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that's an opinion piece from Haaretz (and if you don't know their politics, you should) from 2018. mDo it is not evidence, but an opinion from one person, 6 years ago.
Actually, that is from 2014 (Operation Protective Edge) during which Israel responded to thousands of rockets being fired upon it. During that same conflict, the UN claimed that Hamas was as guilty of war crimes. I didn't see that in your quote, but it is in the UN report. One wonders what would happen if no one chose to fire rockets at Israel. It almost seems that, then, Israel would not respond. Crazy, I know.
Or perhaps you'll read up on them and realize that they aren't a very reputable source
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Breaking the Silence (Shovrim Shtika) » ngomonitor
Breaking the Silence makes sweeping accusations based on anecdotal, anonymous, and unverifiable accounts of often low-ranked soldiers. These “testimonies” lack context, are politically biased, and erase the complicated reality in the West Bank. In addition, they reflect a distorted...www.ngo-monitor.org
You mean that Jews who agree with your belief, you choose to call "moral." There's a big difference between assuming a priori moral status and then trusting statements made as coming from a moral center, and finding the statements that agree with your position and deciding they are moral so the ones who said them are therefore moral in your book. I find the statements and actions of those who would try to coopt Yad Vashem for their own ends to be highly immoral.
Don't know. Why does it matter? Where are Israel's terror tunnels, child soldiers and suicide bombers?
See, you are starting with loaded language and an obvious bias.
"Native residents"? "Palestine"? Already you are buying in to a narrative because it suits you. It doesn't comport with actual history, but you use it as if it did because it helps you establish the foundation you need. That's specious at best and more likely, just intellectually dishonest.
You really should re-read the 2016 Pew report. What it says is a bit more complicated than what you present. And the continued mention of "native" and "Palestinian" further demonstrate how you are digging in to a position which is not supported by history.
If Hamas were to return the hostages tomorrow what do you think would happen? If Hamas were to refuse to condone acts of terror against Israel, refuse to invade, refuse to fire rockets, refuse to use tunnels to get into Israel to kill or kidnap...what do you think Israel would do? Asking Israel's endgame is useless because Israel's exit strategy is dependent on Hamas which has repeatedly refused to stop attacking Israel, refused even to account for the hostages and which hijacks aid shipments.
What illegal occupation -- Israel left Gaza in 2005. Do you know what happened after that? Rockets were fired into Israel.
"Pay dearly"? LOL. And quoting another opinion piece from the same writer and the same newspaper doesn't do much to establish any actual facts.
that's nice. I have time living there and studying and teaching about it.In addition to 60 years of studying Middle Eastern realities and 10 - 11 months of walking and hitch-hiking throughout the Middle East and Levant, I also worked on an Emergency Psychiatric Unit for a large inner-city population.
I have not seen this level of gaslighting and outright lies as I have regarding the attacks on Israel online.It is only there that I have seen the same level of extremist denial and delusion comparable to opinions advanced by supporters of ethnic cleansing as a Solution to the Palestinian "Problem".
Yes, it deniable because your claim wasn't about people who lived there in 1900. Your claim was about "native". Jews, Christians and Muslims have lived in the region for a long time, and otehr Jews have been moving there for a lot longer than you seem to understand. Sadly, the jewish population was often terrorized there by a variety of ruling groups even though they were the native population.You complain that the facts I relate and support contain "loaded language" and an "obvious bias" when referring to the Palestinians as "Palestine's native residents".
However, it is an undeniable fact that because Jews comprised only about 6% of Palestine's native population in 1900 and non Jewish Palestinians comprised the rest for centuries before the first Zionist terrorist invaded, the long tormented, non Jewish existing population actually is / are "Palestine's native residents".
Who is asserting that? Well before there was a Hamas, there were other terrorists who caused carnage in the region such as the PLO.The assertion that only the relatively recent, Israeli funded Hamas is the sole cause of Levantine carnage over the decades also exemplifies that same denial and delusion.
Let's assume that the history is as you state it. Then Israel's error empowered Hamas. And now Hamas's error is putting Arabs at risk and it is delusional to blame Israel for responding to an attack by the ruling power in Gaza, no matter how they got there.It is regrettable that all Israelis suffer because of the machinations of Israel's right wing Zionists but delusional to blame only Palestine's native residents for a Zionist scheme to sow discord that backfired.
The violence comes because Arabs fire rockets, blow up buses and kill people sleeping in their beds and then try to blame "settlers" who respond. You don't want a cycle of violence, don't kidnap children and kill them.I was disappointed that you didn't address the primary cause of the cyclical violence that are Israel's illegal and internationally condemned "Settlements" on "disputed land" (aka Palestinian land).
it's no secret that you believe that, you mean. You lay the blame where you want to and ignore anything else. That's your prerogative but please don't be surprised that it doesn't convince anyone of the rectitude of your position.It is no secret that these heavily armed, IDF supported extremists serve as Israel's own violent, racist and aggressive human shields.
You beyond clearly, like so many others, confuse the word native of a place - as in born in - with indigenous.In addition to 60 years of studying Middle Eastern realities and 10 - 11 months of walking and hitch-hiking throughout the Middle East and Levant, I also worked on an Emergency Psychiatric Unit for a large inner-city population.
It is only there that I have seen the same level of extremist denial and delusion comparable to opinions advanced by supporters of ethnic cleansing as a Solution to the Palestinian "Problem".
You complain that the facts I relate and support contain "loaded language" and an "obvious bias" when referring to the Palestinians as "Palestine's native residents".
However, it is an undeniable fact that because Jews comprised only about 6% of Palestine's native population in 1900 and non Jewish Palestinians comprised the rest for centuries before the first Zionist terrorist invaded, the long tormented, non Jewish existing population actually is / are "Palestine's native residents".
Therefore, rejecting the fact that the long preexisting population actually is / are Palestine's native residents simply exemplifies that same denialism and delusional behaviors I attempted to treat long ago.
The assertion that only the relatively recent, Israeli funded Hamas is the sole cause of Levantine carnage over the decades also exemplifies that same denial and delusion.
Israel's right wing element helped fund Hamas to initiate a civil war within Palestinian society by fighting the PLO and was "Hoisted by their own petard".
It is regrettable that all Israelis suffer because of the machinations of Israel's right wing Zionists but delusional to blame only Palestine's native residents for a Zionist scheme to sow discord that backfired.
I was disappointed that you didn't address the primary cause of the cyclical violence that are Israel's illegal and internationally condemned "Settlements" on "disputed land" (aka Palestinian land).
It is no secret that these heavily armed, IDF supported extremists serve as Israel's own violent, racist and aggressive human shields.
Since it is an exercise in denial and delusion to omit the fact that Israel's "Settlers" and their murderous land theft are the major cause of today's cyclical violence, I wonder why you are surprised that some Palestinians are resisting what is the oldest and most brutal foreign funded occupation in modern history.
Everyday, peace seeking Israelis who live within Israel legal borders deserve to be secure as anyone else but as long as Israel's murderous, right wing "Settler" land thieves / "Human shields" and their supporters remain in violation of International law (UN Resolutions #242 and #338), they deserve as much misery as they inflict.
On the other hand, attacks on Israel, proper, are also criminal and unacceptable forms of revenge not unlike forms of Jewish revenge after WW 2 took countless innocent lives(1).
Since you have never spent time in and around Palestinian refugee camps, you can't know the depth of both hopelessness and the rage it causes to see your family and friends executed while losing your home and everything but what you can carry.
About 50 years have passed and I still can't imagine the the level of hopelessness and trauma that the long persecuted residents of Gaza and the West Bank must feel after decades of humiliation, abuse and rage from Netanyahu's repeatedly "mowing the lawn."
(It is Netanyahu who uses the phrase "mowing the lawn", not me)
Finally, since it it is IDF that is currently the invader / occupier of Gaza, the End Game / Exit Strategy, it is incumbent upon the occupier / invader to determine the withdrawal and cessation of hostilities.
As long as IDF is busily killing primarily women and children, Hamas or its replacement will continue resisting and retaliating.
Unless you can show evidence to the contrary, Netanyahu's and Gallant's current M.O. can only be the deliberate depopulation of Gaza to appeal to his right wing, "Settler" element and there's no question about the immorality of genocide.
(1). "BOOK ON JEWISH-RUN REVENGE' CAMPS IS PULLED"
EXCERPT "A German publisher has abruptly canceled a book that investigates the Jewish role in running internment camps in Poland after World War II, saying the work otherwise could be "cause for some misunderstanding." The 6,000 copies printed will be destroyed.
For six months after the war, Morel ran an internment camp for German civilians in the Polish community of Swietochlowice.
Former inmates told Sack that Morel brutalized, tortured and killed some of the German civilians housed at the camp. Two years ago, Morel fled to Israel; Polish authorities are reportedly considering filing murder charges against him." CONTINUED