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- Alheithinn, on 01/01/2009, -42/+243I don't know why anybody should be surprised at the results of this latest confrontation. Sure, Hamas is small and they probably hope for sympathy as a result, but if you're 5 feet tall and 100 pounds and hit somebody who is 6'5" and 280, the results will be easy to predict. And being smaller doesn't give you the right to attack somebody without consequences. This is simple cause and effect at work.
And I invite opponents of Israel to look dispassionately at the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and at timelines. You won't find a long list of Israel attacking the Palestinians in a vacuum. There is plenty of attacking going on from the Palestinian side. - inactive, on 01/01/2009, -17/+174Egypt has had about enough of Hamas. You can only help people like this so long before you decide it is a waste of time.
Egypt helped broker a deal between Hamas and Fatah but I suspect that they doesn't want Hamas spreading into their country. The border has been a thorn in Egypt's side for quite some time. - BassMastr, on 01/01/2009, -20/+133Hamas has no desire for peace.
- inactive, on 01/01/2009, -15/+123Hamas leader killed and Hamas complains???
A professor of Islamic law, Rayan was closely tied to Hamas' military wing and was respected in Gaza for donning combat fatigues and personally participating in clashes against Israeli forces. He sent one of his sons on an October 2001 suicide mission that killed two Israeli settlers in Gaza.
Dude if these guys dont care about their kids like this, why the ***** should we care about Hamas?!?! - BillE3, on 01/01/2009, -11/+94More than 10,000 people throughout Iran have registered as volunteer suicide bombers in the past three days. At a gathering Tuesday (Dec 23, '08) in Tehran, hard-liners were distributing registration forms to volunteers.
"volunteer student suicide groups are determined to go to Gaza"
A copy of the letter was made available to The Associated Press on Wednesday (Dec 24 '08) - gbudavid, on 01/01/2009, -17/+92I would sure like to know what caused this apparent about face...
- sgtbutterscotch, on 01/01/2009, -8/+79I'm pretty sure the Palestinian Authority and Hamas never really liked each other in the first place, though it is refreshing to see something like this printed in the media.
- theskillwithin, on 01/01/2009, -20/+91HAMAS Recently legalized crucifixion for non-muslim acts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While Israel hospitals treat Palestinians, while being fired upon by them! - EatingPie, on 01/01/2009, -22/+84"It had behaved like a superpower."
I find the change of terminology here very insidious.
Hamas is behaving like *terrorists*, not a "superpower." They're specifically targeting innocent civilian populations. The obvious implication -- that Hamas is behaving like the *US* in Iraq -- is completely bogus. You can hate the war in Iraq, but be honest about it. We as a nation are *not* attacking with the intent to kill innocent civilians, be they in their homes, in hotels, or on the streets. We try very, very hard to *avoid* killing innocents. That is a *huge* difference, and it's too bad that the Arab reporter is trying to blur that distinction.
-Pie - inactive, on 01/01/2009, -9/+69"Israel, although little, had many things going for it, mainly of a personal and societal nature. "
they had USA arms and support. - lccat, on 01/01/2009, -22/+82Hamas does the bidding of Iran just as the "muscle" did for the Mob.
- Damoclez, on 01/01/2009, -67/+117Pretty much from the beginning, the Arab states directly surrounding Israel, wanted Israel to never exist, and when it insisted on existing, to try and extinguish it by aggressive warfare. Israel, although little, had many things going for it, mainly of a personal and societal nature.
What you see now is the standard Arab Problem - a feeling of inferiority. The inferior always feels justified in sneak-attacks on a more successful individual/group. The Arab has always had a feeling of inferiority. The only solidarity they've achieved was when, as a group, they united under the Green Flag of Islam. Once there were no perceived outside enemies, back to internecine warfare, assassinations, bullying, the standard of their character.
Individually they can be honourable and very good people, but as a group, it's better to follow the dictum: "Good fences make good neighbors." - iMattK, on 01/01/2009, -8/+58From the page: A columnist for the PA daily Al-Ayyam, Abdallah Awwad, said that Hamas had made a major mistake in trying to be both a government operating in the open and a resistance organisation that operated underground. "We are paying the price of stupidity and the maniacal love of being rulers," he said.
- inactive, on 01/01/2009, -4/+52But I like hummus.
- Ymeg, on 01/01/2009, -10/+56Hamas needs to crumble and the criminals need to be jailed. I only hope that the peaceful Arabs can take over.
- Chordonblue, on 01/01/2009, -25/+69Either way, it's about damn time they stepped up. These rocket attacks are ridiculous and criminal. Retaliation is the only option Israel has at this point.
- johnboycanada, on 01/01/2009, -1/+45About face? Both Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been battling their own wars with Islamic Jihad. Egypt with The Muslim Brotherhood and later Al-Qadea to overthrow the Mubarak regime and install a Islamic state and Saudi Arabia with fundamentalist Wahhabis and Al-Qaeda that would like to overthrow the monarch to rid the Arabian Pennsylvania of U.S. bases (located on Muslim land) and more evenly distribute wealth resources from oil. This is why Egypt and Saudi Arabia ***** their pants when the U.S.A. told Palestine "go ahead and have elections"... they did and elected/emboldened Hamas and other Islamist organizations. Those Hamas leaders are closely linked with other Sunni militant organizations which have been working for ages to overthrow monarchs and repressive regimes in Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Libya etc... and the are very successful. Look at Ayman al-Zawahiri, he got started fighting Jihad against Egypt and Pakistan and later transferred those skills to killing Americans as Osama bin Laden's right hand man. Read his bio on wiki. Before Al-qaeda was even Al-qaeda all these guys wanted to do was kill Arab Republic leaders (who are secular, almost always corrupt but play by the rules of the U.S.A.) and Baathists and complicit monarchs.
- theWaterboy, on 01/01/2009, -18/+54It's about time the Arabs got their head out of their asses, and recognized Hamas is nothing but trouble.
- Pasaris, on 01/01/2009, -1/+32I think the quote "behaved like a superpower" meant that Hamas acted as if they had a strong military to back them.
In other words, they talk the talk, but... - theWaterboy, on 01/01/2009, -5/+33You have to REGISTER to be a suicide bomber? OMFG, these are some seriously stupid people. Let them register, then line them up, and shoot them. Natural selection in action.
- theskillwithin, on 01/01/2009, -4/+32and these Palestinians being treated (to save them or their families life) keep it discreet because they fear being killed by hamas terrorist!
- inactive, on 01/01/2009, -6/+33"Three years ago Israel pulled out of Gaza, using military force to remove Jewish settlers and relinquishing its southern border crossings to Egyptian control. Israel offered the Palestinians an opportunity to live side-by-side in peace. How did Hamas respond? Hamas fighters took over Gaza in a wave of violence, murdering hundreds of Palestinian political rivals and destroying much of the urban infrastructure left by the departing Israelis. One example was the destruction of greenhouses in northern Gaza, facilities that could have provided food and potentially agricultural exports for the Palestinian economy. Hamas destroyed these facilities because Jews built them. Israel offered its hand in peace and Hamas responded with shouts of “Next year in Jerusalem!”
Then came the incessant rocket attacks into nearby Sderot and Ashkelon, a major metropolitan area just north of Gaza. Over three years, Hamas fired thousands of rockets and mortars into Israel and in 2006 dug a tunnel into Israel to kill two Israeli soldiers and kidnap Israeli Private Gilad Shalit, whose fate remains unknown.
Israel and the Palestinian Authority are in agreement over the creation of a Palestinian state. Negotiations are over where the lines will be drawn. Hamas’ intransigence and terrorist attacks complicate those negotiations. Indeed, Hamas does not want any agreement with Israel. It is impossible for Israel to reach an accommodation with an entity dedicated to its extermination. The only hope for attaining a just peace in this tragically afflicted region is the complete destruction of Hamas."
- Stupid Hamas. - clickmyface, on 01/01/2009, -3/+30No, you're wrong, there are simple parts. Every time Israel gives up land or agrees to a seize fire its always the Palestinians that break the agreement. That is indisputable. If there is any chance of peace they can't keep firing rockets blindly into Israel. Thats like humanity 101.
Even as a supporter of the Palestinian people, you cannot honestly believe that attacking Israel is even remotely justified when advocating for the future of the palestinian people. Thats exactly what the arab leaders are now saying. Not a single rocket shot into Israel will ever help.
I'm not sure how many ways you want Israel to say "stop ***** with us." I don't consider a group to be a valid voice or government when it's charter calls for the destruction of another nation. The palestinian people may not be terrorists, but Hamas is. When you elect people like that into power, you're giving up too much of your own voice. Isreal has show enormous compassion in the past, offering to give up huge chunks of land in exchange for the end of violence. Each time, the palestinians have stuck with the "destruction" charter instead. - vault, on 01/01/2009, -3/+29Prove it, Observant1. What is your source that Israel funds Hamas and fires rockets at themselves?
- WorldLeader, on 01/01/2009, -7/+32Rule number one: Don't ***** with Israel. It doesn't matter if they crossed the line first, it doesn't matter if they provoked the conflict. They will always win.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arab_Israeli_Con ...
Show me another country so bitterly surrounded and hated, but yet still is the strongest military power in the region. Israelis have the US to thank for that. - inactive, on 01/01/2009, -1/+26You've been spending to much time eating the pages of Spot light news.
I used to read some of that tripe, 35 years ago. I never could connect their dots back to Truth. On the surface they seem like a Conservative publication and not the Nazi propaganda rag that they really are. - JackG1980, on 01/01/2009, -16/+40hamas is soon going to be rememberd as the terrorist group that ***** with the wrong people.
- gbudavid, on 01/01/2009, -8/+31Nope I think it is Iran's Presence and Position... The Persians(Iran) have been feared as a power by the Arabs for a long time. That is why when Iraq was having a war with Iran that all that Arab money came in.
When He attacked another Arab(Kuwait) then his prestige dropped. - BillE3, on 01/01/2009, -7/+29But they do care for their kids, especially when the kid volunteers to be a martyr. The crying is for the western media, at the same time they celebrate sucessful homicide missions that kill Israelis.
- BassMastr, on 01/01/2009, -8/+30What ever happened to wanting to hear both sides to a story? Do you always hide your head when someone gives an different point of view?
- TheZorch, on 01/01/2009, -7/+28Sanity and rationality are winning in this conflict. The Arab World knows Hamas has crossed way too many lines and made it nearly impossible for Israel to make any peace in the West Bank. Fear of Iran is also powering much of this too. Hopefully, when the smoke clears Israel will step up to the plate, extend a hefty olive branch to the Palestinians and fill the void left behind by Hamas or something else much worse will take their place.
- imasuperDOTcom, on 01/01/2009, -1/+22We should create our own list of people not willing to explode themselves. I know it'll be difficult getting to 10k, but I bet we could do it!
- whatthefu, on 01/01/2009, -13/+34"The Arab has always had a feeling of inferiority." That is the dumbest observation ever. "Arab" itself is an ethnic group, not limited to any one religion. The history of the Arab peoples ranges back for hundreds and hundreds of years, and it was never a "feeling of inferiority." The Islamic world itself was for over a millennium a bastion of culture, science and learning, and that's just one of the many aspects of the history of the Arab peoples. You're feeding Arab stereotypes, which is pathetic. How any intelligent person can possibly take you seriously is beyond comprehension.
- Akairenn, on 01/01/2009, -1/+22I'm not complaining.
Somewhere there's a bus full of children that hasn't been blown up, because some random dude is sitting on his couch, saying, "Well, I was going to be a suicide bomber, but you know, the paperwork is such a hassle."
I'm all for more bureaucratic red-tape for suicide bombers. :P - inactive, on 01/01/2009, -6/+26This rumor started by a ***** BLOG and no evidence or links to evidence.. just pali-propaganda!
- COINTELPROAgent, on 01/01/2009, -5/+25I don't know that it was started by a blog or not, but crazy people do tend to make up crazy excuses when they're faced with the possibility that they may have been wrong about something.
- COINTELPROAgent, on 01/01/2009, -2/+22"Hamas was created by Israel."
Then we agree that they should be wiped out. - inactive, on 01/01/2009, -10/+30Yeah 3 to 4 days of rockets into Israel have nothing to do with responsibility.
No other nation would wait 3-4 days to retaliate! - twiztidsinz, on 01/01/2009, -2/+21I'm guessing you're getting hung up on the phrase "about face" thinking that it means "in relation to a face".
But actually "about face" is the military command to turn around often used while drilling (as in practicing marching exercises (as in formations and movements, not as an aerobic workout) , not as in using a hand or power drill). - Dumbledorito, on 01/01/2009, -7/+25This is what happens when gov't allows religious institutions to take over basic public services (especially education) and then allows it to fester and radicalize. "The People" will support their church and source of charitable aid over what they see as a secularist power that they have no direct stake in or control over.
My question is, if Hamas is somehow neutralized, will Israel do anything to better relations so the people who could make a decent life out of trade or other economic activity can get a foothold? And will these governments who are ousting Hamas step in to fill the void left in the social services that Hamas provided (and used to their advantage)? If they don't, Hamas II won't be far behind. - waggdogg, on 01/01/2009, -9/+26The horsefly can only sting the ass of the bull for so long before the bull kills the horsefly.
- PaperKutter, on 01/01/2009, -2/+19oOoo Arab on Arab
- Chordonblue, on 01/01/2009, -2/+19Close your eyes and ears to the truth then. How you can justify rockets launched from civilian areas is beyond my comprehension - and apparently - beyond the comprehension of certain Arab leaders as well. You lose.
- solid12345, on 01/02/2009, -0/+17And not a single Iranian will go through with it. They did this same exact drive a few years back, signed a few thousand up, and not one ever went through with it.
The Persians talk big but they will never throw away their own lives for an Arab, there is centuries of mutual distrust between the two peoples. - inactive, on 01/01/2009, -1/+18Because it clearly illustrates that Israel extended a peace branch and Hamas ***** it up. Why can't you pro Hamas supporters see how Hamas has brought all this on to themselves.
- Stupid Hamas. - adiavn, on 01/01/2009, -0/+16Actually the Hamas has killed more than 600 people from Fatah, so it's much more than a dislike:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_civi ... - BassMastr, on 01/01/2009, -10/+26She didn't even write it. How can it be her propoganda? All the article does is quote Arab leaders. You should read it.
- oda1, on 01/01/2009, -1/+17The Arab leaders are sitting happily on their throwns with their billions upon billions of dollars. Trust me, they could care less of what happens in their own countries let alone neighboring countries.
(I'm Arab, I know) - inactive, on 01/02/2009, -1/+16So basically the parents love death more than their own children. How sad...
- inactive, on 01/01/2009, -9/+24I wonder if maybe a couple of them noticed what Israel has in their hand,...and saw that the pin was pulled?
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