dude, write about something else

Is it “humanity” when Hamas sends suicide bombers to blow up public buses and shopping malls?

“Humanity must prevail in Gaza”

Unfortunately, Hamas won’t let it.

“Israel has adopted a policy that the United Nations has termed “collective punishment”…”

Just like the entire Arab world has done with Israel for so long. You reap what you sow.

“Israel’s current perception is that Hamas is a violent, illogical and hostile group…”

That’s always been Israel’s perception. And ours. Why? Because Hamas IS a violent, illogical and hostile group, that’s why!

“Also, it is key for Israel to realize that such aggressive actions undermine not only its own stability, but also that of the entire region.”

The only thing Israel has ever done to ask for trouble is stand there and take it. And when they do fight back, that’s when people like you, Wasim, get up and start waving the bloody shirts in the air, claiming to be victims.

The truth, Wasim, is that the Palestinians aren’t worthy of peace. The West has gotten tired of hearing them whining and complaining about how “persecuted” they are, after they ask for it by launching rockets into Israel. I hope Israel drives the Palestinians our of Israel altogether. Let all those oil-rich Arab countries take them in. In the meantime, we don’t want to hear another you bitch about it, Wasim.

It’s easy to see why Egypt didn’t want Gaza back along with the Sinai Peninsula.

I’d say Israel has been very patient about waiting for the elected authorities in Gaza do stop the rocket attacks.

I dare say that someone shooting rockets into the USA daily would result in a reaction that would make Israel look like Little Mary Sunshine.

I guess that the Palis and others will just have to learn that shooting rockets at someone is the wrong way to get peace.

PS. Israel made a terrible mistake by not making war to the knife with Hezbollah - they were too concerned with the opinion of others for their own good. Hezbollah will never be a force for peace, only terror and death.

How about Hamas show a little “Humanity” and stop the rocket attacks against innocent civilians?

Opps, I forgot the official Hamas policy of death to the Jews. Isn’t that “collective punishment”?

Like we care about what happens over there. Wasim, you need to get a date or something. Hit the bars, meet people, move out of your parent’s basement. DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR LIFE, DUDE!!!!

Classic Israeli detractor argument: Blame Israel for how it defends themselves from attacks by terrorists, but don’t explicitly blame the terrorists themselves.
Example #1

Blame Israel for attacking a foreign enemy (Hezbollah), without mentioning the reason for doing so (an unprovocated rocket attack by the thousands raining down on innocent Israeli civilians).

Example #2 Blame Israel for seeking protective measures against Hamas militants in Gaza, without mentioning that Hamas and other terrorist groups have launched thousands of rocket attacks on southern Israeli border towns.

Of course, the corollary to this argument is that no one else deserves blame:

This includes Hamas, Hezbollah, Egypt and its surveillance of the Gaza border, Iran and its funding of Islamic terrorist organizations, etc.

Folks, if we want to disagree on the issues that surround Middle East Peace, we need to make sure that we are fair to both sides.
However, so many commentators on each side, such as the author here, do not fulfill their duties to the readership by leaving out key details that are necessary to understanding the actions taken by each side. We can’t have an honest and fair debate about the Israeli-Palestinian issue when commentators engage in such behavior.

Humanity will prevail in Gaza as soon as they get rid of Hamas, Wasim.

Also, you need to smile more.

Terrorist apologist drooled: “What have Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo done to American credibility, security and democracy?”

With whom? If you mean with rational actors, then it has improved all three. If you mean irrational actors, well who really cares?

In particular, American security has been enormously enhanced by our actions at Gitmo. We haven’t seen a repeat attack on American soil since 9/11— and have interupted such attacks on multiple occasions— in large part because of our brave military and intelligence services’ actions at Gitmo. Most Americans could give a rat’s @ss how the turd world feels about our waterboarding Abu Zubaida so that we could capture Ramzi Bin al-Shibh.

I find it refreshing to see terrorism apologists begging Israel and America to be fair with terrorists. Don’t like it? Go sh!t in your hat!

Give Gaza to Egypt. Culturally, this connection is a natural: Gazans speak a colloquial Arabic identical to the Egyptians of Sinai, have more family ties to Egypt than to the West Bank, and are economically more tied to Egypt (recall the many smugglers’ tunnels). Further, Hamas derives from an Egyptian organization, the Muslim Brethren. As David Warren of the Ottawa Citizen notes, calling Gazans “Palestinians” is less accurate than politically correct.

Why not formalize the Egyptian connection? Among other benefits, this would (1) end the rocket fire against Israel, (2) expose the superficiality of Palestinian nationalism, an ideology under a century old, and perhaps (3) break the Arab-Israeli logjam.

What are you a bunch of sheep following your shepherd??!!

One can’t take the reaction to many years of hostility and land grabbing and uprooting of people from their land and say well they attached us and we are responding. You stole their homes, you broke their families. They were in that land for hundreds and thousands of years before you came and decided that you want that land because GOD gave it to you. What kind of logic is that?? They are people like other people, they feel and aspire and they get angry for lack of fairness in their land. Yet, is it really easy to uproot people and move them to the Arab desert? Do you truly believe that the relationship pf man to the land is that simple? Perhaps the U.S. being a young country might not understand that relationship as deeply as other older nations, like Europe, China, or India. But even in a young nation like the U.S. that relationship is very well developed and no one will dare to touch an inch of our land here in the United States.

Israel must do self searching and must recognize the human rights of the Palestinian. Israel must please GOD and be fair to others and stop being a bully in the region. Israel should try to adopt the Christian philosophy of compassion and should show compassion to the people whom land they have grabbed by force.

Read and understand the article before you react with simple mindedness and ignorance..

“You stole their homes, you broke their families”

You talking about the Jews that were driven out of everyplace in the Meddle East BUT Israel by the Arabs?

What a joke it is to see Jew murdering Moslem terrorists begging for Christian charity from the Jews.

“no one will dare to touch an inch of our land here in the United States”

What are you talking about? Millions of invaders come over the borders every year.

Um, show me one piece of evidence that the current Palestinians were on the soil of what is currently called Israel prior to, say, 1789 (I chose the Constitution ratification date). The Palestinians don’t have some long, centuries and millenia long claim to Israel. You saying that they lived there for hundreds and thousands of years doesn’t make it so.

Oh, and Israel wishes that the Egyptians would take Gaza. They won’t. The Arabs dislike the Palestinians. They are similar in Arab eyes to what, say, the Irish were to American eyes in 1830. Jordan doesn’t want them. Egypt doesn’t want them. But they’ll use them for brownie points against Israel when they need it.

I am in solidarity with the people of Palestine. End the collective punishment of Gaza! End the racist apartheid done by Israel!

Anonymous @ 2:53pm droned: “They were in that land for hundreds and thousands of years before you came and decided that you want that land because GOD gave it to you. What kind of logic is that??”

Return holy Constantinople and the looted cathedral of Hagia Sophia… then we’ll talk.

Anonymous @ @ 2:53pm whined: “They are people like other people…”

Fair enough. Let’s talk about “other people” for a moment.

First, try to solve the status of Nicosia, which is currently divided into Greek and Turkish sectors by a U.N. Greek Line. Perhaps European Union investigators could adjudicate Turkish claims that the division originated from unwarranted threats to the Turkish Muslim population on Cyprus. Some sort of big power or U.N. roadmap then might be imposed on the two parties, in hopes that the Nicosia solution would work for Jerusalem as well.

Second, diplomats might find common ground about displaced populations, many from the post-war, late 1940s. Perhaps it would be best to start with the millions of Germans who were expelled from East Prussia in 1945, or Indians who were uprooted from ancestral homes in what is now Pakistan, or over half-a-million Jews that were ethnically cleansed from Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria following the 1967 war. Where are these refugees now? Were they ever adequately compensated for lost property and damages? Can they be given promises of the right to return to their ancestral homes under protection of their host countries? The ensuing solutions might shed light on the Palestinian aspirations to return to land lost sixty years ago to Israel.

Third, take up the delicate issue of returning territory lost by defeat in war. Ten percent of historic Germany is now part of Poland. The Russians still occupy many of the Kurile Islands, and Greek Cyprus lost sizable territory in 1974 after the invasion by Turkey. The Western Sahara is still annexed by Morocco, while over 15 percent of disputed Azerbaijan has been controlled by Armenia since 1994. Additionally, all of independent Tibet has been under Chinese occupation since 1950-1. Surely if some general framework concerning these occupations could first be worked out comprehensively, the results might then be applied to the much smaller West Bank and Golan Heights.

Fourth, take up the thorny issue of recently artificially created states. Given the tension over Kashmir, was Pakistan a mistake — particularly the notion of a homeland for Indian Muslims? North Korea was only created after the stalemate of 1950-3; so should we debate whether this rogue nation still needs to exist, given its violent history and threats to world peace?

Fifth, and finally, is there a global propensity to use inordinate force against Muslim terrorists that results in indiscriminate collateral damage? The Russians during the second Chechnyan War of 1999-2000 reportedly sent tactical missiles into the very core of Grozny, and may have killed tens of thousands of civilians in their hunt for Chechnyan terrorists — explaining why the United Nations later called that city the most destroyed city on earth. Syria has never admitted to the complete destruction of Hama, once home to Muslim Brotherhood terrorists. The city suffered the fate of Carthage and was completely obliterated in 1982 by the al-Assad government, with over 30,000 missing or killed. Did the Indian government look the other way in 2002 when hundreds of Muslim civilians in Gujarat were killed in reprisal for Islamic violence against Hindus? Lessons learned there might reassure a world still furious over the 52 Palestinians lost in Jenin.

In other words, after a half-century of failed attempts to solve the Middle East crisis in isolation, isn’t it time we look for guidance in a far more global fashion, and in contexts where more lives have been lost, more territory annexed, and more people made refugees in places as diverse as China, Russia, and the broader Middle East?

The solutions that these countries have worked out to deal with similar problems apparently have proven successful — at least if the inattention of the world, the apparent inaction of the United Nations, and the relative silence of European governments are any indication.

Here’s how Hamas defines “humane”.

“Egypt arrests five Palestinians preparing to launch jihad-suicide attacks in Israel” http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME03.YAM16332.html

Now that the border is open between Gaza and Egypt, Hamas’ thugocracy is taking full advantage. This is why the animals are caged.

These are the type of people leaving the majority of comments on this article :

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/israel/view/

Gives a good idea of the garbage being spewed out of these commentors.