Are we pro Israel or pro palestine?

I don't follow these things...I just repeat back the DL consensus of opinion.

not%20that%20bright
• I stopped being pro-Israel a while ago. They've adopted victimization as justification for hateful bullying and bigotry. They've sunk to the level of those that original persecuted them. However, I'm not the biggest fan of the Palestinians or Arabs either. They created most of this mess, and they perpetuate it (just as Israel does). Neither seems to actually want peace. They can't let go of vengence. So a pox on both their houses, as far as I'm concerned.

• What has either of them done for the US lately, especially Israel since they get gobs of money from the US and seemingly give nothing or do anything in return. The problem is that it's a tiger caught by the tail apparently; if they are left to their own devices a nuclear war could result. I do think Israel needs to be weaned off the American tit though and they need to start figuring out ways they can begin to repay all the money sent to them by this country. On the other hand, I think if the money flow was shut off entirely to all parties they might pursue peace soon enough, not that I really care though.

  anon

• I'm like R1. When I was younger I believed the "we're victims" and "we have a right to defend ourselves" narratives about Israel because that's what the media tells us. Those narratives were just cover so Israel could do anything it wanted. Now I don't want anything to do with Middle Eastern people. These wars are just more things to get us further involved with these people, people who will never change. These people hold grudges. So I'm neither.

• There will always be diverse strong feelings about the entire Mid East situation. Respect that we re-elected Obama, in part for his skill in diplomacy. Regretfully many on DL won't understand why Israel benefits the US, as it's kept confidential for security reasons.

• [quote]especially Israel since they get gobs of money from the US and seemingly give nothing or do anything in return The U.S. receives intelligence from Israel and has been since the 1950s. Many U.S. corporations have divisions in Israel which provide valuable R&D, particularly computer science and communication developments. The world, in general, profits from the technological developments in medical research and irrigation technology. If you want me to start listing the achievements, I'll quickly swamp the thread. As for OP's original question, there is no consensus here on Israel or Palestine.

• [quote]These wars are just more things to get us further involved with these people, people who will never change. These people hold grudges. So I'm neither. That's my feelings exactly. I think Judaism is a more "evolved" religion than Islam (if we were to rank religions; I'm not pro- any of them), but those fuckers have been trying to kill one another for centuries, and it's unfortunate that we now live in times where their fucked-up decisions could affect us all. If you're willing to kill people, or have your own family killed, over a piece of shithole real estate, you haven't learned anything from "religion."

• well, I'd be much more comfortable on a plane sitting next to an Israeli than a Palestinian, Iraqi, Syrian or Arab on a plane. And you would too

• I don't have any thing against Palestine or Israel in theory. But if history, both ancient and modern, have taught us anything, it's that the Middle East region seems to be bent on war and violence to a such a high degree, it's as though it's pandemic to the region. I don't know why. Nothing seems to quell the need to fight, defend, be offended, attack, hate, hate, be offended again, like an incredibly angry Sisyphus. I just wish we never had to have any contact with any entity, Jew, Arab, Christian, secular, corporate, from that region ever again.

• [quote]but those fuckers have been trying to kill one another for centuries, No. The Muslims have been trying to kill Jews for centuries. Jews generally responded by fleeing, hiding or dying. In the past century Jews organized and fought back for which they have been condemned.

• In truth, most of the rest of the Arab world would be just as happy if Israel bulldozed the Palestinians into the sea; they've no love for them either. Arming both sides of the conflict is big business for many players. Peace would bring little profit, so don't expect to see that anytime soon. I do feel sorry for all the fear and suffering on both sides.

• What I don't get is that if Jews make the best doctors in the world and Israel has socialized medicine, what's wrong with socializing medicine in the USA?

• No way to be pro Israel anymore.

• [quote]No way to be pro Israel anymore. Yeah, how dare they respond when the Palestinians launch hundreds of rockets into southern Israel between January and October? Those bastards. Otherwise known as: It all started when he hit me back.

• [r9] completely ignorant about the history of Jews in the Muslim world. They were treated with much more respect and humanity, and victimized much less, than in Europe. OT, if you have any understanding of the history of the conflict, the context of British colonialism that produced the state of Israel within an existing nation, the letter of international law (such as prohibitions on settling occupied territory and subjecting a population to a military dictatorship), and the consensus among the rest of the world that Israel needs to budge from its resistance to conceding anything substantial to the Palestinians, you cannot support further warmaking by the eight-largest military in the world against one of the poorest, most densely populated and most characterized by suffering places in the world, i.e. Gaza.

• I'm definitely more Pro-Israel if I had to choose, but at this point, what's the point? THE FIGHTING WILL NEVER END BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS. EVER.

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• I am Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine. I just am anti-Zionism and anti-Jihadism. Both are forms of religious extremism that use terrorism as a means to an end. The only difference is that the latter is condemned by the U.S. while the other is protected.

  Anonymous

• [quote]They were treated with much more respect and humanity, and victimized much less, than in Europe. That doesn't mean the Muslims treated Jews well, only less badly than the Europeans. For instance, let us consider the Safed Massacre of 1834, documented by one Mr. Kinglake. Thirty days of Arabs murdering, raping and robbing the Jewish community of Safed. Is that your idea of respect and humanity, r14?

• R14 Jews for decades wanted to take over that area now known as Israel before it happened after WWII. Jews were buying up land in that region for decades. It wasn't until after WWII when many things came together including Jews lobbying Britain to create Israel with their military power that it came to be. As far as the relationship with Jews in Europe, that isn't something that can be honestly discussed.

• In 1066, Arabs in Granada crucified the Jewish vizier. They then razed the Jewish quarter and slaughtered 5,000 Jews. This was in response to Muslim preachers complaining of Jewish political power. Is that your idea of respect and humanity, [R14]?

• Yeah, let's bring up a single anecdote from a more than 1300 year history of coexistence in order to lay red herrings and straw men around the field of debate, [r17]. Let's also not control for ongoing conflict, local factors, political context or really anything else that would be significant to social scientists or historians. How gullible do you think people are? If you had any knowledge of the systematic facts and patterns of Muslim-Jewish relations in Muslim-controlled areas of the world before the 20th century this argument would not even be taking place. Muslims have not "been trying to kill Jews for centuries." The sheer ignorance of that statement amazes me.

• Palestine, but I've spent a lot of time outside the U.S. It's really only then that you start to understand that the U.S. is the ONLY Western country offering unqualified support for Israel, and which refuses to ever label its acts of blatant terrorism against Palestine or Lebanon as such. And yes, this is entirely because the U.S. has a uniquely large, rich and powerful Jewish lobby. While I am not a conspiracy theorist who thinks "Jews run the country," I'm smart enough to know their level of influence both inside the Beltway and amongst fundamentalist Christians (who couldn't care less about Israel/Palestine, since Jews of course don't believe Jesus is the son of God, except that in the Christian Bible Jesus said that Israel's continued existence is critical to His Resurrection, so obviously fundie types will do anything to assure Israel's safety in that context).

• When any two groups of people on earth hate each other that much, for that long, and seem to make such a habit of killing each other - I say fuck both of them. They deserve each other and it's a match made in heaven.....or hell, depending on how you look at things.

• [quote]Yeah, let's bring up a single anecdote from a more than 1300 year history of coexistence in order to lay red herrings and straw men They aren't red herrings or straw men. Someone here claimed that Muslims treated Jews with much more respect and humanity. I countered with two documented examples Muslims treating Jewish communities brutally and you started whining. Those were just two documented massacres. There are more. Add on top of that centuries of being treated as, at best, second-class citizens, brutal overtaxation and property seizure, and it's quite clear that Muslims, historically speaking, generally did not treat Jews well. [quote] Muslims have not "been trying to kill Jews for centuries. They've been trying to kill Jews since Mohammed and has men slaughtered the Jews of Khaybar and Medina. It's not constant, it's intermittent. But it's been going on for over a millennium.

• [quote] the U.S. is the ONLY Western country offering unqualified support for Israel, If the United States' support for Israel were unqualified, Obama would have already greenlighted Israel bombing Iran. The U.S. does, indeed, support Israel more strongly than any other country, but it isn't absolute. And the U.S. is not the only country that supports Israel.

• [quote] It's really only then that you start to understand that the U.S. is the ONLY Western country offering unqualified support for Israel, and which refuses to ever label its acts of blatant terrorism against Palestine or Lebanon as such. Australia seems to be giving Israel unqualified support.

• R10, Can you please explain your surprising statement that Arabs are not pro-Palestinian.

  R4

• I'm pro-not starting World War III over a bunch of paranoid wingnuts in the middle of a piece of stinking desert.

• I think it's pathetic for anyone to hate either country...I just think it's unfortunate there can't be peace there. I understood the moderates on both side, but the extremists need to go.

• We are pro-Palestine. The Canaanites are determined to exterminate the Arab race. And all of it paid for by the American tax-slavers, who are possibly the stupidest people on the planet.

  Mrs%20Patrick%20Campbell

• R4/R26, it really doesn't need much explanation, it's clear from observation. Other than providing pretext for keeping their anti-Israeli fires stoked for their own purposes of having a common enemy, the Arab states have nothing but thinly veiled contempt for the Palestinians and privately consider them a blight, even though they publicly call them brothers. Take, for example, the fact that the Arab League countries routinely pledge monetary support for Palestine but often don't pay (see linked story from 2008, they do the same today)

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/26/AR2008072601797.html

• [quote]The Canaanites are determined to exterminate the Arab race. How curious. Yasser Arafat, Mammoud Abbas and Hanan Ashrawi have all claimed that the Palestinians descent from the Canaanites.

• [quote] Are we pro Israel or pro palestine? I'm neither. I really couldn't give a shit about either of them, or whether or not they blow themselves all to hell. This fight is so old and so tiresome. I'm COMPLETELY OVER IT. Besides the fact that it has no impact on me whatsoever. Let them do what they will. I don't care.

• The only answer is Israel

• [quote] Respect that we re-elected Obama, in part for his skill in diplomacy. Can r4 remind me again what diplomacy skills he has again?

• Obama is currently in Myanmar (Burma), making him the first sitting U.S. president to visit. The U.S. was able to negotiate the release of more political prisoners with his visit. I listened to the speech congratulating the country on its progress toward democracy, noting the release of prisoners of conscience and the end of forced labor. I thought he did a pretty good job. Last night he was in Thailand. He appeared in a joint press conference with Prime Minister Shinawatra. He ably handled questions from the press, including a four-part question from a Bloomberg reporter. I'm happy he's focusing on developing our relationships with southeast Asian nations and making this his first post-election trip. And, at the risk of objectification, Prime Minister Shinawatra must be the prettiest head of government currently sitting.

• Israel now sits where ancient Canaan once did. The Canaanites later settled in Venice and became the Ventians, migrating eventually to form the Bank of Amsterdam. At the end of the 17th century they invaded England with the purpose of chartering the Bank of England. The rest is, as they say, history - a history of nonstop wars and crushing public debt. The Canaanites own the Bank of England, the Fed, and the ECB.

  Mrs%20Patrick%20Campbell

• Palestine. Israelis are xenophobic assholes.

• Israel does give plenty back to the u.s in return for the financial and political backup. Just because most are not interested enough to find out what that is, is just plain ignorance on your part. It goes way boyond the R&D and intel that someone already mentioned. You definately get your moneys worth and beyond.so relax. As for what you guys get from muslims who actually hate you and not just wish but act on their attempts to demolish the u.s is the real question here.

• [quote]Palestine. Israelis are xenophobic assholes. And, in contrast, the Palestinians of Gaza so love foreigners, they won't let them leave, even when they want to. [italic]TEL AVIV (EJP)---Hamas has not allowed 22 foreign nationals, including several journalists, to leave the Gaza Strip, EJP has learned. Amon them are nine Italian citizens, one Canadian, one South Korean, a French national and six journalists from Japan. In addition, two Turkish Red Crescent members have been refused exit. The move raises the possibility that Hamas is preparing to endanger journalists in order to heighten the risks of any Israeli operation against Hamas's arsenal or to intercept ongoing military operations. Israel has kept the Erez crossing into Gaza open in part to facilitate the travel of the foreign press, diplomats, and humanitarian workers. In the past, Hamas has used journalists and reporters as human shields and used media facilities for military purposes. In 2009, during Israel's’Operation Cast Lead’, the TV station Al Arabiya inadvertently aired live coverage of his reporter Hannan al-Masri being told – while live on the air – that Hamas has just fired rockets from the ground floor of the station's building in Gaza. On Sunday, Israel opened the Kerem Shalom and Erez Crossings, transferring goods into the Gaza strip, and enabling foreign diplomats and patients to enter Israel. The opening of the crossings was facilitated by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Maj. Gen. Eitan Dangot, in conjunction with senior Palestinian Authority officials and members of the international community. A total of 80 truckloads of medical equipment and food were transferred into Gaza. The crossings were opened in spite of the security threat facing the staff assigned to man the crossings. The goods transferred via Kerem Shalom included 16 truckloads of medical equipment, such as medicines, anesthetics and disposable medical equipment, and 64 truckloads of food.[/italic]

  http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/63297

• [quote]The U.S. receives intelligence from Israel and has been since the 1950s. Intelligence that they pick and choose to tell us...

• Palestine. I stand up for the despised and humiliated.

• [quote]Israel does give plenty back to the u.s in return for the financial and political backup. Just because most are not interested enough to find out what that is, is just plain ignorance on your part. Where have I heard that pathetic line before? Oh yes, from all of Mitt Romney's supporters who spent 2012 telling us, "he has a TERRIFIC plan to get this country back on track! Too bad you're just too lazy and stupid to look it up!" Or to put it another way, put up or shut up.

• I'm not going read or participate in this thread except to say that it will become a cesspool, if it hasn't already, and that no one who could be persuaded by reason will open it.

• We stick up for the gay hating Muslims OP.

• I won't stand up for child murderers, r44:

  https://twitter.com/JonathanRashad/status/270275536595587072/photo/1

  NSFW

• [quote]Or to put it another way, put up or shut up. In the early 1960s, the Israelis began an operation to acquire a MiG 21. After various plans and attempts, they found a Syrian pilot who was unhappily serving in the Syrian air force. He was a Christian and thought he was being discriminated against. The Israelis worked with him to get him to defect with the jet to Israel. They gave him a lot of money and got his family out of Syria. This was in 1966, when the United States was fighting Russian-supplied Vietnamese forces. The Israelis gave the United States access to the MiG 21 to examine it thoroughly, giving the U.S. military valuable advantage against MiGs in Vietnam.

• So, r45, I'm sure you oppose people who'd launch an anti-tank missile against a school bus. Right? That would be a missile aimed at a clearly marked school bus.

  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704630004576248860477417314.html

• [quote]Or to put it another way, put up or shut up. In 1956, Nikita Khruschev address a party congress in the U.S.S.R. He revealed shocking secrets about crimes committed during Stalin's regime. The United States was quite eager to obtain a transcript of the speech. However, U.S. intelligence had been unable to infiltrate the Soviet Union well enough to get the intelligence it wanted. So many Russian Jews had emigrated to Israel that its intelligence services had many citizens fluent in Russian. The Israelis obtained a transcript of the speech and forwarded a copy to the U.S., which then used it widely in radio broadcasts to Soviet satellites, publicizing atrocities committed under Stalin.

• Those dead babies weren't responsible. This is cold blooded murder raining down on Gaza. It's Final Solution scenario - ring a bell?

• My boyfriend is an Israeli and lives with me in the US. I asked him his opinion about what is going on and he said it's just a cycle that occurs every so often and it should quiet down soon. He doesn't seem that worried about it. However, he does worry about the potential for nuclear war. I don't know how he tolerates all of this, his entire family and most of his friends live in Israel. I would be a nervous wreck.

• [quote] It's Final Solution scenario Thank you for your hysterical overstatement and Nazi-Jew inversion. There's just never enough that on Datalounge discussions of Israel. If Israel wanted to wipe out the Palestinian population, it's had ample opportunity. Instead, the Palestinian population has increased greatly since 1948.

• Gilad Sharon's psychopathic article:

  http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx%3FID%3D292466%26R%3DR1

• I am pro peace, which is a lost cause. It is difficult to be fullheartedly pro-Israel or fullheartedly pro-Palestine. I am certainly against the embargo of Gaza which I blame for this horrid chapter in Israel-Palestinian relations. I believe both sides have the right to defend themselves, and that includes defending themselves from economic warfare. I think the creation of the state of Israel was a huge mistake, but that doesn't mean we can go back and change that. I am very much against settlement by the Israelis of occupied territories and that should be changed. I, like many Israelis, am against the present government. Ideally, I would like a one state solution, but that would mean a huge war. I know of no good answer and don't pretend to have one. It's a continuing disaster with no end in sight.

• How about the boy killed on the school bus, r49? Was it all his fault?

• I think both sides are lunatics.

• [quote] I am certainly against the embargo of Gaza which I blame for this horrid chapter in Israel-Palestinian relations. The rockets started flying out of Gaza in 2001. The embargo was imposed in 2007. The embargo did not cause the rockets or the Israeli response to the rockets.

• I'm hearing this "Israel has a right to defend itself" when in fact, Israel are the occupiers & aggressors. So it's kind of poetic when you deduce that Israel needs to defend itself from itself.

• [quote]They gave him a lot of money Recycled US money --same as they "gave" in symbolic payments to the USS Liberty survivors and victim families.

• I'm pro whoever wouldn't kick my gay ass, so I guess I'm pro Israel.

• As long as we agree to live and source from the past and choose to build our present from it, it will never be escaped. The hell will go on forever and at some point will destroy everything around it. The only solution is for everyone involved to decide on a new starting point, one unencumbered by past.

• U.S. economic grants to Israel stopped in 1959. From then until 1985, U.S. aid to Israel was in the form of loans (which Israel repaid) and sale of surplus commodities bought by Israel.

• 59% of Americans are sympathetic to Israel right now. So the mainstream media has done an excellent job.

• I side with Islam!!! screw the jews!!!

• What do you have in mind r4? Please elaborate so that one might find this "understanding" you are talking about. Unlike so many Christians who think they do, I don't "take things on faith" or secrecy. Also, this intelligence and spying the Israelis do is worth the billions and billions that have gone down the Israel "drain"? And r5, please go ahead and list all you want to list only back up what you claim. The only thing I'm asking is whether all the money shoved their way, or any country the US sends hard earned taxpayer dollars to (and you can be sure that the rich pay as little as they can) is worth it--what do we get in return? When do Israelis help the US in all their hare-brained military adventures? Why all the mystery?

  anon

• Israel forever

  Kob Bunst

• Frankly, I think anyone who wants to live in peace should be allowed to. All of the idiot extremists on BOTH sides who want to fight and squabble like a bunch of whores can be shipped off to the Gobi desert where they can just kill each other with reckless abandon. Everyone else will be glad to see them go.

• I just hate it when fraus use their baby strollers as battering rams.

• I'm so disgusted with all of them that I wish they would just all explode or something.

• R64, I realize that sadly some on this thread won't accept the fact that many voted for Pres Obama, because they perceive him to be a skilled diplomat. Likewise even though other posters discussed just a few of Israel's benefit to American interests, those like R64 aren't interested. What is the Palestinian record on human rights for THEIR people, including women and children? A society that educates everyone is always more likely to be open to those who are viewed as "different" from the norm, whatever that may be.

• [quote]Why all the mystery? Why all the mystery about intelligence matters? Well, if a government reveals intelligence operations too early, the people involved may be alive and still at risk. That's a poor way to repay the people who risked themselves to provide or obtain intelligence one's country needed. If the operation is revealed really early, the people put at risk might still be assets. The only information that would be safe to reveal to ordinary folk like us would be matters that are decades old. The two instances I listed have been the subjects of documentaries. Regarding your request that I list Israeli contributions to science and technology, I'm not kidding about swamping the thread. I did it once before to shut up someone who was being annoying. That thread really was swamped. I'm not in a pissy enough mood to do that. Yet.

• OP, this question clearly could have been solved more efficiently for you if you'd only USED A POLL. [quote] And, at the risk of objectification, Prime Minister Shinawatra must be the prettiest head of government currently sitting. Agreed, she's very pretty, although the Dragon King of Bhutan may be better looking.

  http://tinyurl.com/ccrgdq3

• Here's Shinawatra with Obama:

  http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/barack-obama-yingluck-shinawatra.jpg

• r69, I voted for Obama so I wouldn't be too presumptuous. R70, you go ahead and do what you want to do, I really don't give a shit...get as pissy or pissed off as you want. Science, technology, whatever...if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.

  anonymous

• Link please r61.

  anon

• You're not the only person on this thread, r73.

• "The rockets started flying out of Gaza in 2001. The embargo was imposed in 2007. The embargo did not cause the rockets or the Israeli response to the rockets." Nor were the rockets flying out of Gaza in 2001 the beginning of the crisis which goes back decades. But you knew that.

• I heard gays are treated really well in Gaza

• "The rockets started flying out of Gaza in 2001. The embargo was imposed in 2007. The embargo did not cause the rockets or the Israeli response to the rockets." You are right. What caused the blockade was the election of Hamas and Hamas's victory over Fatah in the Gaza War. That is what caused not only Israel's but Egypt's response to starve and rob the people of Gaza of basis needs. Israel has the right to defend itself from rocket attacks. Just as Gaza has a right to defend itself from economic attacks which seek to destroy it, particular to destroy it merely for exercising its right to democratically elect a government of its choosing.

• I just opened my eyes and realize what kind of a country Israel is. What a bunch of murderers. Let them get happy by killing others and make sure you are happy supporting them. But when they come after us, here in America. Make sure you remember who were the victims before you.

• For r74, since he used the magic word. Please bear in mind my post at r61 was in response to an accusation that money given to a Syrian defector in 1966 came from U.S. aid money to Israel. During the 1960s, U.S. aid to Israel was in the form of loans, not grants, as well as the ability to buy surplus commodities. [quote] U.S. economic grants to Israel ended in 1959. U.S. aid to Israel from then until 1985 consisted largely of loans, which Israel repaid, and surplus commodities, which Israel bought. Israel began buying arms from the United States in 1962, but did not receive any grant military assistance until after the 1973 Yom Kippur War. As a result, Israel had to go deeply into debt to finance its economic development and arms procurement. The decision to convert military aid to grants that year was based on the prevailing view in Congress that without a strong Israel, war in the Middle East was more likely, and that the U.S. would face higher direct expenditures in such an eventuality. [quote]Israel has received more direct aid from the United States since World War II than any other country, but the amounts for the first half of this period were relatively small. Between 1949 and 1973, the U.S. provided Israel with an average of about $122 million a year, a total of $3.1 billion (and actually more than $1 billion of that was loans for military equipment in 1971-73) . Prior to 1971, Israel received a total of only $277 million in military aid, all in the form of loans as credit sales. The bulk of the economic aid was also lent to Israel. By comparison, the Arab states received nearly three times as much aid before 1971, $4.4 billion, or $170 million per year. Moreover, unlike Israel, which receives nearly all its aid from the United States, Arab nations have gotten assistance from Asia, Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and the European Community. Congress first designated a specific amount of aid for Israel (an "earmark") in 1971.

  http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/foreign_aid.html

• [quote]That is what caused not only Israel's but Egypt's response to starve and rob the people of Gaza of basis needs. For the sake of argument, let's accept that you're right that the Gazans are starving and have been robbed of basic needs. If that's true, isn't it odd that Gaza is able to import thousands of rockets, mortars and missiles, but is incapable of importing food and medicine? What does that say about Hamas' priorities if they import missiles instead of food when their people are starving?

• [quote]Just as Gaza has a right to defend itself from economic attacks which seek to destroy it, particular to destroy it merely for exercising its right to democratically elect a government of its choosing. Gaza elected Hamas in 2005. The embargo did not start until 2007. P.S. Gaza has the right to negotiate a peace with Israel instead of declaring its intention to destroy Israel. Just a suggestion.

• Here's a shopping mall that opened in Gaza in 2010. I don't know that it's all that luxurious, but if the people of Gaza really are starving and in dire need of basic supplies, why don't they just go to the mall and buy some?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dvbr7jSZGY4M

• [quote]As far as the relationship with Jews in Europe, that isn't something that can be honestly discussed. I don't get this statement.

• If people in Gaza are starving, have they considered ordering a meal at this lovely hotel?

  http://www.grandpalace.ps/

• If the people of Gaza are starving, how do they have the energy to swim in this lovely pool?

  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx%3FID%3D285242

• If the people of Gaza are starving, why don't they go to the market and buy some food?

  http://facetwitch.blogspot.com/2010/06/photos-meet-real-gaza.html

• Gaza is occupied by a terroristic organization called Hammas. Hammas steals the aid money ( the regular poulation get nothing) in order to live a lavish lifestyle ( the leaders). With the rest of what is left of that money they buy weapons. They are not interested in a thriving Economy in Gaza, they want live in huge palaces and snort top class cocain all day. They are corrupt beyon imagination. The rest is a cover up. It is an Iranian base. There is a reason no Other islamic country wants to actually help them. They know they dont need that crap.

• "Our mission is to exceed customers expectations and be a leader in the hospitality market in Gaza as well as being the a good challengers Internationally." Oh, dear.

• I don't know, OP. I do know that this bullshit has been going on all my life - 50 fucking years. It's god damned ridiculous and I'm sick of it. The US has poured billions if not trillions of dollars into that desert rat hole. I'd be more than content if they'd just fucking go all out nuclear and wipe each other off the face of the earth and be fucking done with it.

• The IDF shills need to remember to add their #pillarofdefense hashtags so we know who's on the payroll.

• I support the palestinians that are not part of Hamas.

• I want to know what happened the the billions of dollars given to the Palestinians over the years. They need to stop fucking- that way it wont be so overcrowded. And why do they keep calling parts of Gaza refugee camps?- They live in apartment buildings, not tents. I hope the Israelis teach them a lesson so that they accept their existence and stop lobbying rockets into Israel. If there was peace, the Israelis would do more to help the Palestinians thrive than other Arab nations, who could give a shit about them. But first they need to obliterate Hamas. And then go after Hezbollah. 2 terrorist groups who are doing their people no favors.

• All of this is simply a means of making the investors of the industrial war complex, profitable. Without war there is little need for government and armies.

• Pro Palestine, obviously. I have been boycotting Israeli goods for years. The Palestine people have a right to their own country. It's disgusting how the Israeli treat the Palestine people. It's the Apartheid all over again. And the fact is that Israel actually stops boats from shipping in food and medicine to the people in Gaza, even arrests them for trying to help.. fucking disgusting. It's making me sick. I don't like Israel at all.

• [quote]they get gobs of money from the US and seemingly give nothing or do anything in return Yeah and about 4X that amount goes to Arab Muslim countries. On top of oil. Let's cut them all off. Arab countries are very misogynistic (not that that'll bother DLers), anti black, anti gay. The history of Jew, Hindu and black slaughter among arabs is historically well known. To claim otherwise is just veiled propaganda. That is why none of Britains suggestions-partitions worked. Israel included, it should never have happened. Pretty predictable.

• R88 I have heard the delay in distributions of medical necessities was due to an ongoing dispute between the PA and Hamas over finances.

• OP. That's exactly how I feel. There's an inner conflict with many of us. We have been taught that God is on Israel's side. Unless, God tells us that He changed His mind, we are going to go with Israel. On the other hand, we see Israel bullying their neighbors in horrific ways. We witness Jews in show business blashpheming Christianity, while accusing those who give them a dose of their own medicine of anti-semitism. So you can understand why we are conflicted. Depends on which argument is above the others. Most prefer to be with whomever is on God's favored list even if they're horrified at Israel's unjustified bullying.

  anonymous