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Why Israelis support the Gaza offensive Israel's post-traumatic war is not just about stopping Hamas rockets, but about repairing reputations -- and erasing the stain of failure.
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  • My dear Xanthro,

    You cannot accept the fact that the majority of people chose to stay and abide by Roman law and later conforming to whatever dominate culture and religion imposed itself upon them and the region.

    I suppose you also believe that no Jews converted to Christianity under the threat of death, torture or the Holy Roman Inquisition!!!

    I bet you were not expecting the HOLY ROMAN INQUISTION!

    No one expects the HOLY ROMAN INQUISTION!

    So if you had a house and a farm and a business and the mexicans invaded and said you had to go to church you would just pack up and leave your property, business, livelyhood and neighbors behind you, right?

    Was U-Haul around in the 1st century?

  • @Renegade Iconoclast

    Straw man alert! Straw man alert! (aka...What Egypt does or doesn't do is irrelevant, RI.)

    What IS relevant?

    What Israel is doing right now to the Palestinians in Gaza is an atrocity and it's inexcusable.

  • @Renegade Iconoclast

    Renegade Iconoclast: "Why is Egypt keeping the Gazans in jail? Shouldn't they be allowed to freely go in and out of Egypt whenever they want to?"

    Translation: Can we stop talking about Israel and find some way to divert the subject to Egypt?

  • Fucking A

    I don't believe anything your side says about it anymore.

    I don't believe anything the news media says about it anymore.

    I don't believe anything the government says about it anymore.

    I don't believe anything the entertainment business says about it anymore.

    I don't believe that Israel has a right to exist anymore - not if they cannot live in peace with their neighbors and kinsman and not if they must subvert my government, my media and my entertainments to convince my countrymen to believe them and give them money and moral support for these war crimes and outrages.

    I don't believe that Zionists deserve a state anymore than Nazis do.

    I used to be on your side but you have convinced me that I was wrong.

    Time to give it back to the Palestinians and let everyone else go back to where they came from or you can come to America.

    Israel is a failure and a horrible one at that.

    --something stinks

    That should be taped to the door of every media outlet in America.

    I am so sick of this fucking propaganda. I am so sick of Israeli apologists. I am so sick of Israel sucking my tax dollars when our economy is crashing. I am so sick of Israel's sob stories.

    Israel is NOT A FRIEND of the United States. They are a parasite, and they are putting Americans in harms way.

    End all support for Israel now. Call your Congressmen, call your papers, call your local televisions stations.

    The IDF is not tough, they are cowards. They are shameful, immoral cowards. And thousands of Israeli citizens agree with this assessment. It is not tough to shoot women and children, to bomb houses in ghettos, to invade a starving, impoverished population - unless you are a pussy.

    ---

    link 1:

    http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/ways-you-can-help-the-besieged-people-of-gaza/

    link 2:

    http://www.btselem.org/English/

    ...and now for something completely different:

    http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7nbox/does_it_get_more_racist_than_this_pity_for_people/a25a

  • @The Satanic Jews of Hollywood

    This person is an absolute idiot. First you have the name, which is itself offensive. Then you have the arguments, which amount to this: "Anybody who disagrees with the actions of Israel is an anti-Semite." That argument is false across the board. If TSJoH will admit that it's possible to be opposed to Israel's actions without being in any way anti-Jew, then maybe he will be capable of having the start of an honest discussion. But, since he will never, ever admit that much, he will never be capable of an honest discussion. So what we're left with is a hate-filled propagandist with nothing to offer.

  • "Bill Kristol is the Oracle of the Opposite."

    It's not the Oracle, it's the interpretation. And, even the Pythoness was not above being bribed...

  • "all-but-inevitable demographic shift ..."

    ends israel;

    ends america.

    don't want to wear a hijab;

    don't want to speak spanish.

  • So bascially you're reduced to insulting me. Blow Me.

    At least my handle is some pretentious unpronounceable idiot noise.

    I for one am 100% a 'proportional response'. Let's deny access to all Hamas PoW's by the Red Cross like the Hamas has denied them any access to Cpl Shalit.

    Anyone who doesn't worship at the altar of Jew hating is a fascist unworthy of XZFRDWFDSanadu jabbathehuttshitman's graces. May he/she/it/them sexually service goats in hell for eternity.

  • My dear Cabdriver,

    "(Admittedly, I suppose the Jews living in the present nation of Israel could all pack up and leave- and if that's someone's personal answer to this problem, it would be clarifying for the purposes of further discussion if the people holding that opinion made their views explicit.)"

    WEll, I suppose that is me. The Jews can and should stay, but Zionist Jews who insist on playing Nazi, or still have to work out WW II games, those who think that bombing civilians is justified, who get off on oppression and militarism, have got to go.

    America is crazy enough to take them all and not even notice the increase in rancor, religious zealotry or insanity.

    People who do not want to get along with their neighbors and think that waging war on them is OK should move elsewhere.

    If it were not for the money to be made by the war industry, peace would have happened a long time ago.

    Now the alternative is get rid of all the Palsetinians or give them equal armaments and leet them both provide the arms industry with massive profits until the end of time itself. We have had 60 years of this and there is no end in site and no desire for an end. How long before it escalates and destroys us all with a nuclear exchange?

    KLAATU BARADA NIKTO!

    Guess why they changed the them of the movie remake to ecology rather than war?

    They are that corrupt and evil.

    War is what they are selling and death is the prize for the kids.

    Until this latest atrocity I still held out hope for Israel. Now it is a lost cause.

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