Israeli Planes Attack Gaza Targets

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Goober, I really don't care if you have convinced yourself that Israeli war criminals only kill bad people who deserve it. If that helps you sleep at night, go for it. But the reality is Israeli war criminals have killed plenty of civilians. Israeli war criminals killing Palestinian civilians or illegally detaining or killing peaceful protestors doesn't make our news. You can see the studies for yourself which confirm how distorted our news is regarding this conflict.
Off the Charts - Television News Coverage of Israeli & Palestinian Deaths

Consider that if these recent crimes were committed by the Iranian or Syrian government, they'd make our news:

Palestinian succumbs to serious injuries
[ 10/12/2011 - 10:59 AM ]
A 27-year-old Palestinian on Saturday succumbed to his serious wounds sustained in Nabi Saleh village, near Ramallah, on Friday during a peaceful protest march against the separation wall. Mustafa Al-Tamimi was hit with a gas grenade in his head from a ten-meter distance fired by the Israeli occupation forces. Local sources said that Tamimi lost a lot of blood and the IOF soldiers intercepted the car that was carrying him to hospital for half an hour before allowing him to proceed to an Israeli hospital where he was declared dead on Saturday. IOF troops violently cracked down on the peaceful marchers, eyewitnesses pointed out, adding that six other citizens were injured in the quelling. They said that a Palestine TV cameraman was hit with a rubber bullet in his abdomen, another had his foot broken when a gas canister hit it, a third was hit with a rubber bullet, and the arm of a young woman was broken when another canister hit it, while two others were hit with rubber bullets one in his ear and the other in his foot. In a similar violent quelling of a peaceful demonstration in Bilin village, a journalist, along with tens of local and foreign solidarity activists, were treated for breathing problems and many of them vomited. In Kufr Qaddoum and Ma’sara villages, the IOF soldiers used rubber bullets and chemical waste to disperse the anti-wall rallies in addition to beating up the participants.

“19 Children Killed, 200 Injured, By Israeli Shells In 2011”
Sunday December 11, 2011 04:12 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies
Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesperson of the Higher Committee for Medical and Emergency Services In Gaza, reported that, in 2011, Israeli occupation soldiers killed 19 children, and injured more than 200, in Air strikes and bombardment targeting the Gaza Strip since the beginning of this year.

Abu Salmiyya added that the youngest of the slain children were identified as Malak Shaath, 2, and Islam Qreiqe’, 3, adding that most of the slain children faced horrific deaths as Israeli military shells mutilated their bodies. He further stated that more than one-third of the wounded Palestinians in 2011 are children, adding that Yousef Bahjat Al-Za’alan, 10, is still in the intensive care unit after a shell fired by the Israeli army on Thursday killed his father, Bahjat, 42, and his brother Ramadan, 12 years old; at least 17 residents were wounded in the shelling, seven of them were children. Abu Salmiyya accused the Israeli Army of deliberately targeting the civilians during the illegal and random bombardment of civilian areas in the Gaza Strip, especially during late night hours and at dawn. He added that the repeated offensives against the Gaza Strip are impacting the psychological conditions of the children in Gaza, and called on different international humanitarian groups to ensure the protection of the Palestinian children and civilians in the coastal region in particular, and in Palestine in general.

Related:
Child, 12, Dies Of Wounds Suffered During Israeli Shelling On Gaza
Child, 12, Dies Of Wounds Suffered During Israeli Shelling On Gaza - International Middle East Media Center

Palestinian Killed, Seventeen Injured As Army Bombarded Gaza

Palestinian Killed, Seventeen Injured As Army Bombarded Gaza - International Middle East Media Center

Israeli occupation forces killed 19 Palestinian children in Gaza in 2011

[ 10/12/2011 - 06:57 PM ]
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have killed 19 Palestinian children and wounded 200 others during attacks on the Gaza Strip in the course of 2011, medical sources said on Saturday. Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for the ambulance and emergency department, said in a statement that the youngest of those killed was two-year-old Malek Sha'ath followed by three-year-old Islam Quraqai. He said that one third of the wounded in IOF attacks on Gaza in 2011 were children, noting that one of them, ten-year-old Yousuf Al-Za’lan, was still in intensive care after the Israeli raid on Friday in which his father and younger brother were killed. Abu Salmiya charged the IOF with deliberately targeting civilians especially children, adding that the IOF shelling of residential neighborhoods in Gaza at a late night hour has its serious psychological impact on children. He asked all human rights groups and those concerned with children welfare to urgently intervene and pressure Israel into halting its crimes against children in Gaza and to secure a safe life for them.

Israeli Occupation Forces Kill a Palestinian in Nabi Saleh, Conduct Air Strikes on Gaza Strip,
Kill 19 Palestinian Children in 2011

Israeli warplanes blast Qassam position
[ 10/12/2011 - 10:48 AM ]
Israeli occupation forces warplanes blasted a position for the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, west of Rafah, to the south of the Gaza Strip, at dawn Saturday. Local sources told the PIC reporter that Israeli F-16s fired a missile at the position in Tel Al-Sultan causing material damage and a powerful sound that resounded in the entire southern area of the Gaza Strip. They said that no casualties were reported in the raid. Four citizens including a father and his son were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes on Gaza since noon Thursday while 20 others were injured. Resistance faction retaliated to the Israeli attacks with 16 locally made rockets.
 

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Really, wonder why Iran would not allow their Murderers to face trial in a democracy. Guess they are deathly afraid of that greatest of Satan, Democracy.

Why would Iran turn over their former defense minister to another country without unequivocal proof of his involvement in the attacks?
 

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Why would Iran turn over their former defense minister to another country without unequivocal proof of his involvement in the attacks?

Are you sure it was not provided? Oh yes perhaps he is guilty. The Iranian Govt murdered many Iranian dissidents in Germany.
Seems they have a habit of that.
 

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"raping".? Citizen rights to the place you were born should be a fundamental human right.

Yes. Israel should stop booting out Arabs from homes on land they have no claim to.

Nasrallah is a dangerous war criminal. Firing rockets at cities is a war crime.

Nasrallah isn't any more dangerous than Netanyahu. As far as firing rockets being a war crime, fight fire with fire.
I support this kind of resistance:
Bil’in is a Palestinian village that is struggling to exist. It is fighting to safeguard its land, its olive trees, its resources… its liberty.
By annexing close to 60% of Bil’in land for Israeli settlements and the construction of Israel’s separation wall, the state of Israel is strangling the village. Every day it destroys a bit more, creating an open air prison for Bil’in’s inhabitants.
Supported by Israeli and international activists, Bil’in residents peacefully demonstrate every Friday in front of the “work-site of shame”. And every Friday the Israeli army responds with violence, both physically and psychologically.
Bil’in residents have continued to withstand these injustices despite the frequent night raids of Israeli soldiers in the town followed by an increasing number of arrests of inhabitants and of activists.

Most people in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine want to live in peace. I disagree with Nasrallah's advocacy of violence.

That pacifist pussy crap never solved anything. These people have accomplished absolutely nothing but given excuse for Israel's trigger-happy soldiers to practice their aim.
There comes a point where violence becomes the only viable answer.
 

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I agree. Netanyahu and Nasrallah are both dangerous war criminals. Hence the reference to spy vs spy. We've been fed lies by war criminals on one side that we must support their crimes or else we are supporting their adversaries crimes. I don't see it that way. More than two choices exist.
 

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I agree. Netanyahu and Nasrallah are both dangerous war criminals. Hence the reference to spy vs spy. We've been fed lies by war criminals on one side that we must support their crimes or else we are supporting their adversaries crimes. I don't see it that way. More than two choices exist.

Any reply on the terrorists that Israel took out? You asked for proof as you implied they were civilians and I provided proof they were Terrorists. Scary eh when you get what you ask for.
 

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Here are the numbers:

Israeli and Palestinian Children Killed
September 29, 2000 - Present

125 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and 1,471 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29, 2000. (View Sources & More Information)
Israelis and Palestinians Killed
September 29, 2000 - Present

1,092 Israelis and at least 6,537 Palestinians have been killed since September 29, 2000. (View Sources & More Information)
Israelis and Palestinians Injured
September 29, 2000 - Present

10,792 Israelis and 59,575 Palestinians have been injured since September 29, 2000. (View Sources & More Information.)
Daily U.S. Military Aid to Israel and the Palestinians
Fiscal Year 2011

During Fiscal Year 2011, the U.S. is providing Israel with at least $8.2 million per day in military aid and $0 in military aid to the Palestinians. (View Sources & More Information)
Current Number of Political Prisoners and Detainees
0 Israelis are being held prisoner by Palestinians, while 5,300 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel. (View Sources & More Information)
Demolitions of Israeli and Palestinian Homes
1967 - Present

0 Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians and 24,813 Palestinian homes have been demolished by Israel since 1967. (View Sources & More Information)
Israeli and Palestinian Unemployment Rates
The Israeli unemployment rate is 6.4%, while the Palestinian unemployment in the West Bank is 16.5% and 40% in Gaza. (View Sources & More Information)
Current Illegal Settlements on the Other’s Land
Israel currently has 273 Jewish-only settlements and ‘outposts’ built on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians do not have any settlements on Israeli land. (View Sources & More Information)


Hezbollah's Nasrallah
in his own words:

"What do the people who worked in those two [World Trade Center] towers, along with thousands of employees, women and men, have to do with war that is taking place in the Middle East? Or the war that Mr. George Bush may wage on people in the Islamic world?" he asked me. "Therefore we condemned this act -- and any similar act we condemn."
But the Pentagon?
"I said nothing about the Pentagon, meaning we remain silent. We neither favored nor opposed that act," he replied. "Well, of course, the method of Osama bin Laden, and the fashion of bin Laden, we do not endorse them. And many of the operations that they have carried out, we condemned them very clearly."
The use of terrorism is a difficult subject for the head of a group that succeeded in redefining extremist tactics. Hezbollah deployed the first Islamic suicide bombers in modern times. It was also the first to carry out multiple attacks simultaneously. Al-Qaeda and Hamas and Iraq's insurgents -- all Sunni movements -- have copied these tactics.
Nevertheless, Nasrallah has only disdain for bin Laden and the Taliban. In April, an al-Qaeda cell in Lebanon tried to assassinate him. And the late al-Qaeda chief in Iraq this spring condemned the Shiite movement as an "enemy of the Sunnis" -- ironically, in hindsight -- for protecting Israel by preventing Palestinian attacks from Lebanon. "The worst, the most dangerous thing that this Islamic revival has encountered . . . was the Taliban," Nasrallah told me. "The Taliban state presented a very hideous example of an Islamic state."
Yet Hezbollah has not abandoned its extremist origins, even as it tries to establish conventional political legitimacy.
"It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent," he told me, reflecting on Iraq. "To have Iraqis confronting the occupation army, this is natural. But if there are American tourists, or intellectuals, doctors, or professors who have nothing to do with this war, they are innocent, even though they are Americans, and it is forbidden. It is not acceptable to harm them."
In 2004, Hezbollah issued a communique condemning the beheading of American contractor Nicholas Berg by al-Qaeda in Iraq as a "despicable act" that did "grave damage to Islam and the Muslims." But the day before we talked, a suicide bomber had detonated a bomb at a Tel Aviv restaurant during the busy lunch hour, killing 11 and wounding more than 60 civilians. The bomb was laced with nails and other projectiles; the injuries were particularly gruesome. Islamic Jihad, another Iranian-backed group, claimed credit.
I asked Nasrallah how he applied his metric on civilians to Israelis. He described the issue of what he calls "occupied Palestine" as "complicated."
"It is our opinion that in Palestine, women and children need to be avoided in any case," he responded. "But it came after more than two months of daily Israeli killing of Palestinians, and the destruction of houses and schools, and the siege that is imposed on the Palestinians. There is no other means for the Palestinians to defend themselves. That is why I cannot condemn this type of operation in occupied Palestine."

Inside the Mind of Hezbollah
 

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Here are the numbers:

Israeli and Palestinian Children Killed
September 29, 2000 - Present

125 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and 1,471 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29, 2000. (View Sources & More Information)
Israelis and Palestinians Killed
September 29, 2000 - Present

1,092 Israelis and at least 6,537 Palestinians have been killed since September 29, 2000. (View Sources & More Information)
Israelis and Palestinians Injured
September 29, 2000 - Present

10,792 Israelis and 59,575 Palestinians have been injured since September 29, 2000. (View Sources & More Information.)
Daily U.S. Military Aid to Israel and the Palestinians
Fiscal Year 2011

During Fiscal Year 2011, the U.S. is providing Israel with at least $8.2 million per day in military aid and $0 in military aid to the Palestinians. (View Sources & More Information)
Current Number of Political Prisoners and Detainees
0 Israelis are being held prisoner by Palestinians, while 5,300 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel. (View Sources & More Information)
Demolitions of Israeli and Palestinian Homes
1967 - Present

0 Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians and 24,813 Palestinian homes have been demolished by Israel since 1967. (View Sources & More Information)
Israeli and Palestinian Unemployment Rates
The Israeli unemployment rate is 6.4%, while the Palestinian unemployment in the West Bank is 16.5% and 40% in Gaza. (View Sources & More Information)
Current Illegal Settlements on the Other’s Land
Israel currently has 273 Jewish-only settlements and ‘outposts’ built on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians do not have any settlements on Israeli land. (View Sources & More Information)


Hezbollah's Nasrallah in his own words:

"What do the people who worked in those two [World Trade Center] towers, along with thousands of employees, women and men, have to do with war that is taking place in the Middle East? Or the war that Mr. George Bush may wage on people in the Islamic world?" he asked me. "Therefore we condemned this act -- and any similar act we condemn."
But the Pentagon?
"I said nothing about the Pentagon, meaning we remain silent. We neither favored nor opposed that act," he replied. "Well, of course, the method of Osama bin Laden, and the fashion of bin Laden, we do not endorse them. And many of the operations that they have carried out, we condemned them very clearly."
The use of terrorism is a difficult subject for the head of a group that succeeded in redefining extremist tactics. Hezbollah deployed the first Islamic suicide bombers in modern times. It was also the first to carry out multiple attacks simultaneously. Al-Qaeda and Hamas and Iraq's insurgents -- all Sunni movements -- have copied these tactics.
Nevertheless, Nasrallah has only disdain for bin Laden and the Taliban. In April, an al-Qaeda cell in Lebanon tried to assassinate him. And the late al-Qaeda chief in Iraq this spring condemned the Shiite movement as an "enemy of the Sunnis" -- ironically, in hindsight -- for protecting Israel by preventing Palestinian attacks from Lebanon. "The worst, the most dangerous thing that this Islamic revival has encountered . . . was the Taliban," Nasrallah told me. "The Taliban state presented a very hideous example of an Islamic state."
Yet Hezbollah has not abandoned its extremist origins, even as it tries to establish conventional political legitimacy.
"It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent," he told me, reflecting on Iraq. "To have Iraqis confronting the occupation army, this is natural. But if there are American tourists, or intellectuals, doctors, or professors who have nothing to do with this war, they are innocent, even though they are Americans, and it is forbidden. It is not acceptable to harm them."
In 2004, Hezbollah issued a communique condemning the beheading of American contractor Nicholas Berg by al-Qaeda in Iraq as a "despicable act" that did "grave damage to Islam and the Muslims." But the day before we talked, a suicide bomber had detonated a bomb at a Tel Aviv restaurant during the busy lunch hour, killing 11 and wounding more than 60 civilians. The bomb was laced with nails and other projectiles; the injuries were particularly gruesome. Islamic Jihad, another Iranian-backed group, claimed credit.
I asked Nasrallah how he applied his metric on civilians to Israelis. He described the issue of what he calls "occupied Palestine" as "complicated."
"It is our opinion that in Palestine, women and children need to be avoided in any case," he responded. "But it came after more than two months of daily Israeli killing of Palestinians, and the destruction of houses and schools, and the siege that is imposed on the Palestinians. There is no other means for the Palestinians to defend themselves. That is why I cannot condemn this type of operation in occupied Palestine."

Inside the Mind of Hezbollah


Nasrallah also said he hoped all the Jews went to Israel, so they could kill them all in one place.

Lovely you are defending him.

As for the Palestinians, I guess they should stop attacking Israel, huh? All they have succeeded in doing is killing off the Israeli peace movement willing to deal fairly with them. After Arafat spit in their face with the Second Intifada, the movement has almost disappeared as a political force.

When Palestinians stop attacking Israel, there will be peace.

The opposite is simply not true.
 

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How do you get this:

If Israelis can justify killing Palestinian militants 24/7, then Palestinians can justify killing Israeli soldiers 24/7. But unarmed scientists and their families are civilians. I expect that the Israelis will get some of what they've been giving. (that's a prediction, not a wish and I wouldn't want to be an Israeli nuclear scientist right now) Its an endless cycle.

to equal this:

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Several nuclear scientists have been assassinated in Iran in the past few years, and in November one Iranian scientist was killed and one was wounded in Tehran.
Iranian officials and media have blamed Israel, which Tehran calls "the Zionist regime," and the United States for the killings. - Reuters
OK, I have a bias: I don't believe anything (or at least very little) the state media claims as it represents a theocratic dictatorship when attempting to blacken the name(s) of those seen as their "enemy". I'll also admit, that given their support of militant shi'ia groups, I am not overly comfortable with Iran developing nuclear weapons technology either: I don't see a favorable equation in WMD + fanatic religious dictators + alliance with groups who use suicide bombs as weapons. That isn't saying that Israel is a poster child of good behaviour either (because the Israelis are definately not) but when I look at things with a little objectivity in terms of relative consequence, I know where I would want to err...
 

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Just shows that Israel knows how to protect their noncombatants better from savages. Hezbollah and other Palestinian groups have to learn not to mix their military with civilians, no modern so called civilized people/country knowingly does it, It has been forbidden since ancient Greek city states once ruled.
 

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Here are the numbers:

Israeli and Palestinian Children Killed
September 29, 2000 - Present

125 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and 1,471 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29, 2000. (View Sources & More Information)
Israelis and Palestinians Killed
September 29, 2000 - Present

1,092 Israelis and at least 6,537 Palestinians have been killed since September 29, 2000. (View Sources & More Information)
Israelis and Palestinians Injured
September 29, 2000 - Present

10,792 Israelis and 59,575 Palestinians have been injured since September 29, 2000. (View Sources & More Information.)
Daily U.S. Military Aid to Israel and the Palestinians
Fiscal Year 2011

During Fiscal Year 2011, the U.S. is providing Israel with at least $8.2 million per day in military aid and $0 in military aid to the Palestinians. (View Sources & More Information)
Current Number of Political Prisoners and Detainees
0 Israelis are being held prisoner by Palestinians, while 5,300 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel. (View Sources & More Information)
Demolitions of Israeli and Palestinian Homes
1967 - Present

0 Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians and 24,813 Palestinian homes have been demolished by Israel since 1967. (View Sources & More Information)
Israeli and Palestinian Unemployment Rates
The Israeli unemployment rate is 6.4%, while the Palestinian unemployment in the West Bank is 16.5% and 40% in Gaza. (View Sources & More Information)
Current Illegal Settlements on the Other’s Land
Israel currently has 273 Jewish-only settlements and ‘outposts’ built on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians do not have any settlements on Israeli land. (View Sources & More Information)


Hezbollah's Nasrallah
in his own words:

"What do the people who worked in those two [World Trade Center] towers, along with thousands of employees, women and men, have to do with war that is taking place in the Middle East? Or the war that Mr. George Bush may wage on people in the Islamic world?" he asked me. "Therefore we condemned this act -- and any similar act we condemn."
But the Pentagon?
"I said nothing about the Pentagon, meaning we remain silent. We neither favored nor opposed that act," he replied. "Well, of course, the method of Osama bin Laden, and the fashion of bin Laden, we do not endorse them. And many of the operations that they have carried out, we condemned them very clearly."
The use of terrorism is a difficult subject for the head of a group that succeeded in redefining extremist tactics. Hezbollah deployed the first Islamic suicide bombers in modern times. It was also the first to carry out multiple attacks simultaneously. Al-Qaeda and Hamas and Iraq's insurgents -- all Sunni movements -- have copied these tactics.
Nevertheless, Nasrallah has only disdain for bin Laden and the Taliban. In April, an al-Qaeda cell in Lebanon tried to assassinate him. And the late al-Qaeda chief in Iraq this spring condemned the Shiite movement as an "enemy of the Sunnis" -- ironically, in hindsight -- for protecting Israel by preventing Palestinian attacks from Lebanon. "The worst, the most dangerous thing that this Islamic revival has encountered . . . was the Taliban," Nasrallah told me. "The Taliban state presented a very hideous example of an Islamic state."
Yet Hezbollah has not abandoned its extremist origins, even as it tries to establish conventional political legitimacy.
"It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent," he told me, reflecting on Iraq. "To have Iraqis confronting the occupation army, this is natural. But if there are American tourists, or intellectuals, doctors, or professors who have nothing to do with this war, they are innocent, even though they are Americans, and it is forbidden. It is not acceptable to harm them."
In 2004, Hezbollah issued a communique condemning the beheading of American contractor Nicholas Berg by al-Qaeda in Iraq as a "despicable act" that did "grave damage to Islam and the Muslims." But the day before we talked, a suicide bomber had detonated a bomb at a Tel Aviv restaurant during the busy lunch hour, killing 11 and wounding more than 60 civilians. The bomb was laced with nails and other projectiles; the injuries were particularly gruesome. Islamic Jihad, another Iranian-backed group, claimed credit.
I asked Nasrallah how he applied his metric on civilians to Israelis. He described the issue of what he calls "occupied Palestine" as "complicated."
"It is our opinion that in Palestine, women and children need to be avoided in any case," he responded. "But it came after more than two months of daily Israeli killing of Palestinians, and the destruction of houses and schools, and the siege that is imposed on the Palestinians. There is no other means for the Palestinians to defend themselves. That is why I cannot condemn this type of operation in occupied Palestine."

Inside the Mind of Hezbollah




Excellent stats, those bar graphs definitively make you wonder how there are pro-israeli's still in existence.
And how people like Colpy could deny Israel's war crimes, it's just so blatant.
 

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Just shows that Israel knows how to protect their noncombatants better from savages. Hezbollah and other Palestinian groups have to learn not to mix their military with civilians, no modern so called civilized people/country knowingly does it, It has been forbidden since ancient Greek city states once ruled.

They are deploying more of the Iron Domes and a newer capability comes out next year. Same concept except better.
 

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Nasrallah ...Lovely you are defending him.....

Is that what posting someone's words means to you? If you look a few posts up, I describe Nasrallah as a war criminal similar to Netanyahu. I also wrote that firing missiles at civilians is a war crime. Nasrallah is the product of about 20 years of Israel screwing around in Lebanon. One can only imagine what will eventually come as a result of Israel's cruel treatment of Gazans.

How do you get this:



to equal this:


OK, I have a bias: I don't believe anything (or at least very little) the state media claims as it represents a theocratic dictatorship when attempting to blacken the name(s) of those seen as their "enemy". I'll also admit, that given their support of militant shi'ia groups, I am not overly comfortable with Iran developing nuclear weapons technology either: I don't see a favorable equation in WMD + fanatic religious dictators + alliance with groups who use suicide bombs as weapons. That isn't saying that Israel is a poster child of good behaviour either (because the Israelis are definately not) but when I look at things with a little objectivity in terms of relative consequence, I know where I would want to err...


I don't trust any state media. However its a fact that several Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated. Several others have disappeared and there have been several large explosions at places where Iranians test missiles. Would this source be more reliable?

Mossad Behind Tehran Assassinations, Says Source


By Ulrike Putz in Jerusalem

AP​
The funeral of Darioush Rezaei on July 24. Mossad has been blamed for the killing.



One atomic researcher after the other has died in a series of recent murders in Iran. Is Israel's Mossad trying to sabotage the construction of a nuclear bomb with the attacks? Officials in Jerusalem aren't denying anything. Israeli military generals are even more hawkish, and their calls for air strikes on Iran are growing louder.


"Israel is not responding," Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said earlier this week when asked if his country had been involved in the latest slaying of an Iranian nuclear scientist. It didn't exactly sound like a denial, and the smile on his face suggested Israel isn't too bothered by suspicions that it is responsible for a series of murders of physicists involved in the controversial Iranian nuclear program...
Sabotaging Iran's Nuclear Program: Mossad Behind Tehran Assassinations, Says Source - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
 

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Excellent stats, those bar graphs definitively make you wonder how there are pro-israeli's still in existence.
And how people like Colpy could deny Israel's war crimes, it's just so blatant.

In Operation Cast Lead, the Israelis responded to rocket attacks on their country by blasting the crap out of Gaza for 22 days. In those attacke, somewhere around 1400 people were killed. One half of them were militants, effectively crippling the Hamas military wing for a goodly period, as admitted by Hamas officials.

Now, a minor bit of research will show that the death rate of innocent civilians to combatants in modern war is expected to be about 10:1 . As awful as that is, it is a fact. The Israelis, with some of the most powerful weapons on earth, managed to keep that ration down to 1:1 through exceptional care and caution for civilian lives.

THERE ARE NO ISRAELI WAR CRIMES.

There may be individuals in the IDF that have overstepped the bounds, but Israel has been ethical in the actual carrying out of strikes.

As for the comparative death statistics, perhaps it is time the Palestinians booted out the Islamist idiots seeking martyrdom from the leadership of the people.

Or keep paying the consequences.

Is that what posting someone's words means to you? If you look a few posts up, I describe Nasrallah as a war criminal similar to Netanyahu. I also wrote that firing missiles at civilians is a war crime. Nasrallah is the product of about 20 years of Israel screwing around in Lebanon. One can only imagine what will eventually come as a result of Israel's cruel treatment of Gazans.



I don't trust any state media. However its a fact that several Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated. Several others have disappeared and there have been several large explosions at places where Iranians test missiles. Would this source be more reliable?

Mossad Behind Tehran Assassinations, Says Source


By Ulrike Putz in Jerusalem


AP​

The funeral of Darioush Rezaei on July 24. Mossad has been blamed for the killing.



One atomic researcher after the other has died in a series of recent murders in Iran. Is Israel's Mossad trying to sabotage the construction of a nuclear bomb with the attacks? Officials in Jerusalem aren't denying anything. Israeli military generals are even more hawkish, and their calls for air strikes on Iran are growing louder.


"Israel is not responding," Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said earlier this week when asked if his country had been involved in the latest slaying of an Iranian nuclear scientist. It didn't exactly sound like a denial, and the smile on his face suggested Israel isn't too bothered by suspicions that it is responsible for a series of murders of physicists involved in the controversial Iranian nuclear program...
Sabotaging Iran's Nuclear Program: Mossad Behind Tehran Assassinations, Says Source - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International


OF COURSE Israel is behind the Iranian assasinations.

You would prefer nuclear war????

Obe more thing:

If you doubt the Nasrallah "kill all the Jews" quote, simply remember what he is, and read the hadith.

Kinda gives it some context.
 

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Ah, but propaganda is so much easier to digest than the truth. Hate comes easier than love. Let us pray - Oh God, please kill our enemies.
 

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This is what we were discussing - we go from one point ot the next - Logical for a discussion would you say.

You asked for and I provided proof. Now answer up.

EAO - They were Terrorists and as such they went boom. Legal target - Not like the 3 Isreali tourists they murdered.

Myself I at times prefer to set aside a bogus claim of a Slam Dunk and I then go for the kill. Double Tap of course.

Oman Tribune - the edge of knowledge

Hundreds of Palestinians crowded around the charred remains of the car, which was hit in the bright afternoon sunshine on a main urban thoroughfare.

Hamas security officials confirmed that Batsh was killed in the attack, along with a second man, Sobhi Al Batsh, a member of Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine Al Qassam Brigades.

Essam was a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Abbas’s Fatah movement, group officials
said. The Islamist group Hamas said Sobhi was affiliated with its own armed wing.
 

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Perhaps everybody should take a deep breath. For those who haven't already done so, it might be advantageous to pull your head out of your ass first.