Israel: Criminal and wretched

[subsuelo]

We have to state and repeat it: we are not witnessing a war in Gaza, but a massacre carried out by the third largest air force in the world against a defenceless civilian population.

We have to state and repeat it: the massacre in Gaza is not a “disproportionate” reaction to the rockets launched by militants of Islamic Jihad and other tiny Palestinian groups at Israeli localities close to Gaza, but an action that was premeditated and prepared a long time ago, as the majority of Israeli commentators have recognised.

We have to state and repeat it: these rockets are not, as certain European diplomats want us to believe, “unacceptable provocations”, but rather responses, we should recognise quite harsh, to a savage embargo imposed by Israel, over at least one and half years, on 1.5 million residents in Gaza, including women, children and the elderly, with the criminal collaboration not just of the United States but also the European Union.

As United Nations Special Rapporteur in the Occupied Territories, Richard Falk, pertinently explained, when you define a zone populated by one and a half million human beings as a “terrorist entity”, you are entering into the logic of genocide.

Just like the attack on Lebanon in 2006, the Israeli aggression is part of the global permanent and preventive war of the neoconservative strategists in power in Tel Aviv, and the White House for a few more months.

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/779/40183">Green Left - read more

[Name removed]

1. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[subsuelo]

2. Sorry to oppose bombing civilians and children

I can see you get so offended by that

[Sezu]

3. Oh they think plenty.

They think they can demonize Israel and reinvent the blood libel in such a way that others will not recognize the same old same old Jew hate.

[Arrowhead2k1]

4. There are quite a few Jewish people who share our feelings toward current Israeli policies.

Give it a rest with the anti-semetic inferences already.

This is nothing to do with loving Hamas and hating Jews. Get real people.

[GoesTo11]

5. Jews who think Israel is the worst country ever, speak up now!

[razors edge]

6. They have been for some time now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uEK7zaMEBg

[Idealism]

8. I don't think any person of Jewish background feels that way

I do believe that there are many of them who disagree with Israel's policies. It doesn't mean they think Israel is the worst country in the history of the world or what not.

Were you proud when we invaded Iraq? Did you think it right or wrong?

If you thought it wrong, even though our elected government thought it right, does that make you less complicit in the events that took place? Does that mean you think the US to be the worst country ever, because you disagree with their decision to go to war?

[Crunchy Frog]

7. Yes, all of us here on DU hate Israel and love Hamas.

Must be nice to live in such a simple and easily categorized world. :eyes:

[subsuelo]

9. I send Hamas cookies every month.

Thin-mint.