A Plan of Attack For Peace

To bighappy: If you were treated the same way the Israeli have been treating the Palestinians all these years (your land and resources seized and appropriated, your movement restricted, supplies cut off in a slow-motion attempt to suffocate and decimate you), you too would learn how to hate and kill. Racists like you that grant yourself a monopoly of rational thought (i.e., Arabs are terrorists and hate for no reason at all) are clearly a product of a very lopsided media--one that only represents Israel's side claiming rocket fires by Hamas were "unprovoked," that its disproportionate counter-response is merely "defensive" and thus legitimate. What is never publicized by corporate media in all this is the prosaic, everyday terrorism committed by Israel in what is one of the longest-running foreign occupations in modern history. This everyday economic and psychological terrorism (land grab, ethnic cleansing, restriction of movement by blockades, and total dispossession of an entire people) perpetrated by Israel on weak and impoverished Palestinians is the originary provocation (!) to which Hamas is a response and that fuels legitimate anger and hatred in the Arab world against its perpetrators! Stop the Israeli colonial occupation and aggression once and for all and that will do more to delegitimize cries for the destruction of Israel than all the military might in the world.

Does a country have a right to self-defence? Are there limits as to how much does a country have to take by being attacked by rockets? Where do you draw the line? Do you buy into all the propaganda on both sides? So before you take the high and mighty road to say one country is at fault more than another, take three steps back, and become objective.

Oh, heavens, the Israelis blitzed the Arabs in the '67 War. Heaven forbid you should mention the Arabs began the War. Many of your omissions in your article would certainly undermine the credibility of your article if you had put them in, wouldn't they? It's like recounting a story about a woman who killed her husband but failing to mention he went after her with a knife first until she had the choice of dying or fighting back.

Can you imagine if all the countries surrounding Switzerland started attacking it, and Switzerland not only attacked back, but pummeled them, would you still suggest being tough on Switzerland?

Israel justifies this war because of Qassams being logged daily at Sderot for, oh, I don't know, 8 years?! But Israel has not mentioned all the horrifying suicide bombings, at bus stops, shopping malls, wedding celebrations, private homes that occurred before this. Israel has not brought out the pictures of Palestinian women, children and men cheering and passing candy out in the streets after these bombings.

Does anyone see anyone in Israel doing that now? And what if Israel, like the Palestinians and several Arab nations do now, started threatening to annihilate them ?

Oh, yes, and you omitted the fact that except for the last War in Lebanon, every single one of these several wars were started by the surrounding Arab countries, not by Israel. Changes the picture doesn't it. But you aren't really interested in truth, are you?

As usual, a well considered article. For my part, I shouldn't comment on one small part of it, but I'm going to do it anyway. The section "Article IV: Refugees" has a couple sentences which read "But to Israelis, the notion implies an admission that they are responsible for the refugee crisis and the historical injustices leveled against the Palestinians. Israelis, offended at the suggestion that their country was born in sin, have drawn a clear line."
Aside from Antarctica, is there a piece of land in the whole of this world that hasn't been disputed in some way since we first started to call ourselves human? Even my own country, of which European-based humanity only began to take control a few centuries ago - was fought over by tribes of people soon after they themselves immigrated from Eurasia. Indeed, likely well before then, is there a place in the whole of this world which hasn't been fought over more than the land which now includes Israel? So as to "born in sin", if that be sin (and a case can be made that it is), I see no way that any person, any society, any country on earth today can make a case that they are faultless in this sense. As it relates to Israel, it all comes back to the Zionist belief that they are somehow more loved by God - my term for the universal deity - than any of the rest of us. I support Israel's right to exist and have control of the land roughly where they are, but how many of the rest of us share this particular Zionist belief?

The road to peace lies with the governments of the Arab countries in the area. The countries of origin of the so-called Palestinian refugees should accept their return. No so-called refugee camps, no reason for violence. But this will never happen as the Palestinian refugees (who are really political prisoners in these camps due to the actions of their own governments) give the Arab countries an excuse for excouraging the on-going violence.

Omaar
As bad as it red,, I'm going to agree.. those books should be #1 sellers,, red by 50 people and we get 50 DIFFERENT interpitations,, and all willing to kill to prove themselves right? So, as much as it does hurt I DO AGREE with your outlook...

Source: Thomson Reuters

Note: At least Reuters is letting the World Know that Israel is not favored in their Agresssion towards Palestine in Western & Eastern Europe and Around the World.

I Hope they continue this Carnage, so the World will SEE Israel is not this Peaceful Nation, towards it's neighbors and they are no different than their Former Oppressors [The Germans, Russians], the Media constantly Bombards us with on a Daily Basis.

The German People can Never live down their past and neither should the [Israeli Government] and its War Crimes.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of chanting, banner-waving demonstrators marched in cities across Europe on Saturday to demand a halt to Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip.

Protests were held in Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Turkey as the Israeli offensive entered its second week, and before Israel confirmed ground forces had entered Gaza.

Israeli Arabs held a protest march, Kuwaitis also took to the streets, a day after bigger Middle East rallies, and peaceful pro- and anti-Israel protests were held in New York.

In Paris, police said more than 21,000 demonstrators, many wearing Palestinian keffiyeh headscarves, marched through the city center chanting slogans such as "Israel murderer!" and waving banners demanding an end to the air attacks.

Groups of protesters clashed with police. At least three cars were set alight and about 20 overturned by demonstrators as the march ended near some of the biggest department stores in the French capital.

In London, police said more than 10,000 people staged a march and rally to urge an end to the Israeli offensive against Hamas militants that has killed at least 446 Palestinians.

Similar protests were planned in some 30 other towns.

In many cities people waved shoes -- recalling the action of an Iraqi journalist who hurled footwear at U.S. President George W. Bush in Baghdad last month in a symbolic insult.

British demonstrators threw dozens of shoes into the street as they passed the gated entrance to Downing Street, where Prime Minister Gordon Brown lives, and shouted angrily at a line of 40 police officers on guard there.

"Come to get your shoes Gordon," one woman shouted as other marchers directed chants of "Shame on you" at Brown.

A spokesman said Brown had spoken again to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Saturday and was pressing hard for an immediate ceasefire.

Leading the march were singer Annie Lennox, politicians Tony Benn and George Galloway and comic Alexei Sayle.

Demonstrators carried Palestinian flags and placards with slogans such as "End the siege on Gaza" and "Stop the massacre."

Israel says rocket attacks from Gaza by Hamas Islamists must stop before it halts operations, but the attacks continued on Saturday. Four Israelis have been killed by Hamas rockets since the offensive began.

ANGER

Some how the Newweek system added all kinds of question marks to my comment. There are no question marks in this statement.
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I'll post it again, without, hopefully, any questionable punctuation marks.
Isreal - A Debtor Nation
Since Isreal was created around 1945, America has donated millions, billions, trillions to its cause. The money has flowed unilaterally to Isreal to provide military defense, building and infrastructure in the country, food and housing, commerce, trees, banking institutes successful viability in the world. You name it and America has provided Isreal funds to provide it.
It is now time for Isreal to stop its brutal aggression, take responsibility, and provide those same millions, billions and trillions to the Palestinians, who it has injured so badly over the years.
Isreal owes the Palestinians. It is time for Isreal to pay its debt.

THE BASIC RIGHT THAT SUPERCEDES ALL LAW IS THE RIGHT TO PROTECT ONES SELF AND ONES FAMILY.

ADOLPH HITLER STILL LIVES IN THE MINDS OF TERRORISTS.

MDIDDY ! YOU SHOULD LIVE UNDER THE INEQUITABLE SYSTEM OF RACIAL HATRED.

YOU SHOULD LIVE UNDER CONSTANT FEAR OF TERRORIST ATTACKS.

YOU OBVIOUSLY LACK.