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Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:06 AM

This is not a "war", it is a pogrom in a ghetto, the Gaza ghetto is like the Warsaw ghetto.

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We are not alone:


"A Pew Research Center poll released Monday showed that a plurality of Democrats across the country, 35 percent, and liberals, 44 percent, said that Israel had “gone too far” in its response to its conflict with Hamas. Meanwhile 47 percent of Democrats told Gallup that Israel’s actions during the current conflict were “unjustified,” compared to just 31 percent who thought the opposite."

To be ignored and sent to jury.......ignored in the media, ignored by our own progressive heroes.....

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Israelis want a "final solution", having apparently forgotten their own history.

War is between relatively equal sides, no war ends up with 1300 civilians killed on one side and 2 on the other, anyone care to weigh in on the math?

Meanwhile cowardly American politicians hide behind chest beating symbolic votes and ship more ammo to Israel as a gift, hoping to keep their fundraising intact and not be attacked by the compliant media...as hundreds of children are torn part limb by limb in their sleep as they
lay in "protected" UN shelters.

As evil as the slaughter is the evil of the American media advancing evil lies and war crimes by the dozens. The human shield argument is so lame as to be a war crime itself, but criminals always have their own sick mind justifications, do they not?

Did you get the part where Israel gets to or has to, I have not figured that out yet, to buy more ammo and weapons.....directly from the American manufacturers? Because the hereto before secret stash of a billion dollars already in Israel, provided by you as a taxpayer, is not enough. Not enough to continue the killing at the pace Bibi wants. How sick is that!

America and Israel belong on the same psych ward, and in the same courtroom.

And yes, I am directly attacking Israel. Israel is wrong and the dead children are dead right, so take me to the jury for my whipping, I am man enough to defend myself and the dead at the same time.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:09 AM

1. That way of seeing it hadn't occurred to me

But it is true. So ironic and sad.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:15 AM

2. Bullshit.

Hamas is at war with all Jews.

But go ahead and post some more pro-Hamas propaganda.

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Response to Archae (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:18 AM

3. How many Israeli children dead? Math is not propaganda, never is, oh heartless one!?

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #3)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:32 AM

10. Anyone who claims either side is free of the blood of children is an exploiter of dead children.

 

nt

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Response to Bluenorthwest (Reply #10)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:39 AM

12. Israel is free of the blood of children, even as it flows like wine in the Gaza Ghetto. Any evidence

otherwise this past month? Even a scratch on a child not in the Ghetto?

Nope.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #12)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:46 AM

17. Anyone who claims either side is free of the blood of children is an exploiter of dead children.

 

nt

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Response to Bluenorthwest (Reply #17)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:19 AM

27. a simple question was posed to you

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Response to frylock (Reply #27)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:40 AM

37. so, Hamas' inability to achieve their goal of Israeli civilian casualties

despite having fired about 1000 rockets into purely civilian targets (well, the devices aren't really 'aimed') makes everything ok in your mind?

sP

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Response to ProdigalJunkMail (Reply #37)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 03:40 PM

145. never said that..

in fact I condemn those acts. do you condemn the wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians, or is that just the cost of doing business?

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Response to ProdigalJunkMail (Reply #37)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 06:42 PM

165. The Palestinians aren't nearly as proficient

 

at killing Israelis as Israelis are at killing them. Neither are Palestinian rockets effective weapons of war relative to the armor, artillery and aircraft that have been pounding Gaza to rubble in retaliation for rockets that rarely hit anything.

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Response to sulphurdunn (Reply #165)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 06:59 PM

170. so, again, because they suck at killing Israelis

they should be allowed to continue firing rockets into civilian areas?

sP

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Response to ProdigalJunkMail (Reply #170)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:16 PM

178. If the Israelis lift the blockade

 

of Gaza, end the occupation of the West Bank, accept the Palestinian's right to exist within their own state as was agreed to in its charter and either withdraws from or places its West Bank settlements under Palestinian governance, I'm confident the rockets will stop.

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Response to sulphurdunn (Reply #178)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:38 PM

197. if you believe that the attacks would stop

you are not paying attention...

sP

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Response to ProdigalJunkMail (Reply #197)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:49 PM

204. Why wouldn't they?

 

Do you really believe that the Palestinians hate the Israelis so much that they'd pass up a chance for a homeland and peace just so they could continue being slaughtered by them?

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Response to sulphurdunn (Reply #204)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:51 PM

205. yes... Hamas hates them that much n/t

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Response to ProdigalJunkMail (Reply #205)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:58 PM

207. Considering what's been going on

 

for the last 65 years, I can see why they might, but I doubt it. Very few people really want to sacrifice their children on the altar of their own hatreds, especially if the choice is that or a better life, and that goes for the Israelis too.

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Response to sulphurdunn (Reply #207)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:12 PM

213. The West Bank is mostly peaceful

 

Fatah gave up on destroying Israel. Hamas has that as part of it's charter. You noticed you mostly have heard nada out of the West Bank.

Let me fill a couple holes. There have been peaceful protests in the West Bank in support of civilians. Yes, a couple border police got more than just out of hand, but wonder why you have heard nada from the West Bank?

There are rumors of very serious anger at Hamas in Gaza...they are becoming a tad more concrete, but Hamas might face a very angry local population. One reason, the leadership is safely underground in sophisticated shelters. Far more sophisticated than, for example, the ad hock pipes that dot Israel and are fairly effective.

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Response to ProdigalJunkMail (Reply #197)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 09:00 PM

253. the rockets stopped for nearly 2 years

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Response to sulphurdunn (Reply #178)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:20 PM

221. so what have gay folk done to the likes of Hamas

in case you are wondering, Hamas also wants to kill all gays.

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Response to dsc (Reply #221)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:34 PM

234. Hell, I have neighbors

 

who want to kill all the gays. What's the point again?

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Response to sulphurdunn (Reply #234)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:39 PM

239. you say that if Israel just did what Hamas wants then Hamas wouldn't want to kill them

so why, oh why, does Hamas wish to kill gays? Gays didn't take their land, gays didn't invade Gaza, gays didn't bomb any tunnels yet they are on record as wanting to kill all gays. So again, why should we think Hamas will change their opinion of Jews if Israel changes its behavior?

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Response to dsc (Reply #239)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:53 PM

246. Hamas can want to kill all the Jews

 

and gays it wants, but that is never going to happen. Furthermore, there are Israeli parties that want to do pretty much the same thing to the Palestinians, gay or not. You argument is irrelevant to the issue at hand. It is a straw man.

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Response to frylock (Reply #27)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 03:33 PM

142. Some questions are too hard to answer. Thankfully no Israeli children have died, yet. However

if Israel's Cheney has his way, this will only escalate and more tragic deaths will occur, perhaps in Israel.

People of good conscience don't play tit for tat with dead children. Especially when there is zero on one side to back up that particularly reprehensible game.

Whoever starts a conflict bears the responsibility of all of its consequences. It is clear as day who started this one, under false pretenses, and why.

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Response to sabrina 1 (Reply #142)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 09:01 PM

254. yes, i agree that is something we can all be thankful for

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Response to Bluenorthwest (Reply #10)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:56 PM

91. how many Israel children

 

have been slaughtered and how many Palestinians ...I think its zero Israeli children vs many many dozens of exterminated Palestinians little kids...like the four boys on the beach...I hope my posting privileges are not suspended for this post...

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Response to Billy Budd (Reply #91)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:01 PM

93. A quick google will tell you...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel#Effects

Missiles, rockets and mortars have killed 28 people within Israel as of 17 July 2014.[1] Most of those killed were civilians, including children.[19] The first casualties from the rocket fire were a 4-year-old boy and his grandfather, who were killed in June 2004.[136] Other victims include two small children, aged 2 and 4, who were killed while playing in the street later that same year,[136] and a teenage girl, Ayala-Haya (Ella) Abukasis, who was struck and killed while shielding her younger brother.[136] In addition, more than 1,700 have been injured.[27][137] Injuries have also occurred mainly among civilians, several of whom were injured very seriously.[19][137]

Misfired rockets have also killed and injured Palestinians within the Gaza Strip. However, due to harsh restrictions in information politics and a total lack of free press in the Gaza strip, precisely reporting the number of Palestinian victims is impossible. As far as it became known, the missiles, rockets and mortars have killed six Palestinians and injured dozens more. On June 8, 2005, rockets fired at the Israeli settlement of Ganei Tal killed two Palestinian workers and one Chinese worker in a packing plant. On August 2, 2005, a rocket apparently launched by Islamic Jihad killed a 6-year-old boy and his father in Beit Hanoun.[35] On December 26, 2008 a mortar aimed at Israel killed two Palestinian girls in the Gaza Strip, aged 5 and 12.[138]

Precisely counting the number of rockets fired is impossible, and differing estimates have been given. The injury figures and attack counts below are attributed to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs,[139] whilst the fatality figures have been independently compiled by Mondoweiss. Prior to September 4, 2005, the majority of attacks were against Israeli targets within the Gaza Strip.[139]

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #93)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:09 PM

94. Still zero in the latest slaughter.....is all I said.

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #93)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:20 PM

101. I was referring to current Gaza slaughter

 

You went back years. I am not aware of Israeli children in the current violence having been killed however since those figures change by the hour literally I did not want to say zero Israeli children had died in the current situation.

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Response to Billy Budd (Reply #101)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:47 PM

111. Kind of obvious, right? Straw men are a dime a dozen these dark days.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #111)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:59 PM

117. The above poster is heavily obfuscating

The cited civilian casualties are from 2004-2014. More kids have died in hot cars in my state since in the same period. Pretty dangerous.

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Response to superpatriotman (Reply #117)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 02:23 PM

124. Question asked was answered with verifiable facts. Zero opinion, spin or obfuscation nt

 

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #124)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 02:44 PM

128. Re read. Agreed.

The Wiki piece is written to lead one to believe the casualty rate for 2014 is 28, which it is not.

Sorry.

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #124)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 03:36 PM

144. The question asked was clearly about the current slaughter of Palestinian children in Gaza. And

thankfully no Israeli children have been killed. I would think that would be something to be thankful for, not something to try to use for political purposes.

I hope it remains that way, as children are the most vulnerable victims of these horrors and no child, Israeli or Palestinian deserves to die because of the criminal actions of adults.

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #124)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:23 PM

225. No spin?

 

Oh please....obvious is obvious. Surely you are smart enough to see that flew like a lead balloon.

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #93)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 06:54 PM

168. 28 people killed

 

and 1700 injured in 10 years. Is that correct? During that time did Israel ever lift the siege of Gaza? How many Palestinians have been killed and wounded by the IDF in the last 10 years? How many times has Hamas invaded Israel, destroyed its cities and slaughtered its people wholesale?

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Response to Bluenorthwest (Reply #10)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 06:34 PM

162. How many Israeli children

 

have been killed by Hamas lately? You are attempting to establish a false equivalency. No sale.

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Response to Archae (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:00 AM

22. And the Palestinians are the victims. I do not understand - are Hamas and Palestinian the same? No,

not anymore the same than Israel and Zionists. There needs to be a way to allow the Palestinians a place to live and survive.

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Response to jwirr (Reply #22)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:06 AM

24. Well, let's see now...

ABC news showed video of Palestinian civilians laughing, cheering and celebrating the launch of Hamas rockets.

Hamas was (supposedly) elected to be the leaders of the Palestinians.

No one has yet been turned in for the murders of those 3 Israeli boys, while several are under arrest for the murder of that Palestinian boy.

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Response to Archae (Reply #24)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:43 AM

38. Why does the argument "Israel has a right to defend itself" work for Isreal,

but not for the Palestinians? And how many people have the Hamas rockets killed since the fighting happened?

This "equivalency" bullshit that is propagated in the Israeli propaganda campaign is disgusting.

How many Palestinians have you seen interviewed on American TV compared to Israeli spokespersons?

The Israelis keep blurring the lines of Hamas so that Hamas and Palestinians become one, and they are not!

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Response to FourScore (Reply #38)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:57 AM

47. The argument does not work, it is just repeated ad nauseam. Old propaganda trick that the

the propagandized media regurgitates on command without question.

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Response to FourScore (Reply #38)

Tue Aug 5, 2014, 07:18 PM

307. Because Israel is using the old Bush/Cheney Reich-Wing playbook....

where everyone who opposes them is a terrorist or anti-semitic. Which is ironic considering Israel has been terrorizing and stealing land from the Palestinians for more than half a century.

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Response to Archae (Reply #24)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:45 PM

81. Are you telling me that there were not people who cheered the US going into Afghanistan and

Iraq? That there were not people RIGHT HERE ON DU cheering the death at US hands of bin Laden?

The Israelis are the enemy of the Palestinians. There can be no doubt about that. Just as bin Laden was the enemy of the US.

I didn't cheer for any of the above and find little to cheer about in any of the situations.

But to use that cheering to justify what is being done in Gaza just sickens me.

PS: The Israeli government acknowledged that Hamas had nothing to do with the kidnapping and murder of those three teens... so why should the Gazan be collectively punished for something they and Hamas were not guilty of?

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Response to 1monster (Reply #81)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:15 PM

177. yep, same reason conservapuke Christian Extremists here cheered the ginned up war

on the wrong nation in retaliation for the actions of a group of Islamic Extremists from a different country.

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Response to Archae (Reply #24)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:55 PM

90. And....

 



http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/29/israelis-chant-there-are-no-children-left-in-gaza_n_5630601.html

Translated by HuffPost, the rabble sings: "There's no school in Gaza, there are no more kids left". The video concludes with the crowd chanting "Gaza is a cemetery".

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Response to Archae (Reply #24)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 02:13 PM

120. ABC also

showed faked-up video of Palestinian civilians laughing, cheering and celebrating after 911.

ABC is certainly untrustworthy.
ABC has lost their credibility. I am surprised you do not know this. They are nearly indistinguishable from Fox News. My local ABC affiliate is the same as the local Fox.

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Response to Enthusiast (Reply #120)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 02:19 PM

121. Thank you. So many blinded by the blatant propaganda, the American media is a crime scene.

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Response to Enthusiast (Reply #120)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 02:35 PM

126. +1

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Response to Enthusiast (Reply #120)

Sun Aug 3, 2014, 11:28 AM

286. What was "faked up" about it?

And it wasn't just ABC showing it. It was also CNN and MSNBC:


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Response to Common Sense Party (Reply #286)

Sun Aug 3, 2014, 02:34 PM

290. The celebration was not for 911.

Fox faked it, in their ignorance the others picked it up.

This was settled ages ago on DU. We have been though this before.

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Response to Common Sense Party (Reply #292)

Sun Aug 3, 2014, 06:20 PM

293. Sorry.

I didn't know. I'm glad that we have the Snopes resource.

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Response to Archae (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:17 AM

26. Hamas is about 1,100 men

That is an Israeli estimate. They are as much "at war with all Jews" as the Provisional IRA was at war against all Brits.

But go ahead posting Israeli propaganda for Israel is not all Jews it is not even a majority of Jews in the world and it is not even exclusively Jewish within its own borders

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Response to Archae (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:38 PM

75. Just like the Native Americans were at war with the US, especially circa 1880s and beyond...

The US had pushed the Native Americans into no man's land where there was next to nothing and still pushed until victory was total and the Native Americans were totally dispossessed. The parallels are there -- The N.A. were defending their lands, their peoples, and their ways of life; they were not the aggressors.

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Response to Archae (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:51 PM

86. BS

Israel is at war with all arabs, especially the women and children - see the results of their war of choice. Funny that Hamas wasn't responsible for the 3 Israeli kids deaths, but that fact never stopped Israel from killing 13,000 folks in GAza. They are never one to let truth get in the way of their wars. Meet the new oppressor, same as the old one.

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Response to Archae (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:23 PM

102. You appear to be a great practitioner of the Ethics of Convenience.

 

"Bullshit."

But you believe a mere home-owner's association is a Nazi dictatorship...

You appear to be a great practitioner of the Ethics of Convenience.

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Response to LanternWaste (Reply #102)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:32 PM

105. I just made that comment in the HOA thread

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Response to Archae (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 03:21 PM

136. So you are blaming other Palestinians for the actions of Hamas?

Hamas does not have any chance of eliminating Israel no matter how many charters they put out.

Israel does however have the capability to take more land. Their actions show their intent, even if they are too smart to put it in a charter.

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Response to Archae (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 04:59 PM

156. ...

"The Hamas leadership must be taken out," says coalition chairman Yariv Levin, considered one of the more influential MKs in the Likud party. "We can't leave the Gaza Strip as it is today. We need to create a wide swath of land beyond the border, that will be a no-man's-land that the Palestinians will not be allowed to enter. The area needs to be flattened, in the sense that there will be no houses that tunnels can be dug under."

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Response to BlindTiresias (Reply #156)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:28 PM

186. He's talking about half of Gaza.

 

This plan would effectively put 1.8 million people in an area of 70 sq. blockaded miles with their backs to the sea.

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Response to Archae (Reply #2)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 05:46 PM

272. Even if true, how does that justify killing civilians by the hundreds?

And I really dislike the Nazi comparisons myself, for the record.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:18 AM

4. I'm impressed. Man enought to defend behing a computer screen. Ooh baby I'm impressed.

 

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Response to HERVEPA (Reply #4)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:25 AM

7. Truth is gonna get you hurt, propaganda makes it go away, not thinking of the children brings sleep.

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Response to HERVEPA (Reply #4)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:50 PM

244. "We" are not amused

 

by you

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Response to Caretha (Reply #244)

Sun Aug 3, 2014, 11:26 PM

294. You have multiple personalities?

 

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:24 AM

5. Israeli military strength in part:

4,000 tanks
10,000 armoured fighting vehicles
706 propelled artillery
350 towed artillery
88 multiple launch missile systems

680 aircraft

Need I go on? Now that is an army that can conduct both war AND a pogrom..made for both.

Hamas: 0 of everything above.

http://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.asp?country_id=israel






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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:24 AM

6. That is the stupidest OP I saw all day.

And I saw lots of OPs today.

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Response to Bonobo (Reply #6)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:27 AM

8. Stupid enough for you to point it out, guess others may have an opinion also. Take it to the jury,

Complain about the stupidity, double dare.

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Response to Bonobo (Reply #6)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:47 AM

41. It doesn't surprise me you would post that. n/t

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Response to Bonobo (Reply #6)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 04:46 PM

152. Whoa.

There's stupid here but it isn't the OP.

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Response to Bonobo (Reply #6)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:54 PM

248. To some people, evidently, facts are stupid.

The OP contains facts.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:30 AM

9. Jury Result

On Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:20 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

This is not a "war", it is a pogrom in a ghetto, the Gaza ghetto is like the Warsaw ghetto, and
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025316146

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Use of "Final Solution". Fine to use when 6 million Jew, 11 million total people wiped out. In this case, abhorrent. (This is not a judgement on Israel's behavior)

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:27 AM, and the Jury voted 3-4 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: So sick of this. This person has been non stop with the border line antisemitism. You know what makes DU suck? This kind of over the top hyperbole. Hide.
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: I agree with the post. Obviously, I am not going to hide it.
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Since when do we alert on the truth?
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

I was Juror #2.

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Response to Liberal_Dog (Reply #9)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:33 AM

11. Every post that does not lick the boots of Israeli propaganda is referred to the jury, it is a given

Thank you.

The words "final solution" have not been given exclusive rights to anyone, even CNN used the term today, they are just words, trying to monopolize words is propaganda.

.................

Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Since when do we alert on the truth?

Thank you Juror # 5, you get it.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #11)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:29 AM

31. I've been on here since they instituted that

jury system and I have tripled my duties in the last two weeks.

Someone has an itchy trigger finger.

Making any accurate observation of the current plight of the Palestinians in Gaza to the Warsaw ghetto in Poland during WWII, is a big no-no to the "pro-slaughter of Palestinians in what's left of Palestine" crowd...

And the Israelis continue to push Palestine into the sea, all the while claiming victim hood.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #11)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:48 PM

82. Israel-->Nazi hyperbolic comparisons deserve hides. nt

 

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #82)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:52 PM

206. Why?

 

If they're hyperbolic and false they should be easy to refute.

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Response to sulphurdunn (Reply #206)

Sun Aug 3, 2014, 01:38 PM

289. Cavers make the same argument regarding why they should be allowed to participate here.

 

The answer is because the admins and DU community have decided that racist, disruptive, regressive garbage does not belong here.

The Israel-->Nazi comparisons are disruptive flame bait aimed at slapping holocaust survivors and their families in the face.

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #289)

Sun Aug 3, 2014, 02:54 PM

291. Then you are suggesting

 

than certain discourse should be censored? I would agree about some things, such as arguments furthering pedophilia or genocide, but not for comparisons to historical events that happened eighty years ago and have happened since. How many generations would you suggest pass before contemporary comparisons to genocidal fascism become acceptable, or is it just the use of the word Nazi that you object to when making such a comparison?

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #11)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:25 PM

103. The Jury System is being used

 

, in my opinion, to suppress criticism of Israel. I believe it is done methodically and constantly at times like this when Israel is exposed....

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Response to Billy Budd (Reply #103)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 02:37 PM

127. +1

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Response to Billy Budd (Reply #103)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:56 PM

250. Agreed

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Response to Liberal_Dog (Reply #9)

Tue Aug 5, 2014, 07:40 PM

308. The Tactic of Calling People Anti-Semitic

The tactic of calling people "anti-semitic" who oppose Israel's actions is getting quite tired.

Is it your contention that we in the left should look the other way as Palestinians are oppressed, tortured and murdered, with the help of US tax dollars and US diplomatic cover? Are Palestinians not people? Don't they deserve equal rights? How is it acceptable that Palestinians cannot return to their native land, but have been living in refugee camps for nearly 60 years? Why do their lives not count?

Are we supposed to look the other way while Israel brutalizes the Lebanese, and leaves millions of cluster bombs on their land, left to kill and maim Lebanese children?

Let's just consider the facts on the ground, which lead people to oppose Israel, instead of trying to deconstruct the supposed reason for people objecting to Israel, and ascribing racist motivation for their opposition.

1. The State of Israel was built on land that had been populated by Palestinians as well as a small minority of Jews. This land was given to Zionists by Britain and the UN. No on asked the Palestinians what they thought of sharing their land, or what they would think of being ethnic cleansed and murdered in the process of building the new ethnic state. Of course there would be resistance by the indigenous people, and the response to the resistance would involve the usual methods of oppression, with the greater the response to the resistance, the more accumulated grievances, and the more persistant the resistance would become.


Read more: http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/old/War/Amy.htm

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:39 AM

13. The abused become the abusers


“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:40 AM

14. Yes...it is sadly true

And I'd also point out that disagreeing with the government of Israel doesn't make one an anti-Semite.

Israel's government is a right wing nightmare, with those currently in charge of it intent on exterminating the people they have designated as subhuman.

I don't know that the same is the majority opinion of the citizenry.

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Response to Bettie (Reply #14)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:43 AM

16. The right wing reactionary government of Israel is not the Isrseli people, I get and accept that.

It is the current Israeli government I detest, not the people in general, just as I would detest the German government of the 1930's who enslaved the German people with propaganda and domestic terrorism, now that job is done by the media.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #16)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:58 AM

21. I'm right with you there

I'm disgusted that our government (assuming you're in the US) is choosing to side with those who would commit genocide.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #16)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:06 AM

25. This is an incredibly important point

 

and it cannot be made often enough. Thanks for making this crystal clear.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #16)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:02 PM

51. I'm sorry, but it appears the Israeli people are fully behind their murderous government.

 

Just like the Boers in South Africa. They benefit from the racist apartheid state and support it.

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Response to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #51)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 07:28 AM

260. Thank you for pointing that out

It appears that the Israeli people are always conveniently made out to be innocent and separate from the actions of their government and army at all times but such is never the case for the Palestinians who are always blamed for Hamas; and who are always required to throw out Hamas as a precondition for anything decent to be done for them.

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Response to mazzarro (Reply #260)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 10:22 AM

266. Don't they have elections there?

N/t

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #16)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 04:51 PM

154. And I'm likewise sickened by our Canadian government

for taking the side of butchers. I'm well aware that many of the Israeli people do not hold with what is being done by their government.

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Response to arikara (Reply #154)

Mon Aug 4, 2014, 03:05 AM

295. Same here

ugh, if I have to hear another disgustingly one-sided statement by John Baird I'm going to hurl.

Just like with the Iraq war, I think most people are able to separate the government with the people...and even with the people who support war and those who don't. During the run up to Iraq, I was able to be against the US government, be with the Americans that didn't want to go to war, and be angry with those who thought voting for Bush was a great idea. Some of us are able to hold nuanced positions.

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Response to laundry_queen (Reply #295)

Mon Aug 4, 2014, 01:31 PM

296. Nuanced positions. Exactly that.

Although when 911 first happened I was quite amazed at how many otherwise intelligent people believed the official story hook line and sinker and figured that first Afghanistan then Iraq needed to be bombed, and also thought Chimpy and company were saviors.

I haven't been watching the news lately at all, I can't stand listening to the so called "Harper government" pronouncements they make me sick too.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:42 AM

15. K & R

 

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:54 AM

18. It is about the government

 

We could have had a McCain or Romney here, and been making more war.

We could still have bush types like Israel does. But we don't, so we have 'relative' peace.

People attacking peace mongers as haters because the peacers don't cotton to some old testament religious types, are just talking crazy.

Carry on, Fred. You are on the correct path. Glad to stand with you.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:55 AM

19. Eric Hoffer described this phenomenon in one of his books.

 

Sorry, can't remember which one. He claimed an abused nation would act the same as an abused child and if they ever became in control they would abuse those they had power over.

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Response to pocoloco (Reply #19)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:59 PM

252. The True Believer?

I think that's the one. It's been a few years since I read it.

In it, there is a lot that would also explain so many self styled liberals who support Israel's brutal actions.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:55 AM

20. I think Bibi (sic)

is secretly in cahoots with Hamas. did they buy him off??

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Response to PatrynXX (Reply #20)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:21 AM

29. Israel did support Hamas against Fatah.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:05 AM

23. There are a number of Israeli politicians

 

Netanyahoo (sic) first among them, who learned all the wrong lessons from Nazi Germany. I am not equating the two, so settle yer jimmies, but their methodologies grow ever closer.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:20 AM

28. Why doesn't Israel set up refugee camps in the exclusion zone if they are

concerned about civilian deaths?

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:28 AM

30. 80% civilian deaths is not collateral damage!

I don't care about this side or that. What I do see is what Israel is doing right now, with this over-the-top response is wrong! Many Jewish leaders and Rabbis feel the same way! The treatment of the Palestinians is causing them to be equally bad in actions, but not in volume or effectiveness. Israel is compounding their problems in the future unless they kill all Palestinians. It seems to be their goal here. They know the Palestinians will try to respond to this atrocity which Israel will use as justification to eventually wipe them out!

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Response to Dustlawyer (Reply #30)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:34 AM

35. 80% according to who exactly?

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Response to Mosby (Reply #35)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:03 PM

52. Do you wish to dispute that figure? Of course you do.

 

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Response to Mosby (Reply #35)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 03:21 PM

135. ABC News, The Telegraph, just Google it!

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Response to Mosby (Reply #167)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:35 PM

195. 20% children by this articles admission. It assumes every male of a certain age is a Hamas soldier,

Not true. See the interviews with the doctors at Shifa hospital. None of this is ok. 20% children! At what percent of child deaths would YOU say is too much? Would your percentage change if they were Israeli kids?

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Response to Mosby (Reply #35)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:46 PM

202. Just do the math.

 

Hamas has around 1,000 combatants. There are 1.8 million densely packed people in Gaza. The death toll has now surpassed 1,400. Hamas continues to offer stiff resistance on the ground to the IDF and fire rockets into Israel. Either Israel has pretty much wiped out Hamas and is not receiving stiff resistance, or the overwhelming majority of these casualties are non-combatants.

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Response to sulphurdunn (Reply #202)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 09:59 PM

256. 1,000 combatants? Add a zero or two..

In 2003, Hamas leaders estimated the number of troops in the Qassam Brigade’s ranks at around 20,000. However, some observers believe it is closer to 40,000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades#Armed_strength

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Response to EX500rider (Reply #256)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:48 PM

258. I could be wrong about the number

 

of fighters. I'm not wrong about the percentage of military to civilian casualties.

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Response to Mosby (Reply #35)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 05:52 PM

273. So if it were, say, half that (40%) would it really make things so much better?

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:33 AM

32. You claim you're just talking about Israel

But then you use a term like "final solution" and compare Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto.

You're not fooling anyone.

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Response to Mosby (Reply #32)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:29 PM

67. +1

 

Sick of this crap .

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Response to YoungDemCA (Reply #67)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 05:54 PM

274. Wish we had the unrec feature on DU3.

Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza, and this isn't the first time. But fuck the Nazi comparisons - all it does is provide ammo to those who cheer on the mass killing of Arabs.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:34 AM

33. perhaps the NYT can re-do this Warsaw ghetto satire for today.

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Response to Sunlei (Reply #33)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:04 PM

53. Excellent! nt

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Response to Sunlei (Reply #33)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:11 PM

56. Wow. Fascinating. Even back then there was the false equivalency. n/t

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Response to Sunlei (Reply #33)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 04:01 PM

149. that is horrific

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Response to Sunlei (Reply #33)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 08:39 AM

263. This should be an OP on its on n/t

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:34 AM

34. Hey Fred... Did You Catch THIS:

 

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Response to WillyT (Reply #34)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:43 AM

39. I dunno. Israel has its share of Palins, Cruz's and Bachmanns also, it draws them toomuch attention.

Mock them I will, but give them the attention they crave like vodka to an alcoholic, no.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:35 AM

36. Quick question

Is there evidence that the Israeli Government intends to engage in a mass deportation or series of them - to some sort of death camp after the Hamas folks finish the uprising?

I'm not being snarky - or a smart ass. It's a serious question.

Anyone know if this is the case? After the uprising to avoid in particular Treblinka - a death factory - folks still got deported. At the end of the war there were still about 11K jews that were able to survive in hiding on the Non Jew/Aryan side of Warsaw.

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Response to JustAnotherGen (Reply #36)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:46 AM

40. The are just "mowing the grass", flowers and weeds together, when it grows too tall, they want

to keep the lawn though, it is the only thing keeping America compliant.

See WillyT post above.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #40)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:12 PM

57. I don't see the post by WillyT above

The other thing that - I think I recall - is that the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw ghetto did not have direct outside assistance. They did inflict severe well deserved casualties against the Nazis with some smuggled arms - but in general there was a great deal of smuggling to survive in those 1.3 square miles with a population of more 400K people.

Now the funny thing is - if I recall it correctly - The Nazis, when they showed up weren't even there to send the remaining 70K/80K to Treblinka. Down from the 400K due to being sent to death camps, starvation, illness, etc. etc. They were going to be forced out and into labor camps. At the end though - after weeks and weeks of resistance - some did end up going there. Yet others survived even the Polish uprising against the Nazis that the Russians made no effort to intervene in. That uprising was based upon the belief by the citizens of Warsaw that with the Russians on the horizon - they would intervene on their behalf.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #40)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:13 PM

58. The 'mowing the grass' thing

reminds me of 'Cut The Tall Trees' - when the Hutus (individual citizens) struck down their Tutsi neighbors, friends, work peers, etc. etc. in the mid 1990s.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #40)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 06:05 PM

277. Or perhaps this time it's the endgame. They may flatten it, expel the survivors and take it.

I just came across this chilling piece:

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Into-the-fray-Why-Gaza-must-go-368862

Or they may be "mowing the grass" again. Either way, the Palestinians know, it means their destruction. It's a matter of slow death or quick.

It's so surreal to see DUers still defending Israel's actions. Fucking surreal.

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Response to JustAnotherGen (Reply #36)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:52 PM

87. It's at least what some in the Knesset are advocating.

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Response to stranger81 (Reply #87)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:29 PM

104. I read his article

But I didn't see a mass extermination plan. I did see where this Rand Paul/Louis Gohmert/Ted Cruz wannabe wants to give advanced warning of impending attacks and move the Palestinians to Sinai - but I don't see the policy of extermination by any means necessary.

Funny - how right wing wingnuts around the world all walk the same walk and talk the same talk.

I remember in the late 80's the 'theory' amongstsome of my peers in the black community that the street lights in our communities were a 'different color' in order to readily target us. Crazy talk from some Farrakhan fans at my high school.

But it's the same kind of crazy talk ya know?

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Response to JustAnotherGen (Reply #36)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:05 PM

210. I have a feeling

 

that once this round is over, the people of Gaza will be living in an area about half the size it is now.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:47 AM

42. UN human rights official, 2009: Gaza evokes memories of Warsaw Ghetto

There is evidence that Israel committed war crimes during its 22-day campaign in the Gaza Strip and there should be an independent inquiry, UN investigator Richard Falk said Thursday.

The mental anguish of the civilians who suffered the assault is so great that the entire population of Gaza could be seen as casualties, said Falk, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
...
Falk said Israel had made no effort to allow civilians to escape the fighting.

"To lock people into a war zone is something that evokes the worst kind of international memories of the Warsaw Ghetto, and sieges that occur unintentionally during a period of wartime," Falk, who is Jewish, said, referring to the starvation and murder of Warsaw's Jews by Nazi Germany in World War II.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/un-human-rights-official-gaza-evokes-memories-of-warsaw-ghetto-1.268743

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:50 AM

43. Agree Completely - The Oppressed Have Become The Oppressors

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:51 AM

44. agreed. just last night I was questioning the use of the word "war"

 

The civilians are not "collateral damage." They are targets.

The Dahiya doctrine is a military strategy put forth by the Israeli general Gadi Eizenkot that pertains to asymmetric warfare in an urban setting, in which the army deliberately targets civilian infrastructure, as a means of inducing suffering for the civilian population, thereby establishing deterrence. The doctrine is named after a southern suburb in Beirut with large apartment buildings which were flattened by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the 2006 Lebanon War. Israel has been accused of implementing the strategy during the Gaza War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:57 AM

48. Bibi

I think Bibi has overplayed his cards. He chose the present time to go for broke, as he knows the US is engaged in other crises. The Shiites and Sunni are engaged in their own serious rift, and Bibi has the 'iron dome,' which has been spectacularly effective in repelling Gazan missiles. Why not go for the prize?

On the other hand, Israel is increasingly isolated. Sure, no American politicians will speak out for fear of losing donations, but the US is not in a financial or mental state which will allow it to commit any serious resources to an Israeli-Arab conflict, should it escalate. Teheran and Riyadh seem quiet now on the topic of Gaza; hard to tell, really, given media coverage. Still, could the 'iron dome' (which requires a $65K investment for each missile it repels) really protect Israel from a serious, concentrated Arab assault? Has Bibi chosen the right time in history for this Israeli assault, or are the Arabs merely biding their time? Bibi's given the Arabs motive . . .

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Response to enid602 (Reply #48)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:01 PM

50. No coincidence that the slaughter began just after the chaos of the Malaysian jet shot down.....

The pogrom was on the program, waiting for the right time to commence the attack on people and on the truth. You have to attack in both fronts when you are the clear aggressor.

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Response to enid602 (Reply #48)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:33 PM

71. Where is the outrage from the Arab world?

Why is no one talking about how Egypt is blowing up the terror tunnels and isolating Hamas? Do you think ignoring how Hamas plays into the rest of the Arab world negates the reality of the 1,000 plus years of Sunni vs. Shiite?

Hamas is a proxy. Palestinians are pawns. We Jews, as usual, are made a scapegoat.

There is no decent government in the Middle East, aside from Israel and there are 1 million Arab Israeli citizens living in relative prosperity and peace. Where is the corresponding Jewish population in any of the 22 Arab piece of shit governments? While you're at it show me which one of those governments is fair to Druze and Kurds and other minority Arab communities.

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Response to Cary (Reply #71)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:35 PM

72. Same amount of outrage from the Western world GOVERNMENTS, correction added. The Arab people

are plenty outraged, but the Saudi dictators, the Arab dictators that also enslave their people, these dictators and religious freaks extraordinaire being proxy for the Arab people, you will have to do far better than that, my friend.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #72)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:40 PM

78. I don't think you understand.

You ought to study some history.

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Response to Cary (Reply #71)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:49 PM

83. Israel's government is anything but "decent." [n/t]

 

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Response to Maedhros (Reply #83)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:53 PM

88. Israel's government is a true democracy

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all others.

You just don't like it that Israel exists and that she will do what she feels she needs to do in order to survive. You think Israel is not a decent government unless it acts the way you want her to act, which is that you want Israel to cease being Israel.

To you that's "decency."

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Response to Cary (Reply #88)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:52 PM

114. By "government" I'm referring specifically to the right-wing Netanyahu regime,

 

not generally to the structure of Israel's government.

I do not object to the existence of Israel at all. I do believe that Palestine presents no existential threat to Israel, and that as an occupying nation Israel has certain obligations to the Palestinians under international law. Israel is not meeting those obligations and is instead engaging in collective punishment of Palestinian citizens for the actions of a small minority (Hamas).

I think Netanyahu's government is not decent because it herds Palestinians into ever-shrinking ghettos and then pummels the general population with military force.

It's clear that you are an Israeli propagandist, so I will ignore you now.

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Response to Cary (Reply #88)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 06:31 PM

161. It's not a democracy when some citizens are treated better than others.

There is rampant, legal discrimination in Israel against Arab-Israelis, in particular. It is systemic.

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.550152

Based on our organization‘s ongoing monitoring of government policy toward Arab citizens, we see that 10 years after the report, not only has there been no redistribution, but the ongoing allocation of resources in almost all spheres is still very unequal. The result is acute inequality in all areas of life. We are not ignoring the areas in which the government has taken certain steps to reduce discrimination, such as the establishment of the Authority for the Economic Development of the Arab Sector in the Prime Minister’s Office, and the implementation of programs to increase employment of the Arab citizens. If these steps were to be expanded, they could bring about a change in the socioeconomic situation of Arab citizens and reduce inequality

But in parallel, the government has been promoting programs that are liable to reignite tensions across the country. The most prominent is the Prawer plan, or “The Plan for the Regulation of Bedouin Settlement in the Negev,” which will result in the uprooting of tens of thousands of Bedouin Arab citizens from their homes, forcing them to relocate and likely lose most of their land. At the same time, the government is promoting programs and offering incentives for young Jews to build new Jewish communities in the Negev, as it continues to offer generous benefits to a small group of Jewish citizens in the “private farms” program.

The commission made special mention of land, because it is a deep-seated factor in the contentious relations between the Arab citizens and the government. It courageously maintained that “the state must allocate land to the Arab sector in accordance with fair principles, as to other sectors of the population.” Here too it should be noted that in the past decade we have seen significant government investment in promoting master plans in Arab communities, but specifically in the important sphere of land allocation, there has been almost no improvement in the past 10 years.

In order to demonstrate the depth of discrimination we can point out that since the foundation of the state until this day, the two groups - Arabs and Jews - have grown at similar rates (eight to tenfold), but that the state has established 700 (!) new communities for Jews (including new cities) - and not a single one for Arabs, with the exception of permanent towns for Bedouin citizens who were removed from their homes. The result is a very severe housing shortage in the Arab communities and many thousands of house demolition orders in these communities. In addition, tens of thousands of Bedouin Arab citizens in the Negev continue to live in disgraceful conditions in unrecognized communities and they lack the most basic living conditions.

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Response to Cary (Reply #88)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:48 PM

243. You shouldn't put

 

words in other people's mouths in an attempt to discredit them.

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Response to Cary (Reply #88)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 08:48 AM

264. NO it is not democratic

No democratic government bombs people when three citizens are kidnapped and killed.
They use the justice system. Notice that after starting this slaughter, they realized that Hamas did not kill those three youngsters.

You don't have democracy for your ethnic group and slaughter for others and call it a democracy. Carter is right - this is apartheid and I would add on steroids.

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Response to Cary (Reply #71)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:13 PM

96. backfire.

Just hope the plan doesn't backfire. If it, does, it may be a severe blow.

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Response to Cary (Reply #71)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:15 PM

97. "there are 1 million Arab Israeli citizens living in relative prosperity and peace"

Wow.

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Response to Capt. Obvious (Reply #97)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:19 PM

100. Yeah, living under an apartheid system, or else off to Gaza they go.....prosperity?

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:58 AM

49. I started a similar thread a few days back and it was locked

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Response to vssmith (Reply #49)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:11 PM

55. "Not news or information pertaining to this conflict"', that was the reason? Precious.

I expect the same lame reason for a lockout on my thread, too much attention being attracted to
the similarities.

When do the deportations begin?

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:04 PM

54. I dunno, it's really bad but Nazi comparisons ? come on nt

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Response to steve2470 (Reply #54)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:15 PM

60. It is a ghetto comparison, many more in history, you think the Nazis were a one off?

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #60)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:17 PM

61. I object to direct comparisons with the Nazis...

I think we could say it's a huge ghetto, but I think you need to go study the Nazis in depth as I have. When you start making Nazi comparisons, you lose people like me. YES IT'S FUCKING BAD. THE NAZIS WERE 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 TIMES WORSE. We agree to disagree, I'm afraid. Good bye.

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Response to steve2470 (Reply #61)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:19 PM

63. Straw man arguments followed by self induced rage and victim hood, also well known in history.

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Response to steve2470 (Reply #61)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:37 PM

74. I don't think 'bad vs worse' precludes

pointing out that the same TYPE of activities are occurring in specific instances. Otherwise you simply lose the ability to compare ANY two situations that are not 100% identical in 'depths of badness'.

I think that's an argument made by people who want to offer up excuses for badness that is 'not bad enough'.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:14 PM

59. A quibble (ok, more than a quibble) on the disparity issue.

The Iraq war resulted in the deaths of up to half a million Iraqis in the years immediately following our destruction of a lot of their infrastructure, but only a few American civilian (contractor) deaths.

That jumps us right down to your point in the second to last paragraph.


America and Israel belong on the same psych ward, and in the same courtroom.

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Response to Erich Bloodaxe BSN (Reply #59)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:18 PM

62. Also zero American children killed in both Iraq and Afghanistan, which is why both America and

Israel are so at peace with it all.

No casualties, no body bags seen, ignorance is bliss.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #62)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:26 PM

64. Yup.

Israel is learning all of the wrong lessons from 'Big Brother' America.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:26 PM

65. And Nutty Yahoo as.....the Bibi

 

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:26 PM

66. "Israelis want a 'final solution,' having apparently forgotten their own history."

This is not an objectively reasonable opinion.

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Response to Cary (Reply #66)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:32 PM

69. Finally someone who wants objectivity!

Math is objective, right?

Palestinians killed, about 1400, hard to keep up, so it is estimated.

Israelis killed.....I forgot, someone fill this in.

Palestinian children killed, 300 or so. Again, hard to keep up with the child slaughter stats.

Israelis children killed, 0, must be correct, because we would all know because the media would be bursting with the news.

I do love math, so objective.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #69)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:37 PM

73. So according to your "math"...

... if an equal number were killed on both sides it would be okay.

I'm glad I learned math from a different teacher.

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Response to Cary (Reply #73)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:39 PM

76. Another straw man argument, it is so very boring.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #76)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:49 PM

84. Straw man argument?

I'm glad I learned about logical fallacies from a different teacher too.

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Response to Cary (Reply #84)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:46 PM

110. That was a straw man fallacy you used.

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Response to Cary (Reply #73)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 02:46 PM

130. I think that's a fair question

I wonder - if Hamas were to say - take out a school full of Israeli children-

If there would be any anger at DU?

I'm getting the feeling that this wouldn't be the case.

I think it would be more along the lines of . . . "So sad - but but but but . . ." Like a tip of that - that's so (diminished) sad. Then cheering for Hamas at the blood shed/revenge/direct hit.

There really are very very few pacifists at DU.

I wasn't aware that I was in such a small minority until the past few weeks.

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Response to JustAnotherGen (Reply #130)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:20 PM

180. Given the reaction to the cafe and bus

 

Bombings in the early 2000s it would barely register am afraid.

I want this madness to stop, for the sake of the kids in both Ashkelon and Gaza...but the OP is rank antisemitism disguised as anti Israeli

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Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #180)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:26 PM

184. What nonsense, once again the ad hominem fallacy at play.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #184)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:31 PM

189. Nope, it is what it is

 

A reason why Jews are starting to flee France, because wearing a kipah is dangerous and can get you killed. Why a merchant in Belgium said dogs were ok, but Jews not so much. These comparisons to nazi Germany and South Africa are exactly antisemitism disguised as anti Israeli.

I wonder how long until "Jews to the Gas Chambers" and "Death to the Jews" or "Hitler was right" will happen regularly on American streets. Please proceed Fred. It is what it is. You are helping to get those flames going. And where do you think Jews will go? French Jews are taking one way trips to Ben Gurion out of well founded fear

How long until American Jews do likewise? Own it...

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Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #189)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:32 PM

192. Followed by the slippery slope argument, and I thought some were better than that......

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #192)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:34 PM

194. Well that slippery slope is a fact

 

Here you go Fred

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/08/08/exodus-why-europes-jews-are-fleeing-once-again-261854.html

I don't expect you to own it. I really don't.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #192)

Tue Aug 5, 2014, 05:40 PM

300. Your blase denial of the horror of my families past..

And why we fear powerful groups of men.

People like you are why I am armed, and will remain so. Never again means something very different to this Jew and his family, and many many more like us.

You rely on reason, and explain away other peoples hatred because you can not fathom it. There is no reason attached to hatred just blind mindless animalistic need to hurt, kill rape and destroy. Your level headed and quite safe life hides that truth from you.
I have seen horror in this very world of ours and know that no people are immune, and that includes MINE, The GOVERNMENT of Israel is wrong in the lengths it is going, but you want to blame all the people of Israel, to make a blanket and broad brush indictment on an entire nation... that is bigotry. And it is what I was raised to not abide in any form, and to fight to my dying breath.

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Response to SQUEE (Reply #300)

Tue Aug 5, 2014, 06:25 PM

301. Your blasé ability to put words in other people's mouths and then play the victim is surely the true

reason you say you are armed.

Strawmen attacks are boring as I have said often lately.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #301)

Tue Aug 5, 2014, 11:37 PM

309. duly noted

but I am not nor will not be a victim. Take that as you will, enjoy your night. Nothing I can ever say or show you will convince you anyway.

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Response to JustAnotherGen (Reply #130)

Tue Aug 5, 2014, 07:16 PM

306. I would be outraged

I am anti-war, anti-murder. I fucking hate what Israel has done. What we did in Iraq. What Isis and Syria are doing. What Russia is doing.

People are so good at killing each other. Will we ever evolve past the blood thirst? Somehow I don't think we will.

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Response to Marrah_G (Reply #306)

Wed Aug 6, 2014, 05:02 AM

310. I don't think so either

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Response to Cary (Reply #73)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 03:40 PM

146. Same teacher who taught you logic but not logical fallacies, I would wager.

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Response to Cary (Reply #73)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 05:59 PM

275. And I might ask why you're so untroubled by the killing of children and other noncombatants?

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Response to Cary (Reply #66)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:03 PM

208. No it isn't objective.

 

The Israelis just want the land. They'd be happy if the Palestinians just went away, but since they won't, no Israeli government has had a problem slowly pushing them onto reservations and into ghettos.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:31 PM

68. Ah yes, comparing Israel to the goddamn Nazis...

 

I don't see ANYTHING objectionable about that...

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Response to YoungDemCA (Reply #68)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:40 PM

77. The straw man brigade has chosen its favorite straw man....be outraged now, it is all you got.....

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #77)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:43 PM

79. You made the comparison to the Warsaw Ghetto

 

I don't think you realize the full extent of the Nazis' evil. That, or you're being willfully obtuse.

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Response to YoungDemCA (Reply #79)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:50 PM

113. You do understand the difference between ghettos & gas chambers

don't you?

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Response to U4ikLefty (Reply #113)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 02:02 PM

119. You understand that the Nazis first starved the people for years and then liquidated them, right?

 

And no, not all of them were liquidated by shipping them out to concentration camps and gassing them.

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #119)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 09:08 AM

265. +1

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #119)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 06:00 PM

276. +2

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:45 PM

80. I read another thread here - I think it was nadin's (?) about the "Samson Option."

Wonder if that's ... well ... I don't even want to think about it.

VERY disturbing. And it would be a "final solution" for more than just Israel and the Palestinians, I fear.



Found it: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025312076

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Response to calimary (Reply #80)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:01 PM

92. MAD is the ballgame with nuclear weapons for everyone that has them.

It is 100% deterrence that implies complete destruction if a line is crossed.

That goes for everyone which is why the things are an abomination and why anti - proliferation is a big deal, everyone knows that eventually someone will have a line too easily crossed and the world goes to Hell in a hand basket, there is no winning a nuclear war so they are by definition a doomsday device and nothing else.

Every country when push comes to shove will destroy the world rather than be destroyed alone, that is the game and it can only be won if no one plays at all.

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Response to TheKentuckian (Reply #92)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:01 PM

267. Yeah. No kidding.

Knowing some of these nutcases, deterrence isn't it. They don't care. If they're religious extremists, they're not GONNA care. It just means they think that will force the Hand of God and make Jesus come back, or hasten the Apocalypse as they think it's gonna be, or ensure their arrival at some sort of Valhalla in the sky with milk and honey and dozens of eagerly-waiting virgins or whatever-the-hell. Now, if you thought THAT was what was behind the ultimate "Door Number 3," why hesitate?

That's what worries me most. The dingdongs with their "closely held 'beliefs'" who are just sure their actions can force the Hand, and the Divine Schedule, of God.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:51 PM

85. I don't think anyone who has thoroughly researched ghettos under the Nazis would agree.

 

What you have done is reached for the most sensational and over the top comparison you can find in order to generate outrage.

I am not happy with Israel and have not been for several years. You will not see posts defending them from me.

Criticism of the Israelis on multiple fronts and issues is pretty easy to make if you take just a few moments to make good ones.

You don't need over the top ISRAEL=NAZIS!!!!11!1! arguments.

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #85)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:11 PM

95. Sorry to offend...no comparison was made, two truths are contrasted, the comparison is in your mind.

"To lock people into a war zone is something that evokes the worst kind of international memories of the Warsaw Ghetto, and sieges that occur unintentionally during a period of wartime," Falk, who is Jewish, said, referring to the starvation and murder of Warsaw's Jews by Nazi Germany in World War II.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/un-human-rights-official-gaza-evokes-memories-of-warsaw-ghetto-1.268743

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #95)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:43 PM

108. The comparison is in your OP title, not my mind. nt

 

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #108)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:46 PM

109. "Comparison" and "contrast" are different words, the subtle difference may be lost, the corruption

of language is a lot of the problem.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #109)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:49 PM

112. If I start an OP with the title saying "DUer Fred Sanders is like George W Bush"

 

You are going to say I am comparing you to George W. Bush and suggesting you are similar to him. Any attempt to suggest otherwise you are going to regard as an attempt to dodge the real comparison I would have made with the title.

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #112)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:56 PM

116. Your comments interested me enough to post this:

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #116)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 02:24 PM

125. You should spend more time reading the text at the link you provided.

 

You use several logical fallacies with this OP.

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #125)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 05:31 PM

158. Your responses in this and a few other threads on this topic...

have caused me to rethink everything else you have posted on DU.

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Response to malokvale77 (Reply #158)

Sun Aug 3, 2014, 01:09 AM

285. Good. And I mean that no matter which way you mean your comment.

 

If you agree with me, I hope you hold my opinions in higher esteem as a result.

If you are the kind of person that thinks the Israel=Nazis comparisons is proper discourse, I hope you put me on ignore and never listen or watch me again. I have no need of the support of people who think that gross hyperbole aimed at slapping the victims of the holocaust in the face is a good way of dialoguing.

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Response to stevenleser (Reply #285)

Thu Aug 7, 2014, 08:26 PM

311. Definitely not higher esteem...

but not because I'm the "kind of person that thinks the Israel=Nazis comparisons is proper discourse".

More because I find you to be a mouth piece for the most unholy.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #109)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 04:44 PM

151. To compare means to highlight the similarities between two or more things

 

To contrast means to highlight the differences between two or more things. When one says 'this is like that' one is making a comparison, not a contrast. Let us compare and contrast a banana and a school bus. Both are yellow (compare) but the bus is much larger, has an engine and the banana is a piece of fruit (contrast).
The poster you are speaking with is fully aware of the meanings of both words.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:54 PM

89. stop it with comparison's to WW2. It is just wrong. You can disagree with Israel's foreign

policy in very strong terms, but using WW2 events in comparison does not look good. Have some sensitivity here...

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Response to CTyankee (Reply #89)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:18 PM

99. There is another popular thread on the same thing, repost the same thing there..you are wrong.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #99)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 03:31 PM

141. It is still not a good argument,no matter how many people post it.

Can you imagine how someone Jewish would feel about Israel being compared to the Nazis act of evil with the Warsaw Ghetto? Even those Jews who strongly disagree with Netanyatu's policies would be repelled. There better ways to state your argument.

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Response to CTyankee (Reply #141)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:04 PM

259. I don't have to imagine: Last of Warsaw Ghetto Survivors Calls for Rebellion Against Israeli

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2013/04/09/last-of-warsaw-ghetto-survivors-calls-for-rebellion-against-israeli-occupation/

On Yom Ha-Shoah, one of the few remaining living survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto, Chavka Fulman-Raban, delivered a fierce denunciation of evil and injustice, including the Israeli Occupation.

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Response to TalkingDog (Reply #259)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 08:31 AM

262. what a beautiful statement!

Not to be too nit-picky here, but what I read was not a direct comparison of the state of Israel with the perpetrators of the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. I did not read her statement as wishing for destruction of the state of Israel, but she clearly stands for justice and peace, not at all the goal of the Nazis which was just destruction and obliteration of an whole population. I think she feels that Israel needs a different policy, led my Jewish beliefs and tradition. I think she wants to end the suffering caused by Israel, but not the wiping out of the Jewish state.

IMO, hers is a fine, eloquent statement, one that many in my largely progressive, Jewish neighborhood could heartily endorse. Ditto my stepdaughter, who is a rabbi, leading a Reform Jewish congregation in Arizona.

Thank you for sharing that statement! It has lifted my spirits today!

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Response to CTyankee (Reply #262)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 08:13 PM

268. Glad you enjoyed it, but you didn't ask about a Jewish person making a direct comparison.

You asked how they would feel about it. Given that she was in Warsaw and she opposes Occupation, I don't imagine she'd have much problem with it.

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Response to TalkingDog (Reply #268)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 08:17 PM

269. Sorry if I wasn't clear. I think she has a real problem with the occupation, based on her

religious beliefs. I think she feels it is in direct contradiction of what she considers Jewish teaching and faith. That is what I got from the clip you posted.

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Response to TalkingDog (Reply #259)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 06:05 PM

278. That is fantastic. Thank you.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:16 PM

98. Hamas is the reason Gaza is a ghetto

 

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:35 PM

106. I love history, here is an account of the invasion of the Warsaw ghetto:

April to May 1943Edit


Stroop Report original caption: "Forcibly pulled out of dug-outs". Captured Jews are led by German troops to the assembly point for deportation. Picture taken at Nowolipie street, near the intersection with Smocza.

Stroop Report original caption: "A patrol." SS men on Nowolipie street.

Stroop Report original caption: "Destruction of a housing block." Photo from intersection of Zamenhofa and Wołyńska.
On 19 April 1943, on the eve of Passover, the police and SS auxiliary forces entered the Ghetto. They were planning to complete the deportation action within three days, but were ambushed by Jewish insurgents firing and tossing Molotov cocktails and hand grenades from alleyways, sewers, and windows. The Germans suffered casualties and their advance bogged down. Two of their combat vehicles (an armed conversion of a French-made Lorraine 37L light armored vehicle and an armored car) were set on fire by insurgent petrol bombs.[35] Following von Sammern-Frankenegg's failure to contain the revolt, he lost his post as the SS and police commander of Warsaw. He was replaced by SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop, who rejected von Sammern-Frankenegg's proposal to call in bomber aircraft from Kraków and proceeded to lead a better-organized and reinforced ground attack.

The longest-lasting defense of a position took place around the ŻZW stronghold at Muranowski Square, where the ŻZW chief leader, Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum, was killed in combat. On the afternoon of 19 April, a symbolic event took place when two boys climbed up on the roof of a building on the square and raised two flags, the red-and-white Polish flag and the blue-and-white banner of the ŻZW. These flags remained there, highly visible from the Warsaw streets, for four days. After the war, Stroop recalled:

"The matter of the flags was of great political and moral importance. It reminded hundreds of thousands of the Polish cause, it excited them and unified the population of the General Government, but especially Jews and Poles. Flags and national colours are a means of combat exactly like a rapid-fire weapon, like thousands of such weapons. We all knew that – Heinrich Himmler, Krüger, and Hahn. The Reichsfuehrer [Himmler] bellowed into the phone: 'Stroop, you must at all costs bring down those two flags!'"


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising

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Israel destroyed a power plant, a radio station and the HQ of the Hamas government....all claimed to be symbolic hits....symbols are important in the propaganda war.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:40 PM

107. Apartheid South Africa is a better comparison than the Nazis

 

This post isn't directed at you, OP, but at the Nazi references in the thread. I feel comparisons to the Nazis are off the mark, and does a lazy injustice to the reality of this conflict.

It's much closer to apartheid South Africa. The West Bank and Gaza are clearly bantustans. The only difference is that Israel hasn't stripped Arabs of their citizenship, probably because it would cause sanctions from much of the western world. But they would consider it if Arabs became too numerous, hence the oft-repeated saying "Israel has to decide whether it wants to be a democracy or Jewish". That dilemma is not necessarily rhetorical. The Arab citizens are segregated and subject to race-specific laws.

Some of Israel's supporters live in a blind fantasy world where they think this can continue forever. Demographically, it can't. Secular Jews have held Israel together since its inception, now by 2019 most Israeli children in schools are either Arabs or haredi. Unless something is done soon while the secular Jews are still in control (although that's slipping fast), Israel is doomed to an outcome like South Africa: to be changed on the terms of others rather than on their own terms.

Report: More than half of new pupils will be haredi or Arab by 2019

According to the Central Bureau for Statistics, only 40 percent of students in 2019 will be enrolled in secular state schools • Data suggests growth rate for Jewish schools is higher than for Arab schools.

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=11219

Israel will be politically paralyzed between extreme factions when this demographic grows up. The haredi in power will be unable to maneuver the international political waters due to being handcuffed by their extreme beliefs. The Arabs will cause a political paralysis. The time for a negotiated solution was 20 years ago, now it may be impossible. The solution will ultimately be imposed on them with things like sanctions.

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Response to LittleBlue (Reply #107)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 02:00 PM

118. With respect, both contrasts are applicable, the walled city of Gaza is a better contrast, but your

contrast is also good, in a different way, more like the million Arabs living in Israel are treated.

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Response to LittleBlue (Reply #107)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 03:09 PM

132. Not to go off topic, but..

Israel was the primary supplier of arms to the apartheid government of South Africa during the UN arms embargo way back then. Small world.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:53 PM

115. The last thing Israel wants is a "final solution". This group currently in power want a never

ending process, If they wanted a "final solution" they'd employ the massive amount of arms and technology we continue to supply them and blow the large scale concentration camp that is Gaza into dust. They get to maintain power and popularity by selectively acting aggressive every few years, killing a thousand or so people and blaming Hamas.

Unfortunately the people in power in Israel appear to be fairly popular both there and with our government. Unlike the ones the Palestinians elected, you know Hamas the USA and Western Power have little objection to Likudnics.

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Response to mulsh (Reply #115)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 02:23 PM

122. Hamas was democratically elected, as was the Israeli government, but only one is legit.

And then they have the gall to trumpet how democratic respecting Israel is...the hypocrisy is
Monumental.....and Egypt...do not get me started.

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Response to mulsh (Reply #115)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 03:16 PM

134. They won't blow Gaza to dust because they want the land.

 

Thieves and murderers don't destroy what they covet.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]No squirrels were harmed in the making of this post. Yet.[/center][/font][hr]

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 02:23 PM

123. you know it, I know it, analysts know it, Israel itself knows it: Bibithink is designed only for

US consumption, to keep the impunity and dollars flowing, and keep the CIA buying Israeli experts and intel (like Ríos Montt did, in fact, though there the highland Maya were being reconcentrated without settlement--but it was based on how to treat Arab Israelis)

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 03:12 PM

133. Some "Ghetto"..

Gaza:
141 sq. miles
pop. 1.8 million (annual population growth rate of 2.91%)
GDP: $1.35 billion

Warsaw Ghetto:
1.3 sq. miles
Average food rations in 1941 were limited to 184 calories
pop. 400,000
-250,000 sent to Treblinka death camp, rest died of starvation or in the resistance.

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Response to Name removed (Reply #137)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 03:27 PM

139. Not a fan of Hamas, sorry...lots of places i don't want to live..

That don't make them "ghettos".

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Response to EX500rider (Reply #133)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 03:26 PM

138. So, one ghetto is bigger than another, and one was 80 years ago? Point taken, such as it is.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #138)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 03:28 PM

140. No, the in the real Ghetto everybody starved, was shot or gassed. No positive pop. growth.

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Response to EX500rider (Reply #140)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 06:38 PM

164. No...

"A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure.[1] The term was originally used in Venice to describe the part of the city to which Jews were restricted and segregated."

[1] ghetto - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.

Gaza is a ghetto.

We have them right here in the USA. I live in one.

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Response to malokvale77 (Reply #164)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 06:57 PM

169. Maybe you missed the header of the OP "the Gaza ghetto is like the Warsaw ghetto."

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Response to EX500rider (Reply #169)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:06 PM

174. I didn't miss anything

I was responding to your definition of a ghetto.

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Response to malokvale77 (Reply #174)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:07 PM

176. Yes, the definition of the Warsaw Ghetto

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Response to EX500rider (Reply #176)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:22 PM

183. So only Warsaw defines ghetto in your opinion...

even though the word was coined to describe another place.

It leads me to believe that you have no understanding of the world outside your tiny bubble.

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Response to malokvale77 (Reply #183)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:31 PM

190. In the context of this OP we are only discussing whether Warsaw=Gaza, try to keep up

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Response to EX500rider (Reply #190)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:05 PM

209. You keep up

Size is not the issue. The effect is what matters.

The destruction of "undesirables" and the usurpation of their property.

It is not that hard to understand. I'm sorry that you seem so hell bent on denying it.

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Response to malokvale77 (Reply #209)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:35 PM

236. "The effect is what matters."

Yes and in Warsaw ALL 400,000 inhabitants ended up dead.
Gaza has a large population growth.
One thing is not like the other.

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Response to EX500rider (Reply #236)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:55 PM

249. Israel is not done yet, are they?

Let's keep providing them towards that goal. I'm sure with enough money and weapons that will be accomplished in due time.

With all the propaganda being spewed, one would get the idea that the Palestinians were responsible for the Holocaust, rather than the ones who's land was usurped to form Israel.

Whatever the case may be, I have lost interest in simple minded thinking. Have the last word, I will not be replying.

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Response to malokvale77 (Reply #164)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 06:39 PM

282. You may live in a ghetto. But your Ghetto doesn't resemble the Warsaw Ghetto

and neither does Gaza.

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Response to EX500rider (Reply #133)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 04:47 PM

153. Bigger than Metropolitan Las Vegas. Some "ghetto". nt

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 03:36 PM

143. War is not between equal sides

 

You want to be able to decimate your opponent in war.

Or have you forgotten this little piece of poetry.

"Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not."

Ideally one side wants to be able to kill the other side at will without sustaining any casualties itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Omdurman

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Response to AnalystInParadise (Reply #143)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 03:43 PM

147. You made me laugh, describing slaughter as a form of war....you really did.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #147)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 04:18 PM

150. What the hell

 

do you think war is? If it is a contest of equals, then you are doing it wrong.

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Response to AnalystInParadise (Reply #150)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:21 PM

182. It is, but only on the sand table

 

Unfortunately people confuse the sand table and simulation for real life.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 04:59 PM

155. Something for the deniers/apologists

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.608121

"The Hamas leadership must be taken out," says coalition chairman Yariv Levin, considered one of the more influential MKs in the Likud party. "We can't leave the Gaza Strip as it is today. We need to create a wide swath of land beyond the border, that will be a no-man's-land that the Palestinians will not be allowed to enter. The area needs to be flattened, in the sense that there will be no houses that tunnels can be dug under."

Concentrating the population into smaller and smaller cordoned off plots of land? Hmmm...

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Response to BlindTiresias (Reply #155)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 05:26 PM

157. You mean like this, although it is now the size of Las Vegas, some say, so can not be a ghetto....



Israel has created a multitude of ghettos for the different levels of servitude to them.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #157)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:26 PM

185. Could we see a map from 1957?

 

That'd be interesting to include.

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Response to oberliner (Reply #185)

Tue Aug 5, 2014, 06:40 PM

302. Here you go:

 



What point would you make with this?

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Response to Maedhros (Reply #302)

Tue Aug 5, 2014, 06:44 PM

303. In that map, Gaza is part of Egypt and the West Bank is part of Jordan

 

Where do they figure in the "loss of Palestinian land" narrative? They don't make an appearance in Gaza or the West Bank on any of the four maps, even though Egypt and Jordan were occupying Gaza and the West Bank throughout the 1950's - as indicated in the map you provided.

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Response to oberliner (Reply #303)

Tue Aug 5, 2014, 06:49 PM

304. Israel maintains effective control of Gaza and the West Bank

 

and thus remains the occupying power as defined by Article 47 of the Hague Regulations.

Regardless of what happened in 1957, Israel is occupying Palestinian land.

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Response to Maedhros (Reply #304)

Tue Aug 5, 2014, 06:57 PM

305. Not disputing that

 

Just disputing the sequence of maps as being an accurate representation of the history. I think they are manipulative propaganda pieces. I think it is enough to say that the occupation is wrong and that Israel should withdraw to the 1967 lines.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 05:46 PM

159. Rabid right wing sociopathy is a universal behavior

whether Nazi, Taliban, fundamentalist Christian, Jew, Hindu, Muslim--any ideology can be twisted by them. Sociopaths want power, land, domination, inequality, punishment--because they are broken inside, they see a fragmented world.

Sociopaths are cut off from their higher creative minds and their hearts because they are in a state like chronic fight or flight. When in this state blood is shunted toward the limbs for survival, and into the reptilian most primitive part of the brain.

So to overcome this social disease is to stay calm and unified WITHIN. When we are able to calm ourselves and bring blood and oxygen to our higher brains and to our hearts we unify ourselves to our full potentials. Any martial artist knows the importance of staying calm.

Sociopathy is a state if fear that is contagious--which is important---to recognize when we ourselves are triggered into this state--and RESIST fighting amongst ourselves, resist becoming part of the disease.

Because if we are to create a future where sociopaths can be driven from all the seats of power we need every able body to be in their full potential, with a fully activated calm higher brain function to do so. Because once we get out of our primitive lower brains and open our hearts, we can get a lot done. Working together doesn't mean we have to like or approve of each other--but we can find common ground.

Gaza has potential to create a new generation of terrorists--and Netanyahu knows this--he is only capable of creating more Hell. His right wing party, like all right wing hyper violent parties cannot be allowed to destroy any more life. This is a human disease.

Peace ~~~FN

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 06:17 PM

160. Great opening statement

"Israelis want a 'final solution,' having apparently forgotten their own history. "

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 06:36 PM

163. Please forgive my naivete as a newcomer to DU

but I fail to understand why a person is subjected to so much scrutiny (Fred Sanders) as in trial by jury, when that person is compelled to express his disgust with the situation in Gaza, the murder of innocent civilians by the region's super power, Israel. It seems to me that posters veer off this topic that should be of vital importance to the civilized world. Instead, I read so much back and forth hyperbole when the real issue seems to be negated. I am sure I will be chastised for my post. Frankly, my dear, I dont give a damn! My concern is that my country is aiding and abetting the killing of innocent civilians by supplying arms to Israel. This sickens me!

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Response to cornball 24 (Reply #163)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 06:53 PM

166. we moderate posts via juries here, instead of moderators doing it

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Response to cornball 24 (Reply #163)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:29 PM

187. I think you got that right

Fred dares to challenge the status quo, so must be silenced.

Welcome to DU. We need more voices of reason here.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:00 PM

171. There is no comparison whatsoever and to say there is, is very disingenuous.

Either you are not well versed in the history of the Warsaw ghetto or you just ... What the hell, why even try, you are going to carry on with that meme no matter what.

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Response to William769 (Reply #171)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:04 PM

172. The Nazis were in a league all of their own, only Rwanda and Pol Pot come close

I can't believe anyone even entertains the comparison. Yes, the situation with Gaza is BAD but Nazis ? Jesus Christ.

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Response to steve2470 (Reply #172)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:06 PM

173. Agreed 100%

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Response to William769 (Reply #173)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:18 PM

179. hey, did you see my lgbt thread in GD ?

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Response to steve2470 (Reply #179)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:20 PM

219. No sorry I sisn't see it.

Fast way is to link me.

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Response to steve2470 (Reply #222)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:21 PM

223. Thanks.

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Response to William769 (Reply #171)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 06:15 PM

280. I agree. This kind of hyperbole doesn't help. n/t

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:06 PM

175. Yes, this is antisemitism and over the top

 

I see the jury let it stand, but it is what it is.

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Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #175)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:29 PM

188. "Anti-semitic" has officially lost all meaning except as proxy for anyone not in lockstep.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #188)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:31 PM

191. No it has not Fred

 

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #188)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:40 PM

199. You may wish that were true, but it isn't. nt

 

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Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #175)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:44 PM

201. I have been a defender of you here on DU...

But on this, I think you have it wrong. Fred is not an antisemite.

Some of us just don't believe in the killing of innocents because we have the power to.

I gave you the benefit of doubt on your recent OP here. I will now rethink what you posted in that OP.

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Response to malokvale77 (Reply #201)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:46 PM

203. Read this

 

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/08/08/exodus-why-europes-jews-are-fleeing-once-again-261854.html

Also, bucked up and started to monitor media on all sides. There is a lot your media is not telling you.

But no, I did not make it up. It is antisemitism. He might be repeating something he heard. But it is what it is.

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Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #203)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:20 PM

220. I'm sorry nadin...

but that has nothing to do with Fred's posts on what is going on in Gaza.

And then you link me to the same shit that is reported by the media everyday.

I am neither stupid nor easily fooled. I thought you were above propaganda. I learn a little everyday.

May peace be within you.

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Response to malokvale77 (Reply #220)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:30 PM

231. That is not propaganda

 

The same was said about previous events of antisemitism rage...it was also called propaganda.

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Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #231)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 09:06 PM

255. It is propaganda when...

it is being used to excuse what the Israeli government is doing to the Palestinian people.

The Palestinians were not responsible for the Holocaust.

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Response to malokvale77 (Reply #220)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 08:18 AM

261. Please quote the text from the linked Newsweek article that you claim to be propaganda.

In addition, please quote the text from the article that you claim to be "the same shit that is reported by the media everyday," and explain why it is "shit"?

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Response to LTX (Reply #261)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 05:29 PM

270. No...

do your own fucking research.

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Response to malokvale77 (Reply #270)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 05:39 PM

271. It's not "research." It's a linked article.

One article. Rather simple. What is the "same shit" in that article, and what is the "propaganda" in that article.

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Response to LTX (Reply #271)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 06:13 PM

279. Hard to link to what I see on the air waves.

I won't sign up to link what I see spewed on my TV everyday. I do research on what I see coming through that box.

Therefore my suggestion for you to do your own research. I will not pay for your education. You either care for the truth or not.

I owe you nothing. My response was to somebody with a bit of knowledge on the subject.

I could care less on educating you.

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Response to malokvale77 (Reply #279)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 06:48 PM

283. One more time. This isn't really that difficult.

Here's the article:

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/08/08/exodus-why-europes-jews-are-fleeing-once-again-261854.html

It is entitled "Exodus: Why Europe's Jews Are Fleeing Once Again."

What in that article, specifically, is "the same shit that is reported by the media everyday," and what in that article is "propaganda."

Surely you are up to this simple task.

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Response to LTX (Reply #283)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 07:15 PM

284. Has nothing to do with what I was responding to

If you feel the need to get out that message, start your own OP. Maybe I will respond there.

Or respond to the current OP. I'm sure they have the arguments you seek.

You state that this is not difficult, but yet you seem to be the one who is having a difficult time.

My concern is what Israel is doing to the Palestinians.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:20 PM

181. A week ago I said the same thing and was told it was an unfair comparison.

I guess it is has been a bad week for Israel if the Gaza/Warsaw Ghetto comparison is now accepted.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:33 PM

193. Gish Gallop

nt

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:35 PM

196. Ninety-eight per cent of Warsaw's Jews perished

 

Out of an initial population of over 400,000 Jews, 100,000 had died of disease and starvation by the time the uprising began in 1943.

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Response to oberliner (Reply #196)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:40 PM

198. Most as you know where deported to camps and murdered, you are a bit early to the comparison.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #198)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:42 PM

200. Fred 50 of my family died at Treblybka

 

You might miss why this is antisemitism. Most of us who know history don't

Best case, Gish Gallop, and ignorant at best

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Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #200)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:07 PM

211. Yes, it is. How blind people can be. It is sad and very tragic...

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Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #200)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:12 PM

214. Of course I am sorry for your loss and loss of all innocents, but labelling others who do not

share a certain view of current events because labels are convenient is wrong, no matter the personal history.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #214)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:17 PM

216. Except that it is not just me pointing this comparison

 

As antisemitism disguised as anti Israeli. Look, there are no saints on this one, and a few far right Israelis would love nothing more. They actually make bibi look like a damn moderate. It is also a fact that Hamas wants to kill every man, woman and child...it is in their charter. Really, it is. You should look it up.

But this...this comparison is ignorant and yes, is getting passions inflamed and reviving a very old virus.

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Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #216)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:24 PM

227. Enlighten me, where is this charter, translated properly of course, you are exaggerating for affect,

I get it.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #227)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:27 PM

229. Here, choice passage and link to full document at Yale Law School

 

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).



http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

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Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #229)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:30 PM

232. The "kill every man woman and child part", where is that again, Nadine?

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #198)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:07 PM

212. One fourth of the population died of disease and starvation - not deported to camps

 

I don't think that your analogy is especially apt.

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Response to oberliner (Reply #212)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:15 PM

215. The Gaza siege is not over yet, disease and starvation are next without power and water.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #215)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:18 PM

217. In the years that the Gaza seige has been in place how many starvation deaths have there been?

 

Can you provide a rough estimate?

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Response to oberliner (Reply #217)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:22 PM

224. Well, there are around 2000 blown to bits deaths of children through the years, maybe they would

have starved before blown to bites, you got me there.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #224)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:24 PM

226. The number you are looking for is zero

 

There have not been any. Which, again, is one of the reasons that the comparison doesn't seem suitable.

One quarter of the population in the Warsaw Ghetto died of starvation or disease by 1943.

What percent of the population of Gaza has been "blown to bits" through the years would you estimate?

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Response to oberliner (Reply #226)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:25 PM

228. Interesting. Zero is also the number of Israeli children killed lately, not a one with a scratch.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #215)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:19 PM

218. Have you looked up as to the role of Egypt in this?

 

You should. Trust me, US has nothing on that, again, quite on purpose.

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Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #218)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:28 PM

230. Egypt is gripped by a dictatorial army general that overthrew a democratically elected government. I

have no use for Egypt in any of this. I sure hope you support democratically elected governments and not military coups?

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #230)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:32 PM

233. You mean the fact that the border with Sinai is tightly sealed

 

With nothing coming in or our, or people, have nothing to do with this? I thought you were better than that. Or that Egypt is not considered a good broker by Hamas, because they want them either weakened or preferably gone? I thought you wanted the full picture. I see you really don't.

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Response to malaise (Reply #237)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:37 PM

238. And he is still wrong, just like the OP

 

Cannot wait and report on "Jews to the Gas Chambers" like it is already happening in France or "dogs ok, we don't serve Jews" like in Belgium

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Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #238)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:46 PM

242. Sis we agree on a lot of things

but not this one. Israel has lost her soul. The abused cannot become the abuser and expect support.

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Response to malaise (Reply #242)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:51 PM

245. And the comparison is still wrong

 

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Response to malaise (Reply #237)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:43 PM

240. She claimed I want Israel obliterated in above post.....she is not thinking right.

I am in good company with Danziger, who too may be similarity accused shortly....and you.

Edit: post of hers was hidden, 7-0.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #240)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:53 PM

247. No Fred, I said Hamas wants it obliterated.

 

Showed you a link. You refuse to see it. So it is where we are. You refuse to see the full picture, and you are best case just repeating ignorant statements. Worst case, you might not overtly want it, but supporting Hamas, who does...we'll then.

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Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #247)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:58 PM

251. Pretty clearly written by you, quote " In my mind, you will not be happy until Israel is indeed

obliterated."

An apology would be in order.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 08:45 PM

241. here -

 


Sheikh Hassan Yousef
In an interview on Fox News Channel Wednesday, Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, praised Israel for fighting against Hamas, saying it was the only way to prevent future wars and save the lives of civilians in both Israel and Gaza.
Son of Hamas Founder: Israel Needs to Finish Off Hamas
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183551
Arutz Sheva

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 10:41 PM

257. ,

 

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 06:30 PM

281. Ways in which Gaza is not "like" Warsaw Ghetto

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Warsaw Ghetto: An area of 1.3 square miles in which 400,000 men, women and children were confined
Gaza: An area of 140 square miles in which 1.8 million Gazans live. While the borders with Gaza currently are sealed, for much of the past several years there has been limited ability for people to get in and out of Gaza, particularly through the border with Egypt. There was never any ability for the Jews of Warsaw to go anywhere other than to death camps.
Gaza: site of a new luxury hotel that opened in 2011. While that turned out to be a spectacularly bad investment, you can rest assured no one was building hotels in the Warsaw Ghetto.

The response of the Israeli government to rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel has been a ground and air offensive that has resulted in the deaths of over 1500 Gazans, a number that is disproportionately made up of men. The Israeli offensive also has resulted in the destruction or damage to, according to the Palestinians, 30,000 residences. When the Germans responded to the Warsaw uprising, they killed or shipped to death camps every last man woman and child in the Ghetto and destroyed, by explosion or fire, every structure. Thousands of Jews were burned to death in their homes or on the streets by flamethrowers.

So how is that the the Israeli offensive can have destroyed so many homes without an even higher death toll? Because the Israelis have given warnings to the Gazans of impending attacks. Those warnings have not been successful in too many instances, but I can guarantee you that the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto were given no warnings or opportunity to save themselves before being put on trains to Treblinka or shot or burned to death.

One more way: the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto did not have rockets that they sent into Germany (or even Poland); they were not governed by people who wanted to "obliterate" the German state. They were exterminated not as the awful collateral damage of a military conflict. They were exterminated because they were Jewish -- nothing more, nothing less.

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Response to onenote (Reply #281)

Sun Aug 3, 2014, 01:01 PM

287. And that is just the beginning of the differences. Such comparisons are disruptive flamebait aimed

 

at being nasty to victims of the holocaust and their families. It really has nothing to do with what is actually going on in Gaza.

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Response to onenote (Reply #281)

Sun Aug 3, 2014, 01:06 PM

288. Don't respond to creationists

 

It gives their argument a legitimacy that it doesn't deserve.

Same for the "Israel is like Nazi Germany" folks.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Mon Aug 4, 2014, 02:38 PM

297. You want math. Here's some math.

Number of Jewish civilians killed by Germans: 6,000,000
Number of German civilians killed by Jews: 0

Which is why using Holocaust-based references as comparisons to what is happening in Gaza is obscene.

BTW, there are numerous other examples of war being waged where one-side suffers extraordinarily greater civilian loss of life than another. The US lost few if any civilians during the Vietnam and Korean conflicts (and certainly none in the US), while civilian loss of life on the other side was considerable. During WWII, there were 6 Americans who were killed by Japanese "balloon bombs" in Oregon while having a picnic and several dozen more that died during the Pearl Harbor attack. Some other civilians on islands occupied by the Japanese also were killed either in the fighting or as prisoners of the Japanese. But that number is still ridiculously low compared to the hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians killed by US bombs, including two atomic bombs.

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Response to onenote (Reply #297)

Mon Aug 4, 2014, 02:45 PM

298. The false equivalency is the outrage....the lies about missing soldiers as justification....your

outrage is highly selective and, deflective and defective.

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Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #298)

Mon Aug 4, 2014, 02:49 PM

299. The false equivalency is all on your part, not mine.

You asked for facts and math. You can't handle them. No surprise.

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