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Posted by bladeaxe4 • 1/05/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Gaza, Israel, palestinian
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Israeli missiles launched into Gaza aimed at the death and destruction of the Palestinian people. Nearly 500 people have been massacred in the latest fighting.
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An Israeli attack helicopter fires a self-protection flare, top left, and a missile, bottom, towards targets in Gaza as seen from the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, Monday Jan. 5, 2009. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children and six other civilians, as they consolidated a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants. -
"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."-
so accurately said !
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INNOCENT PEOPLE GETTING KilleD ! -
I am here in Israel at the moment. If Hamas had a concern about their people dying, why do they continue with shooting rockets into Israel?
Any other nation that received a rocket attack would flatten the attacker.
Innocent people are getting killed because they don't stay home, they are out on the streets during the time of war. The IDF send leaflets before they bomb a building or an area. The problem is that Hamas hides under the cover of the Innocent people.
Hamas started this war and Israel is fed up with the problem and are determined to end the problem of Hamas.
If one attacks the other will counter-attack, what should Israel do, sit back and let Southern Israel be terrorized from rockets?
Israel really doesn't have a solution except for using force to end the problem.
If you're not here in Israel then you don't know the details.-
Kids are getting killed INSIDE their home.Houses are getting bombed.I might not agree with Hamas' decisions but come on.Nothing justifies killing children.NOTHING. -
When will the Palestinians stop allowing themselves to be used as pawns. -
when they get their land back
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The pictures on your site or one-sided. Keep in mind the Arabs attacked Israel in 1948/49 and lost more land then that was partitioned.
I traveled from Egypt to Turkey for one complete year and The Arabs (not all) have cultivated this inner hate just because of the land they lost.
Both sides have made mistakes, although if Hamas had any brains they would give up their hate and then the blockade would be lifted so welfare payments and food and fuel would enter Gaza. -
Enlight is very correct... Israel is NOT killing Palestinians but those cowards calling themselves, "Hammas".
Just a few short years ago, Israel used it own troops to expel its own peoples from the very land that belonged to them already (and did not heed the warning that terrorist would resettle it with the expressed intention of destroying Israel).
Well, Israel's leadership has discovered that truth and now, must go back in to rid the "Hammas" altogether. Sadly, those citizen's who were shown on international television, rejoicing in the possession of Israelite homes and lands - are now come into harm's way by the very organization that they partnered with...
Gaza needs to be back in the control of Israel, not avowed terrorist. -
Israel has every right to be doing what it is. This fight is not about the Palestinian people but about Hamas and their inability to act responsibly. When Israel left Gaza in 2005, they left all the infrastructure along with it for the very reason that Gazans could use what the Israeli's built for their own successes. However, the Palestinians chose to sack and destroy what the Israelis left and nothing changed except 9000 Israelis had been forced out of Gaza. Do I feel bad for the Palestinians? Sure, of course I do. However, Israel is doing what they must to protect their own people from a group hell bent on their destruction. Good luck to the IDF and cripple the military power of Hamas!-
Yes and when Isreal left Gaza she gave the clearest possible warning that any attacks upon Isreal would be punished severely. The palestinians should never have been allowed back when they moved out at the behest of 5 Arab nations who were going to wipe Isreal off the face of the earth. They moved out and they should have been kept out.Isreal is to soft and it's this that the Arabs [who are merciless-they don't even know how to spell the word] play on with their propoganda.What nation on earth would put up with it.
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Right on "NewBlogger2008"!
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sighs ! i hope the best for all the innocent people ! may there be peace soon !
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And in the mean time;
"White phosphorus produces layers of thick white smoke when exposed to oxygen, but phosporous from an explosion will cause serious burns that can melt flesh to the bone and kill. Its use as an offensive munition is banned by the chemical weapons convention.
Israel used phosphorus in the war with Lebanon in 2006."
So brave these israeli`s....and the argument of Hamas was first firing tin-can rockets that hardly make a dent in the road, has been debunked by all the leading jounalist in the field.
It disgusts me to see whats happening to the people of Gaza.
Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor in Gaza, tells CBS News that the number of civilians injured and killed in Gaza proves that Israel is deliberately attacking the population.
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I think the people who suffer from war in the middle east now, all pays the debts of their grand-grand fathers. It's all bcs of their passion, ideas and betrayals.
I think everyone should study some history bcs this time we should learn something from history not to dublicate the past events again.
I strictly recommend everyone watching "Blood and Oil" documentary ;
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We can't do anything for that...we can't blame anyone for what is happening now...all we have to do and pray for the World Peace!-
Yes, we can... We can't blame anyone, so what?? Is it just a natural disaster while people dying in the middle east??
I blame the past mistakes made by both sides and i think we are in agreement about it.
So we can do something, we can start learning the history.
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THIS IS AN OLD ARTICLE FROM 2006 BUT TRUE TO THIS DAY. BE INFORMED THAT THE
HAMMAS LEADERS DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR OWN CIVILIANS.
To my Arab brothers: The War with Israel Is Over — and they won. Now let's finally move forward
By Youssef M. Ibrahim
Jewish World Review July 12, 2006 / 16 Tamuz, 5766
www..jewishworldreview.com/0706/ibrahim.php3
With Israel entering its fourth week of an incursion into the same Gaza Strip it voluntarily evacuated a few months ago, a sense of reality among Arabs is spreading through commentary by Arab pundits, letters to the editor, and political talk shows on Arabic-language TV networks. The new views are stunning both in their maturity and in their realism. The best way I can think of to convey them is in the form of a letter to the Palestinian Arabs from their Arab friends:
Dear Palestinian Arab brethren:
The war with Israel is over.
You have lost. Surrender and negotiate to secure a future for your children.
We, your Arab brothers, may say until we are blue in the face that we stand by you, but the wise among you and most of us know that we are moving on, away from the tired old idea of the Palestinian Arab cause and the "eternal struggle" with Israel.
Dear friends, you and your leaders have wasted three generations trying to fight for Palestine, but the truth is the Palestine you could have had in 1948 is much bigger than the one you could have had in 1967, which in turn is much bigger than what you may have to settle for now or in another 10 years. Struggle means less land and more misery and utter loneliness..
At the moment, brothers, you would be lucky to secure a semblance of a state in that Gaza Strip into which you have all crowded, and a small part of the West Bank of the Jordan .. It isn't going to get better. Time is running out even for this much land, so here are some facts, figures, and sound advice, friends.
You drag out for television interviews keys you hold to houses that do not exist or are inhabited by Israelis who have no intention of leaving Jaffa , Haifa , Tel Aviv, or West Jerusalem . You shoot old guns at modern Israeli tanks and American-made fighter jets, doing virtually no harm to Israel while bringing the wrath of its mighty army down upon you. You fire ridiculously inept Kassam rockets that cause little destruction and delude yourselves into thinking this is a war of liberation. Your government, your social institutions, your schools, and your economy are all in ruins.
Your young people are growing up illiterate, ill, and bent on rites of death and suicide, while you, in effect, are living on the kindness of foreigners, including America and the United Nations. Every day your officials must beg for your daily bread, dependent on relief trucks that carry food and medicine into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, while your criminal Muslim fundamentalist Hamas government continues to fan the flames of a war it can neither fight nor hope to win.
In other words, brothers, you are down, out, and alone in a burnt-out landscape that is shrinking by the day.
What kind of struggle is this? Is it worth waging at all? More important, what kind of miserable future does it portend for your children, the fourth or fifth generation of the Arab world's have-nots?
We, your Arab brothers, have moved on.
Those of us who have oil money are busy accumulating wealth and building housing, luxury developments, state-of-the-art universities and schools, and new highways and byways. Those of us who share borders with Israel , such as Egypt and Jordan , have signed a peace treaty with it and are not going to war for you any time soon. Those of us who are far away, in places like North Africa and Iraq , frankly could not care less about what happens to you.
Only Syria continues to feed your fantasies that someday it will join you in liberating Palestine , even though a huge chunk of its territory, the entire Golan Heights, was taken by Israel in 1967 and annexed. The Syrians, my friends, will gladly fight down to the last Palestinian Arab.
Before you got stuck with this Hamas crowd, another cheating, conniving, leader of yours, Yasser Arafat, sold you a rotten bill of goods — more pain, greater corruption, and millions stolen by his relatives — while your children played in the sewers of Gaza.
The war is over. Why not let a new future begin?
Youssef M. Ibrahim, a former New York Times Middle East Correspondent and Wall Street Journal Energy Editor for 25 years, is a freelance writer based in New York City and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. -
Nor would it seem do the israeli`s care about children.
'People Are Being Killed in Their Homes'
An Eyewitness Account of Conditions on the Ground in Gaza
abcnews.go.com/print?id=6578174
Jenny Linnel is a British volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a Palestinian nonviolent resistance movement, and has been working in the Gaza Strip since August. Since the Israeli assault on Gaza began Dec. 27, Linnel has been working alongside other volunteers to "witness and document the devastation" in Gaza.
Since the ground invasion, Linnel and other ISM activists have been working alongside medical personnel in the territory. Here is her eyewitness account of conditions on the ground in Gaza.
What we are seeing now is like nothing that's ever been seen before in the Gaza Strip. The ground invasion will only worsen things.
Ambulances have been attacked, adding to the great difficulty we are having reaching people. Yesterday five paramedics were killed on duty, three by a missile, and I think the other two were shot.
Conditions in Gaza's hospitals are growing more desperate. At least 2,500 Gazans have been wounded in these attacks. The hospitals here are dealing with such huge numbers. They were already running out of medical supplies before the attacks.
The director of the European Gaza Hospital near Khan Younis, Dr. Abdullatif el-Haj, just sent me a list of very basic supplies, supplies that any other hospital would have plenty of. They need latex gloves, gauze, bandages, syringes, oxide plasters, antibiotics. They are running out because there are so many traumas, and so many people susceptible to infections. They are massively overstretched.
And now, ambulance staff are being targeted. Just today, a missile landed in the car park next to the Al Awda hospital, the entrance of the hospital's emergency room has now been damaged.
There have been so many casualties. Last Tuesday, on the 30th of December, two of my colleagues in Beit Hanoun, in northeast Gaza, witnessed a missile strike that killed three children. These kids went to take out the rubbish. They were afraid to go out alone, so they went out together. The 4-year-old girl died instantly, her 12-year-old sister died upon arrival at the hospital and their 11-year-old brother, who was injured, died a few days later.
I have seen whole families being killed. Five sisters killed in Jabaliya, when their house was hit by a missile. & Their bodies being pulled out from under the rubble, all holding on to each other. I know another family that fled their home near the Gaza airport worried about their safety. They were killed yesterday while making their way to a relative's home. Nowhere is safe in the Gaza Strip.
On Monday, the 29th of December, three boys were killed in their home in Rafah by a missile. They were 4, 12, and 13 years old. We met their sister, who was injured and in a state of shock. Their mother was seriously injured, their father was injured as well. There are so many stories like this.
In Al-Garara village near Khan Younis, three children were killed, a 11-year-old girl and two 9-year-old boys. They were hit by a missile from an unmanned aircraft, locally known as drones. We see them flying over constantly, monitoring the situation. The uncle of these children told us that one of the boys. & His head was missing.
This is just a handful of the stories here. People are being killed in their homes, in their beds while they are sleeping.
Here in Rafah, the border opens intermittently and for very brief moments of time, allowing a trickle of aid to come through. If things continue like this, there will be a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
We are waiting. & We may find that areas will be sealed off, as is already happening in the north of Gaza, so my colleagues will either be stuck in certain areas or won't be able to get into areas. We know Israeli troops are outside Rafah. In time Rafah too could be sealed off, which will make our mobility very difficult. We just have to wait and see. We will continue to do the best we can for as long as we can.
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Hello bladeaxe and everyone here, I have been closely following the Israel Gaza conflict and I must say most of the facts posted here have been distorted.
1. To all the people who say that hamas has started the fight, you have to understand that when ever isralei forces have broken the truce its never reported by the mainstream media you have to dig deeper to find the truth.
Here is a timeline of events since Israel began its against Hamas 10 days ago, killing at least 555 Palestinians.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27
- Israel launches a massive air assault against Hamas infrastructure in Gaza, controlled by the Islamist movement since June 2007.
- Israel says "Operation Cast Lead," an attack on an unprecedented scale on a Palestinian territory since 1967, is aimed at halting militant rocket attacks which increased after six-month truce with Hamas ended December 19.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28
- Warplanes bombard 40 tunnels along the Egypt-Gaza border to prevent Hamas being supplied with arms.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 29
- Defence Minister Ehud Barak speaks of "all-out war against Hamas."
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30
- Israeli naval vessel collides with boat carrying activists and medical supplies trying to break Gaza blockade.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31
- Israeli air strikes continue. Rockets fired from Gaza land more than 40 kilometres (25 miles) inside Israel.
- Hamas vows to fight "until the last breath" if Israel launches ground offensive.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 1
- Israeli army pounds administrative buildings in Gaza, smuggling tunnels and rocket-making workshops.
- Senior Hamas official Nizar Rayan killed in air raid.
- Olmert says Israel does not want "long war".
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2
- Thousands of Palestinians demonstrate in "Day of Wrath" in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Protesters clash with Israeli police.
- US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls for ceasefire that would permanently prevent Hamas from resuming rocket attacks on Israel.
- At least 430 Palestinians killed and 2,250 wounded in Israel's seven days blitz, according to Gaza officials.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 3
- Around 8:30 pm (1830 GMT), the Israeli military announces that its troops have entered the Gaza Strip.
- Army says "large number" of troops involved in the operation, aimed at taking over rocket-launching sites in the Hamas-run territory.
- Defence Minister Ehud Barak signs order "urgently calling up thousands of reserve soldiers" to join Gaza fighting, his office says.
- Army says operations will last "many days," warns Gaza residents against hiding "terrorists."
- Israeli tanks reported around the northern towns of Beit Lahiya and Jabaliya. Witnesses say Hamas forces responding with mortars and rockets.
- Hamas vows Israel will pay a "high price" for the invasion. "Your incursion into Gaza will not be a walk in the park and Gaza will become your cemetery," spokesman Ismail Radwan says.
- Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas says the offensive will have "grave consequences" for the Middle East, a top aide says.
- UN Security Council meets during the night but fails to agree on a statement calling for a ceasefire.
SUNDAY JANUARY 4
- Thousands of Israeli troops backed by tanks battle Hamas fighters.
- Israeli troops and tanks surround Gaza City. Clashes are also reported around the northern towns of Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanun and Jabaliya.
- Witnesses say Israel controls Salaheddine Road -- the main highway along the length of the enclave -- cutting the territory in half.
- Medics say 70 Palestinians have died since Israeli troops entered Gaza.
- Israel will not reoccupy Gaza, says President Shimon Peres.
- Hamas seeks unconditional national Palestinian dialogue.
- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejects telephone pleas from French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to halt the offensive.
- A Russian presidential envoy and an EU ministerial delegation head to the Middle East to make pleas for a ceasefire.
- Protests against the Israeli offensive continue around the world.
MONDAY JANUARY 5
- Israeli troops have partially surrounded Gaza City and Hamas has been hit hard, Defence Minister Ehud Barak says as the ground offensive continues in the Palestinian enclave.
- Mahmud Zahar, a top Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, vows the group are heading to "victory" against Israel.
- Bodies of at least 12 children are among 50 corpses taken to Gaza hospitals during the day after air and tank attacks across the territory, medics said.
- The death toll of Palestinians since the Israeli campaign began rises to 525, including almost 100 children, according to the head of the Palestinian emergency services. Some 2,700 people have been wounded.
- One Israeli soldier has been killed and 55 injured, according to a military spokesman.
- At least three Israeli soldiers died in fighting in the Gaza Strip, television networks Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya report.
- Hamas says it has killed several Israeli soldiers during clashes in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of eastern Gaza City. Israeli military sources confirm heavy clashes in the district but refuse to comment on possible Israeli casualties.
- The Islamic Jihad group, an ally of Hamas, says at least one of its fighters died in the Gaza City battle.
- Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni rejects European calls for an immediate ceasefire.
www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=mideast&item=090105213636...
It would be important to note that israel broke the truce multiple times and hamas retaliated, GOOGLE it and do some research
2. Heres a list of children killed
TOTALS SINCE SEPT 2000:
Israelis: 123
TOTALS FOR 2008:
Israelis: 4
TOTALS SINCE SEPT 2000:
Palestinians: 1050
TOTALS FOR 2008:
Palestinians: 72
You can read about how these children died and get to know certain details from the link below
www.rememberthesechildren.org/remember2008.html
3. The current war has killed over 540 people, which will add more than 82 children to the death toll, while one Israeli soldier has been killed, while most of the palestenians are civilians.
This is more on a personal level, I was born a Christian, the bible talks about Israel and the land was meant for Israelites. This ofcourse is complete chaos if anyone read the bible it doesn't fit with Jesus' teachings. The killing and the murders, a very similar situation that has been happening today, its just the same.
Now its interesting to understand that this book the holy bible apart from Jesus' teachings have been given to us by the Jews. (I am not anti semitic)Now in India every 3rd sunday every christmas mass and every easter the money is sent to the holy land. (Jerusalem) Now controlled by Israel, it important for me to know where this money is going.
Is it going to fund a war, to arm soldiers? Its time people realize what's really happening around the world and how we are contributing to the murder of innocent people.
Its been a while since I have been here at blogcatalog, I have been getting depressed with the state of affairs in Palestine and Israel, I feel sad that a group that was supposedly opressed by the Nazis can put others through the same thing. (Supposedly opressed cause iv not yet fully researched if the holocaust was propaganda as well) -
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The death toll is now above 600 palestenians 5 israeli soldiers, 3 soldiers died because of friendly fire thats more than the palestenians have killed so far... 2800 palestenians have been injured
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can this thread be moved there
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this was about tracking GAZA conflict and not discussing POLITICS !
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Hamas cannot give up their honor so the war continues.
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the war continues because hamas cant give up their honor, can u my friend give up ur land, ur woman and ur children and ur honor?
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www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5it4hAnhhqesNRWWCmIRulTtu9mqA Israeli troops put civilians in a house 100 out of which 50 are children and then bomb the house 30 times after asking them to stay in....
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