the best smiles are the ones you lead to
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Yes, let's go.
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Written by: llesser_nllpois
why do the muslims not realise that? we should fly a plane over their country and drop loads of poi to them they would love us then
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Written by: Human rights watch
Since July 12, when Hezbollah launched an attack on Israeli positions initially killing three Israeli soldiers and capturing two, Israel and Hezbollah have engaged in intense hostilities. Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes against targets in Lebanon, including extensive attacks against Lebanon’s infrastructure, private homes and apartment buildings, as well as vehicles moving on roads. (...)
To date, the chief cause of civilian deaths from the Israeli campaign is targeted strikes on civilian homes in villages of Lebanon’s South. There has also been large-scale destruction of civilian apartment buildings in southern Beirut, though most of the residents of those buildings had evacuated prior to the attacks. According to the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs, the IDF destroyed or damaged up to 5,000 civilian homes in air strikes during the first two weeks of the war. As demonstrated by the case studies below, Israel has caused large-scale civilian casualties by striking civilian homes, with no apparent military objective either inside the home or in the vicinity.
In some cases, warplanes returned to strike again while residents and neighbors had gathered around the house to remove the dead and assist the wounded.
Israel claims that it is attacking homes belonging to Hezbollah members, and that Hezbollah is responsible for putting civilians at risk by placing their military positions inside or close to civilian homes. On July 19, for example, the IDF stated that “Hezbollah terrorists have turned southern Lebanon into a war zone and are operating near population centers there, using civilians as human shields.” On the same day, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Dan Gillerman, told CNN: “We are trying to minimize hurting civilians, but when Hezbollah uses civilians as human shields, sometimes civilians will get hurt.”
Human Rights Watch research established that, on some limited occasions, Hezbollah fighters have attempted to store weapons near civilian homes and have fired rockets from areas where civilians live. However, such practices do not justify the IDF’s failure to distinguish between combatants and civilians.
Written by: Human Rights Watch
On July 15, for example, a group of villagers from Marwahin left the area in a convoy, in part because Hezbollah was attempting to store weapons behind their homes, and residents feared a retaliatory IDF strike. Two rockets believed to have been fired from Israeli helicopters struck a white pick-up and a passenger car in the convoy on the road between the villages of Chamaa and Biyada, killing twenty-one civilians (see “Attacks on Fleeing Civilians”). A U.N. team trying to retrieve the bodies came under fire from the IDF. While the villagers’ flight could be attributed in part to Hezbollah’s unlawful attempt to store weapons in Marwahin—the main reason for flight was the Israeli warning to evacuate within two hour—Human Rights Watch found no evidence to suggest that Hezbollah fighters were near the civilian convoy when it got hit.
Christian villagers fleeing the village of `Ain Ebel have also complained about Hezbollah tactics that placed them at risk, telling the New York Times that “Hezbollah came to [our village] to shoot its rockets.… They are shooting from between our houses.” `Ain Ebel was a former stronghold for the Israeli-backed South Lebanese Army (SLA), a force opposed to Hezbollah. According to an official from `Ain Ebel, some villagers told him that Hezbollah had fired at Israel from certain positions close to their houses, although so far Human Rights Watch has heard no reports of Hezbollah entering any village homes. No villagers have died but a number have been injured (mostly from broken glass), and Israeli fire had destroyed roughly eighty of 400 houses, he said.
Human Rights Watch is hardly asserting that all Israeli strikes have targeted civilians. There are obviously many cases in which Israeli forces attacked legitimate military targets, such as rocket launchers and dug-in military positions. However, in the cases documented below, no apparent military objective existed in the civilian houses that Israel attacked. Villagers interviewed privately in one-on-one settings stated credibly and consistently that Hezbollah was not present in their homes or the vicinity when the attacks took place, and Human Rights Watch found no other evidence to suggest that Hezbollah had been there.
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Written by: FireTom
According to Stanley Fischer (Head of the Israeli Fed) the war costs about 180 Millionen Euro per week.
Anyone agrees?
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Written by: NYC
Again, I disagree with what, exactly, America is guilty of. I don't understand how people could be angered that "America is not interfering" when so many complaints are made that America interferes too much.
Written by: Yell fire!Written by: NYC
Again, I disagree with what, exactly, America is guilty of. I don't understand how people could be angered that "America is not interfering" when so many complaints are made that America interferes too much.
What America is guilty of in one word: Hypocrisy.
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Written by: sagetree
very interesting NYC
i would flip the switch so that less people were killed. but pushing the fat man doesn't mean that he will stop the trolley for sure so i don't think i would push him.
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kyrian: I've felt your finger connect with me many times
lou kitten: sneaky little meatball..
ezz: please corrupt me more
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kyrian: I've felt your finger connect with me many times
lou kitten: sneaky little meatball..
ezz: please corrupt me more
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Yes, let's go.
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kyrian: I've felt your finger connect with me many times
lou kitten: sneaky little meatball..
ezz: please corrupt me more
Written by: NYC
But Mel Gibson told me that the Radical Right hates the Jews for killing Jesus. Or not killing Jesus. Or something. I dunno, he was mumbling a lot.
"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."
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Written by: NYC
But Mel Gibson told me that the Radical Right hates the Jews for killing Jesus. Or not killing Jesus. Or something. I dunno, he was mumbling a lot.
Written by: FireTom
a) it is not THE AMERICANS who unconditionally support Israel... this statement is BS and you well know it. The correct statement would be: There is massive support for Israel from the US, because there are many Jews living inside the US (as US-citizens) and they have lots of money and power AND because they purchase weapons in the US.
b) as you seem to have full insight in the flow of money that is directed to Israel: do you know that EVERY Israeli citizen has to pay a monthly "security tax" to the gov't (whether or not they are living/ residing in Israel) AND that Israel is (despite it's size and population) on no. 28 of the worlds GDP?
Israel is much more than just the US' appendix.
Written by: FireTom
"The Jews" did not invade Israel and occupy it. This country was given to them from the British government. To those who survived the Holocaust and to finally - after at least 1.500 years of oppression - provide them with a nation. Some don't seem to get this inside their brains.
For the Muslims it could have been a great benefit, that "the Jews" came.
Repeat: Jerusalem is only the 3rd most important religious site for Muslims
but I can see you being caught up in the trendy anti-american, pro guerilla black and white game, due to some ignorance.
Make up your own mind and collect informations and facts! Please. This is what the "information age" is all about...
Written by: FireTom
Dunno, maybe it'S because EVERY SINGLE NATION ON THIS PLANET is in debt?
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Written by: fireNice
part of the strong US support comes from the far right, the Christian Conservatives who believe that Jews must be in their holy land in order for Jesus to return
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Written by: FireTom
The great difference between AlHizHam to Israel is, that the IDF does NOT hide behind innocent civilians, but tries to protect the (as innocent) citizens of Israel from cowardly attacks. This is a FACT not an opinion and I think it's obvious.
Written by: FireTom
and b) inform yourself about the middle east a little more detailled, before you make statements like this:
(please would you like to backup the number of civilian casualties in Iraq due to the US invasion that you indicate and maybe specify more detailled, how you look at "governments in places like Saudi Arabia"...I already told you that they had democratic elections in 05 - they are as valid as the elections in the UK or the US)...
Written by: FireTom
Dunno, maybe it'S because EVERY SINGLE NATION ON THIS PLANET is in debt? Also the US is in debt...
Written by: FireTom
I do not disregard the fact, that the US government supports Israel with huge ammounts of money. I just don't happen to know en detail how many US Americans support their government. Therefore I oppose your opinion that the "vast majority of Americans..."
Written by: FireTom
On top of this: the money flows back, as the IDF buys weapons in the US - you neglect this fact. Therefore this support is maybe less to help Israel, but to boost their own arms industry... This is a very common misunderstanding when it comes to the term "support"...
Written by: FireTom
The occupation of Jerusalem was in no ways a justifyable act, but an absolute necessity. Would you - by whatever means - accept a territory within your country, or even capital, where terrorists - who are dedicated to destroy and kill you - can accumulate power and armory? I don't think so. But maybe I played too many PC strategic games...
Written by: FireTom
It's a FACT that "the Jews" didn't invade the country, known as Israel today and maybe you inquire with your own gov't what they have been thinking back then - I don't know.
Written by: FireTom
But ultimately I would like to get your opinion on what I said about hate and violence, breeding hate and violence. Why do you symphasize with the AlHizHam against Israel? I don't get it! Because it's a 10:1 ratio? Because it has been "their" homeland?
Written by: FireTom
Hear my (not so humble) opinion: First, if the majority of the (so called) "Palestinians" (besides: TODAY there are 750k displaced - how about the 1960's?)
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Do you expect them to care that Israeli settlers are under stress, because one settler dies every six months due to a rocket attack? Would you like me to go on?
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