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avoth12 months ago
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"their actions have outraged the world "
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They weren't outraged when Hamas was lobbing rockets into Israel on a daily basis so you'll understand if Israel is unimpressed with the world's outrage now. But you're right about the twitter. Israel should exterminate the terrorist and not bother to "twit" anything to a world which deserves no explanation. -
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hyperbola12 months ago
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You are absolutely right Candida. Major American jewish organizations are now condemning the bloodthirstiness of the zionists in Israel.
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Jewish Organizations Call For End to Gaza Bombings
Instead of offering unquestioning support of Israel's latest military venture in the decades-long conflict, four major Jewish organizations are calling for an immediate end to the bombings, and for humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip.
One of the groups, Americans for Peace Now, the sister organization of the Israel-based Peace Now, called for "the government of Israel to end its military operation in the Gaza Strip and to act toward achieving a cease-fire."
And Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace, called on the outgoing Bush administration "to initiate an international effort aimed at negotiating an immediate cease-fire."
These strong statements, along with ones from J Street (the political arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement) and the Israel Policy Forum (IPF), are in sharp contrast to many of the more hawkish traditional pro-Israel groups, who make no mention of a cessation of armed hostilities. The confident assertions from the four groups are a relatively new sort of campaign.
"You see a voice that is increasingly clear and has a significant resonance in the American Jewish community, and beyond the Jewish community, that takes a position, stakes it grounds, and won't be intimidated," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli negotiator and the director of New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force, one of the four groups.
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hyperbola12 months ago
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Killing human beings for election gains is a particularly nasty sort of brutality that fully reveals the psychotic nature of zionism.
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Israel - Electioneering with Bombs
Of the three politicians who announced the military assault on Gaza to the world on Saturday, perhaps only the outgoing prime minister Ehud Olmert has little to lose -- or gain -- from its outcome.
Flanking the Israeli prime minister were two of the main contenders for his job: Tzipi Livni, the foreign minister and the new leader of Mr Olmert’s centrist party, Kadima, and Ehud Barak, the defence minister and leader of the left-wing Labor Party. The attack on Gaza may make or break this pair’s political fortunes as they jostle for position against Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing party, Likud, before a general election little more than a month away.
Both have strenuously denied that the election has any bearing on the timing of the Gaza operation. But equally they hope a successful strike against Hamas may yet save them from electoral humiliation.
In the run-up to the election, observed Michael Warschawski, a founder of the Alternative Information Centre in Jerusalem, “all Israeli leaders are competing over who is the toughest and who is ready to kill more”.
... by launching the attack when many foreign reporters were away from the region for the holidays, the government hoped to be able to inflict the maximum damage on Gaza before the media could catch up.
It will take some days before western reporters effectively renew the pressure against Israel over its weeks-old decision to bar them from entering the Strip. The result will be fewer investigations of Israel’s choice of targets in Gaza, or the nature of the casualties, and a greater emphasis on talking heads in studios in Jerusalem, at which Israeli spokesmen excel.
... and most importantly -- their political rival, Mr Netanyahu, has been silenced. His main platform had been insisting on a tougher approach in Gaza.
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hyperbola12 months ago
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In fact, israelis themselves are condemning the stupidity of their government in attacking Gaza. We will see in this thread who are the fanatic zionists who will excuse anything on the basis of racism ("if it is my tribe, it can't be wrong").
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Rattling the Cage: Accept Hamas's offer
Dec 24, 2008
Hamas is offering Israel a cease-fire if Israel lifts the siege on Gaza - and Israel should take it.
It would have been nice if we had been been the ones to make the offer. Then we, not Hamas, would have been the ones calling the shots. But apparently we're too full of ourselves to admit that we, too, are up a tree, so it's Hamas, not us, that's putting out the ladder for us both to climb down and avoid a new, terrible Middle East war.
The way out of such a war is for Israel to lift the blockade - to let trucks, ships and planes pass to and from Gaza - and, in return, for Hamas and the other Gazan factions to stop firing rockets at Israeli border towns. They don't bother us, we don't bother them - that's the idea. And if the Palestinians broke the cease-fire, Israel could reimpose the siege, and if that didn't work, we could break the cease-fire, too - much more lethally, in fact, than they could.
What's so bad about that? Where's the terrible humiliation for Israel in that?
The alternative is to let the fighting keep escalating until very soon, we end up in a war in which nearly a million Israelis come under rocket fire; Gaza becomes a killing ground for Israelis and Palestinians alike; Israel ends up with the privilege of ruling the Strip and its 1.5 million desperate, hostile people again; and the dilemma of "what to do about Gaza?" not only doesn't go away, it becomes incomparably harder to solve.
And that's if the war doesn't spread to the West Bank and the North. ....
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