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First, seven Israelis were killed in two attacks on buses in southern Israel, according to Israeli medics. The attacks began when gunmen fired at an Israeli bus that was traveling near the Egyptian border
Palestinians deny any involvement in the attack.
Then, Israel blamed Gaza's Popular Resistance Committees for the attack and retaliated with Israeli missiles killing 15 Palestinians, with 55 injured, including 12 women, 15 children, three elderly and one ambulance worker.
On Saturday, Israeli sources said one Israeli was killed and about a dozen injured in southern Israel in a barrage of Palestinian home-made rockets fired from Gaza. The deadly attacks have gotten little international reaction, but regional reactions from the Arab League have condemned the attack on Gaza and called for an immediate stop to the attacks and military operations against Gaza. However, the Jordanian government, through Abduallah Abu Rumman, condemned Israel for its "military escalation and operations in Gaza that have killed civilians as well as Egyptian officers", urging an immediate halt to the strikes in order to avoid regional instability.
Moayyad Abu Imran , 34-year-old engineer :
I think this time, Israel is not aiming to kill for the sake of killing, but for more. Two main reasons: first, to thwart the Palestinians' application for statehood on September. And secondly, for Netanyahu to export his internal economic crises and failure in dealing with the Tel Aviv protests.
Ahmed Al Najjar, 27-year-old documentary film producer :
I see these attacks as the first Israeli nail in the coffin of our bid for UN state recognition in September.
What is happening in Gaza right now is a message from Israel to the world that no political force can impose anything on Israel, including the US administration. All in all, what we are going through, from violations of rights, is the accumulation of international silence since the birth of our plight until today's Israeli bombing.
Moreover, on the timing of the Israel attacks, everyone notes that Israel is targeting us, a civil population, even in the holy month of fasting and worshipping ... this brings Israel's claim of religious sanctity and rituals into question.
Kholoud Al Massri, 23-year-old university graduate :
I think in such a situation of frequent Israeli attacks on Gaza, firing rockets towards Israel seems to be our only means of resistance, when the rest of the world has abandoned us to face the illegal occupation alone.
Sahar Salem, 24-year-old labourer :
If an Israeli is killed on the moon, Israel would attack Gaza for revenge. By continuous terror attacks on neighbours, Israel thinks it can bring peace to its people, but in fact it only brings more hatred toward them.
As for the home-made rockets fired on Israel, that is meaningless, because they hit the poor, marginalised areas of Israel that the government of Israel doesn't care about. I hate that the poor and marginalised everywhere are always the less fortunate and the most likely to suffer.
If they cannot conform to the age of love that is coming, then they will be extinguished from the world. It is really that simple. There will be no room for warmongers in the world that is coming. BELIEVE THAT!!!
Well, I'm spiritual and not religious... There is a difference. I'm not a practitioner of any faith. I have my own personal beliefs and that's just that.
Originally posted by sheepslayer247
reply to post by navy_vet_stg3
Thanks for your service vet!
I hope you realize that the website you link is a well-known propaganda site. Their intentions are to misinterpret and construe any story to make the Muslims look like savages.
Islam is under attack, and by proxy so is any religion. If we allow Islam to be taken down by absurd political misnomers than any religion can and will be next.
So don't laugh too hard.....you may need your strength to defend your own faith!
Perhaps you can explain whats not SAVAGE about the MUSLIM Iraqi Civil War. Five million people displaced from their homes by MUSLIMS, 2 1/2 million are now refugees in foreign countries from MUSLIMS in their own country. MUSLIMS in their own
Originally posted by sheepslayer247
reply to post by RRokkyy
Civil War is a nasty thing to deal with....including the civil war we had in the US. I wonder if Christianity was the scapegoat way back then.?
Yes people have been displaced from their homes due to violence, but what does Islam have to do with it? Let's not forget that these are Muslims running from war not Islam, so I think to equate the violence with religion is intellectually dishonest.
Originally posted by hmdphantom
reply to post by RRokkyy
Perhaps you can explain whats not SAVAGE about the MUSLIM Iraqi Civil War. Five million people displaced from their homes by MUSLIMS, 2 1/2 million are now refugees in foreign countries from MUSLIMS in their own country. MUSLIMS in their own
You better judge fairly .
IMHO : They are doing lots of wrong thing , because they have been oppressed for years before and after Saddam.
Muslims are allowed to vote in Israel
I don't see this as a war against people as a race or ethnicity. What are you talking about?
The civil war is between Suni Muslims and Shia Muslims. That is ISLAM vs ISLAM. It is brutal and barbaric over differences most westerners would consider irrelevant.