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Even the Hydra could be killed, given sufficient cunning and courage, which the Israelis possess in great quantity.So, though the West Bank Palestinians are also dying, accusing the PA of being collaborators you think Israel will eliminate Hamas. Hamas will come out of this more popular than before, and that is a shame, but Israel's fault.
But, there are not enough of them. In time, the locals will overcome the military disadvantage as has always happened in the past.
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I think Israel has been quite restrained.
(COMMENT)As Nathan Thrall of the International Crisis Group points out, the real motive is neither vengeance nor a desire to protect Israel from Hamas' rocket fire, which has been virtually non-existent over the past two years and is largely ineffectual anyway.
In the past two years (July 2012 to July 2014), HAMAS has fired well over 1000 rockets and mortars into Israel. Whether they were effective launches has more to do with the competence of the Hostile Palestinian than the danger they represent.
I would be willing to bet that the US would not wait until a 1000 rockets landed inside the US to respond to a hostile threat. More than 5000 rockets and mortars since 2009.
As for "Israel instigated the latest round of violence!!!!" Yes, of course it did. The virtual and perpetual victim that the Palestinians are, sneaked into Gaza and fired the rockets at themselves. (Said with a Tongue and Cheek smile!)
The Western world understands what the Palestinians are doing.
As for being morally bankrupt, that is a joke. What is moral about firing rockets and mortars into Israel? Where does the Palestinian get off judging Israel's morals?
Most Respectfully,
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AIPAC is of course the chief co-ordinator of Israeli policy in the USA. Second only to the The White House.
Talking with some less strident Americans recently, it seems that AIPAC have successfully embedded in the more suggestible Americans - mainly the Right Wing who like people to wear white or black hats to make things simple - that only US policy stands between Judaism and genocide.
We all know our history of course ( ??? ). The USA was founded on the genocide of Native American Indians. Since then, when the US decided it definitely wanted to be a colonial power it committed genocide in the Philippines, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
And since then, all the major nuclear powers prepared to commit genocide by arming up sufficiently to wipe out whole nations, indeed, possibly all of humanity in self defence. Or in a "pre-emptive" strike, possibly.
Now, Europeans have also been keen on that particular practice. We WERE initially the invaders to the US and Latin America, and genocide was official policy. In Australia it was not possible, as the Aboriginals were OFFICIALLY deemed to be animal, so not even due human status.
African blacks were considered to be animals, though not in the official sense, and were treated as without rights, even to life by Europeans. Of course African tribalism meant that they treated each other similarly, taking each other as slaves, just not on an industrial scale until Europeans arrived.
Going back further North Africans and Vikings would murder whole European villages & enslave survivors. Carthage punished Rome for being an upstart town, then Rome grew to wipe out the Carthaginian Empire, levelling Carthage and sowing its fields with salt.
The Tribes of Moses also were keen on genocide. After escaping Egypt - & being wrongly credited with building the pyramids - they went to the land of the Philistines. There, despite writing down that "God gave them the land" they committed genocide against a host of different peoples. Killed them into non-existence, with a serious plan and intent to do so. When that was done, in punitive strikes against central control, Joshua committed genocide against at least one of the Jewish tribes too.
It was a popular practice then.
So what is different about 1940's Germany?
Well, that was about the most industrialised and organised state in the world. What is so utterly unacceptable about Germany is that it is not history, but done in our own time, by a people so much like us to people who are also so much like us that it cannot be classified as something we would not do / could not be done to us. (Unlike Rwanda - which could not be us).
It was also done in a planned industrial fashion, just as any corporation or logistical firm would do now. Those of you who have been to Auschwitz will have seen the logistical planning and will know this.
But it is NOT an exception. It is almost the rule, that people are stupid, that they find false conspiracies and they demonize an enemy sufficiently that he is so sub-human that ANY atrocity can be committed against him and all his people. Then they try to do it.
So when Americans focus on the atrocities against Jews, and think that is the only great risk, they show their lack of understanding of history. When they think "Never Again" only means the tribes of Abraham, they misunderstand what outlawing genocide is about.
When they think that Zionism is a protective culture because it elevates protection of Jews above every other consideration, they forget that that means if every other consideration is dismissed. anyone else can be dispossessed / robbed / imprisoned / murdered for this intent.
Jews are NOT one simple species who think the same, as Zionism would want. Jews have a whole rainbow of ideas, thoughts and ideals. Ascribing all Jews to the strange, autistic philosophies of one strange fascist political movement of Zionism is to try to dismiss the humanity and complexity of Jewish people. It is in fact, Racist to think of Zionism as including all Jews.
It is also racist to permit - and excuse - and supply weapons - to imprison people who are not worthy because they are not Israeli nor Zionist nor Jews - to have them murdered as collective punishment. Bomb their children to persuade them to go away. To brutalise them. To destroy their economy and steal their land. Because they are not Jews.
Jews know this. Very many campaign against Israel. Because Jews are not Israel. Israel is not Jews, just people who want someone else's land, who happen to be Jewish.
So Americans are not intending to be evil. They are not intending to help commit genocide.
Its just they don't recognise the fundamental rights of the "other people". They don't ascribe human rights to them. They have dehumanised the Palestinians.
Americans think it is preventing genocide.
And that is the reason why America is now complicit in genocide.
It's always depressing when people resort to the tired old conspiranutter BS filth to 'explain' what they don't want to accept: that the majority of US citizens have chosen to support Israel because they feel Israel merits US support and HAMAS and the PA are never going to be other than inimical to the US and its aims and goals.
The moral bankruptcy belongs to the people like Walt and those who quote him.
Oh, give it a frigging rest, Monty.It's always depressing when people resort to the tired old conspiranutter BS filth to 'explain' what they don't want to accept: that the majority of US citizens have chosen to support Israel because they feel Israel merits US support and HAMAS and the PA are never going to be other than inimical to the US and its aims and goals.
The moral bankruptcy belongs to the people like Walt and those who quote him.
The moral bankruptcy belongs to Americans with cognitive dissonance. Watching and enjoying the murder of children because they have been brainwashed to be racist pricks.
And the moment that we allow terrorist scum (and their backers) to dictate to us, whom the United States may befriend and ally with, and whom we have not, the terrorists (and their backers) win...this is why terrorism visits our shores...
It's always depressing when people resort to the tired old conspiranutter BS filth to 'explain' what they don't want to accept: that the majority of US citizens have chosen to support Israel because they feel Israel merits US support and HAMAS and the PA are never going to be other than inimical to the US and its aims and goals.
The moral bankruptcy belongs to the people like Walt and those who quote him.
The moral bankruptcy belongs to Americans with cognitive dissonance. Watching and enjoying the murder of children because they have been brainwashed to be racist pricks.
That Harward "professor" of "international affairs" declared in 2010 that "Saudi Arabia and the other Arab states have no meaningful lobby in Washington", which is, in view of the enormous US oil interests, schmucky. Walt is a long-time long-standing morally and intellectually bankrupt fag, of course.AIPAC Is the Only Explanation for America's Morally Bankrupt Israel Policy*|*Stephen M. WaltIt is obvious that Israel wants tension and war to achieve the murder and expulsion of the Palestinians, and AIPAC the American Israeli PAC owns our government lock, stock and barrel...We need a Political Revolution of Campaign Finance Laws!
The the International Crisis Group - George Soros. heh"As Nathan Thrall of the International Crisis Group points out, the real motive is neither vengeance nor a desire to protect Israel from Hamas' rocket fire, which has been virtually non-existent over the past two years and is largely ineffectual anyway.
Oh, give it a frigging rest, Monty.It's always depressing when people resort to the tired old conspiranutter BS filth to 'explain' what they don't want to accept: that the majority of US citizens have chosen to support Israel because they feel Israel merits US support and HAMAS and the PA are never going to be other than inimical to the US and its aims and goals.
The moral bankruptcy belongs to the people like Walt and those who quote him.
The moral bankruptcy belongs to Americans with cognitive dissonance. Watching and enjoying the murder of children because they have been brainwashed to be racist pricks.
1. there is no 'murder' on the part of the IDF, in connection with this new Gaza War
2. Hamas is to blame for embedding war-assets amongst it civilian population
3. nobody in America has been brainwashed in connection with Israel and Palestine
4. it is not racist to seek the extermination of a terrorist organization nor its members
5. Americans with common sense can see right through your propaganda efforts
"women and children" should stop launching rockets, of course.2. Hamas is not to blame. It is the IDF that is murdering women and children. Orwellian double speak doesn't work in the real world. 3. Most Americans have been brainwashed to hate Muslims and love Israel. The position of the people in the rest of the world proves this. 4. Naming freedom fighters you don't like terrorists is an old ploy that no one falls for anymore. Like the Muhajedin in Afghanistan who were freedom fighters when fighting the Russians and became terrorists when fighting NATO. 5. I have seen through the propaganda, it is and your type that have bought the propaganda.
So, "women" don't launch rockets, "children" do. Then "children" should stop launching rockets, of course.Its the children Doc? You have to kill the children? Yep.
History know's your sort.
Incorrect.Oh, give it a frigging rest, Monty.The moral bankruptcy belongs to Americans with cognitive dissonance. Watching and enjoying the murder of children because they have been brainwashed to be racist pricks.
1. there is no 'murder' on the part of the IDF, in connection with this new Gaza War
2. Hamas is to blame for embedding war-assets amongst it civilian population
3. nobody in America has been brainwashed in connection with Israel and Palestine
4. it is not racist to seek the extermination of a terrorist organization nor its members
5. Americans with common sense can see right through your propaganda efforts
1. Of course it's murder. ...
If Hamas moved its war-assets away from heavily populated civilian residential areas, and if Hamas would stop using schools and mosques and hospitals and civilian bomb shelters, as storage caches for weapons and munitions, and as command posts and firing-points and gun and launcher emplacements and troop shelters, then there would be far fewer Gazan civilian casualties. Hamas is infamous around the world for their widespread use of their own women and children as human shields, and there is enough documentation on this subject to choke a horse....2. Hamas is not to blame...
Again, incorrect. And repeating it over and over does not render it thus....It is the IDF that is murdering women and children...
There isn't an ounce of Orwellian double-talk in either this particular refutation nor my post immediately preceding this one, in this sequence. You are welcome to serve-up any such text along with your rationale for labeling it thus, but, until then......Orwellian double speak doesn't work in the real world...
Who is doing this brainwashing, pray tell?...3. Most Americans have been brainwashed to hate Muslims and love Israel...
We can safely write-off that portion of the world within the domain of Islam as possessing an embedded and permanent hatred for the Jews and Israel....The position of the people in the rest of the world proves this...
If it looks like a duck and smells like a duck and waddles like a duck and shits like a duck and quacks like a duck, there's a decent chance that it's a duck....4. Naming freedom fighters you don't like terrorists is an old ploy that no one falls for anymore...
When guerrilla warfare or asymmetric warfare organizations cease their guerrilla and asymmetrical warfare operations and switch to generalized terror operations, they cease being freedom (or any other kind of) fighters, and become terrorists....Like the Muhajedin in Afghanistan who were freedom fighters when fighting the Russians and became terrorists when fighting NATO...
How nice for you....5. I have seen through the propaganda, it is and your type that have bought the propaganda.
All Hamas needs to do is to move their rocket launchers and weapons and munitions caches and troop muster-areas and command posts and firing points and emplacements away from those residential areas where such children reside, and the casualty rate for such innocents drops immediately into the cellar, on a graphic.Its the children Doc? You have to kill the children?
Yep.
History know's your sort.