Do you presume Syria's guilt - and totally ignore Israel's motivation for the latest Beirut assassination...?
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In view of the fact that it has been widely known that Bush has been planning to 'invade' Iran for about 3 years now, nothing is a surprise to me.  \n\nNothing surprises me about Israel's actions as I am increasingly getting the impression that they are simply a 'state' of the USA out on a limb [bit like UK are becoming - and I'm British!]  Both USA and Israel are in contravention of UN demands and International Law.  Israel beat the **** out of Lebanon weeks ago - they blasted the country into the ground and ruined its infrastructure and developing tourist industry.  Now they have started shelling Palestinians again - it's shameful and you have to ask how they get away with it - all the time!  I'm not surprised these poor people have turned to 'terrorist armed forces' for their defence - Israel is the most technically advanced and well equipped fighting force in the Middle East and they constantly abuse the human rights of the Lebanese and Palestinian people.
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The USA doesn't support Israel in killing of palestians.  However, it does recognize that Israel is under constant terrorist attacks from Hamas, Hezzbalah and other terrorist organizations and Israel has a right to defend itself.  As part of defense, Israel targets known terrorists or those that are harboring terrorists.  Except for the countries that are aiding the terrorists (Syria, Lebanon, Iran, etc) no country has a problem with targeted assassinations.
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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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Saddam is tried currently for allegation of killing 148 of his people after a fail assassination attempt.\nJews/ Israelis are killing 100's every day in Palestine and butchered 1000's in Southern Lebanon in Sabra & Shatila camps.\nNo body dares to question the chosen people nor God promise of the chosen land, for if they dared,they will be anti semtic and denial campies and they will simply vanish in thin air.
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No, it can't.\n"Israelis" has done a lot of guiltiest in the "Palestinian" land, including murdering, destroying houses, running out people of their lands, torturing, etc.\nYou know, Israel is only country round the world that "torturing" is legal in their damn laws.\nIf US doesn't support them some independent countries will punish them as well...!\n\nAlso, someone mentioned 6-days war. US was supporting Israel at the time completely, including weapons, satellite maps for destroying Egyptian and Syria Air bases, spying against those Arab coutries during the war and after that, etc.
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i'll will be [and have been ] the 1st to say "nobody strikes back more rappidly and fearless than the israelies".... not too long ago i heard we[usa] were taking advice and training from isreal on how to combat terrorist... i had to laugh at this.. they might be swift , they might be fearless but they've BEEN DOING IT FOR DECADES NOW!!!! THEIR METHODS ARE NOT SUCCESSFULL!!!!!
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I knew about all of these and tell other people.  Unfortunately, people ignorantly give Israelis a permanent "get out of jail free" card regardless of how repugnant, murderous and terroristic their actions are.\n\nNo doubt you have been call "anti-semetic" as much as I have for saying these things, and no doubt you defend Israel's right to exist, as I do.\n\nOh, that's right: any criticism of Israel means you're a "nazi", no matter how factual your words are....
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umm... lets see... the holiday just ended, people are still recovering from the suicide bombing in tel aviv, the new government was sworn in, israel is trying to decide how to respond to the outrageous bombing... \nthings are pretty much the same- the arabs are being barbaric and hypocritical, the world is blind to the arabs evil and the total lack of justice...\nthat pretty much sums up whats going on around here- yes, i live in israel!!
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Of course...nothing new for Israel...\nSo many times Israel got away with murder because US has vetoed every single sanctions against it...So it is because of the support of US and the silence of UN...This is their idea of justice...\nWhile Israel's crimes are called "self defense",the Palestinians fighting for liberty will be called "terrorists"...because they don't have the full support of the most powerful country in the world:USA...\nNo one will ever accuse Israel of deliberately killing civilians.even if they do... Actually the excuse was "technical error".but of course Mr Olmert already told us that those kinds of errors "may happen " in the future...
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I dont think I can answer that question fairly for a couple of reasons... \n1. I dont live in that region so I dont really know what life is like for each side (dealing with constant bombings, roadblocks, the occupation... etc) \n2. I'm not a Muslim nor am I Jewish, and those religions play a huge part into the conflict and how they perceive the situation\n3. My perception of the situation is probably distorted because I am a Westerner and my only source of info is the Western media (and we all know how fair and accurate they portray things!!!) \n\nBut if I absolutely had to choose I would probably side with the Palestinians, because they had their land taken away from them, and their lives uprooted, in order to give Israel a homeland.  BUT I do not, under any circumstances, think that makes it acceptable to send suicide bombers into Israel to kill innocent people.  That will just make Israeli's treat the Palestinians even worse... making it a never ending vicious cycle!\n\nI watched a movie called "Paradise Now" (or something very similiar).  It's about the conflict between these 2 countries and it really gave me a greater insight on what is going on over there... It made me think and question a lot.... pretty good movie!
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I do every time they blow up innocent women and children, and I ponder why won't they accept the peace offer that Israel has offered them.  I guess as Americans we should feel bad we removed their benifactor from Iraq, who was funding the suicide attacks against Israel.  BUT when you intentionallyblow up women and children, I will NEVER give my pity. (HAMAS or IRA  doens't matter to me)
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There is a tendency to see the Israelis as the perennial victim because Hitler savagely butchered 6 million jewish souls.\nThis makes Israeli behavior in the occupied territories seem somehow less brutal than it is.\nFor information on this, amongst other sources, you might want to read the accounts of Israeli journalist Amira Haas on Haaretz newspaper.\nBut must 6 million Palestinians die before their plight is given the urgency that it needs?\nIsn't it a bit gross banking on the death of six million martyrs to forward political/territorial gains?\nI understand Palestinian anger,though I do not condone the violence.\nThe death of innocent people is never justified, no matter which side they are on.
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Everything smells like anti semitism to most Israelis  and I am sick of it   When will you jerks realize that you are in a religious state - and when someone speaks out against Israel, he is not necessarily anti-semetic - it just means they disagree with the policy of your government.  While we are talking about the Jewish State - when will Israel give us its illegal stockpile of nuclear arms?    I woul dlike to see the US begin to distance itself more and more away from Israel and would also like to see us curtail the defense "gifts" in foreign aid we send you --- and if you think that makes me an anti Semetic - Then Damn it, I am, and I am proud to be one....
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the pot is calling the kettle black. I guess you missed all the war rallies by hezballah. or missed all the shrapnel packed missiles lebanon fired into israeli population centers. Islamic regimes are repressive. We simply gave the iraqis a chance to be free, gamayel and rafiki stood for freedom from syria, and syria gave them freedom from breathing and staying alive. i think you have a hard time understanding what freedom from oppression is, one day you may be lucky enough to understand this concept, till then, everything western to you will be a plot to kill muslims, and the people in charge of you and your country will keep distracting you away from their own failed policies and brutal repression, so your political energy will be focused on the rest of the world in anger, instead of on your own oppressors. I pity you.\n\n\nHezballah only won that engagement because they violated the laws of land warfare and used their own population as human shields. their combatants didnt wear uniforms so they could blend into the population when they came under fire. then when the "fighters" were killed, they said "oh look the blood thirsty vampires killed more CIVILIANS!"  your people are cowards who cannot stand up in a real fight. israelis protect their civilians, muslims use them as shields and cannon fodder, i still pity you.\nall you are is a stain on the sidewalk for western cameras to the people in charge of you.\n\nمحمد رسول الشيطان
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Jews only like to see a big "gap between Islam and Western civilitation hat make big miss-understanding between them that cause negative impact for the world civilitation" for their interest which is occupying the land of Palestine. Shakhmaty..you are right. It makes me wonder if Holocaust really happened?
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Nothing new, the "internaional community"  can ignore the weeks of shelling by the Israeli army of Gaza, the firing of hundreds of missiles into the crowded Strip that have destroyed Palestinian lives and property, while spreading terror among the civilian population and deepening the psychological trauma suffered by a generation of children. They can ignore the deaths of more than 30 civilians, and dozens of horrific injuries, in the past few weeks at the hands of the Israeli military, including three children hit in a botched air strike last week, and a heavily pregnant woman and her doctor brother killed a day later as a missile slammed into the room where they were eating dinner.\nThey can ignore the blockade of Gaza's "borders" by the Israeli army for months on end, which has prevented Palestinians in the Strip from trading goods at crossing points with Israel and from receiving vital supplies of food and medicines. As a captive population besieged by Israeli soldiers, Gazans are facing a humanitarian catastrophe sanctioned by Israeli government policy and implemented by the Israeli army. They can ignore Israel's bullying of the international community to connive in the starving of the Hamas-led government of funds and diplomatic room for manoeuvre, thereby preventing the elected Palestinian leadership from running Gaza. So desperate is the situation there that Hamas officials are being forced to smuggle in millions of dollars of cash stuffed in suitcases to pay salaries. And finally They can ignore the violation of Palestinian territory by Israeli commandos who infiltrated Gaza a day before the Palestinian attack to kidnap two Palestinians Israel claims are terrorists. They have been "disappeared", doubtless to be be held in administrative detention, where they can denied access to lawyers, the courts and, of course, justice. This attack in Israel, they tell us, is the most serious to date, with the implication that it is therefore illegitimate and part of the same "escalation". Even ignoring the fact that this attack was against Israeli soldiers besieging, imprisoning and shelling the Palestinians of Gaza, does the "international community" not to pause to consider the double standard it is applying? Was the Israeli army's incursion into Gaza a day earlier to capture two alleged Palestinian militants not an equal escalation? Was it not an equal violation of Palestinian sovereignty? Of course not. The "international community" knows, as do the rest of us, that the army never really left Gaza and the occupation never really ended. But you won't hear that from any of its reporters.
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nope , essentially zionist are killing their own people..\n\noriginally, the land promessed to Israel was so tiny, it is even ridiculous it was a promesse in the first instance..\n\nsee what Israeli archeologist and scientist says about it..\n\nhttp://www.rense.com/general18/bible.htm\n\n\nOf course , it is Ultimately isreali fault, they stoled the land from arabs then called arabs "terrorists"\n\nsee the map..\n\nhttp://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/photos/maps/landloss.html\n\nTell me is this right to create an holocaust of arab by trying to avert an holocaust of jews?\n\n\nAlso zionists are training their kids to kill and to hate.\n\nhttp://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2006/06/toddlers_of_mas.html