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"War what is it good for ?Absolutely nothing ".
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“How can people be so heartless? How can people be so cruel? Easy to be hard; Easy to be proud;Easy to say no.”
@pine I will match your Edwin Starr with Three Dog Night.
Awfully lonely in this comment section where no amount of propaganda, humor, ignorance, irony or satire can offset thousands of lives. I am three hours behind you and I will keep the light on.
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The lyrics you cite are from the song Easy To Be Hard from the musical Hair, circa 1969, and Three Dog Night covered it. And do not take this to mean that I am indifferent about the ongoing horror in Palestine and Israel because I’m not. I read print media coverage and I have no words to describe what I feel.
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I wish I understood why Israel hates Palestinians so much. Didn’t they take their land away from them? Remember, I need information to help me understand, not dark, snarly comments.
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Remember folks. If you’re concerned about innocent Palestinian children being blown to bits on the beaches of the Gaza strip, then you sympathize with terrorists!
Israel is always the good guy and if you don’t agree you are a terrorist sympathizer/anti-semite/Hitler apologist!
Yes, that’s the argument that’s being made here on TPM. And, of course, if you’re concerned about the fact that Hamas wants to murder Israelis and has been digging tunnels into Israel for that purpose, you must be a racist.
Look mommy, I made straw man too!
I wish I understood why Israel hates Palestinians so much.
then perhaps you shouldn’t ask dark, snarky questions.
All that does is make me want to have an extra-large helping of Achla hummus and wash it down with seltzer from my sodastream.
Sodastream has Scarlett Johanssen. Your side has…well, you. Who do you think is going to win this one?
I just started reading Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Jerusalem: The Biography. Are you familiar with the book and , if so, what is your opinion of it?
I enjoyed it. Also liked his book on Stalin.
Thank you. I am beginning the chapter on the Jewish Wars and I have enjoyed it so far, as well. The history of Jerusalem is far more complex than I ever imagined.
This is an excerpt from Max Blumenthal’s book, “Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel”, published late last year.
Max is the son of former Clinton adviser and journalist Sidney Blumenthal and has earned the enmity of the professional pro-Israel crowd for lifting the curtain and describing what he, as an American Jew, experienced in Israel and how we, the American public, are being given a distorted version of the truth.
Everyone should read it if only to better understand what our tax dollars support and what the current face of Israel looks like.
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Yes–it’s sad that there are extremists on both sides who would deny the existence of the other. There are Zionists who like to pretend that nobody was living in the land before the Zionists arrived, and Palestinians who like to pretend that Jews have no history in Jerusalem.
Both people have a history there, and both people have a future there, and the sooner both sides come to recognize that the other side isn’t going away, the better it would be for everybody.
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1100 dead, so far, in Palestine. You must be appropriately sad, but comforted in the knowledge that Israel did every last thing to ensure the safety of every innocent man, woman, and child who was killed.
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[quote] “There is no proof that any kind of gratuitous damage is being inflicted,” [/quote] Isn’t that pretty close to what we used to hear from the tobacco companies in the 70’s??
Way past time to boycott Israel and proceed with war crimes charges. This is purely organized slaughter of civilians, plain and simple. In other words, 100% War Crimes.
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How many tunnel attacks have been made from Gaza. Go back as far as you like. We really haven’t heard much but a few attacks over the last decade.
An interesting piece in the Washington Post today on how tunnels have “…always been effective in sowing fear. It’s no coincidence that we’re hearing a lot about tunnels precisely when events in Gaza find the Israelis in desperate need of friends.”
Propaganda to make Israel looked beleaguered, their backs against a wall. Takes the focus off the fact that there have been 216 Palestinian noncombatants killed for each Israeli noncombatant killed ( 1). It also helps Israel explain why the<a href+“http://www.voanews.com/content/who-calls-for-humanitarian-corridor-to-transport-gazas-wounded/1965330.html”> World Health Organization has to take Israel to task for the damage and destruction of: “four hospitals, 12 clinics, 10 ambulances and a specialized center for the disabled.”
- (1) Based upon UN numbers released July 25, 2014
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That is simply not true and I personally take offense to your remark!
Perfect legal for the occupied to resist (international law) but this thing could have been solved by not giving Arab land to Foreign JEWS . this whole action reminds me of the Warsaw Ghetto.
They haven’t been used, I assume, because they are planning something big with them.
but you tell me–why would Hamas, with such a shortage of building supplies, be digging these elaborate tunnel complexes into Israel? They can’t tout them publicly, so they serve no propaganda purposes for Hamas until they are used. They take up huge amounts of resources. So either Hamas was just conducting a strange engineering experiment, or they are planning something big.
According to reports in Maariv, based on intelligence that’s coming out now, Hamas was planning a huge attack on Rosh Hashana.
but I’m a reasonable guy. do you have an explanation as to why Hamas would be building these tunnels?
As for the hospital and ambulance stats, on another thread, I responded to you with evidence of Hamas using hospitals as headquarters and ambulances as transport.