Israel is testing a missile defense system that they’ll be able to use to stop the missiles that Hamas and Hezbollah constantly fire at them. I expect the Palestinians to protest this new weapon, and the U.N. to strongly criticize how inhuman it is, after all: it stops them from killing Jews.
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And who will stop the ethnic cleansing and the killing of Palestinians? On an average of 10:1 (10 Palestinians are murdered for every Israeli killed).
ATW
The Palestinians are responsible for their own deaths. Read the news. The Israelis only ever launch attacks at the Palestinians in strict response to specific attacks, while the Palestinians daily launch rocket attacks at the Israelis. Not only that, but the Palestinians deliberately launch their rocket attacks at Israeli schools and hospitals from the cover of houses and other soft targets, hoping that the Israeli counter-response will kill children, prompting media outrage. Also, the Palestinians kill themselves frequently as Hamas and Fatah fight.
So about your statistic, the fact that the Palestinians rocket attacks inflict few casualties, while plenty of Palestinians are dying concerns me not at all. If the Palestinian people want to stop dying then they should seek peace and stop glorifying the death of Jews above all else. They have been offered terms that are more than generous time and time again, and refuse to settle for anything other than the complete and total annihilation of Israel. Israel has had cease fires with them, and every single time, it has been the Palestinians who break the cease fire. The Israelis have provided them with money, food, hospital services, and basic utilities, including water and a sewer system, and the Palestinians have spurned all of them for weaponry, to the point of dismantling their own sewer system to build more rockets, and living in their own filth.
I’m sure the farmer who was tied to a phone poll and beaten by Israeli settlers yesterday deserved it. The stupid sand nigger shouldn’t have been farming his land!!
Taoist,
You’re remarks lead me to believe that you are ignorant. Even Ghandi stated that he would have fought against such injustice caused by these Nazis. You simply don’t seem to have a clue about the Palestinian catastrophe or how it started.
Settle? You believe that garbage? Read this: http://attendingtheworld.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/the-truth-behind-israels-generous-offer-to-the-palestinians/
ATW
No, he didn’t. The Isreali settlers who did that committed a reprehensible act. However, the bulk of the violence attempted is still by the Palestinians – they just suck at it so bad that they kill themselves half the time. And still blame the Jews. Remember those land mines on the beach last year? It was confirmed that they were actually planted by the Palestinians. And please, find me a single example where the Isrealis have been the ones to break a cease fire. A single example.
attendingtheworld:
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/palis-use-donated-sewage-pipes-for-kassam-rockets
Ghandi stated that the Jews shouldn’t have fought back against the Nazis even in World War 2. Utter pacifism, such as he believed in, clearly would have failed in that case.
I know quite a bit about the Palestinian catastrophe, and how it started. First of all, there was never any country called Palestine. Ever. In the history of the world. After WW1, the British ended up with that section of land from the Ottoman Empire. After WW2, they decided to split up the land into two territories, an Arab state and an Isreali state. They created the land of Jordan to be the Arab state, but the Arabs still couldn’t deal with Israel controlling any of their land (Radical Muslims think that any land that’s ever been under Muslim control should always be under Muslim control, which is why they still call for parts of Spain to revert to Muslim hands) and so insisted on more, causing the British to further divide up their territory. No agreement was satisfactory for the Arabs though, so the Israelis revolted and seized control of their portion of the land – although they still reserved the more controversial parts for the Jordanians, who now decided to have a national identity that had never before existed: Palestinians. After this period, the various Arab countries, and the Palestinians, launched repeated attacks against the Israelis, and the Israelis have defended themselves every time. They’ve come out ahead pretty much every fight, always been willing to sign a peace treaty, and it has always been the Palestinians who have broken the treaty.
Let me ask you one question that I think is most telling: If the Palestinians are the injured and innocent party, why is it that they’re the ones who won’t even acknowledge the other party’s right to exist? If this was simply a border dispute there would be a gray area to argue here, but the Israelis not only think that there should be a two party solution, they give the Palestinians the bulk of their foreign aid. The Palestinians return the favor by launching rocket attacks, sniper attacks, and suicide bombs whenever they can, and refusing to even acknowledge that Israel can exist.
Oh yeah. I should also mention that the Arab hatred of Jews isn’t a post WW2 thing. The grand Mufti of Jerusalem went to Berlin during the Nazi era and so impressed Hitler with his hatred of the Jews that Hitler appointed Arabs as the only non-Aryan SS soldiers. Arab countries were also some of the main countries that the Nazis fled to. Baathism, in fact, is the philosophical direct descendant of Nazism through those channels – so in some ways, the war in Iraq was the continuation of our fight against the Nazis in WW2.
Taoist
There was never a country called Israel. There were the Israelites, who followed the Prophet Israel. Palestine is mentioned in the Bible. Whether you believe in the Bible or not is secondary but the fact remains that this “document” mentioned Palestine by name.
As for your narrative, you sound like one of the Israelis I sometimes debate and argue. As a matter of fact, I suspect that you may just be one.
Have you heard of Ilan Pappe, the Jewish Historian? If not google him and see what he wrote about. I also have many posts for him on my blog.
Answering your question:
Where do you get your information? The Israeli Embassy? Your question again proves your lack of knowledge. The Palestinians have acknowledged the other party’s existence and right to exist… even when it was on their stolen lands! And why doesn’t Israel acknowledge the Palestinian right to exist? Their actions are sufficient proof; the house demolitions and Apartheid state, discrimination, etc… are not signs of anyone interested in Peace.
And by the way – the Israelis don’t give the bulk of their foreign aid to anyone. You have garbage for facts.
You really need to read more. You only seem to be familiar with what the extremists of Israel keep spewing!
ATW
What the heck are you talking about? Hamas is the party that controls the Palestinians, and they refuse to acknowledge the right of the Israelis to exist. They’ve debated it, but unless I missed it in the past half a year or so, they’ve never acknowledged Israel’s right to exist without retracting or clarifying (taking back) the statement the next day. The official policy of the Israeli government is that there should be a Palestinian state. Go ahead and say what you will about actions, but one party has repeatedly gone to the table willing to negotiate in good faith, and the other has repeatedly shunned any offers, refused to acknowledge the others’ existence, and broken every single cease fire with rocket fire.
As for your bible history, you’re quite off. The bible mentions the land of Palestine once http://bibletab.com/p/palestine.htm , but in the same way that we talk about the west coast, the middle east, southeast asia, they’re all regions, not countries. The bible also mentions Israel as a nation several times http://bibletab.com/i/israel.htm
Oh, and I’m receiving my information from wikipedia.
Wrong again Falafel breath!
Israel official policy is to keep the Israeli/ Jewish to Palestinians at a 70% to 30%. minimum. This is the OFFICIAL policy. Read this – not on Wikipedia, but on Haaretz – an Israeli newspaper. Again, you never address the questions I pose: Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian’s statements, writings and findings differ from your claim or from the rest of the NaZionists.
Interesting view you have here that your logic about Palestine in the Bible is the same as referring to a coast or a general area. If so, why did God not just call it by another name? Why that area specifically?
Please… take your ignorance and arrogance somewhere else. If you just read my last post, you will see that these thugs you love so much don’t deserve to be part of the human race.
Enjoy your posts. I’m done debating idiots.
ATW
My challenge still stands, by the way. Please find me a single example of the Israelis being the ones to break the frequently broken cease fires.
Why should I bother to defend if my views differ from someone else’s? It’s my blog, and who cares what other people think?
About the bible, I still pointed out that Palestine was only mentioned once, while Israel is mentioned some 26000 times.
You obviously have a problem with anti-semitism, as you are utterly blind to the positions that both Hamas and the Israeli government take every day in the news. You haven’t even tried to find a single example of the Israelis breaking the cease fires, because you know it can’t be done, and you’re so full of hatred you don’t even feel that Jews should be counted as humans. By your own words.