Gaza: The Untold Story »
Posted By populist 1 year ago in Political News
The fact is that there is more to the Gaza Strip than 1.5 million hungry Palestinians, who are supposedly paying the price for Hamas's militancy, or Israel's 'collective punishment', which ever way the media decide to brand the problem.
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Thinker221 year ago
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> The fact is that there is more to the Gaza Strip than 1.5 million hungry Palestinians, who are supposedly paying the price for Hamas's militancy, or Israel's 'collective punishment', which ever way the media decide to brand the problem.
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The fact is that these 1.5 million hungry Palestinians did not yet ask their democratically elected government to NEGOTIATE a better deal. This is a pretty strong proof that they're happy with the current situation.-
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Justice4All1 year ago
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Nobody ever asks the civilian population what they think. This is a standard military tactic. When France was occupied in WW2 there were still people willing to put up a fight at any cost. Tha Nazi's made it clear that 10 or more people would be executed for every German killed in Germany (occupied France). It worked very well and most people got the message. But there were some that just wouldn't learn and kept on attacking the occupying Germans. But the attacks were kept to a mininum.
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Israel is using the same tactic. Hamas is launching rockets into Israel (occupied Palestine) and has killed one person. Israel response by killing hundreds. The attacks wont stop but they will be kept to a minimum.
Out of 1.5 million hungry Palestinians there are bound to be a few who will continue the fight to return to their homes and land. Israel will keep killing them but in their opinion they have very little to lose.
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Albmore1 year ago
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First I do not believe that the Palistinians were somehow fooled by what type a group Hammas was when they elected them.They knew of their ambitions, agenda and tatics. 1.5 million people could close Hammas down if that is what they wanted. The fact is most support them. We saw NO great cries for weeks to stop the rockets fired into Isreal. Sorry BUT if the palstinians want peace then let the deal with and remove Hammas.
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rightfromwrong1 year ago
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it is always overkill with Israel. This is the only war which is not funded on both sides by the bankers...the USA provides Israel with all the latest weapons for nothing and the Palestinians have nothing. So they use suicide bombers because that is all they have. The USA vetoes all UN resolutions which pertain to Israel giving back stolen land. It is time for the USA to take a neutral stance and stop the bloodshed. But they won't because of the Jewish lobby group which has a stranglehold on USA foreign policy
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rightfromwrong1 year ago
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it is always overkill with Israel. This is the only war which is not funded on both sides by the bankers...the USA provides Israel with all the latest weapons for nothing and the Palestinians have nothing. So they use suicide bombers because that is all they have. The USA vetoes all UN resolutions which pertain to Israel giving back stolen land. It is time for the USA to take a neutral stance and stop the bloodshed. But they won't because of the Jewish lobby group which has a stranglehold on USA foreign policy
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awongscreen1 year ago
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People can be fooled. Look at the government elected by the US people for the last 8 years. You get elected by giving the majority of the people the impression that you look after their interests. Maybe you are actually working for the people, or maybe you are trying to fool them. Despite getting rid of the republican party in the recent election, there are still a fair percentage of the population who still get fooled by the conservative agenda.
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You can tell whether a government is good or bad by looking at what it does to improve the educational level of the people. Dictatorship governments want to lower the educational level of the people so they can be fooled easily and few have the intellectual ability to oppose the government. We have lots of examples in history of such governments, Nazi Germany, Communist China, etc.
I am not an expert in the Gaza educational system but I can safely assume that the poverty in the area is a huge road block to the education standard of the general mass. Put a little religious element on top of that and you can see that it is not that difficult for the rulers to fool the people.
Nobody can deny that Hammas is a democratically elected government of the gaza people. Whether Hammas acts in the interest of the people or its self interest is the question. This problem is not limited to the middle east. We see similar situation in Canada, US, UK, etc.
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tchef1 year ago
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This is also how I remember it. Hamas was democratically elected and both Israel and the United States immediately tried to undermine the government. They withdrew all support and started to starve the people into submission. An enemy with nothing to lose is the most dangerous enemy of all.
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CHAM1 year ago
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Seems I notice something missing here. Did I miss it or did someone mention that the Democratically elected Government of the Palestinians is Hamas?
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Have you already forgotten history of only about three years ago?
Didn't the United States sponsor and oversee an election that resulted in the people voting Hamas into power to replace the Abbas Government? Because in their eyes Abbas was the puppet of the Israeli wardens.
Well the United States did not take kindly to the newly elected Government gain let me remind that the United States oversaw the election to make sure there was fairness. And the only thing unfair in the U S and Israeli eyes was that Hamas was elected.
And as I recall the first thing the new Government, Hamas, did was to place a peace overture to the United States and Israel.
But, oh no, the two couldn't stand for democracy if the outcome was something they didn't expect. Immediately the U S and Israel began to deny the new Government, and threw their support to the defeated former leader Abbas. Now that's how I remember the farce.
And as I recall, there was an immediate effort to starve Gaza into accepting Abbas as their leader ( because the U S and Israel wated him as the leader of the Palestinians ). The inhumane treatment thrust on the Palestinians is inexcusable, and as Olmert, outgoing Prime Minister of Israel said last Sunday.
"We are the children of a people whose historic ethos is built on the memory of pogroms," Olmert said during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. "The sight of Jews firing at innocent Palestinians has no other name than pogrom."
"I am ashamed that Jews could do such a thing,"
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rightfromwrong1 year ago
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the USA is such a phony nation. It is hardly a democracy anyway as they are one of the biggest exporters of terrorism in the world. they try to over throw any democratically elected government which doesn't hand over all it's resources and sell off it's assets for almost nothing.
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Every American should read Naomi Klein's "shock doctrine" and see exactly how much misery and death they have caused and still up to doing dirty deeds. Greed!!!!!!!! -
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Endoscopy1 year ago
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You are denying your name and taking sides. If your next door neighbor would throw rocks at you and your children and hurt your family what would you do? You are telling everybody that you would do nothing? You would do nothing to protect your family if the police ignored the situation?
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You are being silly.
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reallypsst1 year ago
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What the article fails to mention is that Gaza is occupied by three militant factions that have the support of Iran, Syria and possibly others who dictate terrorism,these people live with fear and terror all of their lives.This country has been used as a spring board of hatred and terror for these monsters.This might be radical or even insensitive to say but maybe in this war israel can drive out the militants or maybe create a civil war that would give the citizens back control of their country!
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ningyo1 year ago
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it was egypt and others that initially pushed the palestinians out to attack isreal in 1967--then they lost the war and also lost them their homes--no other arab nation wanted them around or would accept the refugees--these people with such big hearts that sit by and watch the plo launch attacks from schools and hospitals--for 40 years the only people i see trying to help them at all are the evil zionists--maybe sadat as well--but they have become useful pawns of iran et al in their fanatic hatred for isreal--the only hope for these people is for isreal to seize control of gaza and totally expel hamas--and because of the way these cowards operate there will be many civilaian casualties--which the thugs at the UN and leftwingnuts here will condemn
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