Israel-Gaza conflict: What has Israel achieved in 26 bloody days?

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In the end her pleas did not totally fall on deaf ears.. Obama had planes drop water and food yesterday

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. Obama had planes drop water and food yesterday

Hallow be his name.

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This Speech About Gaza by an Irish Senator is Being Watched All Over the World (Video)

The Irish Senator and internationally recognized human rights activist, David Norris, delivered an eminently powerful speech concerning Gaza in the Irish Parliament on, July, 31st. In his speech Norris criticizes human rights violations of Israel carried out with the support of the United States and complacency of the international community. Breaking free from the pro-Palestine or Pro-Israel dichotomy that drives conversations away from the, at least seemingly, undeniable gross violations of human rights orchestrated by governments against the Palestinian people.

Norris says in his speech,

I am not anti-Israeli, I am not anti-Semitic. I supported the state of Israel. In the forty years I have known the state of Israel and sometimes had a home there Ive seen it completely changed. It changed from a left-wing socially directed country, to an extreme right-wing regime, that is behaving in the most criminal fashion and defying the world. Using unscrupulously using the Holocaust to justify what they are doing and it is time that rag was torn away from them.

An openly gay man, Norris is considered one of the most influential champions of the gay liberation movement. Norris contends that he, as the rest of the worlds governments should be, should stand up and vehemently fight for the human rights of all people. He ends his speech by saying,

I am with human rights whether they are, Israeli, gay, women, black, whatever they are. I am not changing my position. I am not anti-Israel I am not anti-Semitic but I am pro human rights for every human.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/08/08/this-speech-about-gaza-by-an-irish-senator-is-being-watched-all-over-the-world/

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The Syria issue has not resulted in silence. There's been lots of discussion about syria.

Indeed there has. The conflict in Syria has been going on for years.

The Gaza offensive is a new story.

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Norris criticizes human rights violations of Israel carried out with the support of the United States and complacency of the international community.

Breaking free from the pro-Palestine or Pro-Israel dichotomy that drives conversations away from the, at least seemingly, undeniable gross violations of human rights orchestrated by governments against the Palestinian people.

Look how the noise machine is screeching about Palestinians while tanks roll over Palestinian refugees.

The young people get it.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/americas/13203-latest-gallup-poll-shows-young-americans-overwhelmingly-support-Palestine

Hear that Apartheid rulers? Two to one is the future in America. For Palestinians.

It's always "you hate us because we're Israel" and denying their atrocities have anything to do with it.

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I would say by far that the majority of young people could not give a toss either way.

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The barbarians who want to take our lives. The people the Palestinian society sends to carry out the terrorist attacks, and in some way the Palestinian society itself as well. At the moment, that society is in the state of being a serial killer. It is a very sick society. It should be treated the way we treat individuals who are serial killers. When one has to deal with a serial killer, it’s not so important to discover why he became a serial killer. What’s important is to imprison the murderer or to execute him.

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The barbarians who want to take our lives. The people the Palestinian society sends to carry out the terrorist attacks, and in some way the Palestinian society itself as well. At the moment, that society is in the state of being a serial killer. It is a very sick society. It should be treated the way we treat individuals who are serial killers. When one has to deal with a serial killer, it’s not so important to discover why he became a serial killer. What’s important is to imprison the murderer or to execute him.

[OriZ 3,157]

Young people are stupid. They have not gained life experience yet. They have not learned history yet and have not been fully educated yet. On top of that, they receive some extreme indoctrination by left wing liberals in schools. By the time they are in their late 30's or early 40's they'll see the light. Been there before - bet if you compared young people to older people in the 60's or early 70's you'd reach the same results. Yet those same young people are now the old people.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Young people are stupid. They have not gained life experience yet. They have not learned history yet and have not been fully educated yet. On top of that, they receive some extreme indoctrination by left wing liberals in schools. By the time they are in their late 30's or early 40's they'll see the light. Been there before - bet if you compared young people to older people in the 60's or early 70's you'd reach the same results. Yet those same young people are now the old people.

What's funny about this statement, is if the conservatives have figured it out, why isn't the world a utopia?

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I'm not on the conservative side either, I think both are wrong and too extreme on too many things, which is why I'm 80% libertarian. The other 20% well I don't agree with them either. But the conservatives do not do as much school indoctrination and brainwash as the liberals tend to do.

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Indoctrination eh? Hogwash.

The barbarians who want to take our lives. The people the Palestinian society sends to carry out the terrorist attacks, and in some way the Palestinian society itself as well. At the moment, that society is in the state of being a serial killer. It is a very sick society. It should be treated the way we treat individuals who are serial killers. When one has to deal with a serial killer, its not so important to discover why he became a serial killer. Whats important is to imprison the murderer or to execute him.

Ignorant post.

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I'm not on the conservative side either, I think both are wrong and too extreme on too many things, which is why I'm 80% libertarian. The other 20% well I don't agree with them either. But the conservatives do not do as much school indoctrination and brainwash as the liberals tend to do.

Oh please. Listen to yourself. Any side taken to the extreme is bad. The conservatives that go to the extremes end up killing people, just like anyone else.

[Karee 4,190]

I'm not on the conservative side either, I think both are wrong and too extreme on too many things, which is why I'm 80% libertarian. The other 20% well I don't agree with them either. But the conservatives do not do as much school indoctrination and brainwash as the liberals tend to do.

No, the conservatives only get to indoctrinate the young on Sunday mornings. Not really fair.

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It's always "you hate us because we're Israel" and denying their atrocities have anything to do with it.