I disagree, but it's not really important how we define the phrase.Fullyplumped said:40 to 1 or 400 to one would be way way more.
I disagree, but it's not really important how we define the phrase.Fullyplumped said:40 to 1 or 400 to one would be way way more.
Very trueTAE said:I disagree, but it's not really important how we define the phrase.
Why would "retaliation for some Zionist atrocity" justify killings of this kind? Aren't all these killings, by both sides, a retaliation for the last thing?
Nobody will think any less of you if you say it is wrong to kill innocent people (which ever 'side' they belong to) you know...moono said:I'm not claiming justification, am I. We were looking at defining collective punishment.
Perhaps the nutter who blew the bus ( I haven't looked at the link yet ) was after somebody in particular ? Zionists often slaughter Palestinians in the street and claim that they were after somebody in particular.
If it was a revenge killing of a personal nature, or a 'pre-emptive' murder, as the Zionists often stage, then perhaps it can't be called a collective punishment.
Moreover, regardless of it being right or wrong - it is also a completely counter-productive and dead-end tactic which will not make things better for Palestinians and plays right into the hands of those who want to attack them.CyberRose said:Nobody will think any less of you if you say it is wrong to kill innocent people (which ever 'side' they belong to) you know...
Oh fucking shut up you dribbling fuckwit.
Who said it is/was an opinion?rachamim18 said:CrazyDiamond: As per your friend in Lebanon, some Lebanese love Israel, some hate it. Your friend's opinion is your friend's opinion and nothing more.
You think you are one of the world's oppressed?moono said:Another schizophrenic Zionist propaganda victim with a message to the world's oppressed.
except that you just sit at a computer talking the talk.
It matters little - you are persuaduing noone and you will fail miserably. You will not get what you want, you are a failure.
And with that, I am putting you on ignore as you have nothing worthwhile to say and I really don't want to hear any more of your drivel.
moono said:In that case you will never know that I am, at this instant , skydiving naked with my laptop over the Bermuda Hexagon.
That would explain you unremittingly talk stuff and nonsense.
moono said:Your syntax rates with your content.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsA...UKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-GAZA-USA.xml&archived=FalseJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's bombing of Gaza's main power plant could end up costing its closest ally, the U.S. government, because it partially insured the project for up to $48 million, officials involved in the project said on Saturday.
U.S. officials would not say whether Washington would ask Israel for reimbursement.
A Western aid official involved in the matter said Israel's decision to hit the power plant was a surprise in large part "because it was American-owned".
Modern Zionism is but one variant of an ancient ideology and it will continue come what may.
TeeJay said:A far better tactic for making life better for them would be to pursue peaceful means, to comply with international demands which would allow aid to resume, to start talking to the Israeli government and to take a route that would avoid seeing yet more innocent people die.
moono said:Lol. Good quote , ZAMB, one of those that permits a chink of light to darkened minds. Nice one.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13791.htmIn the skewed moral and news priorities of the BBC, the killing of two Israeli soldiers by Palestinian militants -- the "escalation" -- provides a justification for "fierce retaliation" against Gaza, with the inevitable toll on Palestinian civilians and militants alike. The earlier killing of tens of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli military, however, is not presented as justification for yesterday's Palestinian retaliation against the army.
In other words, on the scale of moral outrage the BBC ranks the deaths of Israeli soldiers enforcing an illegal occupation far above those of Palestinian civilians enduring the illegal occupation.
There is another notable asymmetry in the BBC's assessment of the "escalation". Participation by the military wing of Hamas in the attack is evidence, suggest the reporters, of the role of the Palestinian leadership in "escalating tension". But the killing by the Israeli army of a Palestinian family of seven on a Gaza beach on June 9, and many more civilians since, was apparently not an "escalation", even though it provoked Hamas to renounce a ceasefire it had maintained for 16 months in the face of continuous Israeli military assaults.
Bad all right. Who profits from this? Small percentage on each side who really like the war. The rocket shooters new this would be the result & probably wanted this result. Keeps them in a high prestiege position. The Israelis wanted a reason/excuse to wipe out large parts of Hamas & others. Everybody wins.ZAMB said:The reality of Gaza - in pictures.
http://rafah.virtualactivism.net/news/todaymain.htm
TomUS said:Everybody wins.
I was being sarcastic. I should have said everybody "wins." My point was the only winners are the pro-war groups & most of the people lose big.ZAMB said:You must be a very cynical person to say 'everybody wins' here. What about the ordinary Palestinian people - whose only crime was to vote in a democratic election for a party that isn't approved of by Israel and the US. They are the ones who have to endure the ongoing brutal 'collective punishment' meted out by Israel - how exactly do they 'win' in this scenario?
ZAMB said:I seem to remember rach18 bitching about the UK media bias in favour of Palestine. I offer just an exerpt from this article as yet more proof that this is not the case.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13791.htm
Mr Sharansky attributed the British figures to "years of hostile reporting and commentary about Israel in the British press now spilling into the streets".
His officials singled out the Guardian and the BBC, accusing them of "likening Israel to a Nazi state". The Independent was also criticised.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16791