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Alot of people avoid the question of what options does Israel have by saying look at the kill ratio - 1 dead Jew is x dead Palestinians -- that proves they are evil!! Yet never giving Israel on option on how to end the bombing of their homes and schools, that hasn't been tried before, and failed, because the Palestinians refused the offer, or did take it and didn't keep up their end. They keep chanting the death ratio without giving any real options -- just that Israel stop, even through the bombs keep falling on their homes, as if a single person making that request would tolerate a daily bombing of their city -- who the fuck cares if rarely kills anyone, it does occasionally, and that is no way to live, and no one on this board would live that way. Ranting without a solution that is reasonable is a sign of slogan without thinking syndrome.
So the USA vs Iraq causality rate of civilians is a lot worse than the Israeli vs Gazan ratio -- how many civilians in Iraq 200000 to 600000(depending on who is counting US military vs other sources) vs 4000+ USA soldiers. Hey the Israeli's are falling way behind, or they are incredibly better at avoiding civilians than we are ..why are we not ranting about ending the war? Why are there more support of Gaza rallies then end the Iraq war rallies? Because it is easier to bitch about other peoples governments - then to take responsibility for your own, hey Americans, end your own damn war against civilians who never even bombed a single American home - before you go complaining about another government. Oh, no that means you might have to do something other than complain on blogs.
And hey folks remember Gaza has more than one boarder -- why no pressure on Egypt to open its boarder?? No only the bad Jews. Folks the Egyptians don't want the Palestinians in their country or to have an open boarder with them, and neither does Jordan or Lebanon -- perhaps because they think poorly of them - perhaps because all those countries think the Palestinians are terrorist, and cause to much trouble in their countries -- they all want the Palestinians to be Israels problem because they don't want the problem. So how did this become all the Israels problem? Why isn't this the Egyptian/Israel problem -- because the anti-Jewish teachings of the middle east helps keep corrupt regimes in power in the Middle East -- if they didn't have Israel to complain about, most those governments would fall -- it is the ultimate wag the dog... the solution is for the rest of Middle East to get its act together, and want a real solution, which it doesn't, so there is no peace.
