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Stop yelling at Israel
Chas Newkey-Burden
Published: 14.04.12, 18:02
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31. To nr 8 - "Anti-war American"
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (04.14.12)
I would say that 90% or maybe even 95% of the fundings that goes to finance the purchase or production of weapons used by Israel is actually Israeli money. Much of Israel's military material and technology is actually Israeli. Defending Israel's right to exist against genocidal racists hellbent on our destruction (Arabs,Turks and Iranian want to kill us because we are Jewish) is neither "genocide" nor "racism". We don't attack anyone because of their ethnicity. WE are being attacked because of OUR ethnicity. And you are a prime example of such a person attacking us because of our ethnicity and to make your lies believable you need to deliver false accusations against us such as claiming falsely and baselessy that we "kill people because of their ethnicity". Complete nonsense. The Arab population in Israel, Judea, Samaria and Gaza has increased by 1000% for the past six decades and Arabs are treated at Israeli hospitals and Arabs have freedom of thought, opinion and speech, press freedom, voting rights, right of possession, religious freedom (their Al Aqsa mosque stands on our two Jewish temples in Jerusalem) and the right to have Arab political parties and even the right to sit in the Israeli parliament (Knesset) and to spew daily and regularly anti-Semitic and racist comments against Israel and Jews. That's hardly oppression of Arabs. We treat them a lot better than white Americans did to Afro-Americans back in the 1950s and 1960s not to mention Black slavery in the USA.
32. Stop Yelling at israel
Bonnie ,   NY   (04.15.12)
Oh, boohooohoo, is poor little israel's feeling's hurt? Poor thing, you must glue hair to your chest, and attach false cojones to your privates, when you attack other countries, and the Palestinians, because THEN you're men...attacking others, but when others speak about your CRIMES, you stand whining and crying. You can dole out hurt, you can't take it. COWARDS!
33. Being a German citizen, I feel shame
Yael Schlichting ,   Qiryat Motzkin   (04.15.12)
When I look at Germany, I am getting stomach-churning, seeing them having the guts to use the abhorrent crimes of their ancestors as the justification to excrete their moraline acetate advise. Particularly in Germany, too many people are mixing up facts. They hold Israel under the magnification glass while turning a blind eye on all other facts. But creating an artificial imbalance of facts, they do nothing but swapping perpetrators and victims. I have no easy explanation how they have the guts, but at the bitter end it all goes down to plain ignorance. To lazy to learn, to moron to remember. The crimes of the perpetrators are so ugly, so beyond compare, that the perpetrators finally found no other way, but to lie on them and create their own brave new world in which they themselves are the victims. Sickening! When I go shopping, the longer way, to the bigger mall I pass by a building with a plate outside, written on it, I can read "Center for the psychological support of Holocaust survivors and the second generation". In Germany they badly would need a "Center for the psychological support of perpetrators and their families". If we had that forty years ago, I might have had a childhood with less punishment and bruises. This country is so pseudo, that I find it beyond all bearing. I also cannot understand, how so many Jews leave Israel to settle in Berlin. I hope they have a plan B.
34. Great Article: One of the best written on the subject
Scott ,   Australia   (04.15.12)
35. Stop being jerks!
Surfer Dave ,   Perth, Australia   (04.15.12)
It is so simply, stop the aggression, stop the lies, return to the pre-67 borders, allow right of return for the refugees, pay reparations for those who had land and house stolen and work actively to create the two-state solution, and then no-one will criticize you. If you can't see this, you are an idiot.
36. ANTIwar American When your lot stop tring to destroy Israel
PETER SM ,   AUSTRALIA   (04.15.12)
and turn up to negotiate a genuine peace and borders, Israel will need vastly fewer weapons.Strange how that never occurs to so called anti war activists,nor the millions that ended up in the pocketsof Arafat the Egyptian and his cronies If the Arabs only wanted their own state they could have had it 64 years ago On ALL the WB ALL Gaza a large part of Jerusalem PLUS the vast majority of the original mandate that they got up front ALL ethnically cleansed if Jews. What they really want is the tiny fraction left for the Jews that was not Dar Al Islam
37. #28
me   (04.15.12)
ok that all material possessions return to usa,that all operators return to usa,that all americans return to stop making money on the outside because america´s entrepreneurs become millionaires slave labor abroad,that every soldier in the american army return and stop killing in foreign lands,i totally agree sarah b from usa for the first time that all americans stop using civilians other nations live in peace
38. USA GO HOME
me   (04.15.12)
there is no comparison with this country and its companies,you are going to the corner and you can see some of them as mac donalds,blockbuster,coca cola,wall mart,ford,easy,fedexx,subway, general motors,texaco,pepsi,esso,ibm,xerox,general electric,massalin,cargill,avon,procter gamble,kimberly clark,hewlett packard,alcoa,spal,mobil, economies recorded sales exceeding billion$$$ greater than the gdp of many countries,making usa rich and used countries poor
39. Israeli press: stop giving him a platform
Steve from Raleigh   (04.15.12)
Consign him to the dustbin of history. Stop engaging the Nazi. Stop printing his Nazi propaganda.
40. Anti-war American #8
Arnold ,   Canada   (04.15.12)
I am with you 100% as to your nom de plum. But please give me your take on the 1947 UN Mandate which made 2 states- Israel and Palestine and then the attack by Palestine and the 5 other Arab armies against Israel on May 15 1948. ^ months later.
41. do you mean ARAB-BANKING a$$imilation sick mind?
Anti-Moron ,   Perth, Australia   (04.15.12)
Makes more sense taking into context the prevalence of Sharia Finance and Takaful Insurance ALL AROUND THE WORLD. Well at least you are truthful with regards to your acronym. Toodles.
42. Stop yelling at Israel
Michael Rivero ,   Honolulu, HI   (04.15.12)
Stop being such jerks!
43. So true, Mr. Newkey-Burden
Zvi   (04.15.12)
Well said!
44. #29 how many times have you reall voiced your "support"?
(04.15.12)
...what moral higher ground do you have over Israel? What great deeds for human rights have you done recently? Why are you so concerned with human rights in Israel while they are unceremoniously trampled upon everywhere else in the world? But I guess you're too pompous and "pro Israel" to notice that. Do you know how your "pro-Israel" actions are seen at this end? As racism, bias and demagogy, not to mention hypocrisy and incitement. Call us when Israel is the only human rights offender in an ocean of democracy and peace. And do hold your breath while waiting for that to happen!
45. #28 Sara B, stop writing.
Albrecht   (04.15.12)
The alphabet and the language you are using is European invention.
46. It is neither the question of Israeli military capabilities
Albrecht   (04.15.12)
nor the Iranian nuclear programme. It is a moral question. But what do you know about the morality?
47. atrocities
desertson ,   london uk   (04.15.12)
If Israel were, by some chance, to end its atrocities on the Palestinians, obey international law (yeh!) and stop the occupation and blockade, you never know...someone might like the place.
48. Criticism of Israeli land theft is not a crime, it's right.
Alan Smith ,   UK   (04.15.12)
Colonialism went out of fashion with the civilized world decades ago, but for Israel it's a way of life. The Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory clearly violate article 49 of the fourth Geneva Convention and are illegal under International Law. Maybe if the author of the article was more informed and less biased then he might have formed a totally different opinion and written the truth about Israel, rather than a deluded version of reality.
49. To nr 9 - I agree with you split
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (04.14.12)
Finding so hateful, evil, mean and racist and anti-Semitic people such as yourself full of and obsessed with hatred against Jews for no reason is very rare. Your species is indeed endangered. But what is even more endangered is your human soul for you have lost it a long time ago. Every breath you take and every word you utter and every feeling you feel and every thought you think is full of malice, hatred and racism. You create hatred and conflict for absolutely no reason. You cannot improve our world with racism and hatred against Jews. You are focused on hating and destroying things. You offer no brotherly love to men and women - only hate and sarcasm and insults. May you find the courage to find what is human in your heart. Honestly: I know you hate me because I'm Jewish. But really: I don't hate you - at all.
50. You're the hypocrite because...
Chuck ,   Philadelphia, USA   (04.15.12)
Israel insists on constantly lecturing and criticizing the world.
51. Perspective
Aaron ,   New York   (04.15.12)
The whole notation of a preemptive War is incorrect. The proliferation of this concept will lead to unilateral lawlessness throughout the world. Other countries will adopt this concept and use it to justify their own means. This should be called a preventive war instead, a preemptive war is designed to eliminate a threat when aggression is present. Iran is a peaceful nation as history can validate and in the last thirty years, how many wars had it initiated? What acts of aggression has it been directly involved in? In the Iran-Iraq war, it only responded after being attacked as well as after WWII when the UK and Russia attacked as well. The whole concept of attacking another country because you think it will attack you is wrong. If you are walking down a street and you think someone is going to attack you, can you attack them first? Obviously not, it does not work that way. All this is happening to because of the fear that Iran is becoming too powerful in the region. Israel very well knows if it attacks it will not be able to sustain a long war and will eventually call for the US to finish the job for them. This is selfishness and fear controlling the action of Israel, Israel is a modern country and needs to take its role as one, instead of always playing the victim. The US has it's own problems right now and it has a duty to rectify it's own issues so it can sustain its vitality and ensure the safety of the modern world as we know it.
52. "Never Again"
jwinstanley ,   New York, NY   (04.15.12)
"Never Again", to me, means that something like the Holocaust should NEVER happen AGAIN to any group of people, not just the Jews. It applies to ALL peoples, of ALL religions, of ALL skin colours, etc.... Else, "Never Again" has no meaning.
53. Anti-war American #8 you first
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (04.15.12)
We provide the US with about 10 times the aid in intelligence and another 10 time your aid in technology, they we provide nearly 20 times your aid to your economy. So that means that we need to end our support for morons like to the tune of 120 billion dollars per year. Frankly there are millions more Americans that appreciate what we do for your country than stupid racist morons like you. But we could abide by your request and just ground your entire fucking Air Force considering you haven't a single aircraft that can take off without our technology
54. To #45 re Sarah B.
Rick ,   Israel   (04.15.12)
She writes in English because dumbkopfs like you do not understand an even older invention...Hebrew. Nice try no cookie.
55. To: No. 45
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.15.12)
Really? Tell that to the Phoenicians, if you can find some. Besides -- take the very word "alphabet." Some people think it comes from the Greek "alpha" and "beta." It doesn't. It comes from the Hebrew "aleph" and "bet." Go stand in the corner, dunce.
56. To #48
Michael ,   New York   (04.15.12)
Hey Alan Smith, colonialism on the part of Britain, hmm.. let's see, Falklands, Bermuda come to mind... didn't your country recently hold war games in the Falklands? As for the rest of British colonialism, when the indigenous people rose up Britain was FORCED out an did not leave willingly. Stop criticizing others for what your pitiful country continues to do. Any country that was at one time RULED by the UK hates the UK.
57. Me thought most Jews are Smart-WRONG!
George Archers Canad ,   canada   (04.15.12)
Judaism religion dead long time ago. Only real once Jews were the Palestinians.Let the people of Palestine alone. How many Homelands do the fake Jews need? {:^(
58. To # 57
Rick ,   Israel   (04.15.12)
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? the hell you talking about????
59. Grass
Darius   (04.15.12)
Maybe he wanted just some publicity for a new book?Oh i forgot he wrote the peom with the last ink!
60. #41 do not be hypocritical
sick mind ,   from mental hospital   (04.15.12)
tell me some company or some bank arabic imposed in other countries than in other arab nations? tell me what is the currency of the arab countries? arabs become millionaires by oil exploitation in their territories and enslave their own people but the great northern nation impose all goods and services around the world exploiting and enslaving other peoples,including arabs themselves
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