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Just because we stole their land…sheesh!
By Bradley Burston, Haaretz Correspondent
It is, abruptly and again, wartime. Across the globe, the selective pacifists of the left and the recliner Rambos of the right are spoiling for their next battle, the war in Gaza.
Just because we stole their land!
They will fight one another in letters to Congress, in cable news sound bites, in raucous talk-radio phone-ins, in the virtual mega-heroics of the online battlefield of the talkback.
They will fight one another in the United Nations as well, unashamedly one-sided in their concern for human life.
Herewith the first in a two-part guide to the 10 most gratuitous, least productive, most resolutely ingenuous claims likely to be hurled in an effort to attack Israel.
The first five are arguments of the anti-Israel left, claims which are, curiously, as tired as they are unflagging.
Just because we stole their land!
Leftist 1: Israel’s true motive in bombing Gaza, is genocide against the Palestinian people and extermination of their right to statehood.
Israel’s genuine interest in this campaign is strikingly similar to Hamas’ interest in firing scores of rockets into Israeli population centers: Forcing a cease-fire on better terms than the one just ended.
For Hamas, this largely means easing Israeli economic sanctions against Gazans. For Israel, this centers on ending shelling by Qassam and Grad missiles and mortar shells. For both sides, this means a prisoner exchange, centering on Gilad Shalit and hundreds of jailed Hamas members.
Yes, "…Forcing a cease-fire on better terms than the one just ended…", so we can steal their land
Leftist 2: The Palestinians have no recourse but to defend themselves, and the makeshift rockets they fire are nothing compared to the world’s most advanced warplanes and munitions, which the IDF is using against them.
The Human Rights Watch organization has been unequivocal in condemning the use of Qassam rockets as a direct violation of international humanitarian law and the laws of war. The firing of Qassams and mortars against civilian populations also constitutes collective punishment against hundreds of thousands of innocent Israeli men, women and children.
Moreover, the firing of Qassams began not as a response to the siege against Gaza, but as a marathon celebration by armed Islamic fundamentalist groups following Israel’s withdrawal of its troops and settlers from the Strip. To purposely add insult to injury, Islamic Jihad and other organizations used the ruins of settlements as launch platforms.
So because of the "…firing of Qassams and mortars against civilian populations…", we can steal their land
Leftist 3: All that Hamas is asking, is recognition as the democratically elected government of Gaza, and an end to the Israeli economic embargo. Were they to attain these goals, there would be calm on both sides of the border.
It is both unrealistic and dangerous to believe that Hamas has abandoned its clearly stated and often reiterated goal of establishing an Islamic Palestinian state in all of the Holy Land, including all land claimed, annexed by, or in any way occupied by Israel.
Beyond that, Hamas has strong alliances with the Egyptian opposition Muslim brotherhood, as well as working partnerships with the Iran-dominated Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
Israeli restraint, when practiced, has been met with contempt and additional Hamas and Hamas-tolerated strikes against civilian populations.
So because "…Hamas has strong alliances with the Egyptian opposition Muslim brotherhood, as well as working partnerships with the Iran-dominated Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad…", we can steal their land
Leftist 4: The Israeli blockade against Hamas is state terrorism and any means to fight it are legitimate.
There is every reason to believe that Israel’s economic siege against Gaza is misguided, but not for an essential cruelty, rather because Hamas taxes collected on the influx of goods imported through tunnels from Egyptian territory have subsidized and cemented Hamas rule.
So because "…Hamas taxes collected…cemented Hamas rule.", we can steal their land
Leftist 5: The world overwhelmingly sympathizes with the Palestinians against Israel, and unreservedly backs their struggle for independence.
In an era of global revulsion against radical Islamic terror, Hamas’ protracted program of suicide bombings, drive-by murders and shelling of civilian populations, coupled with its refusal to renounce violence, recognize Israel, or accept past peace agreements, coupled with its ideology of militant jihad, have drained the Palestinians of international sympathy and have, in fact, legitimized Israeli arguments of military self-defense.
Nothing has been more instrumental in harming the cause of Palestinian independence than Hamas, with its brutal take-over of Gaza in a war with brother Palestinians, and its frank efforts to build a large-scale regular army force in the Strip.
So because "…Nothing has been more instrumental in harming the cause of Palestinian independence than Hamas…" we can steal their land
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so we can steal their land… and then STFU
good post. It’s barbarity and correct. Everyone feigns outrage, but no one stops it.
The whole UN body has a obligation to palestine, which is continually abrogated.
I refuse to pay taxes from this moment on, for humanitarian reasons.
Our government has been subverted. The will of 3% (at best) now controls congress to the detriment of the everyone else. A silent coup has taken place, and it hasn’t been bloodless. This is no longer a democracy, the ideals of human rights, liberty, freedom. and self determination is meaningless rhetoric.
Political donations are bribery.
Uffffffff….
Some of what I do involves the history of writing, which occurred during the early Bronze Age. I’ve always found some of the really ancient texts poignant.
Here’s an excerpt from “The Fall of Erech“probably about 3,000 years ago, and most likely in Mesopotamia, in what we now call Iraq. [Erech was a city near Uruk; we call Uruk “Iraq”, and the moon was regarded as one of its principle dieties.]
O Moon-god, hear my cry! With thy pure light
Oh, take my spirit through that awful night
That hovers o’er the long-forgotten years,
To sing Accadia’s songs and weep her tears!
‘Twas thus I prayed, when lo! my spirit rose
On fleecy clouds, enwrapt in soft repose;
And I beheld beneath me nations glide
In swift succession by, in all their pride:
The earth was filled with cities of mankind,
And empires fell beneath a summer wind.
The soil and clay walked forth upon the plains
In forms of life, and every atom gains
A place in man or breathes in animals;
And flesh and blood and bones become the walls
Of palaces and cities, which soon fall
To unknown dust beneath some ancient wall.
All this I saw while guided by the stroke
Of unseen pinions:
Then amid the smoke
That rose o’er burning cities, I beheld
White Khar-sak-kur-ra’s brow arise that held
The secrets of the gods–that felt the prore
Of Khasisadra’s ark; I heard the roar
Of battling elements, and saw the waves
That tossed above mankind’s commingled graves.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/iai/iai03.htm
You’d think that after 3,000 years, we’d figure out better solutions than mutual destruction.
Back then, the whole world wasn’t going to ignite if one city was destroyed or invaded.
But the eloquence manages to leak through, even after 3,000 years.
That is amazingly beautiful. Thanks. It sorta makes modern poetry seem vapid.
I think, from my studies, that religion too often co-signs war. If we can get a Gaea thing going, maybe we can finally dispense with these earth-killing conflicts…….or we’ll have to, one way or another.
It’s hard to know from where I sit just what is going on in Is’rael, which as near as I can trace back derives from Is’rigel (the LEFT foot of the constellation Orion). Orion seems to have been viewed by the ancient Egyptians as the god Osiris, which has many interesting connotations if that is in fact true.
The LEFT foot of a king was significant as a metaphor.
Your name, KASSandra, is almost certainly related to kasserite. Kasserite is the ancient word for ‘tin’ in the Near East. Tin was necessary for bronze, and metalworking seems to have been conducted by a priestly caste.
Tin combined with copper made bronze, which was a tougher metal (and held a sharper blade) than either ‘kasserite‘ or ‘khefra‘ alone. In case you didn’t realize how ancient your name is, you should spend half an hour on the google ;-))
I am so tired of this “ONE SIDED” story I don’t know what to do.How does 100 tons of bombs kill only militants?How does shooting a missle from the sky kill one militant leader in a crowded city?
This to me is how the Indians were treated when “WE” took their land and put them on reservations,aka now as Gaza?
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Thanks Mad Dog.
I think there is too much testosterone flowing in Israel and Gaza.
If one is a good Christian, then there is only one possible outcome. God gave that land to Israel. Both George W. and Barack Obama claim to be Christians so tough luck for the Palestinians.
Under the heading of, allied thoughts, maybe:
Every one of us in this world has experienced the sorts of things which can happen when a powerful country elects an idiot joined at the hip to a megalomaniac.
I hope for the world’s other powers to recognize reasons why not to take advantage for the present, until the USA people’s current choice assumes leadership in January 20, 2009.
Many of us in the USA wish to be recognized as responsible citizens of the USA, AND of the world.
P. E. A. C. E.
Well, if you can’t raise the price of oil by cutting production……start a war:
Crude Oil Rises After Israeli Attacks on Gaza Roil Middle East
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/…..refer=home