"The myth of the brave and utterly infallible Israeli soldier is shattered. Now we can add: they are common thieves. For I was not the only one to be robbed of my money, credit card, clothes, MP3 player, laptop; the same happened to many others on the same ship as me, which was attacked early one morning by masked Israeli soldiers, who were thus in fact nothing other than lying pirates."
Henning Mankell, author, witness, victim of piracy, abductee, victim of looters.
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Do you consider yourself an arbiter of truth, or an arbiter of a POV, Jemmy?
Its evident to me you are the latter. Not too much different than TGIA. Nothing that comes out of an "activits'" mouth, is ever questionned. Its taken instantly as gospel, while any denials are greeted with derision and Israeli propoganda. Let me ask: If you and your mates were being viciously beaten with iron pipes, would you have just abdicted your own self defense? I very much doubt it.
Im eagering awaiting still more "eyewitness accounts" of Israeli soldiers drinking human blood and buggering small children. You just know its coming. What the purveryors of such blatant faleshoods dont realize is that by so doing they greatly dimimish the validity of anything else they say.
The US supports Israel's right to defend itself from attack. Hamas set the stage by launching thousands of rockets into Israel. Payback is a bitch!, aint it?
for those who think the US will soon be subject to payback for its "crimes", I will say the reverse payback will be 100000 times worse. Just ask OBL as he spends the rest of his life hiding in caves and awating the inevitable death from above.
(A chill wind blows. Tumbleweed rolls by.)
As Glenn Close once said (in character), "I will not be ignored!" :)
Iran is on the side of the paleos. Do you think that endears americans to their cause?
Mark my words: Israel will outlast every single arab country in the middle east. It will be the "last man standing".
Repeat after me: "Israel good, Iran bad" (repeat ad nauseam)
Repeat after me: "Iran has nuclear capacity, Israel has no nuclear weapons." (Repeat ad nauseam)
Repeat after me "Saddam has WMD." (Repeat, no, wait a minute, scratch that one.)
Riiiighhttt. We Americans have all been brainwashed by the war mongering US govt to hate the adorable Iranians - i feel like such a dupe :)
Gee, who marches in the streets burning our flag and yelling death to america? Who stormed the american embassy, violating all protocols, and took US citizens hostage for years? Who has funded and armed enemy forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and thus is directly responsible for the injury and deaths of thousands of american troops? Hmmmm, was it Israel? Hmmmmm
But maybe youre right Jemmy. We should bow down to the mullahs and declare them our masters. We should do whatever they want in order that they "like us". If they want to bomb Israel into oblivion, so be it. If they want to jack the price of oil by 4x, that is their perogative. If they want to hold american hikers captive, no biggie. If their leader wants to come to NYC and verbally "shat" on us, by all means. You see, we americans are a dastardly, cruel bunch, and deserve nothing but crushing defeat at the hands of the oh so lovable, cute and noble Iranian regime..... LOL
"The US supports Israel's right to defend itself from attack."
There are ways to prevent the entry of ordnance without inflicting collective punishment on 1.5 million people.
Do tell then, RS. No doubt Israel would love to know :)
You know, the key is that (supposedly) non-state actors are, quite literally, waging war against another country (Israel). Any country that allow/permits/condones indepedent groups to wage unauthorized war against another nation is guilt by association.
How would it be if a bunch of folks in Kansas City got together, bought some attack drones and proceeded to bomb the crap out of Palestine? And the US govt did nothing? Would that be acceptable?
And BTW, the Blackwater folks are paid by the US govt/military as contractors, and therefore do not have a different strategic mission from the US govt at large, so dont bother.
"... the BBC reported Barack Obama’s request to Congress for $200 million in military aid to assist Israel’s construction of a short-range rocket defence system, Iron Dome. The funding will be in addition to the $3 billion in military aid the US annually sends to Israel."
And when 'Iron Dome' is operational the Israelis will have to find another excuse for massacring Palestinians. No doubt Mark Regev is already working on the script.
If the Israeli goal was truly to utterly "massacre" the paleos, what do you think the death toll have been in the recent gaza war?
A) 10,000
B) 150,000
C) 500,000
D) 1,000,000
Bonus Q: What was the ACTUAL toll?
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