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Originally posted by Scope and a Beam
I hate that people label you anti-semitic and a terrorist sympathiser if you're pro Palestine. I am pro-humanity and the occupation of Gaza conflicts with this idea for me personally.
There’s no excuse for extremism on any side of the political spectrum, but the present reasons for impenetrable feelings of hate, from Palestinian’s toward Israeli’s, can at least be understood. Imagine a young Palestinian child left keening over his defenceless father, mother, sister or brother who he’s witnessed being shot dead, shelled to bits or beheaded by a tooled up IDF soldier. The hate and anger will surely infest and infect this child as he grows into a man. There are many children in a similar situation with an estimated 1346 orphans in Gaza, although the real figure is likely to be much higher. A child will grow with little or no family, all around him is death, disease, famine. All of which could be relieved if Israel unclenched their iron fist that remains so banefully forced around Gaza’s throat.
As phosphorus rains from the sky, and children lie starved in the gutter, it seems inevitable that Gaza’s youth are vowing to become martyrs from an early age. It is of course a very sad and disturbing truth, but when pushed as deeply into a corner as the Palestinians have been, it is almost a given that this kind of product will emerge from its environment. The tragic catch 22 is that the Israeli Defence Forces often use the extremism that they have caused, as justification for more bloodshed.
Originally posted by daggyz
If Hamas stopped lobbing rockets into Israel there would be no reason to attack.
To illustrate, if I kept throwing rocks into your garden as a neighbour, and kept doing it for 20 years, how long before you got angry. If you're American you'd probably pull a gun and threaten to shoot me... or not threaten and just do it.
Now back to the debate
In the summer of 1967, Arab leaders met in Khartoum in response to the war, to discuss the Arab position toward Israel. They reached consensus that there should be no recognition, no peace, and no negotiations with the State of Israel, the so-called "three no's".[47]
In 1969, Egypt initiated the War of Attrition, with the goal of exhausting Israel into surrendering the Sinai Peninsula.[48] The war ended following Nasser's death in 1970.
On October 6, 1973, Syria and Egypt staged a surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. The Israeli military were caught off guard and unprepared, and took about three days to fully mobilise.[49][50] The Yom Kippur War accommodated indirect confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union. When Israel had turned the tide of war, the USSR threatened military intervention. The United States, wary of nuclear war, secured a ceasefire on October 25.
Give em hell Israel! Sorry, but a aimed attack at a schoolbus = no sympathy. hamas must be eradicated
Originally posted by HAMO2011
reply to post by daggyz
Well if Israel stop building there houses on occupied land then there will be no rockets.
You try living under oppression and see how you feel. I bet you'll throw a stone or two when you had enough.
Originally posted by australian2011
Originally posted by HAMO2011
reply to post by daggyz
Well if Israel stop building there houses on occupied land then there will be no rockets.
You try living under oppression and see how you feel. I bet you'll throw a stone or two when you had enough.
They have an area that is 99% of the middle east to be oppressed in, Israel have a *snip* 1% to be oppressed in - now who looks like they are the more oppressed?
Originally posted by backinblack
Originally posted by australian2011
Originally posted by HAMO2011
reply to post by daggyz
Well if Israel stop building there houses on occupied land then there will be no rockets.
You try living under oppression and see how you feel. I bet you'll throw a stone or two when you had enough.
They have an area that is 99% of the middle east to be oppressed in, Israel have a sh!tty 1% to be oppressed in - now who looks like they are the more oppressed?
Ain't no walls around those Hamas people!! They have 99% of the middle east to go to and be accepted by the muslim brotherhood. Israeli's have no escape but their own land and the rest of the world hating on them. They are the oppressed people by far!
Umm, the ones with the walls around them patrolled by snipers and automatic turrets??
The ones that are told what they can and can't bring in or send out?
The ones armed with minimal weapons against tanks and fighter jets??
I reckon I'd go with them being the MOST oppressed..
Ain't no walls around those Hamas people!! They have 99% of the middle east to go to and be accepted by the muslim brotherhood. Israeli's have no escape but their own land and the rest of the world hating on them. They are the oppressed people by far!
Originally posted by backinblack
reply to post by australian2011
Ain't no walls around those Hamas people!! They have 99% of the middle east to go to and be accepted by the muslim brotherhood. Israeli's have no escape but their own land and the rest of the world hating on them. They are the oppressed people by far!
But the FACT is, the Jews chose that tiny little piece of land you mention..
Now they don't want to stick to accepted borders..
So why should anyone have to move for them again??
Why can't they share?
Originally posted by backinblack
reply to post by australian2011
Why can't they share?
Share what??
You mean the Palestinians share more of their land with Israel or
Israel share some of their land with Palestine??