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7 killed by IDF artillery fire
Ali Waked
Published: 09.06.06, 22:29
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31. 7 Palestinians, including children, killed by artillery shel
Ellen Prescott ,   Southsea, Hampshire   (06.09.06)
This really is a slow and steady process of genocide, as TAU professor Tanya Reinhart called it. Accidentally killing innocents, let alone children, happens once or twice. But over 1,000 children have been murdered by the Israelis in the last 6 years, 50,000 disfigured. Over 3,000 innocents murdered altogether. This is not 'accident,' this is POLICY. This is the genocide of the Palestinian people. And the Israelis refuse to acknowledge this. They live in a big bubble, and many of them have no idea how much the Palestinian suffers on a daily basis. The average Israeli thinks, 'Oh, we are fighting against terrorists, right? We are the real oppressed people and we're fighting against evil terrorists, how could that ever be racist and apartheid when we're the biggest victims of racism?' What they fail to see is the deep and complex system of racial segregation/Apartheid by the Israeli government. And now the systematic slaughter of Palestinian civilians. As Barach Kimmerling of Hebrew University said, 'Gaza is the world's largest concentration camp.' What I'm seeing here is history repeating itself and victims who have turned into the murderers.
32. 12 people murdered
Ellen Prescott ,   Southsea, Hampshire   (06.09.06)
'two women, one of whom lost her two children, a year-old toddler and his three-year-old sister. Dozens others were injured in the attack' How much longer is it going to take before Israel and the US realise what is going on is the systematic murder of the Palestinian people? How much longer will Israel continue to be exempt from international will, and how much longer will Israel shrug off criticism as 'Jew-hatred?' This is genocide. Over 3,500 innocent Palestinians murdered since 2000. Over 100,000 disfigured since 2000. Most Palestinian children have been traumatised by death. How much longer will the Americans fund and permit this Holocaust to happen? Action needs to happen now - the UN must but a full embargo on Israel and consider putting peacekeeping troops there until it: 1. Abides by International Law 2. Acknowledges Palestine's right to exist. 3.Recognise the democratically elected government of Palestine. 4. End the illegal occupation. 5. Remove all of the rabid settlers. 6. Dismantle the Apartheid Wall
33. Big "YES " to #9
Jason Asman ,   Boston   (06.09.06)
Can you imagine the funerals ? All them savages in one swoop!!!
34. I agre with elen the freak we shuold be more like British
Nebojsa Yitzchak M ,   Toronto   (06.09.06)
Perhaps that is the reason British won the war with Nazis; but unfortunately we are still trying to APEASE them. Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin got their share of collecting the "brownies" for all their hate and malice they were spewing across the whole Europe for a decade and they were CALLED TO ACCOUNT. There is a cost for a such adventure. British carpet bombed German cities as Germans did to others. If one society has no regards for civilian population and targets civilians in particular that society no longer acts as a member of HUMANITY but becomes a DISEASE of humanity which has to be treated EXACTLY as such, as a disease. Rallies in Nuremberg, Munich, Berlin in early 1930’s was a “sweet” hate directed on CIVILIANS, so war brought them to bear some costs – reprisals for such “adventurism”. Price of every action is ITS CONSEQUENCE. So Elen the Nazi is perhaps right this time we should be more like British! In respect of "Collective responsibility"? Remember the Coventry? Warsaw? Belgrade? Stalingrad? Moscow? All the Nazi rallies had some a “magic glow” at screams for destruction of others and at the end they bore some accountability for their CHOICES they wanted a war, they got the war and all that goes with it; they inflicted misery upon the millions and they got some misery back. Everything in the world has its cost MURDER also has its consequences, we call it JUSTICE. One society want a genocide on the others there is a responsibility of the WHOLE HUMANITY not to RATIONALISE GENOCIDE but to PUNISH IT. Arab Nazism or Euro-Nazism is the same.. exactly the same and THEIR APOLOGIESTS are the same then as they are today. Arab NAZIS are at the war with the Western CIVILISATION everywhere it is time to remove Chembrelainites and to bring Churchill like leadership to the world scene before it is to late. One GREAT general who ACTUALLY knew what is he was talking about said: “During the time of war there is no substitute to the VICTORY” Douglas Macarthur Humanity has no choice but to VIN! Nazis do not need social workers they need only the surgery AS USUAL! To remove them from the healthy body of humanity.
35. #19 Am Yisrael Chai - Od Kahane Chai
(06.09.06)
36. Prior to: #15
Annie   (06.09.06)
The Israeli PRESS's tolerance towards the terrorists is stupid, traitorous and sickening. Hence the Israeli tolerance etc etc
37. DON'T CRY ELLEN!!!
stephane ,   france   (06.09.06)
ellen,i feel very sad for you. it's a very hard week for you! you lost al-zarqawi 2 days ago,last night you lost 3 pals terrorists,this afternoon some more terrorists...israel and usa really spoiled you right ? ps: you think that i'll be ashame from tsahal after they hit gaza beach?...-never! i'm very proud of them no matter what's the result.there is no smoke without fire.tsahal sent "letters" many time from the sky telling the pals civilians to stay away from terrorists sending quassams;but they prefer to stay close to them in hope to be "human" shields.so here is the result.god bless israel and usa ellen!!!
38. #11 franck the dumb !
stephane ,   france   (06.09.06)
stupid antisemit who knows nothing...i just want to give you one example to show you why we are to nice with pals.on the 14th of may 1948,when ben gurion declared the re-independance of israel,the jews didn't have a single tank! a single plane! but your pals friends from all the arabs country around attacked israel on the 15 of may.and they didn't hesitate to attack us with all their weapons and they were 100 arabs against one jew! so dumb? who must be ashame? don't worry israel is here and for ever.and i don't know from wich fucking country you write,but when the arabs will start to blow up themselves in your country;you'll be in trouble cause you don't know how to deal with those barbarians.i wait for this day that you will pay you and all the bootlickers like you. GOD BLESS ISRAEL AND SHABBAT SHALOM FRANCKY!!!!!
39. Zionist War Crimes that go Unpunished
richard Hitchings ,   methil   (06.09.06)
Yet More War Crimes from the Zionist Entity....Another Case for the Simon Wiestenthal to bring about Justice.....Ha!! but Wait the Perpetrators are Jews.... so No Justice there then from S.W. the UN the EU the US or anybody else.... Just a another Zionist Murder to go unpunished.
40. To histerical Ellen: drink a cup of water !
Eddie Shor ,   Ariel Israel   (06.09.06)
41. terrorists, okay.... Children??
Pali ,   Palistine   (06.09.06)
42. thank u #17
Pali ,   Palistine   (06.09.06)
43. elle prescot
azram ,   falestin   (06.09.06)
israili must defend it self from terrorists, our leaders are very stupid to fight such powerfol cuntry.the only thing we,most falestins, is peace and living together with israel.....we can not aford any more bloodshed,life is life, is pressous,israil did not start all this, it was fanatic underground movment of falestin......i feel ashamed to be falestin,i wish i was born israili. i hope soon you will find all terrorist who make my,our life, very dificult......salaam
44. NP, go play outside ... it's nothing for kids here.
The Truth   (06.09.06)
45. Israel. Damned if it does or if it doesn't.
Jane ,   UK   (06.09.06)
I served in the British military - artillery shells can be very accurate but sometimes fall wide or off target. This is rarely the case with surgical strikes by missiles from the air. If these shells do transpire to be Israeli then questions will need to be asked. Having said that, as long as the Hamas PA continues to allow the unhindered activity of terrorism groups who continue to fire at Israel from civilian areas, then the danger of further such incidents will not go away. Israel is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't. It has a duty to protect it's own people. In essence, there is a great difference between the tragic accidental deaths of innocent civilians such as this, and the cold blooded murder of innocents, which is the clear intent behind each Qassem missile launch.
46. #10
Jane   (06.09.06)
The last thing any of us would want to be is a self-righteous, hypocritical Brit. Your posturing at civility which you do not truly possess is ugly to watch. As to treating your enemies with the utmost care, I dare say that the White Paper, which consigned hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths at the hands of the Nazis, would prove otherwise. You are a cold, immodest and arrogant people. Freak you, Ellen.
47. #11
Jane   (06.09.06)
Free Palestine indeed. Free Palestine from the terrorists that are at the root of all this. Free Palestine from Jew-hating. Free Palestine from selfishness and greed. Free Palestine from educating their children to hate. Free Palestine indeed.
48. Ellen
Jane   (06.09.06)
You do not even know what the word genocide means. But you do love to throw it at the Jews, don't you, you Jew-hating Brit.
49. #26, Doc, dear..#10 is a clone
Ellen Prescott ,   Southsea, Hampshire   (06.09.06)
However, when we gave Jews land, we created another problem and victimised an entirely innocent third party; The Palestinians.
50. Ellen #10
Arie   (06.09.06)
Now I finally see that you are actually a fraud coming here simply to incite. I'll bet you go to the muslim boards condemning honour killings and to the Catholic boards to attack priests. http://www.hindunet.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=51230&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1 http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/697876789?ltl=1149871189 http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/amnesty.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4919600.stm http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Mbeki-attacks-Britains-colonial-record-in-Africa/2005/01/05/1104832174902.html
51. #10 British Were Kind To the Indians LOL!!!!!!!!!
(06.09.06)
52. BRAVO TO 43! ELLEN READ 43.
stephane ,   france   (06.09.06)
53. I condemn this terrorist act against civilians....
Ramzi Sfeir ,   Bethlehem, Palestine   (06.09.06)
Just like all other terrorist attacks against innocent civilians are condemned, this one should be condemned and its perpetrators should be judged, punished and sent to jail where they belong...
54. Zionist Crime Indeed
Mustapha ,   Hebron   (06.09.06)
The crimes are seen everyday, look and watch from something like 6 months, many many Israelis crimes everyday in Gaza, after they convive the world that they wanted peace and they withdrew from Gaza, surrounding 1 million Gazan with the strongest US mililtary entity in the world, prevent the food, medicine and money to come, and they want everybody to say thanks, again another Zionist Crimes againest the Palestenian and humanity will go as before unpanished, because US is the only one that can punish and US in their pockets ...will this continue, we should patient and wait.
55. #32 Ellen
Jane ,   UK   (06.09.06)
Your so called "international law" is largely based upon the massively slanted, anti-Israeli, UN whose Arab/Islamic block of countries who can sway any law/resolution against the Jewish state. Your "democratically elected" Palestinian government does not even recognise the right of Israel itself to exist and which has as it's charter, media and education syllabus a fundamental premise which calls for the genocide of the Jewish state. Palestinian autonomous areas are clear of Jews. The Nazis called it 'Judenrein'. This is the real apartheid, not a wall that keeps Palestinian terrorists from murdering innocent Jews, who you refer to as "rabid settlers". Your own comment shows who has the real apartheid and racist agenda here. Your statistics are inaccurate too. You draw a perverse moral equivalence between the cold blooded murderers of innocent Jewish civilians and the deaths of those that have mostly occurred during the perpetration of such atrocities. Most Palestinians casualties have been amongst the latter. Nearly all Israelis casualties have been amongst those travelling on civilian buses, in theatres, cinemas, shopping malls, restaurants or just walking the streets. It is not for nothing that Jewish children have to be conveyed to and from school in armoured school buses or have armed escorts in public places. It is because of the history of Palestinian terrorists who have seen them as soft targets.
56. #49 Ellen
Doc ,   United Kingdom   (06.09.06)
My dearest Ellen, we weren't meant to give any land to the Arabs. The Middle East was already being carved out into an area which was 99.5% Arab. The remaining 0.5% was the British Mandate of Palestine, given by the League of Nations to us to create a Jewish state on both sides of the Jordan River. We British reneged on this and appeased the Arab world by giving 83% of this territory to them as well. Your twisted take on history omits the fact that until 1948 "Palestinians" included the Jewish people. The following statement from Zahir Muhsein, executive committee member of the "Palestinian Liberation Organisation" included in an interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw on 31st March1977 puts everything into context;- "The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism." The PLO's VERY OWN representative correctly recognising that there never has been a Palestinian people, nation, language, culture, or religion.... and the real agenda behind the 'creation' of a 'Palestinian' people.
57. a tragedy
mike ,   san diego   (06.09.06)
ok, #1 IDF does not target civilians, and anyone who says so is a dolt that has no logical thinking. If IDF targeted civilians, there would be no palestinians living anywhere near israel. thats a fact. Its also a fact that every palestinain civilian death is bad for israel and israel's image, just like this case #2 this is most likely a military targeting and intel error. It is very tragic that kids were killed or hurt in this event, and no amount of talk will bring their parents their kids back. this is a tragedy. To all the people who are so very critical of israel and its so called 'zionist' policies, please consider how jewish parents feel when their kids are slaughtered ON PURPOSE. I never hear such vocal and utter condemnation from these same people when some jihadist nutjob turns himself into cat food in a Tel Aviv deli, killing ordinary people around him it is a tragedy, which should be investigated and people responsible punished, but I have yet to hear the same outrage and outcry when a palestinian bomber or a Kassam missile kills an israeli kid, so please, spare me the moral equivalence lectures, because you youselves arent equivalent in your efforts of victimization.
58. #49
Jane   (06.09.06)
When YOU gave us the land? Do you really think that YOU gave us the land? Now I know how ignorant you are, and how profoundly afflicted.
59. Oh Ellen that's so funny. Make us laugh some more :)
(06.09.06)
60. A Brit for whom Ellen Prescott's taxes paid for a statue
bart   (06.09.06)
Royal Air Force Commodore and war hero Arthur Harris took the view that "The only thing the Arab understands is the heavy hand." He has a statue outside the Royal Courts of Justice.
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