The PR War in Gaza

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I suppose, with a name like Shalom Freedman, you're totally unbiassed!

Someone please explain to me, if I came to your house and told you I was confiscating it; if I kicked you out; dumped you in Gaza, which for all intents and purposes is a barren wasteland; built walls and checkpoints so you have to check with me everytime you want to move more than a couple of feet, what would you do? Would you fight? Is that justice? After the Holocaust we all said "Never Again," never again were we going to sit by and watch while a power used its military might to murder, oppress, and destroy another group of people simply because of their race, religion, or ethnicity. But is that not what is going on right now? As the Nazi's pushed the jews out of their homes, the Isrealis push Palestinian people by building illegal settlements. As the Nazi's forced the jews into ghettos, the Isrealis push the Palestinian into refugee camps and areas like the Gaza strip where they are almost completely dependent on foreign aid to survive. As the Nazi's murdered innocent men, women, and children the Isrealis drop bombs after bombs onto Palestinian houses or they starve them. And yet the western world looks on and says nothing, despite the fact that Isreal is in violation of more international laws than I could list, the world sits by and does nothing. Instead, most western media portrays the image that the Palestinians deserve it because they are all dirty terrorists who don't want to live free, funny is it not, how closely that mirrors the Nazi's justification.

someone needs to tell both plastine and israel that you both are been stupid!!! are your leaders dying thier families their kids.... NO. its you you and you who die, so stop your leaders. they provoke voilence.

guys, someone has to stop sperating people by religon. world is punishing Palestine for electing hammas, what all options do they have. world saw the elections and no one questioned the results. so why punish them. for me both are terrorists, one uses its people and other uses its army. and the sad thing is nobody thinks of number of kids, women and men are die on each side.

This is the problem, Israelis and the West see Arabs, in particular the Palestinians, as "backward". So many times have I read such comments on forums similar to this one. In the early 1900's, the zionists had this ludicrous point of view and therefore justified their invasion of Palestine. Brit-Shalom Ihud, a member of the Jewish Agency even stated that: "If I weigh the catstrophe of five million Jews (in Nazi Germany) against the transfer of one million Arabs, then with a clean and easy conscience I can state that even more drastic acts (in Palestine) are Permissible".

The Israelis narcissistic attitude and self worth is becoming more and more evident in their continuous efforts to drive Palestinians out of their homes. I suspect that their intentions were to drive Palestinians into the Sinai by sealing them off from all supplies. The Hamas rockets are of an insignificant number when in contrast to the "terror" that Israel has set into many innocent Palestinians.

Finney29 is right, too many Westerners buy into Israeli propoganda through the outrageously biassed material found in Western media. More images of Palestinian suffering need to be seen in Europe and the states, perhaps if a handful of you watch Al Jazeera, you may find that the Arabs are not terrorist dogs and are entitled to live as "freely" as yourselves.

To Notals: But the Jews did something that made a majority of Germans their enemies! Hitler alone could not have done much against the Jews. There was something that happened, was it the recession? Who were the biggest industrialists of that country that could have caused the recession? I could have told you to go read the history, but the trouble is that history has the bad habit of getting written by the victor.
So, Yasser Arafat's uncle was a Jew hater. Why should he want ill of the Jews? Could it be that he foresaw what they were planning? Why he was not arrested? Could it be that he was falsely accused, by the Jews, of collaboration with the Germans, but there was no real proof?
I agree that there is a lot of hatred for the Jews among the Palestinians, so much so that it seems un-Islamic, but tell me if your relatives are killed, if you are driven out of your land and if doors are being closed on you from every side for being homeless and stateless, how will you feel? On top of that they are living like chicken in a poultry farm, every now and then the Israeli army comes up and picks off, a few that seem to make more noise. The picking off does not happen with a shot gun, nor with a rifle, but with missiles and a few houses also get demolished and some innocent folks get killed; their relative becoming new recruits for the Jew hating army!
I do sympathize with the Jews, but they have got themselves in a pickle by depending too much on force and by ignoring the voice of their moderates. Now it is time for them to do tshuvah, one meaning of which is repenting. If there are any true descendants of Jacob left among the Jews of Israel, their prayers will be answered with ???do what is right, do what is just???. I promise you that.
Muhammad

Gaza and all of the Ocupied lands since '67 are a humanitarian crisis. I wish I knew the answer. What I still wonder is how Israel could build a wall between Gaza and Egypt without Egypt kicking them around for it. Frankly, if I were Mubarak my tanks would have backed over that wall long before now. How an Arab nation can stand by and watch the starvation of Arab people is beyond me.
And good man r8118s, Israel is not our colony. I am beginning to wonder why we hand billions out in this whole region like it was our problem. Maybe it is the blackmail of nuclear weapons? I can see President after President being told by Israel that if X or Y isn't done, they will have to use their weapons, etc. That is why Bush is so manic over Iran, Israeli pressure on one side and his Oil buddy Cheney on the other.

>> ...in response to intensifying rocket fire from Gaza...

This is what I don't understand: an entire article with only one sentence that addresses the true source of the unrest: terrorism. Why are the Gazans not held accountable for their actions? Why is the focus on how the Israeli's respond and not the actions that provoked the response in the first place?

My common sense tells me that if the Gazans stop shooting rockets at their neighbors then their neighbors will leave them alone. The Israelis pulled out of Gaza a few years ago, so I don't understand why the Gazans continue to provoke them.

Dear vdifr9,
I think you should be ashamed of such comments.. Such resentful comments and rememberance of the 9/11 don't help anymore.. Isreal is killing innocent people day and night.. They have contaminated the water for palestineans in order not to be able to give birth anymore... Furthermore, all the rockets and pla pla you are talking about hasn't done not even 0.0001% of the damage that Isrealis (Zionist gangs) are doing to Palestineans minute after minute... Isreal is just keeping on its violation to all human rights and UNO treaties, something that you guys can't conceal or confuse the public opinion about like many others.. all what you are doing guys is just use your ''super powers'' against children, women, old people and frustrated gunmen who were converted to be so due to your oppression and lack of humanity... All what you guys are doing is to try to blind and control the international media in order not to reveal your filthy imperialistic plan to invade and raid a whole nation in order to keep their land for yourselves...
However, nowadays I think that your plan is quite obvious for a 5 years old kid... Isreal is the worst seen 'country' on Earth according to various international quests... Jews are the most hated people everywhere eventhough no body would say so in public... You guys will be suffering the deep hatred of all the next generations and if you don't care... I think you will receive a bitter punishment from God even if you think there is nothing called God anymore...

Either way, this is a humanitarian crisis. Humanitarian groups in Israel need to speak up against these kinds of atrocities. Silence is acceptance.

Israel is a colony of the U.S. and England - Punish Germany not the indigeneous people of Palestine!