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A war for world’s future
Mordechai Kedar
Published: 31.05.10, 11:53
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1. Swedish author Mankell islamist?
Peter ,   Norway   (05.31.10)
Calling peolpe like the Swedish author Mankell islamist is the most stupid I have heard so far. A saying goes like this: When a person has no more arguments, he use his gun. This is what Israel is doing now, because they have no more rational arguments for keeping the blocade on Gaza.
2. Kidney beans
Lala ,   Turkey   (05.31.10)
Congratulations..You have a few kidneys in your hospitals
3. I heard one Holocaust survivor was on one ship, was he a...
Human being ,   planet earth   (05.31.10)
radical muslim? I think not. It is not about religions more than it is about arrogance and losing touch with common sense. Israel had the chance to look like a civilized modern country and arrogance prevented it from doing so.
4. EXACTLY!
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5. Ignorance
Josh ,   London   (05.31.10)
This article is massively ignorant. To say that the Turkish government's ideology is 'identical' to that of Hamas is either lying, or just plain dumb. I encourage readers to compare the AKP with Hamas via Wikipedia and confirm this. Israel attacks a convoy bringing humanitarian aid to an area that it is holding illegal siege to, and people die. You cannot spin this as being some Turkish power play - this is Israel acting as a rogue state, pure and simple. Sincerely, Josh - an orthodox Jew from London who is disgusted by Israel.
6. is there a psychiatre in the place ?
Aguire ,   France   (05.31.10)
Your public relation talk about freedom is a shame occupation, murder and insanity is what you act !
7. The war declared on Israel is a war declared against the Wes
Ron B. ,   Lod   (05.31.10)
Israel has been under threat since the day it was established, and we know how to handle these threats and will do so now as well. Israelis traveling abroad have to be especially alert and pay attention to any abnormal occurrences. Today, we are not alone. The war declared on Israel is a war declared against the Western Civilisation by Islam. This might be the beginning of a world war as explained at : http://xrl.us/bjfox
8. End the Occupation
Yuri Gangeri ,   Moscow   (05.31.10)
That is what Most Israels been believed. This battle has been started in 1948 when your fathers invaded Palestine and now it is almost time to think that Israel doesnot Exist. There is no Israel , But occupied palestine and this must come to an end..
9. Stupid Analysis
Judy Kharas ,   Nicosia, Cyprus   (05.31.10)
No, the 'battle' is not cultural, Mr. Mordechai. That's stupid analysis. The battle is an anti-colonial one. Everyone with eyes knows that. Quit the self-delusional propaganda.
10. United we stand behind the IDF!!!
Dan ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (05.31.10)
11. to #9 colonial? you mean British colonial
ghostq   (05.31.10)
they created Gaza, they even created the Messs in cyprus, the Turks still controll part of cyprus. mmm going to be hot toward the up coming elections. we will see how Turkish friendly cyprus is about to come. :)
12. #1 #2 # 3
Steve ,   Australia   (05.31.10)
You're very nitpicking shows you're (a) missing the point and (b) don't want to face the reality --- read what the article said - - its a beachhead by radical islam, I don't think the author is running through the passenger manifest trying to work out who is a norwegian (a quisling) or a swede (stockholm syndrome) or not. Also - a simple question if there are 3 avnues to get 'aid' to the 'desperate, dying, starving gazans' - via Ashdod, Egypt or via trying to break the blockade - and if the objective is genuinely to get the 'aid' to gaza - - why choose the most diffucult route - why not simply go through egypt...?
13. #5 Josh
Albrecht Klein ,   Germany   (05.31.10)
The Palestinians have just inaugurated some fancy restaurants and Olympic size swimming pools. The siege doesn't seem to be that worrying for them, does it?
14. no need to blockade gaza...are you kidding?
real vision ,   usa   (05.31.10)
the first open border will not bring in food or medicine. It will bring in more weapons. Hamas is not concerned about the gazan people otherwise they would not have fired 10,000 rockets into israel and would have developed gaza when israel left. Get your head out of the sand
15. As my dear friend, Tsafrir Ronen z"l used to say....
Adina Kutnicki ,   Israel   (05.31.10)
either Israel will defeat the dark forces enveloping the west, or, the Islamists will. There is NO middle gound in this fight to the death. Israel has been on a slow precipice of death since it signed away its legal, moral, and biblical rights to our homeland at the wretched Oslo signing. Ironically, the Oslo accords clearly gives Israel the 'right' to inspect all hostile boats in nearby waters. To be sure, this terror enabling, propaganda flotilla was about one thing-a PR coup to bludgeon Israel before the world.Even its leaders said that this was NOT about aid-as Israel sends tons of aid to an enemy population, but that is another sad saga in their capitulation-but about a POLITICAL statement. Perhaps the IDF should have sabotaged the boats from beneath the waters, they are certainly capable of doing so. But at the end of the day this confrontation had to happen, to show that Israel will NO longer roll over and allow Islamic forces, under the guise of (in)human rights activists, surround her & take over the region!
16. #8 Yuri Gangeri
Albrecht Klein ,   Germany   (05.31.10)
When was there an Arab state or nation called "Palestine" in the Middle East?
17. Re: #5 Josh
Josh ,   London   (05.31.10)
In an area with a population of 2 million, of course there are going to be a couple of restaurants; fancy is a matter of definition, but I don't doubt that aid workers and corrupt Hamas officials have the money to spend. But report after credible report - from the UN, aid organizations, and elsewhere - points to the mass deprivation in Gaza. Why ignore the mass of evidence for the sake of a couple of anecdotes?
18. Israel, I would fight for you!
The 11th Man ,   London   (05.31.10)
19. LONG LIVE OUR LIBERALS
DAVID ,   JUDEA   (05.31.10)
With grattitude, today another dunam of land in our Judean hills was cleared and planted with olive trees. In their hatred of the Jewish nation, these same Liberals ( read Atheists) with blessings from Ynet, only motivate and inspire many of us to push on and claim our inheritance. As result of these misguided people who died today, 10 dunams of land will be retaken and returned to the Jewish nation, we will B'H overcome and be victorious.
20. Bravo Dr. Keder!
Mina ,   Haifa   (05.31.10)
I always look forward to reading your contributions. Let us hope that the western world will wake up before it is too late & prevent the Radical, Militant Islam from spreading any further & causing more wars & oppression than it already had. Long live Israel the IDF & those who bless us!
21. the plan
(05.31.10)
Well, it’s just the perfect plan. First you have to call it a humanitarian act. You get ships, you put people on them and call them peace activists. You say to anyone who cares to listen that you don’t have any weapons, but add that you will do anything needed in order to break the siege on Gaza. And by anything- you mean anything. You ignore reality. Reality is for the weak and unimaginative, and no one really cares about the truth. Never mind that no one is starving in Gaza, never mind that Gaza has a border with Egypt, where Israel is not in control. Why are you not pestering Egypt about starving palastinians? You put humanitarian aid on your ships, instead of shipping it directly to Gaza through Egypt. That way you don’t merely help the people in Gaza, you also feel important and helpful and righteous. You are notified that you will not be allowed to get inside Gaza, but it does not make you doubt you can get wherever you wish to go. Being peace activists doesn’t mean you act quite-so-peacefully. Peacefulness is bad publicity. You attack soldiers that board your ships (as of now, it is unsure if you had only cold weapons or also guns, but knife are obviously NOT considered to be humanitarian aid). You try to grab their weapons. You injure soldiers. Then you go and scream for the world to see how the inhuman and inhumane Israelis have killed peace-loving-quiet-innocent-peace activists. Who cares that you had no problem with the soldiers dying. Who cares that being peace activists means you care only for the lives of one side of the conflict.it's easy for you to ignore an israeli soldier sitting in captivity in Gaza for years now. how cares about him, anyway? So, you’ve made a lot of noise, you’ve made Israel look like the bad guy, you got a few martyrs and you couldn’t fail anyway. You won this battle. If Israel would have let those ships through- we would have lost, since we cracked under the pressure of heroic freedom fighters, and the next helpful fleet would have carried the weapons that would kill our civilians. If Israel would have stopped those ships witout killing anyone (under the actual circumstances) Israeli soldiers would have died for no reason other than your egos and we would have lost again. So you drove us into the corner, you won. Not only will Gaza get this unneeded supply, once more we are the bad people, you are the heroes, and the peace will die a little more. Thanks for nothing. Let me add I grieve the deaths of the people who died, and I am sorry for those wounded. But Israel was not the attacker, and when you prepare for violence, and apply it, knowing fully-well that you will be stopped in any way possible- you have killed your own friends in the name of your cause.
22. Enid Blyton was also an author
Jonny ,   South Africa   (05.31.10)
Mankel is probably not an Islamist, just lacks intelligence. Enid Blyton, the creator of Noddy is also an author, so are those in the Mills and Boon stable.
23. Josh, London, you are no orthodox, this isn't your TORAH
m   (05.31.10)
An orthodox doesn't get his info from BBC or the Guardian, and by the way, I didn't see your concern about the kidnapped soldier in captivity for 4 years and who knows what torture this animals are inflicting on him. Orthodox, my foot, you are just another lefty. The sob story of human relief for Gaza is just that, a big fat lie to be used to demonize Israel which is suplying its sworn enemies with everything, from food to electricity.
24. Re: Mankell
Maya ,   Germany   (05.31.10)
Mankell has declared that he awaits the demise of Israel, which he deems illegitimate in any borders. http://www.palaestina.org/news/beitraege/zeigeBeitrag.php?ID=782 So, yes he shares at least this one crucial piece of worldview with the Islamists.
25. The absurd angst of Israel here writ large…
k1w1 ,   NZ   (05.31.10)
The IDF, one of the most powerful forces on the planet, storms out to confront a couple of boats full of people who are armed with little more than pitchforks, and this fool would have us believe it was a “battle taking place off Gaza”, and that Israel, nay! the entire world, is facing an existential threat from the forces of evil represented by the Muslims, a struggle of titanic proportions, no less. “A clash…”, “…this struggle of titans”, “who is master of this region?”, “…aspire to again rule the middle east”, “…subjugate it to their green flag”, “a cultural-religious battle”, and the “cloud that is about to cover the sun of global liberal democracy”. What strange, archaic language, reminiscent of fundamental Islamic rhetoric. And this so-called doctor’s answer to the flotilla would have been to sabotage the ships underwater, which he thinks would be an elegant solution. Outrageous! My suggestion to you, Kedar, is that you turn around and take yourself and your repulsive ideas back to the last century and find a big rock to live under. Israel does not need the likes of you, and nor does the rest of the world.
26. No. 5 Josh
NYC Girl   (05.31.10)
Frankly, as an atheist from NYC, I'm disgusted by Orthodox Jewish dhimmis from London who seem to have no appreciation of the threat posed by radical Islam to the West. After all, the object of this misguided sympathy coming from that flotilla of terrorist ass-kissers are the same people who were turning Israel into a slaughterhouse with their suicide bombings and terror attacks against innocent civilians...both Israelis and Arabs.
27. The Blockade of Gaza
Zalman Berul ,   Philadelphia USA   (05.31.10)
Now the world can move on from the fantasy obstacle-to-peace of the settlements to the fantasy obstacle-to-peace of this semi-blockade of Gaza! WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT?
28. well written 21
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29. Delusional Jew
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (05.31.10)
30. Right on Mordechai!
Jae ,   Lynn US   (05.31.10)
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