I don’t think I have ever seen large crowds of Israelis running riot in the streets celebrating the deaths of Palestinians.
Interesting.
They’re, no doubt, also celebrating the three candidates that the American people have foolishly nominated for President. The only candidates they would like even more would be Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Kerry, Murtha, Schumer, Durbin, et al.
“I don’t think I have ever seen large crowds of Israelis running riot in the streets celebrating the deaths of Palestinians.”
That’s because Israelis belong to the group known as “humans”...
Why not just tear down the wall between Egypt again, announce that the Gaza is being converted to a security zone, and pulverize everything in it until there is no object left that could not be passed through a 12" ring. Start at the south end and work to the North.
Hopefully the brave martyrs will live up to their talk and die fighting the IDF in the tens or hundreds of thousands. The survivors can become second, third and fourth wives in Egypt.
It does make one long for ancient times. Can one imagine (well you don't have to really, there is history) what they would have done to a group that acted this way. Slavery would have been the humane end of the spectrum for what was available.
Of course we don't have to just refer to Roman history, we have the Bible too. It's pretty clear on the "philistines" as they were called back then:
(I got this on the web, here)
The Bible especially illustrates the Philistines’ great cruelty in the book of Judges and the first book of Samuel. For instance, Biblical authors mention in explicit detail the torture and humiliation of an Israelite judge, Sampson, whom Yaweh endowed with great strength. The Bible tells us that, by treachery, Sampson’s Philistine wife caused Sampson to lose his strength. After Sampson’s strength left him, the Philistines reportedly “seized him, gouged out his eyes, and took him down to Gaza.”
... Apparently, since Delilah, Sampson’s wife, is the source of his downfall, even association with the hated Philistines gains the disapproval of Yaweh.
Later, the account of Saul in thirty-first chapter of first Samuel also illustrates the cruelty of the Philistines. In this text, after enduring many defeats, the Israelites choose Saul as their king who will deliver them from their Philistine “oppressors.” Saul is able to successfully defeat the Philistines on several occasions, but Saul’s disobedience to the Lord eventually causes his downfall. Saul and his sons eventually die in a battle around Mount Gilboa, and, as a result, the Philistines take the surrounding Israelite towns and settle there. They also brutally desecrate the bodies of Saul and his sons, which the following passage from 1 Samuel 31:8-10 details:
The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. They cut off his head and stripped off his armor, and they sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temple of their idols and among their people. They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreth and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.
These passages in first Samuel show the “barbarianism” of the Philistine people by emphasizing the fact that they worship idols. It also graphically depicts the harsh treatment of Saul and his sons’ bodies to emphasize the brutality of the Philistines To add insult to injury, the Bible also mentions that the Philistines place the armor of Saul, whom Yahweh anointed to rule the Israelites, in the temple of their pagan gods. All these actions serve to vilify the Philistine culture.
It is my personal experience that Yaweh is an excellent judge of character. I suggest he was right about these people 4,000 years ago, and obviously they are getting worse, not better.