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

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

All that evil needs to prevail is for good men (and women) to do nothing.

Why don't the peaceful ones raise their voices and shout, "ENOUGH!"?

One would wish that they'd do that. On both sides of the conflict. That's true for any conflict, really.

[Expat1 971]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/huntley/28563684-452/one-side-in-israel-conflict-is-to-blame.html

One side in Israel conflict is to blame

Instead, as the Israelis moved out

Newsflash: They haven't moved out.

After they do, come back and cast blame. It's amazing that you use an article about Israel moving out of a piece of territory that they had no right to from the beginning, holding other parts that they also no right to, then subsequently blaming the side that does have a right to it for the conflict over it.

The demands for peace are simple: Withdraw from what is recognized around the world as illegally settled and occupied territory, stop blockading the ports, stop blockading the borders, and just leave those people alone. It's amazing that all the casualties on the Israeli side are in Gaza territory and all the casualties on the Gaza side are also in Gaza territory and it is all in self-defense of the people who do not belong there. Reject those terms, which is what the Israelis are doing, and reject peace. Living within the confines of internationally recognized borders is at least minimum expectation from people who claim that they are ready for a ceasefire and ready to live peacefully with their neighbors.

You must think you can go next door, start robbing your neighbor, and then start screaming that you need to defend yourself when he responds to it? It is not acceptable for you to do it and it is not acceptable for the Israelis to do it either. Everything that happens while you do it, no matter what it is, is a consequence of you being there where you are not supposed to be and doing what you are not supposed to be doing, and if you go over there, rob him, and start a fight, and the people you are robbing get hurt there no is combination of words or circumstances that will put you in the right.

Israel has not been in the right for a long time. Their actions are in conflict with our principles and values. It is past time to pull our support until they either change their ways or bleed themselves out. We have supported this too long and it is enough.

If the settlers have nowhere to go then by god build them some of those comfortable, humanitarian camps that are scattered all over the area for the displaced Palestinians.

Edited August 12, 2014 by Expat1

[Boiler 45,749]

About 400 of the Hamas Rockets never made it out of Gaza, some landed in Egypt.

Some how Gaza need to be de militarized, somehow.

[Merrytooth 5,748]

Israel has not been in the right for a long time. Their actions are in conflict with our principles and values. It is past time to pull our support until they either change their ways or bleed themselves out. We have supported this too long and it is enough.

If the settlers have nowhere to go then by god build them some of those comfortable, humanitarian camps that are scattered all over the area for the displaced Palestinians.

How about the poor Yezidi being trapped on a mountain in north-western Iraq with little food or water after Islamic State jihadists overran the region?

[Expat1 971]

How about the poor Yezidi being trapped on a mountain in north-western Iraq with little food or water after Islamic State jihadists overran the region?

Really what does that have to do with Palestine?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

More to the point what about them?

[Merrytooth 5,748]

Really what does that have to do with Palestine?

Should not these poor people receive as much attention as the Palestine do?

ISIS mass killing the Yezidi is inhumane too.

[decocker 7,198]

aren't they? actually, aren't they receiving more?

i watched a bit of fox the other day, and i didn't hear anything about the palestinean death toll at all.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Should not these poor people receive as much attention as the Palestine do?

ISIS mass killing the Yezidi is inhumane too.

Sure. But does that mean the Gaza situation needs less attention?

[Expat1 971]

Should not these poor people receive as much attention as the Palestine do?

ISIS mass killing the Yezidi is inhumane too.

I would be just as ticked if we were providing financial and military aid to ISIS as I am that we are providing financial and military aid to Israel

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

aren't they? actually, aren't they receiving more?

i watched a bit of fox the other day, and i didn't hear anything about the palestinean death toll at all.

The BBC here is running a story about it right now.

[Expat1 971]

About 400 of the Hamas Rockets never made it out of Gaza, some landed in Egypt.

Some how Gaza need to be de militarized, somehow.

By BOTH sides

[Boiler 45,749]

By BOTH sides

Lets us say that happened, what do you think happens next?

[Expat1 971]

Lets us say that happened, what do you think happens next?

Assuming demilitarization included setting firm, established, respected borders I would suspect there would be an uneasy but possible peace where at least both sides instead of just one are reduced to rock-throwing to settle differences.

[OriZ 3,157]

Man, those people need a brain transplant:

A group of flag- and banner-waving Palestinian supporters have entered a supermarket in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and removed from the shelves items they claim have an association to Israel.

According to the Belfast Telegraph, dozens of protesters entered the Asda supermarket on Monday evening, with many chanting pro-Palestinian slogans. They then began to remove the products from the shelves.

Videos uploaded to YouTube by the protesters show demonstrators draped in Palestinian flags and shouting "Boycott Israeli goods" and "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" – a Hamas slogan that advocates the elimination of Israel. The footage also shows protesters, some accompanied by young children, loading a variety of products into shopping trolleys.

Monday's incident marked the second time that a group has entered a supermarket and removed items they claim are connected to Israel from the shelves, the Belfast Telegraph said.

Last week, the report said, dozens of people went into a Sainsbury's store in Belfast and took products, including by Coca Cola, from the shelves. Again, the report said, many of the protesters were carrying banners and Palestinian flags, and shouting "free Palestine."

The blurb on one of the videos reads: "On Monday, August 11 scores of people participated in an éirígí-organised 'de-stocking' of Israeli products, and the products of companies closely associated with Israel, from the shelves of the ASDA supermarket in West Belfast.

"Purchasing Israeli products provides support to the Israeli economy, which in turn lends support to the Israeli state and its murderous campaign against the Palestinian people. Boycotting of Israeli goods sends a very strong economic and political message to Israeli - 'apartheid and genocide are not acceptable in our world.'

"Just like the apartheid regime of South Africa, Israel is on the wrong side of history. For as long as that regime exists right-thinking people across the world will organise opposition to it."

The conflict in Gaza has elicited fierce pro-Palestinian responses across Europe, some of which have directly targeted the Jewish communities in a number of countries.

In July, eight people were hurt when pro-Gaza protesters tried to storm two synagogues in Paris. Earlier this month, an American Jewish woman in Belgium called a doctor about a fractured rib, and was told to "visit Gaza" to help get rid of the pain.

When the woman's son called back to the medical hotline the doctor was manning, the physician told him to "Send her to Gaza for a few hours, then she’ll get rid of the pain."

In Britain, members of the Jewish community have expressed concern over growing anti-Semitism in the country, with reports of swastikas being scrawled on gravestones, businesses and homes, as well as abusive incidents in predominantly Jewish neighborhoods.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4557982,00.html