| Posted by: TWBR | | OK many Zionists are denying the Jenin Massacre and all i can say is LOL, now here is proof that of What happened in Jenin, and This web site is based on a Movie about the Jenin Massacre which Israel was the only Country in the world to ban it, and as for the U.S thank you for not banning it.
Here you go, tons of evidence as i can see.
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| Posted by: Merkava | | It looks like Merkava has other things to do.
Anyways, If it showed solid proof of Israeli massacres, it would be all over the internet for free. I honestly hope some idiot falls for it and pays $30 for 'evidence' which consists of interviews with 'eye witnesses'. It's a shame it has no solid evidence, still.
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| Posted by: antizionist2004 | | You seem to use the same zionist websites over and over again.... | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Chainnech | | Actually, I would suggest that everybody interested in this subject read the UN link given by Mr. "Nya-ha-ha" Merkava. It is by no means "proof" that there was no massacre -- by the reportīs own admission, estimates are difficult to make -- and Iīm not surprised, it took too long for the UN to get in there -- time enough to sweep a lot of incriminating evidence under the rug. And Sharon certainly wants to keep his iron grip on all information about goings-on in the area. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Merkava | | The Article states that only 52 people were killed, as opposed to the gross exaggeration of 500-5,000 by most of the Arab population.
It also states that more than half of that 52 were armed terrorists.
It also states that 23 Israeli soldiers somehow died.
It wasn't a Massacre, it was more of a miniscule Battle scene.
It's funny, because the article also fails to mention who exactly killed those 20 some civilians.
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| Posted by: oneofpeace | | Exactly my point to TWBR. I'm sure Palestinians have died by their own bullets just as Israel has died by some of theirs. To simply blame it all on Israel isn't realistic.
I think the mere fact that terrorist set up their base in those camps are enough to question whether or not their accounting is 100% correct. Any one that does such a thing in my opinion is dishonest from the start.
I do not personally believe it was a massacre. I just think the stronger force prevailed yet again and now we have all sorts of accusations levied. If anyone thinks that the hate that exist over in that country isn't projected in their version of events, then they're mistaken. Same thing however can be said for Israel, so there must be an investigation by someone.
Problem is, when the investigation comes out differently than the other wants it to, they simply cry unfair. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Chainnech | | Just how conclusive can a UN report essentially based on the Sharon governmentīs self-serving reports be considered? Tom Sawyer wasnīt the only one who got others to help him out with whitewashing...
I would also like to throw out a question to anyone who wants to, or thinks they can, answer it: WHO here is "blaming it all on Israel"? I, for one, have yet to read a single post here that appears to do such a thing. Itīs all too easy to make misleading statements that insinuate that people are taking intolerant attitudes which they are NOT taking -- but Iīm used to seeing this tactic used here and elsewhere. Iīm convinced that critical thinkers wonīt be fooled by it. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: oneofpeace | |
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| WHO here is "blaming it all on Israel"? I, for one, have yet to read a single post here that appears to do such a thing. |
You have got to be kidding right? Have you been reading these posts?
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| Posted by: Luke90 | | One aspect of the UN report I found interesting was
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| The Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs wrote to the Permanent Representative of Israel and the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations requesting them to submit information but only the latter did so. |
And while it's obvious that the Palestinians have not held very well to their obligation not to engage in bombings and such, that doesn't appear to me to forgive Israel for ignoring this:
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True, the Palestinian terrorist attacks are unconscionable. But why must Israel, far richer, far more powerful, continue to bully the Palestinians? The harassment of the wall/fence, the harassment at border crossings, bulldozing Palestinian homes...
In the US, the European settlers took posession of land which had been occupied by Native Americans. We certainly raped them of their land, and we certainly harassed them for a few hundred years, but in the end we settled. While of course we kept most of the land, we set up "reservations," chunks of land that belongs to them, where they are autonomous. Eventurally, some clever Native Americans realized that they could open casinos, which offer a high profit margin, and make lots of money. Ancestors of colonists and immigrants now go to these casinos and in most cases give all their money to the Native Americans. Sweet!
This has only taken about 600 years. Perhaps the Israelis and Palestinians can come to a similar arrangement a few hundred years quicker. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Merkava | |
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| Posted by: Merkava | | Israel's operations in the territories are crucial to the protection of it's citizens. Out of the past 450 some suicide bombings, how do you think Israel prevented 300 of them?
And that's not to mention the amount that were never even attempted because of the elmination of Hamas leaders. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Chainnech | | Again, if one wants to accept, without question, as "necessary" whatever action the Sharon government takes in the way of military operations, why you can "justify" just about anything, canīt you? Especially when the most powerful country on earth (and their #1 ally) is virtually mute on the subject. The arabs should not be categorically condemned for the deplorable terrorist attacks against Israel, just as all jews should not be condemned for the supposedly "necessary" military operations carried out that have destroyed Palestinian homes and lives, yes, some terrorists and not a few innocent men, women, and children -- in the name of Israeli security and the war against terrorism. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: oneofpeace | | Ok Luke a few things jump out here at me.
First, what is deemed "Absolutely necessary"?
Secondly, that wall is absolutely necessary in my opinion to prevent such attacks as suicide bombers in which the PA utterly refuses to do. How can you honestly say that was is meant to harrass Palestinians? Why do you hold Israel to a higher standard than Palestinians?
The wall wouldn't be necessary if the bombings were stopped, or at least honest efforts to do so. Is Israel suppose to simply accept this as a way of life for them? You don't think much of the protesting coming from Palestinians are because they know the wall will make it more difficult for suicide bombers?
Israel has the right to defend their citizens. Palestinians have a right to defend theirs. The standard is equal. No lesser standards should be applied to Palestinians because they're less fortunate than Israelis.
More than half the civilian deaths wouldn't occur in the first place if Palestinian terrorist stop setting up base in refugee camps and civilian areas. The difference with them is they don't care. They will use them as shields and target civilians in Israel and tell the world that's what their aim was from the start.
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| Posted by: oneofpeace | | Further more 
The analagy of native Americans isn't quite as peachy as you make it out to be. Their land was taken, and many of them are on reservations with sub-human standards just like the Palestinians.
If you recall Arafat outright refused a pretty good offer for peace from Bill Clinton, and would have a statehood today if he had accepted. I never seen any native Americans committing the atrocities Palestinian extremists do. I will bet you the land I live on that if they were conducting themselves in this manner, they would not have anything today. No casinos, no reservations, ...nothing. See my point? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Luke90 | |
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oneofpeace said this in post #18 :
Ok Luke a few things jump out here at me.
First, what is deemed "Absolutely necessary"?
That is rather subjective (perhaps intentionally so). Israel has taken a rather liberal interpretation of it, but I suspect many of those who supported the resolution would agree with me that many of Israel's "defensive" actions could have been handled more tactfully.
Secondly, that wall is absolutely necessary in my opinion to prevent such attacks as suicide bombers in which the PA utterly refuses to do. How can you honestly say that was is meant to harrass Palestinians? Why do you hold Israel to a higher standard than Palestinians?
The wall can never prevent these attacks. I'm sure that when/if it is completed, there will be fewer attacks on the Israeli side, but I'm not convinced that it will save lives. Rather, it will cause Israel to be more hated, and hated by more, which will quite possibly lead to more deaths! More Palestinians will be willing to die for Israeli blood. Israelis in other parts of the world will be in greater danger. The wall is not the answer!
I did not mean to imply that the wall was meant to harass Palestinians, that's just one of its effects.
I hold Israel to a higher standard because they have more money, more weapons, more power, and more powerful friends.
The wall wouldn't be necessary if the bombings were stopped, or at least honest efforts to do so. Is Israel suppose to simply accept this as a way of life for them? You don't think much of the protesting coming from Palestinians are because they know the wall will make it more difficult for suicide bombers?
No I don't. I think it's largely because the wall is carving out pieces of their territory, and it's separating many of them from their families, their jobs, their schools... No, Israel should not "accept this as a way of life," they should swallow some pride and demonstrate a sincere interest in resolving the conflict.
Israel has the right to defend their citizens. Palestinians have a right to defend theirs. The standard is equal. No lesser standards should be applied to Palestinians because they're less fortunate than Israelis.
So the armed Palestinians in Jenin were attempting to defend the unarmed citizens against an Israeli attack.
More than half the civilian deaths wouldn't occur in the first place if Palestinian terrorist stop setting up base in refugee camps and civilian areas. The difference with them is they don't care. They will use them as shields and target civilians in Israel and tell the world that's what their aim was from the start.
I'm sure your figure is realistic. If you were a Palestinian terrorist, how would you defend yourself against the Israelis? |
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Further more 
The analagy of native Americans isn't quite as peachy as you make it out to be. Their land was taken, and many of them are on reservations with sub-human standards just like the Palestinians.
If you recall Arafat outright refused a pretty good offer for peace from Bill Clinton, and would have a statehood today if he had accepted. I never seen any native Americans committing the atrocities Palestinian extremists do. I will bet you the land I live on that if they were conducting themselves in this manner, they would not have anything today. No casinos, no reservations, ...nothing. See my point?
Well, I admit that was a bit of straw-grasping on my part. Still it's not entirely off the wall - prior to the US settlements, if my recollection of American History serves me right, plenty of Indians terrorized colonists/frontiersmen, raiding settlements, killing families. And the Calvary tried pretty hard to avenge these attacks. Peace came when the US made some concessions. Granted the casino angle wasn't particularly relevant. |
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| Posted by: oneofpeace | | You have some good points here Luke, and I agree with most of what you've said, however I would like to take note of a few things.
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| The wall can never prevent these attacks. I'm sure that when/if it is completed, there will be fewer attacks on the Israeli side, ....The wall is not the answer!.. |
I don't think they believe the wall is the total answer, however anything you can do to make it more difficult for the enemy, then do it. 25 terrorist attacks are much better than 50.
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I've heard this before Luke and I'll say what I said to the other gentleman a few months ago. I don't think that lack of money, living standard, weapons, power, or friends absolve you of your responsibility of humanity. This is no reason to expect Israel to behave more numanely than Palestinians when it comes to common human decencies.
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I do agree with most of this statement Luke, but I don't believe Israel has any choice but to accept this as a way of life. At least for the time being anyway until things can change maybe.
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So the armed Palestinians in Jenin were attempting to defend the unarmed citizens against an Israeli attack.
...If you were a Palestinian terrorist, how would you defend yourself against the Israelis? |
Those in the Jenin camp were not there to defend the citizens. They were there to defend their bomb making labs and suicide belt making factories. Let's be real about this Luke, which brings me to your latter post above.
If you don't want harm to come to your family, you don't set the stage for the fight to be waged there in your home. This is done purely for propeganda purposes in my opinion. Come on here, I mean If they think they will continue to sneak across borders killing citizens without any retribution, then they're not being realistic and it's not being real to expect that to happen from supporters.
So with the Palestinian's cause, since they are the weaker power it's ok to target innocent children, men, and women. This is their only option? How do you condemn an enemy's practices and you engage in the same atrocious acts? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Luke90 | | You're good!!!
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I don't think they believe the wall is the total answer, however anything you can do to make it more difficult for the enemy, then do it. 25 terrorist attacks are much better than 50. |
Quite true! I'm suggesting that the wall may not accomplish that goal, the attacks may just start happening in new places. I maintain that the wall, in its current/planned configuration, goes beyond security, and may well just encourage even more attacks.
In a debate Sunday among the Democratic candidates for President, Dennis Kucinich made this point:
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If the wall is just for security, put it on your own land.
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| This is no reason to expect Israel to behave more humanely than Palestinians when it comes to common human decencies. |
So because the Palestinians are terrorists, it's OK for Israel to be the same? I don't like what the terrorists do, I think it's hurting their cause more than helping it. I think I understand why they do it, and I haven't yet heard any alternative suggested which would convince Israel to work toward a just resolution.
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| I do agree with most of this statement Luke, but I don't believe Israel has any choice but to accept this as a way of life. At least for the time being anyway until things can change maybe. |
Yes, that fits with what I said. Certainly at the moment it's a way of life they have to deal with. What I was saying was that rather than believing "oh well, those damned terrorists will always be killing us, we'll always have to live with soldiers and checkpoints" I'm suggesting that with an attitude adjustment and a commitment to reach an acceptable compromise, that way of life could one day be history.
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| So with the Palestinian's cause, since they are the weaker power it's ok to target innocent children, men, and women. This is their only option? How do you condemn an enemy's practices and you engage in the same atrocious acts? |
I'm still waiting for someone to offer a less inhuman but equally powerful approach the Palestinians could take. I would hope that, if all the bombings stopped, Israel would negotiate a compromise with the Palestinians, and there would be peace. Unfortunately, it seems highly improbable that all the terrorist attacks against Israel would stop - even if all the Palestinians stopped, some other organization with a beef against Israel would probably do something, which would lead Israel to walk out of the talks. Or some Israeli soldier would rough up some Palestinians, and they'd do something stupid, motivating some Palestinians to seek revenge...
I think it was you who pointed out that both sides need some attitude adjustment before there's much hope of peace. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: TWBR | | Dont forget that Israel also kills more civilians than the Palestinian terrorists...... | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Merkava | |
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TWBR said this in post #23 :
Dont forget that Israel also kills more civilians than the Palestinian terrorists...... |
The amount of non-combatant innocents killed is equal on both sides. One question remians though, how many Palestinian casualities were intentional, versus how many Israeli casualities were intentional?
Now someone will come in and scream "A DEATH IS A DEATH", which, to a certain degree is true. To a certain degree, because one can be prevented, whereas the other can't.
The amount of combatants killed is way in favor of the Palestinians.
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| Posted by: antizionist2004 | | Your right, merkava, one can be prevented and the other one can't.
The PALESTINIAN bombers CAN be prevented - the stats of the amount prevented (supposedly 198 out of 200 stopped) speak for themselves.
However, it is the brutal ISRAELI soldiers that CANT be stopped - they have weapons way superior to the Palestinians. These are the attacks that can not be prevented - if anyone tries, then it's Jenin 2nd for the suffering Palestinians. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: antizionist2004 | | Your right, merkava, one can be prevented and the other one can't.
The PALESTINIAN bombers CAN be prevented - the stats of the amount prevented (supposedly 198 out of 200 stopped) speak for themselves.
However, it is the brutal ISRAELI soldiers that CANT be stopped - they have weapons way superior to the Palestinians. These are the attacks that can not be prevented - if anyone tries, then it's Jenin 2nd for the suffering Palestinians. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: antizionist2004 | | Your right, Merkava, one can be prevented whereas the other can't.
It is the PALESTINIAN bombs which CAN be prevented! As the Israeli stats speak for themselves, many, as many as 198 out of every 200 attempted attacks are stopped.
On the other hand, it is the brutal ISRAELI soldiers that CANT be stopped! They have weapons much more superior to the Palestinians - and if the Palestinians try and fight back for what they believe in - here comes Jenin 2nd. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Merkava | |
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antizionist2004 said this in post #27 :
Your right, Merkava, one can be prevented whereas the other can't.
It is the PALESTINIAN bombs which CAN be prevented! As the Israeli stats speak for themselves, many, as many as 198 out of every 200 attempted attacks are stopped.
On the other hand, it is the brutal ISRAELI soldiers that CANT be stopped! They have weapons much more superior to the Palestinians - and if the Palestinians try and fight back for what they believe in - here comes Jenin 2nd. |
I heard you the third time.
Israeli raids can also be prevented - As soon as Palestinian terrorist organizations are dismantled.
The point is, one group of people plan daily how they will kill innocent civilians (Hamas, etc) - the other, wait for this to happen, then plan how they will kill those responsible. (IDF)
AND THAT is where the innocent Palestinians get killed. They get killed accidentally when the IDF goes after the terrorist. It happens a lot - not because the IDF are blood thirsy like you think - but because its a clear tactic of the terrorist to hide behind and use the civilian population as a bullet sheild.
The point is, Suicide bombings are an indirect cause of Palestinain casualties.
Simple as that.
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| Posted by: antizionist2004 | | I'm not disagreeing. If you read your thread "attention everybody" you will see that I am currently debating that issue with TWBR. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: TWBR | |
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Merkava said this in post #28 :
I heard you the third time.
Israeli raids can also be prevented - As soon as Palestinian terrorist organizations are dismantled.
The point is, one group of people plan daily how they will kill innocent civilians (Hamas, etc) - the other, wait for this to happen, then plan how they will kill those responsible. (IDF)
AND THAT is where the innocent Palestinians get killed. They get killed accidentally when the IDF goes after the terrorist. It happens a lot - not because the IDF are blood thirsy like you think - but because its a clear tactic of the terrorist to hide behind and use the civilian population as a bullet sheild.
The point is, Suicide bombings are an indirect cause of Palestinain casualties.
Simple as that. |
****ing complete crap, leave the forum, every comment you make is garbage....yea, "they started to attack the Palestinians becase of the the suicide bombings" 
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| Posted by: Merkava | |
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TWBR said this in post #30 :
****ing complete crap, leave the forum, every comment you make is garbage....yea, "they started to attack the Palestinians becase of the the suicide bombings" |
Think logically about it and maybe you'll start to realize how much sense it makes.
You can not, and will not censor me. 
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| Posted by: TWBR | | One mispelling error? lol and ofcorse i cant cencor u, im using the INTERNET lol | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Luke90 | |
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Merkava said this in post #28 :
The point is, one group of people plan daily how they will kill innocent civilians (Hamas, etc) - the other, wait for this to happen, then plan how they will kill those responsible. (IDF) |
Who is doing the hunting, and who is doing the retaliation?
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The point is, Suicide bombings are an indirect cause of Palestinain casualties.
Simple as that. |
Or the point is, Israeli military operations are the direct cause of Palestinian terrorist actions.
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| Posted by: oneofpeace | | TWBR I think it foolishly blind sighted to think that this is a one way street. This is a cycle and a violent vicious one at that.
One thing I can say is that Israel usually is targeting or trying to target terror cells and their leadership. I don't always subscribe to their methods but their standard is higher than that of Palestinian groups as Luke has pointed out they should be.
Suicide bombers have no one to blame but themselves for their actions. They are not under hypnosis or some other mind control. They are motivated by hate of Israel and they act on this as if it's some great honor to go in and target women and children indiscremenately in resturants and buses. Afterward they hold parades and marches declaring their suicide bombers heros and martyrs.
If Israel intentionally bombed civilians only then held marches in their streets declaring the ones who did it heros, Palestinians and Arabs around the world would be crying so loudly the would be heard on the moon.
Facts are these. Israel is wrong for targeting Hamas leaders among civilian populations. I do however think it self defense to target them. Palestinian bombers are wrong in their idiologies and their targeting of civilians. I think there's a low level of human decency to intentionally commit such an act. What's worse is the celebration in the streets when such an act is committed.
I remember seeing Palestinians celebrating in the streets by the hundreds when the events of 9/11 took place and the PA moved immediately to squelch the celebrations. Sept 11 was humanity at its lowest only to be topped by Palestinians, no human beings celebrating in the streets at such an obvious evil event.
So where does the problem lie? In my opinion the reason why Palestinians aren't in a place called Palestine today is because of them. Their thought processes are horribly primative and this is directly causing most of their hardships. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: TWBR | | Suicide bombers have no one to blame but themselves for their actions. They are not under hypnosis or some other mind control. They are motivated by hate of Israel and they act on this as if it's some great honor to go in and target women and children indiscremenately in resturants and buses. Afterward they hold parades and marches declaring their suicide bombers heros and martyrs.
No sh*t they are the ones to blame, if they are the ones who are behind it and are doing it, Israel's actions are trigering it to happen, if Israel would just back off and try to have peace with the Palestinians ( many of those groups are willing to have peace with an agreement ) the hatred on the Israelis will decrease.
If Israel intentionally bombed civilians only then held marches in their streets declaring the ones who did it heros, Palestinians and Arabs around the world would be crying so loudly the would be heard on the moon.
Again, Israel does target Civilians and they kill them, keep on denying it
Facts are these. Israel is wrong for targeting Hamas leaders among civilian populations. I do however think it self defense to target them. Palestinian bombers are wrong in their idiologies and their targeting of civilians. I think there's a low level of human decency to intentionally commit such an act. What's worse is the celebration in the streets when such an act is committed.
Israel is wrong for killing thousands of Palestinian civilians and getting away with it, and not being called Terrorists by idiots.
Ofcorse, go ahead and kill the terrorists, its right, they should have some self defense, and think that Israel they never did anything wrong.
I remember seeing Palestinians celebrating in the streets by the hundreds when the events of 9/11 took place and the PA moved immediately to squelch the celebrations. Sept 11 was humanity at its lowest only to be topped by Palestinians, no human beings celebrating in the streets at such an obvious evil event.
duhh, i thnk they are aware that the U.S supports Israel up the ass, what do you want them to feel sorry for the U.S?
To them, if the U.S is going to let them rott in sh*t them they will just say **** The U.S and let them rott in hell,
Also, i remember those 5 Israelis that got caught dancing and celebrating the 9/11 attack, they were celebrating and taking pistures of them selves showing the twin towers burning, if these guys feel like that, then i wonder how the rest of the Israelis felt about this attack on the U.S.
So where does the problem lie? In my opinion the reason why Palestinians aren't in a place called Palestine today is because of them. Their thought processes are horribly primative and this is directly causing most of their hardships.
No they arent in a place called Palestine today because of their shitty leader Arafat, those terrorists groups, and ofcorse the one who started it all, started this violence, the one who kicked out 10 Million Palestinians out of their homes, the ones that have killed around 100,000 Palestinians since the 1940s, ISRAEL. | | Reply To this Message
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So where does the problem lie? In my opinion the reason why Palestinians aren't in a place called Palestine today is because of them. Their thought processes are horribly primative and this is directly causing most of their hardships. |
So now the Palestinians are primitive thinkers? While I applaud your overall objectivity, here is a case where you appear to be completely ignoring Israel's actions and placing the blame squarely on the Palestinians. Yet time and again you profess that Israel shares blame.
TW does the same thing at times, at the opposite end of the scale. You claim that your pro-Israel bias results from the extent to which pro-Palestinians often seem to place all the blame on Israel, just as my pro-Palestinian bias has grown from years of watching Israel bully the Palestinians. This comment makes me wonder whether your intellectual objectivity is growing weaker.
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| Posted by: antizionist2004 | | TWBR, how can 10 million Palestinians have been chucked out of their homes if there was only 1 million people living in the land at the time?? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: TWBR | | Well the numbers right now are 4,082,300, let me search for the total refugee population since the 1940s. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: antizionist2004 | | I'm afraid your badly mistaken. The other refugees are simply Arabs from Arab countries identifying themselves as Palestinians. Worldwide, there are 10 million Palestinians, but how can more than 1 million of them be refugees if only a million of them were living in israel in 1948? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: MrJukoVette | | This is actually a cool way of making money - selling 'proof' of jenin massacre on video.  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Chainnech | | A-Z, could I get the source for that Ariel Sharon quote about the Jews controlling America, and the Americans knowing it? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: antizionist2004 | | Of course Jenin happened. Denying its existence could be described like the Holocaust deniers. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: TWBR | |
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A-Z, could I get the source for that Ariel Sharon quote about the Jews controlling America, and the Americans knowing it? |
I saw that from www.DavidDuke.com and i doubt that the American citizens are aware that Israel is controlling America but i think that the Government does.
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| Posted by: antizionist2004 | | No i've got that quote from loads of places, as well as actually being told about it from my israeli cousins! They heard it a few years ago on the Kol Yisroel radio station in Israel. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: oneofpeace | |
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Luke90 said this in post #36 :
So now the Palestinians are primitive thinkers? While I applaud your overall objectivity, here is a case where you appear to be completely ignoring Israel's actions and placing the blame squarely on the Palestinians. Yet time and again you profess that Israel shares blame.
TW does the same thing at times, at the opposite end of the scale. You claim that your pro-Israel bias results from the extent to which pro-Palestinians often seem to place all the blame on Israel, just as my pro-Palestinian bias has grown from years of watching Israel bully the Palestinians. This comment makes me wonder whether your intellectual objectivity is growing weaker. |
Absolutely they are primative thinkers. Their way of reason is totally counter-productive to their own well being. Just like today, we have the Israeli incursion and what do they do, they scream "Avenge Avenge" in the streets. When a suicide bomber blows up civilians eating in resturants or riding on buses, they hold parades and hail the bombers as heros and martyrs. Even when 9/11 occurred what did they do? They gathered in the streets cheering and celebrating. Do I think they are primative in their thought processes? Hell yes I do. They are taught to hate, hate Israel, then the US for their support of them.
I do not minimize what Israel does here from time to time. Yes they are heavy handed and does go overboard from time to time. However to say that Israel is causing suicide bombers and to dismiss that suicide bombers are causing Israel retaliation is not realistic.
I usually go for the underdog too Luke, but I have to say Palestinians have lost many points with me with these suicide bombers who intentionally target civilians, then complain that Israel comes into their country to try and thrawt this and kill theirs in the process.
These are not the b.c. years. Running around screaming Jihad and blowing up civilians is wrong period. Blaming Israel for it is simply an excuse to act inhumane while complaining of Israel doing the same. Suicide bombers are one of the major reasons they garner no world support and stay in impovished conditions. There land is currently out of control and a mad house and they excuse their low moral behavior by blaming Israel.
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oneofpeace said this in post #46 :
Absolutely they are primative thinkers. Their way of reason is totally counter-productive to their own well being. Just like today, we have the Israeli incursion and what do they do, they scream "Avenge Avenge" in the streets. When a suicide bomber blows up civilians eating in resturants or riding on buses, they hold parades and hail the bombers as heros and martyrs. Even when 9/11 occurred what did they do? They gathered in the streets cheering and celebrating. Do I think they are primative in their thought processes? Hell yes I do. They are taught to hate, hate Israel, then the US for their support of them.
I do not minimize what Israel does here from time to time. Yes they are heavy handed and does go overboard from time to time. However to say that Israel is causing suicide bombers and to dismiss that suicide bombers are causing Israel retaliation is not realistic.
I usually go for the underdog too Luke, but I have to say Palestinians have lost many points with me with these suicide bombers who intentionally target civilians, then complain that Israel comes into their country to try and thrawt this and kill theirs in the process.
These are not the b.c. years. Running around screaming Jihad and blowing up civilians is wrong period. Blaming Israel for it is simply an excuse to act inhumane while complaining of Israel doing the same. Suicide bombers are one of the major reasons they garner no world support and stay in impovished conditions. There land is currently out of control and a mad house and they excuse their low moral behavior by blaming Israel. |
Until both sides lay off the BS, as you've said, there can't be peace. Yes, the terrorism is abominable. For the moment, put yourself in the sandals of a Palestinian. What would you do?!! This is the question I keep asking, and nobody has an answer for. How would you convince Israel to give you your land and stop attacking your people?!
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Luke90 said this in post #47 :
Until both sides lay off the BS, as you've said, there can't be peace. Yes, the terrorism is abominable. For the moment, put yourself in the sandals of a Palestinian. What would you do?!! This is the question I keep asking, and nobody has an answer for. How would you convince Israel to give you your land and stop attacking your people?! |
You know, I wonder...if we all lived in the times depicted in "Braveheart", who here would be in favor of the scraggly underdog country peasants that fought with William Wallace, and who would side with the immensely more powerful country that was oppressing them and making their lives miserable -- after all, at the time, England was the one with the "civilized" image, and William Wallace & co. were just neīer-do-wells and troublemakers, not freedom fighters! But history eventually puts everybody in their place, sooner or later...
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Luke90 wrote
Until both sides lay off the BS, as you've said, there can't be peace. Yes, the terrorism is abominable. For the moment, put yourself in the sandals of a Palestinian. What would you do?!! This is the question I keep asking, and nobody has an answer for. How would you convince Israel to give you your land and stop attacking your people?! |
Luke, I could be wrong, but you seem to subscribe to the thought that they have no other choice? So since they can't find a solution just turn to animalism. That is no solution, and obviously it's not working for them and making their situation worse. You think they're better off than they were since the rise of their infatada in 2000?
You convince Israel to stop attacking your people by stop attacking theirs. What I find funny is that when these bombers are plotting and Israel takes action to prevent this, Palestinians call for revenge and justice. When the bombers blow up a bus or mall, and Israel retaliates, the call for revenge. When everything is quiet then a bomber goes over and blow up something, Israel goes into a refugee camp where their bomb making laboratories are and they scream revenge.
Come on here, let's be real. There have been tensions in that region for decades between the two. The check points, the incursions, the missile attacks are in response to some idiot targeting civilians intentionally. There is no less responsibility to act humane if you're not a super power. At least Israel is targeting the ones leading and doing the bombings. What if Israel started just sending missiles into malls, or helicopter gunships started shooting civilian buses to intentionally kill civilians, then celebrated in their streets about the carnage they left behind?
It's stupid, barbaric, and counter-productive and I guarentee as long as it goes on, there will never be any peace and Palestinians will stay in their ghettos and poverty. Their leaders are exploiting this, and Israel with their heavy handed actions are killing them. So you tell me, what other choice will they ever have if they keep this up?
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| Posted by: antizionist2004 | | Oneofpeace, what I think Luke90 is trying to say, and which I agree with, isn't that they have no other choice, but they are very desparate and are looking for a way out. Put yourself in their shoes. Your parents' houses were taken from Israelis. You live in a refugee camp. Twice you've had to move because your home has been bombed. Every day, you don't know whether it will be your last.
Can you blame them for hating Israel?
Some of them are so desparate, so full of hate and anguish and torment, that they becom suicide bombers.
Of course I don't agree with them. But surely you can understand WHY somebody would become a suicide bomber? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: TWBR | | Thats the problem with people today, they dont know how the Palestinians are feeling right now, i saw a video in the Discovery Channel and the Palestinians said that they are completely dead on the inside and wish to die soon.
I feel their anger and their sufferage because im Palestinian my self and i love them all, so when they die, i get hurt and angry along with them. | | Reply To this Message
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TWBR said this in post #51 :
Thats the problem with people today, they dont know how the Palestinians are feeling right now, i saw a video in the Discovery Channel and the Palestinians said that they are completely dead on the inside and wish to die soon.
I feel their anger and their sufferage because im Palestinian my self and i love them all, so when they die, i get hurt and angry along with them. |
Interesting. Youīre Palestinian? You realize, then, that all the derogatory adjectives foolishly directed towards the whole of the Palestinian people here are directed towards you -- (as if one could lump an entire people into a "good" or "bad" sack! -- but this is something that, if one carefully reads the posts, is quite obviously happening here). If my comment a few posts back about William Wallace seems irrelevant here, I would remind people here that William Wallace and his Scottish peasant followers were depicted by the ruling power of the time, England, as seditionists and basically, the equivalent of what modern society calls "terrorists". They fought back and killed people because they felt it was the only thing they could do to defend themselves and their land. Many right-wingers that see that film think thatīs just great -- but it would be interesting to see what they would say about it if it were placed in a modern context. -- Why? Because the right-wing always, invariably, defends the strongest power, regardless of whether it is more morally in the right or not. Itīs not "right makes might", like Lincoln said, but "might makes right" that is the guiding factor in deciding who they side with. And itīs quite clear whoīs the stronger of the two parties in the Mideast.
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antizionist2004 said this in post #50 :
Oneofpeace, what I think Luke90 is trying to say, and which I agree with, isn't that they have no other choice, but they are very desparate and are looking for a way out. Put yourself in their shoes. Your parents' houses were taken from Israelis. You live in a refugee camp. Twice you've had to move because your home has been bombed. Every day, you don't know whether it will be your last.
Can you blame them for hating Israel?
Some of them are so desparate, so full of hate and anguish and torment, that they becom suicide bombers.
Of course I don't agree with them. But surely you can understand WHY somebody would become a suicide bomber? |
Certainly one cannot overlook the hardships that Palestinians have. I believe most of the world would sympathize with them more if it wasn't for the bombers that continue to pour across borders and commit such carnage. The images of carnage Antizion & TW is what overshadows the images of Palestinian suffering. The image of Palestinians celebrating in the streets after bombing a resturant or a bus is overshadowing the images of checkpoints and incursions.
Let's be honest here. Things happen because of cause and affect, action and reaction. In that region their has been plenty of hate. Wars have been waged, rejection of truces, acts of terror.
I say that to say this. I believe Arabs and Palestinian actions over the years are contributory to their degredation. Over the years there has been much war and rejection of peace. Initially I believe Arabs knowing they had the superior numbers could overtake and destroy Israel but their actions have had the opposite affect and devistated their own people.
No Israel isn't right, they have plenty wrong there, but refugee camps started after wars. Walls have gone up after bombings. Refugee camps are raided because terrorist take up headquarters among their own instead of away from them. Checkpoints are there to screen terrorist. When you choose a course of action, whether it's resistance or terror, you must accept the consequences of your actions.
It's inevitable that consequences will come from acts like those mentioned and when it does, Palestinians blame Israel for their dead and the destruction of their homes that terrorist orgs brought down upon them. Why not move away from the camps and cities? I think it's because they are sacrificing their own people.
If you are the underdog, you have to use what will bring relief to your distress. Since suicide bombings started occuring, Palestinian suffering has gotten worse not better. When a bombing goes into Israel, especially a severe bombing, the Palestinians claimer to markets go buy food and go to their homes and lock their doors because they know it's inevitable that Israel will hit back in some way at the very people some of them see across the street and in their apt buildings.
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| Posted by: TWBR | | I understand you, what do you think of the Palestinians deaths before 1994 where the Palestinian terrorism started? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: TWBR | | Also, i dont belive that that refugee camps started when the wars happend, When the Zionists illegaly took over Palestine and kicked out the Palestinians, where do you think they went? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: oneofpeace | | To answer your first question, terrorism didn't start in 94. There were incidents of killings on both sides for decades prior.
As for refugee camps, the first ones came about for the Palestinians after they rejected Israel in 48 and decided to annihilate them. They lost that war and been in refugee camps ever since. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: TWBR | | Ok, but attacks like Suicide Bomings didnt happen before 1994, which has been the only terrorist attack that we've seen, yes minor incidents have happened, like Palestinian gunmen killing Israeli civilians but that was minimal, but before 1994, im sure that the attacks on the Palestinian people wasnt for self defence since there wasnt a lot of attacks on the Israelis, if im wrong, prove it and i will agree. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: antizionist2004 | | It's also interesting to note that there were Jewish terrorist groups, which many people don't know about. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: oneofpeace | | That's true antizion there was Israel terror groups. But if they still existed today we would know them. There are many past terror groups that we don't know about because they no longer exist. The reason why we know of Palestinian terrorist orgs is because they continue today. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: antizionist2004 | | Exactly - there are no Jewihs terorist groups today. Why do you think that is? Because they HAVE their country! There is no need to!
And what about the Israeli fanatical settlers movement? Are they not terrorists? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: oneofpeace | | In what way are they terrorist? Also, Arab/Palestinian constant rejection of Israel is why they have no land today. This is further exacorbated by Palestinian leadership and the many terrorist factions that exist in Palestinian lands.
That land is an unorganized chaotic mess. How do you make a deal for peace with them? Do you sit down and bargain with 20 factions plust the PA? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: antizionist2004 | | So you agree with those Israelis who go on suicide missions when they run into mosques and shoot? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: oneofpeace | | Israelis don't go into mosques with bombs strapped to their bodies blowing them up, unlike Palestinians. Suicide missions mean you DON'T come home after the mission is over.
And if the terrorist wouldn't run across the borders commit some kind of violent act, then run back across into mosques for protection, maybe the mosques could be spared.
I find if funny how you lay no blame for Palestinian terrorist taking up refuge in camps and religious structures. | | Reply To this Message
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oneofpeace said this in post #65 :
Israelis don't go into mosques with bombs strapped to their bodies blowing them up, unlike Palestinians. Suicide missions mean you DON'T come home after the mission is over.
And if the terrorist wouldn't run across the borders commit some kind of violent act, then run back across into mosques for protection, maybe the mosques could be spared.
I find if funny how you lay no blame for Palestinian terrorist taking up refuge in camps and religious structures. |
Perfect, let me find those articles of Israelis attacking the Palestinians in Mosques.
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| Posted by: oneofpeace | | I didn't say they didn't go into mosques TW, please read my post before you digress from the subject. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: antizionist2004 | | They ARE suicide missions though, although they're not suicide bombs most are aware that there is no way they are going to come out alive, they know that they'll kill some Palestinians but someone will eventually kill him. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: oneofpeace | | So what is the difference when any incursion takes place in Palestinian land Anti? What you describe is the reality of war and Israel isn't sneaking into Palestinian resturants blowing themselves and everything in sight up.
Because the risk factor is high doesn't make it a suicide mission, just a very dangerous one. After all, they do come home sometimes unlike suicide bombers that are successful.
You need to find another angle because that one is ridiculous. | | Reply To this Message
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