With Israel currently fighting fire with a towering, unyielding, indiscriminate inferno, the US government is once again mostly alone in its support of the Jewish nation-state's most recent incursion into Gaza. A large contingent of the UN Security Council, the American people and even the former head of the Mossad are calling the attacks on Hamas wrongheaded. Yet New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, on a "solidarity trip" to Israel yesterday, noted his "admiration for the courage of the Israeli people…" On December 29, there were already 51 civilian deaths in Gaza, including women and children.
Care to know who else in our government believes killing women and children can be "courageous"?

James Mountain Inhofe
Jim Inhofe, seen here on the Senate floor motioning to a photo of his large family and declaring that there's never been any homosexuals in it, is a senator from Oklahoma, and an ardent supporter of Israel. In an infamous 2002 Senate speech/listicle entitled "Seven Reasons That Israel Has a Right to Their Land," Inhofe cited archaeological and tactical reasons before pulling his trump card: "I believe very strongly that we ought to support Israel; that it has a right to the land. This is the most important reason: Because God said so." Eat shit, separation of church and state.

Hillary Clinton
Senator (and soon to be secretary of state) Hillary Clinton, like her husband, is a great friend to Israel. In fact, her grand plans for the nation benefit it more than those of any of her contemporaries. In her 2007 policy paper on Israel, Clinton stated: "…Israel's right to exist in safety as a Jewish state, with defensible borders and an undivided Jerusalem as its capital, secure from violence and terrorism, must never be questioned."
Contrary to Hill's assertions, Israel's right to "an undivided Jerusalem" is questioned quite frequently:
"Jerusalem is not only of political, religious, and emotional significance to Palestinians. It's the cultural and economic capital of any future state of Palestine. To carve out east Jerusalem from the rest of Palestine would be to deprive of it the geographic area which traditionally has been the heart of the Palestinian economy," said Philip Wilcox, a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer who served as consul general and chief of mission in Jerusalem and is now president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, a D.C. nonprofit. "It's an absolute deal –breaker, and there will be no peace if there isn't an agreed political division of Jerusalem."

John McCain
Mr. McCain had never been closer to Israel than any other American politician, but his behavior on the campaign trail last year changed that. After receiving an endorsement from insane televangelist John Hagee, McCain was asked to "repudiate" the notoriously anti-Catholic pastor, a request the Republican nominee denied. McCain said that while he disagrees with Hagee's views on Catholicism, the pastor's voracious support of Israel made him someone he couldn't disavow outright. For what reasons does Hagee so support Israel? Get a load of this shit:
Hagee’s predictions are very clear. Armageddon, the final battle, could begin, he wrote in his 2007 book "Jerusalem Countdown," “before this book gets published.†The Antichrist “will be the head of the European Union,†he writes.
Using geographical calculations based on the Book of Revelation, he writes that Israel will be covered in “a sea of human blood†in the final battle. The Jews, however, will survive the battle, Hagee says, long enough to have “the opportunity to receive Messiah, who is a rabbi known to the world as Jesus of Nazareth.†“They will be blessed beyond their wildest imagination,†he writes.

Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman is a ridiculous, traitorous crybaby and an embarrassment to himself, Connecticut and America. Nevertheless, according to Mark Vogel, chairman of the pro-Israel National Action Committee Political Action Committee, Lieberman is also "without exception, no conditions … the No. 1 pro-Israel advocate and leader in Congress." What's he done that's so great? Absurd propaganda! Lots of it. After co-authoring a pro-Israel resolution in 2002 and then attempting to push it through, Lieberman famously declared from the Senate floor, "You are either with us or the terrorists." And last year he attempted to smear Barack Obama by routinely questioning the then Democratic nominee's commitment to Israel. In a statement released around the beginning of Israel's latest strikes on Gaza, Lieberman asserted that Hamas is to blame for all the destruction.

Frank Lautenberg
At 84, Frank Lautenberg is the second oldest member of the US Senate. He's also one of the top 10 recipients of pro-Israel PAC funds. And boy do those pro-Israel groups get their money's worth. Besides having publicly stated that it is "vital that America does all it can to help keep Israel safe and stable," Lautenberg has taken his pro-Israel stance a step further, becoming an out and out stupid bigot for the sake of the nation:
The hyperbole of some Democrats has bordered on racism, with New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg claiming that the transfer of title of operations at one of Newark's four terminals constitutes an Arab “occupation,†adding that, “We wouldn't transfer the title to the Devil; we're not going to transfer it to Dubai.†In response to criticism of his comparison of the Dubai government with Satan, Lautenberg defended his remarks by noting the failure of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to support U.S. policy toward Israel and Iran.
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As much as I'm against the new war with the Hamas I strongly believe that Israel can and should not be undone.
To a certain degree you have to understand why jewish people feel hunted and left alone. It is hard to life for hundreds of years of negative perception. Often this led to pogroms and, as we know, millions of deaths. I don't want to say that this makes it right. I just want to say that overreaction on the jewish site is development which is psychologically comprehensible.
Violence is a vicious circle. Obviously both sites feel they are "right"(eous). And you have to be aware that fanatics (also on both sites) fuel the hatred against the will of a lot of people who just want to live their life… but if you like it or not: the muslim fanatics have imams on their site who tell them that non-muslims are outlaws and that a good muslim can kill non-muslims without guilt, even with salvation. I know it sounds bad, and I'm aware that this concerns the extreme part of a group. Nonetheless it is a group (growing, of course because also of the violence done to THEM) which is not into negotiation. Of course the Jewish site also has their own fanatics. But as far as I know there is no complement in their doctrine to Jihad.
It makes me sad. I can't see any solution in the Far East.
i may be an observer from the Orient, but the cause of Israel is not lost in me.
maybe for once you get to see the middle-east picture from the perspective of Israel as a State, and for once, take a break of inhaling the Palestinian-biased propaganda of the media.
you cannot use proportionality or demand ceasefire and say "Israel" and "Hamas" in the same sentence. Israel is a state. Hamas is a terrorist organization who launch their jihad from within the Palestinian population. It is a public relations coup to have images of Palestinian children bloodied from Israel retaliation - but you have to get over your anti-Israel bias to realize that that Hamas was hiding behind that kid. it is a microcosm of what Hamas has done to their own people.
For once, Israel needs to be understood.
No one seems to think of the Palestinians forced from their homeland of 2000 years…how would you feel?
Miss TTA: I'm aware of the fact that the Palestinians lived there for 2000 years… but so did the Jewish Folk. Even 3000 years ago. So this is only ONE point. The first of the Alijas started back in the 1880ies, a time when the region was economical a wasteland.
It is a fact that every country… every state and every nation changed over the centuries. Some did it more peaceful and some less (mostly: less).
So as far as I can see it we are living with the facts as they are now and should make the best of it. Never was there a time in which we were more aware of history and what powerstruggle, nationalism, racism and religion did to people. But still it looks like as if we - the human race - are not able to learn from the past. So yes: it is shitty what happens in the region, but in the last 20 years there where more chances of peace than in the last 200. So the chances exist - but men don't make them reality.
so it's okay for the Israeli's to persecute and murder innocent women and children? to bulldoze homes? to deny medical and food aid to Palestinians?
No, that was obviously not the point that I wanted to make. My point is, that as a matter of fact BOTH parties need to take a step back and make the best of the situation. Even with different religion and different races should it be possible to maintain peace because we are "rational" human beings and not some animals who kill for stomping ground. And like it or not: but there was peace in arm length but the attacks on the one side (Hamas/fantatic Moslems) and territorial claim (Orthox Jews(fantatic Isrealis) on the side kill every peace process because old wounds are not allowed to heal.
People can be saddened by the deaths of innocent civilians in Gaza and still support Israel's right to defend itself. Southern Israel was bombed by Hammas rockets for days after a cease fire had ended. Israel did not respond for days hoping that the rocket fire, damage, injuries, and fatalities would end. When it went on through Christmas, the Israeli government decided to bomb back. Yes, the Israeli response is greater than the Hammas rockets, Israel's technology is much more advanced. You can fire the same amount of rockets and do more damage if your weapons are more powerful and the guiding systems more advanced. Remember, Israel didn't start this, Hammas did.
As for the civilian casualties, Hammas places weapons storage or rocket launchers right by civilian locations such as schools, mosques, hospitals, etc. Every non-governmental militant organization uses that page in their playbook. It only helps justify their cause when the country or people they attack finally retaliate. See Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, Basque region of Spain, etc.
As for Israel supporters in the USA, any devout Christian who thinks that the second coming of the Messiah is on it's way will support Israel because they believe Israel needs to stay in Jewish hands for Jesus to come back to Earth. That explains why a Senator from a state that probably can count their Jewish residents by having them fill one room in a building would be such an ardent supporter. Plus, having had a terrorist attack in Oklahoma City probably makes the people who live there understand what it feels like to live your life under the threat of terror - and it only happened once in OC…imagine almost every day.
As for your other 4 Senators…3 were Presidential candidates, the other a long serving Senator. Imagine what classified intelligence information they have seen over the years that we are not privy to on television, in print, or on the internet. That might play a factor on where they stand on issues of security, not just who donates money to their campaigns.
maybe if the palestinians stopped supporting terrorist organization and voting them into office they wouldn't be in this position.
historically, no arab country has embraced or welcomed palestinians, and in fact, they've denied them entry. additionally, palestinians have themselves immigrated to israel and swelled their own numbers while crying about persecution.
try getting the FACTS!!
Wow. You really must dislike readership and ad revenue.
Did you ever for five minutes think that a lot of Jews are probably drawn to a media gossip site? Huh? Really, how many people of "Palestinian" descent do you think read this blog versus how many Jews?
I work in the industry and have been a longtime reader, but I will never read this blog again. Enjoy your little soapbox - you're going to go the same way as Mollygood pretty soon. Poorly played.
Just a note to let you know I will never read your Web Site again.Where were you when Israel was being shelled by Hamas and its citizens were being killed?
so 2 readers are leaving because someone wrote pointing out the blanket support given to israel? this situation will never be resolved if people—-the USA especially—keep bowing to the whims of Israel, writing them blank checks and thinking it is okay for Israel to bomb the fuck out of any Palestinian area with no ramification…when the Palestinians defend themselves it's called terrorism?
granted there ARE Palestinian terror organizations, but what about the Israeli secret police that feels it can go anywhere in the world and kill people they feel are against Israel? seems terroristic to me…
Palestine has the right to exist…
clueless people conclude that people who support Palestine are anti-semetic, that is not true…there are Jewish groups who are anti-zionistic….anti-zionism is not anti-semitism….
Oh Cord! How I loved you on MollyGood! Your post is fraught with issues. Please note that supporting Israel's right to exist (as you point out all of the politicians above do) does not and cannot equal to supporting specific acts undertaken by Israel toward that goal. Do not confuse the two, then you become just as much of a "spin-artist" as those have written about so angrily.
Please remember the most recent conflict in Lebanon, when, after a while, the U.S. began to publicly urge Israel to cease its attacks. So, what are you trying to say in your post? That only "bad" politicians support Israel? That there's a conspiracy of some sort? You really should clarify your point. While normally extremely well-written and articulate, this particular post leaves a lot to be desired, frankly.
On a sidenote, Bravo to the readers for finally mentioning what has NOT been mentioned in the media (or quickly glazed over). Hamas had been indiscriminately firing rockets into Israel for quite a bit of time before Israel began to act. Hamas did not have any military targets in mind that it wanted to hit - it was hoping to simply kill and maim as many as it could without regard to whether those killed and/or maimed were children, women, the ill, or the elderly. While I do not feel entirely comfortable with what Israel is doing right now, I feel that we all must remember, as terrible and wrong as it sounds, that Israel is systematically aiming at military targets. Civilians are dying in Gaza, and it is awful and disgusting to me. But please, do not for a second forget that Israel's enemy in this conflict - Hamas, who is now 'crying wolf'- had a goal in mind of killing civilians.
I am very strongly anti- military conflict and pro- peaceful resolution. However, I absolutely understand (if do not entirely condone) Israel's current and past actions.
As several other readers before me, I will probably not look at this website again. Not because I am a Jew and feel that you were disloyal to my interests, but because I feel that this was a very poorly designed one-sided jab at a very complicated issue on your part. I am very disappointed.
^^ Are you encouraging some kind of Jewish 'dixie-chicking?' You know, maybe that's your problem — last time I looked, this was a free country, and censorship was considered a bad thing, and so were the threats to run people out of town who happen to disagree with your opinions. If you truly feel you have a good and just argument (heh), you need to stay and encourage dialogue, not threaten to get your aunts, uncles, and showbiz-type friends to boycott websites. I guarantee you, if anyone thought you were serious - all they'd have to do is email every other right thinking continent, country, and city who happened to think bombing women and children was an awful idea to COUNTER your boycott…yeah, EXACTLY…DO THE MATH, TOOL. If you're aiming to turn this country into a dictatorship, why don't you move to Israel and start bombing babies your damned self.
You know what I really detest — Israel waiting for their bestest most wonderful-est pals in the entire world to vacate (The Bush's, Cheneys, and Rummys), and then planning to go apeshit and torch the entire Middle East on Obama's watch. Who cares, he's just a black guy right? Wow - all those evil waspy types had Israel in check didn't they? They kept it in check for the last 5 to 8 years…NOW that we have Obama, first black prez moving in, they've been given the okay to bomb and clean-up at will, creating MASS chaos and destruction. Interesting. Anyone who voted Obama/Biden should be f*cking royally pissed. I mean, tell me this…hasn't Hamas or terrorist elements within, been firing on this southern area for YEARS. So why didn't Israel make an excursion long before now? Answer: Bush/Cheney would not have ALLOWED IT. Yep. They'll have fun demolishing the Palestinians now that they've been given permission by the Fuhrer Bush/Cheney administration. Why is it the Great White Fathers are always able to keep everyone in check…is it because they are evil?
Liberals like cord are fucking disgusting. Israel has right to defend itself, the Palestinians have been offered more than they deserved time and time again, and each time they have said "thanks but no thanks, we'd rather try and push you into the sea".
The end to all this is squarely in the hands of the Palestinians and the other Arab nations.
Maybe you should head to Gaza, I'm sure those cowardly Hamas fucks would gladly accept another human shield.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - IF YOU QUESTION THE INFALABILITY OF ISRAEL, YOU ARE AN ANTI-SEMITIC TERRORIST SYMPATHIZER. It's as simple as that. I don't even need to read this article to know that this "Cord" fellow would love to bathe in the blood of Israeli babies.
Israel is not infallible. However, they are trying to stop rockets from being launched at them after 5 days of not doing anything about it hoping that Hammas would stop on their own. The biggest difference between Israel the democratic country, and Hammas the terrorist organization is the following - Israel aims at targets that are military relevant (ammunition depots, underground smuggling tunnels, rockets and other long range weapons, etc.) and drops pamphlets in Arabic warning civilians of what is going on to somehow prevent unnecessary civilian injuries and deaths, all while being done by the orders of politicians and generals who appear on public television acknowledging their actions. Meanwhile, Hammas fires rockets anywhere they can hoping to hit targets that can cause the most damage - not aiming at Israeli army bases or anything military related - and the Hammas members making these choices of where and what to bomb won't show their face on television and hide behind scarfs and masks (I guess it's meant as visual symmetry to hiding their weapons and gunmen in densely civilian populated buildings as human shields).
The plight of the Palestinian people is partially the fault of Israel, but the countries that neighbor Israel never allowed Palestinians to become citizens of their countries and kept them in refugee camps and wouldn't allow them to fully immigrate and economically advance. The wars of 1948, 1967, and 1973 were not to make a Palestinian nation - they were wars to claim territory for those individual Arab countries with no plans to give it to the Palestinian people.
There is a bias in the media. Here in the USA it is mainly geared pro-Israel because of the Jews who live here and the evangelical Christians who want Jesus to come back in their lifetime. In Europe the media bias is geared towards Palestinians because most of the European Union economic powers have large Muslim or Arab minorities from either their former colonies or normal flows of immigration. But we know that the European countries treat the Arabs and Muslims that live in their countries as full citizens with the same rights as those born German or French…oh wait, they don't! If anyone remembers what happened with the "Suburban Riots" in France before the last election they read all about the way French society integrates North Africans and Middle Easterners. I as a fifth generation American have a better chance of becoming a citizen in most European nations than Arab or Muslim children born in those countries to parents who immigrated. European media is pro-Palestinian to make up to a minority for the lack of equal rights they receive in those European countries.
And don't get me started on where all that money the Palestinian Authority received after the signed Peace Accord with Israel. Arafat and his closest associates did a great job wasting that money on new homes, new cars, etc. and very little on bettering the Palestinian territories' economy and their own people. That corruption is what lead to Hammas' rise to power.
people like karl spensen are part of the problem…
Apparently that's the latest 'talking point,' for the Israelis who want to excuse blowing up babies and small children.
150 or so 4 year olds get blown to smithereens in their own homes, schools and hospitals - but just say it's not our fault, it's Hamas using them as 'shields,' and blame them.
It's not the fault of the brave pilots 15,000 feet in the air who blow up whole towns…it's the grandparents babysitting their grandchildren who can't leave their apartments.
Were the Jews using their children as shields when they were shipped off to Auschwitz?
Are the children in Darfur being used as 'shields?' After all, all they have to do is leave right?
Sick. I saw a 50-ish lady in a fur coat and diamonds with a very well made professionally printed sign protesting for Israel yseterday — her sign said, 'Stop Using Your Children as Shields,' on the news yesterday. That Talking Poing is being very well dispersed. I expect we'll be hearing up the wazoo, since after all - what defense do you have against 6 month old babies with missing limbs?? That's pretty evil.
You'll be hearing that a lot. It's the new, 'They welcome us as liberators,' or 'Weapons of Mass Instruction,' wash, rinse, repeat - til the propaganda STICKS. B-b-b-ut I know they have rocks and we have megaton bombs that vaporize people and that WE are dropping on THEIR homes, b-b-b-but, 'THEY'RE USING INNOCENT PEOPLE AS THEIR SHIELDS.' Ugh.
Anyone that swallows that bullshit, anyone that believes it, and anyone that DIABOLICALLY keeps saying it — you need to be beat down with a hammer. Blaming the bombed babies parents??? Really? REALLY??? STFU!!!
@Katie: I am Palestinian and read this…..next!!!
Propaganda, you chose your name well…because it sounds like you've swallowed a shitload of it. Ignorance is bliss.
Good lord, if I hear "Israel has a right to defend itself" one more time, I'm gonna vomit. Anyone who doesn't see their military actions as RIDICULOUSLY disproportionate has their heads completely up their asses. I mean jesus, just look at the math.
"Israel has a right to defend itself" is up there with "cut and run" and "speaking truth to power"… bullshit slogans chanted ad nauseum by brainwashed zombies on both sides of the aisle.
disproportionate? Fair? why the fuck is anyone using these terms…war isn't a game of fucking checkers.
^ How so IDF supporter? Please enlighten us on how every Palestinian child that is wounded and dies by an Israeli bullet or bomb - is a Hamas 'shield?' At least 200,000 Iraqis are dead after 'Mission Accomplished,' were they being used as 'shields,' also? Oh thank you, I can sleep much better now having served 4 tours. My fellow soldiers will feel so much better now that I can tell them they really didn't accidentally light up a few cars with kids in them at various checkpoints - as long as they start thinking of it, as insurgents using toddlers as shields maybe they can stop themselves from eating a bullet.
No, "WAR," isn't a game of fucking checkers IDF Supporter, you twat - and Israel's high tech billion dollar war machine and organized highly trained Army invading a bunch of rock-throwers backyards and incenerating whatever it comes across isn't "WAR," either - you stupid fuck.
You need to grow the fuck up, and crack open a history book you WUSS.
War is my grandfather going INTO BATTLE in WORLD WAR II as a sargent in the ARMY, fighting the NAZIS and freeing people from fucking DEATH camps (ships battling ships, subs battling subs, bazooka battling bazooka)- THAT is a fucking WAR. Not the Israeli's chasing down 13 yr old boys in their backyards with rocks in their hands you waek motherfucker!
By the way, change your name to "IUD supporter," I sure as HELL wish your mother had used one.
Wow kid, it's you that needs to study some military history…
"(ships battling ships, subs battling subs, bazooka battling bazooka)" that's the most ridiculous description of WWII combat I've ever read.
what childrens book on the second world war are you reading? war is not fought fair, no not even WWII.
Actually IDF, checkers was based on military strategy. I not surprised you find the description of two military armies fighting each other 'ridiculous,' since your kind of war aparently involves machine-gunning residential homes and killing kids in cradles.
Yeah…I understand why you wouldn't want to fight men in uniform.
That said, since War 'isn't a game of checkers,' when some of these kids living in occupied territories, needing papers to go here and there, and whose homes and families Israel is now blowing up, grow up to be terrorists - I'm assuming you and Israel will be okay with that?
Like all Arab Fakestinian supporters Cord is an ignorant uneducated fool. First of all there has never been a "Palestinian" country, people, society or culture. Ancient Israel was re-named Palestine by the Romans and has no connection to the Arabs. Jews were the first to be called Palestinians because they have always lived in their homeland. The Arabs didn't arrive until thousand of years later. There were "Palestinians" living in Israel/Palestine two thousand years ago but they were all JEWS!
The Arab Fakestinians were created by the KGB and Arab countries in the 1960's for propaganda purposes and for the purpose of staling the Jewish homeland. Most of the Arab invadors arrived in the middle of the last century to Israel and have no claim to the Jewish homeland.
Ever since the Arab invadors arrived in Israel they have massacred and attacked the indigenous Jews. Terror has always been a part of the Arab's culture. Millions of Arabs are illegally occupuing Jewish land. Jordan, which was 80% part of ancient Israel, was given to the Arabs. Parts of Lebanon and Syria were also part of ancient Israel. Arabs are the occupiers and invadors and need to go back to Arabia.
Hamass has murdered thousands of Jewish women and children in the last decade! Murdering babies in their cradles and playpens is something that they do well! Israel has every right to defend itself against blood-thirsty terrorists who celebrate after blowing up the heads off Jewish babies. Hamass monsters are not the underdogs in this war. The terrorists are armed to the teeith by Iran and Hizzbullah and given high-powered rockest, machine guns, bombs etc.
Most of those killed in Gaza have been terrorists. The Arab children that were killed were being used as human shields by the Hamass terrorist. That's the truth so GET USED TO IT!
All the idiot terrorist supporters need to get out of the basement and learn about what's really happening in the world. I know that's difficult since you people have never been a block from your home. Or better yet go to the Middle East and fight with the terrorists you love so much. What a bunch of mentally challenged idiots who don't know the first thing about the Middle East.
Cord needs to go back to writing about what he knows best like kissing Obama's ass and violent rappers. You're a damn idiot that needs to shut the hell up about Israel. You don't know anything about it, you terrorist supporting scumbag!
In direct contravention of international law, Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields, utilizing homes, schools and community centers as launching pads, content in the knowledge that if innocent Palestinian civilians are caught in the cross-fire, it will be Israel that is criticized. This amounts to a sort of Daily Double of human rights violations: the use of innocent Palestinians as human shields for the infliction of violence upon innocent Israelis.
The loss of any civilian lives is truly regrettable. Israel has cancelled many military operations because of its concern with civilian casualties. But should civilian losses occur despite the best efforts of Israel to avoid them, it is ultimately not Israel's responsibility. As political philosopher Michael Walzer noted in 2006: "When Palestinian militants launch rocket attacks from civilian areas, they are themselves responsible - and no one else is - for the civilian deaths caused by Israeli counterfire."
Firing dozens of bullets at children studying in a yeshiva library is evil. Firing missiles for the purpose of killing civilians is evil.
Causing agony to the families of the kidnapped is evil. And dancing for joy when innocent civilians are murdered by terrorists is evil.
Neither the Israeli army nor the American army goes around residential buildings looking for babies in their cribs to murder. Modern democratic governments don't do that. I'm not in the military myself but come from a family that has served in wars since the Russo-Prussian/Crimean War. I have heard stories from every side from people who fought for their country. A true war is strategy, and Hammas' strategy includes using civilians as shields. If you dig a tunnel under a hospital or school to smuggle weapons you are making a conscious decision to have that hospital or school as part of the collateral damage.
War comes with casualties, some avoidable and some not. The Israeli army and air force would love nothing but to only hit military Hammas targets and not kill Palestinian civilians. It does nothing for Israel's government to be seen as killing innocents. The goal is to drive Hammas out, not the Palestinian people. With Fatah in control there is possibility of some form of peace and the betterment of the Palestinian people. The Israeli government knows that a Palestinian nation is inevitable and doesn't want the another generation of suicide bombers and religious fanatics.
As for those who say that Israel never wants peace, the current Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barack, was Prime Minister in 2000. He agreed to a full treaty with Palestine that Clinton negotiated. It included economic reparations, East Jerusalem as capital of Palestine, and many other concessions that Arafat wanted. His agreeing to it got him thrown out of office. For some reason, Arafat wouldn't sign it. Defense Minister Barack and President Shimon Peres are the doves of Israel's politics the past 25 years. So this decision to fight back Hammas was not made by Hawkish, war-mongering politicians.
Stop saying it's a war. It's not. It's a conflict that has existed for many many years - it is not a WAR. When Hitler's soldiers dropped bombs on England, and when Russia and the US military dropped bombs on him - THAT was a war.
You have terrorist factions among Palestininians who are shooting rockets (unsuccessfully) from clandestined secret spots inside their territory - the response should not be to bomb residential areas.
The 'talking point,' that Israel's supporters and protestors have adopted, the 'Stop Using Children as Shields,' campaign, which has obviously been contracted by sign companies in advance (as they KNOW their collateral would include dead children), is only BULLSHIT PROPAGANDA. IT WON'T WORK.
Israel apparently took this rocket fire for 8 years during Bush/Cheney, yet just as Obama/Biden goes in you're aiming to start WW3 and torch the entire Middle East??!!
Way to do the Bush Evil Empire a favor Israel, no surprise there.
Just a suggestion…how about Israel stop kicking people off the land they've been in posession of for hundreds of years, and making them slaves inside their own country, who have to carry around what are essentially documents at all times to go to the corner store. You've caged these people up and you treat them like dogs. At some point, you have to wonder when the slaves are gonna start plotting to do you in, don't you? How can you even begin to ever hope to live in peace in that part of the world when you do what you do. If I left Milwaukee, drove down to Chicago and walled it off, then said I'm shooting anyone and everyone who tries to come into MY city, I have a feeling there would be some pretty pissed off people, namely the people that have LIVED THERE and own homes and land and buildings, and those great Chi-town pizza places. I wouldn't last for two seconds. That's essentially what Israel is trying to maintain, it's a losing battle. The worst it will get us, is WW3. I think Bush, and the Neo-Cons think now is as good a time as any to get that done. They have 2 weeks. Hold on to your hats.
Thank you so much for this Cord, really and truly. The propaganda that comes out of most of the press and of course politicians' mouth is nothing short of terrifying, and it really gives me hope to see that there are other informed people who know what's really going on.
And to all you delusional Americans who think that Israel is just defending themselves, you are in disagreement with every single ngo human rights organization currently offering an opinion regarding the massacre of Palestinians. And to all you of making disgusting comments regarding Arabs and Islam, you are bigots–plain and simple.
Also, Hamas did not "start" this. Israel controls Gaza's borders. This is a fact. No one disputes this, least of all Israel. No one has been allowed to enter or exit Gaza without Israeli permission for some time now. Israel has recently been holding a blockade of goods–things like flour, medical supplies, and other essentials– in order to pressure Hamas. If you were starving, what would you do? You would fight back. Gaza is a giant prison, and the wardens have been murdering the prisoners with no one to stop them.
Finally, I think it's so important to see that there is much, much opposition to the attack on Gaza within Israel! Many Israelis vehemently oppose the actions of their government, and are making their voices heard. It is only the Americans who do not understand the issues who believe the garbage propaganda that is fed to them.
Dear Friends: As a Jewish,I will tell you this:I am from there,my
family was from Germany,and according to them and history,they
got set in Palastine Land after United States,Cuba, and some other
American countries rejected our Ships,or rejected us,they did not
want us in their countries.Then England who did no like us aether,
guide our ships to The Palestinians Land,England was controlling
that country(like they did with some other countries.)They just
decided to set us over here,and the Palestinians were agreed,big
mistake,they did not rejected us like the rest.
Then,the biggest lye that we told the world,The Promised Land.
But the world forgot that,when Jesus Christ came the old law got
abolished,there was no more promised land,because the promised land
is spiritual not material,but we do not accepted,that is why we
don't like Jesus and the Christians.So I believe,that what we doing against the Palestinians is totally wrong.Killing children and women is even worst,is a crime unforgivable.Just observe when
Hamas or Hezbola shut,they never kill or may be one person.
I OFTEN THOUGHT WHAY PEOPLE HATE US JEWS AND WHAY GOD HIM SELF HATED US AND OUR FOUR FATHERS AND WHAY WE SUFFERD FOR SO LONG AND BUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS GAVE ME ANSWER AND THAT ANSWER WAS YOU SHOULD NOT KILL BUT WE DID AND DO AND THATS WHAY GOD TRUNED US AWAY FROM HIS MERCY AND THATS WHAY WE SUFFERD
FOR OUR SINS
the US may be Israels friend under Bush and the Clintons may be pro Israel but what of obama he runs the show now and only time will tell what he really believes in