Comments on: ‘Key Ally In The War On Terror’ Breaks With U.S., Condemns Israel For Gaza Strikes

By: EugeneDebs

EugeneDebs — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:14:06 +0000

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article2908.shtml

This from Amira Haas, Haaretz journalist, accepting the Anna Lindh award

From the third day, Palestinian and Israeli human rights and health organziations commented that the number of injuries in the upper parts of the body was a proof that the order was to kill. They also claimed that the army is targeting children. I published their commentary in one of my early reports. An interview I held with an Israeli sharpshooter confirmed these claims

By: delafield

delafield — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:45:02 +0000

Barack Obama’s relationship with Israel will define his entire Presidency. Hopefully, Obama won’t be a rubber stamp for Israeli terrorism like every other President for the past 60 years.

We’ll find out soon who Barack Obama really is.

By: ninique

ninique — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:36:46 +0000

Israeli snipers were INSTRUCTED to target children
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say what??? oh sure, that action’s justified! riiiiight! and all this is in the name of God, eh folks?

By: EugeneDebs

EugeneDebs — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:23:10 +0000

Good post toasterhead. There is a clear double standard here but to say its in favor of the Palestinians is flat out delusional. There arent any white hats in the whole conflict but Israel is occupying PALESTINIAN LAND for the past 40 years and stealing it not the other way around. When Amira Haas, an ISRAELI journalist reported that Israeli snipers were INSTRUCTED to target children it didnt get much notice in America nor did the rocket attacks from Israel that killed the blind, parapalegic cleric and seven other people who happened to be near him or the bombing and destruction of an entire apartment building killing nineteen including nine children to get ONE man ACCUSED of being a terrorist which Sharon then called a great victory. Both sides are targetting innocents and we ONLY get the media blaming the Palestinians for targetting innocents, which they are. Its time we criticised BOTH sides for their terrorism instead of ignoring Israeli terrorism and denouncing only Palestinian terrorism. If you dont hold yourself, your allies and your enemies to the same standard you arent even PRETENDING to have an ethical standard.

By: hussein toasterhead

hussein toasterhead — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:05:30 +0000

bonncaruso Says:

After months of being bombarded by rockets from Gaza, Israel is finally responding.

Where was the outrage as rockets fell on Israeli territory?

I am sick to death of the double-standard.

Me too. I’m sick of people equating a handful of daily rocket attacks, which have killed all of fifteen people and caused a bunch of property damage in two Israeli cities over the past decade, with the Israeli military incursions and airstrikes that have killed FIVE THOUSAND Palestinians since the start of the second Intifada.

THAT is the double-standard. Israel gets away with murder, while the Palestinians are expected to just sit down and let themselves be exterminated.

The answer in gaza is simple: get the civvies out and bomb the hell out of the entire city. Leave a smoldering hulk there. Move in and force the palis back at least 20 miles. Make them pay for their murderous ways.

January 1st, 2009 at 5:02 am

In other words, your solution is exactly what Israel is doing – genocide and collective punishment. Nice plan, jackass!

By: delafield

delafield — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:09:57 +0000

The Zionists decided long ago to make Palestine their homeland. It doesn’t matter to the Jews that Christians and Muslims have been living on those lands for thousands of years. The Jews are going to murder every non-Jew (Goyim) in Palestine until they get what they want.

Only Jews (and Jew lovers) will be allowed to live in Palestine. Remember, anyone who critizes a Jew is a terrorist and will be imprisoned, tortured, or assassinated. And if you’re a Jew and you plan on living in Palestine then the color of your skin had better be whiter than snow.

It’s so sad to watch America become a country of “Joe Liebermans”. sigh….

By: Sven Ortmann

Sven Ortmann — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:50:12 +0000

bonncaruso, you do the same mistake that many people do:
You ignore half of the story.

That conflict is quite old and there’s no clear “A has attacked first” or “B is evil”.

Both sides of the conflict are puke.

By: bonncaruso

bonncaruso — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:02:58 +0000

After months of being bombarded by rockets from Gaza, Israel is finally responding.

Where was the outrage as rockets fell on Israeli territory?

I am sick to death of the double-standard.

So, let get it straight:

Hamas is a murderous band of terrorists, their declared goal is the utter destruction of Israel and of jewry. It is right in their declaration (on their very own website) to read.

The palestinians voted Hamas in with a sweeping majority, just as the germans voted Hitler in. And just as the germans had to take their share of collective blame for nazi atrocities from 1933-1945, the palestinian people also shoulder a good deal of the blame here, for they openly support and fund a band of murderous terrorists. And those rockets are being fired from civilian homes all over the place, with those civilian’s blessings.

So, before we start to criticize Israel too much for giving Hamas the death-kick that those bastarts deserve, perhaps we should ask how many months americans would accept rockets falling on our territory before the general public would blow a fuse.

And I am not a conservative. I am a centrist democrat. But enough is enough.

Hamas is puke!

By: delafield

delafield — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:50:50 +0000

Well ElBruce, I’m sure that hundreds of Palestinian refugees who lost loved ones this past week from Jewish tanks, fighter jets, and helicopter gunships feel much better knowing that you’re disappointed.

By: EugeneDebs

EugeneDebs — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:49:50 +0000

Jihadi Warrior Says:

Bite my Bag you ignorant troll

By: ElBruce

ElBruce — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:12:34 +0000

I for one don’t hate Israel at all. I’m just terribly and constantly dissappointed by them. I really expect better than this sort of behavior. I keep hoping they’ll come to their senses with the whole apartheid/ghettoization/genocide/settlement thing and shape up, but no, they continue to dissappoint.

And yes, I realize this makes me sound like Israel’s Jewish mother. I’ve come to terms with that fact.

By: drew3rd

drew3rd — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:10:54 +0000

Why does everyone hate Israel so much? I cannot believe the horrible things I am reading here. Israel is not the problem in the Middle East, jealous, hateful and evil islamo-crazies are. Would you be okay with Mexico launching raids into New Mexico. We did take it from them, don’t we deserve to die? This is insanity many of you are writing. Why is it okay for us to possess the southwest but Israel needs to be “wiped from the map”? What is all of this hate? Why can’t the militant islamists put down their arms instead of exposing their fellow muslims to death? Why can’t they stop firing rockets into Israel? Where is YOUR anger towards them?

By: Brain From Planet Arous

Brain From Planet Arous — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:14:28 +0000

tom Says:

No. Israel must not be destroyed.

Better idea!! Let’s get all of the artists, scientists, musicians, and everyday decent people out of Israel, and be left with only Zionists. Then let these same Zionists take on Russia…..Alone!! It will be similar to when the Israel and US backed Georgia attacked South Ossetia.

By: jb

jb — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:54:30 +0000

Even many Jewish Groups are calling for an end to Gaza violence.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/31

By: DaTruth

DaTruth — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:42:54 +0000

If they can’t stabilize the current situation in the Middle East forget about change here at home. Now the Iraqis are all for defending the Palestinians and the Americans are just standing in their way. What a mess! I wonder what the idiot has to say now about his failure in the Middle East. Death to idiot and his entire team of losers! Greed-assed zionist pigs!

By: marlow

marlow — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:21:55 +0000

A nation which suffers more than a million dead, a destroyed economy and infrastructure because of a pack of lies is expected to be an “ally”? Genius, pure genius.

By: jb

jb — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:19:36 +0000

Aipac needs to open a Bagdad office.

By: SamWeller

SamWeller — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:04:56 +0000

I meant until the Lame Stream Media reports…

By: SamWeller

SamWeller — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:01:01 +0000

As soon as the Lame Stream Media reports that 9/11 was a False Flag attack thus giving birth to a bogus “war on terror” we will continue to go down a dark, dark road.

All the money spent is wasted. Our civilian economy continues to crumble.

Our military economy is booming.

Happy New Year?

By: delafield

delafield — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:48:58 +0000

Gaza Strip

A brief, two-week excursion to the Gaza Strip turns into an extended study of the Palestinian Intifada and the damaging effects of the Israeli occupation in this feature-length documentary from American filmmaker James Longley. Filmed over the course of three months and culled from over seventy-five hours of footage, Longley attempts to give a human face to the longstanding conflict by offering an intimate look into the daily lives of average Palestinians. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie