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Posted by: TechnologyExpert 1 year, 11 months agoGaza City was plunged into darkness Sunday after Israel blocked the shipment of fuel that powers its only electrical plant in retaliation for persistent rocket attacks by Gaza militants.
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Thinker22
Jan. 20, 2008, 8:18 p.m.From the article:
>> "We have the choice to either cut electricity on babies in the maternity ward or heart surgery patients or stop operating rooms," Gaza Health Ministry official Dr. Moaiya Hassanain said.
Well, not exactly. The people of Gaza also have the choice to convince their leaders to live in peace with their Israeli neighbors.
>> A defiant Hamas said its attacks on Israel would not cease because of the sanctions.
>> "We will not raise the white flag, and we will not surrender, " Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Sunday.
Oops! Apparently, attacking Israel is preferable for democratically elected Palestinian leadership in Gaza over both the babies in the maternity ward or heart surgery patients. If this is the case, it's NOT Israel that should be blamed for the results
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Thinker22
Jan. 20, 2008, 8:19 p.m.>>The regular fuel shipment from Israel did not arrive Sunday because the fuel terminal was closed, and the power plant has almost no reserves, said Rafik Maliha, director of the power plant.
>>The U.N. organization in charge of Palestinian refugees warned the blockade would drastically affect hospitals, sewage treatment and water facilities.
>>"The logic of this defies basic humanitarian standards," said Christopher Gunness, spokesman for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA.
Apparently, Mr. Christopher Gunness' believes that in response to Palestinian missiles Israel has to supply fuel and electricity to Gaza thus allowing the Palestinians to build more of these missiles. No wonder this "logic" is defied.
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Thinker22
Jan. 20, 2008, 8:20 p.m.>>The British group Oxfam called Israel's cutoff "ineffective as well as unlawful." Gisha, an Israeli group that has fought the fuel cutbacks in Israel's Supreme Court, said: "Punishing Gaza's 1.5 million civilians does not stop the rocket fire. It only creates an impossible 'balance' of human suffering on both sides of the border."
I have to agree with their opinions. Much more effective (and lawful) way to stop the rocket fire would be to turn Gaza into a giant pile of rubble... just like the Allies did in Germany and Japan back in 1945.
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TheRealizer
Jan. 20, 2008, 9:14 p.m.The U.S. and Israel are good at reducing entire areas into rubble!!!!!!
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walden3
Jan. 21, 2008, 8:32 a.m.How do we stop the missiles from being launched into Israel?
Are the Palestinian people interested in living in peace?
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Commodore1
Jan. 21, 2008, 8:50 a.m.The Hamas are such idiots! They won't even stop rocket attacks to help their babies and heart patients. In their arrogance they can't even consider the idea of peace. The Palestinians are really in a quandry to have such incompetent and arrogant leaders. Of course they are blaming Israel for this. The Palestinians should consider new leadership.
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cherev
Jan. 21, 2008, 11:22 a.m."We have the choice to either cut electricity on babies in the maternity ward or heart surgery patients or stop operating rooms," Gaza Health Ministry official Dr. Moaiya Hassanain said."
"babies in the maternity ward" = less future terrorists
"heart surgery patients or stop operating rooms" = less current terrorists
Death to all terrorists, terrorist supporters, terrorist sympathizers, terrorist appeasers, and terrorist apologists.
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NelsonR
Jan. 21, 2008, 11:43 a.m.Personally I give Israel credit for this act BUT
when will the Palestinians understand, Gandhi and MLK had it right with the idea of demonstrations with non violence. Is it that hard to understand? Violence begets Violence.
Is there any real sensible leader in the Arab World or is Violence the way to live?
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pcknowledge
Jan. 21, 2008, 11:50 a.m.Yes, Gandhi was right when he advocated non violence & peaceful demonstrations.
Gandhi also said he believed the Palestinians are being oppressed by Israel. From my travel experiences in the Middle East I'd have to agree.
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pcknowledge
Jan. 21, 2008, 12:17 p.m.I expected that reply from you cherev. In any conversation, you will inevitably get personal. There is no point saying:"From my knowledge of you." I am neither a muslim, nor a Jew. I based my opinion on what I saw there. I'm not a fan of Hamas, but I'm not a fan of the IDF either.
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pcknowledge
Jan. 21, 2008, 12:24 p.m.That's incorrect. Gandhi did critisize the Arabs for the methods they used. You should read what he said before you post inaccuracies. It doesn't matter wether you care or not. The methods the IDF uses are just as wrong as the methods Hamas uses.
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pcknowledge
Jan. 21, 2008, 12:40 p.m.Well Gandhi is dead. Gandhi's grandson went to Palestine & said the Palestinians are being oppressed. I posted tons of links many times about what Gandhi did say. You chose not to read them.
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pcknowledge
Jan. 21, 2008, 12:52 p.m.Gandhi & his grandson both said the Palestinians are being oppressed. I posted links about what they both said on multiple occassions.
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pcknowledge
Jan. 21, 2008, 1:11 p.m."One million or more dead versus 3000. Who's the bigger terrorist?"
You should know by now that American lifes & Jewish lifes are worth much more then any other. Our government's & Israel's government's foreign policies have always reflected that. For example, I don't often see "my fellow Americans" dennouce the thousands of innocent Iraqis that have died in this Bush led war.
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Daylight
Jan. 21, 2008, 1:13 p.m.This is indeed the status of state of Zionist state of Israel:
Avi Dichter
Avi Dichter was head of Shin Beth when Israel killed Saleh Shehada
An Israeli minister has canceled a visit to the UK over concerns he could be arrested on war crimes charges.
The foreign ministry said an "extreme leftist" organization was likely to file a legal complaint against Public Security Minister Avi Dichter.
He was the domestic intelligence agency chief in 2002 when Israel bombed a Hamas military leader's house killing him, his bodyguard and 15 civilians.
British law allows private citizens to file complaints of alleged war crimes.
"Minister Dichter has canceled this trip following threats of him being arrested in Great Britain. This is an intolerable situation," said his spokesman Barak Sari.
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Daylight
Jan. 21, 2008, 1:14 p.m.He had been invited to London as keynote speaker at a counter terrorism seminar at Kings College.
The visit was called off after the UK government had been unable to guarantee him immunity, his office said, in the event of a private citizens complaint leading to an arrest warrant for war crimes.
'Mistaken attack'
The Shin Beth agency, headed by Mr Dichter between 2000 and 2005, helped plan the assassination of Hamas military commander Saleh Shehada in July 2002.
Nine children were killed in the raid. A one-tonne bomb was dropped on Mr Shehada's house. The dead included his wife and his three children.
In the face of international condemnation, including Israel's main ally the US, Israel conducted an investigation and concluded that the raid had been a "mistake".
In 2006, the Israeli army scrapped plans to send one of its generals to a course at a British military academy over fears he could be arrested on war crimes charges.
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Daylight
Jan. 21, 2008, 1:15 p.m.A year earlier, former Gen Doron Almog narrowly avoided arrest for his involvement in the Shehada assassination. He refused to leave his aircraft after a tip-off by Israeli diplomats.
Correspondents say this is the first time an Israeli minister has canceled a visit over fears of a private citizen's complaint.
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Daylight
Jan. 21, 2008, 1:27 p.m.All the Israeli leaders and most of the American leaders are war criminals they are worse than the Nazi criminals. Who else in the world has the power to these criminals and put them behind bars or hang them. No one can do that except the American people. If American people are people with conscience please do not support criminals to be your leaders. God will certainly judge you, however much you may deny God's Justice, it will prevail. American support for Israel has embolden Israel to kill people at will, they are not bothered about international laws or UN sanctions because America is always there to bail them out and continue to support their terrorism in the land of the Palestinians. Even the Arab puppets in the Middle east welcome criminals like George Bush with pomp and pageantry, is a shameful to the entire Muslim world.
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hyperbola
Jan. 21, 2008, 3:25 p.m.As usual zionists out in force trying to use America to support zionist crimes against humanity. Zionist israel is every bit engaged in "master race" thinking as Hitler's Germany. Gaza and the West Bank is not so different from the Warsaw Ghetto and is motivated by the same 19th century east european racism, colonialism and totalitarianism that gave us both Hitler and Stalin. Real jews should put an end to zionism.
The Ethnic Cleansing Goes On
Do No Evil รข;; It's not about a clash between Jews and Palestinians. It's matter of colonialism. Today there are opinion movements of young Jews, in Europe and in the US, who point the finger at Israel's colonialist policies and accuse it as a colonialist and racist state, not because it is a state founded by Jews."
http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2008/01/21/t...
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Endoscopy
Jan. 21, 2008, 4:11 p.m.Daylight and hyperbole are a matched pair. They promote hatred and killing by the Muslims as a just way to treat the Jew. The comments are sick and disgusting. I can understand Daylight after doing research on Islam. Hyperbola must be a affiliated with Nazi/KKK groups or something similar. He spouts their hateful rhetoric.
The facts of the horrible atrocities that are committed against Israel are just thought of as justice. Anything to counter these attacks is ranted against with hatred. That demonstrates their obvious hatred of Jews.
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