Anyways, that defence system [Israel's] all but nullifies the rocket attacks.
That doesn't make the attacks any less an act of war.
Anyways, that defence system [Israel's] all but nullifies the rocket attacks.
That doesn't make the attacks any less an act of war.
Isnt this well known?Why? Because you think Jews control Hollywood?
Isnt this well known?
Isnt this well known?
That doesn't make the attacks any less an act of war.
Nice try but this is getting off topic.Yeah dude, I totally heard that they also control all media and banking systems....
No, everything in that post is entirely true,
MS. PSAKI: Mm-hmm.
QUESTION: Is that are you now confident that Hamas is responsible for this, as confident as the Israelis say they are?
MS. PSAKI: No conclusion has been made on our end since the statement on Sunday, so we remain in the same place we were in the Secretarys statement.
QUESTION: So you do not know or you do know that these teenagers are being held by Palestinian militants?
MS. PSAKI: We dont have any other independent information.
QUESTION: Okay. You said that you had offered assistance to Israel.
MS. PSAKI: Mm-hmm.
QUESTION: Has that happened? Do you know? And do you know if it has or even if it hasnt what specific kind of assistance you have offered?
MS. PSAKI: I dont have any more details. Im happy to see if its been accepted or if there are any specifics about what we may be able to offer on this front in the search for the three teenagers.
whether you are able to admit it or not, considering how much you must hate Israel if you'd actually question how horrible Hamas is. (Of course, given that Hamas is entirely responsible for the wars which cause all this chaos and death I'd think that anyone who wanted fewer Palestinians to die would also oppose Hamas, but there's no reasoning with Israel haters, clearly.)
I think the US government had the right on this -- Israel should have let it go forward, very watchful for any signs of Hamas gains in the West Bank but letting it happen in the hopes that perhaps it could crack Hamas's grip on Gaza while not giving them the West Bank (a plausible outcome). However, Netanyahu's refusal to do that is understandable -- letting Hamas and the PA unite is an obvious risk, if it led to Hamas gaining any kind of position in the West Bank!
the Netanyahu government increased by 123.7 per cent the number of building permits for Jews-only housing in the West Bank. Most of these were approved during the peace talks in the last six months of the year.
As Jewish settlements expand, the Palestinians are being driven away
The signs of previous bouts of displacement ring the adjacent hills. Mobile homes for young Jewish settlers sprout on the hilltops. Armed with a list of military orders, Israeli soldiers are herding the West Banks Palestinians out of the rural 60% of the territory, officially known as Area C, where Israel has full military and civilian control, and into cities. On some days the Israeli army declares a patch of land to be a live-fire military zone. On other days they say the Palestinians must move because of an impending archaeological dig. The erection of hilltop stations to provide antennae for Israeli mobile phones (but not for Palestinian ones) is another oft-cited reason for pushing Palestinians out. Eight Palestinian hamlets around Susiya face demolition.
So far this year, Israels army has evicted almost 400 Palestinians from the West Bank and dismantled over 200 homes, the fastest rate for two years, according to the UN. The number of such incidents has risen sharply since a new Israeli government, with even stronger settler influence within it, took office in March. As a result, the European Union called on April 26th for an end to what it calls the forced transfer of Palestinians out of Area C. The Israeli army has also again demolished a restaurant, al-Maghrour, in a rural spot that was popular with Palestinians from nearby Bethlehem, which is increasingly hemmed in by settlements. In addition, some 2,300 Bedouin have recently been earmarked for removal from the strategic west-east corridor known as E1, which links Jerusalem to a big Jewish settlement, Maale Adumim, and to its smaller satellite community, Kfar Adumim, where Israels new housing minister, Uri Ariel, happens to reside.
Also of course, one of the reasons why Hamas was forced to start those negotiations is because of the pressure from Israel's blockade, which is hurting Hamas quite a lot, particularly now that Egypt is now unfriendly to them again. Without the blockade you probably would not see the "unity" government, though this Gaza war shows how really Hamas still rules Gaza, not the PA.
Why did other celebrities delete their pro-Palestinian tweets?
First off, I wasn't making or implying that Hamas = Palestinians.
Second, Palestinians should have probably not elected Hamas, especially if they knew what they were getting into ultimately.
Because of the Jewish overlords in control of Hollywood. Obviously they had a big secret Hollywood Jewish meeting and collectively decided to send out warnings to all of the pro-Palestinian actors making tweets.
Or the more believable reason: It's not good PR move for actors to get involved in divisive politics. Pissing off groups of people can affect your future box office.
Because of the Jewish overlords in control of Hollywood. Obviously they had a big secret Hollywood Jewish meeting and collectively decided to send out warnings to all of the pro-Palestinian actors making tweets.
Or the more believable reason: It's not good PR move for actors to get involved in divisive politics. Pissing off groups of people can affect your future box office.
First off, I wasn't making or implying that Hamas = Palestinians.
Second, Palestinians should have probably not elected Hamas, especially if they knew what they were getting into ultimately.
n 1983, economist Thomas Sowell of Stanford University wrote "Jewish family incomes are the highest of any large ethnic group in the US72% above the national average."[49] Sowell points out that Episcopalians have also experienced similar prosperityas a groupas Jews, but it is the "social and economic distance covered in a relatively short time" that makes the Jewish experience in America unique.[50]
Gerald Krefetz discusses the prosperity that Jews earned in the United States following their emigration from Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, and he attributes their success to their familiarity with "trading and exchanging, commerce, city living, property rights, ... and accumulation of funds for future investment."[51]
Historian Edward Shapiro cites a Forbes magazine survey from the 1980s, which showed that, of the 400 richest Americans, over 100 were Jewish, which was nine times greater than would be expected based on the overall population.[52] Shapiro also estimates that over 30% of American billionaires are Jewish, and he cites a 1986 issue of Financial World that listed the top 100 money makers in 1985, and "half the people mentioned" were Jewish, including George Soros, Asher Edelman, Michael Milken, and Ivan Boesky.[52]
Gerald Krefetz writes "[w]hether it is called intestinal fortitude, operation bootstrap, moxie, social striving, or upward mobility, American Jews have fought mightily for financial security. ... As a group Jews have attained a higher standard of living and earn more money than any other religious group in the United States. ... Jews are the richest of the rich".[53]
he Obama administration accused Israel on Thursday of failing to do all it can to prevent civilian casualties in Gaza during cross-border attacks.
Noting the deaths a day earlier of four boys who were killed on a Gaza beach by an Israeli strike, the State Department said the high civilian death toll in Gaza has been "heartbreaking." Three more children were killed in Gaza on Thursday.
Still, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki also criticized Hamas militants in Gaza who continue to fire rockets and mortars into Israel, prolonging the latest round of violence in the Mideast that has so far killed 235 Palestinians and at least one Israeli.
"I don't think we've made any secret about our strong concern about the actions of Hamas, the indiscriminate rocket attacks, the targeting of civilians," Psaki said. "And that concern remains."
Of the Gaza beach attacks that killed four cousins on Wednesday, Psaki called the attack "horrifying."
"The tragic event makes clear that Israel must take every possible step to meet its standards for protecting civilians from being killed," Psaki said. "We will continue to underscore that point to Israel."
Asked whether the U.S. believes Israel has not done enough to prevent civilian casualties, Psaki said: "We believe that certainly there's more that can be done."
Secretary of State John Kerry reiterated U.S. concerns about civilian casualties in a phone call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the State Department said in a statement late Thursday.
Netanyahu described the "imminent threat" posed to Israel by Hamas tunnels from the Gaza Strip, and Kerry reaffirmed strong U.S. support for Israel's right to defend itself against terrorist threats from such tunnels, the statement said. "This should be a precise operation to target tunnels," Kerry said of the Israeli ground incursion into the Gaza Strip.
Kerry also emphasized the need to avoid further escalation of the fighting and to restore the 2012 cease-fire as soon as possible, the department's statement said, noting the importance of Hamas accepting this plan "as soon as possible."
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also urged Israel on Thursday "to do far more to stop civilian casualties," calling the killing of four boys on a beach in Gaza City "appalling."
The U.S. has been pushing plans for a cease-fire that Egypt proposed. Kerry also spoke Thursday to top diplomats in Cairo and the Qatari capital Doha to try to negotiate an end to hostilities that entered their eleventh day.
But fierce fighting between Israel and Hamas resumed almost immediately after a five-hour lull in attacks that the United Nations brokered to let Palestinians stock up on food and supplies after days of staying at home for protection. There were intermittent rocket attacks during the lull as well.
Palestinian militants fired more than 50 rockets at Israel, including a barrage at the Tel Aviv area, according to the Israeli military. Israel responded with airstrikes, including the one that killed three youngsters in Gaza City, said a Gaza health ministry spokesman.
The conflict intensified Thursday as thousands of Israeli soldiers backed by tanks invaded the Gaza Strip. That escalated a military operation that was trying to destroy Hamas' weapons arsenal, rocket-firing abilities and tunnels.
The latest wave of violence was spurred by last month's kidnapping and killings of three Israeli teenagers whose bodies were found in the West Bank, followed almost immediately by what authorities believe was a retribution attack on a Palestinian youth who was strangled, beaten and burned to death .
But tensions between Israel and Palestinian authorities have been simmering for years. They threatened to boil over earlier this spring when Israel shelved nearly nine months of peace negotiations that were being personally shepherded by Kerry after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to create a unity government with Hamas.
The only significant other party is Fatah, who had been/is continuing to be very corrupt and couldn't run anything properly (of course Israel's constant messing around didn't help anything), and Hamas reliably runs various different charitable services that provide for the needs of many Palestinians. There really wasn't any other outcome.
Because of the Jewish overlords in control of Hollywood. Obviously they had a big secret Hollywood Jewish meeting and collectively decided to send out warnings to all of the pro-Palestinian actors making tweets.
Or the more believable reason: It's not good PR move for actors to get involved in divisive politics. Pissing off groups of people can affect your future box office.
The US gives billions to Israel and millions to Palestine, where you would think it would be better for the situation for the US to give billions to Palestinians and millions to Israel. Especially considering where the money is being spent.
Everything about the whole situation is a farce.
It is absolutely true that Jewish people have a disproportionate amount of pull in Hollywood (largely through merit), but Jewish people have also traditionally (in the modern sense) gravitated towards employment of high prestige or power, it probably has something to do with, y'know, being hunted, harassed, murdered, demonized, and deposed throughout history for no reason. I know that were it I was a member of such group, the idea of ingraining oneself to positions of relative authority within a given society, as a means to help prevent persecution, would seem pretty damn logical and arguably a necessity. This is not some form of anti semitism to say, it is statistical fact (and one that is kind of hard to avoid when you make up only 3% of the population of the united states).
But how do the Palestinians help bring back Jesus?
C'mon man . . . think!
West Bank* 214,000 [8%]
Gaza Strip 12,000 [.7%]
Arab Christians in Israel** 123,000 [10%]
Non-Arab Christians in Israel 29,000 [0.4%]
Total Arab Christians 349,000 [6.0%]
Total Christians (including non-Arabs) 378,000 [3.0%]
Been that way for over 3000 years, some of the only ones who survived ancient antiquity today as they were.
Err guys, lets keep the "jewish influence" stuff for some other time. We already have two casualties in the last page.
nation building or manifest destinyHow do you classify stealing land then?
Yeah, when we cheated the natives out of their land if we weren't killing them for it. Good times. Glad that's all ancient history or we'd have looked really bad!nation building or manifest destiny
I can not see any reason why anyone would support Hamas. They have never been for the Palestinian people.
- Israeli demographer Arnon Soffer, 2004, Haifa University, buddy of Ehud Olmert, Richard Haas[W]hen 2.5 million people live in a closed-off Gaza, it's going to be a human catastrophe. Those people will become even bigger animals than they are today, with the aid of an insane fundamentalist Islam. The pressure at the border will be awful. It's going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day.
No, the Afghan war was defensible and the right thing to do. We obviously could not ignore the people protecting the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. The Iraq War was not, but that was never really about terrorism anyway -- that was just an excuse Bush used to push his illegal, ill-advised invasion.
Where the hell did he say anything about Vietnam or Iraq... You are arguing something he isn't even talking about in that post.
Isreal = USA ... both entered someone's land as retribution for terrorist acts and to eliminate the threat
France is the first country in the world that has banned pro-palestina demonstrations, this comes after 2 communities clashed during the past demonstration.
http://abcnews.go.com/International...ro-palestinian-protest-amid-tensions-24583875
Not surprising, the country is lead by an incompetent fool.The worst part is that it's the pro-Israeli extremists that started the fighting and they 1. Don't get arrested. 2. Get what they wanted.
The worst part is that it's the pro-Israeli extremists that started the fighting and they 1. Don't get arrested. 2. Get what they wanted.
Got proof?The worst part is that it's the pro-Israeli extremists that started the fighting and they 1. Don't get arrested. 2. Get what they wanted.
Yeah I can't get my head around the support.I can't understand how is some people supporting Israel in this conflict, is like they are supporting a genocide.
In fact videos showed armed vigilantes from a group called the Jewish Defence League (LDJ) baiting demonstrators into fights.
There were no arrests among the LDJ, despite them fighting and smashing up property in full view of the police.
Six pro-Palestine protestors were arrested for a variety of public order offences, but none had been anywhere near Paris synagogues, which remained undamaged.
On short notice I could only find this article in English from a banned site (I don't support the site) http://www.*****************/news/a...ce-country-world-ban-pro-Palestine-demos.html
Some pro-Palestinian did bad things but they don't represent the whole movement, it's blown out of proportion, while pro-Israeli groups can harass with no repercussions. This is fucked up and people once again blame the victim.
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False reports following last week’s protests claimed that pro-Palestinian demonstrators had damaged synagogues during the rally, but it later emerged none of the religious buildings had been targeted.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...propalestinian-protests-in-paris-9615919.html
False reports following last weeks protests claimed that pro-Palestinian demonstrators had damaged synagogues during the rally, but it later emerged none of the religious buildings had been targeted.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...propalestinian-protests-in-paris-9615919.html
The Police prevented the protesters from getting to the Synagogues, which left 6 Officers injured.
Several thousand demonstrators took part in the Paris protest on Sunday and violence broke out in Bastille Square. People threw projectiles onto a cordon of police who responded with tear gas. Six policemen were also injured.
where it say pro-Palestine
"Common sense' if you ignore the pro-Israeli group attacking them.There were thousands of Pro Palestine demonstrators and in the same article I referenced it says they were trying to get to the Synagogues. 6 officers got injured, so it's a case of common sense that they were injured stopping the said protesters.
"Common sense' if you ignore the pro-Israeli group attacking them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geye3CS3e0A
But a violent incident that took place in Paris on Sunday widely described as antisemitic, using this narrative as the background, was actually a street fight between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and the Jewish Defense League; one that appears to have been started by the extremist latter in support of Israels ongoing bombing campaign that has thus far claimed the lives of almost 200 Palestinians 80% of them civilians.
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/synagogue-attributed-semitism.html (A site run by a Jewish American journalist)
I can't understand how is some people supporting Israel in this conflict, is like they are supporting a genocide.
The Jewish Defense League is a recognized right wing terrorist organisation. And in any case, they have no right to initiate an attack, especially if the police is there and was managing to keep the peace until the attack...The Jewish community who saw that their places of worship was coming under attack likely took the action to defend it. That's a possible scenario as well.
The Jewish Defense League is a recognized right wing terrorist organisation. And in any case, they have no right to initiate an attack, especially if the police is there and was managing to keep the peace until the attack...
Is that right...?
A terrorist organization?
Not permitted to protect their place of worship?
Honestly, you're embarrassing yourself just a little bit.