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British lawmaker says Gaza blockade 'evil'
Associated Press
Published: 15.01.10, 20:23
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1. Gerald Kaufman is a Jew....
Marco ,   Spain   (01.15.10)
I would be honored to have as my next door neighbor....
2. crazy old labour hack
Gilad ,   London UK   (01.15.10)
Members of Old Labour (eg those ignored by the new labour government of Tony Blair and even of Gordon Brown) are always desperate to bring back old class warfare issues from their good old socialist days. In here, the class warfare that people like him try to portray is the rich Israel trying to crush the working class Palestinians (Arabs). The imperialists against those who only want freedom. Whatever their exact definitions, there are many Kaufmans, Galloways and other hacks who use old outdated ideologies to try to evoke hate of Israel. Sorry guys, Socialism failed, you failed, your theories are dated and hatefilled and your attempts to use human rights as a guise in order to promote your endless class conflict has failed and does fail!!
3. Does anyone even know what a blockade is?
David ,   Boston, USA   (01.15.10)
Shame on the press and anyone who calls it a blockade. Free dictionary definition: The isolation of a nation, area, city, or harbor by hostile ships or forces in order to prevent the entrance and exit of traffic and commerce. So explain how it can be a blockade if goods move back and force from Israel with Israeli permission by the hundreds of truckloads? There has been no disruption of electricity, the majority of it provided by Israel. Its controlled access, not a blockade. Not even close.
4. So it Is Not Just Israel . . .
emanon ,   USA   (01.15.10)
Even the arab world perceives the terrorstinians as a threat that should be confined. For once, it looks like Egypt is doing the right thing and blockading the other side of Gaza to try and contain the terrorist threat of Hamas.
5. Yes Marco, and may I suggest the neighborhood?
Arthur ,   SF, CA   (01.15.10)
Make it a Gitmo prison
6. What about these crime to humanity?
Daniela   (01.15.10)
http://www.phrmg.org/PHRMG%20Documents/Suicide%20bombers/sicide%20attak.htm why the world keep silence and defends the poor palestinians?
7. Kaufman
ezer   (01.15.10)
Kaufman can go to hell.
8. Kaufie is the ARCH SELF hating Jew recently disgraced in MP
Alan ,   SA   (01.15.10)
expenses scandal.
9. You summed it up well, Gilad
Cameron ,   USA   (01.15.10)
10. #2 Gilad
Marco ,   Spain   (01.15.10)
" there are many Kaufmans, Galloways and other hacks who use old outdated ideologies to try to evoke hate of Israel. Sorry guys, you failed." Is that right Gilad? They failed while you succeeded. Is that why they are British lawmakers while you are a nobody?
11. To # 1 and like-minded fascist pigs
Prof. R. Benthall ,   Israel   (01.15.10)
Of course you would like a Jew who hates Jews to be your neighbor, you degenerate descendant of the Spanish Inquisition! Go to hell with Tomas de Torquemada and all the other Spaniards who committed acts of humiliation, terror, torture, forced conversions, confiscations of property and genocide on my people.
12. #1 and #10 Marco
Df ,   Beer Sheva, Israel   (01.15.10)
So Kaufman is a Jew. So what ? Why is he so anti-Israel ? Consider this. On Pesach, at the end of the seder, there is the statement made: "Next Year in Jerusalem" . This has been the dream of Jews for centuries. That statement is now not only a possibility but a reality - it can happen. And it shows that Kaufman is living a lie which he can't take. So he has to compensate by being totally anti-Israel and claiming that it is doubly good because he is a Jew. He is a Jew by birth. He is not a Jew by action or by Neshama. The only question is: why doesn't he convert to Islam? Maybe because he thinks his so called Judaism gives him more "moral authority" ? He is dreaming
13. Don't pay attention to Marco, he thinks
Eyal ,   USA   (01.15.10)
Israel lost all the wars, since its creation as well. He needs to come down from what he was smoking. hehehe hahahah
14. Is this the same G. Kauffman who claimed he has OCD and
EST ,   Miami USA   (01.15.10)
tried to blame his huge expenses (claiming them on public taxpayers' money in the UK) on his OCD????? What will he blame his bizarre behavior on now? the devil? Is he really trying to prove he is deranged? Will he excuse Islam4UK on inciting patriotic Brits by demeaning the death of their soldier sons in the war against terror?
15. Gerald Kaufman
AlexB ,   Toronto, Canada   (01.15.10)
He's a lonely loud mouth making waves in the pool. Sounds loud (and quite disgusting) but ultimately it fails and falls off like water off a duck's back. No support from Jews, no friends except the likes of Galloway, and no success in any of his ideas. People don't really care much about "palestine". There is the castrate bomber, new airport regulations, the Haiti disaster, Darfur, Yemen ... "palestine" is on the back burner and nobody gives a flying duck. So let this man yap and discredit himself.
16. All we know about "Marco" is that
Robert Haymond ,   Ashdod, Israel   (01.15.10)
he says he is not Spanish but that he resides in Spain. That's what he has admitted on Ynet. That's what he says. Other than that, we do know that he is a Jew Hater who uses every attempt to taunt those who love Israel. He is too cowardly to post under his real name or to give his actual email address. I suppose he is an Arab Muslim who is either a supporter of or hanger-on of one of the Islamic terrorist organizations. At any rate, you can bet that he has given himself away. How do you think the USA learns about extremists and possesses such a large Watchlist? Websites. Socalled "Marco" is just too empty-headed and arrogant to understand that he has placed himself under suspicion. In some ways, it is actually good that Ynet allows such obscenities to post.
17. people such as him should not be allowed into israel nor gaz
ralph   (01.15.10)
gaza thru israel.
18. Hardly a 'lawmaker'.. as much power as neighbourhood watch
Aaron ,   London   (01.15.10)
Check out this video link where this idiot is ripped to shreds by Jeremy Paxman, one of the countries most popular politicial tv hosts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5tunBGmDQ
19. blame
colin   (01.15.10)
Gerald Kaufman is a blithering idiot. Someone must advise this ignoramous to shut up. Yhere is no blokeade in or around gaza. The arabs want thier own country but Israel must be responsible for supplying water and electricity. Only the cowardly groveling leftest politicians go against world rules.
20. #1 - He's a Jew so presumably he can't be trusted?
Amanda ,   London   (01.15.10)
I thought Jews were not to be trusted by this Spaniard? Or are Jews "nice" and "good" if they are Spanish/gentile lapdogs?
21. 11# well said - Marco the Spanish hypocrite!
Jordi ,   UK   (01.15.10)
Rather than look into the horrors bestowed upon the Jews by his own people (not to mention the treatment of Arabs and blacks in modern day Spain), "Marco" prefers to resurrect the Jew hatred of his colonialist forefathers. No wonder the Spanish economy is in the $hit when Marco's level of intelligence is par for the course in Spain!
22. Marco you say "lawmaker" like it's a good thing. Sponge is..
more like it ,   idiot   (01.15.10)
23. curse us to enjoy more winter weather by
the british lawmaker ,   is evil   (01.15.10)
genesis 12:3 the 1 who curses you I will curse.
24. "Evil," eh?
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (01.15.10)
As opposed to what? Suicide bombings? IED devices designed to kill Israeli patrols? Missile barrages aimed at civilian population centers? The kidnapping of Gilad Shalit? Well, I guess we do not know the answer to that, because MP Kaufman neglected to address these issues. That makes his comments highly one-sided and entirely worthless.
25. To: Eyal at No. 13
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (01.15.10)
Whatever is defective in Mario is probably organic. Whether he smokes anything funny or not. His paranoia, coupled with his rabid (and unfounded) hatred of Jews and Israel is so visceral, it appears to stem from severe mental illness. But you had it right -- pay no attention. His posts are garbled nonsense, anyway. It can be an amusing exercise to trifle with him and his bogus claims, but take him seriously? Oh, hell no. Shabat shalom, Eyal!
26. Prof. R. Benthall, professor of misdirected vitriol?
BBSNews ,   Charlotte, NC   (01.15.10)
27. #1 The anti-Semites like you love the Jews who hate
Dan ,   USA   (01.15.10)
other Jews. It is normal and typical of haters like you.
28. The money for the trip was better used for help to Haiti.
robert renders ,   belgium   (01.15.10)
29. elections are soon in England, Kaufman is disgraced and
john   (01.15.10)
trying to win favour. And just because someone is a Jew means nothing. Who did not know that? As to Gaza- hands off to Hamas for the their responsibility, did the not brutally kill 700 of their fellow muslim opposition for control of the strip. So they have it. And Egypt knows the strip well having ruled it from 48-67. Their choice is theirs alone. As to the evil part- what happened in Darfur was evil, in Gaza it was a choice they made. Not evil. They have it far better than most with the highest per capita aid in the world. Poverty exists much worse elewhere. They choose jihad, so we should have sympathy!!!!
30. Sir Jerald Kaufman
Daran ,   UK   (01.15.10)
that Ynet should edit AP report in only one word, the title of "Sir" . speaks to an attempt to strip Sir Jerald of the honor he deserves. You have got to ask yourself whether such editing would have happened if his comments had been more supportive of Israel than critical
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