There is an easy way to reduce terror in Isreal, by The IDF stopping participating in it. The well oiled Zionist war machine is a cohesive unit that can be stopped at a flick of a switch, unlike the Palestinians disperate and desperate.
Save all the rest of the rubbish being spouted in here which is long on rhetoric and short on sense.
It was so disturbing to see the bloody scene, the bodies, the kids, the blood, the screams, the ambulances...
This is just gonna take a toll on the kids in palestine.
This morning IDF scored another great success against terrorists and helped make the world safe. They managed to kill a 3 year old girl, shot her twice. Well done. Keep up the good work IDF. I am sure Bush will back you with his usual "Israel has a right to defend itself against threats like these."
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This morning IDF scored another great success against terrorists and helped make the world safe. They managed to kill a 3 year old girl, shot her twice. Well done. Keep up the good work IDF. I am sure Bush will back you with his usual "Israel has a right to defend itself against threats like these."
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Of course he will.
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A Palestinian boy cries in the rubble of his family house after it was demolished by Israeli bulldozers during a raid in al Brazil, at the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza Strip May 21, 2004. Israel began a partial troop pullout from a Gaza refugee camp on Friday, three days after defying an international outcry by sending in its tanks and demolishing homes, Palestinian sources said. REUTERS /Suhaib Salem
Another victim of Sharons ethnic cleansing policies. :disgust:
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Well, well, well - a holocaust survivor sees zionist actions in Rafah as similar to Nazi activities against the Jews. Of course the zionist establishment goes in uproar mode.
"Israeli politicians have for decades been known to severely criticise their own government’s heavy-handed approach to Palestine.
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Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid stunned Prime Minister Arial Sharon when he compared a television image with his personal experience of the Holocaust.
Leader of the centrist Shinui Party, he has became the first cabinet minister to criticise the most recent Gaza raid and called on the cabinet on Sunday to halt the demolitions.
"I saw on television an old woman picking through the rubble of her house in Rafah, looking for her medicine.
“She reminded me of my grandmother who was expelled from her home during the Holocaust,” political sources quoted him as saying.
Lapid’s grandmother died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz death camp.
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But an angry Sharon retorted that Lapid’s remarks were “unacceptable and intolerable”, the sources said.
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Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, was quoted by Nehum Goldman in the book The Israeli Paradox, as going a step further:
"If I were an Arab leader I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal, we’ve taken your country.
“There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing, we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
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Former cabinet member Shrilamut Aroni attempted to explain why more Israeli politicians fail to see the brutality of their policies.
"The Jews were once victims. Now we’re brainwashed to believe we’ll always be victims and victims can do no wrong. Suddenly we’ve become strong and greedy and pretend we can justify everything.
“We’re told all the time the Palestinians want to throw us into the sea. We have six million people in the strongest Army in the region yet we speak of them as if they were two equal powers. It’s just manipulating people’s fears.”
But the final word must go to Moshe Dayan - one of the most candid, and charismatic, generals in Israeli history.
Speaking to Haaretz on 4 April 1969, he summarised the number one reason for the current Intifada.
"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages. I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist, not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either.
“There’s not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.” "
:k: The Man of Peace is at it again. i say we give Ariel Sharon the Nobel Peace Prize. This from the Middle East’s only democratic, peace-loving, poor defenceless lil country :teary1: boo hoo cry me a river.
oh yeah these are only headlines until it happens to be YOUR family or YOUR grandmother sitting on a pile of rubble.
Gaza raids ‘left 2,000 homeless’, BBC, 25 May 2004
The UN says nearly 2,000 Palestinians have been made homeless this month by Israeli house demolitions in Gaza.
May has been one of the worst months in last three years, the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees said, with 575 people made homeless in the last week.
Israeli forces have now withdrawn from Rafah, but the halt in the operation was described by the army as a “pause”.
The raid into Gaza, the Israeli army said, was aimed at destroying militant groups and arms smuggling tunnels.
A senior Israeli officer described Monday’s pullout as a temporary measure, saying his forces were taking “a deep breath”.
About 45 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the operation. Israel says seven of these were civilians, but Palestinian hospital sources say only 17 of the dead were gunmen and at least 12 were children under the age of 16 years.
There is also disagreement on the number of houses destroyed. Palestinian sources say the figure is about 300, while Israelis say the figure is 56 houses destroyed or damaged. The UN says 45 houses were completely razed.
It is becoming increasingly obvious to all but the most blind observers that Israel is not just randomly bulldozing houses and terrorising Palestinians. Believe it or not, they have a more sinister objective (if possible). They are hoping to make life so unbearable to the Palestinians that one day they can drive out or kill the entire Palestinian population from the occupied territories. This approach to the conflict is known by the strangely sterile term "transfer" in Israel. Just as they once created the myth that Palestine was "a land without people" (prior to the establishment of the zionist entity) - today the Israelis are preparing to convince the world that the Palestinians just prefer to live somewhere else.
The situation is looking more and more like a modern day halocaust. This situation, however, is even less tolerable than the original holocaust becaue the world can see what is happening and no one does anything.
^ elahi what is the solution to this israeli cancer?
Unfortunately the Muslim countries are too weak to do anything to Israel. Israel exists because western powers want it that way. A tiny country surrounded by millions of Muslims, yet nothing ever happens to Israel. It is more a reflection of how weak and hopeless Muslims are compared to the power of the west than think of this in a Israel vs Palestine question.
Palestine is (or was) a Muslim majority area for centuries. Israel was created by the U.N. and who is the U.N.? The west (U.S., France, England and Russia). China abstained if I remember correctly. No Muslim country supported the creation of Israel, yet Muslims had no power and hence Israel was created.
This issue will be resolved the day Muslim countries truly unite and modernize themselves through education and technology. Once they are on equal footing with the west, countries like Israel will cease to exist.
On Saturday night the IDF demolished about twenty Palestinian buildings along the Philadelphi road in Rafah. Palestinian sources said dozens of IDF tanks, armored personnel carriers and bulldozers, supported by helicopters, moved into the “G Block” area in southern Rafah before dawn yesterday morning. .
**Gaza house razing renewed **](http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/433227.html) Hararetz, 31 May 04
Sharon seems to have speeded up the destruction of hundreds of Palestinian properties to appease his extremist right wing supporters within the knesset.