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4,200 balloons released in NY to protest Qassam fire
Neta Sela
Published: 24.01.08, 19:19
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1. Another idea..
Vince P ,   Chicago   (01.24.08)
How about raining 4,200 missiles into Gaza instead? I can't believe Israel is acting so impotent.
2. How about 1.5 million people in Gaza????
Ali ,   Ramallah, Palestine   (01.24.08)
3. the difference between arabs and israelies
(01.24.08)
when arabs get attacked by rockets they join a militia and blow themselves up. we blow up balloons. see the difference?
4. This should be done every day in all 50 states
David ,   Minneapolis, USA   (01.24.08)
If this type of effort could be done every day across the US - at the state capital's, at the JCC's, somewhere.. At the exact same time of day, this would send a great message. Each day, the number of balloons floating to the sky would equal the number of Qassam rockets from the previous day in Israel
5. those 1.5 mil voted for hamas
Pablo ,   NYC   (01.24.08)
6. To VinceP from Chicago
Pal Girl ,   Nablus   (01.24.08)
The Israelis have fired much more than that on Palestinian civilians .. Evidance ? It's the Palestinians who get killed .
7. 4200 Ballons
Carolyn ,   Israel   (01.24.08)
Good start, but why not bring some Sderot residents to NY and have them give interviews on Fox News and local news stations and let the American citizens hear from them!
8. #7 is absolutely right!!
Chaya ,   Bat Yam, Israel   (01.24.08)
And Ali #2 - You have been fed a load of crap all your miserable life about the so-called 'palestinians.' There never was a nation! But if you want to live in 'palestine,' go to Jordan - that's the other half!!
9. to # 4
Lee ,   Germany   (01.24.08)
This U.S my dear you don't belong here..how bout you that in Israel. We are sick of your mess.
10. #6 - Pal Girl, false conclusion from evidence...
Joe ,   Los Angeles, CA   (01.24.08)
Less Israelis are killed because it's more difficult to kill Israelis than it is Palestinians. You see, Pal Girl, unlike the Palestinians, Israel builds defense systems to keep its civilians safe from attack because Israel actually values human life. Israel's value for human life, both Arab and Jewish, is the only reason why they haven't carpet bombed Gaza. It also is the only reason why they didn't deport you all to Jordan - the country created for Palestinian Arabs by the British - when Israel took over the West Bank in 1967. After all, most of you had Jordanian citizenship at that time anyway.
11. 50 States what?
sarah ,   the world   (01.24.08)
The world is tired of you all fighting...you both deserve each other.
12. IMO A far more impressive balloon display would be
lydia ,   Brisbane, Australia   (01.25.08)
Ask the Ambassador from the respective countries to participate. Let the Palestinians balloons be green balloons, the Lebanon balloons be yellow and the Iraqis be white for all the people KILLED by jews/ US. We could throw in the Afghanistan's with black balloon and release them all at the same spot. Far more impressive display I think. Talk Peace!.
13. Do we have enough baloons for Cluster bombs
lydia ,   Brisbane, Australia   (01.25.08)
14. doesn't look like your talking peace to me Lydia
Scott ,   NY, USA   (01.25.08)
Talking peace is talking on the side of Israel in this case. If Hamas were to put down the missiles there would be no situation. They know that, but how can they destroy Israel if there is peace? They can't, and it's in their charter to destroy Israel. They do not value human life whatsoever. Not Israeli, not gazan.
15. #12 or there could be ballons for people killed by muslims..
(01.25.08)
...but there aren't enough balloons in the world for that. http://thereligionofpeace.com/ 'ISLAMIC TERRORISTS HAVE CARRIED OUT MORE THAN 10419 DEADLY TERROR ATTACKS **SINCE** 9/11 alone at the time this message was posted.' (although i'm sure by the time it would be approved they'll add a few to the count) attacks by Muslims in the last week: 35 body count: 232 injured: 362 http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
16. Balloons
Millicent ,   Israel   (01.25.08)
Why not invite Geraldo Rivera from Fox news to come to Sderot and speak to the people living there and let him experience what they go through on a daily basis? This man is use to reporting undeer fire and would be perfect for getting the truth out to the American and international public!
17. #16
(01.25.08)
he is also jewish. did you know that?
18. Sderot's SUFFERING: Non-Stop WAR on INNOCENTS
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (01.26.08)
Jew-haters are happy when Jews are under attack - rendered defenseless, and murdered. PA/PLO/Hamas, et al, wage merciless non-stop war against Jews. Global jihad victims-desperate Sderot Jews and surrounding area residents, utterly unable to live normal lives, spend every day, every waking moment in continual fear and dread of daily rocket attacks: www.israelnationalnews.com 01/23/08 This is Sderot Reality by Noam Bedein "Over 250,000 Israelis now live under the threat of the Kassam missiles." ... Living through 200 rockets in the past few days.... Hearing the screeching siren - "Color Red" - every time a rocket is launched.... Running for cover in the 15 seconds left.... Hearing the whistle and, a few seconds later, an enormous explosion... Watching a five-year-old boy who was crying after he saw his mother blown away from the explosion of a Kassam that hit directly into his play room... Driving around Sderot with no seatbelt because the seconds spent unfastening it might cost me my life.... The fear of the siren going off and no shelter to run to... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7717 In the VIOLENT breaking of G-D's LAW: YOU SHALL NOT MURDER 75% of PA Muslims support suicide bombing of innocent Jewish men, women and children. Under intense US/international pressure, Israel gives war supplies and Jewish land to implacable, barbaric enemies committed to Israel's destruction, world conquest, and Jewish annihilation. The nations closed their borders to Jews frantic to escape the Holocaust. The nations were complicit in the murder of six million Jews. Via a global Islamic Terror State in Israel reducing TINY Israel to indefensible Auschwitz borders-9 miles wide at mid-section - the nations are again complicit in the planned Second Holocaust of Jews. Israel, ignore the terror-enablers! Fight and defeat the enemies of Israel and the Free World! The Free World's people will be forever grateful. Flash Video-Free World MUST know about jihad: http://www.terrorismawareness.org/know-about-jihad/ STOP Inciting Children to MURDER! http://www.teachkidspeace.com/flash.php The Palestinian Authority call for the MURDER of ALL JEWS and the MURDER of AMERICANS: Broadcast from Gaza mosque, Oct 13 2000, Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya, on Palestinian Authority TV (transcribed by Memri): "Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you are, kill those Jews and those Americans who are like them..." The Palestinian Authority Seek ISLAMIC CONQUEST of ISRAEL, AMERICA, BRITAIN and world. Friday sermon, Palestinian Authority TV. May 13, 2005. Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris: “The day will come when we will rule America. The day will come when we will rule Britain and the entire world…” http://memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=669
19. #18 It's a resistance stupid!
lydia ,   Brisbane   (01.27.08)
Sympathy is always on the side of the victim. An obviously ill equiped, handicapped, oppressed victim i.e.the Palestinians who are prepared to fight for their freedom WILL garner even more sympathy. The Palestinans prove daily that they are victims of your incessant murder carried out against their women and babies. You use sophisticated missiles supplied with courtesy of the US taxpayers to facilitate your continued ILLEGAL OCCUPATION of their land, despite numerous UN resolutions to cease and desist.. What you fail to accept is that the geneocide of the Palestinian people will receive as much outcry as the geneocide of the jews. It's too ironic that the jews are now the perpretrator of this crime against humanity.
20. 19, let's put it this way.
(01.27.08)
who the ones killing the Palestinians? Israeli soldiers. whose the ones killing israelis? Palestinians civilians. so what you got here is a fight between Palestinians civilians and Israeli soldiers, and the Israeli civilians are caught in the middle. the resistance groups have said many times that the reason they go after civilians is because the IDF is getting too hard to fight. so instead of fighting the people that they actually need to fight to gain independence, they go after the easier target, simply because it's easier.
21. #20 Poppycock! Let's put it this way
lydia ,   Brisbane,   (01.28.08)
Mosche Dyan: "[houses were destroyed] not in battle, but as punishment . . . and in order to CHASE AWAY the inhabitants ". Your fight has always been against the Palestinian civilians. Here is another quote by Dyan , "We shoot at those from among the hungry [Palestinian] Arabs who cross the line [to graze their flocks]---- will this stand up to moral review? Arabs cross to collect the grain that they left in the abandoned [term often used by Israelis to describe the ethnically cleansed] villages and we set mines for them and they go back without an arm or a leg" . It is your citizens/civilians who stone little kids and spit at mothers as they walk their children to school.
22. Lydia, you have lost the plot
anon ,   Jo'burg   (01.28.08)
Just wait till they multiply in Ausi, then we will see how much you would love them when they want to put Sharia law on you. your an infadle to them- and always will be. they have no value on human life like in the west (only value death). thus the west and Islam would always clash. so pick your side... for you childrens sake
23. #22 Anon, Don't get me wrong
lydia ,   Brisbane, Australia   (01.28.08)
I am not Muslim nor am I Jew. I have never read the Koran, the Torah, or the Talmud. I believe the Geneva conventions and the United Nations, organizations were formed after WW2 to prevent another slide into WW3 The emasculation of the UN by the US/UK and it's proxy Israel, in order to carry out preemptive attacks on the Muslims mostly to steal their oil or their land will only give them a cause celebre against the tyranny they suffer at the hands of the West. Australia already has a large Muslim population. Indonesia with a total of some 200mil Muslims is on our doorstep.
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