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Smoking a cigarette, facial expression full of fatigue, despair and two-day stubble of beard, Amjad Shawa, a director of a human rights organization in Gaza City shared with me several horrid pictures of Palestinian teenagers mysteriously murdered by the Israeli military just days before.
"Occupation is terrorism. It is the fundamental obstacle to peace in the Middle East. And it must end. The state of Israel and the state of Palestine can peacefully coexist. The Palestinian people have said they want that. But the Israeli army and Israeli settlers must leave the West Bank and Gaza in order to allow the Palestinian people to live in freedom." http://www.ccmep.org/ccmep/american031902.html
Does the fact that Israeli's took their country not enter into any of this. It's unbelievable by ANY standards that in this day in age there can be still countrys occupying like the old colonial days.I think that was an excellent article and IGeezy, i suggest you open your mind a bit. It's a fact that censorship exists in american media. Because that is the only way you get your news, you only get one side of the story. At least where we are, there is the irish news, the english news aswell as the american and sometimes french stations. I think that gives a more balanced view though there still is alot of corruption involved. Don't get me wrong, I have great respect for most jewish people, especially after what they have been through withWW2, but I cannot, and anyone I have talked to around here cannot, understand how you could be supportive of israewl or their occupation. I find it hard to believe that the majority good people in america are not sympathetic to the palestinians. In ireland there is very few jews or muslims so its a neutral standpoint we have, and those who have looked into the issue are strongly in favour of palestine. I just dont see any logic in the israeli argument.ITW
Terrorist mentality??First off, I don't support the terrorism of palestinian extremists. They are going about it in the wrong way. I believe they are entitled to at least some of their land back, you must admit, that can only be fair? But they're doing their own case no good by bombing israeli civilians. However, the israeli's don't exactly show restraint. I mean, the tanks are effectively like the nazi's in WW2, where they are fighting a war with children. The cowards who bombed israel are dead, so you cant punish them. So it seems you have tanks chasing kids with stones in the streets.You may wish to change "terrorist mentality" to "oppressed mentality". Because yes, irish people have had a similar situation as the palestinians. I believe the Jews also to be an oppressed society. However, they have become the oppressed imitating their oppressors, and have become the bad guy on the world scene.Maybe in Israel and the USA Israel is portrayed as the great white hope for the middle east, but certainly throughout the rest of the world a very different message is being seen by those on the ground. It is seen as a joint operation by US and Israel to oppress their neighbours, and there is nothing the rest of us can do about it.I have an aunt who lives in London, and she was telling me in her son's history textbook, there is no mention of the plantation of Ireland, other than it was a relative success in transforming the "savages" to "relative sophistication". No mention of the massacres, no mention of the war that lasted until the 1921. Her son has been censored from this information, while here we read about it in depth. I think that is the same type of censorship that effects the US and Israeli media.ITWPS the ira have been on ceasefire for the last few years. i do not condone their actions. In the past members of my family were members of the ira, but to defend our country, not to blow up innocent civilians.
And ITW, I doubt u really know what's goin on...Please don't speak on this topic anymore, dawg
This guy seems like just another angry Arab trying to win over people...Everything he says sounds fake, and nothing he said was backed up by facts...And ITW, I doubt u really know what's goin on...Please don't speak on this topic anymore, dawg...If the Arabs get Israel, what will they do with it? Turn it into a huge garbage can...PeACe
Quote from: Now_I_Know on December 20, 2002, 11:18:54 PMThis guy seems like just another angry Arab trying to win over people...Everything he says sounds fake, and nothing he said was backed up by facts...And ITW, I doubt u really know what's goin on...Please don't speak on this topic anymore, dawg...If the Arabs get Israel, what will they do with it? Turn it into a huge garbage can...PeACeFOR gODS SAKE....JUST LET I GEEZY DO THE TALKING