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Are the strikes justified
Published on December 29, 2008 By Bahu Virupaksha In Current Events

In today's world there is little sympathy for political struggles whose primary weapon is unmitigated and wanton attacks on civillians. In fact Islamic terrorism has undermined the sympathy many once had for the Palestenians and their dispalcement from Arab lands and even here one may probably make out a strong case that the Arab governments were as guilty as any other power.

The breakdown of the cease fire was heralded by the rocket attacks from Gaza on Israeli civiliian targets. The HAMAS cannot claim that the targets in thweir gunsights were military targets as all the rockets landed in heavily populated civilian areas. The purpose was clear to wreak havoc in the population of Israel and the State of Israel responded by launcing a series of air strikes against HAMAS targets. Nearly 300 people were ckilled. It is clear from the footage released by the Israeli Ministry of Defence that HAMAS has hidden their rockets in highly populated areas thereby that organisation is guilty of using civilians as shields.  The Israeli Defence Minister has pointed out that the primary objective was the degradation of HAMAS capacity to target civilians using their rockets.

Israel is showing great courage by inflicting huge casualities on the HAMAS and it is time foer civilised nations of the world to declare war against terrorist organisations, non-state terrorist organisations and it is time to extend the definition of terrorism to include governments that allow by default their territory being used for launching terorist attacks. Israel has shown the way and it is time for the rest of the world to realise that by finding political justifications for terrorism they are in reality only encouraging terrorism. It is time to say "enough is enough" and Israel's example is ceratinly a worthwehile one.

Liberals will cry out about the unacceptable level of civilian casualities but the responsibility for that lies squarely with the HAMAS which used civilian areas to hide thweir weapon dumps.


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on Jan 06, 2009

Brings you down the same level as your enemy.

That's not possible.  There is nothing lower.  The goal in this battle is the death of the other (at least on the Hamas side).  Isreal should not give a rip what others think - it's their country that has been shelled relentlessly throughout the 'truce' & I hope they don't go all limp just because some armchair closet anti-semites get their nickers in a wad.  A people who send their children as homicide weapons to kill & maim & be killed in the process deserve no respect or leniency from Israel whatsoever.

on Jan 06, 2009

That's not possible. There is nothing lower. The goal in this battle is the death of the other (at least on the Hamas side). Isreal should not give a rip what others think - it's their country that has been shelled relentlessly throughout the 'truce' & I hope they don't go all limp just because some armchair closet anti-semites get their nickers in a wad. A people who send their children as homicide weapons to kill & maim & be killed in the process deserve no respect or leniency from Israel whatsoever.

People weren't stirred about this until Israel fought back.  Now they want accountability on the Israeli side but no accountability from chamas.

I abhor this war but I see Israel left with the option to go after the one's attacking their children. 

 

on Jan 06, 2009

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control sent Iraq 14 agents "with biological warfare significance," according to Riegle's investigators.[22]

First, Aspirin has "biological significance" so that is bogus.  Second, unless you can come up with an authoratative source, I still say you are spreading the same lie as Wiki is.  I never said you were the only one spreading it.  And that Wiki article is just proof of my assertion - the liberals keep spreading the lies (did you note that none of the references that were from credible sources other than the one hack job of the partisan congress clown, supported the the NBC weapons point?  And that the rest were a simple re-stating of the obvious and admitted support for Iraq with intel?)

The problem with providing proganda links is that someone may actually read the whole thing, and dig through the sources and find a lot of lies, false conclusions and outrageous accusations - but no proof or even evidence.

on Jan 06, 2009

Brings you down the same level as your enemy

You spoke too early.

Turns out the school was used by Hamas terrorists and they shot from it. That's a war crime, but unless we can prove that Hamas are Jewish I don't think that will ever come up.

 

on Jan 06, 2009

Isreal should stop the violence, sit back, suck it up and take it. Sure, if they stop fighting, the shelling of Isreal will continue until the end of eternity (or the end of Isreal, whichever comes first), but the important thing here is not survival--it's public opinion.

Right?

on Jan 06, 2009

A people who send their children as homicide weapons to kill & maim & be killed in the process deserve no respect or leniency from Israel whatsoever.

Or from any civilized society anywhere, for that matter.

on Jan 07, 2009

But at the end of the day, the families of those murdered will remember that it was Israeli bombs that killed their loved ones, not Hamas (who they elected into power) using them as human shields.

My father's family was bombed by the Americans and he always remembered that it was the Nazis using them as human shields and we never blamed America for what happened.

Similarly this girl blames Hamas for the deaths of her siblings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLIdxF-GHWw

Are you not tired of being right all the time?

 

on Jan 07, 2009

Support for Israel from Christian southern Sudan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYv7ARsODIk

Christians (and animinists) in southern Sudan had been the target of an Arab genocide for a decade in a war that raised no concern whatsoever. no media interest in the "victims", and caused no protests all over the world.

You certainly don't find liberals posting about it on JU.

The man in the video used to be a slave. He escaped and is now a resident of Israel. Slavery is not something liberals worry about much.

 

on Jan 07, 2009

Slavery is not something liberals worry about much.

Yes they do.  If it is ancient history.

on Jan 07, 2009

Dr Guy

Slavery is not something liberals worry about much.

Yes they do.  If it is ancient history.

Here's what I have seen liberals do regarding slavery in the US:

1. The Democratic governeur of Virginia, from a state and a party that supported slavery in the 1860s, demanded from Queen Elizabeth, head of state of a country that fought wars to abolish slavery long before the 1860s, an apology for slavery.

2. Liberals elected a Ku-Klux-Klan member into the Senate.

Not a totally impressive anti-slavery record.

 

on Jan 07, 2009

1. The Democratic governeur of Virginia, from a state and a party that supported slavery in the 1860s, demanded from Queen Elizabeth, head of state of a country that fought wars to abolish slavery long before the 1860s, an apology for slavery.

He is now DNC chair.  He also beleives in post partum abortion, infanticide, and feathering supporters nests with payoffs from contracts.  And his predecessor had more standing to demand this (since he was the FIRST black governor in the US), but did not.  Because he had more brains.

Democrats have always been the party of slavery.  When the outright ownership of humans was outlawed, they figured out another way to do it.  It is now called Entitlements.  Entitled as long as you submit to the new plantation masters.

on Jan 07, 2009

He is now DNC chair.

Fantastic.

 

on Jan 07, 2009

Please go to the following LINK for perspective here. 

 

 

 

on Jan 08, 2009

Our liberal military experts explained to us that military victories achieve nothing.

Nevertheless Hizbullah and the Lebanese government say they don't want to risk another war with Israel and yet didn't fire rockets into Israel. They did fire rockets into Israel for six years before the miliotary victory that achieved nothing and haven't done so since then.

A few rockets were fired from the north, by "Palestinian" groups, but both Hizbullah and the Lebanese government are working to track these groups down and stop the firing.

It's inconceivable, but our liberal military experts seem to have been wrong yet again. How is that possible?

 

on Jan 08, 2009

It's inconceivable, but our liberal military experts seem to have been wrong yet again. How is that possible?

Yet again?  I think that is the impossibility.  That they are wrong is a given - like the sun rising in the east.  That anyone thinks they are right - is the one looking at a broken clock and getting the wrong lesson - that everyone has to be right at least twice.

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