It is heart-wrenching to read about the war in the Middle East everyday. I think it has gone on too long and too many innocent people are dying. It is also a very uneven war. On the one hand you have one of the world's best-equipped (thanks to the United States) armies, Israel, and on the other side some home made rockets and sticks and stones. Also it is politics gone mad. The Israeli leaders are fighting for their political lives and competing with each other as who can carry out the best bloodbath of the neighbours - this with complete disregard for the residents of Gaza and for citizens of Israel as more instability in the region is provoked.
Please, before we became Jews, Christians and Muslims, we were all humans. We might now wear different religious hats but it does not take away from the fact that we are all humans to begin with. For those religious folks, if there is a God then there cannot be one God for Jews, another one for Christians and still another one for Muslims who takes sides. If there is a God then it is the same God for all and does not take sides. All religions preach peace and brotherhood because maybe that is the will of the God. The Jewish and Muslim God is all for equality and brotherhood/sisterhood and the Christian God is all about love. What happened to that God? Now this carnage in the name of God and territorial claims must stop. There must be a peaceful solution.
Why are all the moderate leaders of the religions not speaking out? People like Stephen Lewis who has done impressive work as a leader of the Ontario NDP party, Canadian ambassador to UN, and worked for other UN organizations and other similar moderate leaders. Where are our political leaders such as Harper, Iggy, Layton and Ducceppe? Why are they so afraid to speak the truth for a change?
"Home made rockets"? Sounds like grandmothers pie...
ReplyDeleteHope you get to spend a few years under the barrage of some home made rockets.
Friend, you have right to your views but 7 people killed over 2 years by these rockets compared to 400 Palestinians killed in few days tells the difference. It is indeed disproportionate response.
ReplyDeleteIf America had accepted such rules in, say, World War II, then by late 1944 it, not the Axis, would have been the culpable party, since by then once-aggressive German, Italian and Japanese forces were increasingly on the defensive and far less lethal than the Allies.
ReplyDeleteThe rockets are made in workshops. Sorry, but "Home made" is an utterly idiotic term. And here are some numbers:
9,400+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza since 2003.
3,200+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza in 2008 alone.
6,500+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza since Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005.
543+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza into Israeli territory during the ceasefire from June 19 to Dec. 19, 2008.
28 deaths caused by rockets and mortars fired from Gaza into Israel since 2001. The dead include Israelis, Palestinians and foreign workers. Since the ceasefire ended, Iran-backed Palestinian groups in Gaza fired rockets and mortars that killed an Israeli-Arab construction worker and a mother of four who was seeking shelter in a bus station as a rocket warning siren sounded.
1,000+ people in Israel injured from rockets and mortars fired from Gaza since 2001, including Israelis, Palestinians and foreign workers. Since the ceasefire, 44 Israelis have been injured and 200 have been treated for shock.
(Excludes last weeks casualties).
shlemazl, you know what is the most idiotic, to keep on killing ideology. If I were you then I will be very careful making any comparisons with Germany because in this case it is Palestinians who are being butchered – over 400 in on week. Unfortunately this ‘keep on killing’ philosophy has gone on since 1948 and it has resolved nothing.
ReplyDeleteThese days there is so much food contamination that more people die with homemade pies (food poisoning) than 28 people in 7 years. Do not get me wrong every life is precious and every life lost is regrettable. All I am saying is that it will be much better to have diplomatic solution than by killing and slaughter. Both sides must listen to UN and agree to a peaceful solution. Solutions which were started by Carter and pursued by Clinton and then screwed by Bush.
Negotiations with a party which has a commitment in it's charter to exterminating Jews? What kind of concessions do you see Israel doing? "You can exterminate only half the Jews, would that be OK?"
ReplyDeleteTheir objective is to wipe out Israel. They keep reaffirming it again and again and again: "Hamas would accept such choice conditioned with the withdrawal from our land, which was occupied in 1948" (http://www.almoltaqa.ps/english/showthread.php?t=9345).
They act accordingly. Even during the so-called ceasefire the fire on Israel never ceased, not even for 1 whole week.
Military solution is the only one that actually works with Hamas. Prior to March 2004 actions which killed Rantissi and Yassin, Hamas would be murdering 20 people a month every other month.
Negotiations work with other Palestinian fractions which have objectives other than annihalation of Israel and extermination of Jews.
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Your Israel=Nazi Germany innuendo just shows what an utter asshole you really are.
shlemazl, you're behaving like a complete asshole now and that will earn you no sympathy. Whenever someone behaves like that loses the cause he/she is fighting for.
ReplyDeleteFatah has accepted the existence of Israel. Jordan and Egypt have. Negotiations can achieve a lot. But if one party is asshole like you then there will be no peace. It is assholes like you who bring bad name for the rest of the Jewish community. Even fair minded, right in Israel, do not believe violence is the solution and some Israeli commentators have called the invasion of Gaza more for ballots than bullets.
If you continue this rubbish I will delete any future comments from you.
Heh Shlemazl, shouldn't you be out building a settlement or a "security fence" on someone else's land? It is alway's amazing to me when someone with their jackboots on somebody else's neck complain that their victems struggle too much. And yes "jackboot" is a nazi reference. If the shoe fits....
ReplyDeleteThank you, MilitantLiberal , well put. I tried to be nice to this schumuck and it did not work.
ReplyDeleteA monumental photograph capturing the David vs. Goliath aspect of this disaster perfectly.
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