"Not sure why you or others feel the need to respond."

Really? I'm having a little trouble understanding your confusion. You wrote something (something quite offensive) on a blog, and you're not sure why other people wrote about it.

Not sure why you or others feel the need to respond.

Because you posted your question in a public forum. Glenn Greenwald's email address is GGreenwald@salon.com.

Sorry for your confusion.

This is coming from someone who's been asked to stop posting on particular issues or to particular people. I didn't like being asked to stop. In fact, I thought it was unjust, obviously...

-- omooex Monday, December 29, 2008 05:13 PM

seriously, again, my two cetns worth

I find this stuff annoying from whomever the poster.

-- omooex Monday, December 29, 2008 05:49 PM

GC

Don't take it personally. I don't understand it, and don't like it. I have no quarrell with whoever you are (and no idea who you are or what you think).

-- omooex Monday, December 29, 2008 05:58 PM

that's not what Glenn's blog or comments section is for, nor is it what I look for here. I think I'm not alone on this one.

-- omooex Monday, December 29, 2008 07:35 PM

Ok, mona, but Jebbie is right

I put this hree down and walk away.

-- omooex Monday, December 29, 2008 07:43 PM

And now, I really do think that Jebbie had a point.

-- omooex Monday, December 29, 2008 07:47 PM

Interspersed with the above were many comments that were on topic, pertinent and that I found to hold value. But I had to read through all of them to get to those.

Ya gotta mine some rock to find the nuggets of gold. ;-}

Night all.

I was actually trying to get off that topic, but others kept addressing it to me in defense of GC...sheesh...

It don't mean nuthin'.

No kings,

Pakistan and India both moving troops up to the border.

"I Heard the Missile Coming", (see sig) Monday, December 29, 2008

GAZA CITY — Ali Abu-Fatahi will never forget the terrifying sound of a missile fired by an Israeli warplane as it zoomed in on his house.

"I was having my dinner when I heard the missile's whistle," a helpless Abu-Fatahi told IslamOnline.net from his bed at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.

In just seconds, the missile hit his family's house in the Dir Al-Balah City, razing it to the ground.

"I flew in the sky and then I found myself lying on the floor at our neighbors' house," he recalled the harrowing moments with tears flashing in his eyes.

Abu-Fatahi can't remember what happened next.

* Gaza Holocaust Museum

* Killed in Cradle

He woke up with head injuries. It was later that he knew that all his 15 family members who were in the house were also hospitalized.

"All my family members were hit."

At least 345 people were killed and more than 1,650 wounded since Israel blitzed the Gaza Strip with massive air strikes on Saturday, December 27.

The aggression against the impoverished seaside territory, the world's most densely populated area, continued on Sunday, killing scores of Palestinians and wounding hundreds.

From his bed, Abu-Fatahi can hear his traumatized brother, Mahmoud, screaming.

He is still suffering from the shock of seeing his neighbors torn into pieces by the killer bombing.

"My sister who is only 2 is in another room."

Mass Grave

http://www.gazatoday.blogspot.com/

1,650 wounded

What these statistics don't show is that many of those wounded will have life-altering injuries.

http://mideast.blogs.time.com/2008/12/29/bush-legacy-in-gaza/

Bush Legacy in Gaza

The Bush administration's inexcusable neglect is partly responsible for the carnage we're seeing in Gaza today.

[...]

Bringing peace to the Middle East is no easy task but it's a pathetic testimony if you don't even try.

- - Scott MacLeod, TIME's Cairo Bureau Chief since 1998, has covered the Middle East and Africa for the magazine for 22 years.

Paul,

I didn't realize that I was opening myself up to a public stoning just because I commented on an article. But now I know. thank you.

But in my defense, I was directly responding to Glenn's specific questions from another thread. The confusion is mine as is the responsibility.

Omooex, please feel free to write to me privately at vox_vocis_res_publica@yahoo.com with my offensive comment. Perhaps it is my mis-communication or the way I worded something.

Respectfully,

vv

a public stoning

Oh please. You made some provocative comments and people were provoked.

"Stoning." Lord love a duck.

How Israel Created Hamas -- And Keeps It Going

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/25/how_israel_created_hamas_and_k/

about this 'invasion' (it's not it's just mass murder) is that it was timed to begin when Palestinian children get out of school so that they would be in the streets and as many of them as possible would be killed. Other things you need to know:

1. The Palestinians have been starved, had their electricity cut off, had their petrol supplies cut off, had their medical supplies cut off for the crime of electing a party Israeli doesn't like.

2. There will be an election in Israel in two months time and the party that kills the most Palestinians will win.

3. A member of the IDF shot dead a 95 year old Palestinian woman sitting in the back of a taxi in Gaza.

4. A member of the IDF shot a British peace activist right between the eyes. Bullseye!

5. A member of the IDF ran over Rachel Corrie with a tank and crushed her to death.

6. Members of the IDF tortured a 14 year old Palestinian shepherd boy by placing his testicles on a board and then jumping on the board. They beat him almost to death. He was unarmed and was never charged with a crime. Neither were they. This crime was reported to the media by a former IDF soldier who was so sickened by what he saw his own people doing in what was then called 'The Occupied Territories' that he refused to be posted back there and now travels around trying to tell people what Israel is really doing to the Palestinians.

Don't talk to me about rockets. If there was any justice the Israeli generals in charge of this carnage would have their own Nuremburg moment and would be dancing at the end of a rope. As for the New York Times: I wouldn't even use it for toilet paper for fear it would lie to my toilet.