tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post2782973783625269670..comments2024-03-18T17:01:07.165-07:00Comments on The Provocateur: The Israelis Should Listen to their Enemies When the Message is so Clearmike volpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02999118519606254362noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-19713677542988218852009-01-17T06:15:00.000-08:002009-01-17T06:15:00.000-08:00Your little rant would be amusing if the subject m...Your little rant would be amusing if the subject matter weren't so serious. <BR/><BR/>Let's see, first, who cares what the international community thinks? The international community likes to criticize and do very little.<BR/><BR/>Second, our media is NOT pro Israel. <BR/><BR/>Let's see one side is a terrorist group that fires rockets that they themselves have can't control. They fire them at population centers, and yet, you are saying that it is Israel that fires indiscriminantly. <BR/><BR/>Israel has done everything it could to destroy Hamas since long before January 2005 and that's because it is the stated goal of Hamas to wipe Israel off the Earth. The Palestinians got what they deserved when they elected these terrorists to lead them.<BR/><BR/><BR/>The West Bank and Gaza are territories not nations and so the land is open to Israelis as much as Palestinians. <BR/><BR/>Israel has no peace partner. Hamas is not a partner for peace and frankly neither is the PA. <BR/><BR/>There are no "moderate Hamas leaders". The stated charter of Hamas is to wipe Israel off the Earth.<BR/><BR/>Take your propaganda elsewhere.mike volpehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02999118519606254362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-54303406757799001292009-01-17T05:46:00.000-08:002009-01-17T05:46:00.000-08:00There is significant international disapproval of ...There is significant international disapproval of the actions of Israel. <BR/><BR/>Though, of course with our pro-Israeli biased American media, the ordinary American will not be sufficiently aware of what is and has been really happening.<BR/><BR/>Let me quote some reasons for anger against Israelis.<BR/><BR/>*Because Israel is indiscriminately bombing densely crowded civilian areas with the latest high-tech weapons.<BR/><BR/>*Because Israel has maintained Gaza as a giant, open-air prison since it “ended” its occupation of Gaza in 2005.<BR/><BR/>*Because Israel and the U.S. have done everything possible since January 2005 to destroy the democratically-elected, Hamas-led government in the Occupied Territories including cutting off almost all international aid and kidnapping and jailing dozens of Hamas legislators who were elected to serve in the parliament of the Palestinian parliament.<BR/><BR/>*Because the U.S. and Israel insist on imposing human sock puppets like Mahmoud Abbas on the Palestinians as their leaders despite the fact that they have been repudiated by their own people as corrupt and ineffectual.<BR/><BR/>*Because Israel has imposed an almost medieval siege on the people of Gaza since June of 2007, reducing its 1.5 million people to a Sub-Saharan African level of poverty where 80 percent of the people are now dependent on international food aid as the Gazan economy has been brought to a standstill.<BR/><BR/>*Because anytime more moderate elements in Hamas try to establish a ceasefire or initiate peace talks Israel finds a way to provoke a new round of violence. The June 19 ceasefire that halted the rocket fire into Israel began to unravel on Nov. 4 when an Israeli raid into Gaza killed six Hamas militants.<BR/><BR/>*Because the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords were a sham in which the PLO exchanged recognition of Israel for a promise of future final peace agreement that has never materialized in 15 years (including the seven years that preceded the Second Intifada) while Israeli settlers continue to colonize the West Bank and its best land and water resources. In return for this one-sided deal, Israel was able to outsource much of the day-to-day burden of carrying out the occupation to corrupt officials from the PLO/Fatah who were ready to do the bidding of Israel and the U.S.<BR/><BR/>*Because Israel has no desire for honest peace talks that bring an end to the conflict along the lines of numerous U.N. resolutions. And why should it? It has infinitely more military power than the Palestinians, or all the other Arab nations combined for that matter, and the unlimited support of the world’s most powerful nation. As far as Israel is concerned, the only “peace talks” worth the bother are ones where they dictate the terms of a final Palestinian surrender: a few shriveled, disconnected Palestinian bantustans in the West Bank, a walled-off Gaza, a defunct Palestinian economy entirely dependent on Israel all to be supervised by Fatah security forces trained, funded and supported by Israel and the U.S.<BR/><BR/>*Because 80 percent of Gazans are people who either had to flee from the original wave of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians that accompanied the founding of Israel in 1948 or are their descendants.<BR/><BR/>*Because the State of Israel is based on an inherently racist, colonialist, apartheid ideology that legally privileges one ethnic group in every sphere of public life while dehumanizing another group. The racist nature of Israeli society is perfectly expressed in this war in which the death of the one Israeli who has been killed by a Hamas rocket this year will be avenged by the deaths of thousands of Palestinians by the time this round of fighting is finished.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for reading this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-80372273610026026672009-01-16T16:09:00.000-08:002009-01-16T16:09:00.000-08:00I couldn't agree more. Israel should finish them o...I couldn't agree more. Israel should finish them off an leave their memory as an example of what happens when you kill innocent Israeli's.<BR/>All of the various Palestinian terrorist groups have violated every cease fire, treaty, handshake etc that they have been involved with.<BR/>There is no precedent to them being honorable or keeping their word so Israel should finish them off.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com