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Israel Should Not Turn Tragedy into Fiasco
Voice of America ^ | July 01, 2014 | Barbara Slavin

Posted on 07/01/2014 9:02:05 AM PDT by SJackson

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To: SJackson

Meanwhile, the Barack Obama administration appears to have given up. It never put forward its own peace plan, acknowledging that it lacked the political will to try to compel either party to accept U.S. ideas.

Sissy fails again.


21 posted on 07/01/2014 9:48:24 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: vpintheak

You have condensed it all in a single sentence, thank you! Compassion while your enemy celebrates and laughs? If I were Netanyahu I would be buying up all the napalm and Agent Orange in the world and one night there would be a bubbling circle around Israel. I swear, if this mentality existed during the Bubonic Plague there would be people insisting we be ‘fair’ to the rats and examine them one by one before eradicating them.


22 posted on 07/01/2014 10:10:56 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (When anyone says its not about Islam...it's about Islam. That death cult must be eradicated.)
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To: luvbach1

Most pallies you say are innocent? Polls taken by Pew indicate that 66 percent agree with kidnapping. Hamas has been elected and reelected several times in Gaza.

The Pally media has always done racial incitement even thought Oslo called for its cessation.

Your just making excuse of the Usual Muslim inability to live in peace.

Most of the PLO came from Arabian Peninsula. Arafat was Egyptian.

There was a petition and Jordan got 70% of the land. That not being enough they attacked Israel and took the west bank
and pissed on the Jewish Temple mount.

In 1967 Israel took back land on its side of the Jordan River.’

There never was a Palestinian country except Jordan. There isn’t a Palestinian people. Its actually a Roman name for what Rome called the land they occupied.

I call them the Fakestinians, a people who didn’t exist prior to Arafat making it up just before OSLO.

I can’t feel bad for people who rejected Olmerts and Barak’s offer of 98 percent of the WB and half of Jerusalem.

The fact is in their charter they want the Jews and Israel destroyed. Their charter is like Hitlers Mein Kampf a roadmap to their intention to exterminate the Jews.


23 posted on 07/01/2014 10:11:28 AM PDT by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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To: SJackson

Fiasco? Gaza is a toilet that should be flushed.


24 posted on 07/01/2014 10:38:29 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: SJackson

Another leftist commentator pretending to be a journalist.


25 posted on 07/01/2014 10:51:49 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Once a politician has determined to do anything to keep his seat, he no longer deserves it.)
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To: Zenjitsuman

And I believe that Pew poll was done after the kidnapping.


26 posted on 07/01/2014 10:56:49 AM PDT by SJackson (wish I had known more firsthand about...problems of American businesspeople as a Senator G McGovern)
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Most pallies you say are innocent?

Please read again. I did not say that. Quite the opposite.

27 posted on 07/01/2014 11:04:38 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: SJackson

They get it wrong right in the headline. This wasn’t a tragedy, it was a deliberate act of evil. People are so used to using that kind of wimpy language, it affects the way they look at things.


28 posted on 07/01/2014 11:20:28 AM PDT by Cymbaline ("Allahu Akbar": Arabic for "Nothing To See Here" - Mark Steyn)
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To: SJackson; GOPsterinMA; KC_Lion; justiceseeker93; NFHale; sickoflibs

My thought is that Israel should hurry up and finish this fight, by any means necessary. “Peace” ain’t happening.


29 posted on 07/01/2014 12:37:55 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: alloysteel

I would never consider over reacting.
I would just find out who the kidnappers were and kill them. Then kill their mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, children, nephews, nieces, and grand parents on both sides of the families involved.
I would then let it be known publicly that this policy is permanent and will not be altered other than the potential burning of their homes.


30 posted on 07/01/2014 12:45:10 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: SJackson

“An eye for an eye makes us both blind, and besides, you look kinda macho with that patch over the one I took out. Really. The chicks will dig it.”


31 posted on 07/01/2014 1:57:08 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Impy

I agree, there won’t be a possibility of a peace partner for one or two generations after the incitement ends, that starting point not in view. Israel does need to finish, unilaterally, the fate of Judea and Samaria. Gaza if they want it. Can’t really finish the fight given the number of Jew hating Muslims out there, but a separation from the “palestinians” needs to be made, and Iran needs to be dealt with, though that will likely just put the problem off a few years.


32 posted on 07/01/2014 2:09:50 PM PDT by SJackson (government tampers with a freedom so fundamental, one shudders to think what lies ahead. Card Dolan)
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To: GOPJ

The media and academia isn’t. The old Chicago mob was viewed as charming, don’t know about the current lot. But given the popularity of rap, maybe they are in circles I don’t frequent.


33 posted on 07/01/2014 2:12:07 PM PDT by SJackson (government tampers with a freedom so fundamental, one shudders to think what lies ahead. Card Dolan)
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To: luvbach1; Zenjitsuman
I suppose the question you're raising is who to blame for the creation of a violent, hate filled culture. It clearly goes beyond the South Syrians, Egyptians and assorted Arabs who call themselves palestinians, at the same time their government, and my President would refer to it as representative, foments the hate. Some of it with my tax dollars. So while I would generally oppose collective punishment, which Israel doesn't do, and don't particularly like collective blame, the fact is they elected their government, notably Hamas, my countries enemy. You imply, correctly, that this is not a criminal action, rather a military one, and civilian casualties, and inconvenience, are unavoidable. Israel ironically goes to great length to avoid them, and suffers criticism no less. Presuming that means no undertaking necessary military actions for fear of civilian casualties, in the world at large, and particularly in the mid east, "going easy" is perceived as weakness. And the hate will be there in either circumstance.
34 posted on 07/01/2014 2:29:35 PM PDT by SJackson (government tampers with a freedom so fundamental, one shudders to think what lies ahead. Card Dolan)
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To: Impy; SJackson; KC_Lion; justiceseeker93; NFHale; sickoflibs

Yes, “peace” means the attempted ending of Israel.

HaShem will not let that happen; Israel is always protected.


35 posted on 07/01/2014 2:36:56 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA
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To: SJackson

Declare open season on Hamas leadership. No prisoners.


36 posted on 07/01/2014 2:42:47 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Zenjitsuman
The PLO is still a terrorist organization, in 20 years of the peace process they never changed their charter as they promised to under the Oslo accords.

they operate the same way as the boy who would be King in the White Hut -

They'll negotiate as long as they get everything THEY demand. Whenever they don't get capitulated too - They thumb their nose and keep on towards the only goal they've ever had - Take Israel off the map.

You cannot 'negotiate' with people whose one premise & goal is that you should not exist.

O'bummer is ALWAYS chastising Israel and demanding restraint from THEM - NEVER from the Pallies.

Israel should tell O'bummer and gang to stuff it...along with the Pallies. Who the double L are WE to tell Israel what to do?

37 posted on 07/01/2014 3:40:15 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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