The memoirs of a racist zionis soldier published in the Israeli newspaper Davar are an important example of this. The soldier in question participated in an operation to seize the Palestinian village of Ed-Dawayma in 1948, and described the scenes of brutality he witnessed: \nThey killed between eighty to one hundred Arab men, women, and children. To kill the children, they (soldiers) fractured their heads with sticks. There was not one home without corpses. The men and women of the village were pushed into houses without food or water. Then the saboteurs came to dynamite them.\nOne commander ordered a soldier to bring two women into a building he was about to blow up... Another soldier prided himself upon having raped an Arab woman before shooting her to death. Another Arab woman and her baby were made to clean up the place for a couple of days, then they shot her and the baby.
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I don't believe in wars period, why can't we all just get along!!!
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You guys need to talk to a history major! For goodness sake the US feels guilty because of the Holocaust. But no, Israel did not take land from the Palestinians, Israel has existed longer for crying out loud. The Palestinians were a little bit more radical that the Jordanians so they were kicked out and they wanted land so they laid claim to land that belonged to Israel. And as an American I don't hate Muslims, what I hate is someone who claims they have the right to kill in the name of a religion at all. If you're going to kill just say its because you're a bad person who enjoys the pain of others, not because you're religion told you so. The Bible, the Koran, the books that the Jewish, Buddhist, and what a lot of the other major religions say is to not kill, so stop hijacking religions and lets get to the frigging point. Every religion historically has been used by someone, the Muslims aren't to blame, the murderers of the world are.
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you are quite correct, in fact Jews used terrorism in the same way that the palestinians do today long before anyone else. They were the origional terrorists
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One must really lack basic compassion to call children, women and civilians, who have been under brutal occupation for 40 years thugs..\n\n..in regards to the question, it's not that they don't Want peace, they don't want FAIR peace. the roadmap was a way of achieving peace, as was Camp David as were Oslo talks.. however, what they entailed for ISrael, is total economic, military , socal Domination. For Palestinians, not a state, rather series of buntustan-like regions where they are allowed to exist. \n\nwhat is fair peace, well for starters, listen to international community. Many resolutions for fair peace has been proposed by the UN, 242 for example, which always receives the same vote: all the world for it- US and Israel against.\n\n*EDIT*\n\neven if you go with what the person above said, which for the most part, isn't really relevant, but lets go with it. and accept his argument..that Israel is righ towner of 'the promised land' as God said so..therefore his conclusion is, we can treat Palestinians as inhumenly as we like, kick them out of their homes and keep them in camps surrounded by a wall (sounds like ghettos to anyone?) just because they don't belong on this Holy land of ours. \n\nwell is this not the reason why Jews were persecuited and murdered all over Europe and in Holocaust in Germany..all because they did not belong there..\n\ntoday we Rightly condemn what has been done to Jews, how can we then not condemn when they are doing exctly the same things to Palestine today ..under the pretext of 'defense' or more recently ' War on Terror'.
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For every genuine picture or blog coming out of Iraq, there are a hundred either mocked up or used out of context.\n\nUnless you saw it with your own eyes its best not to jump to conclusions as modern photgraphic techniques can make anything beliveable.\n\nAbout two years ago a mainstream British newspaper carried a front page set of photgraphs of British Soldiers abusing Iraqis in the back of a truck.\n\nThere was uproar worldwide and people were killed in the reprisal riots.\n\nWhat many of us, who actually know what they are looking at, noticed however were some minor discrepancies in the equipment the "soldiers" were carrying. For instance the SA80 rifles the guys were holding were not the current issue model, and neither did they have the correct serial numbers. To the untrained eye an SA80 mk1 looks like an SA80 mk2, but there are subtle differences.\n\nAnyhow, after people got killed as a result of the article, and relations between the Brits and the locals in Basra took a downturn, a group of idiots in the UK were caught, arrested and then admitted to faking the photgraphs in a warehouse in England in order to both sell them for money and to protest the war. Even the lorry in question was traced and had never been outside the UK. None of the people in the photos were soldiers, or Iraqis and all of the gear had been sourced from surplus shops and the rifles were de-activated junk from gulf war one.\n\nThe newspaper editor was forced to resign, but his actions in publishing the photos as genuine had cost lives. People had died as a result.    \n\nAlso to back up previous comments, there are no incendiary weapons which burn the body yet leave the clothes, also napalm and white phos are two different things.
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They killed a lot my friend,they commited many massacers also against muslims,i know that & u know it,\nbut the problem that a lot of ppl r convinced that israel is there friend and ally,they think they r nic ppl and they think that they didnt steel the land from muslims,all this cause of the zionist controled media and the pro-israel western leaders who r using there countries political powers and economical resources to support israel and justify there cruel actions against the arabs,which gave the normal western person a false impression that jews r  the VICTIMS.
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Id say people in the Middle East have an extremely biased view (if any) on the Holocaust. Im Lebanese, living in Lebanon, and i can say that the Holocaust is praised (unfortunately) in most Arab countries since Israel is viewed as the main enemy (along with the US). It's sad to see educated people praising Hitler and the horrible genocide he commited against Jews. Being an Arab Christian, my backgroud education gave me the right idea about the genocide. However, most Muslims have this haine for Jews (mostly because the Sheikhs and Arab leaders examplify Israelis and Jews as the force of evil and war in the world). I dont want to sound too pessimistic but a better education will not be the solution because Imams (or Sheikhs, as in muslim religious leaders) will still endoctrinate their followers... The only solution in my opinion is the creation of two states (Israel and Palestine) after both forces recognize one another according to international law. It's a shame extremism (whether ultra-orthodox jews or fanatic muslims) is the obstacle of bringing people together..
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Well I think this is a prime example of people behaving like animals.  Neither side can see that breaking the cycle is what's needed to cease the violence.  It's like dealing with two spoiled children in a way.  You watch them fight for awhile and eventually you just make them leave each other alone, or let them beat the hell out of each other.\n\nThe more we allow terrorists to terrorize us, the more their agenda succeeds.
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sorry pal, but legally you're sitting on air. no soldier engaged in combat operations is guilty of murder so long as he is within the parameters of the operation, if and when he kills an entire family so he can rape a female, then he's guilty of murder. and only then
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No, the situation in Waco was very different.  The women killed in Lebanon came to stand in front of the mosque, off the streets of Lebanon, of their own volition.  The women and children in Waco were prisoners already, entrapped inside a compound ,and some of them entrapped by Koresh and his followers, if I remember correctly.  That particular group of Branch Davidians did not allow anyone to leave, once they joined.\n\nIn my opinion, firing on hostages or human shields is as grotesque an act of inhumanity as using hostages or human shields in the first place.  I can't see that there is a right side to that kind of situation, no matter how it gets spun.
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In March, 9-year-old Eman Walid, who sustained a shrapnel wound in the Hiditha massacre, told Time magazine that the Marines burst into the home where her terrified family--including her mother, grandfather, grandmother, two brothers, two aunts and two uncles--was huddled together in the living room in their nightclothes.\n\n“First, they went into my father’s room, where he was reading the Koran,” she said, “and we heard shots.” \n\nThen, according to Eman, the soldiers came back into the living room. “I couldn’t see their faces very well--only their guns sticking into the doorway,” she said. “I watched them shoot my grandfather, first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny.”\n\nThen, she said, the Marines fired into the corner of the room, where she and her younger brother were, as desperate adults tried to shield the children from the bullets. “We were lying there, bleeding, and it hurt so much,” she told Time.
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Probably. These are people that attack Israelis ( and defend themselves ) with their wives holding babies standing next to them so that Israeli troops will be detered from firing back. Understand that Palestinians do not value women ( except to further their political and military goals ) or female babies, so they use them as shields and to hopefully avoid return fire from the Israelis  - sorry, but I thought everyone knew this stuff.
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The angel of death is in the Middle East again to bring destruction of Muslims. So many naive arabs don't realize that. She can be more usefull at home working on anti racism in the U.S. She forgot about her people. She is just a lost cause and too ugly. She was dumped by her boyfriend who was from Qazvin Iran when she was in university. She can't let go. She is a slave of Israel.
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I agree except for the part about how it's a shame that the soldiers died the way they did. I'm sure ya meant it's tragic for them to die over there. But it's always tragic for a soldier to die. The shame would come in if they were shot during a disgraceful act, etc. \n  Semantics, perhaps. But it's such a faux paus that twisted "peacenicks" used to make a soldier out to be a monster, rather than a victim of our government's foreign policy.
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Probably the powerlessness.  the Palestinians for example can't fight the Israeli soldiers because they will die.  They would get killed if they tried to kill Israeli civilians too since many of them were in the military at some point.  Because they are so weak, they think they have no other way to defeat others than by blowing themselves up.  And they have people who manipulate them into thinking that they will be rewarded in Heaven.  Those murderers are also often admired in those communities.
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In 2005 alone 634 Palestinians children were  murdered,  as a direct result of Zionist attacks and air assaults  on innocent civilians. As if the barbarity with which they confiscate land, demolish houses on top of elderly Palestinians and sleeping babies,  drive civilians out of their homes, maim and murder innocent civilians is not enough, children had to endure such savagery, under the watchful eyes of the “international community”.  \nIn an article in the Guardian tellingly entitled “Apartheid in the Holy Land,” Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote:\n “I’ve been very deeply distressed in my visit to the Holy Land; it reminded me so much of what happened to us black people in South Africa. […] Have the jews  forgotten their humiliation? Have they forgotten the collective punishment, the home demolitions, in their own history so soon?”[1]\nIn fact, many Jews have not forgotten. Inside Zionist enclave in Palestine, some Jewish politicians and journalists have made clear analogies between \n\nthe Zionist regime  and South Africa. Roman Bronfman, Chair of the Democratic Choice faction in the Yahad party, criticized what he termed “an apartheid regime in the occupied territories,” adding, “The policy of apartheid has also infiltrated sovereign Israel, and discriminates daily against Israeli Arabs and other minorities. The struggle against such a fascist viewpoint is the job of every humanist.”[2]\nEsther Levitan, the Jewish grandmother once condemned to indefinite solitary confinement without trial in apartheid South Africa for her activism in the ANC, admitted in an interview with Ha’aretz that she considered Israel appallingly racist, saying: “Israelis have this loathsome hatred of Arabs that makes me sick. […] They will create a worse apartheid here.”[3]\nFormer Israeli education minister, Shulamit Aloni, recently stated that Israel commits war crimes, “utilizes terror” and is “no different from racist South Africa.” \nWhen asked how she viewed Israel’s future, Aloni responded: “I can show you Mussolini’s books about fascism. If you read them you’ll reach the unequivocal conclusion that ministers in the current Israeli government are walking on the same path.”[4]
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I know a truly amazing woman who survived a concentrarion camp when she was 16-17.  It happened without a doubt.  And the numbers don't matter  If it was 300,00 it is still appalling.  It was not just Jews either.  Gypsys, homosexuals, physically and mentally disabled, anyone the Nazis consider undesirable were also targeted.