The headline:
33 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Raid in Gaza
The actual story:
Israel pulled its troops and settlers out of the tiny seaside territory in late 2005, but militants proceeded to fire rockets from the abandoned territory at Israeli communities.
Hamas, which is sworn to Israel’s destruction, took control of Gaza by force from the rival Fatah in June.
Israeli government spokesman David Baker said Israel was ”compelled to continue to take these defensive measures” to protect more than 200,000 Israelis living under the threat of Palestinian rocket barrages.
Militants ”hide behind their own civilians, using them as human shields, while actively targeting Israeli population centers,” Baker said. ”They bear the responsibility for the results.”
The actual story is buried on page two of the report. The headline should read, for mere accuracy, Israelis Respond to Hamas Attacks – but that would be fair and accurate, and the MSM doesn’t allow that in reporting about Israel.
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phnx,
Are you an Israeli?
Diana, Are you a human being?
phnx,
Are you a subroutine in a computer program designed to randomly type items from the approved list of Brainless Right-Wing Phrases ™?
“dhimmicrat”
“surrender monkeys”
“Islamofascist masters”
Of course, are you random or only pseudorandom? Hmm.
In either case, as an Israeli would have immediately claimed their nation, I take you as yet another American who wants to tell Israelis how they should conduct their business, as if they cared. But, since a poll shows that the majority of Israelis want to negotiate with Hamas, it would be out of character for a George W. Bush supporter to advocate doing anything in conformity with what the majority of citizens of the affected country wanted.
Diana I do not presume to tell Isreal how to conduct their business. They are doing well enough despite the media bias which you seem to have forgotten is the topic under discussion.
It was leftists such as Congressive, Arctic Fox, Phil and yourself who attempted (as usual) to hijack the topic at hand. Your Rodney King negotiating strategy fails miserably, as do your pleas of sympathy for the murderous terrorists of Hamas. You never bothered to address the merits of media bias when it comes to dealing with Isreal, but I suppose since you are not a journalist, in your mind you are nlot qualified to do so.
Your question “are you an Isreali” sounds like some kind of juvenile retort to indicate that you’ve exhausted all your arguments but wish to close the discussion by introducing some specious point that has no relevance to silence your adversary.
When you can’t win an argument your tactic like all of your leftist friends is deflect and change the subject. As I said to Kahn, its pointless to conduct any meaninglful discourse with you.
I can only presume by your simplistic logic, that you either support, or at least condone the violence in Darfur, in as much as you are not from there either.
Since you have established the ground rules, apply them to yourself, and please refrain from commenting on anything other than police matters in your own locality. According to your logic this is all that you are qualified to do.
Diana,
It sounds like you have a new benchmark for everyone. In order to discuss any topic, you must either live in the place being discussed and/or must agree with a majority of people living there.
With that in mind, since you are fond of pontificating about how Bush broke the law with “illegal” wiretaps, a Harris poll in February of 2006 said that a “majority of U.S. Adults Feel President is Justified in Authorizing Wiretaps Without Court Approval to Monitor Suspected Terrorists.”
I also think Phnx brings up a great point by mentioning Darfur. Since we do not live in Darfur, Iraq, and Kosovo, we should not give our opinions on those topics unless we can cut and paste some poll showing that we have some majority agreeing with us.
phnx and Jones,
The point is that you can pontificate all you want on the subject. However, when the evidence points toward you’re being on the side opposite of the majority of those affected, it’s completely relevant to point out that fact. The supposed “media bias”, which is a pretty weak assertion on its face, is further weakened by the fact that the known evidence points toward Israelis wanting to negotiate with Hamas.
Diana please abide by your own rules and comment only on traffic stops, petty crime and police brutality in your own little burg. It is afterall what you are qualified to do.
As for Isreal, its a democracy. If the polls you reference are accurate, the next election should sweep into office a politician willing to negotiate and yield to the Hamas demands. Don’t bet a bag of donuts on it Diana, you might have to go on a diet.
Diana, I thought you said we should stay out of this because we don’t liver ther? Move over the weekend?
Find one, just one Hamas Peace proposal. Not a cease fire, a Peace Proposal.
You can’t, and you make stupid remarks like above.
Oh, the point is that yes, Israel wants to negotiate and HAS made proposals. BUT, Hamas does not want to negotiate and has steadily killed Israelis.
Again, just one Hamas Peace proposal?
Just looking at my post # 57 – I type bad. Just baaad.
JS and Phnx,
Excellent information on the terrorist group Hamas, and on the treacherous Islamic concept known as the “hudna”. Hamas is a vicious, genocidal terrorist organization dedicated to the eradication of the Jews of Israel and Israel itself.
Kahn,
We all suffer from the Dreaded Typo Disease™ from time to time! Don’t worry about it! Heh, heh! 🙂