Want to play 'darts' the Israeli IOF way?
This 'game' ensures maximum casualties/collateral damage.
They are called FLESCHETTE BOMBS,and turn the UNARMED CIVILIAN men,women and CHILDREN IN TO 'PIN-CUSHIONS'.
Just like the DIME fission weapons cause MAXIMUM internal damage to major organs/limbs and leave behind cancerous chronic illnesses.
Nothing new,but just as SICKENING,if not MORE SO,because these were used in a contained,tightly cramped,exposed CIVILIAN AREA,not a military battle-zone as such. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10397.shtml
This comment was originally made in 2007, but is every bit as applicable today, if not more so:
They (infidel donors) will, if they pile up more aid onto Abbas and Fatah, simply provide the aid that inevitably will enrich the local Arab rulers, and increase, rather than decrease, the popular appeal of Hamas, which whatever else it is, holds appeal for those not in the circle of rulers, not those who have been enjoying the diversion of outside funds for their own and their families' benefit. Turning on the tap of Jizyah for Fatah will help Fatah buy weapons to kill Jews, and simply make the Israelis still more insecure, when they live in a condition of such peril that no Western government or people can possibly comprehend and certainly no government or people has shown the imaginative sympathy to fully comprehend that daily peril, not least because the Israelis manage, somehow--God knows how--to take it in stride.
But such aid will reinforce, in the local Arabs, the belief that such aid coming from the Infidels is theirs by right--that the Infidels must turn it on, and all that the Arabs need is to utter a meaningless phrase or two, and those purely for Western consumption. We can continue to have the propaganda of Jihad-hate streaming out of every radio and television show, especially those for children. We can put up posters everywhere of suicide bombers and hold their examples up for admiration and adulation. We can, in short, do everything that Hamas does, except that we can also utter a phrase or two, and that Jizyah will follow.
And now the curtain rises again, on what should be the third and final act of the farce known as the "Palestinians" and the Quartet and the "Two-State Solution," as the audience of credulous Americans and Europeans, claps and demands that the tragicomedy go on forever. The curtain now rises on "West Bank." The Good, Moderate, Pragmatic Representatives of the Palestinian People Are Seen Hard At Work, Tilling The Soil, Or Busily Innovating At Their Workbenches. Two workers now cross the stage carrying some highly advanced-looking piece of equipment, which in fact is made of cardboard. Or they are Tirelessly Typing On Computers. Meanwhile, a handful of disgruntled fanatics, who have NOTHING TO DO with the good Fatah-land Arabs, all of whom look strangely like Mahmoud Abbas at his most colorlessly trustworthy, wearing three-piece suits and carrying under one arm a copy of the Uniform Commercial Code, try to cause trouble. But in vain, because Abbas and Co. Beat Them Back With American Aid.
What a relief. What a relief to know that the "Palestinian Authority" is now thoroughly under the control of the Good Guys. The "moderates." The "pragmatists." The people who learned the responsibilities of rule under Chairman Arafat himself, winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, and presiding genius, in every respect, of the "Palestinian Authority". He was the presiding genius also of that devoutly-wished for, among those in Western capitals who have given up even the pretense of trying to think straight about things, "two-state solution." This will ultimately and inevitably be, given Al-Hudaibiyya and the goals shared by the Slow Jihadists of Fatah and the Fast Jihadists of Hamas, just another step on the road to Israel's destruction. On this Fatah and Hamas agree, even if they quarrel over tactics and timing, mainly because Fatah wants the money-tap of the Infidels turned on again--there are apartments to be bought in Europe, villas on the "West Bank" to be furnished at Western levels of opulence, children to be sent to schools in the West.
So, boys, let's turn on that tap. Obama and Clinton are willing. All of Western Europe is chomping at the bit. Look at how that money flows. My God, it flows and flows and flows. Don't let it ever stop.
For all of those who value truth over propaganda and antisemitic rants - a cogent and reasoned discourse by Rupert Murdoch, given on March 4 to the American Jewish Committee:
"Over the years some of my wildest critics seem to have assumed that I am Jewish. At the same time, some of my closest friends wish I were.
So let me set the record straight: I live in New York. I have a wife who craves Chinese food. And people I trust tell me I practically invented the word 'chutzpah.'
Ladies and gentlemen, I am humbled by the honor you have given me - because this award speaks more to your good work than it does to mine. The American Jewish Committee started in response to the persecution of Jews in czarist Russia. And your response took a very American form: An organization that would speak up for those who could not speak for themselves.
In the century since your founding, the American Jewish Committee has become one of the world's most influential organizations. Yet though your concerns begin with the safety and welfare of Jews, these concerns are anything but parochial. The reason for this is clear: You know that the best guarantee of the security of Jews anywhere is the freedom of people everywhere.
Your good work has helped bring real and lasting changes to our world. Unfortunately, while some threats have been defeated, new ones have taken their place. And these new threats remind us of the AJC's work is more vital than ever.
In Europe, men and women who bear the tattoos of concentration camps today look out on a continent where Jewish lives and Jewish property are under attack - and public debate is poisoned by an anti-Semitism we thought had been dispatched to history's dustbin.
In Iran, we see a regime that backs Hizbullah and Hamas now on course to acquire a nuclear weapon.
In India, we see Islamic terrorists single out the Mumbai Jewish Center in a well-planned and well-coordinated attack that looks like it could have been a test run for similar attacks in similar cities around the world.
MOST FUNDAMENTALLY, we see a growing assault on both the legitimacy and security of the State of Israel.
This assault comes from people who make clear that they have no intention of ever living side-by-side in peace with a Jewish state - no matter how many concessions Israel might make. The reason for this is also clear: These are men who cannotabide the idea of freedom, tolerance and democracy. They hate Israel for the same reasons they hate us.
As I speak, the flashpoint is Gaza. For months now, Hamas has been raining down rockets on Israeli civilians. Like all terrorist attacks, the aim is to spread fear within free societies, and to paralyze its leaders. Ths Israel cannot afford. I do not need to tell anyone in this room that no sovereign nation can sit by while its civilian population is attacked.
Hamas knows this better than we do. And Hamas understands something else as well: In the 21st century, when democratic states respond to terrorist attacks, they face two terrible handicaps.
THE FIRST HANDICAP is military. It's true that Israel's conventional superiority means it could flatten Gaza if it wanted. But the Israel Defense Forces - unlike Hamas - are accountable to a democratically chosen government.
No matter which party is in the majority,every Israeli government knows it will be held accountable by its people and by the world for the lives that are lost because of its decisions. That's true for lives of innocent Palestinians caught in the crossfire. And it's also true for the Israeli soldiers who may lose their lives in defending their people.
In this kind of war, Hamas does not need to defeat Israel militarily to win a big victory. In fact, Hamas knows that in some ways, dead Palestinians serve its purposes even better than dead Israelis.
In the West we look at this and say, 'It makes no sense.' But it does make sense.
If you are committed to Israel's destruction, and if you believe that dead Palestinians help you score a propaganda victory, you do things like launch rockets from a Palestinian schoolyard. This ensures that when the Israelis do respond, it will likely lead to the death of an innocent Palestinian - no matter how many precautions Israeli soldiers take.
Hamas gets away with this, moreover, because it does not rule Gaza by the consent of those it claims to represent. It rules by fear and intimidation. It is accountable to no one but itself.
This is the chilling logic of Gaza. And it helps explain why even a strong military power like Israel can find itself at a disadvantage on the ground.
THE SECOND HANDICAP for Israel is the global media war. For Hamas, the images of Palestinian suffering - of people losing their homes, of parents mourning their dead children, of tanks rolling through the streets - create sympathy for its cause.
In a battle marked by street to street fighting, the death of innocents is all but inevitable. That is also true of Gaza. And these deaths have led some to call for Israel to be charged with war crimes by an international tribunal. But I am curious: Why do we never hear calls for Hamas leaders to be charged with war crimes?
Why, for example, do we hear no calls for human rights investigations into Hamas gunmen using Palestinian children as human shields? Why so few stories on the reports of Hamas assassins going to hospitals to hunt down their fellow Palestinians? And where are the international human rights groups demanding that Hamas stop blurring the most fundamental line in warfare: the distinction between civilian and combatant?
I suspect the answer has to do with the same grim logic that leads Hamas to provoke a military battle it knows it cannot win. Whether Israel is ever found guilty of any war crime hardly matters. Hamas gets a propaganda win simply by having the charge made often and loudly enough.,
In this, Israel finds itself in much the same position the United States found itself in Iraq before the surge. There, al-Quaida realized that it was in its interest to provoke sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni - no matter what the cost to innocent Iraqis. That is the nature of terror. And what we are seeing in Gaza is just one front in this much larger war.
IN THE WEST, we are used to thinking that Israel cannot survive without the help of Europe and the United States. Tonight I say to you: Maybe we should start wondering whether we in Europe and the United States can survive if we allow the terrorists to succeed in Israel.
In this new century, the 'West' is no longer a matter of geography. The West is defined by societies committed to freedom and democracy. That at least is how the terrorists see it. And if we are serious about meeting this challenge, we would expand the only military alliance committed to the defense of the West to include those on the front lines of this war. That means bringing countries such a Israel into NATO.
My friends, I do not pretend to have all the answers to Gaza this evening. But I do know this: The free world makes a terrible mistake if we deceive ourselves into thinking this is not our fight.
In the end, the Israeli people are fighting the same enemy we are: cold-blooded killers who reject peace, who reject freedom and who rule by the suicide vest, the car bomb and the human shield.
Against such an enemy, I will not second-guess the decisions of a free Israel defending her citizens. And I would ask all those who support peace and freedom to do the same."
I wish to add some comments of my own: The entire free world is under attack from Islam, and the sooner all of us who value human rights and the freedom to worship as we choose and to live under our constitution realize this, the better. The "Palestinian crisis" is only one front, although the most vital, at the present time, in the free world's war of survival against the totalitarian, barbaric ideology of Islam. Hamas, Fatah, the Taliban, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaida, CAIR - they are all parts of the many - headed hydra of Islam. I hope all of those who have fallen for the "snake oil" propaganda of Hamas and Fatah and their fellow travelers wake up, but I am afraid too many of them have their heads firmly ensconced where "the sun don't shine."
I know, I was just speaking for all those who hate Israel and the Jews and christian/catholics to be finally destroyed. But 'they' can't destroy Israel without destroying the favored Palestinians also. I read somewhere that Israel has the missile power to launch an attack against Iran's Nuke facility(?) So, I wonder--Who's going to fire the first shot that will end the 'war games' ?
It's no good bombing the "crap" out of ANYONE,that achieves NOTHING and lowers you to their LEVEL of barbarity and SAVAGERY(which we are practically at anyway,seeing as AMERICAS Government survive TOO by bombing the crap out of EVERYONE who refuses to do life the 'white American','Democratic way',both of which it REALLY ISN'T,in day to day life,I'm white and EVEN I know that).That's the OLD racist WHITE COLONIAL dinosaur ideology,and THAT died ERAS AGO!
No,I think it's ABOUT TIME TO CUT the umbilical cord to the Foreign rogue,failed 'State' of Israel.
UNLESS, IT ABANDONS ALL ITS PRESENT POLICIES OF APARTHEID,RACISM,GENOCIDE,ATTEMPTED HOLOCAUST OF Arab/Muslims in the Holy Land
We have had three holocausts ALREADY,in the last century ALONE!
And TOO MANY MASSACRES,GENOCIDES,SLAUGHTERING and BUTCHERING of innocent men,women AND CHILDREN.
It is OUR human responsibility to stop/prevent Israel from perpetrating a FOURTH holoaust,and we certainly SHOULD NOT BE AIDING AND ABETTING THEM in this heinous,UNGODLY,inhuman act.
Israel is NOT A PART OF THE USA.
It was a useful,colonial 'appendage' for the 'west' in the Middle East,BY A NEAR EASTERN NATION,who pretended to be WESTERN(hanging on to their National identity in preference to their RELIGIOUS ONE!
Those days ARE GONE.OVER!
Israel is a FOREIGN,INDEPENDENT,STATE.
So! Let it SURVIVE AS SUCH!
CUT IT LOOSE!
REMOVE THE BELLIGERENT THORN,FROM THE SEPTIC 'BUTT' OF THE USA,because until we do,we CANNOT SIT DOWN,comfortably and SINCERELY,with integrity with ANY OTHER Nation and commit to "CHANGE".
Israel is NOT OUR CHILD!
It is NOT our responsibility.
It is AN ADULT,and needs to GROW UP,and get some sanity.
Even it it were 'related' to us,it's ALREADY SLAPPED US in the face,ethically,morally,legally AND SPIRITUALLY,enough times to show that it is USING AND ABUSING our Nation and people,to the POINT OF BACK-STABBIBNG,DOUBLE-DEALING,and dragging US down into its own DARK PIT OF SELF-DESTRUCTION.
It has NOT DESERVED OUR MONEY,ATTENTION,SUCCOR OR SYMPATHY,IN SIXTY LONG YEARS.
The holocaust is FINISHED,OVER ENDED!
They have to MOVE ON,OR MOVE OUT,of our lives!
America(the host)doesn't need a parasite sucking them dry and DEAD.
We have 300 MILLION good reasons WHY,and a long(hopefully) future ahead for our children,grandchildren).
So! Cut the UNCONDITIONAL umbilical cord!
Set tough STANDARDS and expectations.
No "special relationships" that are rooted in corruption,hypocrisy,and CRIME.
We do that with our OWN KIDS for GODS sake. SET STANDARDS AND EXPECTATIONS!
To get ANYTHING extra than love and loyalty,they have to show that they have earned,are worthy of,and WILL NOT ABUSE,it!
Otherwise,they can DO WITHOUT!
America must turn EVERYTHING that we give to Israel now,into an EARNED,PAID FOR PRIVELEGE,whether:
Fiscally,
-weapons,free gas/diesel,free tanks/jets,missiles etc.
-Money for ILLEGAL RACIST JEWISH-ONLY COLONIES,ROADS,HIGHWAYS on STOLEN PALESTINIAN LAND ALL GOT TO STOP!
-PLUS,cut the ANNUAL 3-10 BILLION we give them 'gratis' per annum(OUR PEOPLE NEED THAT MORE RIGHT HERE ON US SOIL),because it's ILLEGAL anyway,against all treaties,while THAT MONEY IS ENABLING THEM TO CONTINUE PRE-EMPTIVE MILITARY OFFENSIVES(not defensives)on other foreign lands.
-Israel must COMPLY WITH ALL UN RESOLUTIONS SET,past present AND FUTURE.
-They have to sign up to the IAEA,and OPEN UP the DIMONA NUCLEAR PLANT FOR regular international,independent inspections,controls.Clear out the Negev of radioactive waste and get rid of Depleted Uranium loads (peacefully,not bombed on people).
-CEASE PROLIFERATING NUCLEAR/CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS,
-sign on to the new NNPT and,
-sign that they will CUT THEIR LAND-BASED NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN HALF,LIKE THE US and Russia are planning to do(not talking of the Naval nukes or AIRFORCE carried weapons).
-And ISRAEL and the USA,must(even if they don't like to)recognise that HAMAS IS THE LEGITIMATE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED POLITICAL PARTY of the Palestinian people,until the NEXT elections at LEAST.
The PA,is not the chosen party of the Palestinian people,it is the PREFERRED PARTY of the Israeli Knesset,as a DIVIDE AND CONQUER STRATEGY,just like Israel did with the PLO,Hamas,Phalange,PFLOP(flop) etc etc.
Israel, needs to show respect for OTHERS rights and choices,and sit and TALK,humbly and respectfully with the elcted party.
Israel itself,by its MURDEROUS policies has BEEN MUCH WORSE than Hamas could ever be.
So like it,or LUMP IT,like Hezbollah,the IRA,Irgun,Likud,Haganah,Stern groups,all who RESISTED the defended their FREEDOMS and RIGHTS as human beings against OPPRESSION and SUPPRESSION,where they are now LEGITIMATELY elected by a popular vote,that MUST be respected and given diplomacy and intellectual dialogue!
Is that TOO MUCH to ask of HUMAN BEINGS?
Peace,Salaam,Shalom!
ISRAEL'S NATIONAL SECURITY AIDE BARRED FROM US. http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/17/israels-national-security-aide-barred-from-us/
I should bl***y well think so!
Israel is the NUMBER ONE THREAT TO US NATIONAL SECURITY and has been for SIXTY ++ long years ALREADY! The whole bunch of ZIONISTS in the Knesset should be arrested,if they SET FOOT IN THE USA,for WAR CRIMES,along with Bush,Cheney,Rummie,Wolfowitz,Yuu,Gonzalez,Addington and Rove et al.
Israel spies on us,they assassinate our leaders,they commit terrorism acts against the USA,and RUIN OUR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRITY,REPUTATION and ECONOMICS!
And they EXPECT a "special relationship" with us?
The only 'special relationship' they deserve from us is called a STRAIT JACKET!
Jeeez! We may as well have that 'relationship'with Genghis KHAN!
Or Hannibal Lecter!
She choose love and is a very painful and lonely road when people around keep on choosing death or hate, is she a saint? no she is full of flows because she is a leaving being,but she tough me a lot,forgiveness,loyalty and other beautiful things,I chose her example and if more are ready to start fresh,wile remembering all of it to use it as help for others,we will have a better place
I agree, Israel Government behavior is terrible and it will change,things ,no matter what you all say are getting better,is just a question of time and i know for who is in need of help now is not good enough but it will have to do,the world is watching,Europe is dividing them self s between fascist and communist more than ever,racism is growing and is the fault of those that instead of rap presenting the best of their nation,they act as if it is owned to them and I don t think that if an European went and raped Iranians or Moroccan women that they would like them don t You think?
VIDEO:AMERICAN CITIZEN/PEACE ACTIVIST SHOT IN HEAD BY ISRAELIS,with new large .44 calibre bullet-type gas canister. http://palsolidarity.org/2009/03/5324
And HE WAS UNARMED,CIVILIAN and ONLY defending Palestinian civilians from being MILITARILY AND OFFENSIVELY ATTACKED BY FULLY EQUIPPED ISRAELI ARMY PERSONNEL.
THIS IS WRONG,IT'S IMMORAL,IT'S UNETHICAL AND IT'S UNIVERSALLY ILLEGAL!
I cannot BELIEVE that our SPINELESS US CONGRESS are NOT protecting AMERICANS,as well as Palestinian civilians FROM THIS,and HOLDING Israel to ACCOUNT for all their WAR CRIMES?
As a WW2 Officer-Vet,the OFFENSIVE policies of Israel just disgust and enrage ME!
This has NOTHING TO DO WITH RELIGION!
It's just plain cold-blooded murder,attempted murder,depending on whether he lives OR dies.
Israel BRINGS SHAME ON HUMANITY!
No wonder Hamas come out looking LIKE ANGELS in comparison!
Peace,Salaam,Shalom.
Dear Jakiemaria,I am so sorry f,but I believe in choices or your friends and i am so sorry for You,no time for love in nether homes,I hope you both can find it, is the best cure for pain,if I could take that with me to give You a break I would
Long time ago the was a very innocent and beautiful loving child,she was abused from the age of 8,sold as slave,used to maintain a family because the father was to snob to do any work,it was total abuse of power,violence and fear was all this man and his friend where giving,she end up having pictures of her on play man and others of this lovely nature,so when some of them came out wile she was living in a small town,she did not even know that that was going to happen and,the safe heaven that she had out side was lost,nothing left but dearth and she knew that she was still pure in other ways,she would feel people pain while walking and she would stop to talk to them,she spent her life helping others,not true agency's but in every day life,she risked her life more than once to save others ,fought for animal rights in places were people often just kill them for fun,intervened to help abused and misplaced humans ,she knows pain more than many I have known and she never used that as an excuse to hate men,she works every day on her self to be as fair as possible,so You know what there are many more humans out their that already had their share of life misery and they chose not to hearth others to make a point or for vendetta,go out and help people not only your people but all we are all the same