UK Colonel Richard Kemp praises Israel's efforts to reduce civilian casualties in Gaza

[controversialbook]

The British are the best ass wipes in the world. We Americans should know. These tea sipping assholes have been licking our asses since we kicked their Gen. Cornwallis and his army out of North America. I will support Anjem Choudary with money to throw the queen's fat ass out of Winsor. He can use it as a Mosque or shithouse. Truth be told, Americans, are just as sorry, no they're worse. They talk pro-life while murdering women & children around the world. Sic 'em Anjem & Osama.

[karlkarlkarl1234]

“Don't worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it.” - Ariel Sharon

[elvisODA1332]

ya right look at this on youtube isreali army shoots lil kids damn what a fucking pussy would do this to a kid gaza israil المشهد الذي أبكى مذيع الجزيرة /غزة تحت النار

[PeaceForMidEast]

Then Israel would find a 'partner' in the truce ( according to Israel itself, its Shin Bet intelligence agency even said it was impressed with Hamas' enforcing of the truce!) in Hamas. War is always a last resort in any situation, but in this case, war was Israel's first.

[PeaceForMidEast]

If Israel wanted to just defend its people from rocket attacks, all it needs to do is to abide by the truce, extend the truce, respect it by gradually lifting the illegal blockade, and not attack Palestinians inside Gaza who Israel suspects are PLOTTING to attack Israel.

[PeaceForMidEast]

I have my sympathise not for Israeli or Palestinian politicians, but Israeli and Palestinian civilians who just want peace ( does not include Palestinians who wants to eliminate ALL Jews or Israelis who support occupation). They are trapped by politics and regional powerplay.

[PeaceForMidEast]

How can u reconcile this with the Israeli MFA statement?? How can u reconcile this with Israeli govt spokesman Mark Regev's statements that Hamas fired no rocket before Nov 4? If there is indeed an alternative and not a 'no-choice situation' for Israel to defend its people, then this whole Gaza war is illegal and unnecessary!

[PeaceForMidEast]

How can u reconcile this with the Israeli MFA statement?? How can u reconcile this with Israeli govt spokesman Mark Regev's statements that Hamas fired no rocket before Nov 4? If there is indeed an alternative and not a 'no-choice situation' for Israel to defend its people, then this whole Gaza war is illegal and unnecessary!

[PeaceForMidEast]

Hamas has, even after Nov4, agree to extend the ceasefire ( check this out), contrary to Israeli govt propaganda, provided Israel obliged by the truce by gradually lifting the blockade ( which Israel agree to in the June 08 truce). But Israel, which sparked the salvo of Hamas rockets on Nov 4, blamed Hamas for firing first!

[PeaceForMidEast]

PLOTTING!! Can any pro-Israel ppl deny that Israel was also PLOTTING to attack Gaza during the ceasefire?How can Hamas be held accountable for the actions of groups it doesn't control, although it arrested ppl who fired rockets during the truce, when Israel, the superpower in the region cannot even halt those attacks itself?

[PeaceForMidEast]

Yes, some rockets were fired towards Israel during the ceasefire, but they were fired from renegade extremist groups such as Islamic Jihad, which did not sign on to the truce. According to the Israeli MFA website, Hamas 'was careful to maintain the ceasefire'. During the ceasefire Hamas fired no rockets at Israel except after Nov 4 when Israel reneged on the truce and killed 6 Palestinians it claimed were PLOTTING to attack Israel.

[PeaceForMidEast]

Colonel Richard Kemp defeated his entire argument for Israel's use of force in Gaza by simply saying this: 'but Israel doesn't have any choice apart from..defend its own people'. Fact is Israel does have a choice and Israel itself conceded that that choice is working!! That alternative to violence is to extend and respect the ceasefire it had with Hamas.

[danndan6]

bravo

[Zelenyee]

Israel wants all palestinians gone.

Eventually they will succeed.

But that's just in the near future.

Israel with become become much larger in the long run.

As the stripes on their flag dictate; from the nile to euphrates (No, the blue lines don't have anything to do with the traditional Jewish prayer shawl.).

There is NOTHING good about zionism.

[Spinlandia]

LOL are you for real?

1. If Israel wanted all Palestinians gone, it could of done it in less than ONE minutes. In over 40 years, Israel killed LESS THAN 8000 Palestinians - MOST terrorists!

2. On the other hand, HAMAS REALLY WANTS TO KILL ALL JEWS - Just read Hamas' charter. But can't...

See? Israel CAN but WON'T because they don't want to kill the innocents.

HAMAS WANTS but Can't.

[Zelenyee]

You're just proving you're stupid here.

First of all, why the hell would Israel kill all palestinians in less than ONE minute!? Are you fucking dumb? They'd be ripped apart in about a month by the rest of the world. That is suicide my friend.

Hamas is no better than Israel. ...Did I even mention Hamas? No I didn't, jackass.

By the way.. Have you ever heard of these books; The Holy Bible and the Talmud?

Oh, you have? ..But you don't know what is written in those books. Obviously. SIGH

[Spinlandia]

And this JOKE about the stripes in the flag! LOL! Where did you read this? A comics book? It's like saying that the seven red strpes in the US flag is for the seven planets it wants to take over. Jeeeeeeez

[Zelenyee]

Israel doesn't want to kill innocents!? DO YOU EVEN LIVE ON THIS PLANET? Not long ago they killed over a thousand(!) civilans in Gaza. About 45% of them were children too. OH YEAH ISRAEL LOVEEEES PALESTINIANS! I guess they attack those Red Cross vechiles and UN aid people because they LOOOOVE civilans. Open your fucking eyes, fool!

So how many Hamas guys did they kill then? About 25 percent of the total death toll?

Don't direct any more of this nonsense at me.

Thanks.

Thanks.

[rulllar]

who said 25%? You say that. Israeli estimates are up to 700 were Hamas. Do not forget that Israelis said early on they spotted that Hamas, due to having weapons caches everywhere, sometimes went unarmed (pretending to be civilians) until they reach the next cache and open fire again. That means if they died in transit they are 'civilians'. Do not forget on the first day alone 300 died, almost every single one a Hamas member. So your 25% means NOT A SINGLE HAMAS MAN died after day 1?

[Spinlandia]

Zelenyee is a complete ignoramus. It's very amusing... He know nothing about the facts! Even according to the UN, 25-30% were civilians and the rest Hamas terrorists.

He uses words like: "stupid", "fucking dumb", "jackass" (that's in only two sentences, LOL), fool... only because he can't argue in a civilized matter. He's ignorant and it's crystal clear from his posts.

[rulllar]

Israel told Palestinians when to flee, dropped leaflets 48 hours before, made over 200,000 phone calls to residents.

which Arab army is humane enough to do that? The Syrian army? Which killed 40,000 in Hamma in a few weeks?

We all know if the Egyptians or Syrians knew the heads of their enemy groups were hiding under hospitals those hospitals would be rubble now. But Israel never stooped to the level of the Arab nations on civilian deaths or lack of care for life. So we know who is humane.

[rulllar]

We all know how ruthless Hamas are and how much they love to get civilians killed.

Lets not forget the story of Nizar Rayan, a relatively senior Hamas man who was told clearly by Israel he's a target. What did he do? He made sure to have family around him as human shields. After great warning Israel finally hit him. 6 family members died (labeled civilians). In fact it was just another display of the sickening use of human shields by Hamas. They are the criminals for using innocent people.

[Spinlandia]

If Israel really wanted to kill Palestinian civilians she would do it ages ago.

But no - Israel ONLY SHOOTS BACK! Hamas shot over 7000 rockets at Israel for 8 YEARS, when EVERY single rocket is aims to kill as many Israeli citizen as possible! They try to kill tens of thousands of Israeli civilians! But they FAILED!!! They "ONLY" attempted murder....... So Israel should not respond, right?

The US and UK killed in ONE month more Iraqis the Israel killed Palestinians in 60 years!

Ignorant!

[rulllar]

Indeed. The more educated ones will then remind you of things that an Israeli supposedly (often forgeries) said in 1930s, but will ignore when you remind them that Arab leaders called openly for "rivers of blood" (Jewish blood) and to "throw the Jews in to the sea".

They are hypocritical beyond disgusting. 40,000 massacred in Hama by Syria in just a few weeks, yet no boycotts by unions, student unions, no calls for international court action, nothing. We see how much they value life in reality.

[MaleAdaptor]

This man is a proof that only dim-whits join the army.

[r0ughsedge]

As a Brit, I disown this idiot.

He obviously has no sense of humanity or the tactics of war.

I cannot express my rage at his stupid statements.

[zalekbloom]

It is very easy to call someone an idiot, but much more difficult to contradict arguments. Look- it is very easy - "you are an idiot".

Now arguments - in modern warfare if someone shoots on you, you try to shoot him back with bigger arms, If someone from a house shoots on you with AK47, you ask air or artilery support. This way you save yours and you fellow soldiers life. If you prefer death of British soldiers than death of enemy civilians, ask British parliament to change combat rules.

[marta1948]

as a brit I am ashamed at way Israel has been portrayed by our media. get some facts before you start discussing israel's tactics, what about jhamas' tactics, they fire at civilians on purpose! i cannot express my rage at your stupid statements!

[rulllar]

marta - exactly. If it was Manchester or Liverpool or London (or a mixture of cities) which were hit by 6,000 rockets, some days over 30 a day, I think we'd have seen massive military retaliation the likes of which the UK has not done since WWII.

Anyone trying to pretend otherwise is simply lying and we all know it.

[zebian1]

Are you kidding me? The people of Gaza are free and were free? Are you for real? Wake up. The people were locked in like animals and I keep asking myself why the Jewish population always cry about the Holocaust - it's your sympathy card that you play all the time. Now we see you doing the same to the Palestinians all the time. And what gets me, you should be sympathetic. This was nothing more than a massacre and all this crap you speel will never justify it. FREE FREE PALESTINE!

[rulllar]

Funny... before the intifada Gaza had an airport, sea port, open borders with Israel and Egypt. Then they started sending suicide bombers, 10,000 rockets at Israeli cities. The Hamas started creating so many links with terrorist units in Egypt that even the Egyptians closed their borders... yet you are completely oblivious.. you don't see how their crimes led to them being closed off. You are completely devoid and blind of any depth of context of why things are the way they are, it's sad.

[Spinlandia]

RIGHT ON!

[yousifhela]

look at that fat fucker what are they doing to him, is he getting paid?

fat fucker

[zebian1]

I say spare the bloodshed, bcz there are 1400 dead bodies, over 300 kids. You need to go by the facts. As for Israel, there were always plans and having a true free Palestinian State was never their real agenda. That's why you have Jewish settlers mixed in and around. In any event, Israel went in claiming to rid Hamas, they didn't. What good can come from this? More Violence? And who pays the price in the end? The Palestinian children that just died. This wasn't a battle with an end in sight.

[3000centrifuges]

it's very unfortunate that ppl in gaza died but israel has to defend itself when it is attacked by thousands of missiles even if it means that there will be civilian casualties. u dont expect a country not to defend itself because citizens in the other side might die, do u? the bloodshed can be stopped right now if Hamas stop firing rockets. i dont see an end to this eighter. i agre that the palestinians pay higer price. thats why its more their interest to stop firing rockets

[boni123]

Thank you very much MidEastTruth for uploading this video. Indeed Israel has nothing to apologize for. Any other country in the situation of Israel would have destroyed Gaza completely by artillery or from the air ages ago.

[iwillspyonyou]

Another Zionist liar.

[IsraelToday001]

** IRAN RECRUITS SOMALI PIRATES TO RE-ARMS HAMAS **

"HAMAS حماس is described as a terrorist organization by Canada,the European Union, Israel, Japan, United States, Australia the United Kingdom and is banned in Jordan. The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, is a terrorist organization.Hamas's charter calls for the destruction of the State of Israel and its replacement with a Palestinian Islamic state. SHOULD HAMAS RULE GAZA AGAIN ?"

[bojotube]

Excellent commentary from an expert on this type of warfare, and British no less! Notice that the BBC anchorette has no interest in hearing about concrete steps Israel takes to minimize collateral casualties when he offers - she only wants to cite one alleged failure to try to dispute it anecdotally (just as I could anecdotally cite indivual cases of humane acts by SS or Japanese POW guards or crimes of Allied soldiers and turn the facts of WW2 on their head by selective anecdotal argument).

[zebian1]

This is crap. Israel has choices and had choices. This was a masscare and murder on PALESTINIAN people to deny a Palestinian State. Israel is nothing more than a terrorist run Govt'. God help those ppl. Watch Dalal's story on Youtube and other stories of the families they have murdered all in the name of DEFENSE. IT'S BULLSHIT. IT'S MURDER, A MASSACRE......NOTHING MORE. NO EXCUSE CAN EVER JUSTIFY THIS.

[3000centrifuges]

if israel would like to masscare the palestinians it can kill 10000 per day and not 1000 per 3 weeks. why dont u see those sights in west bank also? cause there is no hamas there. was there a war without civilian casualties? never! in Iraq & Afghanistan there were more casualties of civilians, that doesnt make the terrorists there be the good guys. this person was in afghanistan and he knows how terrorists hide in populated areas in order to create pictures of humanitarian disasters

[zebian1]

No it has nothing to do with Hamas. Israel created Hamas. Get a map, the area is 25 by 7 miles. You don't use Defense as an excuse to bombard 1.5 million people. Let them live freely, stop occupying them and treating them like animals. I'll say it again, Ehud, Tzipi, Olmert, etc, are all WAR CRIMINALS and should be held accountable, along with the 4 billion per annum for their war machinery from the USA. FREE FREE PALESTINE! ISRAEL NEEDS TO STOP KILLING!

[3000centrifuges]

israel left gaza in 2005. as much as u ignore it there is no occupation of gaza. when israel left gaza it left the crossing opened and they still fired missiles. it waas only then that israel closed the crossings. obviousely if u think israel has no right to exist it has also no right to defend itself so no matter how much the hamas attacks israel u will say israel cant defend itself. and u wont find any army i the history that made so many effort to avoid civilian casualties as the IDF. fact.

[zebian1]

Spare me this propoganda. Gaza was always occupied. The people were treated like animals. The real truth is that Israel doesn't want a state of Palestine. They want the world to think it's Hamas, Plo, etc whatever.........in Reality it's Israel that is denying a 2 state solution. It's Israel that is the terrorist in this situation, not Hamas. Israel created Hamas after all..........Stop the occupation, stop the slaughter, stop the bloodshed and let the people live freely on their land.

[3000centrifuges]

if israel denied the 2 states solution it woudlnt disangaged from gaza in 2005 evacuating thousands of jews and the army from there. israel also accepted the partition of 1947. the arabs didnt accept it. jordan and egypt occupied west bank and gaza in 1947. the occupation started in 1967. the arab attacks against israel started much b4. u r ignoring all my arguments and keep answering me with banal solgans of "free palestine" and "stop the bloodshed". it only proves your ignorance about the subj

[zalekbloom]

Occupation of Gaza was stopped some time ago. Gaza is free from Israeli occupations. And look what Gaza people decided to do with new freedom - instead of developing an infrastructure, they developed Qassam rockets, they decided to shoot rockets on Israeli towns. I'll bet they will do the same if Israel will withdraw from the West bank too.

Zalek

[r0ughsedge]

The occupation of Gaza has never been stopped.

The israelis have imprisoned the Palestinians and starved them.

They have bombed the power station, the water works and the sewage system.

Do you expect the Palestinians to lie down and take it?

Would you resist in any way you could?

[zalekbloom]

Israeli occupation of Gaza stopped - Israeli withdraw from Gaza, it means end of occupation.

After withdraw Palestinians elected a party which put in its charter destruction of Israel, a party which supported suicide bombers exploding in Israeli buses and restaurants. Do you know any country in the word which would support organization which put on its agenda destroying this country and sends suicide bomber and rockets to kill civilians in this country? Find me one!

[JerrySPsy]

Thank you Colonel for seeing the truth! Great quotes!

"There has never been a time in the history of warfare when any army has made more efforts to reduce civilian casualties and deaths of innocent people than the IDF is doing today in Gaza."

"Hamas factored in the use of the civilian population as a major part of their defensive plan.

[thudds]

WOAH POSITIVE PRESS ABOUT ISRAEL ON BBC!!! How wonderful Colonel Kemp. Good on you for coming out and telling the truth!

[mtklima]

While many criticize Israel 'unfairly'! I love the satire. You should have a show in Comedy Central. Either that or you are a complete son of a fucking bitch. You tell me.

[TheDemonPazuzu]

I don't believe in unfair criticism, butwhat about the IDF soldiers who stomped the heads of children to the point that their brain matter was splattered all over? I wish I could erase the photos I saw of IDF atrocities from my mind, but I can't :(

[JerrySPsy]

Oh come on - the IDF never stomped the heads of the children. Their brains were spilled out due to their skulls being torn open from the blasts, shrapnel, and the concussive effects of bombs. Also objects can land on the head and cause these kinds of injuries too.

[TheDemonPazuzu]

Please private message me your e-mail address as I saved some of the photos from the Web site I ran across from WhatReallyHappened to my hard drive and I'll prove it to you. I'll try to Google for the exact source Web site, too

Again, I wish it wasn't true....

[Batouta02]

Is he on this planet?

killing one civilian is too many never mind 1300 civilians.

That shows us the degree of hate towards the arab and muslims from the susal commentators

[rulllar]

great video! Good to see someone unrelated has the courage to speak up without towing the usual line.