And I wondered if maybe I had pushed the line when I published images of a dead baby, killed by an Israeli rocket in Lebanon.
(Remember, I am not taking sides, I think both sides are crazy, including the Palestinian parents teaching their kids to be suicide bombers.)
But I know many of my readers are taking sides, so let's talk some more about this.
It was with great surprise that I opened my New York Times this morning, and found another image of an 8-month old baby, killed by an Israeli artillery shell right on THE FRONT PAGE.
And I am not showing this image to point out that Israel is evil or because I'm against Israel, because I am not. But as a parent, I am for children, I really don't care who kills them. It is simply wrong. Especially to kill babies.
And I know, a few of you think, well, Israel has to do this. Lenin said you can't create a revolution without cracking a few eggs, and I guess, you can't fight a war without killing a few babies. That's the conventional wisdom.
But let's take a step back.
If you are for Israel, now we are at the stage that dead babies are on the front cover of NY Times. You think this helps Israel?
And you know what the headline was?
"Tide of Arab Opinion Turns To Support for Hezbollah."
And the Times writes, "with hundreds of Lebanese dead and Hezbollah holding out against the vaunted Israeli military for 15 days, the tide of public opinion across the Arab world is surging behind the organization, transforming the Shiite group's leader . . . into a folk hero."
Hezbollah is absolutely, completely wrong to kidnap Israeli soldiers and provoke Israel. Israel is absolutely wrong to take that as an excuse to go onto a murderous rampage.
But none of that matters.
Remember, history doesn't care who was wrong or right, only who wins. After all, those people write the history. So let's stop that discussion.
Let's talk about what will happen now.
I predict the New York Times picture will be the start of mounting criticism of Israel, with a complete loss of public support for this "war." And I know that so far Hezbollah has won the hearts of the Arab population, support they didn't have 15 days ago. And they won this support by offering up their own babies and children as a modern day blood sacrifice.
If Hezbollah can continue to stand up to Israel they will have achieved what Arabs have only dreamt of for the last 50 years. Remember, most wars with Israel have ended after just six days or so, with any attacker crushed under the mighty Israeli war machine. So if these guys, using their own babies as shield, can keep this going another 15 days, they will be folk heroes in the Arab world for the next century to come.
As for me, I'm simply ashamed to be part of "humanity."
Not even monkeys kill their own babies as brazenly as we do, nor do they hold up their babies in front of them when they fight other monkeys.
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I'm not commenting because I'm crying.
Thank you Doctor, for that wonderful. heartfelt, compassionate missive of your interpretation of
what's going on over there. You are absolutely correct that the Arab world's hearts and minds have
been won over. And to think it was only 15 days ago these same muslims were beckoning Israel with offers of peace and brotherhood. It's obvious the Israelis don't share our innate love and feelings for children and families. And you're absolutely right to brush aside the fact that the Israeli military is under strict orders to to make every effort to avoid damage to civilians. We know for a fact, don't we, that Hezzbollah does the same as it fires over 100 unguided missiles into civillian capitals like Haefa every day. Like the 3 stooges you wrote about the other day, the Lebanese people thought the 12,000 missiles brought into Southern Lebanon from Syria and Iran over the past several years, were figs and rutabagas to be shared with their Israeli friends. They permitted these missiles to be hidden under their childrens' beds, thinking they were gifts to be distributed on Ramadan. Unfortunately, and it's just my opinion, I suspect there were no Arab hearts and minds to be won over. They were won over when the first Jew set foot in the Middle East eons ago and had the mendacity to want to live. We don't call them JewBastards for nothing. Take my word for it, from long personal experience, it IS one word, not only over there, but unfortunately, everywhere.
Now, let's cut out the bullshit! If I'm an Israeli citizen, I have only one request of my leadership. See to it that I and my family get to live. I don't give a shit about Arab hearts and minds, The New York Times, and, can you believe it, Dr. Peter Rost. The first are murderous idealogical demagogues, bent on my destruction, the others are unfortunate myopic enablers. If you believe "there are two sides to every story" or there is some sort of moral equivalence between the two societies, don't read any more. You are a willfully blind, ignorant, moron....or worse. Were there "two sides" to Hitler and the Jews? Pol Pot and the peasants? the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rawandah? Where do you seemingly intelligent people get this idiotic drivel? A picture of a dead Arab baby, killed by accident, by a country trying desperately to simply live , and your brain cells fuse into a ball of shit? Is the concept of defense vs offense, self-defense vs assault, retaliation vs aggression negated by holding up a picture of a dead baby? Unlike the homogenized crap they teach in schools today, the first and only question is "who started it?" Who has been "starting it" and who will NEVER stop "starting it?" They shout it from the rooftops for all but the blind imbeciles to see, every day!
Every time I see a picture like the one you showed, I see a picture of Danny Pearl. I see a picture of the poor souls falling into eternity from the Twin Towers. I see a picture of the muslim women flapping their tongues in orgiastic joy whenever an Israeli "military target," like a kibbutz, or day care center, or a hospital, or a young girl's Bat Mitzvah gets blown to Hell. And to further reinforce the incomprehensible loss of your God given's ability to think and reason, I see a picture of a Muslim mother running around collecting congratulations that her child was "martyred" by the belt strapped on him/her by these "freedom fighters" and expressing regret that she didn't have more children to go out and be slaughtered.
"two sides to the story"......."restraint"........"gone too far"......."losing the PR war"..........If I'm that Israeli citizen, after more than a half century of twisting myself into a pretzel trying to find "the magic key" to peace, as they plot. plan, violate, train, and sacrice their people so they can kill me and my family, I say enough! Do what you have to do. I WANT TO LIVE!
P.S. Mr./Mz "Just another"..... There is no shortage of freedom hating, self-hating, America-hating dildos like Naom Chomsky. Get on your knees, kiss your ass, and thank God we live in a country where these luminaries are allowed to live and poison young minds. Just ask Beeta.(nothing personal, my sweet friend, I still love you)
It is biblical that in the end times, the world will come against Israel.
Whether you believe the Bible or not, all you have to do read the signs. I said yesterday that the Israeli bombing of the UN post will bring condemnation from many countries. It has already started.
The Arab nations will unite against Israel, but we (the US) will ALWAYS stand behind Israel.
But we will be alone.
Well, I was just about to go out, a strut'n and cavort'n when I spied this serious stuff gett'n everyone sad and mad. Yo, Shooterman, calm down, take my Billionaire Buddy's advice, "you'll be a long time dead," just don't make it tonite. MooChick and BeetaBabe, how 'bout youse two and me hop on my boat, candlelight cruise up the majestic Hudson to Lake Champlaine where I got this secret island with an even more secret cove.....I got NO doubt we all will be able to solve all the problems, snap! just like that! Might take a while, though,what with all them leap'n fish and singing birds. And the damn sun and sand might be an obstacle but, that's what sacrifice is for.
Yo "Anon" get our bags, load'm on the boat and get outta here!
Later, my dear friends, duty calls, limo's wait'n.
Arabs USE their dead as propaganda "material". They have public and loud "displays" and are facing the cameras and looking right into those cameras. Israelis also have dead babies and dead children. They are not going on camera. They mourn privately and with friends. They do not feel like being photographed. The loss of a child is private. Eliyahu Asheri was not a baby. He was an 18 yr. old schoolboy. As is usual in Israel he was hitchhiking home and picked up by Hamas/Fatah murderers. He was one of the first "prisoners of WAR" in this current war. He was not in any war. His parents were not in a war and Israel was not in a war with either Hezbullah or Hamas/Fatah. In fact, just about a year before that Israel had vacated Gaza and about 10,000 families lost their homes, their businesses, their synagogues and their communities. Hamas/Fatah USED Eliyahu Asheri, a young boy, a human being, as a "bargaining chip", then threatened to "butcher" the young boy, and did so, because they did not get, this time, what they DEMANDED. No one speaks of Eliyahu Asheri, or his parents. There was a photo montage of the private grief of his parents on the www.israelnn.com website on July 6, which, incidentally is Mr. Bush's birthday and mine as well. Arabs USE their own children as projectiles. Raising them in fact for death and not allowing them any childhood. Telling a child that MURDER is glorious takes away his soul, his very essence. Yes, Mr. Rost, even apes do not hold out their dead babies the way, but Arabs do. You are so right. And Arabs do not normally do so either. They just do it to illicit "sympathy" for their "cause" which is wiping Israel (and the U.S.) off the map, and murdering ALL jews. Just like Nazi Germany did. In fact, Hezbullah, a transnational fully equipped militia, WITH UNIFORMS, has purposely chosen Lebanon as its theatre of operation, in disguise and not wearing their uniforms. They are operating out of Iran and Syria; their "leadership" is there. Although in Lebanon Hezbullah is part of a democratically elected government, they hold just about 15% of government seats, YET THEY ARE AN INDEPENDENT MILITARY OPERATION directed out of two foreign nations, to Lebanon, namely Iran and Syria. There is something strange about that, do no you think? What if the Republican Party in the U.S. had its own SEPARATE ARMY, which was led out of some second and third country? Fully armed and WITH uniforms and operating in disguise, dressed like civilians? Normal? You think? A patient at a hospital in Israel is treated for free for two years; she is a Palestinian and lives in the Palestinian sector. She is almost better, and then comes in with a gunbelt strapped on to kill all her doctors, the nurses, the aides, the techs, and blow the whole hospital to pieces. No one utters ONE sylable, let alone a word. Israeli children and babies, and adults are murdered, time and time again, pieces of what were living human beings strewn all over the asphalt. No one utters one sylable. Those damned jews, they should disappear from the face of the earth anyway, right? Israelis do not go around before cameras, showing the pieces of flesh and the blood splattered all over. They gather everything up, try to bury the dead with dignity. They pray, they cry, they mourn for a year. They remember the dead on the date of their death. Jews, Peter Rost, and all of you other bastards, are human beings too. We bleed, and we hurt, just like everyone else. We just do not make a play in ten tableaux out of our pain. We tear our clothes, we ask G-d to forgive us for what made this happen to us that we could not prevent it. We even mourn at disasters happening to others and pray. We go inward, instead of outward. Blood Sacrifice, Peter Rost, is not from the Bible or the Torah, and it can not be from the Qur'an, although I do not know the Qur'an, that appears to be a given, because the Qur'an is supposedly incorporating Torah and the Christian Bible as well. Both of the later FORBID MURDER. Murder, Human Sacrifice, comes from the old Sumerian Rite which was before Abraham, and a HEATHEN PRACTICE. Arabs practice Heathen Customs. Israel has been a Nation with internationally recognized borders for THREE generations. Arabs will not accept FACTS. If they have a problem with FACTS and REALITY they should go before the International Court in The Hague, or before the UN. MURDER is not an alternative and acceptable "method" in polite society. And WE, Peter Rost do not use our dead as brazenly as the ARAB does. NO ONE does that, but the ARAB. They murder a Dutch filmmaker because they "disagree" with the movie. They murder a Belgian Rabbi, from behind, probably a slow day and nothing much else to do. They MURDER each other over Danish Cartoons. They MURDER Each Other in Iraq. They MURDER, they MURDERR. they MURDER. And make no mistake about it, Peter Rost, YOU are on their hitlist. YOU are an infidel. Everyone is an infidel. Even another muslim who does not belong to their specificl faction, and this other muslim, even if he is one of your parents, or your child, may, no MUST be murdered. They want the world to be one Caliphat. They have infiltrated all of Europe. THEY and no one else decide what goes into newspapers in..DENMARK. Spain is next on their list. They already did MURDER in Spain, but Spain is to be a MUSLIM nation, because it was once, in the past. They are on a crusade. Just like the christians are on a continuing crusade. Whether or not one believes in the Bible, this is an endgame, because they "play" to the death. A few weeks ago MUSLIMS murdered Indians on a train. Today, a Pakistani, Muslim?, wounded four and murdered one, in..the U.S. Wake up out of your slumber because we will ALL BE DEAD unless we can stop them. It is NOT about Israel any longer. Israel is the canary in the coalmine. What has happened to us, jews, over the millenia, during the Nazis, during the last three generations, WILL repeat itself and spread elsewhere. It is NOW the world.
Anon......
Your words of course are true but, and I'm sure you know as I do, they'll fall on deaf ears. From
long before Hitler's day to the present, the large majority of people forfeit the brains they were born with and understandably take the easy road of following. Politicians know that if candidate "A" has $200,000 and candidate "B" has $100,000, candidate "A" wins every time. Why?, because candidate "A" can buy more P.R., more graphics, more spin, more bullshit. Rather than realize this, and use their brains, analyze who said what and for what reason, and what's best for me , my family, my country, and mankind, they find it's easier to follow the volume and quality of the P.R . It's how we got Hitler, and the Swift Boat Attack. The media, which once held a special place in corporate America as a public trust and treasure and somewhat exempt from from the other profit driven parts, is no more. Thus, recognizing which way the wind is blowing and more than willing to feed the flame, CNN reports on e-mails written by a U.N. observer at the outpost recently hit by Israel forces. They tell of the numerous near misses by Israeli shells.......but CUT OFF and LEAVE OUT the part where he says the strikes were NOT targetting THEM, but rather Hezbollah guerillas using the post as a shield. No matter how many such examples of these killers using innocent people as shields is exposed, the propaganda bullshit works again and again and again.
Show a choreographed picture of a dead baby to the convenient camera and the "intelligent" people who should know better, become blithering idiots.
Let me share a quick observation with you regarding your point of the difference in Jewish culture. When we first got here from post WW2 Europe, we lived on 176th. St, in the Bronx. At that time it was an area almost exclusively Jewish, much like Chinatown, or Little Italy. My father was not overly religious but occasionaly he wanted my brother and me to attend services. The cathedral, synagogue, "shul" I attended consisted of about 8 to 10 worshippers, a tenement basement, complete with asbestos pipes, wet floors, a lightbulb hanging from the ceiling, and your frequent "mishkas," mice. These men didn't notice a thing, just were grateful for a peaceful place to gather, conduct the services, pray, and then go home to their loving families, feeling joy and gratitude.
They sure fooled me. I wasn't smart enough then to realize they were really murderous baby killers, hell bent on world hegemony.
Shalom my friend. There ain't many of us, but what else is new?
Beeta,
To which crap am I not suppose to be listening?
Let me know, I’ll be on the boat with Dealerman, solving the world’s problems....
Israel can be summed up in two words:
Rachel Corrie.
Bulldozer against unarmed Human Being. Bulldozer wins. But Bulldozer cries I AM THE VICTIM!
Rachel Corrie. Rest in Peace.
Yes Rachel, instead of helping killers tunnel in to kill Jews, you can enjoy Arafat and Al-Zarquai tunneling you. You did not die in vain, Rachel. It's obvious you poisoned plenty of illiterate morons to perpetuate the ballad of your betrayal of humanity. Do they use k-y in hell, Rachel?
Beeta,
I would never, have never, and will never listen to any of the religious wingnuts who have a microphone and a podium. This includes, of course, the Republican Party. I know there are many wackos out there and all of them know exactly when and how the world will end. The Bible says that NO man knows the time. So any time you hear someone saying they do, you can pretty much write them off as a wacko.
But there are signs, not necessarily signs that the world is going to end tomorrow, but the things that are happening in the world, well let’s just say I can see how we’re heading in that direction.
Even if I wasn’t a Christian, I would have to wonder how, at the rate we’re going and the escalation of war, how much longer will it be before someone unleashes the big one?
The Arab world is uniting against Israel even as we speak. There will be no cease-fire because they are dealing with religious zealots who want this war. We, as a country, are between Iraq and a hard place.
And we have a ridiculously useless man as our fearless leader.
And yes, what Shooter said was harsh, but Rachel was a foolish girl. The way she died was horrible, but she shouldn't have been where she was, doing what she was doing.
Now get back to the front, you're blocking my sun!!!
Anonymous said...
"Israel can be summed up in two words:Rachel Corrie. Bulldozer against unarmed Human Being. Bulldozer wins. But Bulldozer cries I AM THE VICTIM!"
That is the most ridiculous thing I’ve read so far.
1. I think Israel can be summed up using a few more words
than "Rachel Corrie", unless of course, you are totally illiterate. Israel didn’t kill Rachel Corrie. She put herself in a dangerous position. Her heart may have been in the right place, but she was a dumb kid and very misguided. When you are young and full of yourself, you believe you are invincible. She had no idea what she was doing or who she was dealing with. She was a misguided youth and it cost her her life. It’s not like the bulldozer was traveling at a high rate of speed. She could have simply moved out of its path. She chose not to. She died for what she believed in. Kudos to her. But let’s not make a patron saint out of her. She was a little girl who inserted herself into a big man’s war. She was naïve and she was wrong and it cost her her life. Blame her parents, but don’t blame the entire country of Israel.
2.It was not a bulldozer against an unarmed human being. And Israel never claimed to be a victim.
Sunday morning.
"Israeli attack hits building, killing many children"
Let's add Qana, Lebanon to the other two words.
And for decency's sake let's not blame the Lebanese for "getting inserted into a big man's war," shall we?
And could we please have a choice box on our IRS forms: "Do you want part of your taxes to be used for Israel"
Check: NO.
@ shooter:
Thank you for your response. It stands there in all its ugliness and exposes what we can not.
Trying to debate facts with apologists and supporters of genocidal, stone age, undeveloped, failed men is as fruitless as expecting mercy from Heinrich Himmler. And some of the responses to my posts, so sadly, illustrate this to a depressing degree. But you'll be surprised to know you have some historical counterparts. Guards at Treblinka, interrogated after the War, relayed amusing stories of some Jewish men, as they were walking their final steps down the barbed wire chutes to their "final solution" were strangely smiling. Why? As the laughing SS guards told the inter-viwers, these men were "sure" that when they spoke to the "officer in charge" they would simply explain what good citizens they had been, how loyally they served the Reich in their everyday lives, and how they could be trusted to always support the regime. Certainly intelligent, reasonable men would see the logic of these explanations, realize they had made a mistake, and then let them go. Then, as now, the truth was right out there, in plain daylight, for all to see. Then, as now, seemingly intelligent people simply put on their "teflon truth schields" and ignore reality. But soon, with the help of your terrible denial, you will find that reality will not ignore you.
Beeta, they want to kill you! If you are "lucky" and they only kill your family and friends, you may escape death by accepting the role, as the muslim women have done, of living out your life as the "pet" of the males. But always remember to wear your Burqua, keep your eyes to the ground, walk in a subservient crouch, and never forget to ask a male permission before going to the corner market for an orange. If you behave and submit properly, you will move up the ladder and be able to speak to CNN, where you can laughingly explain to them how joyful you are, how free you are, and how grateful you are at finally finding your proper role in Allah's grand plan. If you're really good, you may be allowed to recruit young "shit for brains," American kids who find your life so very romantic.
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Jews don't proselytize. They just live family oriented good lives, and if some others find their ways attractive, they are welcomed.
Catholics don't proselytize. They go out into the impovershed parts of the world, and through their good deeds, attract and welcome converts.
Some modern Christians do proselytize, but they attract converts with words and ideas and visions.
Only Muslims kill! Only muslims gain converts by offering the choice of death, or submission.
If you want to go to your eternity, being a willing enabler to this aberration, I'm sure your children and grandchildren will bless your memory.
Anonymous said...
Sunday morning.
"Israeli attack hits building, killing many children"
You left out the part about the building being next to a rocket-launching site.
Who sets up a rocket-launching site right next to an apartment bldg. full of children? Crazy religious wackadoos who want a war, will use children as shields, only to hold up said children’s dead bodies to prove Israel is an evil killer of children, that’s who.
Hezbollah wants to spread anti-Israeli sentiment and is willing to sacrifice their children to do it. These are the people you’re defending??? One can only assume the apartment dwellers were Hezbollah sympathizers and thus knew the risks of continuing to live there with a giant target on their roof.
WE CARE MORE ABOUT THEIR CHILDREN THAN THEY DO!!!
And the Lebanese are at least culpable for allowing Hezbollah to flourish. By allowing Hezbollah to run freely in their country, and by allowing them to continue to thump Israel, the Lebanese were, at the very least, complacent. You cannot turn a blind eye to evil and then cry when the country that is being antagonized pulls it’s Big Boy’s pants up and says ENOUGH!
So yes, they inserted themselves into a big man’s war.
And the children will continue to die.
Tell me Anonymous, what would you propose Israel do? Captivate us with your keen insight. Or is withholding your pittance of tax monies the sum total of your solution?
While you’re figuring out which box to check on your tax form, children are dying.
Beeta,
Who was the cause of the savagery? Was it the people who were launching rockets into a neighboring country from beside an apartment bldg full of families, knowing this is putting the entire building at risk?
Or was it the people who, while trying to take out the launch site, mistakenly hit the apartment bldg?
How can you defend launching rockets from beside an apartment bldg? Why doesn’t this make Hezbollah the savages and the killers of their own children, in your opinion?
Ok, let’s try this.
We have a serial killer who lives in an apartment bldg. Let’s call him SK. He lives amongst many families, all who are aware that he is a serial killer. Are you with me so far?
But SK ONLY kills people who live across the street. He never kills people in his own building. In fact, he is quite polite and well liked by the people in his building. He holds the door open for you, he’ll carry your groceries, and feed your cat while you’re away. And, as long as he’s only killing the people across the street, the people in his building think he’s just a dandy neighbor.
Except for the penchant he has for killing people across the street, he’s a very likable fellow.
Enter the people who live across the street. They’ve had enough. They burn down SK’s apartment bldg. Many of SK’s neighbors die.
Now who is at fault here?
Stop blaming the people who live across the street.
Moo, my dear lady, people like "anon" are not worthy of your efforts. They are debris, road kill, whatever speck of data comes their way they take the easy, emotional escape of expressing pain, as if though that moves them up the pecking order of the "good person" scale. They, unfortunately, number in the millions here in America, and are easy pickings for manipulators and Svengalis like Karl Rove and Osama Bin Laden. With Rove it's a picture of a gay couple kissing, with the Muslims it's a news blurb of civilians dead. Upright mammals with inert cranial activity are, unfortunately allowed to walk and vote with the rest of us, here in America.
Being a native Russian, colorful sayings and expressions , were part of my education. They have proven their validity and timeliness
to this day. Lenin's mocking, derisive "useful idiot" quote and Kruschev's statement " The Americans will sell themselves the rope to hang
themselves with" are dreadfully apt today.
If anyone would like to get a real education regarding the Muslim world, check out a certain "Dr. Sultan." Dr. Sultan is a brilliant, brave beyond words, Syrian Muslim female physician who is devoting her life to breaking out and smashing the horrible reality of Islam's cruel hoax. Her main thesis is that Muslim men have failed at accomplishing "anything " vis-a-vis the rest of civilized society, are so full of rage and anger, they are lashing out at the rest of the world for their own failures. Their own women are, so sadly and poignantly, their first victims.
To have educated Americans supply cover for them and give them an air of legitimacy is an obscenity that is unforgiveable.
Weapons of mass deception...
"Israel backed by army of cyber-soldiers
From Yonit Farago in Jerusalem
WHILE Israel fights Hezbollah with tanks and aircraft, its supporters are campaigning on the internet.
Israel’s Government has thrown its weight behind efforts by supporters to counter what it believes to be negative bias and a tide of pro-Arab propaganda. The Foreign Ministry has ordered trainee diplomats to track websites and chatrooms so that networks of US and European groups with hundreds of thousands of Jewish activists can place supportive messages.
In the past week nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) have downloaded special “megaphone” software that alerts them to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls to enable them to post contrary viewpoints. A student team in Jerusalem combs the web in a host of different languages to flag the sites so that those who have signed up can influence an opinion survey or the course of a debate. (...)"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2289232,00.html
Wow, paranoid much, Anonymous?
So what is your point? You said it yourself, "...negative bias and a tide of pro-Arab propaganda".
Say it with me, pro-pa-gan-da.
Main Entry: pro·pa·gan·da
1 : the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person
2 : ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause; also : a public action having such an effect
Is your point that people are using the net to influence others? Wow, that IS news breaking information.
Hey guess what Shooter, we're cyber-soldiers! But I need a cooler name like you have. Moogirl just isn't forceful enough.
How ‘bout The Ter-moo-nator?
PS. Thanks for the heads-up on Dr. Sultan. I’m going to have to do some research on her, she sounds almost too good to be true!
I just read the Times article (link provided by Anonymous) and all I can say is a big fat SO WHAT? I still can’t figure out what your point was.
Until the big news organizations start telling the story of BOTHS sides instead of just Lebanon’s, I say more power to WHOM EVER is trying to get the truth out.
These Jewish students trying to influence the debate must be having a field day over at Huffpo.
I bet their fingers are bleeding…
How 'bout "MooChick" "I'll kill ya just for say'n hello."
gotta run, duty calls.
Chin up, like the Marines, we got a few good men. (to keep the syntax and flow, moo, you're a man) LOL
Beeta,
Thank you for pointing out the difficulties of spewing nonsense while not paying attention. I was making a joke with Shooter, seeing as how Anonymous was alluding to the fact that anyone speaking out MUST be a hired cyber-soldier.
Please try to keep up.
While I realize you that know more than any other commenter possibly could, about EVERYTHING, apparently you missed the whole sum of my comment before I made the crack about being a cyber soldier. It was about propaganda, and it’s running rampant on both sides.
And no, it doesn’t really bother me that the outcome of silly little polls are being artificially changed, as I am not so simple minded as to be swayed by internet polls. Lighten up, there are no votes being stolen here, the Jewish students aren’t on the Florida voting committee, at least I don’t think so.
Apparently YOU were too busy spewing nonsense to pay attention to THIS part of the article:
“A student team in Jerusalem combs the web in a host of different languages to flag the sites so that those who have signed up can influence an opinion survey or the course of a debate.
…that Jewish students and youth groups with their understanding of the web environment were ideally placed to present another side to the debate.”
Which part of this scares you so much? Are your beliefs and convictions so weak that you’re afraid of a few Jewish students presenting another viewpoint? Maybe if there were more open dialog there would be less death. Just a thought.
Is poll-slanting a new thing to you? Are you one of those poor souls who are actually influenced by a poll you see on CNN? Only sheep follow polls, my dear Beeta. But of course, you already knew that.
By the way, we all want to know, what ARE your qualifications that you presume to know more than everyone else on the subject of the Middle East?
This seems like a highly arrogant assumption on your part.
Beeta, I don't write much, but this post has caught my interest. Your "facts" and "knowledge" are so aberrant as to seem "made up." The many, many facts presented to you are brushed aside in a reckless, mindless way and replaced by fantasies of, who knows, what origin. You are certainly entitled to your own opinion, but not your own "facts." The following are excerpts from a speech given by someone with standing who may know somewhat more than you what the realities are. Unfortunately, from what I've read, this won't make any more difference to you than all that has gone before.
Azar Majedi is Chairperson of the Organisation of Women's Liberation. and producer-presenter of "No to Political Islam"
Speech at Stockholm conference on "Globalization of Political Islam, Women's Rights" on 21/01/06, in commemoration of the death of Fatima Shahindal, a victim of honour killings.
For the past 30 years there has been a movement in the Middle East, in Afghanistan, Iran, and in the Islamic ridden countries that has gained power, which tries to acquire power in the region, and tries to become a power globally. It has based itself on religion, has based itself on Islam and has cashed on in people's sufferings and grievances to fill up the vacuum created in the political and ideological sphere in the region. Intimidation and terror is its strategic tool.
The first victims of this reactionary movement are women. They have been raped, stoned to death, killed, maimed, flogged and their dignity violated. Political Islam promotes and mobilizes a very concentrated, coherent campaign to suppress and silence women in the Middle East and the Islamic ridden countries and also in Europe.
Going back to the question: why political Islam? Because Political Islam is responsible for basically all these atrocities taking place against women, children and humanity. Political Islam is the driving force behind this violence. It promotes violence and terror. It mobilizes force, it nurtures and recruits, it supports and encourages, it leads a global movement of terror and backwardness.
Political Islam is an international movement, it fights internationally, it mobilizes internationally. The network of Mullahs and Mosques that spread hatred, terror, and anti women, anti human values in Stockholm, London, Berlin and so on are related internationally. Just go to these Mosques and see what hatred and brain washing they inflict on young minds of our children. They issue fatwa's against people like us, people fighting for women's rights and freedom, secularism, fighting against religious rule, against political Islam, against whoever questions the rule of Islam or the god. All of us deserve to die.
Go to the religious schools and see what superstitions they put in the young impressionable minds of our children: hatred against women, hatred against the West, hatred against liberty and anything human. These are all related. We can not just sit here and talk about an integration policy that is better and can solve the problem. We have to think internationally. They think internationally we have to think internationally as well. They organize and mobilize internationally, we have to organize and mobilize internationally
Need to point out: It's not that the Israeli government is sending cyber trolls to sway international public opion or out of any desire to be appear more humane in front of the international community (they don't give a damn about any of that and are smart enough to know that it is too late for that.) They are sending them only to 1. create the impression that Americans are squarely behind Israel's policies, 2. and to convince Americans that huge sums of money going to Israel (in form of credits for war machinery that are never repaid by Israel)are sent with the consent of the American people.
How many of you who visit political blogs have EVER read a post that began "I'm an Israeli and .... " No, they all pose as Americans.
They do not speak for me, and I resent their deceit.
To the last anonymous.....
A. The majority of Americans ARE supportive of Israel.
B. Your #2 "convince Americans......sent w/consent of Americans?? Please go ask your parents to re-word that for you so we grown ups can understand what you're attempting to say.
C. If they "pose as Americans" how do you know they're not? Magic de-coder ring?
D. And I "resent" having to read infantile jibberish on a serious topic.
Anonymous #1: Thank you for responding to Beeta in a more intelligent way than I ever could.
I too believe it will do no good.
Anonymous #2 (Don’t know if you’re the same Anonymous) you said:
"They are sending them only to 1. create the impression that Americans are squarely behind Israel's policies, 2. and to convince Americans that huge sums of money going to Israel (in form of credits for war machinery that are never repaid by Israel)are sent with the consent of the American people."
You may be right, but this could only be effective in a country where the vast population is too fat and lazy to form independent opinions of their own. It’s always so much easier just to blow the same direction as your neighbors, your family, your church, and your government.
Don’t swim against the current, don’t speak out, and God forbid don’t voice an unpopular opinion. Otherwise, you might just get poked with a flag and called un-American.
Ever been poked by a patriot with a flag?
Right or wrong, most of America is not behind Israel. That much is obvious to anyone who can read. Fortunately for the Jewish students trying to sway public opinion, most Americans are just too lazy to have informed, individual opinions. It’s just easier to follow the herd.
You said: "They do not speak for me, and I resent their deceit."
If you’re an American, then I’d think you’d be use to it by now.
Beeta you said:
"The discussion here was about countries...Israel and Arab nations. Or rather US (and by extension Israel) versus ME countries."
Nooooo, YOU are the one who turned it into a debate on the US vs all the Middle Eastern countries on the planet. This started out as a post about Israel, Lebanon, and Hezbollah. We managed to stay on topic right up to the comment you posted about some book about the US and it's “Emperial ambitions”. And somehow Karl Rove even managed to weasel his way into one of your comments.
I know you can’t have a discussion about this without talking about the US, but the main topic was and is Israel and Hezbollah.
And as far as where anyone would get the idea that you support Islamism (is that even a word?), Anonymous never said anything of the sort. I believe what he said was that you make up your own facts and don’t know what you’re talking about.
To the Israel/US haters on this thread. This is what Israel faces every day. Now go refill your sprite and cheetos and pontificate to us again about the evil Israelis. Oh crap! It's a fact!....never mind. Hezbollah's leader, Nasy (for short, he's such a kidder)
Hassan Nasrallah.............“There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel. ... Peace settlements will not change reality, which is that Israel is the enemy and that it will never be a neighbor or a nation.”
Wow, Islamism IS a word. Never heard it or read it before, it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. I take back my snark.
I know what a thread is. I also know some who tend to wonder off topic, no matter what the topic is. But hey, as long as you come back around, no harm no foul. :>
Beeta....neither, just taking in the comments from both sides, then I will pass judgement. So far, you're behind, I'm afraid. Too much vitriol, too little admissible evidence. "They" started off slow, but hard facts are now piling up. It's not over, but it's late.
Mornin’ Beeta,
I’d be interested in your take on THIS:
“Photos that damn Hezbollah”
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,19955774-5007220,00.html
Yesterday you called Israel savages for the bombing in Qana. What do you call THESE people?
My point was not that they don’t wear uniforms and they have weapons. That would be stupid. However, the wearing of civilian clothes does tend to make using civilians as shields MUCH easier.
My point was that they set up shop RIGHT NEXT to apartments full of civilians. These are the same civilians who will be holding their dead babies in the air, wailing about the evil Israel, and praising Hezbollah, the ones who got their babies dead in the first place.
You said:
“Hezballa is the only armed and capable group that can fight back against advances of Israel.”
While that may be a true statement, WHAT ACT ON HEZBOLLAH’S PART IS CAUSING ISRAEL TO ADVANCE???? Israel DID NOT draw first blood, they did not “advance” until Hezbollah kidnapped the soldiers.
So, your reasoning is, Hezbollah is justified and worthy of praise for defending Lebanon in a war that Hezbollah started??? I hate to use sandbox reasoning, but Hezbollah DID start it, and now they want the world to denounce Israel because Lebanon’s children are dying. Hezbollah is solely responsible for every death in Lebanon. And yet, as you stated, the Arab world is praising them for it. Lebanon is praising the very group who brought this wrath upon them. It’s insane.
And girl, we’re not fighting, this is just a little healthy debate! We may get snarky as passions run deep, but that’s what it’s all about!
I will look for Drobny’s posts, although you are correct, I hate the dreaded Huffpo site. I was a little confused though. You said Drobny was pro-Israel and Huffpo removes posts that aren’t pro-Israel, and yet they removed his posts?
I totally disagree. I believe Huffpo is absolutely anti-semitic and anti-christian. Actually, they’re just anti-religion of any kind.
These are their headlines as of this moment:
MIDEAST CRISIS TICKER:
Iraqi VP: Israel Is Carrying Out “Massacres”…
Jerusalem Post: US Interested In Israeli Attack On Syria…
Tens Of Thousands Attempted Escape During Air Strike Halt…
Israel Declares 48-Hour Suspension Of Airstrikes…
Israeli Strikes Kill Dozens In “Deadliest Single Attack”...
At Least 34 Children Among Dead In Qana…
Rice Abruptly Ends Mideast Trip In Wake Of Attack…
Lebanese Protesters Break Into Beirut UN Headquarters…
Doesn’t sound very pro-Israel to me.
Good afternoon folks, I think this is going to be my last post on this subject as I do believe in the oft quoted definition of insanity. "doing the same thing over and over again.....expecting a different result." Debating people with facts as they're wearing they're "fact deflecting armour" would make me a poster boy for that definition
So for context, I would like to explain that I was a member of debating teams throughout my high school and college days, when I wasn't chasing skirts or pitching myself to an athletic scholarship at Syracuse U. (It beat selling my blood or being a guinea pig for the psych-lab)
I only point this out to explain that there IS a difference between debate and arguement, as there is between facts and opinions. Unfortunately, the dialogue here has been arguement. So here goes, my last attempt:
Beeta, this for you:
1. "That's a fact that even the Prime Minster of Lebenan has accepted and even thanked Hezballa for"
FACT: No it isn't. It may be a "fact" that he says it NOW that there are thousands of Hezbullah guerillas, armed and trained by Syria and Iran who would kill him in a second if he dared say anything else. When Lebanon expelled Syrian forces, Israel was the FIRST to congratulate the new Government and the FIRST to offer aid, training, and exchange of technology and goods, and the FIRST to offer their hand in peace and friendship.
2. "this is not about Islam or Jews or religion. This is about Lebanese fighting the Israelis."
FACT: What fighting? There was peace between the two countries. While we all agree George Bush is an idiot, he is right about one thing, The Islamofascists will not tolerate a democratic, secular country in their midst to showcase for their 7th. century poverty stricken people the fruits of Democracy. The uproar going on today is a well orchestrated campaign directed by Syria and Iran, the two countries who fear Democracy more than anything else. THAT'S why they hate Israel. It's got NOTHING to do with land. The Arabs have billions of square miles of land. If they wanted peace, surely Israel, the Palestinians, and the surrounding behemouths could have negotiated an agreeable solution.
3. "But who am I to try and inject a little reason into a call for all out war?
FACT: Hassan Nasrallah.............“There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel. "Peace settlements will not change reality, which is that Israel is the enemy and that it will never be a neighbor or a nation.”
..............Only blind hatred cannot distinquish between the parties who want peace and who want war. If they weren't fomenting war, what would they do? What could they do? They would be unemployed. Arafat confided as much to his closest aides and reiterated that he would be killed in an instant if he ever made peace with Israel.
4. "THP......... they keep removing any posts that aren't pro-Israel........."
FACT: You must be kidding, anyway Moo answered that one.
Finally, a personal note: A writer tried to say in a post a while ago an age old truism..."there are none so blind as those who WILL NOT see." Your emotion is genuine,no doubt. It's the facts. Those damn facts!!
Fact deflecting armour...
yer killin' me, Shooter!
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