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Gaza violence suits both Israeli leadership and Hamas
By Gwynne Dyer - Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, said something cryptic last Friday, shortly after the Israelis began their latest round of attacks on the Gaza Strip. Condemning Hamas’ conditions for accepting a ceasefire as “exaggerated and unnecessary,” he offered his condolences “ to the families of the martyrs in Gaza who are fuel to those who trade in war. I oppose these traders, on both sides.” Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe death and destruction in Gaza is truly disturbing. I understand Israel has the right of self defence but the killing of so many women and children cannot be acceptable. Tony Blair is doing a really good job.....not.
Jul 21st, 2014 - 07:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0A good start point is to look at the author. Gwynne Dyer is a Canadian journalist who makes his money from writing about Arab-Israeli conflicts. Does he have an interest in keeping things going?
Jul 21st, 2014 - 01:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Let's take a look at the historical reality. Over 3,200 years ago, the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah existed. Just where Israel is today. Except that Israel today is smaller. Was there a country called “Palestine”? Nope. Around 70 A.D. the Roman emperors Vespasian and Titus decided to “break” the Jews. Starting with the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. Many Jews, understandably, fled. But some kept their heads down and remained. It was then that arabs moved in. That's stealing and the Jews had no recourse. The Jews were persecuted and driven out wherever they tried to settle. Culminating in Hitler's Holocaust. After that, the world decided that the Jews had suffered enough. The land was available. Under British control but occupied mostly by nazi sympathisers. It was agreed that the Jews should have their homeland back, except by arabs. And when Israel announced its independence, FOUR arab armies attacked the very next day. No-one goes to war that quickly, demonstrating that the arabs were intent on keeping what they had stolen. But Israel was prepared. So it won that one. And international law says that what you possess at the end of an armed conflict is yours. But provision had been made for the arabs. An area called Transjordan (now Jordan). They could live peacefully in Israel or move. Some of the arab squatters didn't like that. Thus the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. How do “we” solve this? We round up the arab squatters and move them to Jordan. There's plenty of room. It might be necessary to set up a 10-mile wide buffer zone where UN troops can shoot to kill for anyone crossing east to west without authorisation. What are “palestinians”? Closest I can see is “Philistines”. Didn't David and the Israelites beat them? Why reverse history?
Such a depressing story. When Sadat and Begin signed a peace treaty in '79 I felt hopeful. When the Oslo accords were signed in '93 by Arafat and Rabin I felt hopeful, but waited for the other shoe to drop, remembering what happened to Sadat. Rabin was then also assassinated. And now the extremists are running the agenda on both signs. Sigh...
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Jul 21st, 2014 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0According to Joshua 13:3 and 1 Samuel 6:17, the land of the Philistines (or Allophyloi), called Philistia, was a Pentapolis in south-western Levant comprised the five city-states of GAZA, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gath, from Wadi Gaza in the south to the Yarqon River in the north, but with no fixed border to the east.
...Palestinians...Philistines ....Same people...same place....
Arabs are Islamists and the Wahhabi Islamists are the vanguard in the attack on all kafirs of whatever creed (that includes all whites) and want them all dead (or converted). They are backed by the “Princes” of Saudi Arabia and their petro-dollars for the good of Allah and his prophet Mohammad, faeces and urine be upon him.
Jul 22nd, 2014 - 07:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Palestinians elected Hamas and stood by whilst this scum altered the constitution to make it impossible to lose power and all for continuing the strife and murder of their electorate.
If it makes my family just a little safer I don’t care if all these cretins, Hamas or whoever, ‘fall to the sword’ as they so lovingly call it and the sooner the better.
The sword of course will be modern weaponry used to admirable effect by the Israelis, every power to them.
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