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The Israel rules America's support of the Gaza attack proves once again that our mythical image of Israel has blinded us to its faults -- a myopia with devastating consequences for both countries.
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  • seethe, Klytus?

    This is fun. I love whenever Israel does something stupid, the legions of tough guy Keyboard Warriors in the Irsael-First Propaganda Troll Army crawl out from under the bridge to show everyone how much they hate America.

  • SLSpencer The Hamas charter is certainly not irrelevant

    In anything but the mind of a completely batty, myopic idiot.

    Here it is for everyone to read. http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm

    Amy didn't even really scratch the surface of the document, and I suggest everyone here read it. Read about how it's the duty of Palestinian women to teach their children that they must war until all of Palestine (meaning all of Israel/Palestine) is united under Islamic rule, and that this is the only way to obtain peace.

    Or, how the infidel has never dealt fairly with Muslims, so brokered peace is impossible.

    But I'm sure that it's racist and intolerant and irrelevant to point this out, for some vague reason that no one can articulate.

    I expect I will now be set upon from all sides, with people accusing me of all sorts of false motives and ill intent, merely because I pointed out an objective truth (read it yourself for crissakes). It's par for the course with this topic.

  • The Nazi Analogy.

    Sure does stink something fierce, don't it?

    Who has the biggest and best PR team on the planet?

    A. Hitler.

    When it comes to this type of behavior, Nazis example by which we must compare all similar evils. Don't blame us for seizing on the blatant hypocrisy and delicious irony of the abused copying their abuser agaisnt someone else.

    Hollywood whould give us some other monsters to compare this behavior to and then we shall label it that.

    It doesn't matter what label you put on evil, it is still evil.

    It doesn't matter where the evil comes from or why, it is still evil.

    There is a whole lot of when we do it, it is righteous and vengance and when they do it, it is evil and terrorism.

    That is stupid and evil.

    A whole lot of it.

  • @Chris Sinnard

    I'm not the one comparing Jews to Nazis. I stand by my comment.

  • McFarland wants to play The Game

    What do you think a "proper" response would be from Israel to the rocket attacks? What would you do in their situation? How do you negotiate with an entity aimed wholly at destroying you that hides its operatives, missiles and other weapons in civilian areas? Please answer. I look forward to your response.

    Why am I not surprised? I will not answer, because that is exactly what you want, to go back and forth arguing about how to frame the topic instead of actually discussing it. I've studied Zionism long enough to know your little Zionist talking point tricks. I find it amusing that you paste these mealy-mouthed talking points and still have the gall to call someone else intellectually dishonest". You Zionists are a funny, as well as entirely predictable, lot.

  • Xanthro, I think you may be confused

    The person you are thinking of who said the things you are ascribing to SS (hmmm....) was not SS but Steele The First.

  • Ah yes again...

    The Elephant returns

    Once more

    To Ye Old China Porcelain Shop

    "Welcome"

    My lumbering

    Friend.

  • more intellectual dishonesty from jebldmm

    I'm not the one comparing Jews to Nazis. I stand by my comment.

    I see what you did there. Like I just said, you Zionists are an entirely predictable bunch of scalawags.

    You're just another Israel-first, America-hating Zionist trying to conflate Zionism and Judaism. How original!

    Not all Zionists are Jews and not all Jews are Zionists, but you wouldn't know it from listening to all the America Hating Zionist Keyboard Warriors out there!

  • Cairo bans pro Gaza rallies, Israel does not

    Those oppressive freedom speaking Jews, just trying confuse us with their Jew mind control.

    Egypt prevented hundreds of people from protesting Israel's “Cast Lead” operation in Gaza on Monday, according to Reuters. The Muslim Brotherhood had organized a protest in the capital city of Cairo.

    Police scattered the would-be demonstrators, arresting dozens. Several others were arrested when they attempted to regroup and hold the demonstration elsewhere in the city.

    A similar demonstration was blocked on Friday, and 20 members of the Muslims Brotherhood were arrested. The group is ideologically linked to Hamas, and both groups call for a world-wide Islamic Caliphate.

    Israel has allowed several large Muslim rallies opposing the operation in Gaza, including large demonstrations where protesters have waved PLO banners and called out, “With our blood we will free you, Palestine.”

    Protesters marched this week in Sakhnin and Tel Aviv in protest of the operation. Arab Members of Knesset attended both events and accused the government of war crimes.

    On Monday, Israeli police guarded several hundred demonstrators as they marched through the streets of Haifa in protest of the Gaza operation.

  • Sinnard has no clothes

    He refuses to do anything other than mock, obfuscate, and accuse everyone who disagrees with him of homicidal intent.

    That Hamas has the dissolution of the Israeli state specifically in its charter is irrelevant. Everything is irrelevant except for the evil Israelis oppressive actions, and the fear of terrorism against America, to Sinnard.

    Yes, Sinnard, it is the very definition of intellectual dishonesty to ignore your opponents' points and instead attack them. It's known as ad-hominem attack, and I'd think you'd know that, because you seem to be a professional.

  • Something Stinks Is Wrong Again

    My dear McFarland.

    As a matter of fact the Nazis did encourage Jews to emmigrate to the colony they had set up for them in Palestine prior to the Holocaust.

    SHHHHH! It's a secret.

    -- something stinks

    ========================

    Something stinks all right. How could the Nazis have set up a "colony" for Jews in Palestine when Palestine was controlled by the British? You are simply wrong. While the Nazis at first purported to "encourage" Jews to leave the country, they (the Jews) generally had no place to go. No country would take them. You are good proof that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

  • My dear Renegade Iconoclast,

    Thank you, but I doubt the truth matters much to such.

    For the recordc, I don't hate anyone, not even Bush or Cheney. It is a waste of bood brainpower and alwasy leads to negative results.

    I do despise those things which make poeple hate and kill one another, like Nazism, Fascism, Zionism, Communism, Republicanism and Democratism.

    I do have a fondness for Monarchism though, I am terribly sorry for that and apologize to all offended peasents, serfs and whipping boys.

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