Posted on 01/13/2009 9:10:53 AM PST by goldstategop
To Israels critics abroad, the picture could not be clearer: Israels war in Gaza is a wildly disproportionate response to the rockets of Hamas, causing untold human suffering and bombing an already isolated and impoverished population into the Stone Age, and it must be stopped.
Yet here in Israel very few, at least among the Jewish population, see it that way.
Since Israeli warplanes opened the assault on Gaza 17 days ago, about 900 Palestinians have been reported killed, many of them civilians. Red Cross workers were denied access to scores of dead and wounded Gazans, and a civilian crowd near a United Nations school was hit, with at least 40 people killed.
But voices of dissent in this country have been rare. And while tens of thousands have poured into the streets of world capitals demonstrating against the Israeli military operation, antiwar rallies here have struggled to draw 1,000 participants. The Peace Now organization has received many messages from supporters telling it to stay out of the streets on this one.
As the editorial page of The Jerusalem Post put it on Monday, the world must be wondering, do Israelis really believe that everybody is wrong and they alone are right?
The answer is yes.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I strongly believe the NY Times is wrong 90+% of the time that they editorialize, which happens far more than just on their editorial page. This article is a great example of that. They are clearly editorializing on the front page of the paper (”A version of this article appeared in print on January 13, 2009, on page A1 of the New York edition.”), with an editorial thinly disguised as a news item.
I wonder how 7 straight months of rocket and missile attacks on the NYTimes building would sit with these goofs?
I guess that people forget how we won WWII. We fire bombed German and Japan into submission. If we hadn’t done that, the war would have gone on much longer. Japan stated that they would fight until the last person and we would have lost, approximately, another 500,000 men. Israel must do the same thing. The people of Palestine must turn on Hamas.
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Wow! It sucks to be a Palestinian!
I seriously want to know if and when this war with Iran will ever take place! Attacking Iran will hurt all of these worldwide terrorist organizations even more!
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