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These are not humans
Hanoch Daum
Published: 14.03.11, 11:00
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31. Correct, however
Talula ,   Israel   (03.14.11)
They must eliminate them in their villages and NOT bring them back here to live a life on easy street. Shoot them where they stand, leave them face down in the dirt and haul ass out of there.
32. Not human
khaled ,   palestine   (03.14.11)
Leave alone the crimes commited by the Israeli forces and settlers against palestinian children specifically .Those who kill any children are not humans nor palestinians nor moslems
33. I agree
(03.14.11)
34. #18 EM - Jordan was fraudulently created by the British
Howard K   (03.14.11)
on Jewish land that the Mandate had originally recognized belonged to the Jews. We don't want Jordan, we just want the small part of Israel west of the Jordan. The Arabs there have Jordanian citizenship.
35. #32 Khaled - Crimes against children
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (03.14.11)
must not be tolerated You must cease and desist from attacking ours, or using yours as Human Shields Fahti Hammad bragged about using your civilians for Human Shields purposes, do you want to call him a liar ? The video is on your tube, see for yourself
36. who is to be killed?
Flo Ahava Mahnah ,   Boston USA   (03.14.11)
strange concept... how do you know which ones to kill "before they kill"?... do you kill ALL of them preemptively? I don't understand what this article is calling for.... ?...mass slaughter?
37. noa , israel (03.14.11)
John ,   Miami US   (03.14.11)
For you to describe this act as "someone taking the LAW into his own hands" just gives us insight to your warped mind.
38. Kuntar (juan sol , san diego )
John ,   Miami   (03.14.11)
Where do you get this from?
39. No state for animals!
(03.14.11)
40. To: No. 32
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (03.14.11)
Oh, please. The record is replete with bloody massacres of Jewish children, suicide bombings targeting buses, restaurants and nightclubs, entire families being massacred -- all of them carried out by ersatz "Palestinian" terrorists. Moreover, let us not forget the ersatz "Palestinian" penchant for using their children as human shields, selling their children to be suicide bombers, caching weapons in schools, hospitals and mosques; sending their children to man the ramparts in the pathetic intifadas, and sending their children to hurl rocks at Israeli vehicles. No one buys your "poor, poor pitiful me" jeremiad. When attacked, Israel -- a sovereign state -- has the absolute and inalienable right to defend itself. No one targets your children; you are the ones who shove them out onto the front lines. Golda Meir (z.l.) had it about right -- peace will come when the ersatz "Palestinians" learn to love their children more than they hate the Jews. Until that day comes, you are nothing but terrorist monsters.
41. To: No. 22
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (03.14.11)
Your flight of fancy is not supported by the facts. The facts are that the Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigade announced that it was responsible for the massacre of five members of the Fogel family. As you know, the Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigade is the military wing of the terrorist organization Fatah. How much more proof do you need?
42. Another bit of insanity....
Mikesailor ,   Miami, FL   (03.14.11)
A man infiltrates a hiome and mirders all living there including children. And he is, rightly so, condemned for his callous actions. Another man, drops a bomb on an apartment house and kills thirteen innocents and shows no remorse for his callous actions. What is the difference? That one set of victims is Jewish and the other Palestinian? The nan who killed the familiy in Itamar committed a depraved and dastardly act. No one is condoning his actions. Yet, the pilot who dropped the bomb killing thirteen is honored and no punishment will come to him. In fact, he has gotten the 'kosher' seal of approval from the Israeli establishment. As have the soldiers who killed a 90 year old man in his bed, the soldiers who killed children carrying white flgas in Gaza etc. etc. If you look at it quantitatively, the Israelis have killed far more innocents than the Palestinians. Yet these murders are excused. Why?
43. The Murderers are not Psychopaths
Moshe Tokayer ,   Petach Tikvah   (03.14.11)
Hanoch Daum is wrong. The murderer who perpetrated this horror is not a psychopath. He is not a sick individual. He is the natural product of his upbringing, an upbringing that glorifies the spilling of Jewish blood. A society that names public squares and schools after murderers is going to produce more of the same. When are we going to wake up this reality. Bibi and all the rest talk of bringing the perpetrator to justice. The entire society is to blame. The perpetrator is simply the agent who actually carried out the horror. The society applauds him and in a few years will name a school or a hospital after him.
44. sure iam sad
nana ,   jerusalem   (03.14.11)
in my pray i asked the lord to punish this murderer to live blind and poor for 20 years
45. BEING HUMAN AND HAVING HUMANITY ARE NOT THE SAME THING
Ian ,   Newcastle upon Tyne   (03.14.11)
Describing this murderer as not being human is a trap that we shouldn't fall in to.He is human and,as distasteful as it is,he has to be accorded the appropriate human rights. The issue for me is whether the murderer is able to display humanity and if not,why not?To me it's a cultural thing.I truly believe that intense exposure to Islamic culture is capable of taking away a person's humanity. In support of this view; 1)I point out how previously inoffensive people can become suicide bombers capable of attempting to blow up passenger planes in flight AFTER THEY CONVERT TO ISLAM. 2)I point out how readily Islamists place Muslim rights above human rights. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!
46. #42Mikesailor DISGUSTING MORAL EQUIVALENCE
Ian ,   Newcastle upon Tyne   (03.14.11)
1)Aggression and self-defence are not the same thing. 2)Mikesailor has conveniently ignored the whole matter of INTENT. The usual tricks of apologists for terrorism. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!
47. To: No. 42
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (03.14.11)
One is an act of terrorism. The other is an act of a sovereign nation defending its citizens who have come under attack. (Eight years of daily missile barrages from Gaza, for example, which elicited Cast Lead in response.) How do you propose to justify the deaths of tens of thousands of civilian noncombatants -- many of them women, children and the elderly -- as a result of indiscriminate bombing raids conducted over Iraq and Afghanistan?
48. Are we missing a signature ?
Nathan Rai ,   Bangalore   (03.15.11)
No, I dont live in Israel. So this will be only an opinion. To the best of my knowledge, whatever little it is, Sunni Palestinian Jihadis have always 'done things' against adults or those who are adults by their standards. The murder of the kids, especially the baby is the signature of a True Shia Mujahid, much beloved of the brave Underground Hero Nasrallah. Israel needs to consider keeping a ear open there. Remember the greatest Shia hero ever - Kuntar ? No wonder all true belevers beleive Shias to be the offspring of an effort of pigs and snakes. Does our contempt blind us to facts ?
49. Most "Palestinians" support mass murder of Jews.
Chaim ,   Israel   (03.15.11)
Anyone familiar with Israel's relations with "Palestinians" knows that the heinous Itamar massacre is completely consistent with their history. Long before Israel was established, "Palestinians" massacred Jews whenever they got the chance. There were many many Itamars before the most recent one. Moreover, the murderers have the strong support of the vast majority of "Palestinians". The murderers are acting on the general beliefs of their society, which is inundated with murderous incitement against Jews. That is the truth, like it or not, and we must deal with it. Israel's problem is not a few "Palestinian" murderers. It is an entire hostile society of poseurs who want to steal our land from us and murder a great many of us in the process.
50. Inhumane elements in your camp
Ibrahim Ibn Yusuf ,   Rosario, Argentina   (03.15.11)
In Jerusalem on February 10, a group of four Jewish teens shouted "Death to the Arabs" at two young men, one of them Hussam Rawidi, just for speaking Arabic. After that, the Jews started beating the Arabs, and one of them pulled a knife and stabbed Rawidi in the neck. Even as the young man lay on the sidewalk bleeding, the Jews continued to beat him brutality while shouting racial slurs, after which they left him to bleed to death. The Jewish prosecutor did not charge the teens with murder, only with manslaughter, which might result in the stabber doing a few weeks' community service. So Mr. Daum, please put away your sanctimonious BS and acknowledge that inhumane elements exist in your camp too.
51. #14 Most likely scenerio
Cynthia ,   USA   (03.15.11)
Only for someone who wishes to seize opportunity to blame victims and create a cover-up. Let's leave the investigative work to professionals.
52. to 48
(03.15.11)
you are wrong . in killing the enemy all the people are the same also in doing crimes all murderers are the same . to my view it is not killing enemy it is a crime iam palastinian and moslem sonni but the first iam a human ,to your knowledge there are not shiit in palastine but all of them support nasralla . it is the real here
53. #7: first, the author did not say every last Palestinian,
SETTHERECORDSTRAIGHT   (03.15.11)
i am also sorry to the doctor who lost his four daughters. this is awful and i wish it not even on my worst enemy. but DO NOT COMPARE accidental killings - which Israel has repeatedly apologized for - to what happened last Shabbat. HOW COULD YOU? what kind of moral compass do you work with?
54. #50 Ibrahim Ibn Yusuf
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (03.15.11)
Violence begets violence, cut it out and you won't get any from us The fellow that you allege was stabbed, if he's still alive, he's a hell of lot better off than our family of five that was stabbed to death Concerning racial slurs, that seems to be a specialty of your prayer leaders, who did every Friday when they're inciting the worshippers to kill Jews Enjoy your stay in Argentina, I urge you to invite more of your brothers & sisters to join you, permanently
55. Jordan is Palestine. WHAT R U waiting for?
Jordan ,   Is, Palestine   (03.15.11)
56. #54 can you move them to Chile please, we do not need them
Jorge ,   Israel/USA/Argentina   (03.15.11)
57. #56 Jorge, why do you hate Chile ?
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (03.15.11)
58. to #3
John ,   Alaska   (03.15.11)
Thank you for these words - it is people like you that make me think that peace is possible.
59. Stupid statement by Noa, #7
Drumgoole ,   Newark NJ USA   (03.15.11)
It is unbelievable that Noa makes no moral distinction between the deliberate murder of a 3 month old child and the casualties of war. I guess to Noa, executing nazis after the Nurenberg trial was the same as the murder of 6000,000 by the nazis. What kind of inverted moral universe does someone like Noa live in?
60. Never be sure.
Abeer ,   Jerusalem   (03.15.11)
Killing in general in not accepted; so what about killing kids, sure not accepted, but first you need to make sure that a Palestinian did it, yes Palestinian might not like Israelis but we never raised or educated to kill kids. I believe that someone did it after he/she made sure that everyone will point at the Palestinian regarding the conflict. lets pray for those to bless their souls, and to ask god to find whoever did it and punish him.
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