Just as I predicted, the Israelis withdrew from Gaza (if the wirelines are correct) two days before the inauguration of the new American president. Gardener, you say "I hope they are prepared to go it alone". The Israelis have lost my sympathy, and quite frankly I have no hopes for them one way or the other, so long as they leave their neighbors alone. At the same time I can't understand foreign countries such as the U.S. providing them with further military or economic aid. Tzipi Livni may be attractive, but so are a lot of street whores who are less dangerous.
brave sir rubin lives in america, an israeli who has posted on this site looking for advice on how to not go back to israel. i notice that he actively supports israel yet strangely won't go back there. saying that , he is certainly a lot more honest about this that the other war mongers on this site who would have you believe that not much has/is going on in gaza. rather like the nazis, human rights violations are being swept under the carpet and ignored. the israelis should be extremely suspicious of people who provoke wars with no reason nor end. turn off the money tap to the religious right wing of israel and most problems will whither away without anyone getting angry. israel lost its way when the right wing fanatics took over, at that point negotiations were over. in recent memory the assassination of yitzhak rabin has gone almost unoticed, who ever talks about yitzhak rabin these days? like kennedy his passing heralded a new era of wars. with negotiotions going so well the religious right wing were somehow able to casually walk in a kill rabin, despite israel having an all powerful secret service. like the zealots before them the religious right wing sent a powerful message to all secular jews - fall in line or wear the consequences like rabin.
I remember Rabin, and I remember Arafat not as a terrorist but as a leader proffering peace. Israel did it's best to erase the fact that both were leaders towards peace. I abhor the way Arafat was allowed to die, cut off from the medical care he needed under the guise that the world was protecting Israel from a terrorist. Instead what we did was promote the truly terrorist zionist element in Israel. http://park.org/Guests/Stavanger/peace.htm http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_761594856/Words_of_Peace_at_Rabin's_Funeral.html
UN releases photos of the attack on their compound with phosphorus. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/01/200912284850930973.html
Some excellent pictures of the phosphorus attack on the UN compound. This site has some very graphic images. You've been warned. But you NEED to see it, okay? This is what US aid to Israel buys: http://from-gaza.blogspot.com/ x
News flash: Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni commented to a reporter on recent events in Gaza. "Gee, 1300 dead, mostly civilians, in just three weeks? Must have been the icy roads down there. Those Arabs just never learn how to drive."
Xexon: Maybe U.S. envoy George Mitchell can sit down with Ehud Olmert and ask for an explanation of each image in the slideshow in your link. I did look at the first dozen or so slides before getting nauseated and outraged. At the minimum, the time has come when Israel shoud be refused foreign aid by all countries. Wikipedia entry "Israel" statesIn 2007, the United States approved another 30 Billion dollars in aid to Israel over the next ten years. and quotes this source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/world/middleeast/17israel.html?_r=1 It all reminds me of something Jesus said. For whosover hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance; but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. -- Matthew 13:12
It all reminds me of something Jesus said. For whosover hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance; but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. -- Matthew 13:12 ======= jesus said a lot of things the problem is jesus is dead and no one apart from people who knew him has seen him for some 2000 years. jesus was killed by the romans at the request of the religious right wing of israel. christianity was a religion formed after jesus' death, his teachings have caused many deaths. jesus' folllowers want to reclaim the lands in the bible - abraham was from iraq it is no coincidence that america invaded iraq they wanted to hold the lands of the bible.