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Re: Isreal shells another school

Postby Interloper on Sun Sep 14, 2014 7:41 am

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Re: Isreal shells another school

Postby Interloper on Sun Sep 21, 2014 3:39 pm

Another report of Hamas using humans as shields.
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Re: Isreal shells another school

Postby Interloper on Sun Sep 21, 2014 4:50 pm

Eric Hoffer:

"The Jews are a peculiar people:

Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.

Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people,

and there is no refugee problem.

Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it.

Turkey threw out a million Greeks and

Algeria a million Frenchmen.

Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese--

and no one says a word about refugees.

But in the case of Israel ,

the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees.

Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab.

Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs

an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis.

Other nations when victorious on the battlefield

dictate peace terms.

But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.

Everyone expects the Jews

to be the only real Christians in this world."
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Re: Isreal shells another school

Postby Dajenarit on Sun Sep 21, 2014 9:48 pm

Someone please explain how this is self defense? Can Interloper grace us with a reply in her own words?


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Re: Isreal shells another school

Postby Dajenarit on Sun Sep 21, 2014 10:54 pm

More disproof of the bullshit "self defense" narrative.

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Re: Isreal shells another school

Postby Interloper on Mon Sep 22, 2014 3:56 pm

"Classes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis have been disrupted by the screams and shouts of political prisoners being interrogated by Hamas security forces in a nearby building, an official Palestinian Authority daily reported..."

Read more: Hamas tortures citizens next to a school, PA daily claims | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-tort ... z3E5X6OvOs
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Re: Isreal shells another school

Postby Interloper on Mon Sep 22, 2014 5:17 pm

"Fatah’s military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, said it is producing more rockets and munitions to restock supplies that were consumed during the summer war in the Gaza Strip..."

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Re: Isreal shells another school

Postby Interloper on Tue Sep 23, 2014 7:08 pm

Priest tells UNHRC to ‘end witch hunt’ of Israel
Israeli Arab Father Gabriel Naddaf says the Jewish state ‘is the only place where Christians in the Middle East are safe’

A Greek Orthodox priest from Israel defended the Jewish state before the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday, arguing that it is the only country in the Middle East where Christians are not persecuted, and imploring the 47 member nations to “end your witch hunt of the only free country in the region.”

“In the Middle East today, there is one country where Christianity is not only not persecuted, but affectionately granted freedom of expression, freedom of worship and security,” Father Gabriel Naddaf said.


“It is Israel, the Jewish state. Israel is the only place where Christians in the Middle East are safe.”

According to Naddaf, some 120,000 Christians have been killed each year in the Middle East for the last decade. “That means that every five minutes a Christian is killed because of his faith,” he said. “Those who can escape persecution at the hands of Muslim extremists have fled. Those who remain, exist as second- if not third-class citizens to their Muslim rulers.”

Naddaf, who heads the Greek Orthodox Church in Yafia near Nazareth, maintained it “is time the world woke up to the fact that those who want to destroy the Jewish state are signing the death warrant on the last free Christians in the Holy Land.

“Leaders of people, seekers of peace, end your witch hunt of the only free country in the region,” he added.

Naddaf was brought to Geneva to testify on the plight of Christian minorities by The Face of Israel, a public diplomacy organization that’s affiliated with the Foreign Ministry.

Naddaf has become a controversial figure in Israel since joining the Forum for Drafting the Christian Community in October 2012 and for openly calling on Israel Christians to serve in the IDF. His activities have drawn criticism from Arab MKs as well as threats against his family.

In December 2013, his son was assaulted and hospitalized because of his father’s views.

Naddaf was asked by the Forum to serve as a spiritual guide, along with two other clerics. But the other two dropped out following a campaign of intimidation, leaving Naddaf alone at the helm.

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Re: Isreal shells another school

Postby Interloper on Tue Sep 23, 2014 7:49 pm

Moroccan Poet: Arab World is Imperialist, ‘Palestine’ is Jewish
Outspoken poet angers Arab countrymen by provocatively quipping that Arabs ‘are more Zionist than the Jews.


An outspoken Moroccan poet has angered many of her countrymen by accusing the Arab world of imperialism and defending the Jewish people’s right to a homeland in Israel.
In an interview with Med Radio last week Malika Mezzane, who is an ethnic Amazigh (or Berber), challenged the official line in the Arab world, where tiny Israel is accused of being “expansionist” and where Zionism – the movement for Jewish self-determination – is bizarrely equated with imperialism.
Asserting that it was in fact the Arab world which had pursued expansionist policies, Mezzane quipped that according to their own definition of the term, “Arabs are more Zionists than the Jews.”
The Arab world, she said, believed that it was “God’s chosen people, and they have the right to extend their territory, at the expense of other nations.”
Mezzane’s own people, the Amazigh, are one of the indigenous non-Arab nations of northern Africa which who were conquered and subjugated by the invading Arab armies during the Muslim conquest in the seventh century.
Since then they have been subjected to persecution and periodic campaigns of cultural and physical ethnic-cleansing at the hands of Arab rulers in the region. In some cases, Amazigh calls for self-determination have been rejected by Arab states as somehow representative of “western imperialism” – a perverse inversion of the reality similarly employed by anti-Zionists against the Jewish state.
Further infuriating her listeners, Mezzane insisted that the Jews were justified in establishing “their state in Palestine, since it’s their homeland.”
“We have never heard that Alaska or Australia was the homeland of the Jewish people. It’s the Arab people who exceeded their borders in order to establish the so-called Islamic Arab World, at the expense of the Jewish nation,” said Malika Mezzane.
The poet’s comments were decried as “provocative“, with many Arab Moroccans taking to Facebook to denounce her views. She has previously caused controversy by voicing staunch support for the Kurds, another indigenous non-Arab nation fighting for its rights in the Middle East in the face of hostility and concerted attacks by its Arab neighbors.

http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/09/21/mo ... is-jewish/

And for the record:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/ ... LH20141106

Israel tried to limit civilian casualties in Gaza: U.S. military chief
BY DAVID ALEXANDER
WASHINGTON Thu Nov 6, 2014 5:20pm EST

(Reuters) - The highest-ranking U.S. military officer said on Thursday that Israel went to "extraordinary lengths" to limit civilian casualties in the recent war in Gaza and that the Pentagon had sent a team to see what lessons could be learned from the operation.

Army General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged recent reports criticizing civilian deaths during the 50-day Gaza war this year but told an audience in New York he thought the Israel Defense Forces "did what they could" to avoid civilian casualties.

Israel was criticized for civilian deaths during the conflict, including by the White House. More than 2,100 Palestinians were killed during the fighting, most of them civilians and many of them children, according to U.N. and Palestinian figures.

A Human Rights Watch report in September accused Israel of committing war crimes by attacking three U.N.-run schools in the enclave, while Amnesty International said in a report released on Wednesday that Israel showed "callous indifference" to the carnage caused by attacks on civilian targets.

Dempsey was asked about the ethical implications of Israel's handling of the Gaza war, during an appearance in New York at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.

"I actually do think that Israel went to extraordinary lengths to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties," Dempsey told the group.

"In this kind of conflict, where you are held to a standard that your enemy is not held to, you're going to be criticized for civilian casualties," he added.

Dempsey said Hamas had turned Gaza into "very nearly a subterranean society" with tunneling throughout the coastal enclave.

"That caused the IDF some significant challenges. But they did some extraordinary things to try and limit civilian casualties, to include ... making it known that they were going to destroy a particular structure," Dempsey said.

He said the IDF, in addition to dropping warning leaflets, developed a technique called "roof-knocking" to advise residents to leave sites they planned to strike.

Rights groups have criticized the technique, which involves dropping a low-yield explosive or non-explosive device on a rooftop, saying it did not constitute an effective warning and could kill residents too.

Dempsey said the Pentagon three months ago sent a "lessons-learned team" of senior officers and non-commissioned officers to work with the IDF to see what could be learned from the Gaza operation, "to include the measures they took to prevent civilian casualties and what they did with tunneling."

The general said civilian casualties during the conflict were "tragic, but I think the IDF did what they could" to avoid them.

He said he thought his Israeli counterpart would look at lessons learned from the conflict to see what more could be done to avoid civilian deaths in future operations.

"The IDF is not interested in creating civilian casualties. They're interested in stopping the shooting of rockets and missiles out of the Gaza Strip and into Israel," Dempsey said.
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Re: Isreal shells another school

Postby Dajenarit on Tue Sep 23, 2014 11:39 pm

Guess not.
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