Almost 1700 dead and still counting. At least 400 of whom are kids. This isn't the first incursion but smth that happens every 3 or 4 years going back to the 80s! The last operation Cast Lead in Jan 2009 killed 1200. IMO,the Israelis test new weapons tech on the Palestinians-phosphorous,DIME dense inert metal explosive and even chemical agents if some reports are true.Looking at the bloodshed I honestly believe strange pathologies in Israeli society find release in this slaughter. Any Israelis or with knowledge of the region,preferably one who's lived there who can comment?
If Mexican rebels were launching low grade missiles DAILY across the Rio Grande into the Southern U.S. declaring Death To All Gringos and selling the myth that Arizona, California and Texas were occupied territories, there would be no more Mexicans living in Mexico. I feel for the Palestinian people because their government has been taken over by a gang of fanatic thugs who aren't above using the entire Palestinian population as human shields against Israeli bombs. Hamas has missile sites set up in apartment buildings and hides their stockpile of weapons in schools, mosques and hospitals. If Hamas and the PLO decided one day that their sworn blood enemy wasn't Israel, the Palestinians could have had their own independent state before January. When you send suicide bombers regularly into Tel Aviv restaurants and buses, did Hamas think Israel was going to forget when they had a chance to retaliate militarily?? Hamas made a catastrophic miscalculation. Netanyahu is a war-hawk and not really a peace treaty type of guy. Netanyahu knows Israel has the strongest army in all the ME and that no single ME country is going to send troops to fight and save the lives of Palestinians. Groups like ISIS will run crazy in Iraq but it's telling they won't go to Gaza and fight to save the lives of their Muslim brothers being slaughtered. I simply cannot have a single iota of pity for a people or militant group that shells their much stronger neighbor then are surprised when that stronger enemy beats them down.
They don't view them as a neighbor. The think of them as an interloper who is squatting in their house, abusing them and refusing to leave.
Seriously, right? "We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient." - Golda Meir (July 1969) One of the most ludicrous accusations I have ever heard of, is as follows... Really? So what about HAMAS knowing the disproportional risks, and firing anyway. Who is this woman to dismiss Israelis deaths.
"We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no alternative. The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight." " It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore. ... ". We hate war. We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown, and when strawberries bloom in Israel." "Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us..." (AND) "When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons." -Golda Meir
Israel shouldn't be there. If you wanted to create a homeland for the Jewish people, put it in Europe not smack dab in the middle of the Arab world. We have to deal with this bullshit every few years because the British government said, "OK, we'll just carve the Jewish homeland out of existing Palestinian territory." You neglected to mention that in your short-sighted analysis andre.
What do you mean "create a homeland for Jewish people in Europe". The ME IS their homeland. Their history is thousands of years old. "Israel became a nation two thousand years before the rise of Islam"...
Don't try to sell me that bullshit. A mythological claim upon the land is what attempts to justify establishing Israel in Palestinian territory. I've heard all those arguments and none of them are convincing. The just thing to do would've been to place a Jewish homeland in Europe.
I'm not trying to sell you shit. What "mythological claim" are you on about?? I don't know if what you are saying here is that you outright deny the historical existence of the Ancient Jews in the ME/that their history is a myth?! What year exactly is your head in/are you referencing, when you type your OPINION of the Jews and denying them their land?
Someone remind Satyr about the Jewish slaves forced by the pharaohs to build those pyramids. Where did Judaism as a faith concept originate??? I just don't understand when people argue the ME isn't the emotional and ancestral homeland of the jews. If you don't admit the Jews have a right and legitimate claim to be in the ME, there's no starting point on any reconciliation between the Palestinians and Israel. Actually it's the nomadic Palestinians who had no claim on any homeland or prior history as an organized state.
I'm well aware of the book of Exodus and you're welcome to take your fairytales and shove them right up your ass. Judeo-Christian mythology is not a basis for modern nation building, and certainly doesn't provide an inkling of justification for what exists in Palestine today. Practice more self-honesty and admit that your arguments rest on an arbitrary interpretation of biblical fairytales, and not a meaningful understanding of international law.
SIGHHH! Responding to all this is difficult. I'm disappointed people still swallow such pedestrian myths in this day and age-seriously! The present Jews claiming Yahweh gave them Israel are actually from the Russian Caucus,Georgia to be exact. There's much more to add,but we can start from there.
Satyr, lets be realistic here, forget the bible here.... there is archaeolgic evidence that the Jewish people originated in caanan. Why do you ignore evidence based history and focus on the bible as the only evidence that they originated there? And why do you think that Europe would be a better place to put the Israeli community? I'm not sure I understand that logic.
Uh . . . so fucking what? Some ancient bones are found and that creates a basis for the arbitrary establishment of a nation-state in the middle of settled land? I'd love to see you argue that at The Hague. Europe (specifically Britain) is responsible for this clusterfuck in the first place. You ever hear of the Balfour Declaration? Probably not, so why don't you start there. After reading it, look at the prior history of proposed sites for a Jewish homeland. A portion of Kenya was the first candidate; an area of land no more or less justifiable than where Israel currently is. If Europe felt some compunction over centuries of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, create a Jewish homeland in Germany or another part of the European continent. Taking that land away from Palestine was a mistake and it's about time that America admitted it.
The point, as I see it, is that both are damn stubborn. When I see and talk to jewish or arabic people in Switzerland, you can see, hear and feel that both of them don't want to be integrated to the rest of the world. They focus only on their own community, whether they think now, that they are better or whether they are afraid, this is a personal interpretation. But that you don't belong to them, or that they are not interested in you, that's clear. On the other hand, I am happy to see that the young generation appears to be more flexible, more open and more tolerant.
Holly sh*t!......I am coming closer to realize that the world is obviously FU*ked! perpetuating these lies of gods chosen as if god himself is a racist, is saddening and dangerous .........Why don't they just throw this GREEDY white supremacist BS out and be apart of this planet for once! Stop abusing, robbing, plundering people In the name of fake religion! After all it doesn't take very much effort with internet to discover their created phony history is total lies!.....very soon the world's people will be forced to stand up and fight just to survive! The real truth is th that all of them, jeudaism, catholism and Islam were created to indoctrinate people! None of them has any historical proof of anyone in the bibles or Torah to ever have existed! Moses, Israelites, slaves building pyramids is not true! God himself did not write any of it!.....at least Islam strictly forbid pushing images god as the Catholics creation of Nordic Caucasian Jesus which was to deceive... making excuses to blast people after you steal land and force them in a open air prison is flat out WRONG!
This is true Israeli behaviour.The result of centuries of indoctrination exacerbated by the Yahweh delusion. When there's no editing,photo shopping or compliant journos this is the actual hideous picture: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jon-voi...efSrc=permalink#lf-content=89715161:196683173 Isn't it obvious?? Its not about oil/water/politics or religion-these people are pathological!! Its also why they believe their own myths so wholeheartedly.