CNN's God's Warriors - Abusing the Facts!

[Elmaln]

Rofl at this video, where to begin.

[LeonhardEuler1]

If this guy wants to know the real problem with peace in the middle east (as well as much of the world) he needs to read something like "The End of Faith" by Harris.

[party489]

Religions are just cancer for the human mind. It can be cured with common sense and facts the infected just have to shown the way and reasons why organized religion is false.

[Greginda11]

I agree with the Revrend on this one. Having a "christian" that doesn't believe the bible is like having a muslim that doesn't follow the Quran or an atheist that does believe the Quran or the Bible. Having some one represent any faith that doesn't have respect for the history and books of that faith is pointless. Having a buddhists that doesn't follow buddha makes no sense same goes for christianity and the bible. This isn't about opinion its about proper representation.

[Aphradonis]

@Greginda11 One can be a Christian by simply following Christ, i.e., a non-biblical Christian. Why else would the phrase "Bible-believing Christian" exist? Also, Buddha himself told his followers not to believe him if what he said didn't make sense to them.

[Greginda11]

@Aphradonis

how can one be a non bible believer when while still be a Christian follower? The Teachings of Christ are in the bible so to not hold any merit to it means you could say anything while claiming it is under Christ with no bibical support (that is what the curasaders did), Jesus said turn the other cheek, they took their swords and started stabbing people BIG DIFFERENCE. I only used Buddha as a example. Removing the biblce from christianity makes no sense.

[InterfaceDream]

the biggest inaccuracy on this planet is Zionist.

[doglin82]

it is so funny how history can be told through different narratives. I completely agree with mot of the things the Rabbi stated. However, he fell short on the point of moral equivalency. The reason that there are many more Palestinian terrorists is because the astounding number of Palestinians have been killed in Israeli Military Actions. If the situation was reversed, don't you think you would be see far more Jewish Right Wing Terrorists as well?

[bserusha]

The obstacle to peace in the middle east is Israeli settlements. West Bank and West Jeruselum belong to the Palestine. Israel has a right to exist but under the 1967 borders.

[bashie34]

Here is one try not having a wall between your citizens , and stop killing civilians, and treat your neighbors with respect and dignity and than see what happens ISRAEL. You take the most fundamental right as human being which is freedom and than wonder why they are trying to kill you . Since Jews love history and make sure we don't forget about it, its Ironic they have forgot it themselves.

[howie1962]

see what happens ? like before they had a wall; they know what happened!

It wasn't good so they built a wall

[bhigr]

I agree with everything you say. If anyone doubts the nature of Hamas, well then please read the Hamas charter. It spelled out word by word...I'll post a link if you like.

[bashie34]

@bhigr

really? Hamas is funded by Israel who needs to justify its existence and wage wars. They are evil just like you Jews and play a big part in your game.

[bhigr]

Sure, Israel pays Hamas to blow up restaurants, buses and school buildings in order to kill Jews;-) You are out of your mind!

[bashie34]

Hamas rockets could not reach the places you claim that is fact. The only building,schools,restaurants being being destroyed are the poor Palestinians.

[bhigr]

Blatant lie, hamas suicide bombers have been targeting civilians for long.... Killing women, children, babies, ... criminal hamas. Let me quote the hamas charter next time you respond;-)

[bashie34]

Lets just they killed what you are claiming , does that justify killing the innocent civilians? If Israel wanted to take out hamas they could, but there goal is for expansion and hamas is just smoke screen for there cause of killing and deporting civilians. So you can keep on trying to misdirect and mislead people but I am no fool, I know my history. Its a shame that Zionists are using killed Jews as an excuse to steal and occupy others land.

[bhigr]

1. It shows that hamas is not sponsored by Israel. Israel has no interest in murdering its own population.

2. Israel gave territories to the muslims. If their goal was territorial expansion, the Israelis wouldn't have given away territory.

Yes, you are a fool, because apparently you do not know the history of Israel.

[savoyst]

israel is an illegal state , it was stolen from the palistinians ,and does the thief become the hero if he gives back what he stole in the first place, no, what ahppned to the jewish ppl in the holcust is today being repeated on the palistinian ppl by the zionist jews, but its been happning since the creation of zionist israel, jews dnt know how to speak the truth , they are manipulators,

[SatchmoSings]

bhigr--

"bashie34" is a prime example of why Israel should not even address its ARAB (where does this "Palestinian" junk come from?) neighbors until they start to recognize Israel.

He's a sickola; do not even talk to him.

[JusticeVSpropaganda]

2. Considering the fact USA went to (justified) war in Afganistan and Iraq after one terror attack, the only explanation for the demand from Israel to restrain itself and condemn it for it self defence after 8 years of rockets and numerous bombs in buses, is denial of its equal right to exist.

If you are interested to see the truth about Israel and Islam- please visit my channel and help to spread the info. However if you will write hateful biased response I spit in your face already now!

[JusticeVSpropaganda]

You are right. The sub-text of all this distortion of truth in media is delegitimation of Israel as Jewish state which is the modern version of antisemitism. One more point to mention is that most extreme Jew does not intend to annihilate ALL Arabs and all Arab countries (22): No one says Arabs have no right to live in Saudi-Arabia, while the mainstream among Muslims is that Jews have no right to exist other than dhimmis, and certainly not to have a state even tiny ghetto size as Israel is.

[eslmc]

Hamas has broken every treaty they've agreed to. There will be peace when hamas lays down it's weapons. Until then, the Palestinians will suffer because of hamas's arrogant stupidity. (And no, I'm not Jewish.)

[AhmadElGamal]

It is very typical of Jews to fews Jewish terrorism as actions against fellow Jews! What about the fact that Israel is based on stealing the land of a peaceful nation (Palestine) and killing women and children to sustain this! Israel is the number one terrorist organization in the world.

[howie1962]

Isreal couldn't do it without the help of Eygpt. How come the Zionist have made peace with Eygpt?

Can't we all agree that nobody really cares about worthless Palestinian piece of shit.

[longislandz]

Haha Israel didn't want to launch a preemptive strike.. but the had to . If you want to lie to yourself and say that the blockade of Tiran was tantamount to a hostile act that is fine. But I see it as Egypt imposing a peaceful (perhaps unfriendly but peaceful) sanction against an enemy of the state. Not to different from the peaceful yet unfriendly sanctions the U.S. and other willing nations impose upon Iran. Now how do you suppose we would react if Iran launced a preemptive strike over this

[longislandz]

sorry for spelling mistakes. should say "but THEY had to"

[BorgHub]

wow a lot of jew haters comments on this page.

not one of them has commented on the actual topics that are discussed. instead they just insult all the jews everywhere like true racist fascists

[casperado666]

who the hell if this fugly bastard

[Teutonicberserker]

"Moral Equivalency" is the idea that jews should be held to the same standards of civilized behavior as all other humans. This is BLASPHEMY, judaism teaches that jews are god's master race and that non-jews (aka GOYIM) are nothing but animals put on earth to serve jews.

[howie1962]

that's so gay

[Teutonicberserker]

The lying rabbi says: "Palestinians are undeserving of life and jews can do no wrong"

Just look at his smug, lying, rat-like face, if it doesn't make you want to puke nothing will.

[bcbhh88]

Now I know I'll get a thougsand jews trying to kick me off youtube, threatening my family and trying to silence me. What in the hell gives you the right to decide who is hate? I just saw the new CNN inside Islam last night & I cry for those poor babies in Palestine. You wonder why though all of these centuries that people hated you when your God is money? Right Goldberg, Goldstein, Silverberg? And guess what? Us white gentiles refuse to feel bad about being called racist anymore. Watch the news!

[bcbhh88]

What about the Mossad? You spawns of satan kill innocent people with American made bombs & this sickens me. You throw innocent people in prison that deny the holocaust. Who cares about 6 million deaths compared to 50 million in WW2? If you have duel citizenship why don't you just live in Israel & leave the USA. I am friends with all other races except the jew. Oh yes, what about you guys asking the Nazi's to help you in Palestine? You thought Hitler hated the British people? HA!

[bcbhh88]

From a Goyim..NOT..I used to be open minded. I used to know a lot of jews & worked around them. All you do is lie. You won't ever debate anybody, you just attack them, you killer of Christ. Everything is outsourced in the USA, even our in-home security system that's based in Israel. You raped Palestine from those people with the terrorist acts you learned from the IRA. All you people do is always attack. You never debated any White Nationalist now either, did you?

[SaracenWarrior]

Hamas was created by Israel in order to off balance the PLO. Now they are trying to blame Hamas on Muslims. Kinda like how they made Al-Qaeda and blame it on Muslims. It's good to create your own enemies in order to play the victim and sell your guns.

[howie1962]

it must be difficult to create a large political party dedicated to violence & murder & the destruction of Israel from a peace loving kind open minded group of people

[SaracenWarrior]

Zionists = Nazis

[howie1962]

Hamas has declared war, with the stated intention of killing everybody. In war people get killed on both sides. Just because Hamas fails to carry out their plans doesn't make them victims. Hamas

kills just as many Palestinians as israel but in Islam it is not a crime to murder another muslim or to lie about it

[howie1962]

When Hamas publicly states they want to wipe out every man woman child in Israel they have to expect consequences.

They want the people of Gaza to become martyrs & the plan seems to be working

Shame on Hamas for wearing womans clothing & turning schools & hopitals into war zones

[howie1962]

I guess Hamas killing Fatah is OK

& firing 8000 rockets is for victims only

[howie1962]

how do you say Muslim properly; shit or shiite?

[Brassaii100]

watch/911 Missing Links 1/12

[johnsmdm]

those damn arabs and Farrakhan are antisemites and that's not right sir..

[PolishAmericanDC]

You are the fundamentalizm in the world th and that is why we had September 11 in America.

US was the symbol for freedom in the world intil you start the control the American, Media and State Departament

[PolishAmericanDC]

you are opinionated, preconditioned and you did not study history well

Media in US shows your opinion because the extreme Jews control the media in America

[yousef24s]

The U.S and Israel both decided to give democracy to the palestinians the people chose Hamas. Fatah attacked first Hamas by torturing and killing a Hamas sheik in front of his family and the fatah were escorted out by Israel. 2nd they are against the state of Israel because Israel wants the distruction of Hamas and Israel under international law is an illegal state and used terrorism to acheive a state.

[slackbacker]

Get the people to bicker against each other, confuse them while THEY control the outcome of the world.

[Kurtlane]

Yes, Muslim fundamentalists are commonplace and encouraged by their religion to do these horrible things. Jewish fundamentalists are merely isolated cases.

This is the truth. The only question is: can you face it?

[merl1952]

see my comment on Kiril1: The argument(in reality only a myth of the jewish people WITHOUT any historical truth proven by archeology) that some people called Israelites grabbed the land some 3000 years ago gives 20th century jews any claims on the land is ridiculous. It would implicate that anyone with a mythic claim can steal a country anywhere in the world. It means that anyone can say he belongs to the original people of the land before the jews robbed it 3000 years ago.

[kiril1]

Jerusalem is ours.We can not grab something that is ours for 3000 years.

Fuck off,please.

[merl1952]

The case (in reality only a myth of the jewish people WITHOUT any historical truth proven by archeology) that some people called Israelites grabbed the land some 3000 years ago gives 20th century jews any claims on the land is ridiculous. It means anyone with a mythic claim can steal a country anywhere in the world. This would be the end of international order. (An order which has been eroded by Israel as long as it came into it illegal existence).

[merl1952]

It means that anyone can say he belongs to the original people of the land before the jews robbed it 3000 years ago. So the jews have to piss off and give them back what was theirs before the jews stole it.

[kiril1]

First of all,the one who must piss off,it's you.

Next:we have been here for 2000 years,100%.Jesus was a jew,Hordus(Irod) was half a jew.There was no such thing as Palestine.

So,if asking,who have more rights for this land,jews or arabs,the answer is obvious:the jews.

Now fuck off please.

Thanks.

[merl1952]

Dear Kiril, who do you mean with WE? Conside- ring your name I presume you came from Russia. You better stayed there, to help clean up the mess your jewish ancestors made during the communist revolution. About 50% of Stalins murderous Tsjeka were jews. With their help Stalin killed millions of Russians (including jews, when the revolution started to eat its own children!) And don't ask me to fuck up. This only proves you need to defame your opponents because the lack of real arguments.

[kiril1]

Not amazing speech.

[merl1952]

Amazing answer. What do you mean????

[extazy17]

hamas? Hamas is evil, but soo is fatah may they all burn in hell quickly. And about the Jews, why do you call them fanatics? They aren't the real fanatics, and they aren't evil or bad, yitzhak rabin and the arabs deserve to die because they are the Rodfim who are persuing Jewish blood. Sorry to say Rabbi you need to learn some Torah and understand that the "Jewish fanatics" are doing the right thing and unfortunatly aren't supported by other Jews which is a shame.

[BenJB07]

as for you LiesMustStop. ther are 1 million Israeli Arabs with identical rights to the Jews, Christians and the Druz. Arabs have their own political parties and they have government positions, for instance, the israeli ambassador to finland is an Israeli Arab. so to say Israel is a racist state is simply wrong. one who makes those statements is either an idiot or anti-Semitic.

[BenJB07]

wilie123, I wasn't aware terrorists had rules of engagement like the IDF. and I wasn't aware terrorists had a legal system to court-martial and punish their own when they attack civilians, which the IDF has. I wasn't aware a terrorist state would condemn their own for acting out of line, and I certainly was not aware terrorists would give warning to civilians to flee 4 hours in advance to bombing buildings. man did i learn a lot. wilie123, get a life, you know absolutely nothing.

[wilie123]

This poor ignorent zehonist hipocrat is really hurt

he is not argumenting he is just snarling

every izraely citizen who serves in its army

is a terrorist who attack civilians and abuse human rights

so I am very happy that at last somebody had the courage to name the evil

FANATIC RELIGIOUS FUNDEMETALISTS ON ALL SIDES

[youngcounty1]

Israel is the biggest threat in the middle east. Hamas has not always been in power but Israel has been taking land for years. You believe this is your land because some book tells you this. What a new age Holacaust!

[Mohamedfalseprophet]

@youngcounty1

LOL.. FAGOT...

Ever since Mohammed Muslims have murdered, enslaved and raped their way across the middle east, expelling the Jews, Pagans and Christians, they are the biggest threat in the world.

I hope every antisemitic prick on earth dies painfully... Very simple wish.

[youngcounty1]

@Mohamedfalseprophet

Its funny you call names online; in person you'd most likely be afraid of me. But you call names because you have no merit or point to your argument. All religions killed to advance their beliefs, including Jews and Christians. But now days its the Jews and the Christians that have the bigger killing machines.

[Mohamedfalseprophet]

@youngcounty1

It is funny, isn't it. Mohammed was an infant molesting serial killer, Islam is the earth's cancer. So funny you say what you did, tell me how Israel has a bigger military than all Muslim nations combined, or even Christians for that matter. All Muslims have overgrown military establishments, they just lose because God wills it. So finally, of course i am not scared of you, Muslims have proven inferior fighters. LOL..

Tell me the last Christian church to call death to Muslims?

[Ulrna]

@Mohamedfalseprophet And there you go..

Pluralising the conflict to religious proportions, and showing the kind of mentality representative for your opinion...

What more can anyone ask for..

[LiesMustStop]

aw come on, Palestinians see Israeli soldiers as terrorists..Every Israeli Citizen is forced to serve in the army, Many of those just..hate..arabs.

There is alot of racisim within Israel. ALOT.

They don't treat Arabs like others.

[lstchnce]

Killing each other for land will not solve this. Even for a thousand years i will not enter that land. To me that land which you call Isreal/Palastine, is now unholy. Because so much blood has shed on each others hands. As for the Christian extremists...hehe well...they are mindless blinded sheep trying to follow the sheppard. Religion isnt supposed to cause death nor destruction. Its supposed to help one to another. Understanding the meaning of life and enjoying it before you sleep forever.

[lstchnce]

OKAY...um Im not a sheep. ANd I dont follow sheppards. I dont know what the truth means anymore. Every thing is lies. One country pissing off another. either way I dont trust no one. And using your religion or anyones religion as a weapon, should be cast as a violator. Christian, Jewish, Muslim, (NOT MOSLIM) or any other religion that is into extremism, fundimentalism, fanaticism, are usless mindless morons. killing each other for religion would not help.

[cheekyfumes]

I am a Christian, and I love the Jewish people. They are the chosen people of God and through them came my Savior, a Jew. Such a small country yet all the armies of Islam cannot displace them. Truly the One True God is with them!

[junkradio]

I think this is a form of racism to be honest, viewing a certain ethnic group as the "chosen ones". Sounds like something straight out of nazi Germany.

[botchedonce]

Looking for truth from CNN is a gamble at best. It is dissapointing but consistent with history that the Jews seem to seek the favor of other nations and peoples.

[ValkyrieWings]

Wrong.The decision to enter Iraq was america's own doing.Iraq is now a world issue and it is now OUR responsibility as citizens of the world to fix the wrongs done by the warhawks in the current U.S admin.

[xMurrCattx]

May I remind you the Jews did not "leave". They were defeated in war by the Babylonians and were ruled over by them and the Assyrians and then the Romans and were again dispersed and scattered with the fall of the Roman empire. They didn't leave, and they are back because of God's will. As it goes with Israel it goes with the world, so when Jerusalem is divided, be on the look out for even more war and more terror.

[Philos2006]

XMurrCattx: God is not in the real estate business, allocating land to peoples. This is dangerous bullshit. Peace !!

[jaskljk]

Please firstbthink a little bit before you write something against Israel: Jesus was a jew, the first christians jews, paulus a jew, einstein ajew, many scientologists jews, writers and so on, the bible is more than ahalf full of jewish history, the jews need the land afterv the holocaust the muslims hate other religions look what happened at the world trade center muslims the most or all of the terrorists are muslim.

[lianghaochen]

dude, you are just missed the whole point of this documentray(intentionaly?), this documentary is about the conflict of religion with each other and against modernity. about the six days war, i think people who cares to watch is documentary knows this history.

[Jake12345]

That is the Jew's land from thousands of years ago.

[kimz86]

& they left it,, it's not like someone kicked them out of it,, you can't just come back a thousand yea later & take it back,, i mean you can,, but can't justify it,, that is stealing,,

[slicbro]

even i as a muslim will admit that hamas are terrorist's. Lets be real and factual about that. that doesnt mean I'm condoning what the jews are doing. I'm just saying lets all be real. It's the palestinians who have always been blocking a peace agreement to be reached. I'm so glad other arab nations have finaly decided to start breaking away from them.

[junkradio]

Oh and if you think Christiane Amanpour is "anti-semitic" think again, she is married to a Jewish man named James Rubin.

[thedeutschinator]

brilliant....perfect critical condemnation of that ridiculous program.

[namemexy]

The gentleman is absolutely right.

[kingss23]

There no moral equivalency between tens thousands of Palestinian deaths and the couple of hundred Israeli's death.

[snowonweb]

You need to distinguish between Jews, Judaism, Israel and Zionism. There are many German Jews, Polish Jews, Russian Jews and these Jews have nothing to do with ISRAEL. Israel's gov't had been kidnapped by ZIONISTS just like USA gov't is Neocons. Zionist ideology is the enemy of the people just like communism was.

[BadLuckShadow]

Bingo.

[Dendoi]

God's warriors is a biased and ha sa lot of disortions. What does the security fence and the pro-Israeli lobby have anything to do with Fundamentalism? The pro-Israeli lobby is a campaigning spolitical secular organizaiton. She puts pro-Israel advocates with God's Christian and Jewish warriors and compares them to the radical Islamists. After God's warriors was made, I say Amanpour is a disgrace to journalism.

[VJDTropical]

I agree

[Dendoi]

Fatah also approves of suicide bombings.Fatah is also dedicated to destroying Israel and supported Palestinian terrorism. Arafat wa son Palestinian TV inciting a Jiha don Israel. Abbascalled terrorists ''heroes fighting for freedom'' and on suicide bombings, he said,''Allah loves the martyr.''

[Dendoi]

Hamas ar eresistanc efighters who send suicide obmbers to blow up buses and cafes with women and children. Boy, how noble. Hamas is a terroris torgnaizaiton and their charter, which Hama sleaders amke clear they won't change calls for the elimination of Israel through violent Jihad and says peace initiatives contradict their principles. Boy, they really ar eresistance fighters according to idiots like you.

[flawless333333]

There are twenty something Arab & Iranian police regimes, theocracies, tyrannies. And there's one tiny Jewish state. The bigotry is the desire to see Israel destroyed.

[flawless333333]

From Dr. Martin Luther King's own words:

"I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world...as a marvelous example of what can be done...how desert land can be transformed...into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy.

Peace for Israel means security...and that security must be a reality."

"When people criticize Zionists...they mean Jews."

"I solemnly pledge to do my utmost to uphold the fair name of the Jews - ...because bigotry in any form is an affront to us all."

[flawless333333]

Driven by a deep passion to heal his own soul, and to bring the truth about the Jews and Israel to the world, Walid shed his former life and his work as a software engineer and set out to tirelessly bring the cause of Israel to tens of thousands of people throughout the world: churches and synagogues, civic groups, government leaders and media.

[flawless333333]

In 1993, Walid studied the Tanach (Jewish Bible) in a challenge to convert his wife to Islam. Six months later, after intense study, Walid realized that everything he had been taught about Jews was a lie. Convinced he was on the side of evil, he became an advocate for his former enemy.

[flawless333333]

After his release, he continued his life of violence and rioting in Bethlehem and the Temple Mount. After entering the U.S, he worked as a counselor for the Arab Student Organization at Loop College in Chicago and continued his anti-Israel activities.

[flawless333333]

Walid's great grandfather, Abdullah Ali Awad-Allah, was also a fighter and close associate of both Abdul Qader and Haj Amin Al-Husseini, who led the Palestinians against Israel. Walid lived through and witnessed Israel's Six Day War while living in Jericho.

[flawless333333]

Melanie Phillips: This has been no mere propaganda campaign but a carefully calibrated strategic inversion of history and reality in order to turn the Arab aggressors into victims and the Israeli victims into aggressors in the western mind. It's a unique delegitimisation based on lies and libels as a softening up process for Israel's extinction.

[flawless333333]

The fact is, the irreconcilable wing of Islam is quite clear: They want to kill Salmon Rushdie because he expressed free speech. They killed a television producer in Holland because he expressed free speech. They drove a Somali Dutch parliamentarian out of Holland because she expressed free speech.

[flawless333333]

If there are six terrorists in New Jersey, it's probably because they once saw a map of Israel. Whatever happens on the planet, it can't be for the real reason because the real reason is too terrifying.

[flawless333333]

If there are young girls walking to school killed by the Taliban for the purpose of terrorizing them from going, it must be because of Israel.

If there are six medical doctors living in Great Britain working for the National Health Service plotting terrorist attacks, they must be deranged because of Israel.

[flawless333333]

These remarks were made by Newt Gingrich last month:

We are in a global conflict with a force which wants to destroy us. I'll just give you one example, because our enemies and many of our would-be friends who just don't understand, always somehow bring it back to Israel...

If there is a civil war in Algeria and 100,000 Muslims are killed, it must be because of Israel.

[flawless333333]

CAMERA dot org:

In recent years misinformation about the Middle East has also surfaced in fashion magazines, architectural publications, encyclopedias, professional reference works, geography textbooks, travel guides, and even dictionaries. Frequently inaccurate and skewed characterizations of Israel and of events in the Middle East may fuel anti-Israel and anti-Jewish prejudice.

[flawless333333]

CAMERA dot org:

Inaccurate and distorted accounts of events in Israel and the Middle East are to be found everywhere from college radio stations to network television, from community newspapers to national magazines, and, of course, on the Internet.

[flawless333333]

CAMERA dot org:

Abrams also said "CNN should have called it what it was, a defense of Islamic fundamentalism and the worst type of moral relativism."

[flawless333333]

CAMERA dot org:

MSNBC's Dan Abrams Slams "CNN's Holy War"

The August 27th broadcast of MSNBC's Live with Dan Abrams slammed CNN's "God's Warriors" as biased shoddy journalism, with host Dan Abrams saying at the outset that the three-part series "was not what it claimed or promised to be." In the segment, titled "CNN's Holy war?"

[flawless333333]

2/2

CAMERA dot org:

Another omission is the massive Saudi investment in U.S. colleges and universities, including Harvard, which recently received a gift of $20 Million from Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal to create a University-wide program on Islamic studies.

[flawless333333]

CAMERA dot org:

Misleading by omission -- the Saudis

The authors also mislead by what they omit, such as the documented power of the Saudis and the other oil states to directly influence U.S. policy, thanks to their great wealth and their control of oil. Also omitted is the Saudi use of powerful, influential U.S. corporations that do business in the Gulf, such as Bechtel, as their agents of influence.

[flawless333333]

CAMERA dot org:

Now, none of the above is to argue that the above money is wasted, or that we derive no benefits from carrying the defense burden of so much of the developed world. Maybe we do, and maybe we don't. But these are gigantic costs that truly dwarf what we spend on aid to Israel. About these costs, and the benefits or lack thereof to the "interests" of the United States, the authors are silent -- a silence that is truly deafening.

[flawless333333]

CAMERA dot org:

And what of the defense of Japan and the rest of East Asia (excluding South Korea)? Perhaps another $40 Billion. Same consequences as above, just multiplied by a factor of 13.

[flawless333333]

CAMERA dot org:

The money that South Korea saves can be used to reduce taxes, or to create, say, a car industry, or a steel industry, or a chip industry, producing goods which they can then sell to the U.S., and jobs that they can take from the U.S. All subsidized by the U.S. taxpayer. And what do those troops and their equipment and other related items cost the U.S.? About $3 Billion a year. (source: New York Times, Jan. 8, 2003)

[flawless333333]

CAMERA dot org:

However, we have had around 40,000 U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea for about 50 years. The presence of these troops is a direct subsidy to the South Koreans -- because we are there protecting them, they have that much less a defense burden, and we have that much more a defense burden (that is, if we didn't have to defend them, we could have a smaller, less expensive, military).

[flawless333333]

CAMERA dot org: Study Decrying "Israel Lobby" Marred by Numerous Errors

Interesting that the authors mention Israel being a wealthy industrial state, like South Korea. The implication being that South Korea doesn't get huge amounts of U.S. aid, while Israel, supposedly because of the lobby, does, to the tune of about $3 Billion annually.

[YOURMOMSSPUNK]

Every man woman and child in Israel gets over $17,000 in aid annually from the USA (GAO report 2006). If you really want to get sick to your stomach read "The Israel Lobby" by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (Kennedy School of Gov at Harvard, U Chicago). Oh, if you don't support AIPAC then you hate Jews - this kills all debate.

[flawless333333]

Rabbi Marvin Hier, thank you for this video.

[flawless333333]

There are twenty something Arab & Iranian police regimes, theocracies, tyrannies. And there's one tiny Jewish state. The bigotry is the desire to see Israel destroyed.

[flawless333333]

From Dr. Martin Luther King's own words:

"I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world...as a marvelous example of what can be done...how desert land can be transformed...into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy.

Peace for Israel means security...and that security must be a reality."

"When people criticize Zionists...they mean Jews."

"I solemnly pledge to do my utmost to uphold the fair name of the Jews - ...because bigotry in any form is an affront to us all."

[YOURMOMSSPUNK]

Every man woman and child in Israel gets over $17,000 in aid annually from the USA (GAO report 2006). If you really want to get sick to your stomach read "The Israel Lobby" by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (Kennedy School of Gov at Harvard, U Chicago). Oh, if you don't support AIPAC then you hate Jews - this kills all debate.

[flawless333333]

"In Ahmadinejad's analysis, the rising Islamic 'superpower'' has decisive advantages over the infidel. Islam has four times as many young men of fighting age as the West, with its aging populations. Hundreds of millions of Muslim 'ghazis' (holy raiders) are keen to become martyrs while the infidel youths, loving life and fearing death, hate to fight. Islam also has four-fifths of the world's oil reserves, and so controls the lifeblood of the infidel."

[flawless333333]

In 2005, Ahmadinejad announced his intention to stand for President. Now, as President, he is boasting that the Imam gave him the Presidency for a single task: provoking a "clash of civilizations" wherein the Muslim world, led by Iran, takes on the "infidel" West, led by the United States, and defeats it in a slow but prolonged contest.

[flawless333333]

Recalling his speech afterwards, Ahmadinejad said: "One of our group told me that, when I started to say 'In the name of God, the almighty, the merciful', he saw a light around me and I was placed inside this aura. I felt it myself. I felt the atmosphere suddenly change and, for those 27 or 28 minutes, the leaders of the world did not blink."

[VJDTropical]

Must have been a demon or something , there's no way that he carries God's presence with him

[flawless333333]

Ahmadinejad claims a "private personal channel" to the Hidden Imam, also known as the Mahdi, who disappeared during the 9th century. When Ahmadinejad was Mayor of Tehran, he allegedly had a highway re-paved so that the Mahdi would not experience a bumpy road back. Now, as President, he has asked Cabinet members to sign an oath of allegiance to the Messiah. In his speech on Sept. 14, 2005 to the United Nations, Ahmadinejad called for the Mahdi's re-emergence.

[flawless333333]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a Shia Muslim within Iran's dominant "Twelver" sect, known for his devotion to the Hidden Imam, a Messiah-like figure of Shia Islam. The President believes that his government must prepare Iran for the Imam's imminent return. Ahmadinejad believes that it is his duty to trigger a period of chaos, war and bloodshed, which will lead to the coming of the 12th Imam who will eventually rule the world.

[flawless333333]

U.S. Military: Iran Using Hezbollah as 'Proxy' in Iraq

Senator Joe Lieberman: Iran causing the death of hundreds of U.S. soldiers

The United States said that Hizbullah was operating as an Iranian proxy in Iraq to arm Shi'ite militants and had played a role in a January sophisticated attack on US troops.

[flawless333333]

NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces, in what the officials say is a dramatic escalation of Iran's proxy war against the United States and Great Britain.

"It is inconceivable that it is anyone other than the Iranian government that's doing it," said former White House counterterrorism official Richard Clarke, an ABC News consultant.

[flawless333333]

Iran Caught Red-Handed Shipping Arms to Taliban

[flawless333333]

While even the "smallest" nuclear attack anywhere is an unimaginable horror, because of its size and population, it would be almost impossible for the country of Israel to survive a single nuclear attack.

Radioactive fall-out would spread rapidly not only to all parts of Israel, but across the Middle East and even to Europe with certain wind conditions. The world's economies would be devastated and millions of people would become instant refugees.

[flawless333333]

Iran's ultimate goal seems to be the ability to strike anywhere, including the United States. The Center for Strategic and International Studies took a look at Iranian research plans. They noted that: ...Iran is attempting to create a Shahab-5 and a Shahab-6, with a 3,000-5,000 kilometer range. These missiles would be three-stage rockets. If completed, the Shahab-5 and the Shahab-6 would take Iran into the realm of limited range ICBM's, and enable Iran to target the US eastern seaboard.

[flawless333333]

Some don't want to face the fact that a nuclear Iran is not only a threat to Israel.

[flawless333333]

Melanie Phillips: This has been no mere propaganda campaign but a carefully calibrated strategic inversion of history and reality in order to turn the Arab aggressors into victims and the Israeli victims into aggressors in the western mind. It's a unique delegitimisation based on lies and libels as a softening up process for Israel's extinction.

[dontbombiran]

If Israel forces the US to attack Iran and it ends up in nuclear war with Russia, it will also destroy Israel and most Jews. Think about it.

[CatsupIslam]

The Israeli lobbyist illegal activities in the U.S government funding and under the table coercing, We do feel it is a huge slap in the face of Americans for a small group to have so much say on foreign policy, Basically blackmail politicians using corporate media assets.

You clearly do not give a damn about ethics or democratic integrity.

[CatsupIslam]

The thing has caused the most discord is Israel's creation , The rebellions in the first world war by the Arabs taking sides with western powers against the corrupt ottoman Istanbul regime they had hoped that it would lead to some new system of their own making, But instead they where cheated and robbed blind with colonialism and puppet dictators for the sake of oil and strategic trade routes like the Suez canal.

Israel was the final blow

[Quietlydoesit]

The obstacle to peace is the fact that the only ones who can deliver peace (Israel) doesn't want peace. Why don't they want peace? Because they don't need it. The plan is working fine. Palestinians don't have a state, they can be pressed into ghettos and searched, curfewed, shot, denied access to hospital and beaten or killed at will.

[garlic66]

General Haim Barlev: "We were not threatened with genocide on the eve of the six-day war, and we had never thought of such a possibility."

Strange isn't it how the politicians were able to convince the Israeli pubic that Israel was in serious danger, when in fact they didn't believe it themselves?

[tongueincheek81]

"This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre" -Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, during the outset of the 1948 war against Israel

[garlic66]

Menachem Begin: "In June, 1967, we had a choice. The Egyptian Army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him."

[garlic66]

Yitzhak Rabin: "I do not believe Nasser wanted war. The two divisions which he sent into Sinai on May 14 would not have been enough to unleash an offense against Israel. He knew it and we knew it."

[CrazyGuy663]

Dude -- you've gotta see that movie obsession - at obsessionthemovie-dot- com, it's brilliant and explains the terror situation BRILLIANTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jacobk2]

The truth is that it is not from the Qur'am but from the Hadith and it NEVER mentions Jerusalem. It says that Muhammed had a DREAM that he went up top heaven from the furthest MOsque.

1-THere is a Mosque AL Aksa in Pakistan.

2- When this was written Domw of the rock as Muslim memorial was not even built!

She demonized the people resettling the Lans of Israel.

TRUTH- Hebron until the bloody animal murderous arab riots of 1929 had a continuous JEwish presence for 4000 thousand years.

[jacobk2]

Dear Rabbi Marvin Hier,

I think you were too kind! You forget to mention that though HAMAS is bloody and dangerous until now Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah/Al Aksa's Martyrs Brigade has the MOST blood on its hands and has murdered the most Jews thus far.

Also, she presented ISrael's historical and FACTUAL claim to Judea Summaria and the Temple Mount as a fairy tale and the true FAIRY TALE of Islam's claim to the mount as EQUAL or even as Islam's as being stronger.

[woodyaan]

Muslims are stupid as well thinking that Americans are Jews. Only 5% of Americans are Jews, but all major corporations are under Jewish control. American people absolutely hate those who think about themselves highly as 'chosen' people. All Jews are meglomaniac, subhuman is they repeat that. Is there any hope for these people?

[Ikke999]

This man did not understand that not metioning Hamas in the CNN documentary was to avoid poligticing the issue of fundamentalism. If Hamas had been mentioned, then the subject of fundamentalism would be immediately diverted to the conflict between Palestinians and Israel.

BTW I enjoyed CNN's documentary. Well done Christiane! Unfortunately many people close their ears for the facts or are simply not able to understand.

[woodyaan]

Yes, Once God promised Israel to Jews. But NOT ofter Christ. Israel is NO LONGER GOD"S PEOPLE. It works AGAINST GOD. And as once Christ has destroyed Temple, and it followed with Roman invasion, same way all attempts of Jews to create their country based on false religion and tyranny of Judaism- will fail BY THE POWER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST!.

Jews are ridiculous, as this clown is...

[VJDTropical]

No , it isn't ... I'm a Christian but I have to say that Israel belongs to the Jews , they are still God's chosen people ( we are as well , God's chosen people , but we haven't REPLACED Israel , we have been ADOPTED FULLY into the family through Jesus Christ )

[tongueincheek81]

The Jewish segment covered just about everything in the latter half of the 20th century that could plausibly be described as "Jewish terror" (or attempted terror for most of it). If the Muslim segment spent as much time on each incident of Muslim terror as it did for the Jewish segment, the Muslim segment would be about 24 or 48 hours long.

[supermanpaki]

Israel is illegal , illegitimate or bastardd child of America. anyone fighting against israel is fighting for Justice and righteousness. Jews are evil and satanic.

[closedanger]

You took your lad from others. Israel was promised it by GOD. That is all there is to it.

[jordybro]

It makes me physically ill that anti-Semite, anti-Zionists have the gall to watch this video and comment negatively. While I'm well aware that this is a free internet, this pro-Israle video is not the forum for your liberally-baised, racist feelings against Israel, which I have NO DOUBT you know NOTHING about. It's like me commenting on Chinese literature-I wouldn't do it, because I'm ignorant of it! You are ignorant about Israel, so be silent.

[SecantSquared]

the documentary sucked. this guy is right. If you're from the middleeast whether you're arab or israeli...you know that documentary was full of bs and was created as entertainment rather than for information.

[zvika68]

kol hakavod lecha r' heir. as i sat watching this documentary on youtube, igot sicker by the moment. i am pro-peace, (i was with shalom achshav) but this video (christiane amanpour's) was so horrendously biassed, as to draw (as you also put it,) equivalencies between the few israelis' acts and attempted acts of terrorism (undeniably insupportable and simply wrong,) and those carried out on an ongoing basis by palestinian terrorists... there simply isn't a comparison.

[janek04]

This documentary is a farce. You would need a three hour lecture to address even just the most glaring falsehoods and distortions amanpoured over us.

[quiIl]

Speaking as another secular person, I feel that the documentary was, if anything, too kind to Israel. I don't recall them mentioning the hundreds of nuclear warheads Israel has stockpiled by now in defiance of every international treaty, the IDF's use of Palestinian children as human shields, the firing of cruise missiles into Palestinian residential buildings, or Ariel Sharon's disgusting remarks about how "We, the Jewish people, control America."

[evilgeniusfin]

Sure Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and many other Palestinian groups are responsible for many disgusting acts. But did they happen before or after the initial illegal acts the documentary mentions?

The bottom line: Israel isn't playing by the rules everyone else on the planet agreed upon. Why should the Palestinians just sit there and take it?

[evilgeniusfin]

As a secular American I find your arguments unimpressive at best. You mention "so much inaccuracy", yet can only make three points. And all of those were matters of opinion rather than fact.

Instead of talking about how it was a less than perfect documentary. How about you address the many blatant and glaring illegal acts perpetrated by the Israeli government against the Palestinians.

[jlq3d3]

I agree.  The documentary seemed to miss crucial facts and had a very simplistic reasoning.