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- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -4/+89Goddamn it Bloomberg, get back here and fix these damn potholes.
- mehan, on 01/04/2009, -32/+90Man visits war zone, hides from potential danger.
Where the ***** is the news in this? - novaculus, on 01/04/2009, -44/+100Fifteen seconds. If you live in Sderot, you have only fifteen seconds warning when Hamas launches a rocket attack.
- GRANDPAMUNSTER, on 06/11/2009, -7/+55What was the point of this trip ? The mayor and the police chief had to go. WHY ??
- novaculus, on 01/04/2009, -37/+78The children in Gaza have exactly as much time as the Hamas terrorists in Gaza, and that is far more time than they have in Sderot. The Israelis have been dropping leaflets and making automated phone calls specifically warning Gaza residents of impending actions aimed at Hamas targets. Hamas intentionally targets civilians, and they give no warnings.
- mecman87, on 01/04/2009, -34/+70I live in Toronto and I would EXPECT my governmentt to protect me by ANY means necessary. if we were being shelled by Rockets.
- inactive, on 01/04/2009, -43/+78FTA-"In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Bloomberg said he fully understood Israel's actions. "You should rest assured, if anyone in New York was being threatened, my instruction to the NYPD would be to use all the resources at their disposal to protect civilians," Bloomberg said." --My thinking exactly. So would anyone else in the world. ANYONE.
- Shabrainiac, on 01/04/2009, -26/+55Well since Hamas endangers the children by using their homes to shoot rockets and hide munitions thus making their homes perfectly legal and legitimate targets under international law, Israel has to do its best to avoid hurting them, and they do.
(Reported by Palestinians from the Gaza strip)
"The Israel Defense Forces has unveiled a new tactic meant to reduce civilian casualties, calling houses before they are to be targeted in order to give inhabitants time to flee the attack. Palestinians reported that in some cases, the caller leaves a message on their voice mail warning that the IDF will bomb any house where weapons are rockets are found and the owners of the houses will be the ones to suffer the consequences.
The IDF has also used a sound bomb to warn civilians before striking homes."
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052260.html - inactive, on 01/05/2009, -29/+56Oh wonderful, the Israeli PR machine at work. A totally non-newsworthy pro-Israel story that serves no other purpose, where the Israel Brigade hits up the first few comments hard.
- foopirata, on 01/04/2009, -27/+53"How much warning do the Palestinians have?" - let's see:
- before the campaign started, Olmert repeatedly said (I paraphrase): "stop or we will attack".
- before bombing a house, the IDF calls by phone and cellphone to advise neighbors and civilians nearby.
Is that warning enough? - Gman311, on 01/05/2009, -3/+28Remind me why a mayor was visiting a war zone. I don't understand.
- cyrusuncc, on 01/05/2009, -16/+41Proportional response? That's the biggest load of ***** i've heard in a long time.
- orangetiki, on 01/05/2009, -21/+45***** Israel, ***** Hamas. Violence only Brings More Violence
- sheeplescareme, on 01/04/2009, -29/+52person visits war zone and uses bomb shelter. how is this news?
lame. - syda, on 01/05/2009, -11/+29He visits the Israelis, but not the American citizens in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc, fighting our own pointless wars... Such bull. Show some solidarity with your own tax payers, voters, and citizens first.
Local (especially city level) politicians need to stay the f- out of international politics and stick to what they were elected for... Fix our mass transit issues, fix our roads, fix our fiscal crisis. - kemp34, on 01/05/2009, -18/+35This is probably similar to the sniper fire Hillary Clinton was taking when she went to Bosnia.
- Chahrlie5, on 01/05/2009, -14/+31What, you're telling me that Hamas is attacking Israel?
I thought Israel decided to attack Gaza/Westbank for ***** and giggles. - Sean42, on 01/05/2009, -12/+29Staged theatrics?
I wouldn't put it past them to do this. The Israelis are fighting on 2 fronts, the physical one with planes and bombs, and the propaganda front where they try to sway world opinion.
Now I am NOT excusing Hamas' actions (especially the rocket attacks directed at civilians), but the Israelis continue to provoke them with blockades, illegal settlements and a huge,divisive wall that cordons off the Palestinians.
God is not a real estate agent. Stop fighting over land in the name of (insert the name of the creator of your choice here) - macmcraeart, on 01/05/2009, -23/+40Doesn't it just give you a warm fuzzy feeling when US mayors pay visits to aggressors in foreign countries to comfort them? How about doing your job you knuckleheaded beekeeper and comfort some of the Americans who are out of work over here because of the ***** job you are doing in the government?
- inactive, on 01/04/2009, -23/+39When the man in question is the mayor of a major world city, it is news.
- brotherbob1, on 01/04/2009, -18/+34Here's a video link to a 30 second clip of the above comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knjVDlHVPqk
Straight and to the point. - oldhick, on 01/05/2009, -14/+30How many of you have had people storm into your home in the middle of the night, evict you from your home without payment, bull-doze it and build a new one for themselves with little to no payment? How many of you have lived in a city where a recent influx of immigrants took over the entire city. And then stripped you of your rights? How many of you have lived under complete totalitarian occupation???
This game can go back and forth endlessly. You must realize that no party is innocent in this conflict. There is evilness on both sides, blood on the hands of all involved and to ignore this is dangerous. Real world solutions can only be reached when people admit to the reality of the situation. - ItIsNow, on 01/04/2009, -55/+71How much warning do the Palestinians have? Where are their bomb shelters? When Israeli war criminals bomb, shell, terrorize Palestinians, how much warning do Palestinians have?
Will Michael Bloomberg travel to Gaza to see what starving children look like? Will he see what an untreated severed limb looks like?
To 4Christ: have your read what Christ said? Has novaculus experienced Israeli shelling? The Israeli blockade? And if Israelis have a right to respond to terror bombing with bombing, do the Palestinians have a right to bomb in retaliation for 42 years of occupation, blockades, shelling, bombing, tanks attacks -- Israel's campaign of genocide? - BillE3, on 01/05/2009, -25/+41How many of you ever lived in a city while it was under rocket attack? How many rockets have you endured?
During the last century I lived in a city for a year that was hit by 10 to 20 rockets every single night. Some were close enough the blast wave knocked me to the floor. I never did sleep well at all. - inactive, on 01/04/2009, -5/+20What the *****?
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -8/+23To all the terrorist sympathizers spare me the trite logic-
Put simply- if someone is pointing a gun to your head (over 900 rockets shot at Israel) Do you stop and say, my what cute children you have, or do you stand up and fight for your life. WAKE THE HELL UP PEOPLE. You are fricken ridiculous, these savages have been brutally antagonizing the nation of Israel since its inception... They intentionally put civilians in harms way so they can cry fowl... Lick the tar out of them Israel- they are vile cowards who endanger their own women and children for the sake of their archaic Holy war.
Long live the nation of Israel, the only civilized society in that God forsaken region. - kemp34, on 01/05/2009, -5/+19It appears to me as if this man has a severe case of douche-baggery.
- sentime, on 01/05/2009, -5/+19I want to see Bloomberg live a month in Gaza
- inactive, on 01/04/2009, -56/+70NYC is in the middle of a financial crisis, and its Mayor runs off to support Israel's massacre campaign. Typical Israel firster.
- inactive, on 01/04/2009, -11/+24Is he not allowed to leave?
- rcook18, on 01/04/2009, -56/+69How many seconds warning do the children in Gaza have before Israel's cluster bombs go off?
- sheeplescareme, on 01/04/2009, -10/+22and shouldn't that person be taking care of the major economic struggles in his own city instead of wandering the middle east at the moment? nice priorities. it's not news because it is expected. it's a war zone.
- DaDrake, on 01/05/2009, -3/+15This great man has actually found the solution to stop Hamas' rocket attacks. Building on his career of limiting handgun violence in America, he has discovered by placing "no-rocket" signs around Israel, Hamas will not be able to get fire those rockets. Furthermore, he will mandate that all "assault rockets" will be banned; these rockets aren't something any militant violent groups needs and can be identified by being painted black (functionally, they are no different than other rockets).
- plainOldFool, on 01/05/2009, -3/+14He overheard that they were allowing smoking indoors.
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -3/+14There is plenty of open space in the Aza Strip from which Hamas can launch their rocket attacks (get Google Earth and look if you don't believe me). Hamas has made a tactical decision on where to launce their rockets from.
- anticom, on 01/05/2009, -4/+15If Sderot was in so much danger from rocket attacks that would justify the current incursion into the Gaza Strip, then there would be no way Bloomberg would consider such a trip.
- foopirata, on 01/05/2009, -6/+17Not to mention that cluster bombs are not being used in Gaza...
- Leviathan433, on 01/05/2009, -5/+16and therefore wayyyyy more important than the ordinary folk who do the same thing on a regular basis...
- GuacamoleSan, on 01/05/2009, -4/+15How many armies fighting terrorists actually warn the other side to prevent civilian casualties? How much are you willing to bet against me that Hamas isn't using civilian shields to raise civilian casualties?
- oldhick, on 01/05/2009, -5/+16Is that what Christ would do?
- hpymondays, on 01/05/2009, -8/+18Maybe he should be taken to Gaza too, for balance's sake and then let him decide which place he would rather live in. Anyone guess? Come on, AIPAC, bury this comment.
- inactive, on 01/04/2009, -18/+28When the man in question is the mayor of a major world city, it is news.
- avrus, on 01/05/2009, -14/+24Rcook18 - that's the sound of Shabrainiac owning you.
Before trolling, at least do some research. - DirtyVicar, on 01/05/2009, -8/+18Well, if you're a US politician, you've gotta fly out there sooner or later and do the "Ich bin ein Jew" thing.
- mogebier, on 01/05/2009, -5/+15He goes into a place that is at war. People die and bombs and missles are falling all the time. Where is the story in this??
Hello?
WTF did he expect? They would just stop while the all most Holy Mayor of NY was there?? - novaculus, on 01/05/2009, -2/+12So, according to transfire, because Israel can't stop ALL the Hamas rocket attacks, Israel shouldn't try to stop ANY of the rocket attacks.
And per transfire, Hamas isn't responsible for anything that occurs in Gaza. Israel is. Given the fact that the bloodthirsty Islamists of Hamas are willing to slaughter their own people for "crimes" like singing at a wedding reception, is it conceivable that if Hamas decided toe enforce a "no rocket attack on Israel" policy, the number of attacks might just be reduced?
Israel pulled completely out of Gaza, and the number of Hamas rocket attacks "skyrocketed". That is Israel's reward for attempting to make peace. Obviously, it was foolish of them to withdraw from Gaza, despite the good intentions.
If Israel is ultimately responsible for Gaza, even if it has tried to transfer that responsibility to the Gazans, unilaterally, then don't they have a duty to its own innocent civilians to stop the lawlessness to the extent it can be stopped? - inactive, on 01/05/2009, -1/+10solid- Because the UN has been hijacked by countries that have no business being there in the first place. I totally understand where you are coming from and I am sick of their whining and complaining also. With all of the billions of dollars the Saudis, Qatar, Iran, or the UAE has they could spare a little to develop Gaza because (more so in the past than now, except for Iran which supplies Hamas with money and weapons) they always seemed to have enough money to buy the PLO weapons. This war should not be about how many people the "big bad" Israeli's can kill but about getting the Arab world to constructively help the Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and south Lebanon to build up their communities rather than preaching war. The Arabs are the ones that want to see this war prolonged since it suits them politically in their own countries because the conflict provides a distraction from their own failings.
- IdanE, on 01/05/2009, -3/+12There's only one problem with this. This is a complete lie. Palestine was a place that was under a British mandate. The name actually dates to Roman times. "Palestinians" didn't exist until the 60's. There were various groups In the place - Jewish, Muslim, Druzi, Christian, Bahai, and others. Settlements were not as widespread as this so called map would have you believe, and if you saw maps and pictures from the time, you'd understand that. The Negev (south) was pretty much empty of anything except Bedouin wanderers (which are still there), and that's just one example.
When you ask the non-Jewish people residing in these territories what country they'd rather live in, almost all prefer Israel to the future Palestine. In fact, few non-Muslims would like to live in the new Palestine.
I don't think that people should believe maps drawn by Palestinians - they should instead try checking the truth - it might stun you how different reality is from what the Palestinians would like you to believe.
Oh, and on a side note - When Hamas took over Gaza, they killed more than 650 Palestinians who did not agree with their hostile takeover, and persecuted (and killed) anyone who dared voice opposition. During this fighting, Israel has yet to get to that number - and we're the so called "enemy".
Also, keep in mind that the greatest massacre of Palestinians happened not in Israel, but rather Jordan, in the events known as Black September, where King Hussein killed thousands of Palestinians (estimates range from a few thousand to 20000).
But Israel is the Palestinian prosecuting devil, not anyone else.... right ? - Warom, on 01/05/2009, -17/+26Hamas said that it will stop the attacks when the blockade is removed - however this is never reported, infact I bet most people did not even know there was a blockade in Gaza until the attacks started and people started learning more about why Hamas is doing what it is doing.
First Israel is commonly praised by the western worlded for allowing in Aid - They make it seem as though it is Israel paying for the aid when it is infact charities. Israel's contribution is allowing people get treated in Israeli hospitals which I say is a good thing however they have made it very difficult to access these hospitals. The low number of people is commonly said to be because people in Gaza don't want to be treated by Israelis - this is not true, if your child was going to die you would take them to a hospital even if you don't agree with the people running it. Infact there are many people from Gaza and West Bank who work in Israeli cities as low paid labours and are often paid much less than Israeli workers they are annoyed about it but since they are in a position in which they have no choice they put up with it.
Israelis often say that Egypt should not put up a blockade with Gaza and that it is Egypts fault. Just visit Egypt or Jordan and see how many Police/Military checks there are when travelling in the direction of Israel (i stopped 6 times), compare to military checks going other way (none). The truth is that the leaders of Egypt and Jordan don't care about their countries all they care about is the money they get from America and Israel to be allies which is always pocketed by the King or Officials. I wouldn't be surprised if it is Israel that has supported these people into staying in power.
(Waits to be buried) - inactive, on 01/05/2009, -4/+13Hamas is throwing its own children into the meat grinder, knowingly.
"When everyone on both sides believes that they're living in God's tomato garden, they're already nuts in the first place" -
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