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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:00 AM

What "Waltz With Bashir" can teach us about Gaza

The stunning new Israeli film reveals painful parallels between one of Israel's darkest moments and the current conflict.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 05:06 PM

Xanthro

Did Uncle Sam give the LRA their machetes?

This is you:

"WHAA WHAA! WHY DONT ALL OF YOU PEOPLE LOVE ZIONISM!?!?! WHAA WHAA! WHY CANT YOU JUST ACT AS CHEERLEADER FOR RACISM AND MILITARISM AND BLINDLY SUPPORT ISRAEL!?!?!? WHAA WHAA!"

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 06:17 PM

@Chris Sinnard

Did Uncle Sam give the LRA their machetes?

This is you:

"WHAA WHAA! WHY DONT ALL OF YOU PEOPLE LOVE ZIONISM!?!?! WHAA WHAA! WHY CANT YOU JUST ACT AS CHEERLEADER FOR RACISM AND MILITARISM AND BLINDLY SUPPORT ISRAEL!?!?!? WHAA WHAA!"

-- Chris Sinnard

I wasn't aware that deaths only count if somehow you feel they can be tied to the United States.

The question was whether what is happening in Gaza right now is the worst case of civilian deaths in history, when obviously it isn't. It's not even in the top ten of whats happening right now.

I gave the specific example of how the LRA killed the same number of civilians, yet the press and others complaining so bitterly about Gaza, haven't even mentioned it.

We know you hate Jews. You try to disguise it as some objection to US Tax dollars being spent in aid to Israel, yet you care nothing about aid that goes to places like Uganda, where even worse human rights abuses take place.

Since I've posted positive things about Hamas, your WAAA WAAA is the childish crying it appears to be.

You can't stand it that others don't follow your blind hatred of Jews, so you think they must be blind in the other direction.

Israel has made plenty of mistakes, and I have not been shy in pointing them out.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 06:19 PM

@Sinnard

Mr. Xanthro seems to perceive a sort of sweepstakes of human suffering out there in our world at large.

The people of Gaza don't even rate on his Top Ten!

Well..one can only hope..one day..to make it..to the..top...

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 07:38 PM

Let's hope not Klytus

Mr. Xanthro seems to perceive a sort of sweepstakes of human suffering out there in our world at large.

The people of Gaza don't even rate on his Top Ten!

Well..one can only hope..one day..to make it..to the..top...

-- Klytus

Let's hope that the people in Gaza never make the top ten in terms of suffering, and I'd much rather that that top ten be greatly reduced in number.

There is tremendous suffering in the World, and the vast majority of it goes unreported.

Where you aware of the LRA's Christmas 2008 massacre?

Also, remember my post was directed toward the idiot that was claiming that what is going on in Gaza right now is the worst human rights abuse in history. I was pointing out that unfortunately, it's not even the closest that's going one right now, much less in History.

It does look like the Tamil Tigers will be finished soon. That's only a 25 year conflict that's killed well over 70,000 people. It also rarely made the news.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 07:39 PM

Xanthro ,you are another zionist lier

Xanthro says (So, 500 civilian in Gaza get killed in 17 days of conflict (where they are not the direct targets) and the story is carried everywhere)

and as zionists did all their life lie after lie after lie you know that the number of people you killed in Gaza till day 17 was 1050 deaths, half of them childern, and you come here to tell us the number is 500 !! the other lie you said they weren't the direct target?? what do you call all that bride your IDF killing machaine have of the acuricy of hitting targets and they filled the youtube website of videos to convince us how acurate they hit,another lie? why the argument about the holocaust gets you all upset?? is it because you know that the whole holocaust thing was a lie? or to cover up your murderious acts against humanity in palestine against the people of palestine?

the good news is the world is not as blind as you think , you can no longer fool the world with your zionist lies.the whole world is watching and rethinking the whole issue about jews and why they always get away easly,i just don't think this will go on and on and i can see the end of it coming soon.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 07:43 PM

Kamiya's rants

Is it just my imagination, or has the byline "Gary Kamiya" become synonamous with mindless anti-Semitism?

It's clear to any objective individual that Israel's actions in Gaza are more than justified, after years of daily rocket attacks from the Hamas wackos. What country in the world would tolerate such aggression? And regardless of Kamilya's pathetic distortions of fact, Israel and its IDF have indeed exercised more not less restraint than nearly any other fighting force in the world.

Kumiya and his fashionably anti-Israeli bleaters need to get a grip on what their real motivations are.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 08:04 PM

jjppmd just just justified killing children

and i am not surprized at all,thats what israel have been doing for the past 60 years of illegal occupation of palestine,killing palestenian children is their priority.

you always justify whatever you do and always have excueses for your murderious acts against humanity.

the important question is what country in the world tolerate the blockage of food medecine and other means of life from their citizens? their rocket attacks is the most they have but its the least anyone else would do and it is very disgusting responce to some harmless rocket attacks with massacering more than a thousand people in 2 weeks, i doubt hitler ever killed this much people in 2 weeks.

my friend ,the world don't buy your BS anymore.too much informations for everybody out there to find the truth about your lies.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 08:29 PM

Dona Britzman, you've already made your Jew Hating clear

Xanthro ,you are another zionist lier

Not sure what a lier is? Do you mean liar?

Xanthro says (So, 500 civilian in Gaza get killed in 17 days of conflict (where they are not the direct targets) and the story is carried everywhere)

and as zionists did all their life lie after lie after lie you know that the number of people you killed in Gaza till day 17 was 1050 deaths, half of them childern, and you come here to tell us the number is 500 !!

Honestly, is your reading comprehension as poor as your spelling?

Notice the word Civilian? Do you know what that word means?

I didn't say the number of people killed, I said the number of civilians killed. About half, according to most estimates from inside Gaza, are civilians. That means about 500 civilian deaths.

That you try to spin what I've written into a falsehood simply shows that your are either dishonest, or stupid. Likely both.

the other lie you said they weren't the direct target??

Civilians aren't the direct target. If they were, it would be tens of thousands killed, not 500.

what do you call all that bride your IDF killing machaine have of the acuricy of hitting targets and they filled the youtube website of videos to convince us how acurate they hit,another lie?

It's not my IDF, I'm neither Israeli nor Jewish.

Like most Jew Haters, you apply some magical properties to Jews, such as weapons that only kill their targets. Such weapons do not exist.

Gaza is very crowded, Hamas is penned down in civilian areas. It is impossible to attack Hamas and not accidentally kill civilians.

The percentage is low only because both Israel and Hamas are working to reduce the number of civilian deaths. Hamas isn't using civilians as human shields, if they were, the number killed would be far higher.

why the argument about the holocaust gets you all upset??

Because people who deny the Holocaust simply do so out of Jew Hating ignorance.

is it because you know that the whole holocaust thing was a lie?

I don't go around denying historically document events. I don't live in a delusional World where Jews control all information and faked the deaths of millions of people, and somehow got people to confess to causing those deaths.

or to cover up your murderious acts against humanity in

palestine against the people of palestine?

Once again, not my acts, and it's obvious you care nothing for Palestine since you can't seem to capitalize it correctly.

the good news is the world is not as blind as you think , you can no longer fool the world with your zionist lies.

I'm sure in your little Der Stürmer World, you believe that.

the whole world is watching and rethinking the whole issue about jews and why they always get away easly,i just don't think this will go on and on and i can see the end of it coming soon.

Nice ending on a typical Jew Hating rant. Let's rethink the whole issue of Jews and them getting away so easily. Once again, why is it that those who deny the Holocaust seem so eager for it to happen?

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