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Laying groundwork for Gaza war
Roni Sofer
Published: 14.02.08, 17:35
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1. Just do it.
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (02.14.08)
The entire world will slam us no matter what we do. You are just wasting time. If you actually fight the damn war and get it over with by the time the UN meets the war can be over.
2. the world will not object at all
avrom ,   bet shemesh   (02.14.08)
the world never objected to the six day war entebbe and defensive shield .the world however objected right away to the bombing of the Iraqi reactor but with the passage of time the world was very grateful that Israel destroyed the reactor . When Israel's security policy was determined by the world's reaction .e.g Yom Kippur War .peace process the results were terrible .When Israel security policy was determined by her security needs the results are always excellent .The reason for this is that G-d is omnipotent therefore when Israel policies are determined by her needs and not the world's demands the result was excellent e.g 1967 Entebbe Osirak and the bombing of Syria in September as G-d ensures Israel's actions are successful
3. congratulations to roni sofer
thomas ,   germany   (02.14.08)
this was the best article regarding german inner politics i read on ynet
4. Why do we need permission, support
Jack ,   USA   (02.14.08)
This is the fundemental floor in world event, it stopped The US from driving into Bagdad in Gulf 1, and it ties our hands at each juncture. I suggest we do what needs to be done, but you can't if you have leaders like Olmert and Barak and Livini and Shas. Netanyahu is needed now.
5. cutting out the middleman.....er...woman
abc ,   usa   (02.15.08)
Why not just go visit Herr Ratzinger in Vatican City?...Oh,I forgot,...he's the one that has Olmert doing this dance in the first place.....Didn't Germany lose WW11?
6. World Opinion
Mark ,   Westfield USA   (02.15.08)
Why does Israel beg for the world to allow her to do anything? Who cares about their opinion! Did they do ANYTHING when Jews were being led to slaughter during the Holocaust? We are facing another potential Holocaust! Israel needs to stop asking whether she can defend herself!
7. You are not thinking this through !
michael mazur ,   brunswick australia   (02.15.08)
The 6 comments i've read are written by certifiable psychos. I knew that most of you are, and that 6 is a small sample, but is consistent with letters to two other Israeli news services i look at sometimes concerning Israeli `security`. Look, i'll lay it on the line, if you guys murder 1,000,000+ Gaza Palestinians, i, for one, will feel more than justified in Disbelieving in your Holocaust even more than before, as, i ask you, why would it be then worthy of memory, let alone respect ? If there were plenty like me in this, then maybe you would call Israel Palestine and rejoin humanity which you have abandoned these last 3,000years. I ask you, do not make this mistake of mass murder, because one day Israel will fall, and truly there will be no one on earth who will take you in, for not only will they know that you genocided the Gazans, and possibly by then those of the West Bank, but that you will pathologically be seeking to do the same, once established, to your new hosts. But you won't listen as you are waiting for stupid American goys to nuke obliterate Iran for you which will be your signal to mass murder the Gazans.
8. LAUGHABLE BUT SAD
Dan ,   USA   (02.15.08)
Who cares what the British foreign secretary says. Britain will be a Muslim country within 25 years. As for asking a German government ,that is too ridiculous for words. The only thing the rest of the world wants is for Israel to disappear along with world Jewery.
9. Ashamed to be from same country as Michael mazur
Stan ,   Melbourne, Australia   (02.15.08)
I think Israel has every right to attack Gaza. No coutry in their right mind would accept daily rocket attacks from a neighbour. I would feel sorry for the civilians, but they seem to support the Hamas government and the attacks. In that case... you reap what you sow.
10. Crazy hateful Mazur
David ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (02.15.08)
Mickey, you haven't taken your medication! I love your talkback. It shows that Hitler and his followers are still running strong in this world. May you rot in hell!
11. Do the Israeli leaders understand the gravity of the Islamic
Jean Van Daem ,   Israel   (02.15.08)
As a result of the second Libanon war, extraordinarily grave damage was done. The enemies of Israel, comprising all of the Arab countries in the Middle East (including Egypt and Jordan) as well as the rest of the Islamic world, are now convinced that Israel is a temporary entity that can be defeated and destroyed, and that its Jewish population can be exterminated. This notion has already infiltrated the minds and convictions of many in the West, particularly those who belong to the Left, who believe that the establishment of the State of Israel was a mistake, both moral and political, and one way or another must be eliminated. The Western world, in particular the United States and Israel, have not yet come to grips with the gravity of the global conflict, which is developing rapidly on a daily basis. This is a war that fanatic Islam, which now engulfs the whole Islamic world, has declared on the West as explained at : http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2008/01/stop-them-with-clear-cut-victory-part-i.html
12. #7, so many signals
Danny   (02.15.08)
There have been so many signals for the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestians, it was going to be under cover of war in Afghanistan, then war on terror, then preparation for war in Iraq, then war in Iraq, then disengagement from Gaza, then war in Lebanon, now war in Iran..... Reading your post, I suspect you have always been "disbelieving in our Holocaust". PS You australians seem not to know the PC way to go about this. You are meant to be anti-Zionist, not anti-semitic, so make sure you refer to Zionists not Jews.
13. A solution
Simon ,   Malcha   (02.15.08)
Either take GAZA back and make it a colony of Israel for Palestinian Israelis to live under a democratic state, and invite palestinians in the website to live under an Israeli-Palestinian Colony - where they have self rule, but follow our rules.. or build the wall, build up an army behind it and give Egypt the honour of caring for them..
14. Destroy them with air power
Peacenik   (02.15.08)
don't sacrifice our young people again for no good reason. Blow up their towns and villages, destroy their communication and energy infrastructure, blow up their funeral processions. The missiles will stop immediately.
15. More false pretexts
Frank ,   Canada   (02.16.08)
Olmert and other Kadhimmi losers are using false pretexts to avoid an attack on Gaza. Their arguments are ridiculous, people who believe that Israeli citizens are less important than foreign leader cannot claim that they are leaders. It's time to scrap these feckless losers and to replace them with true and responsible leaders.
16. # 7 - Michael Mazur
Curtis -- USA   (02.16.08)
Who do you think you are to contradict HASHEM ? HASHEM has promised (in Ezekiel 38, 39) that He will destroy all Israel's enemies "in the later years" when they come against Israel. He has also promised that Israel will never cease to exist again. He also said "I am not a man that I should lie." Why don't you get some reading glasses and get halfway informed? !!!
17. 7# You mean the Gazan's who aided Hitler during WWII?
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (02.16.08)
With the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem begging Hitler to build an extermination camp in Israel to kill the Jews. Yeah we all forgot about the complicity of the Gazan's who aided Hitler in the first place. They have been so innocernt in this whole experiment. Just because they have birthed themselves into a ghetto situation....does it give them the right to keep killing Jews for more land? China will be killing Jews next. Maybe India. The plight of the Palestinians can be attributed to lax birth control, as well as lax murder control, of their murder for Allah religion. How many Jews have to perish before Australia offers the Palestinians some aboriginal land? I'm sure the aboriginees won't mind.
18. # 6 Mark, You get an A +
Petra ,   usa   (02.16.08)
19. Gaza getting what she wanted for the Jews!
Petra ,   usa   (02.16.08)
Smacked, whacked and in the dark. Her rockets costs are staggering especially when they claim their cold and hungry. Can't they rent some brains temporarily? Their grand plan to murder all Jews is back firing. I love it.
20. Why for just once,worry more about what the Israelis think
Don Saliman ,   Nahal Oz, Israel   (02.17.08)
21. ISRAEL'S IMAGE
VICTIMSofARAB TERROR ,   JERUSALEM, ISRAEL   (02.18.08)
BS'D WHAT A DISGRACE! ISRAEL, A SUPPOSED SOVEREIGN JEWISH STATE ...SEEKS THE APPROVAL OF GERMANY... AND OF OTHER NATIONS IN 0RDER TO DEFEND ITSELF!!! IT SEEMS THE LESSON OF THE HOLOCAUST HAS NOT BEEN LEARNED OR FORGOTTEN! THE BIBLE CLEARLY TEACHES THAT IN THE END OF DAYS THE 70 NATIONS OF THE WORLD WILL BE AGAINST ISRAEL ... AND ONLY G-D BLESSED BE HE, WILL FIGHT FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOR THE SAKE OF HIS HOLY NAME! ISRAEL HAS THE MILITARY MIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF NOW, WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE WORLD WHICH AT BEST, IS INDIFFERENT, AND AT WORST APATHETIC TO SURVIVAL OF THE JEWISH STATE! (See website: www.victimsofarabterror.com
22. RE:the world will not object at all
james ,   philadelphia, usa   (02.19.08)
"the world never objected to the six day war entebbe and defensive shield." My guess would be that the passengers on the USS Liberty would have begged to differ.
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