatively small Jewish population.
Your comparison to Manhattan or London is absurd! No one is constantly firing rockets into Tel Aviv or Jerusalum. Your comparison is a grave exageration. Look at the fatalities from rockets being fired from Gaza and then compare them with Gaza's death toll.
Proportionality is seriously lacking, hence the criticism.
The "evidence" you provide would be supressed as circumstantial hear-say, inadmissible in a court of law. Additionally, it would probably be suppressed given it's lack of relevancy.
You are semantically playing with the word Palestinian, and laughable sources. The 2nd part particularly is weak. Don't you realize people can change their cultures? The Celtics were pagans at one point, then became predominantly Christian. A changing of ceremonial practice, language or religion hardly means a group's ethnic identity is erased, this happens regularly throughout history.
As to your first argument you are placing inference upon inference...giving much creedance to the historical accuracy of the Bible or Herodotus is a big mistake. I shouldn't have to explain why, go do some research and it will become quickly apparrent. Did you pull this argument off a militant Zionist website? It wreaks of poorly constructed propaganda.
However, even if this WERE true, peoples have migrated throughout history all the time...but suddenly remembering your "homeland" does not all of a sudden turn into a legal right to displace the current population.
I'll respond to NB12 later on.
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I'm going to be coming into Minny from San Francisco for the game this weekend to meet my dad is who is coming in from Upstate New York. We figured we should make it to one game at the dome before the new one goes up. We're excited to be among some fans as hardcore as ourselves after being isolated in northern NY among bills, jets, and giants fans.
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A RHEUMATOID arthritis sufferer will step out in the St Helens 10k on Sunday inspired by the Steve Prescott Foundation motto 'the body achieves what the mind believes' .
Catherine Hankin was was diagnosed with the debilitating inflammatory disease aged 15.
Barely able to walk, Catherine had to take years of medication, including steroids which led to her needing a double-hip replacement due to osteoarthritis.
However, in November 2012, after she was given a new drug called Tocilizumab at St Helens Hospital, her life has turned around.
The drug enables her to take much lower doses of steroids and has seen her pain and fatigue reduce dramatically.
And in September of last year, after being introduced into a weight loss scheme, the Birchley St Marys primary school teaching assistant started to take up running.
After completing a five-kilometre race, she started running sessions twice a week.
So far this year, Catherine has signed up for three 5k races, and has been gearing herself for the St Helens 10k this weekend.
"I am so excited to be running through my hometown and to run the 10k, especially. It is just a massive sense of achievement," said 27-year-old Catherine.
"If it wasn't for the wonderful staff at St Helens hospital giving me the chance to try the new drug, and all the support from some amazing friends along the way, I would never have even dreamed of becoming a runner. My family and friends say I beam with a smile when I talk about my new love for running.
"I am also a strong believer in Steve Prescott's motto: 'The body achieves, what the mind believes' which I believed in myself when taking up running," she added.
Catherine also has plans to take on the Wigan Sport Relief 6 mile, Manchester Marathon, as part of a four-leg relay, and the Manchester Bupa 10k, and hopes to train towards a half-marathon within the next year.