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1 posted on 07/01/2014 9:02:05 AM PDT by SJackson
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2 posted on 07/01/2014 9:02:42 AM PDT by SJackson (wish I had known more firsthand about...problems of American businesspeople as a Senator G McGovern)
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I believe we should consider imposing economic sanctions, “costs” if you will, on the two kidnappers unless they give serious consideration to deescalating their kidnapping activities. That should put an end to it.

If it doesn't, we should consider joining the community of nations in expressing our mild disappointment.

3 posted on 07/01/2014 9:06:56 AM PDT by keat
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“The Palestinian leadership, too, bears responsibility “

Ya don’t say.........


6 posted on 07/01/2014 9:07:54 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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The late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin used to say that Israel should “fight terrorism as if there is no peace process and pursue peace as if there is no terrorism.”

The demented ratings of a madman, which Rabin certainly was.

7 posted on 07/01/2014 9:09:15 AM PDT by montag813
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Israel is right to hunt down the two Palestinians who are believed responsible for the killings; to do more and inflict additional mass punishment on the entire Palestinian population is simply to perpetuate the violence and deepen generations-old grievances.

The author is just plain wrong. These people have demonstated time and again they cannot peacefully coexist and share this Earth with civilized people. There was absolutely no cause for the abduction and murder of these kids. What's more, these types of actions occur under the auspice of the Hamas leadership.

8 posted on 07/01/2014 9:13:05 AM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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Government funding for VOA should end, same with NPR and PBS


11 posted on 07/01/2014 9:22:14 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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Once again the people who were abused are asked to stay calm and not seek revenge. When has this policy ever worked? It has never benefited Israel to give in to these people. They had peace for awhile, every time they kicked butt.


14 posted on 07/01/2014 9:37:26 AM PDT by Seabeejas (h)
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Israel is right to hunt down the two Palestinians who are believed responsible for the killings; to do more and inflict additional mass punishment on the entire Palestinian population is simply to perpetuate the violence and deepen generations-old grievances.

I suppose the reader is expected to agree with this, on the surface, reasonable declaration. But examine it. Isn't the entire Palestinian (a misnomer) population where these wanton killers came from? Were they not inculcated within this population with hate and violence toward Jews from their earliest days? To imply that the Palestinkian (yes, I have a bias) population at large is innocent and should not suffer the consequences of terrorist acts that have their basis in their culture, and by criminals embedded within it, is fatuous.And this embedding often makes it nigh impossible to punish only the perps. I don't agree that it will necessarily perpetuate the the violence and deepen generations-old grievances. Were the Israelis to "go easy" in retaliation for the murders it would not reduce the implacable hate toward them one whit.

15 posted on 07/01/2014 9:37:48 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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Israel is right to hunt down the two Palestinians who are believed responsible for the killings; to do more and inflict additional mass punishment on the entire Palestinian population is simply to perpetuate the violence and deepen generations-old grievances.

I suppose the reader is expected to agree with this, on the surface, reasonable declaration. But examine it. Isn't the entire Palestinian (a misnomer) population where these wanton killers came from? Were they not inculcated within this population with hate and violence toward Jews from their earliest days? To imply that the Palestinkian (yes, I have a bias) population at large is innocent and should not suffer the consequences of terrorist acts that have their basis in their culture, and by criminals embedded within it, is fatuous.And this embedding often makes it nigh impossible to punish only the perps. I don't agree that it will necessarily perpetuate the the violence and deepen generations-old grievances. Were the Israelis to "go easy" in retaliation for the murders it would not reduce the implacable hate toward them one whit.

16 posted on 07/01/2014 9:37:48 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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Israel, you just sit there and take it! The barbarians are murdering and killing and it’s up to you to not escalate things, got it!?


17 posted on 07/01/2014 9:38:07 AM PDT by vpintheak (I will not comply!)
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Typical liberals: “Do not hold us accountable for our actions. We will cry and throw another temper tantrum and call you names.”


19 posted on 07/01/2014 9:40:02 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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People are starting to dislike Palestinians ... starting to see them as monsters. They’re coming across more and more like a violent Chicago Street Gang - but without the charm.


20 posted on 07/01/2014 9:48:06 AM PDT by GOPJ (Why no outrage over IRS targeting? Same reason Pravda didn't make a stink about gulags.FREnterprise)
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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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