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The IDF, a gay, flea-infested rodent in Southern Lebanon and a monster in Gaza.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:51 PM on 03/01/2008

From Democracy Now, yesterday...they played an audio clip that made my hair stand on end...


"Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is warning of a full-scale Israeli invasion of Gaza. In what could be a first for an Israeli official, Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai has threatened a “holocaust” in Gaza if rocket fire continues. Vilnai said, “THE MORE QASSAM FIRE INTENSIFIES AND THE ROCKETS REACH A LONGER RANGE, [THE PALESTINIANS] WILL BRING UPON THEMSELVES A BIGGER HOLOCAUST, BECAUSE WE WILL USE ALL OUR MIGHT TO DEFEND OURSELVES.” "


Holocaust? Who are these people? The casual use of this abhorrent term brings the question to the front...who the hell are these people who are preparing for the "final solution" to the Palestinian "problem"? They've created their own mega-Warsaw Ghetto...and now their going to carry out a "holocaust"?


Call me crazy, and maybe I am, but I've wondered for a long time about the militarist Zionists who sat out World War 2 in Palestine. None that I know of raised a finger to help the Jews in Europe who were suffering and dying by the millions in the real "holocaust". In a weird sense, if they were forward thinking enough, and understood history and human nature (which I believe they did), it was to their advantage to stay out of it, and do nothing to stop the Nazi's carrying out their genocidal crimes against humanity. The Zionists were militarist terrorists with a real command of strategy and tactics. They had some power then, and with creativity, which they had in abundance, could have effected some kind of retaliatory force against the holocaust (in defense of the Jewish people)...but nothing of that sort is known to have ever taken place. They sat quietly by while 6 million Jewish people were slaughtered. And that slaughter, brought worldwide condemnation of the Nazi's, and worldwide sympathy for the horrifying human tragedy that was the Holocaust. And then the world (UN) gave the Jewish people a homeland.


Could the pre-WW2 Zionists have been this cold-blooded? Did they only have their eyes on the ball, and cared little for the consequences of their inaction in regard to the Holocaust? Is it fair to say that, after decades of terror tactics, they'd lost any humanity they might otherwise have had, and only retained the hunger for the Holy Land that drove their decades of homicidal activities against the Palestinians of "Trans-Jordan"? After a time, especially involving such warlike tactics, is it too outrageous to say, they were all about the end justifying the means? And if those means involved the "sacrifice" of a portion of the Jewish people, to save the whole, and win the homeland, would it be impossible to consider they might have chosen "sacrifice"?


The Zionists set aside their humanity many times in their quest for the Holy Land...the only difference herein being the scale of the brutality, and the magnitude of the human tragedy. They'd looked the other way many times before in brutalizing the Palestinian population...this may well have been their last gambit...to do nothing, and win the prize. And for many, I think this may have been a justifiable sacrifice in their own minds, with the end being too sweet and too long desired, to avoid these disastrous means.


I think these are valid questions to ask in the face of the outrageous thing this Israeli official has said.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:51 PM on 03/01/2008
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Now that should get the apologists for the Israeli persecution foaming at the mouth.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:53 PM on 03/01/2008

Sadly, I don't doubt it will. This was a very hard post to write, but when I hear an Israeli official using THAT WORD, it makes my blood boil. The Jews are a great people, a people of great honor and creativity, but the Zionists are a metastasized tumor on the body of the Jewish world. They are the ones who won't let the endless war end. They are the ones who justify collective punishment, that was a hallmark of the Nazi's who brutalized the Jewish people. They are the ones who shoot school children just for the fun of it. They are the ones who drove a bulldozer over the body of Rachel Correy, and condemned her to a death in agony...and never raised a hand to help her after the outrage they did to her body.

They are the mindless golems who only know only hardline brutality. They are one of the responsible parties to the origins of the endless miseries in the Middle East, that has spread fear and terror throughout the world.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:05 PM on 03/01/2008
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The victims are now victimizers.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:56 PM on 03/01/2008

Yes they are. And the worm turns.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:15 PM on 03/01/2008
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Well....the removal of Palestinians has always been the plan since even before WW II -- by relocation or eradication.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:05 PM on 03/01/2008
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Boy, the powers that be certainly have us all going in the direction they want. They want us arguing over this stuff. Keep in mind:

1. The powers that be fund both sides to keep the antagonism going. They don't care who dies. This would be the banksters (war is profit) and the military industrial complex - ie arms dealers. These satanists are all flavors and religions, loyal to none except their wealth and power. They use the Jews and Arabs alike.
2. Arafat died with billions in his bank account - where did this money come from? What was he saving it for? Weren't there hungry Palestinians?
3. If the Israeli's made peace with the Palestinians, or any other Arab country, why would they need the billions the US send them every year? Where would both country's politicians skim money from?
4. With the amount of money spent on this situation, you could build a wall around whatever land the Israeli's felt like giving the Palestinians, give each Palestinian a couple million dollars, set up some infrastructure, and they could live happily ever after.
5. Solving the middle east problems would deny, not countries, but individuals who transcend national loyalties, billions of dollars in profits from oil, arms, and it would curtail black ops funding for the alphabet orgs (who are all on the same team regardless of what appears on the surface.) It's a big chess game and the first rule is to keep humanity divided. They are doing a good job at that, but more and more people are seeing through the charade and not falling for the "division" ploy any longer. We are all human, regardless of race or religion, and should live together peacefully, help one another, and work together to destroy those who want perpetual war for profit.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:49 PM on 03/01/2008
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The conflict is an industry and does, indeed, keep the powers that be on both sides in control. There is no interest in peace. If so, we would have had it a long time ago. This conflicts serves many purposes.

Meanwhile, dupes on all sides, believe in the fear, the demonization of each other, and the propaganda.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:10 PM on 03/01/2008
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If Israel withdraws to its pre-1967 border, there will be peace. And Israel must do that, for the good of its own citizens, and because it is in violation of international law.

Given the current military might of Israel, withdrawing from all occupied territories would have no negative impact on Israel's security.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:43 PM on 03/01/2008
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Israel does not comply with UN resolutions. Ever.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:43 PM on 03/01/2008
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Well if the US stopped vetoing the meaningful ones they might have to.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:47 PM on 03/01/2008
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In order to do that, they'll need to have a negotiating partner and that is very hard with the Palestinians bifurcated. It is also hard to do this while missiles are raining down on civilian areas. The more they fire on Israelis, the harder it is for the leaders of their peace movement to gain traction.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:45 PM on 03/01/2008
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The more they bomb an imprisoned population in Gaza, the more resistance they will encounter.

They sealed off Gaza economically and physically and then wondered why radicalism­/resistanc­e spiked.

You have to be Israeli to understand that logic.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:49 PM on 03/01/2008
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U.S. should have invited Hamas, the elected representatives of Palestinians to the negotiating table, and without pre-conditions.

The "bifurcation" of Palestinians is a creation of t U.S. and israel, caused by their refusal to accept the results of a legitimate election.

Regarding firing rockets and so on, that is an endless discussion of who did what first. I was trying to look at the forest, rather than a tree.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:55 PM on 03/01/2008

You're a nut Fume.
It would not mean peace.

I like the idea for different reasons though.

It would remove this BS thought and excuse for all time.

The Palestinians would indeed attack Israel again and that could and would be the end of it.

I doubt they would even wait for the UN charter.

I say give them what they claim to want, let them prove to be the aggressor and put an end to it once and for all.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:53 PM on 03/01/2008
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Palestinians don't even have a military for Christs sake!?

Why would anyone want to attack Israel's military!? It is the fourth most powerful in the world!

Even Iran wouldn't think of carrying out such a thing.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:58 PM on 03/01/2008
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The Palestinians would indeed attack Israel again
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Once they have their homeland, they would have no reason to attack Israel. And if they did, they would be no match for Israel's might.

Why don't you tr thinking before you post?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:00 PM on 03/01/2008
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They'd launch a war against the most powerful military force in the Mideast and the only one with nuclear weapons? They may be fanatics but I don't think they're suicidal.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:50 PM on 03/01/2008
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As long as Israel exists there will not be peace. Hamas and Hezbollah don't want peace. They want to wipe Israel from the face of the earth!

Would the USA give land won in war back to an aggressor that wants to annihilate them? Of course not. It would be suicide? And yet we expect Israel to do just that!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:13 PM on 03/01/2008
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Peace and security for Israel would not be a good deal. There are too many perceived economic to keep the fear and the conflict going. FOREVER.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:12 PM on 03/01/2008

A question for all the commenters here: Does anyone not think that ALL of the problems in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon are not being caused by Iran and Syria?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:39 PM on 03/01/2008
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maybe they have been complicated by Iran and Syria but they were caused by Israels ethnic cleansing and land grabs.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:41 PM on 03/01/2008

You have no idea what you are talking about.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:42 PM on 03/01/2008
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I say when you imprison and starve a people, they will resist and will go to anyone who will supply them the means.

You will probably find some US arms dealers in the mix.

Hell the US is funding Israel, I wonder if it would survive economically without the $9 billion a year it receives.

Both sides are to blame, both have their fundies, until you get rid of these people nothing will change.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:44 PM on 03/01/2008
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are you insane? Iran and Syria are not illegally occupying Palestinian lands! haha!

This game goes waaaaay back, 60 + years ago.

Israel has a history of attempting to forcefully aquire land that is not theirs. So far it has Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian land it illegally occupies. Stop embaressing yourself.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:45 PM on 03/01/2008

Read more speak less.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:47 PM on 03/01/2008
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Well there are the 400,000 Palestinians in Lebanon, who are unable to legally seek jobs or educate their children. And Lebanon itself is trying to prevent itself from being ripped apart by Syrian influence.

So that might have some bearing.

In the last 40 years, more Palestinians have died by Lebanese or Jordanian actions, than by Israeli.

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Or at least stop reading the ACTUAL history of the region. THEN and ONLY then will you be qualified to speak.

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The idea that Israel should go back to it's 1967 borders, just for a promise of peace

from the folk who want to kill them is too one sided. Negotiating for most of that land

returned on a schedule where Hamas and the PLO show real sincerity is far more

acceptable for the Israelis who would have already voted out the Likudists. The land

surrendered should not have it's Jewish settlement homes leveled out of bitter spite.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:38 PM on 03/01/2008
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It was Israels ethnic cleansing and expansion that created radicalism in the Palestinians, this is Israels fault, a problem created by them and supported by you.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:39 PM on 03/01/2008
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I suppose the "ethnic cleansing" started in the 1948 war when 7 armies composed of soldiers from 12 Arab nations attacked Israel.

In the aftermath that followed, over two million refugees both Arab and Jew left their homes. So perhaps you need to understand that "ethnic cleansing" wasn't one-sided.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:48 PM on 03/01/2008

Yes Israel's apologists have a point, one would have to be decorous and understanding, so here goes: Fuck Israel.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:38 PM on 03/01/2008
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Israel needs to be held accountable.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:36 PM on 03/01/2008
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I agree.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:38 PM on 03/01/2008

Baloney! If those pesky Palestinians would just move to De Monies and get off Israeli land there would be no problems.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:43 PM on 03/01/2008
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Let's give 'em West Texas. It's more like what they're used to. And they'd be a good buffer between the US and Mexico.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:46 PM on 03/01/2008
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Nothing will radicalize a population more than a campaign of ethnic cleansing. The Israeli campaign is 60years old and has reduced the Palestinians to animals and locked them in ghettos - and now the Israeli hypocrits justify their actions because of the radical militants that they created.
So much for "Gods chosen people"... they simply say that to justify their pillaging and robbery and murder...
More proof that religion kills and the US churches are complicit...as are our politicians.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:36 PM on 03/01/2008
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I agree with you too lungfish.

Im very agreeable today.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:38 PM on 03/01/2008

Once again I propose a very simple solution. Grant the Palestinians whatever reasonable border they demand (67 plus a 'world city for all' in Jerusalem) let the world all agree on the full nation status of Palestine.

The first Palestinian attack on Israel then becomes an act of war between nations.

END OF STORY!!!!

No more arguments about the BS.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:33 PM on 03/01/2008
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Never happen. That's asking for too much concession from the Palis.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:36 PM on 03/01/2008
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Right wing Israelis would never agree to that. You do know they were the terrorists at one time, Hotel Bristol if I remember rightly backed by the US against the British, Funny old world.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:36 PM on 03/01/2008

They would if they thought it through.

It would take six months and there wouldn't be a question ever again.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:45 PM on 03/01/2008
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If only it were that simple, read up on Israel's demands during the Clinton Camp David talks. They were unrealistic. It's not in Israel's best interest to give up the West Bank.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:38 PM on 03/01/2008
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Something very similar was proposed by the Israelis in the 2000 camp David summit. What did Israel get?

Suicide bombers.

In 2005 Israel withdrew from the Gaza strip. What did Israel get?

Rocket attacks.

I'm no fan of Israeli tactics, but for crying out loud every time the Israelis back down to Palestinian demands Hamas, Fatah, and the Islamic Jihad become emboldened - that is when they're not killing each other.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:03 PM on 03/01/2008

AWWWWWWW. My heart is crying for the Palestinians. I hope the IDF kills as many of them as possible. Maybe they'll get the message that firing rockets into Israel isn't a good idea. Imagine a wolrd without the Gaza Strip!!! WHAT A NICE THOUGHT!! The majority of you are a bunch of doves who know nothing about the way the world works

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:33 PM on 03/01/2008
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Yeah, we haven't had any good genocides lately. That one would be a dandy.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:36 PM on 03/01/2008
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What about Iraq

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:47 PM on 03/01/2008
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I am sure that God wants it that way and we all know that the Jews and you are Gods chosen.... hypocrits.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:37 PM on 03/01/2008
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And who appointed you as "Ambassador of How the World Works"?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:38 PM on 03/01/2008

Trying to sound tough on a blog doesn't work.

Trying to sound knowledgeable does, you should try it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:41 PM on 03/01/2008
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How is it logical that you blame the victims of occupation, and not their occupiers?

Your ignorant racist ass needs to remember that everything the Palestinians do to retaliate is a direct result of the occupation. It has NOTHING to do with ideology or religion. These people have been suffering for the longest time.

It is not in Israel's interests to ease the humanitarian crisis they have done, it drives Palestinians away, which is one of their tactics of ethnically cleansing them.

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Peace talks 'buried' by Gaza assault: Palestinian negotiator
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) — Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said the recently revived Middle East peace talks had been "buried" in the rubble of an Israeli incursion into Gaza that killed 46 people Saturday.

"The negotiations are buried under the houses that were destroyed in Gaza," Erakat told AFP. "The peace process has been destroyed because of the aggressions and the crimes that have been committed."

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, whose forces were driven from Gaza in June, has been in negotiations with Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert since talks were formally revived at a US conference in November.

Abbas has repeatedly called on the Islamist Hamas movement that rules Gaza to halt rocket attacks on Israel and return the territory to his control.

But on Saturday he called for "international protection for the Palestinian people" while his office said he had contacted several world leaders to press for an end to the Israeli assault.

"It is unthinkable that Israel's reaction to Palestinian rocket attacks -- which we condemn -- can be so terrible and frightening," Abbas said, adding that the attacks were targeting "innocent women, children and old people."

Israel's incursion into Gaza on Saturday was the deadliest assault on the isolated and impoverished territory in well over a year and sparked international condemnation and protests across the occupied West Bank.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jT4tEfua7mpVvHvMQDALiYjPo25Q

This, it could be argued was the intent.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:33 PM on 03/01/2008
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So, how long is Israel going to do this until they finally figure out that maybe they need to try something new? Creating their own version of the Warsaw ghetto isn't exactly the most productive strategy when it never ends the conflict and debases the nation of Israel and the Palestinians at the same time.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:32 PM on 03/01/2008
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Regrettably it seems Israel wants no part of peace, and I must admit that this flagrant vioence over the last few weeks, as several hundred Palestinians have been murdered compared to about maybe 20 Israelis, seems to be coinciding with our election process in a weird sort of way . . .

Vast right-wing cnspiracy maybe not, but . . .

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:31 PM on 03/01/2008

I know that Israel is to blame for a lot of the mess in that region right now but I need a question answered. How do you protect your citizens when rocket attacks are executed daily targeting populous centers from people who hide behind civilians? It is the fundemental problem for Israel because when they retaliate they kill civilians and seem like overagressive assholes. There needs to be something done to stop Hamas before any peace talks can originate. I think Israel is in many ways wrong but I think they would be more receptive to Palestinian demands and peace talks if they new Hamas and other extremists wouldn't attack there people constantly.

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America should offer the Palestinians the state of Texas, give them their own Promised Land, but that will never happen.

I don't know Aroth30, but as I understand it there have been atrocities committed by both the Jewish and Palestinian peoples ever since the Palestinain people got sold out by a couple of their rulers, the British, and the Zionists almost a century ago.

I am all for the Israelites establishing the nation of Israel, even though it seems on paper racist, but then again they are God's chosen people;

ultimately I guess the Middle East will just have to go up in flames. I hope it works out for the best, Scripture says it will, so . . .

I pray for the safety of both the Israelites and Palestinians, and of course of us goyim also.

I think things will be getting even more decidely dangerous every day now, for all of us . . .

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:26 PM on 03/01/2008
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Everyone in this country, AIPAC-girl Pelosi, Empty-suit Reid, any other politician that support Israel, all American Jews with their letters and phone calls, state and federal Israeli bond tax breaks and yes even those Evangelicals who all sit back while Israel repeatedly commit war crimes are equally guilty and have the blood of all Palestinian deaths on hands.

The sooner that rogue country is dissolved the better. And those of you that support Israel who don't like that -- Tough!

It's TIME TO BOYCOTT ALL ISRAELI PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

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