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Olmert: Sorry for civilian deaths in Gaza
Ronny Sofer
Published: 08.11.06, 12:40
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1. It's enough
Michelle ,   Finland   (11.08.06)
since now i was supporting Israel against islamic terrorism but now israeli terrorism raising up! Kill the people first and apologize. Israel must to be punished! Stop killing innocent unarmed civilian people!
2. Sorry Olmert! but Get out!
Elie ,   Lebanon   (11.08.06)
3. #1
michael   (11.08.06)
i find it interesting that you make no distinctions between accidents and acts done on purpose. You make it sem that all the armies of the world make no mistakes except Israel. That isn't reality. The Palestinians should say enough to armed terrorists opearting near their homes.
4. Olmert and Peretz are bad for Israel
Aaron ,   Ra'anana   (11.08.06)
we need STRONG leaders, with a respect for judaism, zionism, the rule of law and democracy.
5. Happy with "Disengagement" yet?
Ken Dalton ,   Toronto, Camada   (11.08.06)
Those who helped Disengagement increased suffering on all sides!
6. #3 michael
Michael ,   Haifa   (11.08.06)
There have been far too many accidents, far too many apologies...maybe Olmert should try talking with them instead...it could possibly cut down the number of accidents
7. to #1
Alex ,   US   (11.08.06)
---God, please, keep those supporters out of me. With my enemies I deal by myself. (Never prayed before, but this is the last straw)
8. Olmert do your job & protect us.
Avraham ,   Netivot   (11.08.06)
Stop feeling sorry for these terrorists & do your job Olmert & Peretz. Protect us! The PAL's are nothing but whiners & know how to get the world on their side. They use women & children as human shields & the cry. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen & resign.
9. Regret, yes! Apology, No!
Ishak Haskiya ,   Roskilde - Denmark   (11.08.06)
While Kassams fall at random on Israel and could kill anybody, the IDF targets buildings where rocketeers hide. People die! Regrettable! Who has been threatening Israel with annihilation for the last 60 years? The Arabs. are harvesting what they have planted. To people in Finland, Lebanon or elsewhere; this is a matter between Jews and Arabs. Your opinions are irrelevant and, very often,naive.
10. WOULD THEY BE "SORRY" FOR CIVILIAN DEATHS ?
andrew ,   miami,fl   (11.08.06)
11. No body will buy this
(11.08.06)
except your blood thirsty people idiot
12. Rain rockets on neighbor, get rockets back
(11.08.06)
13. Just shows
Anne   (11.08.06)
how much better things were for us all, and for them too, before incredible and brave people were brutally forced out of their homes, for absolutely no reason except the vile jealous anti jewish hatred for them by the disgusting and unsavoury left ( by their own admission folks, by their own admission.... )
14. Where can "sorry" be cashed ???
Noora ,   Bahrain   (11.08.06)
15. Andrew10.. Olmerts crocodile tears
Pedro   (11.08.06)
the short answer of course is that the Palestinians would love to hit military targets but our forces make it too difficult for them to hit us much... and of course they are poorly equiped with little more than home made bombs and a few aAK7s ... they hit civilian targets from time to time as we do... we kill far more of their civilians than they kill of ours....
16. I AM SORRY FOR ...
Marcel Abel ,   France   (11.08.06)
This time it's not controversial Gaza Beach, not Lebanese civilians, not France and Catholics, not Jewish missile fired at German boot, etc.it's more civilians killed by mad Jewish officials, it's more blood. I AM SORRY he said and the dead answered not as much as WE. Enough with them before the whole world be antisemitic again because of fanatic Jews leading their country contrary to the Law of GOD after rejecting HIS helping, loving hand (shameful, circus parade in the Holy Town). Time is coming ...
17. (9) REGRETTABLE (SIC)
Marcel Abel ,   France   (11.08.06)
Is Jewish blood so precious that you can kill civilians again and again, whose blood is impure ... You will be punished by the Lord because of what you said ... in Denmark. YOU SHALL NOT MURDER
18. His apologies are not enough
enuf killing ,   north   (11.08.06)
not now and not during the last war where people on both sides were killed unnecesarily did we achieve our goal, did we return the soldiers no...so for 2 soldiers we lost over a 100 soldiers and civilians and the Lebanese lost many innocent civilians. Ok so now we know what we are up against... I dont live in Sderot but i do live in the north and can imagine how awful and fearful it is to live with kassamim flying overhead day in day out...still we cannot and must not kill innocent people. The Americans already see us as a liability what sort of allies are we if they have to continually defend our actions. We must find other ways... I dont agree with the Arabs modus operendi
19. Anne, somewhere ...
Marcel Abel ,   France   (11.08.06)
nourished by your own HATE ... You should LOVE instead and not accuse others putting on them sins they have not committed yet ...
20. ARABS STOP MAKING WAR
THIS IS A WAR !!!   (11.08.06)
STOP IT AREADY ENOUGH ARABS MAKING WAR.. SEND THEM HOME TO jordan. olmert did you make another mistake? olmert, did you apologize agin ? only to find that israel defended themselfs... OLMESS... ISRAEL IS DEFENDING ITSELF!!! REMEMBER? THIS IS A WAR!!! OLMESS.. YOU MUST QUIT.... YOU ARE NOT A LEADER? ARABS.... YOU MUST APOLOGIZE FOR SHOTTING ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL. DACON9 I APOLOGIZE ALSO FOR TELLING THE TRUTH.. I AM SO SORRY.... I WILL INVESTIGATE MYSELF
21. Hopefully ..when Iran is properly armed
Pedro   (11.08.06)
This kind of thing will not happen... As Iran might retaliate with something more effective than a tank shell. Israel will not commit war crimes indefinately without impunity.
22. Where's Bibi?! Olmert's destroying the country!
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23. Olmert
Chaim ,   New York, USA   (11.08.06)
Reverse Midas touch: whatever this government - and its recent predecessors - does, turns into a fiasco. A sociecty that seeks to remove jews from The Land, and let Gays parade in Jerusalem... Have we lost our way?
24. The Idiot Is Apologizing Again. Why Apologize?
H ,   Jerusalem   (11.08.06)
Have the Arabs ever apologized for all the rockets they sent? Because our G-d is watching over us and protetcting us from all the thousands of missiles, doesn't mean they can do whatever they want. Olmert: Stop apologizing and don't act babyish. Have you forgotten you're "officially" the Prime Minister of Israel? I understand you don't know what that means. But perhaps, instead of apologizing, you should either quit because you're not at all suited for this position, or you should get help in running the country.
25. Please go!
enzo ,   london,uk   (11.08.06)
Is there anyone in charge of the Country? Israel seems fibrillating these days (and that's an understatement!)... Someone should take a long sabbatical soon for this Country's sake!
26. ohlmert - "sorry"
joe ,   israel   (11.08.06)
RESIGN.
27. want to trade places?
FM ,   Seattle   (11.08.06)
For those who say that they don't like the rockets being fired at them: would you rather trade places with the Palestinians? They could catch the random flimsy rocket hits and you could catch the sniper's bullet to your child's head and the tank shells to your buildings and the bulldozers to your houses and the bombs dropped on your cars and streets filled with tanks and soldiers and roadblocks and curfews.... I'm sure the rockets are an annoyance, but compared to what the Israelis put the Palestinians through, it's nothing. To all Israelis: shut the hell up! this is YOUR problem that YOU created !!!! It never had to be like this, but you people are so dman stubborn and so greedy and hateful that you have created an almost undefeatable monster. Good going. by the way....Olmert isn't really sorry, but he needs to impersonate a human being every once in a while to keep people thinking he's a human being.
28. SHAME TO YOU, OLMERT AND ACCOMPLICES ;
Marcel Abel ,   France   (11.08.06)
"The deaths came as a US-based human rights group condemned the high number of Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli forces in the last four months. Physicians for Human Rights said nearly 63% of the 247 fatalities from Israeli fire in Gaza between 28 June and 27 October were civilians and more than a third of those civilians were children. Israeli officials repeatedly say the army takes care to avoid civilian casualties, but PHR said the shelling of densely populated areas in Gaza was tantamount to deliberately killing civilians".
29. Noora
Libneniyyeh ,   Lebanon   (11.08.06)
Where can it be "cashed" indeed. Just like the same sorry that came in Qana massacre. And the sorrys to come.
30. Accident
New Yorker ,   NY, USA   (11.08.06)
Why so much condemnation from the world when Israel MISTAKENLY bombs Pals but no condemnation when Pals INTENTIONALLY bomb Israel? I think Olmert should have offered condolences for civilian casualties. But does anyone think Hamas would apologize after blowing up Israelis and offer them medical treatment? they apologize for more Israeli's not getting killed.Israel does not target civilians but at the same time is not perfect. We must remember, Israel is held to a higher standard than any other country in the world when it comes to self-defense for better or worse...
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