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UN: IDF shelled evacuated civilians
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Published: 09.01.09, 13:15
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31. Taking it apart? Cool.
Gideon Reader   (01.09.09)
#22 Hmmmm.Hold the revisions. Dismantled is good for me, if it is good for you..
32. Cowardly Israelis
Mikesailor ,   Miami, FL   (01.09.09)
If you support the banning of all international media from Gaza, the question becomes" What do you have to hide? Or is all media somehow anti-Israel including your own? Otherwise, to all those who deny the crimes you are hypocritical bullies slaughtering the innocent and defenceless.
33. World War III
Fed Up ,   Barcelona   (01.09.09)
Is it not clear that the UN as a functional whole is an enemy of Israel that is actively involved in perpetuating the Arab-Israeli conflict, deligitimizing the Jewish state, and denying basic rights to Israeli citizens? This is no conspiracy theory, it's a simple observation: the UN is a fake democracy dominated by the least legitimate regimes on Earth; while legitimate governments, still in a fog of postcolonial guilt, get dragged along into the muck. It was a good thing that the original United Nations were able to unite to defeat the Axis powers. Let's hope that decent countries will once again be able to organize and fight against true injustice and infamy.
34. "shelled the home repeatedly" How many shells does it take?
redbourn ,   Tel Aviv   (01.09.09)
These types of statement from spurious groups like "Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs' that quote such drivel simply undermine their own credibility. How many shells would it take to destroy a house? And Israel 'continuously shelled it". One shell and no more house. Mike
35. #20 - please take off your blinkers and be credible
redbourn ,   Tel Aviv   (01.09.09)
These types of statements from spurious groups like "Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs' that quote such drivel simply undermine their own credibility. How many shells would it take to destroy a house? And Israel 'continuously shelled it". One shell and no more house. Seems like you're suffering from an overdose of the Guardian or Independent :-) Cure? Read some unbiased news and you'll feel right as rain :-) Mike
36. a kind of spoiling; everything for aids even sea food?
observer   (01.09.09)
37. UN is a bunch of liars
Ita ,   Israel   (01.09.09)
They are no longer the organization that they were when they first started. They are a bunch of Arabs looking to bring down Israel.. Guess what UN.. G-d has your number!
38. Congratulations
(01.09.09)
Well done. You have become everything you preach against, you have practically begun genocide, everything you espoused for decades, everything you stood for, all gone. Sad to see this nation do unto others what was done to them so sadly some 60+ years ago.
39. #11
sherry ,   bklyn ny   (01.09.09)
mark, the pity that i feel towards u is heartbreaking. If u want to blame anyone it's the Jordanians. Their kingdom threw them out because they didn't want them. everyone watches out for their own. U think that Mubarak wants them. He runs his country like a KGB state. He doesn't want them to start problems in his country. Now answer me this: why would we want them when all they do is make problems. they were given every opportunity to make something of themselves, but chose not to. Get a life and start to educate yourself before you comment on this blog.
40. PROOF! not witnesses.
Talula ,   Israel   (01.09.09)
UN people lie - it's a fact. The house AND the rocket supposedly fired on that house needs to be examined. If it did happen, it was probably some happy trigger loser Hamas savage that did it. I simply don't believe we would do such a thing.
41. Mohammed Al Dura
Kev ,   London   (01.09.09)
...comes to mind. The corrupt western media will never admit the truth about that case. They want to use Israel as a buffer zone between their ivory towers of supposed 'objective journalism' and the true criminals.
42. Hananiyeh is not Goya & Mashaal aint Dali
Gideon Reader   (01.09.09)
Dave Wilson#30 Baby killing an art? An art? Like teaching them to become Shahid? To wrap themselves in explosives? Carry toy AK-47's and wish for Mickey Mouse to die in the blood of Jews? Like placing offensive weaponry and explosives among the civilian population in order to use them as human shields? Like bombarding israel towns for years with rockets, causing death, limbs of children and atttempting to terrorize civilians? That kind of Art? Very "abstract" art, that. "Surreal" in fact. You aught to know better. Obviously you do not.
43. Nazis was just executing Zionist orders to purify jews
Tayfun_Turkey ,   Istanbul   (01.09.09)
under cover of German Eugeny When a German try to purify his race from Jews it means at the same time Purfiying Jews from German race.
44. Ruach Shaked murdering prisoners by Jewish culture
observer   (01.09.09)
the Israeli television airs a documentary called " Shaked Spirit" to brag about killing 250 Egyptian prisoners of war in the aftermath of 1967 war in Sinai. And in a way of negating the act Binyamin Ben Eliezer said "they were not Egyptians but Palestinians!", he did not object to killing prisoners, because that is deeply rooted in the culture norms, but denies being Egyptians! the stories of driving tanks over them and piling them up alive in a small place till they die suffocated, and then selling their organs after killing them are mind-boggling to anyone who has the slightest respect for human life and dignity. Prisoners, whether Israel call them terrorists or not, are human and are protected by the international law of peremptory norms. The reports of Israel murdering prisoners are going to explode as soon as other independent reporters gain access to the case. Stop denying the obvious, they are Jews in the first place.
45. one sixth of one percent of the landmass
rina   (01.09.09)
called the middle east is a homeland for the jewish people. there was never a country called palestine in this area or any other area of the globe. palestine was the name given by the brittish mandate in this area after the first world war, following the disintegration of the othman empire. palestine is the east and the west banks of the jordan river. in 1922 winston churchill gave the arabs 80% of the palestinian area, which is known as jordan, allthough previous brittish agreements to create a jewish homeland on the whole area of palestine. the jews have no claims on the east bank, so they settled for the 20% of the west bank, which is less then 1 percent of the land dominated by arabs, to be masters to their fate as a nation in israel. in contrast to this one country for the jews, jordan is one of 22 arab countries, mostly inhabbited by palestinians to this day. come to think of it, the palestinians are assuming a name given to them by europeans, less then 100 years ago, but make a claim on jerusalem that is some3000 years old. when the european mandate gave a name to this area, the palestinians were mostly a tribal mob, many were nomads, that roamed throughout the vast othman empire. the palestinian national movement started when jews were seeking to create their homeland in this area, for that was the cause that made these tribes join forces. jews have lived for 3700 years in the west bank of palestine, allongside the arabs that came here on the seventh century, in cities like jerusalem, within the great city walls built by king david, that posed the city limits till the 19th century . all that united this arab mob was preventing the jewish state from happening, for their effort and for the arab oil, not for the sanctity of human life ,this arab mob got land from the remaining 20% of the west bank. so they got all of the east bank, and some of the west bank, but that is not enough for the arabs , so they stick to their old well known agenda, to destroy the jewish state, unless the jewish state and the world shall give them all that they want. they fight us not only with mortar but with deliberate creation of poverty, and a deliberate creation of a demographical crisis. our interest is make them believe they have something to loose, to get them to stop bombing us. we gave them resources which are in short supply in israel, and created their infrastructure when we were the dominating force in gaza. continuing our policy, we therefore provided them with over 400 trucks of aid dering the first 10 days of war. but what can you expect from an arab mob in the densely populated Gaza, that teaches their children they should kill all israelis and claim the whole of the west bank for their relatively newly found national aspirations, when even the arabs citizens of israel, arab students in the universities of israel, rally & say openly they shall redeeme all of palestine with their blood and their spirit. a free thinking israeli
46. They asked for it now they get it .The un
Eric... ,   Israel....   (01.09.09)
can go too hell.All they had to do is stop the shooting.The Palestianns live by the gun and they will die by the gun.For them its away of life,violence,hate and killing Jews.Soo we defend our people..
47. UN says - speaks for itself
Arie ,   BaGolan   (01.09.09)
Unnamed witnesses citing unnamed sources references anonymous diplomats from some foreign entity
48. "UN" JOKE
Paul E. Brantner {Am ,   NEW CANEY, USA   (01.09.09)
Any article that is spawned by the UN is supsect, but to say they are clueless and one sided is like saying we just elected a proven President; both issues are an absurdity. Israel is God's country so I stand with her and death to "ALL" who oppose her.
49. J.I.D Jews In Denial
Internatnl Observer ,   Australia   (01.09.09)
From reading the posts here it is conclusive, Israelis are obviously taught hate both from the state and from the family. The UN are liars, the BBC are against us, the Palestinian children deserve it ? Your people migrated from Europe to the middle east 60 years ago and began terrorising and displacing the native population even until this day the offspring carry out an ugly rhetoric. Shamefully you justify death of innocent children and constantly abuse human rights. Where would you be without $6 Billion in American Aid ? Now that the financial crisis has hit the US hard do you really think that Israel is gonna matter to starving unemployed Americans? You had 60 years to make peace with your neighbours or should I say brothers. The time for Israel is running out.
50. Murderers!
Palestinian Pussy ,   ramalla   (01.09.09)
I know for sure that Muhammed al-Durra was in that house and he was torn to pieces. His body was also found on the road to the hospital, in the morgue, in a movie theater in Nablus and in "Deux Magots" in Paris where it was observed eatiing a day-old croissant with hummus. Our doctors missed him in the ER because he went outside for a sec to make a phone call to Nablus to check how's the movie. And as to the treacherous Israelis' claim they were never in that area, I can only say: Liars! I personally saw you! Not exactly on the same day and not in Gaza, but I saw Zohan -the-movie and remember your faces very well! And that is my testimony to the People of the World! By Allah!
51. Congratulations, Israel !
andre ,   brazil   (01.09.09)
The moustache guy in germany wouldn't do it better
52. What happens if the coin is flipped?
John ,   USA   (01.09.09)
Can't the world see the “State terror” happening in Gaza? When this so called “democratic state” massacres hundreds of civilians with High tech weaponry that can pin point a target from afar? It is incredibly sad to see the world watching and doing not a thing about it? We are witnessing the 21st century holocaust/genocide carried out by the people who supposedly experienced Holocaust by the hands of the Germans? What would the world do if things were turned around? If Israelis were getting bombed/Massacred in the same way the Palestinians are?
53. #44 Mythology, blood libels, lies from the butchers of Damur
Jake   (01.09.09)
All what you wrote is a lie. The documentary "Ruach Shaked" in fact refutes the Egyptian allegations. In 1967, 250 Palestinians from Gaza, fighting for the Egyptian army, were killed in action in the Sinai. The allegations you make that they were prisoners who were murdered are baseless blood libels. http://fresnozionism.org/archives/220 You are accusing us of doing the things that you do, but we are not like you, we are light years apart from you, and this is what bothers you. In Damour, Lebanon, in 1976, six years before Sabra and Shatila, Arafat's Fatah and a ragtag army of pan-Arab mercenaries invaded and occupied the Christian town, and proceeded to carry out acts of barbarity that would have shocked even Genghis Khan and Atilla the Hun, but of which the world to this day remains ignorant. Cadavers were unearthed from the church graveyard and desecrated. The eastern nave of the church was used as a PLO firing range. Babies were pulled apart in front of their parents. Men were found with their genitalia cut off and stuffed in their mouths. Infants and babies were found with their eyes gouged out and their limbs cut off. Bodies were dismembered to the extent that the number of heads had to be counted to count the dead. There were no survivors, other than those who could initially flee. 582 Christian Lebanese were slaughtered at Damour, and yet there was no international outcry, no UN resolution condemning it, and even today there is almost no information available about it on the web (other than blogs). The entire Christian world was silent, including the Vatican itself, while the last pocket of non-Dhimmi Christians in the Middle East were being slaughtered by the poor Palestinians and their poor disgruntled Islamofascist allies. The UN broadcasts the lies of the Palestinian narratives as though they were universal truths, and hides the crimes they commit as though they were paltry historical details. The world remembers the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres as a household name, due to "the Israeli connection". But the world is wholly ignorant of the massacres carried out in the same place only 2 years later by the pro-Iranian Shi'ite Amal militia.
54. Here is more
(01.09.09)
And this time is the Red Cross http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/world/middleeast/09redcross.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=Gaza&st=Search
55. #44, you really will believe any old crap
Danny   (01.09.09)
who were the Israelis going to sell the organs to? What sort of state are the organs of someone who has been crushed by a tank going to be in? Do you actually believe the complete crap you write?
56. #21
jb ,   Canada   (01.09.09)
Hey "World" Citizen, which world? Mars? There's a difference between what Israel does and what they are accused of doing, or hasn't that distinction worked its way through your worm-infested brain? I'm sure to your way of "thinking" the Jews are also guilty of poisoning wells and using Christian children to make matzo. What a jerk-off!!
57. #30 Yes Dave you're right
jb ,   Canada   (01.09.09)
...For once! Baby killing is being perfected in Israel by your jihadist pals, the suicide bombers, murderers and Islamic rockets. Congratulations on hanging out with such a great crowd! Untermensch!
58. OCHA
John ,   Dixon MO USA   (01.09.09)
OCHA says what? And they are to be believed without checking? That commission is predominately made up of Israel's enemies. Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.
59. #44 - Oberver on Ruach Shaked
William ,   Israel   (01.09.09)
Wasn't that claim largely dismissed due to lack of facts? I remember Egypt wanting to actively pursue the case legally found no evidence to support their case, although evidence of Egyptian killings of Israeli POWs DID appear, and it was quickly dropped. You had a chance at propaganda but you flew too high to the sun, my friend - "driving tanks over them" "let them die in a pile of bodies", THEN "sell their organs"??? Hahaha - sounds more like a Chinese Mafia thriller than IDF operations. Nice try - but try to keep from watching late night films on cable. They obviously rot your brain.
60. #38 - even sadder to see world ignorance after WWII
William ,   Israel   (01.09.09)
when the world agreed in unison - "never again". Yet, they've fallen into the global hegemony of the almighty dollar and Communist values that every small-time band of militants calling themselves "freedom fighters" have legitimacy in their violence. The world twists the words "genocide" and "Apartheid" which meant something real into watered-down ideas used to bash Israel - while infact ignoring the real death and destruction around the world. A genocide in Gaza because of 600 Pal deaths (mostly Hamas)? Is the attack on civilians and UN in Congo also not genocide? Or the Sri Lankan attack on Tamil Tigers killing many more? In Zimbabwe, many more have died at the hands of Mugabe, yet the world acts sheepishly towards them, people who really are starving, and the press still pays illegal registration fees to operate there. What is more sad - is the world never learned the lessons of the past century and still ignores real problems in hopes of making it all just go away.
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