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meatcleaver -> RE: War Criminals: In Our Names! (4/13/2008 10:45:23 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Floggings4You
The thing is, the US begged Israel to sit on its hands during the first Gulf War. While Saddam was launching SCUD missiles into Israel weekly (if not daily), the US told Israel to 'sit tight', and let US handle things.
We're still trying--now dividing our forces between Iraq and Afghanistan, and getting little to nowhere against Al-Quaida in the former, and the Taliban in the latter.
Now--again--missiles are again raining on Israel. Why doesn't the US treat Israel like an ally, and tell her to do what she needs to do, to defend herself (and that we'll support her--militarily and diplomatically--should she need such help?)
Much of the ME keeps harping about the Palestinians, but are they really Palestinians? (Aren't they, in fact, Israelis?) Doesn't there have to be a Palestine, before there can be Palestinians? And, didn't Israel win the land where the 'Palestinians' currently live, in 1967, when Israel defeated--among other agressors--Egypt? Why should Israel have to 'give' that land 'back'? (And, why should Israel give it to the 'Palestinians'? Why not to Egypt?)
'W' is the first US President I've heard (and I've been listening to Presidents since Nixon) to state that the creation of an independent Palestinian state has "always been a US priority". And yet, shortly after each reminder of this, a new intifada, a new wave of 'Palestinian' violence against Israel and/or the US, begins all over again.
Yeah, I'm almost ready to say, take the gloves off in the ME, and let Israel loose again, and see if the results this time are any different than they were 40 years ago.
Somehow, if anything, I think the rest of the ME would fare worse now, than they fared then. (And they didn't do very well at all, in 1967.)
Get real, Scuds couldn't hit a barn door from fifty paces. Was any Israeli actually killed by a Scud missile?
As for missiles raining down on the Israelis, more Brits get killed on Guy Fawkes night from commercial fireworks than Israelis get killed from these ever so dangerous home made Palestinians missiles.
Who are the Palestinians? Do you really need to ask? But if you do I'll tell you. They are Christian and muslim Arabs that the Israelis ethnically cleansed, and in whose houses many Israelis live in and on whose land many Israelis farm.
Why doesn't the US treat Israel like a real ally? If you really need to know that I'll tell you that too. Israel is an embarassment to a US government who claims to be fighting against terrorism and for civilised values because Israeli dailly breaks every international law and human rights charter that exists. Israel's occupation, annexation of Arab land, programme of ethnic cleansing of Arabs and its collective punishment of civilians and assassinations are all anh abomination to anyone who considers themselves civilised.
Oh, why is it that Americans always accuse the Palestinians of being violent as if the Israelis aren't, the zionists started this whole affair with the help of Balfour, the British Foreign minister who was a religious nut. Go back to the beginning, you'll find it wasn't the Arabs that started this conflict.
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