"Israeli aircraft, tanks and naval gunboats pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Thursday and rocket salvoes thudded into southern Israel, as terrified residents on both sides of the frontier holed up at home in anticipation of heavy fighting on the second day of Israel's offensive against Islamic militants.
The operation, launched in response to days of rocket fire from the Palestinian territory, kicked off with the assassination of Hamas' top military commander and deepened the instability gripping the Mideast. Israel's already strained relations with Egypt's new Islamist government frayed even further as Egypt recalled its ambassador Wednesday in response to the Israeli military operation.
Just days earlier, Israel was drawn into Syria's civil war for the first time, firing missiles into its northern neighbor for the first time in four decades after stray mortar fire landed in Israeli-occupied Syrian territory."*
Cenk Uygur provides an in-depth analysis about the disproportionate strike back against Hamas, "collateral damage," and U.S. attitudes toward Israelis and Palestinians.
Reader Comments
This is such an ignorant and monumentally foolish comment. If it were up to people like you, we would all be speaking German, and the world flag would have been a swastika. Oh ya, and we wouldn’t even know what the word Jew would mean.
Do yourself a favor and crawl back under whatever rock you came from. Believe me, you will be at peace again.
Do yourself a favor and crawl back under whatever rock you came from. Believe me, you will be at peace again.
I agree with neema. Your comments are also a deflection of what is really happening. The comparisons between Israel's attack on civilians as opposed to Hamas cannot be be grouped together because the context is different. First off, if I'm not mistaken it's a 100/1 ratio of Palestinian/Israeli deaths. Israel is FAR superior militarily than Hamas, and they are the ones encroaching, ie invading Palestinian land and territory - in other words they are the aggressor who has more weaponry, has killed more people, and are justifying that as alright while demonizing the Palestinians and Hamas as terrorists when they are the democratically elected gov't.
Self-deluding "praying for peace" is what got humanity into this mess in the first place. No, it's time to stand up and tell it like it is. Israel is always the aggressor.
Have you forgotten who started this, and who does not want peace at ANY price? That would be Israel, my friend. They are really, really good at saying one thing and doing the opposite, by deception if neccessary. Also, doing a deed and blaming it on others in order to "play the victim" .... endlessly. Some people started to figure it out a while back. It makes them very, very dangerous to others and in the end their own people who they will use and abuse to get what they want.
They have a rather grand history of that.
They have a rather grand history of that.
tabitheriel
Your ignorance is astounding.
Or are you just mouthing the standard Israeli propaganda line.
Or, perhaps you're just afraid to face reality, that Israel, in complicity with Western governments, is committing genocide against the Palestinians, particularly against its children.
And when the Palestinians fight back, they are branded as terrorists.
If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem
Your ignorance is astounding.
Or are you just mouthing the standard Israeli propaganda line.
Or, perhaps you're just afraid to face reality, that Israel, in complicity with Western governments, is committing genocide against the Palestinians, particularly against its children.
And when the Palestinians fight back, they are branded as terrorists.
If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem
The reason
The reason Hitler got his power in the first place was because people believed he could do no wrong, or that Germany could do no wrong. It's insane to believe that ANYONE is incapable of doing something unjustified. The support of Israel on 'blind faith' is dangerous.
The reason Hitler got his power in the first place was because people believed he could do no wrong, or that Germany could do no wrong. It's insane to believe that ANYONE is incapable of doing something unjustified. The support of Israel on 'blind faith' is dangerous.
The Zionist Supporters
are on the defensive and "tabitheriel" is just one of their foot soldiers. Is it not funny how transparent lies, ignorance and defending the indefensible become as their end game crumbles in the face of Truth shining her sunlight on their rotten parade?
Exposure is now becoming unbearably hot and will soon spill over into the wider collective consciousness, ruining their plans forever
are on the defensive and "tabitheriel" is just one of their foot soldiers. Is it not funny how transparent lies, ignorance and defending the indefensible become as their end game crumbles in the face of Truth shining her sunlight on their rotten parade?
Exposure is now becoming unbearably hot and will soon spill over into the wider collective consciousness, ruining their plans forever
I'm not sure. People who are locked in their illusions have one of two choices to make - either face the truth and unplug from it which is painful, or fall back to sleep and become nothing but an illusion in the past.
"tabitheriel" is just one of their foot soldiers".
I would imagine the penny-a-liners are out in force at the moment. I opened my e-mails this morning to find I'd received an Isro-SPAM reply to an anti-Israel comment I'd made on a YouTube video THREE YEARS AGO.
I would imagine the penny-a-liners are out in force at the moment. I opened my e-mails this morning to find I'd received an Isro-SPAM reply to an anti-Israel comment I'd made on a YouTube video THREE YEARS AGO.
@tabitheriel aka 'keyboard commando
a few excerpts from www.informationclearinghouse.com:
".....Ever since Israel was accused of breaking the 10 year truce in 2006, when an explosion killed eight Palestinian civilians....."
"....In addition to the frequent air strikes and shelling, Israel has kept Gaza under blockade since 2010 which is seen as an infringement of the right of the people in Gaza to a decent living, work, health and education...."
"....UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk explained that since the 1967 war, an estimated 750,000 Palestinians, including 23,000 women and 25,000 children, had gone through detention in Israeli jails....."
"...This constitutes approximately 20 per cent of the total Palestinian population in the occupied territory or 40 per cent of the Palestinian male population...."
"....In 2008 Israel launched a 3 week offensive against Gaza, which resulted in 1,417 deaths, of them 926 civilians. Israel’s death toll was 9...."
"...Egypt withdrew its ambassador following Israel’s announcement that it would intensify the military campaign and called an emergency UN meeting to discuss the escalating conflict..."
"....Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr warned that further aggression from Israel could have “negative repercussions on the security and stability of the region...”
"...The Palestinian envoy to the UN slammed Israeli aggression during the meeting, decrying it as "vulgarly and publicly boasting about its willful killing of Palestinians.” Following Wednesday’s offensive that killed Hamas military leader Ahmed Jabari...."
"...UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his concern at the situation and voiced expectation that "Israeli reactions are measured so as not to provoke a new cycle of bloodshed...."
So, "NO"....it's not a matter of 'both sides' equally at fault. Israel is a bully and, like all bullies, it only chooses to attack those who are weaker and not able to respond in kind. Netanyahu is a psychopathic, narcissistic blowhard; a loathesome freak, responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths and the continuing distress that both Palestinians and many Israeli's are now suffering. The 'Old Guard' zionists still support him to some degree; providing knee-jerk assent to his constant fulminations and table-pounding speeches but the younger population and many older, thoughtful Israelis want peace and have marched in the streets to show their support of Palestine.
The Government of Israel has imprisoned an entire population behind illegal barricades and walls; withheld food and medicines, used sanctions, threats, feudal laws and incarceration to destroy all semblance of normalcy of a people who have an historic right to the land that Israel now inhabits. They, the Palestinians are the rightful natives of the land of Israel and without the 'ginned-up' invention of Israel they would now be, as they always wished to be, a peaceful and prosperous country.
The Palestinians are pawns in the Mid-East geopolitical chess game and neither Israeli politicians nor US politicians give a fig for the death and suffering of the Palestinians.
a few excerpts from www.informationclearinghouse.com:
".....Ever since Israel was accused of breaking the 10 year truce in 2006, when an explosion killed eight Palestinian civilians....."
"....In addition to the frequent air strikes and shelling, Israel has kept Gaza under blockade since 2010 which is seen as an infringement of the right of the people in Gaza to a decent living, work, health and education...."
"....UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk explained that since the 1967 war, an estimated 750,000 Palestinians, including 23,000 women and 25,000 children, had gone through detention in Israeli jails....."
"...This constitutes approximately 20 per cent of the total Palestinian population in the occupied territory or 40 per cent of the Palestinian male population...."
"....In 2008 Israel launched a 3 week offensive against Gaza, which resulted in 1,417 deaths, of them 926 civilians. Israel’s death toll was 9...."
"...Egypt withdrew its ambassador following Israel’s announcement that it would intensify the military campaign and called an emergency UN meeting to discuss the escalating conflict..."
"....Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr warned that further aggression from Israel could have “negative repercussions on the security and stability of the region...”
"...The Palestinian envoy to the UN slammed Israeli aggression during the meeting, decrying it as "vulgarly and publicly boasting about its willful killing of Palestinians.” Following Wednesday’s offensive that killed Hamas military leader Ahmed Jabari...."
"...UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his concern at the situation and voiced expectation that "Israeli reactions are measured so as not to provoke a new cycle of bloodshed...."
So, "NO"....it's not a matter of 'both sides' equally at fault. Israel is a bully and, like all bullies, it only chooses to attack those who are weaker and not able to respond in kind. Netanyahu is a psychopathic, narcissistic blowhard; a loathesome freak, responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths and the continuing distress that both Palestinians and many Israeli's are now suffering. The 'Old Guard' zionists still support him to some degree; providing knee-jerk assent to his constant fulminations and table-pounding speeches but the younger population and many older, thoughtful Israelis want peace and have marched in the streets to show their support of Palestine.
The Government of Israel has imprisoned an entire population behind illegal barricades and walls; withheld food and medicines, used sanctions, threats, feudal laws and incarceration to destroy all semblance of normalcy of a people who have an historic right to the land that Israel now inhabits. They, the Palestinians are the rightful natives of the land of Israel and without the 'ginned-up' invention of Israel they would now be, as they always wished to be, a peaceful and prosperous country.
The Palestinians are pawns in the Mid-East geopolitical chess game and neither Israeli politicians nor US politicians give a fig for the death and suffering of the Palestinians.
It looks to me like both sides have committed attacks on civilians. Hundreds of rocket attacks from Gaza were made against Israel. Sure, lots of them missed, but why is that OK?
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If people are going to condemn Israel for attacking civilians, then the same must be said when Palestinians make attacks on civilians.
Spare me the "freedom fighter" rhetoric. Spare me from the rhetoric about who started it. The solution is peace, not war. All human beings deserve freedom and peace. Please pray for peace for us all.