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  • Among the campaign "kick-ass in Palestine. "

  • Why so many people hate Israel!!!

  • @Herb615

    israel is the only country that don't whant to fight

    

  • these are the WMDs america should be looking for

    they are used on civilians and in front of the world (not even hidden)

  • israel does all astrocities palestine is alwaws were palestine fuck you jews

  • May Allah drive the Palestinians to the dump. They are basically insects who need to be treated as such. Not the West Bank, but Gaza needs total annihilation. These suckers deserve every bit of what is meted out to them by IDF.

    Just for keeping Gilad Shalit for so long, Israel should kill 100,000 Palestinians.

  • my house all cost

  • hamas would use it if they had it....whats the difference,?....I want to hear of hamas atrocities!!!!!

  • Here are a couple:

    * Friend says activists life is somewhat at risk in Israel KPIX

    * Ex-Cal tree-sitter hurt in West Bank protest San Fransisco Chronicle

    * American Injured in Clash at Israeli Barrier New York Times

    * U.S. citizen critically hurt at West Bank protest Haaretz

    * US national badly hurt in anti-fence protest Ynet

    * American hurt in West Bank barrier demo AFP

    * American badly hurt in clash with Israeli military AP

  • And a couple more - go ahead and google them. Oh they're recent headlines of Israeli Occupation Forces murdering and injuring Americans and other Europeans:

    * US demonstrator critically injured at West Bank protest Jerusalem Post

    * US activist critically injured by Israeli troops during protest in Nilin village IMEMC

  • I am sympathetic to Palestine. I am familiar with the travel issues and how difficult it is for Palestinians to make ends meet. Maybe is would be more fruitful to create better ties with Jordan and Egypt to help the flow of goods. Rather than guns? Seems to me for the borders to be easier to travel Israel needs evidence that there security is assured.

  • Ok so my point originally, before I chose to bog myself down in specifics was....lol. Israel exists. Everyone has to accept that, they aren't going anywhere. I believe the answer is to choose to get back to day to day living. Is it gonna be tough for Palestine? Yes. Can they do it? Yes. Pointing fingers at Israel isn't moving forward. Its staying stuck.

  • Don I have to go, I have family life to attend to. I would love to continue this discussion again at some time. In the meantime, please spare some time over the weekend to review the website of B'TSELEM - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights btselem(dot)org and also the US based site ifamericansknew(dot)org. I hear your arguments and I used to feel the way you do, but I have since changed my mind and reserve the right to do so again many more times about many other things.

    Peace.

  • Don "Pointing fingers at Israel isn't moving forward. Its staying stuck. " If you look forward without looking back you will repeat the mistakes of the past.

    Au'revoir

  • omfg, you are from the united states!

    your supporting some1 who crashed into the twin towers and the pentagon!

    your disgusting, arabs hate americans and everything we stand for, and "you" are supporting pieces of shits like that? your a horrible person dont fuckin talk to me your blocked.

  • This is a great convo, with out the insults. lol. There are good points, Loony extremists, did 9/11 but that doesn't give Israel carte blanc to do what they will. I believe Israel has a right to exist and defend itself. But they aren't making any friends.

  • und3ri0ath,

    No one is saying they hate Americans. Consider that the US constitution states clearly that the US cannot go to war unless approved by the House of Congress - who must make a "Declaration of war". Consider that no "Declaration" was made by congress to invade Iraq. The US President George Bush and his executives went to war anyway - AGAINST the law as defined in the US Constitution. As such the US Public did not go to war - Bush, Cheney et al did on your behalf.

  • und3ri0ath,

    No one is stating that they hate Americans! However people around the world are highly critical of the intentions of the ruling regime in the US consider the following:

    1. The war in Iraq is illegal as defined by the US constitution.

    2. Any law contradictory to the constitution is NULL and Void

    3. Where are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?

    4. Where is the link between the ultra religious Islamist group AlQaeda (the database) and Saddam Hussein?

    More to follow...

  • und3ri0ath,

    5. Why - if the majority of the "hijackers" were Saudi Arabian - did the US attack Afghanistan and then illegally - according to the US Constitution - attack Iraq?

    6. What is the evidence that AlQaeda did 9/11?

    7. Why does the US supply $2.4 Billion USD a year in military aid to Israel - a lot of money - when there are 30 million Americans living below the poverty line - including 18 million US children?

    8. Why does the US supply another $3.5 Billion USD in foreign aid to Israel?

  • und3ri0ath,

    It is not unpatriotic to criticise your government or even to be critical of their decisions. In fact it is extremely patriotic and right to do so.The US is a Republic, not a Democracy, it is the responsibility of the government to protect the liberties of the individual within the US by enforcing the law of the constitution and nothing else. It is not the responsibility of George Bush et al to waste your money invading other countries on your behalf against the law of your Republic.

  • und3ri0ath,

    The US has been & could be again the greatest most liberal, industrious nation in the world. However until the elite ruling class in the US - who control the government,, corporations, media & banks - stop treating US citizens as their own personal slaves, & stop coveting foreign nations wealth, the ruling elite will contiue to represent the US negatively to the rest of the world & will continue to destroy the standard of living of the US citizens.

    --

    google BTSELEM & ifamericansknew

  • there is no way your that fucking stupid.. how can any1 be that stupid.. i live in america.. my friends are marines, going to afganinstan, why would they be going there if the "jews" did it?

    you see what im talking about.. people like you are ignorant retards that have the slightest clue of whats going on, and just picks a side to join. answer me that question im fucking dead ass right now. why is america in afganinstan and not israel if the jews did it.

  • FUCK HAMAS

  • are you fucking kidding me?! im ending this convo, im talking to an idiot!

    al quida or wtvr, a group of arab terrorist crashed into the twin towers, look it up.

    unless your tryen to make up some fake shit to get other people to beleive that.

    you are truly a fucking idiot, united states invaded afganinstan, y would jews crash into the towers if the united stats are giving them money.

    i didnt give you that thumb down btw, some1 else knows how stupid u are atleast.

  • listen, if your an arab, then im ending this convo now, cause then that means that you were raised to believe in one thing and i was raised to believe something else, and i know nothing will change your view in things, but if your american or wtvr, and your supporting arabs, people who crashed a plane into the twin towers, pentagon, and hate everything america stands for then your a disgrace.

  • haha really? believe it or not im from jersey, people are around me all the time.

    now i use the term nigger in a special way, a nigger to me is a disgrace to life, a black person is just a person.

    so i said sand nigger- a arab that is a disgrace to life, as in they blow themselves up to kill other people, if you think thats sane, then what kind of person are you?

  • nope, i dont talk with jewish people really, and i dunno where your getting jews from, israeli is a nationality, i have a non jewish israeli friend. it just proves your against israel because you hate jews, no other reason, fucken idiot.

  • u noobs no note

  • who would trust a sand nigger,,lol!!! i mean you take a bus with them and for all you know they take there shirt off and have a bomb connected to em! better yet, should we allow them to operate a plane, for all we know they might crash it into something, yea nice..

  • and arabs have never killed kids? are you stupid?

  • yeah its alrite for america n british to fund israelis with money n weapon to kill palestinians for them its alrite to do that into my eyes israelis r biggest terorist in the world if u dont know that u should know that by now...hamas its it will be always officialy part of palestine goverment we didnt cheat on election but bush devil did cheat on election like the way his brothers devil israelis they always cheat robbin,murdering people

  • ..jesus said israelis u r rebelious people on this earth its true

  • jews are terrorist

  • Easy kazirock11, Its unfair to label an entire race or religion as terrorists. Jews are no more terrorists then Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Atheists, Druze, Muslims, Taoists, Shintos, Sikhs, Animists or any other religion. However, the Israeli Government and the Israeli Defence Force, along with HAMAS and Islamic Jihad have been found to be terrorists according to UN International Law.

  • yes.. arab terrorist crash into the twin towers... yet... jews are terrorist, your just so smart.

    LOL

  • this terable for the kids and the people there this animals to do samething like that

  • when will humans learn 2 solve conflicts wisely... it wasnt necessary at all what happened... frank is totally right think of the kids and women that lost their lives, homes, loved ones in this violent war!

  • watch?v=GydaSdetbe8

    Watch if you want to see how Zionists have been playing you not only on Gaza but Iran.

  • The Palestinians elected their government, Hamas, to protect and stand up for them in a critical time....just as the US elected George Bush for a second term "during a time of war and fear." Both the Palestinians and the Americans obviously made a mistake....

  • BARCODE 729.

    Israeli actions against the people of Gaza are a crime against humanity. British & US governments have failed to institute sanctions against israel. We should facilitate private independant sanctions by Boycotting & ensuring the removal of Israeli produce from the shelves of our high street shops.

    Hitting Zionist Israel in the pocket. Goods originating from Israel have a Barcode beginning with 729.

  • Im glad Israel is standing up for her self.After all this is a Muslim Vrs Jews WAR.Hamas is a muslim terrorist group seeking to Delete Israel.IRAN Would Use any means to help in the deleting of the Jews By Arming these terrorist groups,Iran is deep in the shit.I hope Israel wipes these Muslim terrorist off the face of the earth.Hamas Likes to use Kids to hide behind.Iran deserves to be attacked as well Israel Good Job Distroying these muslim Punk Bitch Cowerds.GODBLESS AMERICA & ALLIES.

  • ISRAEL has No Choice but To Defend It Self Because The World Saw The Truth! And We All Know who is The Real terrorist That is 'israel' Hamas Is NOT A Terrorist Group! They Want to Live in Peace But Israel wants to Expel and Kill All Palestinians So it can Take what is left of Gaza and Palestine to Add to there Already Illegal Confescation Of Palestinian Land Or Simply Put it they want to Steal Land which is Palestinian Land! IDF uses Palestinian Kids as Human sheilds and Theres Proof!

  • Ok so we need to feel compassion.? Yes we do, even though this is the same people that danced in the street when 3000 innocent civilians died on 9/11. Hamas is making the situation worse and cares little for civilians.

  • It is funny to see that the kid stateing where are the (ARABs) to save them.he will turn out to be a TERRORIST.Palestinians ,Hamas,Muslims & Arabs ARE S-T-U-P-I-D.JUST LEAVE ISRAEL & JEWS ALONE AND YOU WONT GET HURT.I VOTE FOR ISRAEL JUST TO NUK ALL YOU TERRORIST AND TERRORIST SUPPORTERS.YOU ARE COWERDS USEING LITTLE GIRLS AND BOYS TO HIDE BEHIND.NEXT TIME MAKE SURE YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FENCE (UN).ANYTHING GOSE IN WAR.KILL FIRST ASK ? LATER.GOD BLESS AMERICA AND ALLIES.GJ ISRAEL

  • So Israel should be able to do what it wants without any resistance? Israel is a terrorist state, Israel broke the ceasefire, Israel is the occupier, Israel has nukes, so who's the terrorist? Israel, of course, and you are a terrorist supporter, and you'll burn in hell.

  • I Agree With You! Israel Is A Terrorist State Along with everything you wrote its All true ! To Proof it Please Look at My Video Page The Top Video 'The Truth About Israel' Explains why israel is a Terrorist State , Please Add it to Your Page and Pass it Around So We Can Spread The Truth! Lets Hope the UN Can Prosecute Israels War leaders for War Crimes Against Humanity ! All thoose Innocent Children Killed and Many Disabled Sum with No Arms Or Legs And Skin Burnt by Phrosporus Bombs!

  • More Israeli nonsense. There is ZERO video evidence of Hamas using human shield, there are AT LEAST THREE videos of irrefutable of the IDF doing just that.....using Palestinians as human shields!!! anyone who wishes to see them can ask me for the link, i would welcome any evidence of Hamas human shields. LOL @ the previous attempts.

  • Israel has bulldozed over 18,000 Palestinian homes in the past 40 years in order to confiscate the land and build up Jewish settlements, Israel completely controls the borders and has with an iron fist for 40 years prohibiting Palestinians from enjoying a normal life. Israel attacks whenever it wants to let Palestine know it has the military might to crush it. Palestinians retaliate with rocks and home made rockets. The use of white phosphorus in civilian areas is a war crime.

  • I Agree With You !

    Israel is The Terrorist And Should Change its Name to 'The TERRORIST STATE OF ISRAEL' Please Look at the Video on the Top of My Video Page 'The Truth Israel Dont want you to Know' Please Add To Your Page and Pass it Around so We Can Spread the Truth about Israel, The world has Seen The TRUTH in GAZA . Lets Show the World The Truth About 'The Terrorist State Of israel'

  • A real human would see that Hamas created this situation and knew well of the deaths of Palestinians that took place. No Hamas, no war, no deaths.... pretty simple when you think of it.

    Hamas knew that Israel could not continue to except rockets into their territory every day.... and that Israel would respond...

  • No Israel, No Hamas, it's that simple. Hamas is legitimate resistance, Israel can not claim defence since it is an aggressive terrorist state.

  • Pathetic! Israel Attacked GAZA only Cos of there Elections Coming Up! And To Get Points in the run up to Elections! it had Nothing to do with the Rockets that is a Excuse! Israel planned to Attack gaza Long time before while there was a Ceasefire which was Broken by Israel!

    A Real Human Would Not Have Attacked Gaza And Killed woman and Children and Broken the Ceasefire! Especialy if Israel wanted Peace,. Israel is a Terrorist and it's About Time it is Labeled 'The Terrorist State of Israel'

  • The Palestinian Holocaust 2009

  • death to those who are animals death to jews not all of them just criminal of war cops and other bastards of this kind!!!!

    GOD DOES NOT SLEEPING..DO NOT FORGET THIS!!!

  • A real human would see Israel as an evil state, Even if your christian or a jew. There's no good answer to defend them. They brought bad name to themselves.

  • Nuclear Threat is from Israel NOT Iran

  • Israel used Uranium and terrorised themselfs?

    Dimbasses

  • Israel will never have its version of a "ceasefire" again. No Hamas rockets while we continue to kill and make Palestine a living hell and stay in Gaza. This time the World is watching.

    "Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory." - Pat Buchanan

  • US should stooooop suporting the dirty killers ..

    death to israel

  • and arabs arent killers, are you stupid?

    did you not see what happend at 9/11, who was guiding that plane?

    oo wait ROFL ... israelis did it right? cause thats what people are saying, not only are you people stupid, but also very ignorant.

  • good you do that

  • Real funny loser. Stick to watching your cartoons geekboy.

  • eye am up in your mothers pussy land jew rule some united kingdom.think of eye like a viruse up your mothers pussy jew rule some, she is going to have a heart fail FALL in the grave to hell.this is mother of united state of the jew rule some british jew rule some, to devide SPOILS OF WARS, jew rule some in the perliments of all the countrys to abuse the lams OR ISLAM.if the UN FORCE CAN NOT TAKE ACTION AGAINST WAR CRIME OF ISAREL.BECAUSE ITS RUN BY JUDA, JUDGES,JEWSWISS BANKS.

  • You muslims killed a man in a wheel chair..pushed him off the ship in his wheel chair...what cowards you are. Your balls should be attached to a battery

  • palestine fights tanks with rocks. Palestine fights bullets with fists.

    Cowards? You are are extremly mistaken.

  • I don't care about Hamas or any other terrorist group I hope they all get killed

  • We all are with you in hoping the IDF get killed. Good comment.

  • You need a good phosporous bath

  • derkzukenval-ASSHOLE I AM NOT JEWISH! AGAIN YOU LIE. YOU ARE AN IDIOT! FUCK YOU

  • I hope to share the Truth

    Dr David Duke

    Stormfront

    Prisonplanet

    infowars

  • Those two Nations should have their heads banged together. Gaza if a perenial problem and Israel got too big for its boots. The Jews should have known better but they are still live their 1940 so called torture.

  • After 50 years of the arrival of Christopher Colon to America, the cruel genocide wiped out the total population of natives. A sort of racist virus affected the europeans long ago, you see Hollywood was just a continuation.. arabs dancing in big tents, so the pounding of moslems was effective and a sort of chain reaction on those offended. UN years later discovered that they were people like us, while some obscure painter was printing on Zion canvass the Big fortress of Zion, The Wall.

  • This is not the first time extremists takes religion as a tool, The Puritans were occupied the island of San Andres, there were after the Pure People of God, they started exploiting the land, and became the owners of Haciendas, but with no enough hands they werte after the natives of The Caribe Sea, the indians hated to be slaves, and to the point that as an extreme measure they opted no to sleep with their wives so the Cult could not enslaved their indian children,

  • The Chosen identify membership of The club, or The exclusion by choice, The Core of the problem for modern Israel, Any sociologist can warn that whoever excludes himself from the set of humans is at his own risk,

  • The Israel' Book should be a Constitution, and be sure it list, WE are equas before the Constitution,

    The Zion leadership failed to interpret the Sacred Script in our modern times, and The Zonists sociologists failed to warn that "The chosen" was not and will not be acceptable, due to the Chosen the separation starts, see it as The Liberation of the Chosen, The Liberation and Redemption, The war is just fear, and there is no reason for fear when you act propperly,

  • They want new soldiers new members of "The Club", They want a "white" Israel,rejecting anyone who does not look european.

  • However, there are african jews, druze, ETC in their army. And even some Arab Muslims. They are not racist.

  • Oh please...go Google

    "Ethiopia Jew racism".

    Over 60% of Ethiopian Jews in Israel are living in poverty.

  • The UN has a big responsability here, now with so many russian europeans in palestinian land, one of the goals should be to stop every single new inmigrant to the Zionist Israel,

  • So the hateful settler still living on someone palestinian land,

  • What is to win for Palestanies. This fight has no ended yet.

  • So I guess that the zionnazis are going to kill all these people and poison the land in the process. Not smart!

  • UN mistake was to ignore that Palestine belong to someone at that time, UN's mistake is to give the land without implementing a very complicated study,

  • Police of Zion did not ask rightful land owner for the land tittle, he did not bother about it, The man sat down looking up and wondering what in the World these people call justice,

  • Maybe the Hamas dumb asses shouldn't have bombarded Israel (acts of war)?

  • omg who r u trying to convince ur dumb carcas or us

    becuz every body with half a mind has already found out the dirty dark secret that israel started the war by planting blockades (ACTS OF WAR) using an underground route to attack so called hamas militants (ACTS OF WAR) and completely isolating the country of philistine from society (ACT OF INHUMANITY)

    philistine is the largest jail in the world

    u big dumbey

    stop with this bullox

  • Horseshit. Israel is defending itself from carjackers, suicide bombers, rapists and murderers. That is self defense, not an act of war. You don't know what your talking about. No wonder you support the death worshippers.

  • oh man your full of it shut ur ass up

    you r way off dont effing act like you know something you dont

    ignorant bum

  • You're a fan of carjackers, suicide bombers, rapists and murderers, are you? FYI, I know exactly what I'm talking about and, for the record, Israel reamed a brand new asshole for Hamas and I'm glad. Sucks for you, though.

  • she doth accuseth much dont she

    once again showing your ignorance by saying shit you hardly know about let us look at all the facts in your sentence

    your a fan of....... opinion

    reamed a brand new.... fiction

    sucks for u... opinion

    apparently u know nothing about the conflict and are just voting for the battle

    either that or your an evil jerk who is in love with death and murder

  • As a follower of the Hamas Death Cult, you can't accuse others of being evil and in love with death and murderer. That is a cold hard fact. Because the only combatant in Gaza asking for war is Hamas. Israel and Fatah say they want peace. I'm sure you believe you want peace too, but apparently you are confused?

  • Hey electango,

    Easy. You don't have to be a follower of HAMAS the democratically elected government of the Palestinian people, you don't have to be a Muslim, you don't even have to be religious, you just need to be able to recognise injustice where ever you see it. The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) murdered 21 CHILDREN, not Hamas soliders but CHILDREN every day for 21 days - without pausing for Sabbat. That my friend electango is unjust and frankly disgusting.

  • Why do you not condemn the actions of Hamas which for years bombarded Israeli cities and farms with explosives? After all, those bombardments were what led Israel to retaliate against Hamas by going into Gaza to end the rocket fire? You don't see that as injustice so you really don't understand injustice at all. So, no lectures to me please.

  • Easy electango, I dont support HAMAS. I dont support injustice like the Israeli Defence Force killing of 410+ children in 21 days. Electango your reaction to the Gaza conflict has been manufactured. To understand how your reaction was manipulated & manufactured visit ifamericansknew to understand the true human cost of the conflict visit the Israeli Human Rights website btselem. Then please post a response. I would like to know how you feel once youve visited these sites.

  • My reaction to the Gaza conflict is conditioned by an understanding of the history of the Arab Israeli conflict. Btselem's philosophy is pacifism which is self destructive. They would rather be ruled by Hamas murderers and rapists than to lift a finger to defend the Jewish people. That's why Btselem has zero following amongst the Israeli people.

    The Israelis would rather be ruled by a strongman like Sharon or Netanyahu than to follow Bstelem and be ethnically cleansed by Hamas and Fatah.

  • Hi Electango,

    I *used* to feel the same as you about the Israeli Palestinian conflict - however, I have since changed my mind. Did you review the videos on B'Tselem? Did you review the information on ifamericansknew(dot)org?

    The conflict is not centered around HAMAS or the IDF, it is centered around human beings, children women and men. You're views have been manipulated by media to dehumanise the faces of Palestinian children in order to accept the slaughter of over 420 children by the IDF.

  • If not for Hamas' bombardment of southern Israeli farms, towns and cities, there would be no military conflict today in Gaza. Hamas provoked Israeli military retaliation which resulted in the deaths of Palestinians civilians. In other words, Hamas incompetence, negligence and stupidity in failing to secure the lives of Palestinian civilians BEFORE its military aggression started resulted in the civilian deaths of Gazans. Btselem must call for the overthrow of the Hamas Death Cult immediately.

  • Electango,

    You're mistaken. In fact you are outright wrong. the Israeli murder of 420 children had nothing to do with "rockets". Israel broke the ceasefire on November 4th 2008 during the US presendential election when they attacked tunnels on the Gaza border and killed 6 HAMAS members. As a result HAMAS retaliated with rocket fire. Israel broke the ceasefire NOT HAMAS. Israel had no need to invade Gaza and murder420 children. Tell me Electango how many Israeli children have died from rockets?

  • The rockets of Hamas are weapons of war. A state of war exists between Gaza and southern Israel. That means that the civilians of both sides are caught in the crossfire. And Hamas can't have it both ways. Hamas wants to try and kill Israeli civilians and make life impossible for Israelis so Israelis will leave the south of Israel and then when Israel tries to stop Hamas, the defenders of Hamas cry foul. All Hamas has to do is leave southern Israel alone and Israel will leave Gaza alone.

  • Electango,

    Ignoring the facts and the truth does not make your statements true, it only highlights the one sided view you have of the conflict - again manufactured for you by US and Western dominated media interests. The facts are that a six month ceasefire was agreed to by Israel, effectifely ending the state of war. A ceasefire broken by Israel on November the 4th which lead to Israels murder of 420 children. I will repeat these simple facts because that's what they are - irrefutable facts.

  • Khalid Mashaal himself announced that Hamas was not going to renew the cease fire at a time when Israel and Egypt were calling for a renewal of the cease fire. Why did Hamas not renew the cease fire when both Israel and Egypt were ready to renew it?

  • Electango,

    The cease fire brokered in Egypt was agreed to by Israel and the democratically elected government of Palestine of which HAMAS is a part. Israel agreed to lift sanctions and to allow the free flow of goods across the Gaza border. Israel did no such thing and in fact increased economic and political sanctions on Gaza before outright breaking the ceasefire with the murder of six Palestinians on November 4th 2008 during the US elections. The ceasefire was broken to allow Israel to invade

  • Who broke which cease fire agreement is irrelevant. Both sides have been breaking various agreements for 100 years. Both sides know exactly how to end this conflict. Both sides know what the other demands very well. Israel recognized the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people as demanded by the PLO but Hamas states Israel must be eliminated. Is it your contention that Israel should unilaterally stop it's military activities and surrender to Hamas?

  • Electango, "Who broke which cease fire agreement is irrelevant." But it is relevant. Your arguments are based wholly on who is at fault. Israel broke the ceasefire and murdered 420 children. You said "If not for Hamas' bombardment of southern Israeli [...] there would be no military conflict today in Gaza", you know they didn't do this, you know that HAMAS didn't break the agreement - therefore you know that Israel invaded Gaza for no reason at all except perhaps to improve Kadimas polling?

  • Hamas is trying to make life impossible for civilians in southern Israel. The rockets bombarding Israeli towns and cities were to be upgraded to much more deadly varieties and then southern Israel was going to be laid waste to. So the rockets needed to be stopped and they will be stopped. Hamas knows what it needs to do to protect the civilians of Gaza. Why did it not do it?

  • electango,

    You're repeating lies again, the only rockets at the disposal of Hamas are qassam home made rockets that barely make it over the Gaza border and are more likely to kill Hamas then Israelis. It is wrong these rockets are fired. However they are a response to the brutal occupation of Gaza and Palestine by Israel.

  • The rockets of Hamas are weapons of war. The object is to establish the offensive infrastructure which will eventually have much more powerful rockets of the type Iran already supplies its other proxy army Hezbollah. Once Hamas secures those more advanced rockets, then life in Israel becomes totally impossible. Israel is never going to allow this to happen. This is a life and death struggle in its last stages. Hamas is destroying Gaza just like Arafat destroyed Beirut.

  • electango,

    Hold you just said "will eventually have much more powerful rockets". A minute ago you told me they were the reason for the murder of 420 children children. Which is it? Do they have them or not? You know as does everyone else reading these forums that like the Weapons of Mass destruction in Iraq they do not exist. Again repeating a lie does not make it true. The facts are freely available everywhere on the web & are the basis for the world Boycott, Divest & Sanction Israel movement.

  • I said will eventually have, not that they have them at present. The infrastructure of the rocketry is in place with the obvious intention of establishing more powerful rockets in place.

  • electango - you're right I concede I misread what you wrote. You did say would be upgraded.

    Therefore with the exception of upping Kadimas poll rating, Israel murdered 420 children in an illegal pre-emptive act of terrorism on the possibility that the home made qassams may be upgraded by '?', using F-16 fighter bombers and 1000 pound bombs gifted to Israel by homeless jobless hungry US citizens at a rate of 2.4 Billion USD a year.

    sure electango I see that the murder of 420 children is JUST.

  • This is an absolute life and death struggle a fight to the death. Do you understand this? It is not a day in the park where Hamas is shooting bottle rockets at Israel and Israel is responding with fighter bombers. Hamas is trying to oust the Jews from southern Israel entirely by making it unliveable. And Israel has been very open and honest to Hamas that Israel is not going to allow that to happen.

  • electango, the world is fully aware that the reverse is the truth. Israels actions in the west Bank and Gaza are no more then an attempt to force the indigineous Palestinian people from their land through brutality, oppression and colonisation. Illegal israeli settlements have increased in the West Bank throughout 2008 by almost 60%. Yes it is life and death for the Palestinians - after all Palestine has a right to exist and Palestinians have a right to their own land.

  • electango, I am debating with you because I am trying to show you that the brutalisation of Palestine is wrong. The best and only road to peace is through humility, dialogue and concession which lead to trust and ultimately peace. Israel can not bomb the middle east into peace no one can, eventually the US will stop supporting brutality. For Israelis the best path to peace is through an olive branch. Start by honouring the cease fires, swap Palestinian women & child prisoners for Gilad Shalit.

  • electango it doesn't have to be a life and death struggle, there doesn't have to be war. In 1990 the brutal apartheid regime in South Africa fell and former terrorist Nelson Mandela became President. what followed was a truth and reconcilliation movement that led to peace and equality in South Africa. There is nothing to suggest that this cannot happen in Israel and Palestine but it can only start when Israel stops bombing children and brutalising the Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza.

  • And when Hamas stops bombing children and brutalizing Israelis in Israel. I don't think South Africa is a model to follow for any nation. South Africa is one of the most violent nations on the planet.

  • And yet again you repeat the same tired fallacies, Israeli broke the ceasefire with the murder of 6 Palestinians on the 4th of November. Israel refused to extend the ceasefire beyond the end of December and Israel murdered 420 Children in three weeks. No children have been killed by qassam rockets since Hamas was democratically elected in 2006. You know full well that most of the brutalisation is conducted by Israel and has been done so since Irgun terrorists bombed Arab Flats January 1st 1928

  • That Hamas is racist, oppressive and brutal is a proven fact. That Hamas has pledged to restore Islamic law to 100% of Palestine is a fact. Any brutal behavior by Israel does not change the fundamentally brutal nature of Hamas. Many thousands of Israelis have been murdered over the years by Hamas and other Palestinian militias. In WWII, the Palestinians supported the Nazis and wanted the Nazis to kill all the Jews of Palestine. To say there's a lack of trust is an understatement.

  • A proven fact of racist oppressive behaviour is the Israeli murder of 420 children in three weeks - in order to improve the poll ratings of the Kadima party led by Tzipi Livni so she can form a coalition with Labour, headed by Defense Minister Ehud Barak so they can continue attacking & blockading Gaza & the takeover of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and the continued implementation of racist apartheid policies and the contiued murder of palestinian children. But you know this!

  • You still have yet to grasp the brutal nature of Hamas. Is it because you are unaware of the oppressively brutal and racist nature of Hamas or you support the oppressively brutal and racist nature of Hamas?

  • electango,

    compare the home made hamas rocket with Israel. When Israel invaded Gaza they did so with US supplied weapons. The US supplies 2.4 billion USD in military aid a year to Israel along with 3 Billion USD in general aid. At a time when US workers are losing their jobs at a rate of 3.6 million a year the US is gifting 2.4 billion dollars of military hardware to Israel to expend on hlpless defenseless Palestinians in order to improve the poll ratings of Israels Kadima party.

  • Electango,

    The white phosphourous bombs you see in this video are a war crime as they are clearly being used in a residential area to instill terror on the Gazan civilians. The attack on Gaza was wholly an exercise in terrorising the Gazan public to effect regime change. Violent acts against civilians for political coersion is the definition of Terrorism. The rockets you speak of are a diversion from the fact that Israel murdered 420 children to up the poll ratings of Ehud Olmerts Kadima party.

  • After the 1982 invasion of Lebanon which was intended to remove the PLO from the Lebanese border region, the Palestinian leadership knew full well what would happen to Gaza if Israel decided to invade Gaza. They knew full well the Israeli policy of disproportionate use of force. Still, Hamas provoked the Israelis. It seems Hamas will have to be overthrown and Gaza turned over to Egyptian military rule so Gaza can have a government which will put the needs of the Gaza civilians first.

  • electango,

    There is no need for another government to enforce its laws of the people of Palestine. On January 25, 2006, elections were held for the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). Final results show that Hamas won the election, with 74 seats to the ruling-Fatah's 45. Former President Jimmy Carter led a team of 80 observers to ensure the election was free and fair. The Palestinians already have a democratically elected government.

  • The Palestinian democratically elected government is pro war and wants war and fights war, but when it gets beaten in war, then it cries foul. The Palestinians need to get the death cult out of power and install a government which can build schools, hospitals, farms, etc. and get the people fed, housed and clothed.

  • Electango you are lying again,

    I can only come to the conclusion that you are an Israeli trolling these forums to spread the disintormation about the Israeli Palestinian conflict. I've refuted everyone of your claims and yet you continue to repeat outrageous lies. You know very well that Hamas offered to renew the ceasefire beyond december 21st 2008, you know very well that Turkey even requested Israel to do so, both times Israel stonewalled the negotiations and instead murdered 420 children.

  • I've seen with my own eyes a video of Mashaal himself announcing that Hamas was not renewing the cease fire with Israel. Why did Mashall and Hamas decide against a renewal?

  • Post it, I want to see it! Have a look at DAVOS and watch the Turkish Priminister describe how they encouraged Israel to extend the ceasefire but were ignored until Israel murdered 420 children. electango how many Israeli children have died from rocket fire since Hamas was democratically elected in 2006? None, zero? In three weeks Israel murdered 420 children, 420 children who were the wrong colour and believed in the wrong god but were great fodder to up the poll ratings of the Kadima party.

  • I saw the Butcher of Kurdistan at Davos complaining about the Israelis. It didn't impress me. Do you really think anyone but deluded Arabs take the Turks who wiped Armenia off the map less than 100 years ago seriously?

  • Electango,

    The US economy is imploding - US workers are losing their jobs and their livelehood and yet US taxpayers are still supplyind military aid to Israel. When Israel murdered 420 children, they did so with F-16 fighter bombers, with US tanks, with Rockets and Mortars - far more then were ever fired by all of the militant organisations combined. Israelis are now facing war crimes accusations for their behaviour - all to up the poll ratings of the Kadima party.

  • The US economy is not imploding. It's a recession and entirely normal. War crimes charges won't happen because war crimes prosecutions only happen to the losers of wars. Israel won't lose.

  • Electango "The US economy is not imploding" Tell that to the new tent cities of displaced & foreclosed families, tell that to the eight US states with Bills to cede from the US Union - google HCR 6. Tell that to Californians that won't get paid their pensions. Tell that to the 3.6 million people laid off last year, half of whom were laid off in the last three months. Tell that to Gordon Brown who said the economic situation is a depression. Tell that to the people who can't feed their children.

  • The US economy will recover late this year or early next year. Because the American people work hard like ants rebuilding their colony after its disturbed. Trust me. Noone's missing out on pensions. No children are missing out on their meals and laid off people will be back working soon. Tent cities? States seceding from the Union? Those are total fantasies. Whereever you're hearing that nonsense is a dead end waste of time. Al Jazeera, right?

  • google HC 6, the US state new hampshire is already considering the bill. Electango you mustn't be one of the 3.6 million Americans as reported by Fox, NYTimes, CNN, ABC, NPR, Al Jazeera and many more that lost their jobs last year, or one of the 20,000 a week families foreclosed on by Financial banks (OCC) heavily leveraged in the 600+ trillion dollar derivatives industry (BIS & IMF). For your information I get my facts from the BIS, OCC and IMF as well as all of the news agents listed above.

  • The US economy is in trouble, no doubt. People are losing their jobs and their homes. But this happens at times. It happened in 1991 and in 1979. It will happen again in the future. But it will not be long and the economy will recover. It always does and it always will. New Hampshire will not leave the Union. Crackpots may scheme but I can predict with 100% certainty it will not happen.

  • electango you said "After the 1982 invasion of Lebanon". That invasion was illegal and resulted in the collapse of Lebanon and the attrocities of Beruit including the deaths of many thousands of Lebanese civilians as well as US servicemen. You speak of these events as if they were necessary - they were not and are not necessary. You only think they were because your opinions have been manufactured for you by western media, see ifamericansknew(dot)org to understand how you have been lied to.

  • No what was illegal was the shelling of northern Israel by the PLO. Lebanon was unable to stop the PLO from seizing southern Lebanon and so Israel was within its rights to enter Lebanon and eliminate the PLO presence. The collapse of Lebanon happened well before the Israeli invasion.

  • electango,

    What was illegal was the occupation and brutalisation of Palestinians since 1948. almost every year the UN votes on resolutions to curb Israeli excess and brutality and each time it is Israel that the entire world finds guilty, with the exception of the US, the only nation to veto any proposed anti Israeli sanctions.

  • Both sides have brutalized each other for 100 years. The Arabs blackmail the world using the weapon of oil exports pricing to force them to sanction Israel. The UN virtually has ignored the Arab genocide of hundreds of thousands of non Arabs in Darfur Sudan for instance, and has concentrated almost entirely on the Arab Israeli conflict.

  • electango, "Both sides have brutalized each other for 100 years" Absolutely yes both sides are brutalised. But, 420 dead children must not be trivialised by broad sweeping statements. electango I want to know the names of everyone of those children. I want to see their favourite teddy bears & toys. I want to hear their favourite bed time stories. I want to see them playing with their favourite pets and I want to see the faces of the Israelis who murdered all 420 of these children & ask them why!

  • Perhaps you should have spoken up against the aggressive policies of Hamas which embarked upon offensive military operations against southern Israel while leaving the children of Gaza vulnerable to Israeli military retaliation.  But wait, you support Hamas' attacks on Israeli civilian communities.

  • electango,

    As much as the UN is constrained by US continued support for Israels illegal and brutal behaviour such as the murder of 420 children, it will not stop the rest of free thinking humanity. Movements have begun and are gaining momentum in every western nation to Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israeli products. Already South African dock workers have refused to unload Israeli goods - google it. these movements are a reaction to Israeli excess and brutality and murder of 420 children.

  • Arab nations buy billions of dollars in Israeli products each year. Israel is a big part of the Iraq rebuilding effort. Perhaps you're unaware of that?

  • I'm not arguing that. Who would. Of course Iraq would not need to be rebuilt if the George Bush executive regime did not - unilaterally and illegally - against the US constitution invade Iraq on a pretext of fabricated lies about fake Weapons of Mass Destruction or a fake link to Osama Bin Laden. Electango - you may not be aware but under the US constitution congress must vote to declare war before the US can go to war. Congress did not do this - ergo the war is illegal and unconstitutional.

  • The Iraq War was authorized by the US Congress and to this day the Iraq War is paid for by the US Congress. That makes it both legal and constitutional without a declaration of war. I personally believe wars should not happen involving US troops without a declaration of war, but over time this requirement has been eroded.

  • electango, agreed. However consitutional law still takes precedent and it is very clear that a formal declaration of war must be made and passed before the US can go to war. The last formal declaration of war was World War 2 against a finite list of opponents. The "war" in Iraq is still not a constitutionally legal war - just as the murder of 420 children by the Israeli defence Force is illegal and wholly immoral. What do you think the childrens favourite bed time stories were?

  • Probably the children liked the same kinds of stories that the children of Ma'alot Israel liked before they were murdered by the PLO back in the 1970's or the same kind of stories that the little Israeli girl murdered by Samir Kuntar who is a big hero to the Hezbollah followers.

  • electango you need to review ifamericansknew(dot)org and you will underatand that US media such as Fox, CNN, NYTimes etc grossly over report the deaths of Israeli children against Palestinian children. The death of any child is tragic and as I said below it doesn't need to be. Peace will not come from US F-16 fighters bombing children or IDF soliders riddling Palestinian children with bullets. Peace will only come with concession, dialogue and reconcilliation - do you believe in peace?

  • electango,

    Why did the US invade Iraq, we know there were no weapons of Mass Destruction that Colin Powell told us were there. We know that the secular Ba'athist party of Hussein had no links to islamist Al Qaeda, we know that Hussein was not involved with 9/11 so why did Bush et al promote a miltary engagement - because the house would not pass a declaration of war - that resulted in a holocaust of over one million Iraqis - predominantly civilians? what were the childrens favourite toys?

  • The USA inherited the British Empire after WWII and hence, Iraq was a colony of America in the eyes of America. Saddam wasn't OK with this. He moved Iraq out of the US orbit and into the Soviet orbit. Then the Soviets stopped supporting Saddam and Saddam was vulnerable. The US moved in for the kill and instead of surrendering to the US, the Iraqis decided to resist. Most of the Iraqi dead were killed by other Iraqis.

  • Wow electango you said "The US moved in for the kill and instead of surrendering to the US, the Iraqis decided to resist. Most of the Iraqi dead were killed by other Iraqis" you know that this is absolutely false. In fact everything you've stated here is false. How can a nation inherit another soverign nation? That sounds incredibly militaristic & expansionist. Do you have militaristic tendancies? Is that why you don't suggest peaceful non violent solutions? Do you belive in peace?

  • electango, I'll repeat this to you because it it important to me, I'm debating with you because I am trying to show you that the brutalisation of Palestine is wrong. The best and only road to peace is through humility, dialogue and concession which leads to trust and ultimately peace. Bombs will not lead the middle east into peace, eventually the US will stop supporting the brutality. For Israelis the best path to peace is through an olive branch. Peace and beautiful children.

  • electango, I don't want you to think that I want Palestine over Israel. I - like the rest of the world - want to see both peoples, indigineous Palestinians and imigrant Israelis living side by side in Peace - free from any brutality. Peace has happened already in South Africa and in Northern Ireland and it could happen in Israel and Palestine, but only when the brutality, racism and oppression ends. Already many Israelis are prepared to accept the 1967 borders as are HAMAS and Fatah.

  • Hamas has pledged to wipe Israel off the map. Hamas is a brutal, racist, and oppressive organization. How brutality, racism and oppression can end with Hamas in the picture is beyond me. Hamas follows the Islamic fundamentalist theory that non Muslims cannot be allowed to govern in Palestine. This is unshakeable.

  • electango you said "Hamas has pledged to wipe Israel off the map", you are wrong again. You are confusing your mis-reported western news - after all it was Iran that allegedly made this comment. In fact if you investigate the mis-reporting you would realise that it was a mis-report of a comment by newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday, October 25th, 2005. In fact he said "this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time". Not the same & not Hamas.

  • Hamas, the Iranian proxy army in Palestine, also rejects Jewish governance in Palestine. Since no Jewish person would feel safe living under Hamas rule, that means no more Jewish presence in Palestine. That's not going to happen.

  • Oh so you know so much about Iran, you know you got your quote wrong - attributed it to the wrong Political party and got the translation wrong as well. As for Jewish people not feeling safe, I guess you're not talking about the many indigenous Mizrahi Jews (Jewish Palestinians) who continue to live peacefully with their Arab neighbours. OR the indigenous Mizrahi Jewish Persians living in Iran who regularly protest against Israeli racism and brutality.

  • electango - Did you know that Iran population 70 million, is a nation of many ethnicities but are predominantly Persians. electango, Persians are as different to Arabs as Swedes are to Italians. Iran is predominantly Shai muslim, but also has a significant Sunni, Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian population.

  • When the current totalitarian theocratic Iranian regime used Iranian boys as human mine sweepers during the Iran Iraq War, do you view that as inhumane brutality? Or was it justifiable?

  • Of course it was brutal and it was wrong and I abhor that kind of fundamentalist behaviour as does any free thinking feeling human being. I have no problem admiting this as it does not change my stance on the racist apartheid regime that murdered 420 children in Gaza in three weeks in order for the Kadima party to improve their poll ratings in this weeks Israeli elections.

  • You seem very concerned about 420 children in Gaza killed by Hamas' use of them as human shields. Are you also concerned about the thousands and thousands of Iranian children used as human minesweepers by the fascist Iranian regime during the Iran Iraq War?

  • But then again electango are you exagerating the claim of thousands and thousands of children. Facts please. also you know as well as I that the war against Iran was promoted, supported and financed by the US when the US backed Sadam Hussein in order to prevent the re-nationalisation of Irans oil fields - formely gifted to US oil interests after democratically elected Mohammed Mosaddeq was deposed on the 19 August 1953, in a coup d'état, supported and funded by the British and U.S. governments.

  • The Iran fascist theocratic gangster thugs running the Iranian government sent young Iranian boys into battle as human mine sweepers. These are the same brutal oppressors who are funding and training Hamas. You can't blame the US, Britain or Israel for Iran's fascist brutality or Hamas' racist, oppressive, brutal apartheid mentality.

  • Update for 19 January '09, morning (GMT+2)

    Gaza: at least 1,300 killed, of them at least 410 children and 104 women. Over 5,320 injured, of them over 350 severely injured (Palestinian Ministry of Health figures).

    Israel: 3 civilians and 10 soldiers killed. Over 84 civilians injured, of them 4 severely injured, not including those treated for shock. 113 soldiers injured, of them one in critical condition and 20 suffering moderate or severe injuries.

  • Perhaps Hamas should have agreed to renew the cease fire with Israel as Egypt and Israel proposed? Why did Hamas start this conflict when it was totally unable to protect the Gazans?

  • the point electango is that the Iranian children would not have been mine sweepers if the US had'nt promoted a war between Iran & Iraq. Iran would not be a Theocratic Republic if the US had not deposed Mohammed Mosaddeq in 1953 and most importantly Islamic Jihad, Hamas, the PLO and Fatah would never have existed if immigrant European Jewish Terrorist Irgun, backed and funded by the US and Britain, had not started bombing Palestinians on January 1st 1948. But you know this - you know all of this.

  • The takeover of Iran by the fascist gangsters dressed as Islamic clerics has nothing to do with Mosaddeq or the US. Immediately upon taking power, Khomeini began undermining the rule of Saddam among the Shiite Iraqis. Saddam attacked Iran in response. Of course the US supported both sides as was their right to do so so that Iran and Iraq would each beat each other. But you cannot blame the US or Israel for Khomeini's designs upon southern Iraq.

  • Hahahah what a joke "Of course the US supported both sides as was their right to do so so". Post colonial expansionist militarist clap trap. The founding fathers of the Great Republic would jail you for treason. There is no provision in the Constitution, the Ammendments or even the Bill of Rights that would allow this behaviour so obviously you are not talking about the Republic as defined by the founding fathers in 1776.

  • Post colonial? The US is an empire. Russia is an empire. China is an empire. Iran is a wanna be empire. These nations are all expansionistic and all are militarist. No matter what the US Constitution or the Bill of Rights say. The fact is the US supported both Iran and Iraq in the Iran Iraq War at various times or one side or the other at other times hoping to keep the war going.