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Palestinaisn being slaughtered and a prick with a cowboy hat is on frint page

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  • #1142
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Guillermo Faithful Tractor wrote: »
    And in fact on a daily basis Hamas kills more Palestinians that the Israeli's do, they really are a persecuted people.

    I very much doubt that.

    Regardless, if your neighbour is slapping his kids around it doesn't make it any less nasty that you're breaking their legs.


  • #1143
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    [QUOTE=Guillermo Faithful Tractor;91346080

    And in fact on a daily basis Hamas kills more Palestinians that the Israeli's do, they really are a persecuted people.[/QUOTE]


    America kills more of its own citizens in a year than Al- queda ever did. Which makes about as much sense as your point.


  • #1144
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Bambi wrote: »
    America kills more of its own citizens in a year than Al- queda ever did. Which makes about as much sense as your point.

    For being gay, or for being a drug addict, for being a political opponent, or pregnant out of wedlock?.

    Anyway, I've had my stomach full of mindless blabber from facebook Jihadies and Call of Duty strategists who have experienced electronic warfare in their bedrooms first hand ~ plus the UFC is starting.


  • #1145
    JC01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭JC01


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Ha they have done a lot more attacking than defending. The poor things. Very few Israeli casualties.

    That statement shows an unbelievable ignorance of the history of this conflict.

    And yes there have been very few Israeli casualties per Palestinian but that is only because Israel are a massively advanced military nation out of complete necessity for there own survival and by contrast Hamas are woefully equipped to take on such a force. Hamas know it is suicide to take on the Israelis but yet they keep at it because they know the more dead children they can show on TV, the more international support they will garner, a point proven by people like you.


  • #1146
    Worple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭Worple


    JC01 wrote: »
    That statement shows an unbelievable ignorance of the history of this conflict.

    And yes there have been very few Israeli casualties per Palestinian but that is only because Israel are a massively advanced military nation out of complete necessity for there own survival and by contrast Hamas are woefully equipped to take on such a force. Hamas know it is suicide to take on the Israelis but yet they keep at it because they know the more dead children they can show on TV, the more international support they will garner, a point proven by people like you.

    Hardly survival Israel is aggressively expanding and stealing land


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  • #1147
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,635 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    JC01 wrote: »
    That statement shows an unbelievable ignorance of the history of this conflict.

    And yes there have been very few Israeli casualties per Palestinian but that is only because Israel are a massively advanced military nation out of complete necessity for there own survival and by contrast Hamas are woefully equipped to take on such a force. Hamas know it is suicide to take on the Israelis but yet they keep at it because they know the more dead children they can show on TV, the more international support they will garner, a point proven by people like you.

    When did support from the likes of me do Hamas or the people of Palestine any good? Very foolish to believe that showing dead children on TV will free Palestine and I don't believe that to be their strategy at all. It hasn't worked previously has it? Wise up.


  • #1148
    JC01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭JC01


    Worple wrote: »
    Hardly survival Israel is aggressively expanding and stealing land

    Hamas have stated on countless occasion that they won't rest until Israel is annihilated and every man woman and child is dead. It makes up a sizeable portion of its charter for gods sake. And when was the last time they aggressively expanded or stole land?


  • #1149
    speedboatchase
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,849 ✭✭✭speedboatchase


    tayto lover wrote: »
    When did support from the likes of me do Hamas or the people of Palestine any good? Very foolish to believe that showing dead children on TV will free Palestine and I don't believe that to be their strategy at all. It hasn't worked previously has it? Wise up.

    That's their strategy, doesn't necessarily mean that it's smart, but neither was rejecting the ceasefire or continuing to fire rockets during the humanitarian ceasefire. Hamas aren't very smart in general, but they've got some great PR.


  • #1150
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    Worple wrote: »
    Hardly survival Israel is aggressively expanding and stealing land

    Would you call that 'Lebensraum'? :D*


    *just stirring a bit really, it's terrible that there are people far away killing each other and teaching their kids to hate and kill. But the sad reality is that for as long as I've walked this planet people far away have been killing each other, Vietnam, Cambodia, Shining Path, Hutu's Tutsi's, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Chechnya....and so on and so forth. It's not that I don't care but I've plenty of other things to worry about and spend energy on so I'm just going to carry on with my life and try to make things better for me and mine. If you think that makes me a bad person......then so be it, I'm pretty sure I can live with that.


  • #1151
    john.han
    Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭john.han


    JC01 wrote: »
    Hamas have stated on countless occasion that they won't rest until Israel is annihilated and every man woman and child is dead. It makes up a sizeable portion of its charter for gods sake. And when was the last time they aggressively expanded or stole land?

    They've been building illegal settlements constantly, probably as I type...


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  • #1152
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    tayto lover wrote: »
    It hasn't worked previously has it? Wise up.

    Firing rockets at Israel however has a proven track record of success, no downsides to it either :rolleyes:


  • #1153
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    JC01 wrote: »
    Hamas have stated on countless occasion that they won't rest until Israel is annihilated and every man woman and child is dead. It makes up a sizeable portion of its charter for gods sake. And when was the last time they aggressively expanded or stole land?

    emm......

    http://www.btselem.org/settlements

    http://www.btselem.org/jerusalem


  • #1154
    john.han
    Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭john.han


    wexie wrote: »
    Firing rockets at Israel however has a proven track record of success, no downsides to it either :rolleyes:

    Does Palestine have the same right to self defence that Israel is always shouting about?


  • #1155
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    PBP councillor removes flag from dun laoghaire where an u-16 sailing competition was taking place.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/councillor-israeli-flag-dun-laoghaire-1579590-Jul2014/


  • #1156
    speedboatchase
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,849 ✭✭✭speedboatchase


    john.han wrote: »
    Does Palestine have the same right to self defence that Israel is always shouting about?

    Hamas can't defend its people. It has no interest in defending them.


  • #1157
    john.han
    Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭john.han


    speedboatchase wrote: »
    Hamas can't defend its people. It has no interest in defending them.

    That's not the question I asked, do they have a right to defend themselves?


  • #1158
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    JC01 wrote: »
    And yes there have been very few Israeli casualties per Palestinian but that is only because Israel are a massively advanced military nation out of complete necessity for there own survival...

    Leaving the Iron Dome defense system aside, the Israelis provide simple & effective shelters for their citizens to take cover in - something the Palestinians appear to reserve for high level figures within Hamas only.

    “We’re using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they’re using their civilians to protect their missiles.” - Benjamin Netanyahu


  • #1159
    JC01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭JC01


    Nodin wrote: »
    emm......

    http://www.btselem.org/settlements

    http://www.btselem.org/jerusalem

    Ah yes the West Bank and Jerusalem, both parts of the proud nation of Palestine before 1967...


  • #1160
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    john.han wrote: »
    That's not the question I asked, do they have a right to defend themselves?

    Could you point out to me where I said that they don't?


  • #1161
    Worple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭Worple


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    Leaving the Iron Dome defense system aside, the Israelis provide simple & effective shelters for their citizens to take cover in - something the Palestinians appear to reserve for high level figures within Hamas only.

    “We’re using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they’re using their civilians to protect their missiles.” - Benjamin Netanyahu

    The Palestinians barely have enough adequate housing never mind bomb shelters


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  • #1162
    speedboatchase
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,849 ✭✭✭speedboatchase


    john.han wrote: »
    That's not the question I asked, do they have a right to defend themselves?

    If by 'defence' you mean of a scenario where they had the capability to stop the Israeli bombings or to protect their people, sure. They certainly would the right to defend themselves.

    I don't consider firing indiscriminate rockets at the civilian population of Israel "self defence" though.


  • #1163
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,199 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Guillermo Faithful Tractor wrote: »
    Read up on the Arab Israeli wars since 1948 and come back and tell us who has done the most attacking. Since the eve of its independence Israel has been under constant attack and has always been in a position whereby its defending its borders.

    You seem to miss the point about Israel being founded on Palestinian land by invaders from Europe and it involving large scale ethnic cleansing by jewish terrorists.

    Do you expect the natives to sit back and do nothing?

    How did Israel "defend" its borders by attacking Egypt along with Britain and France?

    Of course when Israel and western powers decide to start slaughtering Arab civilians the word "crisis" is used by the West's pro-Israeli apologist establishment, not war, or invasion, or massacre.


  • #1164
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    JC01 wrote: »
    Ah yes the West Bank and Jerusalem, both parts of the proud nation of Palestine before 1967...


    Dear o dear. Deny the existence of expansion, then - when presented with evidence - deny that the expansion is expansion.

    According to international law (and even the US acknowledges this), the settlements are illegal colonies. The annexation of Golan and Arab East Jerusalem have been declared null and void. I'd suggest facing reality.


  • #1165
    speedboatchase
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,849 ✭✭✭speedboatchase


    Worple wrote: »
    The Palestinians barely have enough adequate housing never mind bomb shelters

    Those rockets add up though, between $500-1000 each. They seem to have plenty of them.


  • #1166
    john.han
    Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭john.han


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    Leaving the Iron Dome defense system aside, the Israelis provide simple & effective shelters for their citizens to take cover in - something the Palestinians appear to reserve for high level figures within Hamas only.

    “We’re using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they’re using their civilians to protect their missiles.” - Benjamin Netanyahu

    So set up a blockade that prevents stuff ranging from concrete to medicine getting in and then try and shift the blame for civilian deaths to Palestinians?


  • #1167
    speedboatchase
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,849 ✭✭✭speedboatchase


    Nodin wrote: »
    Dear o dear. Deny the existence of expansion, then - when presented with evidence - deny that the expansion is expansion.

    According to international law (and even the US acknowledges this), the settlements are illegal colonies. The annexation of Golan and Arab East Jerusalem have been declared null and void. I'd suggest facing reality.

    Here's another reality: you talking about the old borders means nothing, they aren't coming back. Israel is not going away. Get on with it and like most sane people, try to argue towards a solution that will lead us to a peaceful co-existence of two states.


  • #1168
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    Leaving the Iron Dome defense system aside, the Israelis provide simple & effective shelters for their citizens to take cover in - something the Palestinians appear to reserve for high level figures within Hamas only.

    “We’re using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they’re using their civilians to protect their missiles.” - Benjamin Netanyahu
    They don't allow women into the shelters they have either.


  • #1169
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    speedboatchase wrote: »
    Here's another reality: you talking about the old borders means nothing, they aren't coming back. Israel is not going away. Get on with it and like most sane people, try to argue towards a solution that will lead us to a peaceful co-existence of two states.

    2 states? But won't that involve some borders?


  • #1170
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    speedboatchase wrote: »
    Here's another reality: you talking about the old borders means nothing, they aren't coming back. Israel is not going away. Get on with it and like most sane people, try to argue towards a solution that will lead us to a peaceful co-existence of two states.


    You seem confused. I've never advocated the removal of the Israeli state.


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  • #1171
    john.han
    Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭john.han


    speedboatchase wrote: »
    If by 'defence' you mean of a scenario where they had the capability to stop the Israeli bombings or to protect their people, sure. They certainly would the right to defend themselves.

    I don't consider firing indiscriminate rockets at the civilian population of Israel "self defence" though.

    Yet firing missiles that are accurate to within a few metres at kids on a beach is? You may consider it indiscriminate, I consider it desperate and ill-guided, but understandable considering the suffering Palestinian people have endured.


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