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Both parties cheerlead still more loudly for Israel's war As the body count in Gaza piles up, the U.S. Congress acts overwhelmingly to insinuate itself into the war with blind support for Israel.
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  • "Well, then I'm sure you could post a few."

    I'll post one, and let you read the rest.

    "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." -- Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994 [Source: N.Y. Times, Feb. 28, 1994, p. 1]

    http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/palestinians.html?q=palestinians.html

  • @markandkari

    The U.N. school was being used by Hamas as a mortar launching position, another example of the pusillanimous Islamic terrorist organization.

    This is dead wrong, the IDF has admitted privately to the UNRWA that the Hamas mortars were launched from a block away. The only pusillanimous ones here are the people who continue to propagate such trash long after it has been disproven, and haven't the guts to admit that shelling a school full of refugees isn't right. Keep talkin' trash. The content of your character is being exhumed from the rubble of those row houses as we speak. Surely at least that will provoke a human feeling?

    Tell me something, is 'row house' IDF jargon for 'boxcar' now?

  • Timothy3

    Israel is not spreading Judaism at the point of a sword. When was the last time you saw the head of a kafir being sawed off with a dull machette posted on you tube by a Jewish terrorist organization. Where is the humanity! Where is the humanity in using civilians as your base of operations in carrying out a war. That's the real difference, Hamas targets civilians as their military objective(Israeli and their own) while Israel specifically targets military objectives. You have a lot to learn about humanity.

    Israel believes Palestine has a right to exist, they gave them self-rule in 2005 in Gaza. Every time the Israelis have bowed to world pressure to give back to the Arabs, what it has taken in wars initiated by the Arab states, it has been met by increased attacks and more vociferous calls for Israel's annihilation.

    What is it about Hamas' terrorist operation that has you so worked up. Even the most of the Arab regimes aren't supporting Hamas and more than likely are cheering on Israel, viewing Hamas as a threat to stability. Calm down Timmy2000

  • What the hell do you expect? Congress is Israeli-occupied territory

    The U.S. Congress is "Israeli-occupied territory," in Pat Buchana's apt phrase. Everyone in it, with the exception of Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) is owned by the Israel Lobby.

    The United States has no credibility in the Middle East. Our ass-sucking support of Israel is the reason for it.

  • "Well, then I'm sure you could post a few."

    1) Maybe, just maybe, Israel learned valuable lessons with Hezbollah and will be far more thorough in Gaza. -- NeoConCabal
    Permalink Tuesday, January 6, 2009 07:11 AM

    Call for genocide against Gazan Palestinians, without regard to their age or political affiliations.

    2) Che..'Soumani Clan Wiped Out': Your Precious Lips To God's Ears !
    YES! Hamas, Che Baby, must be wiped out to the point that it'll take the sewage dwellers 50-years to rebuild. Then, do it again.
    -- NeoConCabal
    Permalink Thursday, January 8, 2009 03:14 PM

    Reference to Gazan Palestinians of unknown political affiliation as "sewage dwellers".

    3) As far as the body count goes, who cares? 100:1, 1000:1, 10,000:1 it doesn't matter. The Palestinians started this round with their incessant bombing of Israel. -- markandkari

    Asserting that dead non-combatants don't count because of their ethnicity and misfortune of location.

    Remember these are published statements. If you would like to see more, I can cut&paste from earlier comments. I restricted this search to the last ~40 hours.

  • More genocide quotes from pro-Israel commenters

    From earlier in this discussion:

    ..there are few oblique but nonetheless very clear, indisputable calls to murder that have been posted in this comments section over the past few days. [...]

    I just hope that Israel is able to weather the storm of hypocritical and bigoted criticism long enough to finish the job in Gaza, once and for farking all. -- Lab2112

    shooter242, over the course of 2 closely spaced posts:

    I'm going to agree with Glenn on this one....Withdrawing our support would isolate Israel to the point where they feel they have no choice but to re-occupy Gaza and nuke the next country stupid enough to attack.
    It's time to let Israel off the leash, and do what they do well.
    -- shooter242

    Indeed. If the left actually cuts off support to Israel, crippling it's ability to respond to attacks in a measured way... it will use it's remaining weapons to full effect. You guys will accomplish what the rest of the world and diplomacy won't. A final solution in favor of Israel.
    Keep up the good work!
    -- shooter242

    Hopeful, supportive allusions to mass slaughter are bold-faced above, emphasis mine.

    Permalink Tuesday, January 6, 2009 01:42 PM

  • ondelette

    You cite a story from the Washington Post that can't be confirmed and state the IDF is privately claiming the attacks came from a block away from the UN school. You could have a job with Goebbles, just born in the wrong time -- that's too bad.

    Holly, it's not a call for genocide -- it's a call to win the war and to have one's right to exist be just as valid as your neighbor's. You can twist anything you read into something abhorrent if that's all your looking for.

  • -- JonathanInTelAviv

    Well, then I'm sure you could post a few. --jonathaninTelAviv
    I'll post one, and let you read the rest.

    "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." -- Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994 [Source: N.Y. Times, Feb. 28, 1994, p. 1]

    http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/palestinians.html?q=palestinians.html

    Steele

    You're not very good at this stuff are you, Jonathan.

    " [The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs." Menahim Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts". New Statesman, 25 June 1982.

    "We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!'" Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.

    "We'll make a pastrami sandwich of them, ... we'll insert a strip of Jewish settlements in between the Palestinians, and then another strip of Jewish settlements right across the West Bank, so that in 25 years' time, neither the United Nations nor the United States, nobody, will be able to tear it apart."

    (Ariel (Arik) Sharon, 1973)

    Want more, Jonathan?

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