Comments on: Gaza Day 11: Civilian Losses Mount; Israel Unmoved

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:42:58 +0000

The whole premise of civilian casualties being justified because Hamas is hiding amongst its people is complete bull. Israel has modern war technology, the ability to drop a bomb into somebodies living room window, but yet they cannot prevent the massacre of innocents. If we were to apply that logic why not just nuke the entire middle east? Iraq, Iran,Afghanistan, Pakistan, since there are terrorists within their boundaries. Osama Bin Laden is somehwere in there. Does that justify us wiping out whatever we have too to achieve our objective of taking out one man. I don’t think so.

What the world should acknowledge is that Israel is using the actions of a few to basically justify genocide. Something very familiar to them 60 years ago. What the people who defend this kind of action also need to realize is that Israel is the U.S.’ number one customer for arms, but I’m sure that has nothing to do with our stance. Please.

By: bb

bb — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:06:13 +0000

In the past eight years, more than 5000 (FIVE THOUSAND) Kassam rockets have fallen on the town of Sderot. The people of Sderot have exactly 15 seconds to run for a bomb shelter before the missile lands.

By: Dona

Dona — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:29:29 +0000

Why are you even surprised??? Hamas was firing rockets from a school but no children were in school just as no children and university students have been learning in all of the South of Israel for ten days! So what if the building is a school that is just used for propaganda and journalists have fallen into the trap of reporting uninformed and innacurate data. Keep it up…

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:05:41 +0000

More people have died in the name of religion and God than anything else. Religion and God are truly to be blamed here. Who cares about a wall or a mosque??!!
Religion should be banned. Only then will we have peace in this world.

By: American Citizen

American Citizen — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:05:15 +0000

http://pogger.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/un-school-used-to-fire-mortars-at-israeli-forces-draws-counterfire/

There is a video here showing the Hamas terrorists firing rockets from the school area. The cowards are using their own people as human shields. They knew Israel would locate the site of the rocket fire and shoot back.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:55:46 +0000

JackOfHeart: Given that Israel has not existed for anywhere close to 100 years, how can you make the claim that the peace process has been going on that long?

Your conclusion is very faulty, as is what passes for “logic” in your posts. You use innaccurate information to draw incredibly bad conclusions, then get upset when others do not believe the propaganda you spout. Perhps the advice should be to keep you out of reach of others?

By: JackOfHeart

JackOfHeart — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:35:39 +0000

HAMAS ROCKETS ARE “NATURAL” RESPONSE TO THE 3-YEAR-OLD IMPRRESONMENT OF THE PALESTINIANS IN GAZA WOTHOUT ANY FOOD, WATER, ELECTRICITY NOR MEDICINE. NOONE, ABSOLUTELY NOONE CAN LIVE THE LIFE OF THE PALESTINIANS UNDER THE FULL SIEGE. The Palestinians finally realized that its a “jewish” nature to breach ALL promises. Peace talks with the Israelis have been going on for 100 years and all they get is unfilled promises and more and more illegal settlements. Hamas is a legitimate Resistance movement thats here to stay until you jews leave our land!!!! DEATH TO ISRAEL <===== thats just my conclusion.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:13:45 +0000

Any country that doesn’t take collateral damage into account, and work to minimize it needs to be put in check. Here in the US, how long do you think our government could attack, say Detroit, if a Hamas group started firing out from there? The *first* civilian casualty will create a nationwide uproar, as it should. So why are we supposed to show a blind eye to Israels lack of concern for civilians in Gaza? Hamas, al Queda, etc obviously should be condemned for their repeated actions against civilians. However, Israel should also be condemned for it’s lack of concern for civilian casualties in Gaza, the US should be condemned for it’s lack of concern for civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. For there to be this double standard that Israeli or American citizens deserve more concern at their lost life, than other citizens of the world is hubrus at a dangerous level. It is my great hope that with the Bush administration out of office finally, we can reset our moral compass, and with hope, get Israel to reset theirs as well.

By: Fernando F.

Fernando F. — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:38:08 +0000

Ravino,
there is another option: maybe Israel is lying. I’m sure that once in a while they fire to the location where a rocket was launch, but who controls Israel after that. They can destroy building by building and argue “we saw a rocket” and nobody can confirm that. Why do you think the International media is forbidden in Gaza? Why do you think they bomb a UN building in Lebanon for 45 minutes, and after apologize for the “mistake”? They do this all the time. Hamas was launching rockets because Israel have them in a blockade for a long time. They get desperate and they go back to violence. What else can they do if Israel don’t care about Palestinian children? A blockade is as violence as a rocket.

By: for JackOfHeart

for JackOfHeart — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:33:29 +0000

And Israel is the terrorists? if you want’s Israel to be wiped so you are the only terrorists (Oops, I ment you and the Hamas).