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EU pledges 10m euros to help Lebanese
Associated Press
Published: 20.07.06, 19:19
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1. What Israel Achieved
(07.20.06)
"Israel has a right to defend itself but its reaction should be appropriate." With all that infrastrucure destruction and civilian casualties that IDF commited, Lebanon won more international friends, more respect, aids, and support from other countries. Lebanon will be built again, even better than before. Israel just won more enemies, and less support from international community in the future ...
2. What about Israeli Damages
RA   (07.20.06)
Why isn't the EU and red cross giving aid for Israel. Israel has suffered millions in damages as well. In addition, Lebanon should pay reparations for all the missiles the IAF had to use up to do their job for them.
3. Our poor Lebanese brothers!
yasser_2 ,   Toronto, Canada   (07.20.06)
I am a second generation Egyptian Arab. I think you will be surprised at what I have to say. While I feel for the Lebanese people in their plight, I believe the shortsightedness of their government in not dealing with Hizbollah when they were instructed to do so long ago. I believe in Israel's righ to exist. They have given up land, blood and guts for the cause of peace and from the Arabs have only received hatred and persecution. This must cease and will only do so when all terrorism is wiped out. Israel has made a good start in the past week. I detest violence and bloodshed, but there are those who only know such, as words, negotiations and pleas have no effect. I have Arab friends and Jewish friends. Some of the former have some of the former hold extreme Islamic fundamentalist ideals. What my Jewish associates told me about the middle east problems caused me to think and due to their reasonableness and frankness, I made a move to do something.............to support Israel! I recently became a member of an organization that consists of numerous Arab, some of whom were even terrorists. Many others are Lebanese Christians who have detested Hezbollah and are supportive of Israel. This organization if you any of you wish to know about it is the Walid Shoebat Foundation. (He himself was an ex terrorist who hated Israel). He converted to Christianity and changed his life course. Informations is found at: www.shoebat.com ---Arab friend of Israel.
4. What about the innocent civilians South of the border?
(07.20.06)
5. Typical EU response
Your Uncle Bob ,   Washington, DC   (07.20.06)
No concern or care for the innocent Israelis murdered by terrorists that are freely allowed to roam Lebanon. Nope, only concern for people that aren't Jews. Europe is only second to the Islamic world in it's depth of anti-semitism.
6. *SAWOOOOOOSH*
J   (07.20.06)
The sound of more European money being flushed down the Arab world toilet
7. Europe
BS meter ,   Canada   (07.20.06)
Europeans are just paying the Islamists for taking over the job they tried to begin. I hope not a euro goes to anyone who harboured Hezbollah on their private property. But I wouldn't trust the Europeans to scruple much....
8. Arab friend, #3
BS meter ,   Canada   (07.20.06)
I embrace you. I am proud to know we share a city.
9. Talk about disparity!!
Yidith ,   Toronto   (07.20.06)
Hypocrites; when was the last time the EU send some support for Israeli victims? Not honest brokers; they just blew their chance to have any infuence in the ME as far as I'm concerned; and that goes for the UN too!
10. Matti Vanhanen
Leon ,   Grand Rapids U S A   (07.20.06)
Matti Vanhanen, president of Eurabia. Well, at least your'e always consistent 1
11. Israel gets billions from USA. 10m is nothing compared
(07.20.06)
12. To Yasser from Toronto
Gene ,   Israel   (07.20.06)
Hi Yasser! I wish there were more people like you in the world. G-d bless you!!!!!
13. To Yasser #2
Chris ,   Montreal   (07.20.06)
To detest war and injustice is one thing but to actually support Israel is another. It is clear to me that you can be easily brainwashed into thinking that what Israel is doing is just and that an Israeli might ever considers you an equal. I have endured 16 years of war staged in Lebanon by those who always want us to be weak. By those I mean Israel, Syria and the rest of our Arab brethren. So sitting in your warm nice home in Toronto you scarcely have the right to pass judgment on those who are actually being killed by your Israeli friends. Of those killed is a family of 7 Canadians just like you and I, and spare me the “price of war” lecture for you know nothing about it. What you should be doing is convincing your Israeli friends that dialogue is the only way out, speak with the devil himself if need be, but insure that future generations of Israelis and Lebanese have a chance to live a normal life. Who’s fault it is for the latest escalation is of no importance, this war has been going on and off for tens of years now and what do we have to show for it, death, hatred and generations of people who want nothing more than to annihilate each other. You have to work on convincing your friends, be they Arab or Israelis that no one will ever win where death is present and that peace is the only way out no matter how difficult the journey, and by peace I do not mean peace by force!
14. to Gene in Eretz Ysrael
Yidith ,   Toronto   (07.20.06)
The name is Yidith (Yid&Lilith cause I be a "demon") And there are millions of Jews like me- especially Jewish WOMEN! Devorah wasn't the only one. ;O) You hang tight; be strong ; we're all with you and working our tuches off to help on this side of the world. May HaShem keep and protect all of Israel!!
15. oops appology to Gene and blessing to Yasser!
Yidith ,   Toronto   (07.20.06)
misunderstanding; sorry. And you're correct Yasser is a miracle; a real Mensch! May G-d bless him and his indeed!!
16. #11 and US billions
BS meter ,   Canada   (07.20.06)
Egyptians, Palestinians, and other Muslims around the world get billions in aid from the US, too. And unlike the Israelis, they don'thave to spend it on trade with the US. What do they do with it? Use it to turn half the planet into a sinkhole and spread venom and hatred everywhere they go. Where has US aid to Palestinians gone? To publishing the lies they call schoolbooks? To supplying kids with toy guns? You've wasted more money than the Israelis ever had given to them. Israel's economy was built by the work of its people, not by handouts used to paper over a one-product economy (oil usually or, in the Palestinians' case, warfare). Time for you to ask your leaders what they've done with the bilions you've received. Start with Suha, but don't stop there.
17. Who proved Lebanon is innocent?
Paul ,   AZ, USA   (07.20.06)
Evelyn Gordon points out at jpost that Hizbullah munitions are shipped freely over Lebanese controlled roads and through Lebanese controlled Beriut airport. That Lebanese Army radar sites had to assist in the quidance of the missile the struck the Israeli naval vessel. Has the 70K strong Lebanese army ever interferred with any arms shipments to Hizbullah?
18. To get a little you need to give a little
Shame on Israel ,   Montreal   (07.20.06)
WHAT ARE YOU ACCOMPLISHING?? You use American money to accomplish your “biblical right”! Cram several Palestinians families into a small home after relocating them and when they retaliate, they are terrorists? Receive four billion a year for decades, like charity, and call the Palestinians cowards and terrorists for their tactics when they have nothing else?? Assassinate Arab leaders, like Shaikh Yassin and expect them to sit by idle? There was peace before 1948, Jews and Arabs lived as neighbors (589,200 Muslims, 83,800 Jews, 71,500 Christians and 7,600 others --- from wikipedia). Just because the Jews had more friends in Britain in 1948, does that mean they deserve this land? This call for a Jewish state in Palestine drew violent opposition from local Arabs, in part because of Zionism's stated goal of a Jewish state, which would require the subjugation or the removal of the existing non-Jewish population. Every passing day more and more people are sympathizing with the Arabs. Israel has become SICK. Children signing artillery shells, which are shot into Lebanon killing innocent people. What do you think the families of these casualties will do?? Many will fill the ranks of the very people you are trying to suppress. If your long term goal is peace, then peace is the only way to achieve that goal.
19. #18 Hamas Charter/GLOBAL JIHADISTS TARGET JEWISH CIVILIANS
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (07.21.06)
This is what U.S. and EU tax dollars finance: Palestinian Authority Muslims voted overwhelmingly for the Hamas platform which calls for the murder of all Jews. From the Hamas Charter: "Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish population, defies Islam and the Muslims... Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it... There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad..." Conquest of the Jewish Holy Land is highly coveted. The ultimate goal is world domination by Islam. Islamists use women and children as human shields and fire from within densely populated areas. IslamoFascist religious supremacists attack Jewish civilians day and night: Stabbings, shootings, fire-bombings, stonings, drive-by shootings, bombs planted, grenade attacks, mortar attacks, lynchings. A daily barrage of incessant rocket attacks. Human bomb killer attacks... Effigies of burning buses are features of Palestinian Authority school pageants and summer camps. Streets and soccer teams are named after suicide bombers. Arab Muslim children and adults train in terrorist training camps. Ambulances transport terrorists, weapons, and bombs. Thousands of Palestinian Authority Muslims celebrate in the streets and pass out sweets whenever Jewish innocents including children, are murdered by Muslim human bomb killers. Palestinian Authority society are taught murdering Jews is the highest goal in life and attains paradise: http://www.pmw.org.il/AFD.html
20. # yasser? or nasser?
Faris ,   D   (07.21.06)
stupid liar !
21. Thankyou #20
yasser_2 ,   Toronto, Canada   (07.21.06)
Thankyou for the compliment. You are quick to accuse someone of being a liar. I get the distinct impression that what I said in my post was a case of truth hurts. There were no lies in my information. As for Yasser, this is my name and thankfully I was not named after Arafat who damaged any hopes of peace in the middle east. He "never ceased to miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity" to negate any concessions the Jews offered to give up for peace. And as for Nasser, this is the name of my cousing who read my post and is in agreement with it also. By the way #20.............You must be one of my Arab bretheren who views me as a traitor to the cause. What cause I do not know, but leave me out of the terrorist cause for the extermination of Israel where the only democracy in the middle east flourishes. Yasser and Nasser. (Do you get it no. 20-----two individuals with similar opinions!!!!!!! Learn to reason and to look before you leap and accuse).
22. not all europeans are the same
Darren ,   Wales UK   (07.22.06)
To redress the balance that some of my tax money will end up being used for this I have made a donation to http://www.onefamilyfund.org/ to help israeli terror victims.
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