israel have hundreds of nucks missiles directed 24 hours to all the arab and muslim countries,is that fair!!!whats so special with israel for the USA to be unfair and make milions of enemies in the world just for the sake of israel which is the main reason for all problems in the middle east .
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Because we live in the age of the (undeclared) American Empire, and what the US says, even if it reeks of double standard, goes. \nIf people are pissed off it's only because they are inherently evil...
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Get it through your heads.  Israel has controlled American policy since 1948.  It's the "New World Order".
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Look we're the only superpower. We have nukes as a deterrent. Would we use them? Sure if we needed to, but that would be a last resort. As to Israel, they are our ally and Thus we let them keep nukes as a deterrent. It is one way for Ismael to ensure not being over run by its enemies in the middle east. Why can't Iran have nukes? North Korea? Because we said so that's why. (Please refer to first sentence.)
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You are severely misinformed.  Israel is the only non-Muslim nation in the Middle East and it is the smallest.  Everyone else is bigger and against them.  Jewish pride!\n\nADDITIONAL UPDATE: The Palestinians do not have a recognized "country"  they live in the occupied areas.  Israel was officially recognized as a nation in the late 40s by the world...  The Gaza Strip (the 10% you are referring to) is not a country.  It is within the NATION OF ISRAEL!  Simple history and geography...  Also, in every war or conflict when one side attacks another there will usually be a counter move.  In a conflict does it even make sense to stay and get hit????  No, you strike and dodge the incoming counter attack.  Please, before you go bashing on Israel understand the situation more fully.  For instance...do you even have a clue about the Balfour Agreement?  Probably not...and it's probably the most important moment in turmoil for the Middle East and the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.  As for the Reigning Queen comment below...do you honestly think that anti-Semitic comments will win anything?  No, what it can get you however is the enduring respect of thousands of Neo-Nazi bigots who are following the failed ideas of a man who not only DID NOT succeed in killing us but who also had the guts to commit suicide...yeah, great leader.  \n\n    Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad.
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dirty israeli r kiling ambulance men,civ,KIDS,old women in palastine&then say it was a mistake!!!\n100s of massacres was comited by the coward israelies against Arabs & palastinians since 1948,and israel was never punished!\nbut when a palastinian try to revenge for his family who was killed or tortured by the israelies ,all the world punish all the palastinian ppl for it and call them terrorists!!!\nisrael have an army with the most advanced us weapons,the palastinian have nothing to fight with but rocks,old klashincoves & home made rockets!!!\nWho then should use a non violent approach in ur opinion.\nthe world should take action against the coward israelies or it will be a mess that will hurt all the world.
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Its a game for Iran, they are buying time, noone wants to take the time and resources to take military action against them, they will be nuking israel soon, then WWIII
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Didn't Palestine make it's choice?  They chose a leadership that refuses to give up it's stated goal of "driving Israel into the sea".  You want them to stand still, continue to be attacked, while Palestine and the rest of Islam holds up a paper governement whose onlyt goal is to say, "Don't attack me, I didn't attack you!  It was individuals!  And you can't attack within my country without me saying so!"\n\nWho are we kidding?  The U.S. offered help because Islam wants to dominate the world, always has.  Israel has kept to their borders (pretty much, and when they didn't, like the Suez canal, we jumped on them to move out!).  Israel has no stated goal to destroy any other nation.  Israel has been repeatedly attacked after every cease fire by Palestine which cannot control it's own people.  If Palestine won't control it's own people, Israel cannot do less than retaliate against a government that through it's own inept and criminally negligent behavior allows attacks on neighboring regions.
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The problem isn't that Israel exists, or that there are Arabic (or Persian in the case of Iran) nations. The problem isn't that Israel is occupying Palestine and the Golan Heights. Yes, the Israel-Palestine conflict offers regional leaders "reason" to attack Israel. There would still be much infighting between the many ethnic groups in the region without the Jewish Homeland.\nThe problem arose with the end of the First World War and the division of much of the old Ottoman (Turkish) Empire's Middle-Eastern territory, from the Palestine (as I will refer to the pre-Israel Holy-Land) into Persia (Iran) and the Arabian Peninsula by France and Great Britain (the UK). Much like the division of Africa, ethnic and historical boundaries were disregarded, and unfriendly tribal peoples were crowded into the same states (much like Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda).\nResentment of the rule by the Western Powers, the Arabs and Persians looked to aid from Hitler's Germany in order to overthrow the French and British. Nazi involvement is therefore an important component in the anti-Semites in the  Middle-East.\nWith the departure of the Western Powers after the Second World War, the Arab states found their political Independence. However, the discovery of oil found the United States becoming increasingly interested in the area. The US sought economic superiority in the region, developing the strong-arm subterfuge tactics that it would later use in Latin America in order to try and control Middle-Eastern Governments. These tactics lead to mass unrest against foreign backed rulers, whether they were Capitalist or Communist (let Iran and Afghanistan be respective examples). Hatred of foreign blessed rulers, and the ideological strife  and rebellion these rulers caused are key causes of the lack of peace in the region. \nIsrael is supported by the US to a startling degree, while the other Middle-Eastern governments  are often products of anger against former rulers, generally fronted by the US. This hatred of America and her puppet rulers abroad is a cause of unrest in the Middle-East, as well as in Latin America (Castro originally led an uprising against US puppet dictator Fulgencio Batista, before US policies caused him to seek Soviet aid and shelter with the Communists), is a component of violent unrest in these regions.\nIt is naive to say that there is any one reason that there could be peace without Israel, or without the Arab (and Persian) states. It is naive to say that the elimination of any one reason is the root cause of unrest in the Middle-East, including the resentment of Israel. Three major reasons could be considered the most important.\n1. Former Franco-British control ignoring ethnic lines (ie lack of "Kashmiristan")\n2. Anti-Semitism introduced by Nazis (actually, this should be Anti-Zionist or Anti-Jewish feelings because the Arabians are actually a Semetic tribe)\n3. Oil and the resulting US attempts to control the region that led to anti-western sentiment that placed such governments in power--this also results in resentment of Israel because of its close ties with the US.\nThis is in no way a simple conflict, but a complex regional conflict with roots dating to the end of the First World War, perhaps even as far back as the Crusades. There are more reasons that I listed above that suggest that there could be much unrest without the Israeli state. \nIsrael's was most likely very much just the point where the Arab states "lost it".
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This is a very good question and plummets to the heart of the matter. \n\nStates have borders. Israel's borders are in dispute. There have been numerous UN Resolutions calling for Israel to release the lands it has seized illegally. These resolutions haven't been enforced!\nThe Economist magazine recently had an excellent map of the lands Israel has illegally occupied since the 1967 War. It's astonishing Israel is getting away with stealing soooo much land.\n\nRemember, all Saddam Hussein tried to do was get Iraqi land (namely, Kuwait) back that was taken by imperial British map-makers (who had a new fleet of oil-powered ships that needed cheap oil).\n\nHypocrisy run amok in foreign policy is what it is. I think that's a reason why the terrorists are angry.
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This is all very convenient and farcical. You have the most belligerent nation on the planet, the only one that has used nukes in the past, the one that has the capability to destroy the world many times over, behaving like an empire telling nations what they should or should not do.\nThe assumption that other nations who may want nuclear weapons are "crazy" serves as the rationale for not allowing them to have them.\nIf you paint your adversary like a nut job bent on destroying Israel then everything you do or say will be justified.\nI don't particularly like Iran, a theocratic dictatorship, but one must remember that the primary goal of any dictatorship is to stay in power. Iran knows very well that if they would use nukes on anyone, let alone Israel, they would be wiped off the map.\nThe same reasoning was valid for Saddam's Iraq.\nThe last thing a fledgling dictator like him could have wanted was to create a case for being removed. That's why the alarm by the US govt that Iraq was a threat are ludicrous.\nBut people get easily drunk on propaganda.
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Israel is a leader of International Terrorism.\n\nThis entity has occupied an entire country, Palestine, and kicked FOUR MILLION Palestinians out of it using brutal force.\n\nIt invaded Lebanon and Syria and Egypt. It is based on EXTREMLY extremist ideologies that claim JEWISH SUPREMACY. It is a theological aparthied state where Jews reign supreme and are allowed to kill Palestinians at will. \n\nMore than 1000 Palestinian CHILDREN! have been killed by Israel since 2000. \n\nIsraeli terrorists (Soldiers in the IAF, Israeli Agression Force) attack Palestinians daily. \n\nIsrael has Nuclear weapons, more than 150 warheads, that's enough to destroy the entire world. \n\nIsrael assasinates political opponents and has no respect for human rights.\n\nWe do say that Israel is a terrorist, just click on www.pacifica.org and enjoy the webcasts, it's only the "confused" mainstream media (bought a zillion centuries ago) that portrays the Palestinians as terrorists.\n\nLike Michael Moore said, "YOUR TIME IS UP!" and we tell those arrogant fools the same thing, "YOUR TIME OF KILLING PALESTINIANS AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT IS UP!" \n\nNO TO FUNDAMENTALIST TERRORISM CARRIED OUT IN THE NAME OF JUDAISM OR CHRISTIANITY OR ISLAM!\n\nThe world CANNOT sustain such sickening Jewish supremacy arrogance, where it's never again only for Jews, We say never Again for the Palestinians!!!\n\nLIBERTY TO PALESTINE FROM JEWISH FUNDAMENTALIST OCCUPATION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION.
555222
Sadly, i believe the shells were exactly on target.  That's just how Israel works. And they wonder why arabs hate Israelis?
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Israel has always held a special position in the world by way of its stranglehold on the US Senate and media. The US says what Israel wants it to say and does what Israel wants it to do.\n\nIf Israel decides to keep its attacks on Gaza quiet, there's not much you or I can do about it. It will be kept quiet. Even in this forum, comments against Israel are suppressed. Just read the previous posts.\n\nBesides, Israeli soldiers murdering innocent women & children in cold blood is nothing new. They've been doing it for 50 years. I've seen footage of an Israeli soldier taking careful aim at a young man running for his life and then firing live rounds. He took 3 full seconds to aim. You do not aim for 3 seconds when you are firing in self-defense. He missed, then he laughed with another soldier who was standing beside him. They looked like they were hunting ducks or something. That's the Zionist mentality. Non-Jews are considered less than human.\n\nOthers have questioned why some say Israeli deaths are acceptable while Palestinian deaths aren't. The difference is that Israelis are occupiers. The land that is now Israel was taken by force from Palestinians. If a burglar breaks into your house and you kill him, it's called self defense. It's the same thing. Israel is the burglar. Palestine is the house.
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No Israel is not always right. They claim to just defend themselves and this is far from the truth. Look at media coverage that is not from the US. The invasion of Lebanon recently Israel invaded that country because two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped. The Israeli soldiers were illegally inside of Lebanon, but they dont mention that in the US. Israeli has kidnapped hundreds of Palestinian leaders, democratically elected leaders and put them in jail for no cause, they crossed into Palestine and took these people from their homes. There are reasons the arab countries hate Israel and it isnt that stupid line they hate the jews. Jews are not Israelis, "Jews" are people who practice Judaism. Israelis are the people who live in Israel.
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I would answer you by a similar answer; can anyone beside me see why USA and Israel give themselves the whole right to posses nuclear weapons and prevent others from have them? And just a small reminder; USA is the unique nation over the whole history which has used the nuclear weapons and it has committed the biggest and most aggressive genocide  against hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki of Japan at the end of World War II (in spite of the fact that Japan had announced its surrendering before USA committed its crime which give no justified moral excuses). It was only the desire of showing off, arrogance and terrorizing other nations.
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Unfortunately, you are not educated about the situation.  Israel should be criticized, just as any other country, for any wrongdoing.  However, what is antisemitic is when Israel is criticized for an action that is very small at the same time other countries are commiting crimes that are ignored.  Does that make any sense?  Of course not.  \n\nYou really need to find facts on Israel, as well.  Jews have ALWAYS lived in the land of Israel -- always.  The Jews were happy to share the land with Muslims.  But the Muslims couldn't stand to have any non-Muslims in the world, so they rejected the two-state solution.\n\nAre you aware that Arab nations made refugees out of anywhere from 600,00 to 800,000 Jews after WWII?  Those numbers are many times over the Muslim refugees from Israel.\n\nThe fact is that Muslims have explicitly stated that they want world domination.  Open your eyes and look at all the filth that they spew not only upon Jews but upon ALL of the western world.  You've been gullible and bought the Muslim "victim" card they love to play so well.\n \nDo some serious research from credible sources - not Muslim sources, which are not only biased, but they contain actual lies (that may be misproven time and time again).\n\nPlease, don't become another dumb American who doesn't know how to find out the truth!
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Absolutly.\n\nIran has already said that once they get a nuke they will destory Israel. If you look at the comments from Iran, their goal is not protection but to actully trigger the end of the world... no joke, read up on it. They want to cause a world war that will destroy the earth and bring "Allah" from heaven.\n\nThe rest of the world can not wait till this happens, because if we do nothing then Israel will HAVE to do something, and then we end up in an even bigger war because Israel will be attacked by every other arab nation for attacking Iran.\n\nChina and Russia are just causing trouble as usual because they want that oil money and the techology contracts... just like they did in Iraq.