This just in: Israel returns fire on Syrian targets from the Golan Heights

[Zevico]

This is what's known as the self-hating Jew. When she says "dwindling political left", what she means is that there is no longer a strain of Israeli political thought with even the tiniest influence that believes Israel shouldn't defend itself. Something like 80-85% of Israelis supported the recent operations in Gaza.

Amen.

[Aeson]

I think Israel has a right to defend itself. I don't think it's doing so in a very useful fashion, often working against their best interests in the long term, and sometimes outright overstepping that right. The US of course does all of that too, to an even larger and more senseless extent.

[kentonio]

Now because they didn't invade apparently Abbas is under huge pressure in the West Bank because violence worked better than non-violence..

[Dr Strangelove]

What of the right of Palestinians to defend themselves? If someone is occupying your country isn't firing missles back at them self-defense?

[molly bloom]

Was there no room in Canada, the United Kingdom or Australia for them?

Actually, the British let in refugees of the Kindertransport.

Mark Jonathan Harris's accomplished film is concerned with the "Kindertransport," a rescue operation that took place shortly before the outbreak of World War II. Great Britain took in over 10,000 Jewish children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia in order to protect them from Hitler, and both Jewish and non-Jewish parents, did all they could to save their children from the dangers they foresaw ahead of them. These children were placed into foster homes and hostels, hoping their real parents would one day meet them in England.

In the United States, Congress did not pass a bill that would have allowed similar entry to the young refugees because they decided that "accepting children without their parents is contrary to the laws of God."

http://www.michigandaily.com/content/arms-strangers-incredible-tale-kindertransport

Not enough, but better than none.

American imperialism is Coca-cola, McDonald's, and action movies. European imperialism was corvée labor, corporal punishment, and Maxim guns.

Oh horsesh!t. American Imperialism is 'liberating' the Philippines from the Spanish, then keeping them and killing thousands of Filipinos in brutal waves of repression.

I want no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn; the more you kill and burn, the better it will please me. The interior of Samar must be made a howling wilderness.

General Jacob H. Smith to Major Littleton Waller, 1901

You might also want to look up the history of the 'pacification' campaign on Marinduque.

American Imperialism is invading Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic on a regular basis, then taking over their finances and supporting kleptocratic dictators in power. Dictators who kept American companies supplied with cheap commodities whilst ensuring that their own people lived in conditions of appalling squalor and deprivation.

Still, it does make domestic help that much cheaper in the U.S. .

[giblets]

What of the right of Palestinians to defend themselves? If someone is occupying your country isn't firing missles back at them self-defense?

Not if those missiles are aimed at civilians.

[regexcellent]

What of the right of Palestinians to defend themselves? If someone is occupying your country isn't firing missles back at them self-defense?

Who is occupying their "country?" Israel doesn't have anyone in the Gaza Strip.

[Hauldren Collider]

Dr. Strangelove believes that Jews should be evicted from their homes.

[Zevico]

Israel's "partners in peace" chime in with their own contribution.

Fatah: We also fought against Israel in Pillar of Defense
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
24/11/2012
Gaza-based armed groups tied to Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party claim they fired 516 rockets at Israel during recent conflict; Fatah Central Committee member praises Hamas, Islamic Jihad, says Abbas was not against the "resistance."

Several armed groups belonging to Fatah in the Gaza Strip claimed Saturday that they had also fired various types of rockets and missiles at Israel during Operation Pillar of Defense.

A spokesman for the groups, which are affiliated with Fatah's armed wing, Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, told reporters that his men fired 516 rockets and missiles at Israel during the conflict.

The spokesman warned that the Fatah groups would "continue to defend the heroic Palestinian people against Israeli crimes and massacres." According to the spokesman, Fatah gunmen fought alongside members of other groups in the Gaza Strip during the IDF offensive.

He urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal to "head immediately to the Gaza Strip to put an end to the state of despicable state of division [between Hamas and Fatah]."

The Fatah groups also "welcomed" last week's terror attack against a civilian bus in Tel Aviv, in which 21 people were injured. The masked Fatah spokesman revealed that a member of his group, Mohamed al-Zaini, who was responsible for launching rockets and missiles at Israel, was killed in an IDF air strike.

Abbas Zaki, member of the Fatah Central Committee, was quoted over the weekend as praising Hamas and Islamic Jihad for "deciding to die for the sake of the Gaza Strip."

Zaki said in an interview with a Palestinian TV station in the West Bank that Abbas was not against the "resistance" in the Gaza Strip.

"We gave legitimacy to the rockets and provided them with a political cover," he added. "I have tremendous sympathy for Hamas. God bless them. They told Israel that the war was not a picnic. God bless Hamas and Islamic Jihad and all the other resistance groups which decided to die for the sake of the Gaza Strip.

[Zevico]

Israel's "partners in peace" chime in with their own contribution.

Fatah: We also fought against Israel in Pillar of Defense
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
24/11/2012
Gaza-based armed groups tied to Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party claim they fired 516 rockets at Israel during recent conflict; Fatah Central Committee member praises Hamas, Islamic Jihad, says Abbas was not against the "resistance."

Several armed groups belonging to Fatah in the Gaza Strip claimed Saturday that they had also fired various types of rockets and missiles at Israel during Operation Pillar of Defense.

A spokesman for the groups, which are affiliated with Fatah's armed wing, Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, told reporters that his men fired 516 rockets and missiles at Israel during the conflict.

The spokesman warned that the Fatah groups would "continue to defend the heroic Palestinian people against Israeli crimes and massacres." According to the spokesman, Fatah gunmen fought alongside members of other groups in the Gaza Strip during the IDF offensive.

He urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal to "head immediately to the Gaza Strip to put an end to the state of despicable state of division [between Hamas and Fatah]."

The Fatah groups also "welcomed" last week's terror attack against a civilian bus in Tel Aviv, in which 21 people were injured. The masked Fatah spokesman revealed that a member of his group, Mohamed al-Zaini, who was responsible for launching rockets and missiles at Israel, was killed in an IDF air strike.

Abbas Zaki, member of the Fatah Central Committee, was quoted over the weekend as praising Hamas and Islamic Jihad for "deciding to die for the sake of the Gaza Strip."

Zaki said in an interview with a Palestinian TV station in the West Bank that Abbas was not against the "resistance" in the Gaza Strip.

"We gave legitimacy to the rockets and provided them with a political cover," he added. "I have tremendous sympathy for Hamas. God bless them. They told Israel that the war was not a picnic. God bless Hamas and Islamic Jihad and all the other resistance groups which decided to die for the sake of the Gaza Strip.

Of course, Fatah will on occasion condemn terror attacks unreservedly. And the right audience will buy it.

[kentonio]

What do you expect them to say? Abbas is at severe risk of losing power completely due to Hamas claiming victory as a result of resistance. Fatah like Israel are in an impossible situation right now. Pushing against them right now would be idiotic in the extreme.

[Asher]

Who is occupying their "country?" Israel doesn't have anyone in the Gaza Strip.

Do you not understand the root of the conflict?

[Hauldren Collider]

Do you not understand the root of the conflict?

I think he understands it better than you do, if you really think it's all about "stolen land".

[SlowwHand]

Just don't count on the U.N. butt munchers to do anything of worth.

[MrFun]

Who is occupying their "country?" Israel doesn't have anyone in the Gaza Strip.

Israel may not be directly occupying the Gaza Strip, but it's doing so many other things to economically strangle that land. Which partly explains why the Gaza Strip has such a soaring, high level of poverty and unemployment.