Israel kills Hamas military chief, 7 others in airstrike, officials say

Israeli leaders indicate that a new offensive against Islamic militant commanders is underway. NBC's Martin Fletcher reports.

Updated at 10:46 p.m. ET: TEL AVIV -- The head of the militant wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement and seven others were killed as Israel launched a series of airstrikes in Gaza Wednesday, officials said.

Hamas spokesman Fauazy Brehom told NBC News that Ahmed Jabari was killed in the attack by Israeli forces. Jabari was the most senior commander of Hamas' military wing, the Ezzidine Al-Qassam Brigades. 

A statement from the Al-Qassam Brigades said that Israel had “opened the gates of hell.”

President Barack Obama spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday, urging him to avoid civilian casualties. The president reiterated the United States' support for Israel's right to self-defense following rocket attacks launched from Gaza.

Obama also spoke Wednesday with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi because of the country's central role in preserving regional security. Obama condemned the rocket fire from Gaza into Israel and reiterated Israel's right to self-defense. The two leaders agreed on the importance of working to deescalate the situation quickly and they agreed to stay in touch in coming days.

In a frequently updated live blog chronicling the attacks, the Israel Defense Forces claimed it had targeted "dozens" of Hamas’ medium-range underground rocket launch sites and other weapons storage facilities. The report said Israel had also intercepted 17 rockets fired from Gaza.

"If I were a senior Hamas activist - I would look for a place to hide," IDF spokesman Brgi. Gen. Yoav (Poly) Moredechai said in a statement published online.

Moredechai said the possibility of a ground invasion would not be ruled out, and emphasized that all options remain on the table. "Infantry brigades have been shifted in preparation for the operation," his statement read. "All options that allow us to cause seriously damage to Hamas and the other terrorist organizations are on the table."

A statement from the Israeli embassy blamed Hamas for launching 150 rockets at Israel's south over the past week.

Darren Whiteside / Reuters

Smoke rises after Israeli air strikes in the northern Gaza Strip on Nov. 14. Israel launched a major offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday, killing the military commander of Hamas in an air strike and threatening an invasion of the enclave that the Islamist group vowed would "open the gates of hell."

"Israel has the right and duty to defend itself from terrorist attacks designed to kill thousands of its citizens," Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren said. "We are sending an unequivocal message that our citizens will not be hostage to terrorist missile fire and cross-border attacks. The scope of the IDF's defensive operation depends on Hamas and whether it takes the decision to cease firing missiles on our neighborhoods and homes."

Jabari is the most senior Hamas official to have died due to Israeli military action since the killing of Saeed Seyam four years ago.

Sources at the Kamal Adwan and Al-Shifa hospitals said a total of eight people had been killed and 80 injured.

A statement on the IDF website said that Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz had “approved an expansive strike against terrorist organizations in Gaza.”

Ali Ali / EPA

Emergency services extinguish the burned out destroyed car of Qassam top leader Ahmed Jabari after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012.

“As a part of the program, a short while ago, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck Ahmed al-Jabari and other senior officers of Hamas' Military Wing, who were involved in planning and implementing dozens of attacks, including the kidnapping of SFC [Israeli soldier] Gilad Shalit,” it said.

The airstrike took place in central Gaza, according to the statement, which was headlined "Chief of Hamas' Military Wing Ahmed al-Jabari assassinated." The headline was later changed to "Senior Hamas operative targeted," and the statement dropped the reference to Shalit.

The statement quoted IDF spokesman Mordechai as saying military action began following the "intolerable situation in the south of the country, and seeks to harm terrorist organizations operating in the Gaza Strip."

'Forward base for Iran'
The IDF later announced it had begun "Operation Pillar of Defense." Israel confirmed there had been several airstrikes.

Hamas Office via Reuters, file

Ahmed Al-Jabari, top commander of Hamas armed wing Al-Qassam brigades, poses for a picture after a prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Cairo, in this October 18, 2011 file photo.

In another update, the statement said the IDF had "targeted a significant number of long range rockets sites ... owned by Hamas. This deals a significant blow to the terror organizations' underground rocket launching capabilities and munitions warehouses that are owned by Hamas and other terror organizations."

"The Gaza strip, has turned it into a forward base for Iran, firing rockets and carrying out terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens. The IDF will continue to target terrorist sites that are used to carry out terror attacks against Israeli citizens," it said.

"The IDF will continue to target sites that are used for carrying out terror attacks against the citizens of Israel while improving their daily security," it added.

An IDF statement Monday said more than 120 rockets fired from Gaza had hit Israel since Saturday and that the Israeli air force had responded with airstrikes on a number of sites. 

Jabari had survived numerous assassination attempts in the past and had served close to a decade in an Israeli jail, according to NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin.

He was widely considered the second most important figure within Hamas' overall structure after Khaled Mishaal, the head of the organization’s political bureau.

Uriel Sinai / Getty Images

Israeli children play games at a bomb shelter on Nov. 14 in Netivot, Israel. Israel Defense Forces launched aerial attacks on targets in Gaza that killed the top military commander of Hamas.

Jabari was instrumental in negotiations about the release of Shalit, Mohyeldin said. Jabari was rarely seen in public and even more seldom filmed but he was seen accompanying Shalit to the border crossing with Egypt ahead of his handover.

US reacts; Israeli ambassador leaves Egypt
U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the United States "strongly" condemns the rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel.

"There is no justification for the violence that Hamas and other terrorist organizations are employing against the people of Israel," Toner's statement read. "We call on those responsible to stop these cowardly acts immediately. We support Israel's right to defend itself, and we encourage Israel to continue to take every effort to avoid civilian casualties."

Egypt's foreign minister called Israel's airstrikes on Gaza a dangerous escalation at a critical time for the region, and called on the Israeli government to quickly halt the offensive.

Egypt's ruling Freedom and Justice Party condemned the killing of Jabari, and said Israel was using the military operation as a card in its own political game, ahead of elections in January. The party called on the international community and Arab states to act immediately to stop the massacre against the Palestinian people, adding that Israel's attacks were meant to create instability in the region.

Airport sources in Egypt confirmed to NBC News that the Israeli ambassador and other Israelis were leaving Cairo Wednesday night.

The U.N. chief also called on Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants to prevent an escalation of hostilities, urging both sides to ensure civilians will be protected, a U.N. spokesman said Wednesday.

"The Secretary-General calls for an immediate de-escalation of tensions," U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said, adding that it was a reiteration of Ban's already-stated position.

"Both sides should do everything to avoid further escalation and they must respect their obligations under international humanitarian law to ensure the protection of civilians at all times," he told reporters.

A Palestinian rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck a house in southern Israel today, causing damage but no injuries. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

 

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Good riddance, one less terrorist to face.

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#1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:13 AM EST

WELL DONE !

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#1.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:35 AM EST

A statement from the Al-Qassam Brigades said that Israel had “opened the gates of Hell.”

that means they'll kill innocent women and children in every country except Israel because they're too scared to go directly at the country they keep claiming they'll destroy. Low life cowards.

  • 62 votes
#1.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:08 AM EST

This is not news. "Hamas kills Israeli leader" would be news.

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#1.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:12 AM EST

Good shot!!

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#1.4 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:15 AM EST

Hamas, an equal opportunity employer. Upward mobility is a big plus. What self-respecting, career driven Islamist wouldn't want to be a part of this fine organization?

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#1.5 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:19 AM EST

To Israel, I say apply for statehood or completely take Israel for yourselves. Send in the tanks, helecopter and jets, reduce Gaza to rubble, and claim your country once and for all. Rebuild your temple, as is prophecy. Remove Islamic Jihadists and extremests once and for all from your country. Give evacuation orders to every single muslim living in Gaza, take them out of the country, those who stay, let them face what our Crusading ancestors knew, "Kill them all, God will recognize his own."

Rebuild the Temple Mound, and destroy that desecration that is on it now. Your enemies are at contention now, civil wars and arab spring mounting all around you, what better time than now.

To Muslims: You wanted a war, you hear the sound of bombs growing distant. You had your chance for the last thousand years to prove you were a peaceful religion and yet you have attacked every nation whose religion is different than your own, and worse yet, you've incited civil wars within your own country with people whose beliefs differ only slightly. We cannot have a peaceful earth when one of the major religions is war mongering (as barbaric as beheading non believers) and so fanatical they believe strapping a vest full of explosives, walking on a bus and killing a couple dozen innocent people, will get them into heaven. Stop reading your Quran, it was founded by a pedophile (documented in the Quran as having consumated the marriage around 8 years old) and who took his first city (mecca) and beheaded all people who wouldn't convert to his new religion. This is why it is wrong. This is the difference.

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#1.6 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:19 AM EST

When Hamas terroizes Israel with rockets on a daily basis, NBCNews largely ignores the story.

When Israel kills a leader responsible for those rocket attacks, it's call an 'assassination'... continued liberal bias and distortion of the news.....

I call the death of a terrorist, Justice!

  • 62 votes
#1.7 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:26 AM EST

If America is drawn into yet another war by its ally Israel, I think the use of nuclear weapons is sanctioned so we can end it in less than a week. Enough killing, we need to test these nuc weapons before they expire.

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#1.8 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:28 AM EST

Hamas is so mentally ill - they fire hundreds of bombs - hundreds and then when Israel retaliates - they scream that Israel has "unleashed the gates of hell' - garsh - isn't Hamas just a tad embarrassed by their childish behavior? They really have no pride, no class, no heart and no brains. I wish Israel would once and for all deal them a striking blow - wait for them to do one of their street marches - and just blow them to smithereens!

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#1.9 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:36 AM EST

What this MSN article seems to have left out (intentionally I believe) is that the IAF also took out 20 bunkers of long range Iranian missile (FAjr-5) launchers hidden inside residential houses in Gaza. These missiles had the capacity to reach Tel Aviv. Obviously the Palestinians (Actually Jordanians) are using civilians as shields and fighting as cowards. It seems it took an actual Air Force response to FINALLY stop Hamas from firing rockets into Israel.

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#1.10 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:40 AM EST

Thank you Israel!

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#1.11 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:44 AM EST

Hey MSNBC, stop sympathizing with terrorists.

Hamas is and has been in a state of war with Israel.

The terrorist in question is one of the central figures in Hamas and its attacks on civilians.

He was KILLED, EXECUTED, MADE ACCOUNTABLE, but certainly not ASSASSINATED.

  • 42 votes
#1.12 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:47 AM EST

Israel realized who remained in office, so they took matters into their own hands. Good for them. Our only ally in the region needs our support.

  • 31 votes
#1.13 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:57 AM EST

In Syria Shiites and Sunnis are battling on whose Allah is greater.

We including Israel should not go near Syria.

Israel should use this break to blow up not just Hamas military chief, but blow up all Hamas members once for all!

If Shiites and Sunnis Allah's battles become goes into larger areas, then Israel should go after Hezbollah too!

It should be carpet bombings and no soldiers on the ground!

  • 12 votes
#1.14 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:57 AM EST

Yup, Hamas has been sending misguided rockets over the fence for years and now cry foul. LOL.

They can dish it out but can't take it.

I agree with astounding #1.6....Stop playing games and just go for it. Israel has a very good and well trained Air Force and Military. For Hamas to even think about trying to go up against them tells me they're crazier than I thought.

Their weapons against Israel are like sticks and stones up against rifles and rocket propelled grenades. They'll never "ever" take over Israel. Not sure what's going through their minds but I can guess the they thing "their" God will help them out. Heh heh...

Al718,

He was "Targeted" and when it hit the mark, he then was instantly "Assassinated"with a well guided missile. They "wanted" to take this guy out and do have the capabilities to do just as they did. Perfect shot if you ask me. Well planned showing the next guy in line with the balls to take over his place will be next. It's Wars nature to place such thoughts on their minds.

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#1.15 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:59 AM EST

Mark and others:

It was actually the Israeli Prime minister that used the phrase assassinated the Hamas leader. They are not afraid to use the term because realistically it is true. No different when Seal Team 6 assassinated Osama Bin Lyin; no point in being politically correct about it. It is still justified to cut the head off the snake when its poisonous and can't be controlled, but just because its called an assassination doesn't mean its less warranted.

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#1.16 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:06 PM EST

Yo Creek Dog, let me know when Israel decides to fight someone who can fight back. They keep on "talking the talk" about Iran, but hasn't "walked the walk". There is a big difference in a 30 pound rocket landing in a open field, than a 30 ton missile landing in a very populated area. It appears that they waiting for Uncle Sam to sign off and to (if necessary) sacrifice the lives of their own sons and daughters. Which would be a good thing. Because it will lead to Americans to think twice about this useless friendship. FYI - I ain't going, not my fight

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#1.17 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:08 PM EST

MRC,

Israel is "Defending" themselves from the Palestinians (Hamas). Hamas continues to antagonize Israel with misguided bombing that just land "wherever". Israel gave them many warnings and finally dropped one on their leaders "HEAD" to let them know they're messing with the wrong people.

As for the rest of your post, to each their own. We all have our opinions and have the right to post them as we wish and did so.

Have a nice day...

  • 23 votes
#1.18 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:18 PM EST

MCR-4250086

Yo Creek Dog, let me know when Israel decides to fight someone who can fight back.

1948: Israel vs. Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. Israel win.

1956: Israel vs. Egypt. Draw.

1967: Israel vs. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq. Israel win.

1973: Israel vs Egypt & Syria. Draw.

  • 18 votes
#1.19 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:20 PM EST

In 1956, Eisenhower intervened and gave the Suez Canal and Sinai back to Egypt. In 1973, the Israelis were stopped by U.S. interference. In both cases, our meddling set the stage for more wars.

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#1.20 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:30 PM EST
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Israel is just as much a terrorist as Hamas. These people are brothers from the same f-up family of ME lunatics.

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#1.21 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:35 PM EST
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Israel has painted itself into a corner of its own making.

1) Egypt is still very tense. The military there has apparently lost much inflence to the political activities of the Muslim Brotherhood. The problem for Israel is that attacks such as this in Gaza and the constant drum beating for a war with Iran really doesn't sit well with Egyptians. Israel is allowing its most stable neighbor to drift away. Eventually, if things continue on their current path, the Camp David Accords will be scrapped.

2) Jordan appears to be very stable, but it isn't. Israel has caused Jordan to have to help a huge refugee population, but the major issue between the two countries is over water issues, especially the tributaries leading into the Dead Sea. If really pressed Jordan will either join Sunni countries in concerted action or will at least step aside and not intervene if a country like Egypt wants to duke it out with Israel.

3) Lebanon was once one of the most liberal and modern Middle Eastern countries, similar to Turkey and very secular. But constant meddling by both Israel and Syria has literally torn a once-wonderful country into a polarized chaos. The lack of rule of law in Lebanon makes it a perfect place for Israel's enemies to operate pretty openly there. The chaos in Syria has created power vacuums in Lebanon that are seriously unstable.

4) Syria is in absolute chaos. A tiny Alawite/Christian-controlled Baathist Party still holds most of the power. The danger there is if Assad chooses to try to attack Israel either as a last gasp of a dieing regime, or as a way of trying to unify Syria. Suria posses both the missiles and the chemical weapons that could cause immense damage in a tiny country like Israel.

5) Russia is very sensitive to the situation. This is for two reasons: a) Putin has invested a lot of political capital in Assad and Syria, so he is unwilling to walk away from Assad. b) The only overseas Russian military base is at Targus, Syria. This base is critical to Russia because Russia's "warm-water" fleet is the Black Sea Fleet, based on the Crimea. To get in and out of the Black Sea, the fleet has pass through the Turkish-owned Bosphorus and Dardenelles. In the event of some sort of hostilities the Turks could blockade the two straits and either destroy them at will, or at least deny them access to the high seas. The base at Targus allows the Russians to forward deploy their Black Sea Fleet in the event of some sort of increasing tensions.

6) Israel's drum-beating for war with Iran does not resonate well within the Arab world (Iran is not Arabic.) This puts immense pressure on Iran to respond. The easiest way for Iran to react is to support the militant arms of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Lebanese Druz. And Iran supports the Assad government because outside of Iraq, Syria is the only Shiite-controlled country other than Iran.

7) The trouble in Syria has caused a number of other countries to be stepping up their aid to Israel's enemies --- some countries, like Russia, are simply trying to protect their investment. Others, like North Korea, see an opportunity to sell arms to Syria for much-needed foreign exchange. And still othere, such as China and India are reluctant to burn any bridges with any oil-producing country since both countries have virtually non-existant oil reserves.

8) Americans always look at half the issue that troubles the Middle East the worst --- nuclear weapons. Israel has around 100-400 nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them to any country within a 5,000km circle of Israel. Arabs find it difficult to understand why the US turns a blind eye to Israel's ill-gotten nuclear weapons while coming down so hard on Iran so hard for trying to develop them, mostly on their own. What people fear about Israel is that it will miscalculate and start a war, probably with Iran, that they cannot win and end up bombing Middle Eastern cities as its last gasp. Most people outside of the US are more sympathetic to Iran than you might think because they perceive Iran as only seeking parity in the nuclear arms race.

So everywhere Israel looks it has enemies. Add that to Israel's "normal" paranoia. Then add in the chaos in the region. And you have a recipe for a flareup that is very likely in the next six months to a year. And I do not believe that Israel should be allowed to be in a position where it can drag the USA into an Israeli fight with anyone. Our policy should be "You broke it, you fix it." with Israel.

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#1.22 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:36 PM EST

I once saw Bill Clinton on TV after he had left office giving a talk to a university audience, where he stressed "either you kill all your enemy, or eventually you have to talk to them". Both the Palestinians and the Israelis need to come to the realization that they are never going to kill all their enemies, and therefore need to sit down and come to an equitable settlement which will permit everyone to live in peace and security. Until they do, I say a pox on both their houses. In the meantime, the US should play the role of an honest broker, and acknowledge that both sides have legitimate grievances that need to be addressed.

  • 9 votes
#1.23 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:39 PM EST

The head of the militant wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement and five others were killed as Israel launched a series of airstrikes in Gaza Wednesday, officials said.

Excellent. Keep up the mighty fine work, Israel. The more of these loony Hamas bastages you kill off, the better. And thank you.

  • 15 votes
#1.24 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:48 PM EST

sometherapyguy

Nice sentiment, but impossible. The Muslims have an ingrained culture that teaches it is better to die in war than to be diplomatic; death is the only way to secure sanctification for yourself and your family. Do you realize each time one of their family dies by fighting they throw a joyous party for the deceased? Israel is fighting for survival, Hamas is fighting for annihilation.

  • 18 votes
#1.25 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:49 PM EST

Boom! And the world just got a bit better. Good shootin' IDF.

  • 14 votes
#1.26 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:56 PM EST

A statement from the Al-Qassam Brigades said that Israel had “opened the gates of hell.”

And you think that's going to deter them, think again!

  • 5 votes
#1.27 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:58 PM EST

His Al Queda in Syria is same Hamas. Iron Dome must be prepared to handle their rocket launches.

Shia and Christian communities of Lebanon should be prepared for provovations as well.

  • 3 votes
#1.28 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:08 PM EST

We including Israel should not go near Syria.

Israel should use this break to blow up not just Hamas military chief, but blow up all Hamas members once for all!

If Shiites and Sunnis Allah's battles become goes into larger areas, then Israel should go after Hezbollah too!

It should be carpet bombings and no soldiers on the ground!

Here, here - Jonathan. You don't know how well you nailed it. Perfectly said.

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#1.29 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:09 PM EST

Chris: Please explain: 1) How did Israel "meddle" in Lebanon (independent of retaliation against constant cross border attacks). 2) How has Israel "increased pressure" on Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt (apart from their retaliating against "accidental" cross-border attacks). I also disagree with your premise that Israel will lose a three-front war. It's certainly not a desirable outcome but they've done it before and you'd be surprised what Israel could do on its borders by conventional means if faced with another potential Six-Day or Yom-Kippur scenario. And Netanyahoo has been beating the Iran war drums for good reason. If Israel did not have the knack for foresight it would have been eliminated long ago. And please don't dismiss the threat of radical Islam to the US. It is, unfortunately our fight as well.

Consider the January 29, 2012 "Israel vs. Iran" article in the New York Times were it was noted that, "The Iranian regime will be several times more dangerous if it has a nuclear device in its hands...one that it could bring to the United States. It is not for nothing that it (i.e., Iran) is establishing bases for itself in Latin America and creating links with drug dealers on the US-Mexican border. This is happening in order to smuggle ordnance into the United States for the carrying out of terror attacks. Imagine this regime getting nuclear weapons to the US-Mexican border..."

  • 11 votes
#1.30 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:18 PM EST

Chris: And you ask why the US has "turned a blind eye" to Israel's nuclear arsenal while setting a different standard for Iran? Israel has proven it can maintain its nuclear weapons for the past 40 or so years and has, unlike Iran, never threatened to annhiliate another nation. I would not give Iran, with a record of murderously stifling dissent in its own people, the opportunity to prove the same.

  • 13 votes
#1.31 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:26 PM EST

Chris: Also, please explain how Isarel caused jordan's refugee crisis.

  • 10 votes
#1.32 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:34 PM EST

I thought the peaceful palestinians were out working on their olive harvest, per the previous MSNBC article?

I guess a few of them took the time to launch rockets at Israel instead.

  • 13 votes
#1.33 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:45 PM EST

I think I found my new place to live, I may not be a Jew, but I can respect their position to not be f-cking with on a daily basis, maybe they can use my services to help with whatever cause they are fighting for.

There is no such thing as peace and I hate having this liberal bull@!$%# shoved down my throat on a daily basis, when has there ever been peace anywhere on earth, NEVER, so what makes anybody think they can accomplish it now, it's worse than ever and it's going to get worse.

  • 7 votes
#1.34 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:58 PM EST

Someotherguy: But this is not a land-for-peace issue. It's a cultural and religious war not only against the Jews. Previous attempts were made to establish an independent Palestinian state but to no avail.

MYTH

"The Palestinians have never been offered a state of their own."

FACT

The Palestinians have actually had numerous opportunities to create an independent state, but have repeatedly rejected the offers:

In 1937, the Peel Commission proposed the partition of Palestine and the creation of an Arab state.

In 1939, the British White Paper proposed the creation of a unitary Arab state.

In 1947, the UN would have created an even larger Arab state as part of its partition plan.

The 1979 Egypt-Israel peace negotiations offered the Palestinians autonomy, which would almost certainly have led to full independence.

The Oslo agreements of the 1990s laid out a path for Palestinian independence, but the process was derailed by terrorism.

In 2000, Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered to create a Palestinian state in all of Gaza and 97 percent of the West Bank.

In 2008, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered to withdraw from almost the entire West Bank and partition Jerusalem on a demographic basis.

In addition, from 1948 to 1967, Israel did not control the West Bank. The Palestinians could have demanded an independent state from the Jordanians.

The Palestinians have spurned each of these opportunities. A variety of reasons have been given for why the Palestinians have in Abba Eban's words, "never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity." Historian Benny Morris has suggested that the Palestinians have religious, historical, and practical reasons for opposing an agreement with Israel. He says that "Arafat and his generation cannot give up the vision of the greater land of Israel for the Arabs. [This is true because] this is a holy land, Dar al-Islam [the world of Islam]. It was once in the hands of the Muslims, and it is inconceivable [to them] that infidels like us [the Israelis] would receive it."

The Palestinians also believe that time is on their side. "They feel that demographics will defeat the Jews in one hundred or two hundred years, just like the Crusaders." The Palestinians, Morris says, also hope the Arabs will acquire nuclear weapons in the future that will allow them to defeat Israel.

"Barak made a proposal that was as forthcoming as anyone in the
world could imagine, and Arafat turned it down. If you have a country that's a sliver and you can see three sides of it from a high hotel building, you've got to be careful what you give away and to whom you give it."

— U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld 9

Also, please refer to my post re: the palestinian covenant below.

  • 11 votes
#1.35 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:01 PM EST

Bryan: Perhaps if I go back I'll take you with me.

  • 3 votes
#1.36 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:05 PM EST

After more than 120 rockets fired from Gaza had hit Israel since Saturday I would say Israel has exorcised tremendous restraint. Kudos to Israel. The US still hasn't done anything to the militants involved in the Benghazi attacks and given Obamas dismal record is unlikely to do more than thank the Libyan government for failing to identify and detain them.

  • 10 votes
#1.37 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:22 PM EST

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

Malcolm X

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#1.38 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:32 PM EST

Is that why the Jew haters are out today?

  • 3 votes
#1.39 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:51 PM EST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDohNq9BORo&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Behind the Scenes: Palestinian Demonstrations
See what the Palestinians teach their CHILDREN????

Armageddon here we come!

Thank goodness we have a strong Commander in Chief to help us through this mess....

oh wait, he is planning a trip to Russia to complete is open mic mission!

  • 7 votes
#1.40 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:03 PM EST

do not need to. I already know;

They teach their children that Isreal is Palestine (actually Isreal does not even exist in their text books.

They teach their children to be racists, killers and jew haters

They teach their children how to blow themselves up and kill innocent human beings.

Sounds like a swell people doesn't it?

  • 7 votes
#1.41 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:12 PM EST

Bryan, I am SERIOUSLY considering as well! LOVED Israel!!!

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#1.42 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:27 PM EST

You can track events most closely by following me on Twitter -- @joelcrosenberg, but here are the latest developments.

  • 6 votes
#1.43 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:27 PM EST

Doing this outside the law only entrenches and polarizes both sides. It will only make the prospect of peace more distant.

  • 2 votes
#1.44 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:51 PM EST

Too bad we can't get Israel to solve our Mexico problem in the same way.

  • 4 votes
#1.45 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:39 PM EST

19:22 GMT: Former US President Jimmy Carter was quoted by Israel's Haaretz daiy as saying: “Both sides should cease all hostilities; Israel should end iblockade of Gaza".

WHAT????

Somebody better put Jimmy in his place! Preferably FRONT AND CENTER in GAZA!

Even Obama says Israel has a RIGHT to defend themselves!!!!

  • 6 votes
#1.46 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:47 PM EST

There is nothing wrong with calling for both sides to seize hostilities, but can anyone tell me when "both sides" will include Palestinians?

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#1.47 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:18 PM EST
Lenny12Deleted

HOTTICKET: Thanks a lot, dear friend!

US, British, French, European nations, Israel and other non-Muslim infidel nations have NO ROLES IN SYRIA AND IRAN.

For Muslims, we are all jihadi materials.

So what business do we have in their Shiites vs Sunni Allahs battles?

REMOVE SANCTIONS ON IRANIAN OIL TO CRASH OIL PRICES and REDUCE OUR ECONOMIC MISERIES!

Israel is the right nation to carpet bomb Hamas, Hezbollahs and all those who oppose Israel!

In US and allies case, even to attack enemies who are about to kill, poor soldiers have to consult human rights manuals, war manuals and all laws on earth!

For Israel, only laws are survival laws!

GO Israel, GO Israel ... and all infidels and jihadi materials are with you people!

  • 3 votes
#1.49 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:56 PM EST

Foreigners can join the IDF. Google it.

I tried both the IDF & French Foreign Legion; rejected-over the maximum age limit.

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#1.50 - Thu Nov 15, 2012 3:51 AM EST
Reply

Well, so much for that ceasefire

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Reply#2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:22 AM EST

What ceasefire? Hamas hasn't gone a single day without lobbing rockets into Israel. In fact they've fired 114 of them in the last 5 days alone. Though they are slacking a bit. There was only 10 launched yesterday...

  • 38 votes
#2.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:59 AM EST
Comment author avatarjarrod-990613Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Id do the same thing to people who drove me from and took my land.

  • 8 votes
#2.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:02 AM EST

You'd strap on a bomb and go to a different country then blow up little kids?

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#2.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:09 AM EST

jarrod - showing off your lack of knowledge of the history of the area.....

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#2.4 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:10 AM EST

Actually, Jarrod, you might have profited by the transaction, if your grandparents had been among the ones who SOLD Palestinian land to the Zionists.

  • 6 votes
#2.5 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:45 AM EST

Hey Jarrod, let me buy you a ticket to Gaza...get your ass there, cause we don't want you here!

  • 14 votes
#2.6 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:52 AM EST

savoir,

I'll chip in.

  • 10 votes
#2.7 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:14 PM EST

The Hebrews murdered the Caananites and stole their land. They did this after committing acts of Terrorism and mass murder in Egypt before stealing all the wealth of Egypt.

  • 3 votes
#2.8 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:27 PM EST

Tbow009, A racist and stupid, statement.

  • 6 votes
#2.9 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:31 PM EST

Not his last Joe....read on my friend...lol.

  • 2 votes
#2.10 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:43 PM EST
joeOSUDeleted
Reply

Terrorist leaders are not assassinated. They are executed. And it is entirely necessary.

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#3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:23 AM EST

Isn't it odd that when Obama orders drone strikes the term used is killed, but if Israel orders strike it's called "Assassination" by the News Media that never ceases it's PROPAGANDA?

  • 39 votes
#3.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:35 AM EST

Do we give a sh*t when one country calls something different than we do? By the way, smartass, the Israeli military called it an assassination, the press didn't.

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#3.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:55 AM EST
Comment author avatarAlan PughExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Right, because what Israel does to Palestine, including this unprovoked attack, isn't terrorism. Because "God," right? Got it.

  • 11 votes
#3.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:00 AM EST

Clark,

Who gives a @!$%# what they call it? Call it killing, execution, termination if you want. The result is the same..a scumbag islamist is dead. BTW..they call it an assassination because it was a (single) prominent person killed by suprise attack..which is the definition of assassination. Quit jumping on the "News Media's" balls every second..next thing you know..you will be blaming the "News Media" for being so fat and stupid. Damn "News Media", Clark is not stupid and fat..he is hefty and lacking keen of mind..

  • 8 votes
#3.4 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:04 AM EST

Alan Pugh "unprovoked" ?????????????????????????

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#3.5 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:12 AM EST

Alan Pugh, unprovoked attack? What exactly does lobbing 114 rockets over a 5 day period against civilians mean to you? You're not all there, are ya.

  • 36 votes
#3.6 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:13 AM EST

@Alan Pugh

Right, because what Israel does to Palestine, including this unprovoked attack,

Unprovoked attack? Are you f*cking kidding me?

114 rockets into Israel in the last 5 days. That's not provocation? 1,700+ rockets since the beginning of the year. Not provocation?

Wake the f*ck up dude.

  • 35 votes
#3.7 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:15 AM EST

Alan so 115 would have been provocation but 114 is OK. right? They just needed to stop them before they provoked something, they were doing a good thing here. Get off the crack pipe Alan 114 hits might provoke mental instability!

  • 16 votes
#3.8 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:34 AM EST

Alan,

You are clearly misinformed, an antagonist, or hopelessly lost when it comes to the history of the Isrealis and the so called "Palestinians".I'm with Chris all the way on this one plus I add;

Palestine does not exist. Isreal does. Do some research....real research...all the way back to 2000 bc. Palestinians should feel lucky to be under the Isreali umbrella. If they do not like living in Isreal, there are plenty of other places they can go....'cept nobody else wants them so....hmmm...let's bite the hand that feeds us....sounds kind of dumb to me but hey, to each their own.

  • 11 votes
#3.9 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:18 PM EST

Yes Alan, clearly the Palestinians are being victimized.

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#3.10 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:05 PM EST

Anthony & Others

It was actually the Israeli Prime minister that used the phrase assassinated the Hamas leader. They are not afraid to use the term because realistically it is true. No different when Seal Team 6 assassinated Osama Bin Lyin; no point in being politically correct about it. It is still justified to cut the head off the snake when its poisonous and can't be controlled, but just because its called an assassination doesn't mean its less warranted.

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#3.11 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:08 PM EST

Alan,

Looks like you woke up the correction sleeping giant. You may want to comprehend the entire story before posting your thoughts in the future.

There are thousands of people streaming MSNBC and there are very many who do it just to look for incorrect postings such as yours.

Chris,

I noticed a lot of your posts have f'd up language in there pointed at that person you are either correcting or not agreeing with. Not only this one but many others.

Why do you do that? It's very offensive and says a lot about your personality. Well, your pic does that in itself however, so does your posts. Be nice man.

Have a good day...

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#3.12 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:05 PM EST

MOSES was a Terrorist. He used Biological and Ecological Terrorism in the forms of the Plagues of Egypt. He was also a Mass Murderer planning and carrying out the murders of Egypts firstborn sons. The Hebrews called it Passover...One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter....And dont give me that "God did it" crapola. You know damn well MOSES carried out those terrorist actions and mass murder....

  • 4 votes
#3.13 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:16 PM EST

LOL Alan, you really just made yourself look entirely clueless... I really don't support Israel, but even I can see that this was provoked, and Israel has been provoked many times in the past, as well, with no reactionary response. I suspect we wont hear from you on this thread for a long long time.

And then you have Creek Dog playing moral police, yet dishing out his own round of shots. Some of you just crack my $h!t up

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#3.14 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:27 PM EST

Chris,

I noticed a lot of your posts have f'd up language in there pointed at that person you are either correcting or not agreeing with. Not only this one but many others.

Why do you do that? It's very offensive and says a lot about your personality. Well, your pic does that in itself however, so does your posts. Be nice man.

Have a good day...

I guess I just have a mouth like a sailor. 13 years in the Navy will do that to a person. Oh and I agree I do choose to use slightly modified foul language on a regular basis as it does tend to emphasize my point at times. IF you've some of my posts you'll have noticed the language is never directed at the person, usually just as adjective to something I stated.

As for the pic I use, you're way off base there. It's from a scene from The Crow in which he's feeling great sorrow. So how that relates to ANYTHING about me, I have no f*cking clue. (and yes I chose to use that language) I simply thought it was a great side of him. Closest I come to that was Halloween '94 when I dressed up as him to take my nephew out.

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#3.15 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:31 PM EST

Unprovoked attack? What kinda moron statement is this Alan Pugh....or is it puke?

THEY have taken how many rockets into Israel? They have a right to defend themselves. Drop the God sarcasm, go worship some worthless idol like, I dunno, Obama, and drink some more liberal koolaid.

  • 4 votes
#3.16 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:43 PM EST

Israel!----You go do what you have to do!---America is behind you!.....(even if our administration is not!)

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#3.17 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:34 PM EST

Texson55:

THANK you for your support.

You are right, but, just to clarify, CONGRESS supports Israel - the PRESIDENT does not.

Obama is the most anti-Israel President since Carter.

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#3.18 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:26 PM EST

Tbow009 -

You forgot about those sharks programed to kill. The Jews used them on the Egyptians when the Red Sea parted.

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#3.19 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:41 PM EST

Chris,

Copy that. I actually laughed a little reading your post. BTW, we do share the same name. CD (Creek Dog) are my avatar initials and coincidentally, my real name initials CD (Chris DeAngelis). Yeah, I don't mind posting my real name.

Take it easy man.......

customgpc,

Have a nice day...

  • 2 votes
#3.20 - Thu Nov 15, 2012 7:10 AM EST

@Creek Dog

I apologize for the tone of my comment to you, I get carried away sometimes. You have a great day as well.

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#3.21 - Thu Nov 15, 2012 5:49 PM EST

Alan Pugh....or is it puke?

Classy.

I suspect we wont hear from you on this thread for a long long time.

I own my mistakes. I'm well-versed on the history of the conflict but was unaware of the recent attacks.

Palestine does not exist. Isreal does. Do some research....real research...all the way back to 2000 bc.

Israel was created by decree 64 years ago. You can believe in your old books if you want, but you can't use them to deny reality. Find a map from the early 1940s and show me Israel, if it's been there for 4,000 years as you claim.

I have nothing against the existence of the country, by the way, but the army of pro-Israel supporters that come out in droves on these message boards to label any attempt toward neutral diplomacy as some form of anti-Semitism makes it very difficult to have an honest conversation and work toward a fair resolution without invoking mythology and made-up history.

    #3.22 - Thu Nov 15, 2012 5:56 PM EST

    "I have nothing against the existence of the country, by the way, but the army of pro-Israel supporters that come out in droves on these message boards to label any attempt toward neutral diplomacy as some form of anti-Semitism makes it very difficult to have an honest conversation and work toward a fair resolution without invoking mythology and made-up history."

    So no Judaa or Isreal 4000 years ago? No Jews or Isrealites? You mean archeologists have been digging up scrolls and pottery and tools and all sorts of stuff that clearly come from Judea and Isreal from even before biblical times? Man, I have been fooled by hundreds of credible archeologists! They have been conterfitting this stuff and selling us a whole alternate history. All to save little ol Isreal for the Jews.

    Thanks Alan! I am enlightened now. I can sleep well tonight knowing that amount of people from all over the world can pull such a conspiracy off!...lol. fruity pebble....

    BTW...you asked for the backlash from all of these people with your God comment. I'm pretty sure you could have entangled in some pretty interesting dialog had you not just come out and insulted God.

      #3.23 - Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:25 PM EST

      I'm pretty sure you could have entangled in some pretty interesting dialog had you not just come out and insulted God.

      Two things I wanted to say... one in my defense and the other not so much.

      1. If you read back through my comment history, I'm not usually quite so... I guess I have to go with dickish. I'm not quite so dickish. I've honestly had a rough week and my last two posts are not indicative of how I like to carry myself. I'll be on vacation in 18 hours to get rid of the burnout and get back to normal. Sorry for the hostility.

      2. I didn't intend to insult God, but rather to deny that I can comprehend such a thing as God. I find the concept of God and the stories in the Bible to be irrelevant to who owns what land. It disturbs me to know that people say "Israel has a right to this part of your country because this book says it used to be theirs a few thousand years ago, so turn it over." Paper lies still, you can write anything on it.

      At the end of the day, I stand by the fact that I'm 100% for a two-state solution. I simply feel the people who make the final decision should be secular and rational and neutral, and that means world leaders are pretty much all out, because they've ALL taken sides.

        #3.24 - Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:58 PM EST
        Reply

        If it wasn't clear before, it is certainly now, Israeli have stepped up their efforts and are dead serious in their efforts to destroy the terrorist organizations. This latest new plan called Operation Cloud Pillar, I suspect is not going to be subtle.Perhaps now the Hamas will sit up and take notice the stakes have risen.Let's see how they and all other terrorist organizations like being on the receiving end. I hope someone has air conditioning, because the Middle East just got a lot hotter.

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        Reply#4 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:23 AM EST

        Have we got the guts to do something like this to a terrorist?

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        #4.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:39 AM EST

        Sure, through our funding to the Isreali military. It works too.

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        #4.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:29 PM EST

        Have we got the guts to do something like this to a terrorist?

        Why don't you ask Bin Ladin that question?

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        #4.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:50 PM EST

        He is too busy with his 72 virgins right now but he'll get back to you...lol.

        • 4 votes
        #4.4 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:00 PM EST

        @ someotherguy-1373018, Don't go thinking Obama can take a bow for the demise of Bin Ladin....that's purely the United States Marines/Seals. Obama already claimed he would have liked to put Bin Ladin on trial instead of killing him........so he could tell us for the next 4 years that "it's under investigation", instead of letting justice claim the POS....

        • 1 vote
        #4.5 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:38 PM EST
        Reply

        HOO RA, Way to go Israel. The only good terrorist is a dead one!

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        Reply#5 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:23 AM EST

        Israel is the "Texas" of the Middle East. Go Israel!

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        #5.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:17 AM EST

        As long as we are not asked to get involved monetarily or physically, I guess it's okay. Dont start something you cant finish on your own....

        I still don't like the way Israel has treated their neighbors and have physically starved and economically choked the life out of the Palestineans. I know and understand WHY they do it, but still don't like it. Too..... Nazi-ish for me...

        • 2 votes
        #5.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:29 AM EST
        Comment author avatartracontechExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

        Just goes to show that America should let Texas seceed back to Mexico and good riddance of the nuisance rednecks living there...

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        #5.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:33 AM EST

        tracontech, you think we are safe? Think again they don't like us either. We are so un-ready to fight a war like this it is un-believable. You will need a harder skin, you better be willing to kill women and children because they are being taught to kill you.

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        #5.4 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:41 AM EST

        tracontech,

        Why don't you just leave if you don't like "rednecks". They are American as anybody else and a good deal of the people you call "rednecks" fight and die for our country and your right to hate them.

        ....love the pig...it suits you I think.

        • 3 votes
        #5.5 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:08 PM EST

        My cousin lives in texas and she's not a redneck she grew up in California. That was a redneck statement if you ask me!!!

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        #5.6 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:24 PM EST

        I guess that goes for MOSES too who was probably the first recorded terrorist leader and mass murderer. For it was MOSES who planned and carried out the devastating plagues of Egypt, Biological and Ecological Terrorism. For it was MOSES who planned and carried out the murder of Egypt's firstborn sons aka Passover...One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

        • 2 votes
        #5.7 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:12 PM EST

        Yes Tbow....we all watch the History Channel too...lol.

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        #5.8 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:34 PM EST

        Moses did that? Amazing! Here I thought it was God and all....lol.

        Moses freed his people from slavery. Hardly the same thing as laying claim to land that does not belong to you, teaching your children to hate and kill, and murdering innocent people who do not wish the same on you.

        I think I got that right. Didn't know he had the god-like power to bring about the 7 plagues that devistated Egypt all on his lonesome.

        • 1 vote
        #5.9 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:45 PM EST
        Reply

        so it is "assassinated" when Israel does it.

        But when the US government bombs an american citizen from a predator drone, who was denied due rights by the US government, it is simply a killing.

        got it

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        Reply#6 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:24 AM EST

        He was a terrorist....we didn't mind.

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        #6.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:27 AM EST

        Travis from Soviet Occupied New England

        Well, so much for that ceasefire

        #2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:22 AM PST

        Travis.

        Yesterday within an hour of the "agreement" a missile was fired into Israel.......

        • 21 votes
        #6.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:34 AM EST

        Those Hamas leaders seem to have short life expectancies. Not a job I'd want.

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        #6.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:08 AM EST

        @Ixor Kleb

        Yup. 114 rockets in the last 4 days alone.

        Most of us have no clue what the Israelis within rocket range go thru. Can you imagine having to drop everything and get to your bomb shelter 3-4 times a day when those sirens go off? And yet some people on these forums still whine when Israel retaliates.

        As for Sax1031

        so it is "assassinated" when Israel does it.

        But when the US government bombs an american citizen from a predator drone, who was denied due rights by the US government, it is simply a killing.

        Common sense tells you that if you're an American and you travel to a Middle Eastern country with the sole purpose of gathering a group of people together with the intent to conduct attacks on other Americans, you don't get to do it without facing the consequences. Only a stupid motherf*cker would think that's like being pulled over for speeding where you get arrested, go to court and pay a fine. I promise you, there are plenty of us patriotic voting Americans who are just fine with the fact this bastard is dead. I will shed no tears for that traitor.

        • 16 votes
        #6.4 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:11 AM EST

        That guy that the US killed shouldn't have been over there working against US.

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        #6.5 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:28 AM EST
        Reply

        What a terrible waste. One terrorist? Those missiles are expensive!

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        Reply#7 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:24 AM EST

        That's the funniest damn thing I've read all week!

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        #7.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:35 AM EST

        Expensive ?

        I think it was a bargain if it saved ONE life.

        • 17 votes
        #7.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:36 AM EST

        It's not like Israel has to pay for them!

        • 12 votes
        #7.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:53 AM EST
        Reply

        Judging by the photo on this story, I would have to praise the Israeli military... not for killing the Ha-mas 'operative' but simply for the accuracy in which the ordinance used was delivered. Damn fine job, that missile hit with extreme prejudice... with VERY little colateral damage to the surrounding area.

        • 26 votes
        Reply#8 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:26 AM EST

        LOL..so you say. Hammas will say that 12 children and a milk factory was hit.

        • 23 votes
        #8.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:37 AM EST

        That's 12 less bomb carriers and one less supply depot!

        • 7 votes
        #8.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:48 AM EST

        Jeff,

        They should stop placing their terrorists in milk factories and schools then...lol

        • 6 votes
        #8.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:10 PM EST

        Troy:

        I know you said this "tongue in cheek", but the reality is far more dark.

        Hammas fires these rockets from populated areas, which, in turn, results in civilian casualties, which, of course, results in world condemnation against Israel. NOT that Israel has a choice - they either respond, or allow the rockets to fall with no ramifications.

        It's just too bad Hammas does not value the lives of their OWN children, or, at the very least, value their hate above their own children.

        • 3 votes
        #8.4 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:29 PM EST

        Indeed I did. Isreal should snuff Hammas ALL THE WAY OUT in my opinion.

        Just so you know, most us logical and rational minded Americans in no way condemn Isreal for defending itself. We are on the same team. We face our own enemies over there. They have killed our own innocents too. We just have the fortune of being alittle harder to reach.

        • 1 vote
        #8.5 - Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:17 AM EST
        Reply

        Step right up , Who's next !!!

        • 16 votes
        Reply#9 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:30 AM EST

        imanutjob...gets my vote..................

        • 5 votes
        #9.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:30 AM EST
        joeOSUDeleted
        Reply

        Air Strike for an assassination? Seems the Israelis aren't too concerned about collateral damage in that part of their back yard... Funny how the article doesn't tell about the other casualties that may have been needlessly inflicted. What ever happened to just shooting the S.O.B.?

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        Reply#11 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:31 AM EST

        The Sderot Calculus

        The Israeli town of Sderot lies less than a mile from the Gaza Strip. Since the beginning of the intifada seven years ago, it has borne the brunt of some 2,500 Kassam rockets fired from Gaza by Palestinian terrorists. Only about a dozen of these Kassams have proved lethal, though earlier this month brothers Osher and Rami Twito were seriously injured by one as they walked down a Sderot street on a Saturday evening. Eight-year-old Osher lost a leg.

        It is no stretch to say that life in Sderot has become unendurable. Palestinians and their chorus of supporters -- including the 118 countries of the so-called Non-Aligned Movement, much of Europe, and the panoply of international aid organizations from the World Bank to the United Nations -- typically reply that life in the Gaza Strip is also unendurable, and that Palestinian casualties greatly exceed Israeli ones. But this argument is fatuous: Conditions in Gaza, in so far as they are shaped by Israel, are a function of conditions in Sderot. No Palestinian Kassams (or other forms of terrorism), no Israeli "siege."

        The more vexing question, both morally and strategically, is what Israel ought to do about Gaza. The standard answer is that Israel's response to the Kassams ought to be "proportionate." What does that mean? Does the "proportion" apply to the intention of those firing the Kassams -- to wit, indiscriminate terror against civilian populations? In that case, a "proportionate" Israeli response would involve, perhaps, firing 2,500 artillery shells at random against civilian targets in Gaza. Or should proportion apply to the effects of the Kassams -- an exquisitely calibrated, eye-for-eye operation involving the killing of a dozen Palestinians and the deliberate maiming or traumatizing of several hundred more?

        Surely this isn't what advocates of proportion have in mind. What they really mean is that Israel ought to respond with moderation. But the criteria for moderation are subjective. Should Israel pick off Hamas leaders who are ordering the rocket attacks? The European Parliament last week passed a resolution denouncing the practice of targeted assassinations. Should Israel adopt purely economic measures to punish Hamas for the Kassams? The same resolution denounced what it called Israel's "collective punishment" of Palestinians. Should Israel seek to dismantle the Kassams through limited military incursions? This, too, has the unpardonable effect of resulting in too many Palestinian casualties, which are said to be "disproportionate" to the number of Israelis injured by the Kassams.

        By these lights, Israel's presumptive right to self-defense has no practical application as far as Gaza is concerned. Instead, Israel is counseled to allow goods to flow freely into the Strip, and to negotiate a cease-fire with Hamas.

        But here another set of considerations intrudes. Hamas was elected democratically and by overwhelming margins in Gaza. It has never once honored a cease-fire with Israel. Following Israel's withdrawal of its soldiers and settlements from the Strip in 2005 there was a six-fold increase in the number of Kassam strikes on Israel.

        Hamas has also made no effort to rewrite its 1988 charter, which calls for Israel's destruction. The charter is explicitly anti-Semitic: "The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!" (Article Seven) "In order to face the usurpation of Palestine by the Jews, we have no escape from raising the banner of Jihad." (Article 15) And so on.

        It would seem perverse for Israeli taxpayers, including residents of Sderot, to feed the mouth that bites them. It would seem equally perverse for Israel merely to bide its time for an especially unlucky day -- a Kassam hitting a busload of schoolchildren, for instance -- before striking hard at Gaza. But unless Israel is willing to accept the military, political and diplomatic burdens of occupying all or parts of Gaza indefinitely, the effects of a major military incursion could be relatively short-lived. Israel suffered many more casualties before it withdrew from the Strip than it has since.

        Perhaps the answer is to wait for a technological fix and, in the meantime, hope for the best. Israel is at work on a missile-defense program called "Iron Dome" that may be effective against Kassams, though the system won't be in place for at least two years. It could also purchase land-based models of the Phalanx Close-In Weapons System, used by the U.S. to defend the Green Zone in Baghdad.

        But technology addresses neither the Islamic fanaticism that animates Hamas nor the moral torpor of Western policy makers and commentators who, on balance, find more to blame in Israel's behavior than in Hamas's. Nor, too, would an Iron Dome or the Phalanx absolve the Israeli government from the necessity of punishing those who seek its destruction. Prudence is an important consideration of statesmanship, but self-respect is vital. And no self-respecting nation can allow the situation in Sderot to continue much longer, a point it is in every civilized country's interest to understand.

        On March 9, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa attacked the border town of Columbus, N.M., killing 18 Americans. President Woodrow Wilson ordered Gen. John J. Pershing and 10,000 soldiers into Mexico for nearly a year to hunt Villa down, in what was explicitly called a "punitive expedition." Pershing never found Villa, making the effort something of a failure. Then again, Villa's raid would be the last significant foreign attack on continental U.S. soil for 85 years, six months and two days.

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        #11.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:36 AM EST

        Excellent post, Ixor- thanks.

        • 16 votes
        #11.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:44 AM EST

        Ixor Kleb

        Always rewarding to read your posts. Thank you.

        • 10 votes
        #11.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:04 AM EST

        JPinMN

        There was much other damage. Seems the IAF also took out 20 long range missile installations that could reach Tel Aviv. Not surprisingly each one was hidden in houses in civilian neighborhoods. They also bombed weapon and explosive storage facilities. As for taking out the Hamas military leader, it was HIS decision to place these arsenals inside civilian neighborhoods, blame HIM for any collateral damage.

        • 7 votes
        #11.4 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:24 PM EST

        Ixor: I think providing additional highlights of their murderous covenant will complement your already excellent post:

        The desire of the Muslims to commit Jewish genocide has existed since the days of Allah and did not start with the onset of the Arab-Israeli conflict. With regards to imposing Sharia law, they make no distinction between lands originally Muslim and lands that they conquered by force. They are also not in favor of “peaceful solutions,” and prefer to kill or be killed. They believe that the Jews started the French Revolution and the first and second world wars and their views on Jews and financial institutions are comparable to the Nazis. They claim freedom of all religions under Islam though go on to say that “Israel, Judaism and Jews challenge Islam and the Moslem people” and that “Peace and quiet would not be possible except under the wing of Islam.”

        Sharia Law: Soon coming to a kindergarten near you.

        The Covenant

        of the

        Islamic Resistance Movement

        18 August 1988

        Article Six:

        The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished Palestinian movement,
        whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It strives to
        raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine, for under the wing of
        Islam followers of all religions can coexist in security and safety where their
        lives, possessions and rights are concerned. In the absence of Islam, strife
        will be rife, oppression spreads, evil prevails and schisms and wars will break
        out.

        The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).

        Article Eleven:

        The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an
        Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that. Palestine is an Islamic Waqf land consecrated for Moslem generations until Judgement Day. This being so, who could claim to have the right to represent Moslem generations till Judgement Day?

        This is the law governing the land of Palestine in the Islamic Sharia (law) and the same goes for any land the Moslems have conquered by force, because during the times of (Islamic) conquests, the Moslems consecrated these lands to Moslem generations till the Day of Judgement.

        Article Thirteen:

        Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement. Abusing any part of Palestine is abuse directed against part of religion. Nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its religion. Its members have been fed on that. For the sake of hoisting the banner of Allah over their homeland they fight. "Allah will be prominent, but most people do not know."

        Article Fifteen:

        "I swear by the holder of Mohammed's soul that I would like to invade and be killed for the sake of Allah, then invade and be killed, and then invade again and be killed." (As related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).

        Article Twenty-Two:

        For a long time, the enemies have been planning, skillfully and with
        precision, for the achievement of what they have attained. They took into
        consideration the causes affecting the current of events. They strived to amass great and substantive material wealth which they devoted to the realisation of their dream. With their money, they took control of the world media, news agencies, the press, publishing houses, broadcasting stations, and others. With their money they stirred revolutions in various parts of the world with the purpose of achieving their interests and reaping the fruit therein. They were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution and most of the revolutions we heard and hear about, here and there. With their money they formed secret societies, such as Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, the Lions and others in different parts of the world for the purpose of sabotaging societies and achieving Zionist interests. With their money they were able to control imperialistic countries and instigate them to colonize many countries in order to enable them to exploit their resources and spread corruption there.

        You may speak as much as you want about regional and world wars. They were behind World War I, when they were able to destroy the Islamic Caliphate, making financial gains and controlling resources. They obtained the Balfour Declaration, formed the League of Nations
        through which they could rule the world. They were behind World War II, through which they made huge financial gains by trading in armaments, and paved the way for the establishment of their state. It was they who instigated the replacement of the League of Nations with the United Nations and the Security Council to enable them to rule the world through them. There is no war going on anywhere, without having their finger in it.

        Article Twenty-Eight:

        Israel, Judaism and Jews challenge Islam and the Moslem people. "May
        the cowards never sleep."

        Article Thirty-One:

        The Islamic Resistance Movement is a humanistic movement. It takes care of human rights and is guided by Islamic tolerance when dealing with the followers of other religions. It does not antagonize anyone of them except if it is antagonized by it or stands in its way to hamper its moves and waste its efforts.

        Under the wing of Islam, it is possiblefor the followers of the three religions - Islam, Christianity and Judaism - to coexist in peace and quiet with each other. Peace and quiet would not be possible except under the wing of Islam. Past and present history are the best witness to that.”

        Look up: “Avalon Project: Hamas Covenant 1988,” Yale University School of Law for more information.

        • 7 votes
        #11.5 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:51 PM EST

        Moroccan:

        Please go back to your hookah and hashish so the rest of us can deal with reality.

        • 5 votes
        #11.7 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:33 PM EST
        Reply

        Unify Israel at all costs, rebuild the Temple Mound. Take back what is rightfully Jewish so they finally have their homeland back, and then support them like a state. They deserve to have their tiny strip of a country, documented for as far as Western records recount. Israel is an ally among militant Islam, that deny Christains and Jews the right to visit their holy places. Mecca is the holy city of Islam, not Jerusalem. Give back God's children what is rightfully theirs.

        • 22 votes
        Reply#12 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:34 AM EST
        jbebatwoDeleted

        jbebatwo,

        It works for the Muslims

        • 11 votes
        #12.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:39 AM EST

        jbebatwo your ignorant to say there is no God. It shows your lack of understanding and knowledge, and yes, faith. Go research bible prophecy and find out all that has come to pass throughout all known history and what is happening right now and what is still to come, yes, it's all in there. Do a little research before you spew your atheistic, knee jerk reactions.

        • 9 votes
        #12.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:46 AM EST

        The only issue with religion in the middle east is that most of them chose to follow the false prophet. They were warned.

        • 5 votes
        #12.4 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:59 AM EST
        Comment author avatarTired-2176559Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

        And start WWIII? What about opening up your houses to those less fortunate then you? I could go find the exact verse if you like, but you should know the one I am talking about.

        How about this idea we set a date and move everyone off that piece of material/land. We nuke that piece of material so that no one can live there for 1000 years or so, no group wins, and all three groups lose something important. A stalemate since you morons "will fight until the end of time". How long has it been already? You are almost a tenth of the way there ALREADY, maybe 1000 years would be quicker and easier instead, but that would require intelligence to understand.

        I am sure there was some shrapnel, a bullet might have been cleaner, but it was still better then a random suicide bomb against civilians made to cause the "most" collateral damage possible.

          #12.5 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:21 AM EST

          Actually Biblical prophecy speaks of a thousand years of peace afterwards, it's only those who don't believe in the love of God who are doomed...so your fear speaks volumes, and your education (knowing that the rebuilding of the temple would trigger what is described in the Bible as the Tribulation) can only point to you possibly being on the wrong side of things.

          And I'm sure that nuclear bombs to the whole region would do nothing at all for regional tensions. *sarcasm* Fool.

          • 5 votes
          #12.6 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:39 AM EST

          Good morning, Ixor. ☺

          It works for the Muslims

          Yes it does, doesn't it??? Imagine that!!!

          Nice work, Israel.

          Love waking up to good news.

          • 9 votes
          #12.7 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:56 AM EST

          Tired,

          WW3 is inevitable. Lots of people will die too...might as well be pragmatic and get that temple back where it belongs.

          • 1 vote
          #12.8 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:48 PM EST

          We

          • 1 vote
          #12.9 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:10 PM EST

          ..are waiting for the rest of your comment, Biarrote..lol

          • 2 votes
          #12.10 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:17 PM EST

          it could be fill in the blank...hhhmmmm...

          WE Love Israel!!!

          • 2 votes
          #12.11 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:22 PM EST
          Reply

          The head of the militant wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement was "assassinated" in an airstrike Wednesday, Hamas and Israeli officials said.

          GOOD!!!

          • 20 votes
          Reply#13 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:36 AM EST

          So now that Israel has taken one big open step into controlling their own destiny it would be good to know how Obama and Clinton will react...My guess is deny-ability. It seems that neither know what is going on right under their noses. That is us anymore...an America in the dark.

          • 3 votes
          #13.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:58 AM EST
          Reply

          Wow, this is the first time that the comments about Israel were positive. Most comment's(and I'm sure they're coming), are so anti-Israel, it sickens me. If people only knew that they were anti-Semitic when they bash Israelis, then they would understand why they are bed fellows with Hitler.

          Go Israel, millions of Americans DO support you.

          • 26 votes
          #14 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:37 AM EST

          Uh...no, 45...the people that make anti-Israel comments ARE anti-Semitic. They know they are in the camp with Hitler. It isn't a surprise to them.

          • 5 votes
          #14.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:41 AM EST

          Duke, thanks, and I am aware of that, but there is an element in society that just mimic what others say about Israel, they have no basis but what they have been indoctrinated with, especially if they listen to the Muslim parts of society. And I'm sure many who hate, do not associate themselves with being a Nazi.

          • 5 votes
          #14.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:55 AM EST

          Listen to how stupid your comment is. You claim that no one person has the right to disagree with the actions or policies of the Isaelis without being labeled as an "anti-semite." This would give Israel the right to do what ever it wants, without fear of any criticism from anyone. That is called "totalitarianism" and is found whereever there are "dictators" or "tyrants" in power. Although you may personally not care, most of humanity doesn't fall for this bull sh*t.

          • 5 votes
          #14.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:55 AM EST

          @Johnny, I don't think it's that as much as you are pretending the world around you is a mythical one filled with peace loving people. There are people that want to take away rights, destroy whole peoples (lran has said many times the holocaust didn't exist, that Israel is going to be wiped off the map) which means by advocating these ideols, you open yourself up to scrutiny. Go live overseas my man, say....IRAN... give it a few years, visit a few countries like Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, come back, and tell me how wonderful the freedom to the common people are. For that, of course people are going to tell you that you do not have the right to say those things, they disagree because what comes out of your mouth is foolish. Read a book, instead of trolling pro-islamic posts, trying to convice the public of things we know differently. Our ancestors, white, or european, fought for years to win back lands Islamic nations tried to take. Look up Spain's history and the invasion of muslims from Africa. Look up the history of all the crusades. And you ask us to ignore what our ancestors knew? What they fought against? Your ignorance of history is appaling, and is the only reason you speak so much crap. It's obvious you know very little about Islam and it's never ending war to destroy NON muslims.

          • 12 votes
          #14.4 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:03 AM EST

          It's important to note why Europe and so many hate the jews.

          The Catholic church as late as 1965 blamed jews collectively for the death of jesus. Melito of Sardis was one of the firsts to put this idea forward.

          Both Byzantine and Western churches really promulgated this idea and openly preached about the evils of jews.

          This is why you see Europe blaming Israel for everything, even though it is Europe who is responsible for Israel existing in the first place.

          I'm an atheist, I do not believe in god given rights to anything, you may as well call it tooth fairy given rights.

          That said, Israel has been a country my entire life, with real people, men, women, and children. Gaza also is a place with Men, Women, and Children.

          Golda Meir said that when the arabs love their children more than they hate the jews, there will be peace.

          I believe that. If you look at Israels records with neighbors that are peaceful with them, they live in peace ie: Egypt, Jordan. Hamas does not want peace. That fact should be very clear to anyone that looks into anything they have said or done.

          The real problem here is religion. Not the jewish religion, or islamic religion, or christianity. It's ALL of them.

          All three abrahamic religions want to lay claim to the geographic region that is the confluence of their religious histories.

          • 4 votes
          #14.5 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:03 AM EST

          Dear Johnny, "Most" who disagree with Israel are anti-Semitic. They are our allies, and we are supposed to be theirs, as well. Plus, there is not a tyrant in leadership, in Israel, nor a dictator, so save that argument. They are just trying to survive another day, from being surrounded by billions who want to annihilate them from the plant, and then destroy America next. If you want to stand on the side of the Muslim, then move there, because if you disagree that Israel is the land of the Jews and that taking action to protect themselves is wrong, then you are a Muslim and terrorist sympathizer, in my opinion and you should get a new address.

          • 10 votes
          #14.6 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:26 AM EST

          @losghost- First of all Christendom was founded hundreds of years before Islam, and Judaism further back than that. Also Christianity and Judaism share a common link. They Byzantines were advocating attacking the muslim states because the whole of Islam was invading them! Read your history. It's one of the main reasons the crusades started. Furthermore, the site in Jerusalem where the Temple Mount should be was prophecised in the Bible and Jewish records.

          Again though, this is not the confluence of their religions, this was a Jewish spot, founded by a Jewish king (if you'd bother to read any) then took by the sword by Muslims, and recaptured by Christians, then again by Muslims (after about a hundred years).

          It's all about religion, and if you think it's not, go live in Iran and practice your atheism, and see the difference between living in a free country to an Islamic one.

          Also, there is no history of peace which you speak of. There was a huge war in the 60's though it only lasted a few days, and Egypt has been unfriendly with Israel since Biblical documentation.

          Again people, losghost is just another ignorant poster who is not worth listening to.

          • 6 votes
          #14.7 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:34 AM EST

          .45 ( cal i hope)

          agreed, but don't worry I'm certain they will show up, probably led by the AZ GOATHUMPER, TOMBSTONE,PIZZA he always shows up on the mideast threads.

          • 4 votes
          #14.8 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:38 AM EST

          It is interesting to note that for the most part (and with a few exceptions) Christianity, Judaism and Islam coexisted very nicely together -- until 1947. Then things began to unspool.

          As to the comment on being an atheist -- it must take an immense amount of faith to be an atheist. Let me say two things: don't close the door on religion. Interestingly, cosmologists who have traditionally been atheists have been moving to agnosticism. Doesn't seem like a big step but it's huge. . . . Second, the issue is not so much religion as it is politics. The politicians are the ones who really stir the pot. And cause the trouble.

          • 2 votes
          #14.9 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:58 AM EST

          gm IA. ☺

          after yesterday, maybe he got outta town - for good. what a loser.

          • 1 vote
          #14.10 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:00 PM EST

          I disagree with you who say most who disagree with Israel are anti-Semitic, I for one do not agree with everything in Israel, but I don't understand everything either. I am not a religious person so I don't see things that way, though I do understand them some what form reading history and religion. The years of fighting seem to never end and it seem like Israel is just as much at fault as everybody over-there. How far back in history do you go to be able to claim land? How much land do you get to claim? If an American can answer one of these question, than we better take an inward look at the Native Americans, and the Mexicans, because this was there land first, think about it. it was also French, Spanish, and English. Oh I think Russia might have a claim too.

          • 1 vote
          #14.11 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:06 PM EST

          bubba-1946427

          I disagree with you who say most who disagree with Israel are anti-Semitic, I for one do not agree with everything in Israel, but I don't understand everything either. I am not a religious person so I don't see things that way, though I do understand them some what form reading history and religion.

          Israel was created by the League of Nations and the four principle victorious allies of WW1. It was upheld in the UN Founding Charter Chapter 80...then reaffirmed/recognized by the UN G.A. in 1948.

          They (most of the world) recognized the Jewish Nation was brutally oppressed for 2 thousand years as a minority in the Holy-land and as "guests" everywhere else subjected to pogroms or peace depending on the whims of the nations where they resided. The obvious solution was to allow them back to their ancestral homeland to finally have a place (albeit damn small-0.2% of the landmass that the Arabs as a whole have) of sanctuary. To deny them THAT is in effect Anti-semetism.

          • 6 votes
          #14.12 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:49 PM EST

          Johnny White,

          The Kluckers called. They want their ethos back....lol.

          • 1 vote
          #14.13 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:52 PM EST

          bubba - how can you say Israel is at fault? The land was virtually empty before large numbers of Jews immigrated there in the early 1900s and started BUYING land from willing Arab sellers. They did not steal it - they bought it. Then they drained the swamps and irrigated the deserts and planted forests which did not exist anywhere in Israel at the time, and turned it into a place worth living in, with a liberal western democracy - the only one in the middle east.

          But because they are Jewish the Arabs want to kill them all and eradicate their nation from ther face of the earth. They get along really great with everyone who is not trying to murder them and eradicate them. The only people they hurt are those who are launching rockets at them and blowing up school buses with suicide vests. So you claim it is their fault, that they fight back when attacked for no reason?

          • 7 votes
          #14.14 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:40 PM EST

          bigteks1, where did I say Israel was AT fault? I stated and rightfuly they are a part of the fault, I did not state they stold any land or that they are not entitlae to land as a nation or a people, I also did not state that they were not willing or trying to work the matter out peacefully, Do not put words in my mouth that is how wars start, and that is so much B...s... that the only people they hurt is those who try to eradicate them. They are man, read the bible as a military history and you will find they can be as power hungry as the next man. Power corrupts. If they had the power they would be as corruptable as the next. A book would not stop them, no matter who you believe it is written by, that book the way it is written, someone would find a reason for the destruction of the others.

            #14.15 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:52 PM EST

            Yes, Rockin' -

            The Jews who you all seem to worship are behind most of the wars and killing today

            SO, let's see - Mali Kenya Nigeria Yemen Pakistan Sudan Algeria Philippines Somalia Moscow
            Tanzania (kidnap and beheading of Christians) Mauritania (kidnap/killing of 4 frenchwomen)
            China (Al Queda urging the Muslim minority to engage in Jihad against the Chinese)
            Kabul (bombing of the Indian Embassy) -

            yes, ALL having to do with Jews, right ?

            Egypt, Lybia, Syria - ALL Jews, right ?

            Sudan.... ?

            India and Pakistan ?

            Kosovo ?

            Korea ?

            And YOU tell OTHERS to get educated ? And you call ME a sheep in post 11.8 ?

            Isnt that kinda like the camel calling the sheep black ?

            • 2 votes
            #14.17 - Thu Nov 15, 2012 9:49 AM EST
            Reply

            Terrorists should know that dying for their idiotic behavior is required. A warning label should be burned on their foreheads to that effect, so others standing near them won't be hit by splatter.

            Nobody cares how many virgins you get.

            • 11 votes
            Reply#15 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:38 AM EST

            Right! Especially when those 'virgins' all look like Yasser Arafat in drag.

            • 9 votes
            #15.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:16 AM EST

            I like to know where they get all of these virgins in the first place? They got some magical town?

            • 2 votes
            #15.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:10 PM EST

            Shut up duck of windsor. You are a brainwashed, feeble minded, jackass. You need to be splattered all over the place and then the IQ of the planet would immediately jump with you gone. Reading your gibberish is like reading the rants of a retard.

            • 3 votes
            #15.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:31 PM EST

            ORB, I am literally lmao!

            • 2 votes
            #15.4 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:57 PM EST
            Reply

            One question. What took so long? Keep it up the good work and may the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob continue to protect the nation of Israel.

            • 15 votes
            Reply#16 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:39 AM EST
            Comment author avatarm6c9d200Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

            What they also fail to tell us Americans ("israel's" CASHCOW) is that an "israeli" airstike that MURDERED a Palestinian kid playing soccer last Thursday started the rockets being fired into the ILLEGAL "state of israel" from Gaza!

            And that's not to mention the PLAIN and SIMPLE fact that "israel" stole it's state to begin with, and with the use of terrorism, ie; the M. Begin led irgun and stern gang! Ask the British about the over 300 Britons MURDERED by "jewish" terrorists from 1944 through 1948!

            See this folks http://youtu.be/IU08xVdu9JA

            Remember the King David Hotel Bombing anyone?

            Look up "The Balfour Declaration" from WW1 folks! Listen to a man that was there, do a yt search for "Benjamin Freedmans 1961 Speech".

            Learn the real truth about this ILLEGAL "state of israel"!

            US Army Veteran

            Marc C. Daniele

            Hercy, Mo.

            • 6 votes
            #17 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:44 AM EST

            well said m6c9d200!

            • 4 votes
            #17.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:59 AM EST

            m6c9d200 you don't know what you are talking about, I don't care if you are a veteran or not. Stop spewing the damn lies that the Jews stole their land. They displaced their own people to give Gaza to the ingrates who have not stopped shooting missiles into Israel, since they moved in. Israel cannot make peace with animals.

            • 7 votes
            #17.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:03 AM EST

            fortyfive

            Spewing lies? I've been researching this BS for years SHILL!

            SHILLS like you just don't like it when INFORMED people speak the REAL TRUTH! Everything I have said is true, and you know it! Just cause you don't like it doesn't mean you can call me a liar SHILL!

            Did you know that "israel" was founded by a UN Mandate that IS NOT legally binding, and the UN Mandate even CLEARLY stated that NOT ONE of the indiginous population (Palestinians) were to be harmed or displaced, yet "israel" has done nothing but displace, murder, torture, etc., ie; commit PROVABLE genocide?

            Besides the fact that this UN Mandate ONLY came about by the use of terrorism and murder of British troops, etc. from 1944 to 1948 via the likes of the irgun and stern gang! DUH!

            Remember Deir Yassin and the 500 other Palestinian villages raised to the ground by the ILLEGAL "state of israel"!

            Know what your really supporting Americans!

            US Army Veteran

            Marc C. Daniele

            Hercy, Mo.

            • 3 votes
            #17.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:14 AM EST

            "And I, YHWH will bring again the captivity of My People Israel and they Shall Build the Waste Cities and Inhabit them and Plant Vineyards and Drink the Wine of them and Plant Gardens and Eat the Fruit of them. And I will Plant them on THEIR Land and They Shall NO More Be Pulled up out of THEIR Land which I, YHWH have given Them. Saith The LORD Thy GOD." Amos 9:14-15 "illegal?" Not According to YHWH, The GOD of Abraham., Isaac and Jacob. Glory Be To HIM Forever! There is No God But YHWH and HIS Son is The Lord YAHSHUA (JESUS Christ)

            • 1 vote
            #17.4 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:18 AM EST

            Alan-1380274

            Let me guess ANOTHER BRAINWASHED "Christain Zionist", huh? You should lay off that zionist inspired Scofield Reference Bible and learn the real truth!

            You seem to forget who actually MURDERED Jesus? And please don't TRY to say it was the Romans, because they DID NOT DEMAND Jesus be killed, or even pick a convicted murderers life over that of Jesus'! DUH!

            I guess you'll wake up when the sane people take back this country and give you a choice of either the USA, or the ILLEGAL "state of israel"!

            In the mean time I would suggest you read a non Scofield Bible and learn what Jesus really had to say about "judaism", ie: they worship at the synogouge of satan, etc.! Dispute that SHILL!

            Oh yeah let's not forget that the "jews" were exiled from what was once known as "israel" for NOT following God's laws! Tell me when did God allow them back? DUH!

            And that's besides the fact that 90% of ALL jews in this world are converted Khazars (converted in 741ad) from Khazaria (Southern Russia), and ARE NOT Hebrews or semites for that matter like the Palestinians are! DUH!

            And before you say it, I was raised as a Catholic, not one of dem der mooslims!

            US Army Veteran

            Marc C. Daniele

            Hercy, Mo.

            • 3 votes
            #17.5 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:29 AM EST

            m6c9d200

            One question, where are the Jewish people supposed to go? Where is their land?

            You say it is an illegal state. But after they escaped hundreds of years in slavery in Egypt, they were led by God through Moses to the "promised land". God made a covenant with Abraham and his descendants, Israel was always God's land and God's land to give to the tribe of Judah. Israel is forever, and even though the Jews will suffer, it will always be theirs.

            You want to talk about legal, go argue with God about it.

            • 2 votes
            #17.6 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:39 AM EST

            fortyfive

            What's wrong with Birobidjan for one? You know the "jewish state" that was started 20 years before the ILLEGAL "state of israel"! Hell it's even bigger than "israel", and you wouldn't have to keep comitting GENOCIDE there!

            Second, how about I write a "Religious Book" that says "My God" gave me land in your state/country, and have me steal it from you because of that "book", and then see how you would feel about it? DUH, which way do we go Yogi!

            US Army Veteran

            Marc C. Daniele

            Hercy, Mo.

            • 3 votes
            #17.7 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:54 AM EST

            m6c9d200,

            Palestine does not exist. Isreal does....for 4000 years. Palestinians are nothing more than displaced Arabic Muslims claiming something that does not belong to them...but I digress since arguing with a ____— only makes one a ____.

            • 2 votes
            #17.8 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:58 PM EST

            Troy1101

            I give the ILLEGAL "state of israel" 20 years tops, and it will end! Many say 10 years! Can't wait myself!

            When the ILLEGAL "state of israel", and zionism are done away with the world can finally live in peace!

            The world tires of it's ILLEGAL BS! That is why it is the world's most hated nation! DUH!

            But first Real Americans are going to END the kosher control of the Federal Reserve System, Wallstreet, the Media, Kosher Tax, The ILLEGAL Organ Trafficking Trade, Sex Slave Trade, etc.!

            Not to mention ENDING the disgusting practice of Rabbi's using their mouths to suck the blood from a childs penis after they are cirumcized!

            New times are a comin!

            US Army Veteran

            Marc C. Daniele

            Hercy, Mo.

            • 3 votes
            #17.9 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:53 PM EST

            "I give the ILLEGAL "state of israel" 20 years tops, and it will end! Many say 10 years! Can't wait myself!

            When the ILLEGAL "state of israel", and zionism are done away with the world can finally live in peace!

            The world tires of it's ILLEGAL BS! That is why it is the world's most hated nation! DUH!"

            You most certainly have terrible forsight if that is what you believe. The Jews have wandered this planet with no home before and they will again if they must.

            The biggest difference is that they have us in their corner now. And we most certainly aren't going anywhere in the next 10 years.

            • 2 votes
            #17.10 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:03 PM EST

            Speak for yourself! Obviously you don't see that every single day more and more Americans are learning the REAL TRUTH about the ILLEGAL "state of israel"!

            Remember The Lavon Affair, The DELIBERATE ATTACK on The USS Liberty, The Beirut Marine Barracks and Khobar Tower Bombings, The Jonathan Pollard/AIPAC/ADL/Nut-n-Yahoo Treasons, etc., etc! All kosher done!

            jewish" terrorist (leader of the irgun), and former "israeli" leader M. Begin quote,

            "Our race is the master race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiney is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as slaves"

            WOW, weren't we told the Germans stated they were the "Master Race"? Projecting?

            Need I say more!

            US Army Veteran

            Marc C. Daniele

            Hercy, Mo.

            • 2 votes
            #17.11 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:38 PM EST

            Why yes you need point me to whatever halfbaked extremist klucker website you are getting your information from?

            "WOW, weren't we told the Germans stated they were the "Master Race"?"

            Uh...yes we were. By the Germans themselves....lol.

            your screws are lose bud.

            • 1 vote
            #17.12 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:56 PM EST

            Troy1101

            Prove me wrong SHILL! And while your at it show me, and everyone else here where the Germans ACTUALLY stated they were "The Master Race"! Oh, and Kosher lies/propaganda sites don't count! People grow weary of "jewish" LIES!

            Here's a couple well respected people to ask about this German "Master Race" ("jewish" propaganda) BS, Deanna Spingola, and Veronica Clark!

            By the way, who was it that invented Bolshevism/Communism, and MURDERED anywhere from 40 to 70 million people, MAINLY Christians? DUH, "jews"! Debunk that bit of fact SHILL!

            US Army Veteran

            Marc C. Daniele

            Hercy, Mo.

            • 1 vote
            #17.13 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:45 PM EST

            Rockin,

            LOCO Medal for you too. Another one who thinks they are the smartest guy in a room full of dumb people!....lol.

            dumb people....except the ones who believe Isreal has a right to exist and defend itself. You can't come to that conclusion without being a bit intelligent.

              #17.15 - Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:23 AM EST
              Reply

              There is no negotiation when one side insists that it is it's religious duty to exterminate the other side. Hamas has no life and no culture other than bellicose religous hatred of Israel. Israel has no choice butt to defend itself. Israel is surrounded by 1,000,000,000 enemies with huge lands, wealth, and resources.

              In Hamas controlled Gaza, one can only survive by displaying a fanatical adherance to the doctrine of hatred, or you will be killed as an apostate. The sick minds kill or silence the healthy ones on a daily basis. The results of this trend are obvious.

              • 9 votes
              Reply#18 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:44 AM EST

              Yahoo - the world has one less $kumbag thanks to the IDF. Way to go, boys!

              • 12 votes
              Reply#19 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:45 AM EST
              Comment author avatarJohnny WhiteExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

              International Law and commonly accepted principles of civility mean nothing to the Israeli Ashkenazi Jews. They lie, steal, loot, rape, cheat, kidnap, murder and plunder to achieve their goals of Zionist expansion. The Mossad are the inventors of modern day terrorism and "false flag" operations. Anyone who thinks Israel is a "friend" to the USA is a total moron and an idiot. The Lavon Affair and the USS Liberty Incident are proof that the Israelis would just as soon cut our throats and let us bleed to death if it were not for the "welfare payments" we make to the Zionist State.

              • 7 votes
              Reply#20 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:46 AM EST

              Good on the Israelis! They should nuke all of Gaza and be done with it.

              • 2 votes
              #20.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:52 AM EST

              Man, I can't wait till you get banned Johnny.

              • 2 votes
              #20.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:14 PM EST

              Don't really care what you are here to say rm.

              BTW, insults make you sound ignorant at best. You should try to stick to the topic instead of spewing those if you want any credibility.

                #20.4 - Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:28 AM EST
                Reply

                This is a big blow to Hamas. Kudos to the Israeli intelligence services and the air force.

                • 15 votes
                Reply#21 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:50 AM EST

                I'll bet Hillary files a complaint with the UN human rights organization. I'll bet this really pisses our "2nd" term president off too. I wonder what the people that voted for this jack ass think?

                • 4 votes
                Reply#22 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:51 AM EST

                You're an idiot first and foremost. I suppose you think there are no such thing as militant muslims as well eh? Or that it was fairy dust that knocked the world trade towers down, or what about the bombs in spain and subways and not to mention the fact that Islamic states have a war with every other religion right now. Missiles aimed at Hindu India, rockets and the de-establishment of a state being fired into Israel, a Jewish country, one WE ...ALL OF EUROPE... gave them after they had no where to go after world war II.

                Go do your history and research. Go read the Quran with a logical approach and see the 180 plus verses preaching violence against NON MUSLIM, learn the facts, like a non muslim cannot even fly over mecca (that's how fanatical Islam is) and people keep ingoring it, or listening to media coverage saying, "Islam really is a peaceful religion." That's bull, and anyone who believes it or supports it is a Islam him\her self or is for the liscenced practices (such as marriage at the age of 7, raping female relatives for insults, beheadings for minor crimes, (prayer by a non muslim in Saudia Arabia is punished by death), stoning for other minor crimes...the list goes on and on. Go read history, find that the founder of Islam began by beheading an entire city that didnt conform to his religion, find out that he married a girl under 10 years of age and consumated the marriage between 8 and 9, or better yet go live in place like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Saudia Arabia...a place where Islamic Law is the government. Go head, I challenge you for two years to go do it, practice your beliefs, and good luck, you're gonna need it, because NON believers means everyone non muslim.

                • 9 votes
                #23 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:51 AM EST
                Comment author avatarm6c9d200Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

                astounding

                Ever read the Talmud? Only the most racist/supremist religous book EVER written!

                High "israeli" Rabbi, Rabbi Yosef's 2010 quote "Goyim (cattle, or ALL non "jews") are born only to serve us......" DUH!

                And when was the last time you saw World Trade Center Building 7's CONTROLLED DEMOLITION on 9/11? And I bet you think dem der mooslims had the weeks of access to that building IN ADVANCE to plant the explosives, huh? Duh, which way do we go Yogi!

                Another thing, who was ACTUALLY arrested on 9/11 with explosives, etc. in their "Urban Moving Systems" vans?

                Hint, it WAS NOT dem der mooslims!

                One more for you, what "states" snipers MURDERED upwards of 400 US Troops in Iraq using US weapons with cameras mounted on them?

                Hint, again it WAS NOT dem der mooslims!

                Want me to go on?

                US Army Veteran

                Marc C. Daniele

                Hercy, Mo.

                • 3 votes
                #23.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:03 AM EST
                astoundingDeleted

                I should also add, that from your comments, I believe you to be an Muslim, despite what you put up about a military career. Usually "Christian Zionists" is reserved as an insult by muslims towards us, but I hate to break this to you, I find nothing inflammatory about your "insults."

                • 7 votes
                #23.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:55 AM EST

                Nice try SHILL!

                Still does not top the "jewish" Talmud that states "jews" can lie, cheat, steal, and even MURDER "Goyim" (cattle, or ALL non "jews")!

                Ever read "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion"? Not a forgery!

                Ever hear of the "jewish" PRIVATELY OWNED/RUN US Federal Reserve "usury" system, and Wallstreet, or of the TRILLIONS of US Dollars they have STOLEN from the US Tax Payer? Hell even Jesus CONDEMNED "usury"!

                American's, WHY should we pay private bankers interest chrages to loan us our own money? Think about that folks because that is EXACTLY what we do!

                Who owns/runs ALL of the "MSM" in this country? ALL Kosher!

                Who has the nerve to charge the American Taxpayer a "Kosher Tax" for items such as Aluminum Foil, Dish Detergent, Laundry Detergent, Salsa, etc., etc!

                Who controls the world's Illegal Organ Harvesting Operation? Ask your Rabbi! Then again he probably won't admit it even-though it has even been in the news!

                What "religion" has their "Rabbi's" suck the blood DIRECTLY from a boys penis after circumsicion with their mouth? Need I say? Can you say Herpes!

                Need I go on SHILL?

                US Army Veteran

                Marc C. Daniele

                Hercy, Mo.

                • 3 votes
                #23.4 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:14 PM EST

                astounding - You are correct. mc69 is a muslim extremist and, he says, he lives in missouri. I would say Dearborn.

                • 7 votes
                #23.5 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:59 PM EST

                m6c9d200

                Nice try SHILL!

                Still does not top the "jewish" Talmud that states "jews" can lie, cheat, steal, and even MURDER "Goyim" (cattle, or ALL non "jews")!

                You obviously dont know how to read talmud. Did you read the Aryan Nations Talmud Cliff Notes?

                That minority opinion you mention was provided during the aftermath of the near decimation of the Jewish people by the Romans. That opinion did not rule the day. Apparently vindictiveness was not the ruling rabbinical majority's strong suit.

                I entertain Rabbi Meir Kahane's opinion that if an Arab is coming to kill you: kill him first. What is the Marine take on such a statagey?

                Have you ever been in a situation where a bunch of people have been trying to exterminate you? Maybe not a fellow Jew...but a fellow marine? What opinion and stance would you promote against the perpetrators?

                If you buy into the Protocols of_____— then you are the perfect unquestioning grunt the Corps crave.

                The Hebrew word (actually Aramaic) for Cattle is Not "Goyim"

                Calling someone a "shill" is no substitute for a substantive refutation.

                • 6 votes
                #23.6 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:00 PM EST

                No need astounding. I think you just literally posted the entire Koran. lol

                • 2 votes
                #23.7 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:20 PM EST

                It wasn't fairy dust that brought down the Twin Towers and Bldg 7 into their own footprints and it wasn't air planes. It was nano thermite, set by the 5 Dancing Israelis. Bldg 7 was not even hit, yet it fell to the ground in 6.5 seconds, just after the owner, Silverstein, said "pull it", which are the words used to pull down a building in a controlled demolition.

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A3dW_gUwOg

                http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fiveisraelis.html

                • 3 votes
                #23.8 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:23 PM EST

                @Ralph, so I guess you also believe Elvis was taken by aliens eh?

                Start thinking, instead of being led like a sheep. Conspiracy theorist, you and Johnny White should go smoke a nice load of crack and go bowling together.

                • 6 votes
                #23.9 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:34 PM EST

                They are certainly drinking some special koolaid for sure.

                • 3 votes
                #23.10 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:13 PM EST

                Very high "israeli" Rabbi, Rabbi Yosef's 2010 quote "Goyim (cattle) are born ONLY to serve us......"

                "israeli" Prime Minister Nut-n-Yahoo, who was also personally involved in STEALING American nuclear triggers said about 9/11 (para), it is good, we (israel) are benefitting from 9/11!

                Former "israeli" leader and "jewish terrorist M. Begin "We brought terrorism not only to the Middle East, but to the world"!

                "jewish" terrorist M. Begin also said "Our race is the master race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiney is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as slaves"

                Need I say more folks!

                US Army Veteran

                Marc C. Daniele

                Hercy, Mo.

                • 2 votes
                #23.11 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:16 PM EST

                Where do the people who call themselves “Palestinians” really come from; this, from the Palestinians themselves.

                The link below is to a clip from an interview on Egyptian
                TV with Fathi Hamad, the Minister of the Interior of the Hamas government in
                the Gaza Strip.

                If the link below doesn't appear people can just go on u tube and type in the following title.

                "Hamas official reveals where Palestinians came from"

                Also, please view:

                "The True Face of Islam : Amanpour: Hamas founder's son Hassan Yousef : I spied for Israel"

                If the link does not appear just get on
                to you tube and do a search of the heading above.

                • 4 votes
                #23.12 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:31 PM EST

                Allow me to help, Basil. I had already posted these on the second page a short time ago but here they are.

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHbCGC6amdk&feature=related

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZtiUdl9Cd0

                • 4 votes
                #23.13 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:36 PM EST

                BTW M6C: And who do you think killed those poor Marines in Beirut in the 1980s?

                "jewish" terrorist M. Begin also said "Our race is the master race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiney is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as slaves"

                Really? Please provide a link to your source. You're so full of yourself and, I hasten to add, a discredit to the US military.

                • 6 votes
                #23.14 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:38 PM EST

                Much obliged, Chefaz!

                • 4 votes
                #23.15 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:39 PM EST

                Actually M6C: Please provide a link to all the quotes in your post. Then I'll direct you to the nearest psychiatric hospital. Don't worry, a padded room and psychotropic medication for a few weeks should stabilize you enough to return to the community.

                • 4 votes
                #23.16 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:42 PM EST

                • 2 votes
                #23.17 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:43 PM EST

                Basil Romeo

                Take a leap! Coming from someone that NEVER served in the US Military you've got a lot of nerve SHILL/"israeli firster"!

                I EARNED my right to speak the REAL TRUTH!

                And as for the Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing, israel did it! The explosives used, "RDX", were ONLY used by the US military and the "israeli" OCCUPATION forces! Then again I guess you would think the US did this to themselves, huh SHILL?

                US Army Veteran

                Marc C. Daniele

                Hercy, Mo.

                • 2 votes
                #23.18 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:47 PM EST

                The "real truth" you say? But still no links to your "real truth?" I bet you were dishonorably discharged. BTW: I did serve in the Israeli army and witnessed US mechanized units train with the IDF to gain experience in desert warfare in the 1970s and 1980s. There has always been cooperation between the IDF and US military. A tough pill for you to swallow skinhead?

                • 6 votes
                #23.19 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:57 PM EST

                M6C9,

                You were taken out of the oven half baked.

                The United States and Isreal are brother countries who will never abandon eachother. If you think Isreal will be gone in 20 years tops (your words) then you believe we will too because we will never let them fight alone and they will never let us...I really want to call you all sorts of things but I will just yell them at the monitor and you can use your imagination...all things you said 'cept other way around...lol.

                We are all dying to get some objective resources from you but you point us to nothing but a bunch of racist, extremist klucker garbage. Come on dude! Put up or shut up!

                • 3 votes
                #23.20 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:06 PM EST

                To all rational people on this post: Google "Marc C. Daniele from Hercy Mo" and you'll understand what you're up against.

                • 1 vote
                #23.21 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:08 PM EST

                I googled it. I think this one will do....lol!

                http://magicalstoryteller.com/

                • 1 vote
                #23.22 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:35 PM EST

                Thanks Troy, you made my day!!

                • 1 vote
                #23.23 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:07 PM EST

                Anytime.

                BTW, help me out...what is a "SHILL".

                  #23.24 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:19 PM EST

                  Troy: "A shill is a person who is paid to help another person or organization to sell goods or services" (from Wikipedia). Sorry it took me so long to respond, work, family, etc...

                  • 2 votes
                  #23.25 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:15 PM EST

                  AAAWWWW...

                  there is no way that the vitriolic creep on this page could be anything like that nice man in your link, troy but actually i think i did find a pix of mcd.

                  http://www.freakingnews.com/Scary-man-Pictures-18665.asp

                  this is him, right??? i mean this guy looks just like the creep on here reads.

                  • 3 votes
                  #23.26 - Thu Nov 15, 2012 3:13 AM EST

                  lmfao!

                  Now if we could cut that pic and put it in the magicalstoryteller...that would be perfect symbolism for the antisemites infesting this post.

                  Thanks for the laugh. I think I am saving that one.

                  • 3 votes
                  #23.27 - Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:33 AM EST
                  Reply

                  Hot steel on target. Good shooting guys. Kudos

                  • 14 votes
                  Reply#24 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:59 AM EST

                  GOD Speed IAF andf IDF. Don't Stop until All Hamas and Hezbullah are Exterminated. "Let Them All Be Confounded and Turned Back that Hate Zion." Psalm 129:5

                  • 12 votes
                  Reply#25 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:59 AM EST

                  GM Alan. ☺

                  Ditto that. Well said.

                  • 4 votes
                  #25.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:01 PM EST

                  The IDF is a poor excuse for an army, which was soundly defeated by Hezbollah, once they got the guts to face them on the ground.

                  • 2 votes
                  #25.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:27 PM EST

                  what took you so long to get here Ralph???

                  where would these hallowed pages be without your continuous negative yammering about Israel??? no one buys it. c'mon...you're an articulate guy and too intelligent to keep spilling this swill...why not come on over to the winning side???

                  • 8 votes
                  #25.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:32 PM EST

                  Actually Chefaz: Let him stay where he is. It gives us an opportunity to educate the likes of him on the problems in the Middle East.

                  • 5 votes
                  #25.4 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:48 PM EST
                  Reply

                  Im sick of Isreal. They are the "terrorist" in the Gaza. Taking land from an under matched people and giving nothing in return but death! Last I checked the Palastinians had nothing to do with the decimation of Jews. To the top six posters who use the word terroist in your comments: Did you personally know this man? How do you he was a terrorist? Do you even know the definition of terrorist? Sad how that one little word is used for justification for the killing of people. Id be willing to bet that none of you have no idea of the real situation or the reason behind these killings. But the word terroist is used and suddenly everything is ok! You top six all sound the same. Like good lil mindless sheep who eat up whatever media crap they are fed!

                  • 5 votes
                  Reply#26 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:00 AM EST

                  You need a passport and ticket to Gaza-I would gladly pay for both. One way that is.

                  • 10 votes
                  #26.1 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:11 AM EST

                  I'm sick of hate filled posters.

                  • 3 votes
                  #26.2 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:17 PM EST

                  Stop reading posts if you can't hang chefaz.

                  • 1 vote
                  #26.3 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:22 PM EST

                  LOL!!! it was a response to jarrod's

                  Im sick of Isreal

                  • 3 votes
                  #26.4 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:26 PM EST

                  Israel bought the land so they didn't take it. The fight is over political control, not the real estate title which Israel does own fair and square.

                  As far as whether he was a terrorist, considering he was in charge of launching rockets at civilians in the middle of a cease fire, that pretty much clinches it. Yeah, he was a terrorist.

                  • 3 votes
                  #26.5 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:50 PM EST

                  I thought so...just being a W.A. The Jew haters really flock to these posts chefaz.

                  Johnny White was killing me for a bit...

                  I say we all chip in on a one way ticket to "Palestine" for jarrod.

                  • 3 votes
                  #26.6 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:17 PM EST

                  Don't let 'em get to you. Keep fighting the good fight. Good posts throughout, BTW.

                  I say we all chip in on a one way ticket to "Palestine" for jarrod.

                  That would work...but wouldn't it cost just a little bit more to go just a bit further and make his vacation destination Tehran??? I'm willing to chip in the extra $$$ if everyone else would.

                  • 4 votes
                  #26.7 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:31 PM EST

                  I'm game. I think he finally got banned for the day. Haven't heard anymore of his jew hating jargon and he hasn't responded to anything lately.

                  • 4 votes
                  #26.8 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:40 PM EST

                  Man, the hypocrite anti-semite's are out in force today on this and every other thread it seems. I'll chip in to send the hater to gaza, got enough cash to send at least three of them!

                  Good afternoon Troy and chefaz, playing nice are we?

                  Seems like it is the same people that are always talking about what loving people they are, then go off in some hate filled rant against our military, Christians, Jewish folks, republicans, or anything else considered traditional.

                  • 4 votes
                  #26.9 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:43 PM EST

                  What's up Tracy! How the hell are ya?

                  Trying to take the high road today.

                  We are being blessed with all sorts of anti-semite insite today.

                  For instance, I didn't know that Isreal didn't exist. It's been on my world map since I was a kid...who knew? I have also been educated that the Jews stole "Palestine" even though it doesn't even exist. All these make believe nations are boggling to the mind....lol. I have been deceived I tell you...lol.

                  You should read some of Johnny White and M6C9 (some has been deleted but boy these guys are full of unwarrented hate) Unfortunately none of these Jew hating rants come with credible resources to back any of it up. Most of it sounds like something out of an eastern Kentucky Klucker bible.

                  • 3 votes
                  #26.10 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:26 PM EST

                  Israel killing more muslims all over the world?

                  • 1 vote
                  #26.11 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:24 PM EST

                  Jarrod, please tell me more how you 'eat up whatever media crap they are fed'.

                  Have you even looked at your own post? If anything, learn to spell 'Palestinians' first.

                  Ignorant people like you piss me off. But you know what you really should do, jarrod? If you really support Palestinians that much, get a ticket, fly there, go see whats up and report back to us, just so 'the media doesn't feed us crap'. That way, you and us both will have an 'inside view' on things with no 'media crap' proxy.

                  • 3 votes
                  #26.12 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:23 PM EST

                  Jarrod, you must be hitting a nerve if the only crit you get is misspelling Palestinians....lol.

                  Everything else is just inane babble from what I can tell.

                  • 2 votes
                  #26.13 - Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:35 AM EST
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