Israel is a terrorist state.

[Rabid Dinosaur]

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/mi...451509662.html

Let's just get that out of the way right now.

[Rabid Dinosaur]

Best part? The international community is just going to take a shit on Palestine's dick.

[Rabid Dinosaur]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/...kes/index.html

[Opheox]

countries need to start slapping embargos on Israel ASAP to pressure them into serious negotiations

[Rabid Dinosaur]

Originally Posted by Al Jazeera

The Israeli army released a statement on Saturday saying "terrorist installations" were hit and that all Israeli pilots returned unharmed.

Originally Posted by Al Jazeera

A police graduation ceremony in Gaza City was struck by an Israeli attack

[Dave Miles]

To be honest I don't know the serious details about this conflict, but you constantly hear each side claiming the other as the 'terrorists' and I honestly don't know which side has more credibility at this point, all I know is that Israel has more fire power. Unlike most topics it seems harder to find an unbiased viewpoint about this subject. It just seems like a never ending ending game of attack & retaliation, neither side willing to bend whatsoever. obviously this particular situation has Israel looking like the bad guy, but are they equally violent towards each other based on previous conflicts? Does Israel have a bigger responsibility to solve the conflict?

[Andres]

It's a little hard to talk about "sides" but certainly Palestinians deserve a lot more than they get.

Israel has been blocking access in the Gaza Strip to journalists, food cargos, medicine cargos, plus resources like gas and electricity are extremely limited. They've been oppressing the shit out of Gaza for a long time and this has hardly gotten any coverage whatsoever on mainstream American media. Then Barak has the nerve to say "they can't live in terror anymore" because Hamas understandably threw some rockets that killed like one person. It's immensely hypocritical to complain about living in terror while denying people food and medicine, let alone killing two hundred people in retaliation for a few rockets that killed more Palestinians than Israelis.

It's absurd that the situation is presented in American media as "Hamas broke a truce", since not only did Israel attack first, but the conditions of this truce are invalidated by the fact that the siege had the Palestinians in Gaza living like animals.

[Zaquis]

Originally Posted by Rabid Dinosaur

Best part? The international community is just going to take a shit on Palestine's dick.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/wo...28mideast.html

A number of governments and international officials, including leaders of Russia, Egypt, the European Union and the United Nations, condemned Israel’s use of force and also called on Hamas to end the rocket fire. But in strong terms, the Bush administration blamed Hamas for the violence and demanded that it stop firing rockets.

sure it's not exactly a great cast of faces but yeah

[Jason Ruiz]

God is a piece of shit. Both of them.

[Zaquis]

praise YHWH for this glorious day

[Sinarach]

There will still be conflict there after my corpse rots.

[Rabid Dinosaur]

Originally Posted by Al Jazeera

Israeli warplanes have resumed their air strikes on Gaza Strip, hitting targets all over the territory, including a mosque and a TV station.

In the first attack early on Sunday, Palestinians said Israeli aircraft bombed a mosque near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

Two bodies were retrieved from the rubble. The blast, just after midnight, blew out windows at the hospital, hospital officials said.

Originally Posted by Al Jazeera

"In response, more than 50 rockets were fired into Israel today. Defence officials are warning that there could be as many as 200 rockets fired every day into Israel in the days to come."

One Israeli was killed in rocket fire on Saturday.

[Slime]

yeah, i find it sad that america supports israel in general, and most likely will with this. oh well. (i havent payed attention to american news lately, so i havent noticed our latest stance as far as this goes)

[Zaquis]

you don't need to pay attention. every american politician is so ridiculously zionist

[Rabid Dinosaur]

Originally Posted by "jewish and sane.", from Israel

The Pallestinians refuse to grow up

and are acting like juvenile delinquents: we gave you land and every possible opportunity, but you refuse to take responsability over your actions. until you do, you will be bombed and learn your lesson. we hate war and death, you glorify it, and your families are happy when you die. so why should it be different now? we try to let you live in Gaza peacefully, but your pushing our patience over the limit. Im not sorry for the Gazians: they chose their govenment, let them take responsability!!!

Originally Posted by nir, from Israel

why don"t you cover the missiles fired to israel?

this artical is one sided .you don"t cover the israeli side at all. where is the cover of the hundreds of missiles fired to israel with no respone from the israeli side. Please show me one country in the world that allowes that misslies will be shut at for YEARS with no respone.

Originally Posted by Al Jazeera

Palestinian medics say that more than 280 people have been killed and more than 600 injured in continuing Israeli bombardment of the impoverished Gaza Strip.

This is driving me insane.

[Shaun]

BR's in Israel, I wonder how he is doing.

[Kunio]

[James McCloud]

pfahaha

[Slade]

Hahahaha

[Jesterfoot]

old

[Rabid Dinosaur]

Originally Posted by CNN's poll

Where do you stand on Israel's response to rocket attacks on its territory?
Justified (61%, 45543)
Condemnable (39%, 29258)

[Andres]

Those results are not surprising since the overwhelming majority of people voting have no idea that Israel has been blocking access to Gaza and has let dozens of people literally die on the borders because they refuse to let them get to a hospital.

[Don Tickner]

Oddly enough, I agree with Andres.

Anyway, I'm reserving judgement on this one - I feel that I'm getting heavily biased reporting from different sources.

The media in Australia seems to be focusing on the blood letting rather than the reasoning behind it - it's weird to have neutral reporting for once.

[Aaron Haynes]

The American Political Consensus on Israel (Glenn Greenwald)

I don't understand the depth, origins, and scale of this conflict to a degree where I'm comfortable commenting on it. But I intensely dislike the tendency of our political leaders to openly and universally embrace Israel, without criticism of any kind. I will be extremely disappointed if Barack Obama has nothing new or nuanced to say about this.

[Andres]

“The first job of any nation state is to protect its citizens. And so I can assure you that if -- I don't even care if I was a politician. If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.”
- Barack Obama




lol