A Plan of Attack For Peace

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  • Posted By: jtf1960 @ 01/05/2009 3:47:45 PM

    The only way to peace with the moslems is to kill every one of them. Kill them all down to every man, woman, and child. Untill people realize that, we will never be safe from them. It may sound radical but ask yourself this. How many religions go out and riot and kill over a cartoon?

  • Posted By: conroypaw @ 01/05/2009 3:47:30 PM

    What a load of manure. Peace will not be achieved politically, if the majority of both peoples don't want peace. Both sides are going to have to bleed a lot more before either side will want peace. Both sides can sign a peace of paper, but will the people observe the treaty, whatever the terms? No, I don't believe so. It appears that Daniel Klaidman doesn't understand that political deftness, savy, clout, cache, and ability has very little bearing on socio-economic, political, ethnic, and religious conflicts. I don't care if you come up with a leader with all of the negotiating and political skills of Barak Obama, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissenger, Anwar El Sadat, John F. Kennedy, Mahatmas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, and Cicero combined. That leader can talk until everyone in the world is blue in the face, and peace will still be unobtainable and unsustainable in Israel / Palestine.

  • Posted By: Poggle @ 01/05/2009 1:37:44 PM

    Israelis are obviously trying to gain better and more land from these Palestinians. What Israel is doing goes against every fiber of my American heritage. I think they are very racist in trying to form a country based on their religion and race instead of being open like us Americans to everyone. Inclusion, not exception is the way to any peace, but at least us Americans need to stop giving Israel money and support if they are going to continue in the vein they have been. As i recall over the past few weeks, it was the Israelis who refused a continued cease fire while Hamas and the Palestinians did not fire rockets until after cease fire discussions were broken up by the Israelis.

    • Posted By: Murakl @ 01/05/2009 2:06:41 PM

      Dear Poogle,
      Your comments are both offensive and inaccurate.
      1) Israel is not trying to gain more land from the Palestinians. Israel left Gaza a few years ago, and stated very clearly that it does not plant to re-occupy Gaza.
      2) Israel is NOT a country formed on religion or race. In Israel, ALL religious institutions are respected - in fact, the Arabs control their holy places in Jerusalem. The Temple Mount is controlled by Arab religious leaders and many times Jews are forbidden to enter and pray there. Unfortunately, this cannot be said about the Palestinians who desecrated the Tomb of Joseph in Nablus, a shrine holy to the Jewish people.
      3) Israel did not break the dease fire; Hamas did by firing rockets targetting Israeli civilians in the Negev.
      4) You state that what Israel is doing goes against your American heritage. Permit me to ask: If Mexico shelled San Diego California or fired rockets at the citizens of Laredo, Texas do you think that the United States would not respond in kind?
      No one wants innocent people to die. Israel has the right and the obligation to protect its citizens from the daily barrage of Hamas missiles.

      • Posted By: Poggle @ 01/05/2009 3:45:36 PM

        My comments are neither offensive nor historically inaccurate. As a matter of fact, by biblical history, the Jews are one of the first people to commit the offense of genocide.
        I do listen to the news and the Israeli government did turn down the opportunity for another cease fire in Gaza before the rockets began firing again. I can tell you this: if you Jews ever treated Americans the way you have treated your neighbors you'd be getting hot lead in your guts from the most well armed people in the world. Thank you NRA.
        As for retaliation, if Israel really sees themselves as the victims then they need to hand these issues over to the police and have these people lobbing rockets put in jail and tried by a world court, not a Jewish kangaroo court.

    • Posted By: Bill Smith @ 01/05/2009 1:42:20 PM

      Yes, Israel does get a rather large welfare check from Amerika every year.

  • Posted By: ybathashem @ 01/05/2009 3:45:13 PM

    "Then the L-rd appeared to Abram and said, " To your descendants I will give this land." Genesis 13:7..forever!! Genesis 13:15. Both Palestinians and Jews are the descendants of Abraham, Now this is the most important scripture concerning the Jews and the Palestinians: The Angel of the L-rd said to her,"Behold you are with a child, And you shall shall bear a son. YOu shall call his name Ishmeal, Because the L-rd has heard your affliction. He shall be a wild man; His hand shall be against every man. And everymans's hand against him. AND HE SHALL DWELL IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL HIS BRETHREN!!! Genesis 16:12 the Angel of the L-rd said he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. Obviously G-d knew they were to dwell together. Their descendants were brothers and they must make peace. One cannot drive the other into the sea. Let G-d decide in the end of days whom should dwell where and where He wants His Temple. THis is a matter for G-d. What we can do is pray for those in Leadership that G-d grants wisdom and understanding as King Solomon. But let us remember one thing: In the story where King Solomon said, "okay I will split the baby in two. The one who was willing to split/destroy the baby was clearly not the mother. The one who was willing to loose the child for the sake of his preservation was the mother. Who is destroying the land? who is preserving it? food for thought.
    BT

  • Posted By: craig_hall247@hotmail.com @ 01/05/2009 3:44:56 PM

    Did Israeli cause the aggression or is peaceful nation. NO Israeli did not cause this war or any other wars. The war has to been forced upon them. Hamas has been shooting rockets at them for years. The U.S would not allow other country to shoot rockets at them and Israeli should not either. Palestinian civilian are getting killed, but Hamas(Palestinians) target Israel civilian and not the Israel military . Hamas is just a punch of Terrorists and need to be rooted out like cancer and I for one love and support Israel, The U.S do it to terrorist so why not Israel.
    HAMAS started war, ISARELI will finish the war God bless ISAREL

  • Posted By: ybathashem @ 01/05/2009 3:44:44 PM

    "Then the L-rd appeared to Abram and said, " To your descendants I will give this land." Genesis 13:7..forever!! Genesis 13:15. Both Palestinians and Jews are the descendants of Abraham, Now this is the most important scripture concerning the Jews and the Palestinians: The Angel of the L-rd said to her,"Behold you are with a child, And you shall shall bear a son. YOu shall call his name Ishmeal, Because the L-rd has heard your affliction. He shall be a wild man; His hand shall be against every man. And everymans's hand against him. AND HE SHALL DWELL IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL HIS BRETHREN!!! Genesis 16:12 the Angel of the L-rd said he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. Obviously G-d knew they were to dwell together. Their descendants were brothers and they must make peace. One cannot drive the other into the sea. Let G-d decide in the end of days whom should dwell where and where He wants His Temple. THis is a matter for G-d. What we can do is pray for those in Leadership that G-d grants wisdom and understanding as King Solomon. But let us remember one thing: In the story where King Solomon said, "okay I will split the baby in two. The one who was willing to split/destroy the baby was clearly not the mother. The one who was willing to loose the child for the sake of his preservation was the mother. Who is destroying the land? who is preserving it? food for thought.
    BT

  • Posted By: ph@hotmail.com @ 01/05/2009 3:44:31 PM

    The onle ones responsible for the suffering on both sides is HAmas & HEzoballa. They hate the Jews more than they love their children

  • Posted By: PREDATOR @ 01/05/2009 3:43:56 PM

    LET THEM KILL EACH OTHER // TILL ALL ARE GONE

  • Posted By: kobe24youbeast @ 01/05/2009 2:40:37 PM

    lets gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! watch me crank dat bird walk n watch me do me. all yall r wrong. digg this playa the muslim have no right to be getting killed. the jews and isrealies are fags. hit me back wit a comment if u have somethin to say. OH YA GO SUCK A FAT ONE! boot up or shut up HOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Posted By: YESHUAZ GIRL @ 01/05/2009 3:43:36 PM

      DO YA KNOW , IF YOU WOULD TAKE SOME TIME TO READ THE BIBLE , U WOULD SEE THAT EVEN GOD HIMSELF TOLD OTHERS TO GO KILL CERTAIN PEOPLE.
      PHINIAS HELPED TURN GODS ANER AWAY FROM THE CHILDREN OF ISREAL, DID NT HE.
      THERE ARE MANY KILLED IN BIBLE. THE RED SEA WAS PARTED AND THE ISRAELITES CROSSED AND GUESS WHAT? GOD CLOSED THE SEA BACK UP AND KILLED ALL THOSE THAT WERE IN IT.
      APARENTLY THESE PEOPLE WOULD NEVER COME TO KNOW THE LORD, HE KNEW THAT. THEY WERE EVIL, BELONGING TO SATAN/DEVIL
      SAME THING TODAY, YOU EITHER BELONG TO GOD OR SATAN.....YOU CHOOSE!
      WHO DO U SERVE? BIBLE THUMPER...NO!!!..NOT ME.!
      I STAND WITH ISRAEL...ME BORN IN THE USA....I HAVE LOVE BECAUSE GOD LOVED ME FIRST
      AND HE LOVES U TOO.....HE WENT ON THE CROSS FOR U...DONT U FEEL ANYTHING FOR HIM FOR THAT.
      I PRAY U DO

  • Posted By: ybathashem @ 01/05/2009 3:43:12 PM

    "Then the L-rd appeared to Abram and said, " To your descendants I will give this land." Genesis 13:7..forever!! Genesis 13:15. Both Palestinians and Jews are the descendants of Abraham, Now this is the most important scripture concerning the Jews and the Palestinians: The Angel of the L-rd said to her,"Behold you are with a child, And you shall shall bear a son. YOu shall call his name Ishmeal, Because the L-rd has heard your affliction. He shall be a wild man; His hand shall be against every man. And everymans's hand against him. AND HE SHALL DWELL IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL HIS BRETHREN!!! Genesis 16:12 the Angel of the L-rd said he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. Obviously G-d knew they were to dwell together. Their descendants were brothers and they must make peace. One cannot drive the other into the sea. Let G-d decide in the end of days whom should dwell where and where He wants His Temple. THis is a matter for G-d. What we can do is pray for those in Leadership that G-d grants wisdom and understanding as King Solomon. But let us remember one thing: In the story where King Solomon said, "okay I will split the baby in two. The one who was willing to split/destroy the baby was clearly not the mother. The one who was willing to loose the child for the sake of his preservation was the mother. Who is destroying the land? who is preserving it? food for thought.
    BT

  • Posted By: jrstarks @ 01/05/2009 2:41:35 PM

    Israel is a European colony sanctioned by other European countries and thre United States which at the time of its international recognition was in control of the United Nations. It was establisherd through acts of terrorism and is sustained by Western wealth and military support. It did not and will not ever be accepted by the indigeneous populations and their Middle Eastern supporters and sympathizers. In the words of the Iranian president when asked by Mike Wallace in an interview a couple of years ago if he in fact he was calling for the annihilaton of Israel he replied " if the Holocaust and Jewish persecution was perpetrated upon Europeans by Europeans in Europe why should that create problems for Palestinians?". I think that is a good question. Further, why is the United States so inextricably aligned with the Israeli state when all of our interests in the area e.g. the oil and the Suez Canal rests with the Arabs? In case you wonder I am not anti-Semitic as Semite refers to the indigeneous populations of the area and not Europeans. Judaism is a religious term and Israeli a political one. Somehow any criticism of Israel getrs turned into Jew hating and anti-Semitism. The bottom line is people of German, Polish, Russian and other European ethnic extractionse have wrested by force from indigeneous peoples a territory that they claim was promised them by the Bible. Please excuse me if I do not support their claim.

    • Posted By: ISRAELVOICE @ 01/05/2009 3:42:22 PM

      HEY BODY WAKE UP YOU STATED THAT YOU ARE NOT ANTI-SEMITISM, LOL YOU SAID THAT JUDAISM IS A RELIGIOUS TERM AND ISRAELI A POLITICAL ONE, RIGHT? SO YOU KNOW ISRAELI/OR JUDAISM IS THE SAME. THE ISRAELIS ARE CONNECTED TO THIER LAND WHICH CONTAIN THIER NATIONALITY AND RELIGION, IN CASE YOU DIDN'T HEAR ITS CALLED "JERUSALEM". DID YOU HEAR OF JESUS? WHERE WAS HE FROM? WHO WAS HE? WAS HE FROM GERMANY? POLAND? OR A PALCE CALLED ISRAEL THE LAND OF THE JWES. AND YOU KNOW WHAT EVEN IF YOU WERE CORRECT AND THE LAND WASN'T GIVEN BY GOD, THEN IT WAS BOUGHT BY ABRAHMS THE FATHER OF OUR ANCESTORS AND EVER SINCE WE LIVED THERE. SO EVEN IF NO ONE WANTS TO BELIEVE OR AS YOU SAID MR "I AM NOT ANTI-SEMITISM" I DON NOT SUPPORT THIER CLAIM, LOL HERE IS SOME EDUCATION FOR YOU:

      The problem began in AD 636, when the Islamic armies came out of the Arabian Peninsula & captured the Jewish & Christian Holy Land.

      SO THERE WE GO. WE WERE THERE FIRST...LOL YOU ARE A FOOLISH MAN. AND FOR ALL THE REST OF YOU...GROW UUP STOP CURSING AND FIGHTING ON LINE TOO. START FORGIVING AND TRY TO MAKE A POSITIVE CHANGE. AND TO THE DUDE TALKING ABOUT THE STOVE FOR THE JEWS...THAT JUST JUSTIFY WHAT ISRAEL IS DOING NOW IN GAZA. AND THAT IS GRILLING YOU..LOL SORRY FACT IS BETTER THEN DREAMS

  • Posted By: Amawulire @ 01/05/2009 3:42:20 PM

    It is very sad that there has'nt been a long lasting solution in that region.;I think by all means people should respect humanity. It is depressing to witness the young generation expriencing such activities and there is no reason to question the violence of teenagers all aver the world as they learn from such experience that violence is only solution to any agrieved party. Mind you dialogue almost costs nothing but action takes life, destroys development and creates set back.

    Human beings should repect each irrespective of their differences,.
    Mind you whatever HAS GOT LIFE HAS GOT TO DIE BUT IT IS A QUESTION OF TIME and HOW YOU DIE .

    Respect others you will be respected.

    Iam more concerned with the young generation who are innocent but casulties of circumstance .Why do wish them to go through all this .
    Why dont you give them a chance to live in common with the other without the influence of historical differences

    To be sincere to see our leaders watching by withou any practical action to stop such attrocities.

    please dont wait nothing to lose to encourage dialogue as you may come out as the winner and the saviour of children who are the World of tomorrow

  • Posted By: greenearth @ 01/05/2009 3:40:08 PM

    The only country that could stop this is Russia. And guess who's side they'r going to take - Arabs. Russians are sitting back and watching for now, but Israel better cut the crap once Russia gets involved, because they will take Israel down in a matter of days.

  • Posted By: greenearth @ 01/05/2009 3:37:41 PM

    Of course Bush is going to defend Israel. Jews run this country and they want to run every other country in the world.

  • Posted By: 48coop @ 01/05/2009 3:34:15 PM

    Minuscule?? I think you're being overly optimistic. Has there ever been any peace treaty in this region that was embraced by both the Jews and the Palestinians. I don't care what the leaders of these peoples do or say. It doesn't mean anything if it's not supported by the majority of the population on both sides. These people (on both sides) seem to want only for the death and destruction of each other.

  • Posted By: Apathetic Citizen @ 01/05/2009 2:48:38 PM

    What a flawed article. The settlements in the West Bank must be dismantled with no exceptions. If Israel is to retain just one of these settlements, then that effectively means it has annexed lands which don't belong to it and is now a colonial power. The conflict didn't begin with Hamas lobbying rockets against Israel for a few weeks; it began with Israel placing Gaza into a chokehold and intentionally ruining any attempt for a moderate political government to fill in the void. Israel has been at odds at 4 UN Security Resolutions and the misleading wording inserted by the U.S. in several them ensure that Israel gets to pick and choose which lands it should withdraw from.

    Good grief, do any of you so-called journalists even bother doing any research before writing these articles?!

  • Posted By: sargrum @ 01/05/2009 3:30:30 PM

    Well Open Mind, the Bible, God's Word predicts that there will never be "peace" between the 2 countries until the return of Jesus Christ. They have been fighting over that little piece of land since Abraham's sons both laid claim on it because it was promised by God. Isaac was the "son of promise", and Ishmeil was not, however , God did place a blessing upon him as well... the fighting is technically over a birthright. Check it out in the Bible. I can't quote exactly where it is, but I do know it is in the Old Testament, Genesis.
    No not all Muslims are evil people, most are peace loving people, but the Koran preaches hate and according to that book whoever is not muslim is to ne declaired an infadel and is to be destroyed.

  • Posted By: erahmo @ 01/05/2009 2:35:02 PM

    Did we forget the millions of Armenians who were slaughtered by the Ottoman military, The Armenian Genocide, the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres, 1915. My great grandmother was raped, had her breasts cut off in front of her children and left to die in the streets. The Jews where not the only ones.

    • Posted By: BiancaL @ 01/05/2009 3:30:24 PM

      Dear Armenian. You are absolutely right! As a jew I totally identify with the HOLOCAUST your people suffered at the hands of the Turks. In fact, YOUR holocaust was the inspiration to Hitler's holocaust of us. He even said as much. He said "The world didn't raise a finger to help the Armanians or acknowledged their massacre. The world will accept the massacre of Jews even more willingly" (he said that because the world didn't even help it's own christian Armenian brothers so why would they give a s*** about the Jews? He was right).
      And incidently, the Turkish prime miniter yesterday maligned us to no end calling us criminals and what not.

      No end to human hypocrisy.

    • Posted By: flatland @ 01/05/2009 2:42:57 PM

      Sorry to hear that! But atrocities and savagery, we are all guilty of. In the name of cause and in the name of the country and religion, I shall kill women and children and get this, to feel good about it later on in life, cause I did what I did, for my country. isn't that a joke now!

  • Posted By: ScienceProf @ 01/05/2009 2:28:03 PM

    In the off-chance you are referring to me, I guess I must tell you that I am Professor Emeritus from an Ivy League Research University.

    I am a hardnosed scientist and I REFUSE to be insulted or intimidated into buying the argument of a supposedly "chosen" people.

    A people devoid of my kind of ethical standards, and a people who want to be taken at their word regardless of the validity of that word.

    A people who have used my country's lavish support to its own benighted objectives and have devastated its neighbor(s) using weapons I helped pay for!!

    'Not one more penny of tribute" to this image as bad as those they have vowed "never again".

    • Posted By: flatland @ 01/05/2009 2:45:26 PM

      you go science! That was good. I must admit.

      • Posted By: boss_lady @ 01/05/2009 3:30:15 PM

        well said professor

    • Posted By: Repubssuck @ 01/05/2009 2:41:43 PM

      I think that's beKnighted. I could be wrong, I'm not an Ivy League Professor. Emeritus no less. Cut the crap.

      • Posted By: ScienceProf @ 01/05/2009 3:20:45 PM

        You clowns are WRONG!! Maybe in your Hebrew lexicon it is 'beKnighted', but in my English lexicon, it is as I Posted - "benighted". Very few, if any, English words have that guttaral "k" sound in them.

        I intentionally inserted the word "benighted" for its English definition: "existing in a state of intellectual, moral or social darkness".

      • Posted By: Horrible Bastard @ 01/05/2009 2:44:22 PM

        It turns out, it seems, that you can be a professor emeritus in America without being able to write a grammatically correct sentence.

    • Posted By: Horrible Bastard @ 01/05/2009 2:31:04 PM

      "In the off-chance you are referring to me, I guess I must tell you that I am Professor Emeritus from an Ivy League Research University."

      And I'm the bloody Queen of the May. What's your point?

      • Posted By: flatland @ 01/05/2009 2:37:06 PM

        no offense intended there, Bastard!

      • Posted By: flatland @ 01/05/2009 2:36:31 PM

        and you still dumb! how is that possible? I guess hate is rooted and the denial wins.

  • Posted By: MercyMe1 @ 01/05/2009 2:48:23 PM

    Kathy, excuse me, but God made the Jews/Israelites His people when Abraham was a pup. All the rest of us have been 'grafted' in.

    • Posted By: Kathy Montgomery @ 01/05/2009 3:16:45 PM

      Yes, this is true. However, let me remind you of the reason that Abraham was named the Father of the Jews, the true believers in Yahweh, the one and only true God. He was so named because he was OBEDIENT TO THE WILL OF GOD. ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE OBEDIENT TO THE WILL OF GOD ARE TRUE BELIEVERS, NO MATTER WHAT THEIR CURRENT RELIGION OR NATIONALITY IS. IF WE ALL FOCUSED LESS ON REVENGE AND MORE ON OBEYING THE WILL OF GOD, WE WOULD CERTAINLY HAVE A PEACEFUL WORLD.

      • Posted By: MercyMe1 @ 01/05/2009 3:26:05 PM

        Kathy, this is very true. You're preaching to the choir. However, my comment was not meant to anger you, just to remind you of the way it was. I am a true believer and I was grafted in as the Word teaches.

        Now to all of you who would shut us 'Bible thumpers' up.....we have just as many rights to free speach as you do,
        thank you very much!

    • Posted By: flatland @ 01/05/2009 2:58:19 PM

      He also made dogs too, mercy me :)

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