Wtf ISRAEL??

[Muloghonto]

The zionist have returned to The holyland there is only 1 outcome of this as we know from history when they indulge in corruption in the land than punishment will return first time it was a Babylonian army' date=' than the romans this time it will be a Muslim army just wait and watch.[/quote'] the palestinians and isis are far, far more corrupt than israeli politicians. So I suppose you will support action against them first, eh ? Sent from my GT-S5830D using Tapatalk 2

[Alph]

I am sorry but that is one sided. Israel in 1948 definitely held some assigned Palestinian lands and were in the process of forcing the Palestinians out. The Arab league, in retaliation, definitely attacked Israeli sovereign lands in a concerted effort to crush it and failed. it failed because Israel's newly formed militaries had significant amount of experience from the Igrun/Hagannah insurgency days ( FYI, Israelis were the first to blow up a hotel containing civillians ala terrorist style that i know of) and they had significant financial backing from rich jewish guys from the west. The Arab armies of that era stood zero chance- they did not have a proper army, they knew little of proper army, having been clean-shorn from the Ottoman empire and organized as militias barely 25 years ago and never organized as operational armies by the british/french mandates. Sauds were still a bunch of camel jockeys riding around flashing swords and the major military power in the British held middle east-includng Egypt- was the British Indian military. From WWI to 1950 or so, middle east that was held by Britain was practically an extension of India. Indian troops maintained order there, Indian sappers dug irrigation works and canals and they even used the Indian Rupee as their currency. But anyhoos, what happened 80 years ago is of not that huge consequence. Now, it doesnt matter if the Israelis came via immigration- most israelis today are born in Israel and have as solid a case for being legal citizens of that land as any citizen has towards his/her nation.

Well, this seemingly one-sided version of the events is what the new Israeli historians gathered from researching the previously classified Israeli and British documents on the Arab Israel wars. Here is one of them on Israel and the Arab Coalition in 1948 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0005/Israel%20and%20the%20Arab%20Coalition%20in%2019481.html. And as far as I know, no sovereign Israeli territory was attacked by the Arab coalition in 1948.

[Alph]

Fully support Israel. Whole muslim world wants them killed (no exaggeration)and will do what ever it takes to exterminate the jews.!

No exaggeration yeah... just high on the kool aid.

[Muloghonto]

No exaggeration yeah... just high on the kool aid.

The amount of anti-israeli propaganda, demonstrations and death to israel chants from ALL across the muslim world for the last 50 years is fairly well documented. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab–Israeli_War#mediaviewer/File:1948_Arab_Israeli_War_-_May_15-June_10.svg This map proves that the arab coalition attacked Israeli sovereign territorry

[JourneyMan]

Context of last 100 years conveniently ignored. israel is a b@rstard state that has no legitimacy. Apartheid regime will face resistance from those who have lost their homes and land resulting in illegal settlements.

Sounds a bit like Pakistan

[Sooda]

But anyhoos, what happened 80 years ago is of not that huge consequence. Now, it doesnt matter if the Israelis came via immigration- most israelis today are born in Israel and have as solid a case for being legal citizens of that land as any citizen has towards his/her nation. Youre right, if we need to move forward, but I dont think we'd feel that way if our fathers or grandfathers had been kicked off their land and farms 60 or 70 years ago

[seedhi]

But anyhoos' date= what happened 80 years ago is of not that huge consequence. Now, it doesnt matter if the Israelis came via immigration- most israelis today are born in Israel and have as solid a case for being legal citizens of that land as any citizen has towards his/her nation. Youre right, if we need to move forward, but I dont think we'd feel that way if our fathers or grandfathers had been kicked off their land and farms 60 or 70 years ago

Have you forgotten that India was partitioned because of Muslims and for a large number of Indians their mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers were indeed thrown out of their land and farms - if not dishonored and looted - 67 years ago ? The irony is that Muslims of this subcontinent - who divided the land for their religion in an orgy of violence - keep cursing the Jews for dividing Palestine.

[JourneyMan]

Have you forgotten that India was partitioned because of Muslims and for a large number of Indians their mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers were indeed thrown out of their land and farms - if not dishonored and looted - 67 years ago ? The irony is that Muslims of this subcontinent - who divided the land for their religion in an orgy of violence - keep cursing the Jews for dividing Palestine.

Bit of a generalization. A handful of people made the division, there are still over 100 million muslims in India today. Furthermore, the average Indian Muslims probably couldn't care less about Palestine. However, I agree with the point that Pakistan was formed pretty much the same way as Israel.

[rageaddict]

Bit of a generalization. A handful of people made the division, there are still over 100 million muslims in India today. Furthermore, the average Indian Muslims probably couldn't care less about Palestine. However, I agree with the point that Pakistan was formed pretty much the same way as Israel.

Handful of people? On one end of the country Pakistan exists and Bangladesh on the other and you call it handful of people!?

[seedhi]

Bit of a generalization. A handful of people made the division' date= there are still over 100 million muslims in India today. Furthermore, the average Indian Muslims probably couldn't care less about Palestine. However, I agree with the point that Pakistan was formed pretty much the same way as Israel.

In 1946 the Muslim League contested the elections with a clear agenda of partition. It got 90% of the vote from the Muslim electorate in undivided India.

[rageaddict]

So without the support ( electorate) of Muslims living in India, Pakistan would have never been created and Hindus/Sikhs would have never been dragged out of Muslim majority areas.

[BeautifulGame]

So far according to UN reports 3 Israeli civilians killed and nearly 1400 Palestinians died so far with thousands more critically injured without adequate treatment due to the blockade IDF has targeted a school under UN space and killed children despite 17 warnings from UN about the location. Disgusting no country bother to stop this .

[coffee_rules]

^ Wrong close to 60 Israelis have died (civ and soldiers). It is not proportionate, but that's the cost of wanting a tunnel to be used for terrorism . There is growing support among Palestinians towards Hamas as they are seen as the sole entity showing defiance against Israeli occupation in Gaza. Hamas moving away from Iran/Syrian/Shiite nexus towards Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt (a sunni sect) is the reason why they are isolated and nobody is saying anything in support of Hamas.

[Desi Cartman]

Wtf ISRAEL??

So far according to UN reports 3 Israeli civilians killed and nearly 1400 Palestinians died so far with thousands more critically injured without adequate treatment due to the blockade IDF has targeted a school under UN space and killed children despite 17 warnings from UN about the location. Disgusting no country bother to stop this .

Your numbers are wrong Hamas has refused many ceasefires Hamas is usually the first one to launch as soon as the ceasefire time is over Hamas launched missiles from near the 2 centers where people were given shelters so they got bombed. There are so many tunnels that israel has not even identified 50% of them, what peaceful purpose were they supposed to serve ? As far as missiles are concerned, Hamas has been launching at least as many as Israel if not more, Israel has a better defense system hence not as many casualties.

[BeautifulGame]

Debunking Israel's 11 Main Myths About Gaza, Hamas and War Crimes Mehdi Hasan*28/07/14 11:53 You've got to hand it to Israeli spinners like Mark Regev. They are masters of PR. In fact, as the*Independent's*Patrick Cockburn*revealed over the weekend, "the playbook they are using is a professional, well-researched and confidential study on how to influence the media and public opinion in America and Europe". Let's be clear: I'm no fan of Hamas, a brutal and*anti-Semitic*group which has been accused by Amnesty International and other NGOs of*human rights abusesagainst the people of Gaza and of*war crimes*against the people of Israel. Firing rockets into civilian areas isn't justified under international law, even if it is framed as part of a (legitimate) struggle against foreign military occupation. Having said that, however, in recent days I've been debating supporters of Israel's latest assault on Gaza on*radio*and onTwitter*and I've been astonished not just by the sheer number of fact-free claims made by those supporters, but also by their confidence, slickness and sheer message discipline. According to the pro-Israel, pro-IDF crowd, Hamas is to blamefor everything. This, of course, is utter nonsense. Toquote*the late US senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts." So, in a Moynihanian spirit, here are fact-filled, evidence-based rebuttals to the 11 main myths, half-truths and self-serving 'talking points' that are repeatedly pushed by various Israeli spokespersons, both on the airwaves and on social media: 1) The Gaza Strip isn't occupied by Israel Boston Globe: "Israeli-imposed buffer zones.. now absorb nearly 14 percent of Gaza's total land and at least 48 percent of total arable land. Similarly, the sea buffer zone covers 85 percent of the maritime area promised to Palestinians in the Oslo Accords, reducing 20 nautical miles to three."*Human Rights Watch: "Israel also continues to control the population registry for residents of the Gaza Strip, years after it withdrew its ground forces and settlements there."B'Tselem, 2013: "Israel continues to maintain exclusive control of Gaza's airspace and the territorial waters, just as it has since it occupied the Gaza Strip in 1967." 2) Israel wants a ceasefire but Hamas doesn't Al Jazeera: "Meshaal said Hamas wants the 'aggression to stop tomorrow, today, or even this minute. But [israel must] lift the blockade with guarantees and not as a promise for future negotiations'. He added 'we will not shut the door in the face of any humanitarian ceasefire backed by a real aid programme'."Jerusalem Post: "One day after an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire accepted by Israel, but rejected by Hamas, fell through, the terrorist organizationproposed a 10-year end to hostilities*in return for its conditions being met by Israel, Channel 2 reported Wednesday.. Hamas's conditions were the release of re-arrested Palestinian prisoners who were let go in the Schalit deal, the opening of Gaza-Israel border crossings in order to allow citizens and goods to pass through, and international supervision of the Gazan seaport in place of the current Israeli blockade."*BBC: "Israel's security cabinet has rejected a week-long Gaza ceasefire proposal put forward by US Secretary of State John Kerry 'as it stands'." 3) Israel, unlike Hamas, doesn't deliberately target civilians The*Guardian: "It was there that the second [israeli] shell hit the beach, those firing apparently adjusting their fire to target the fleeing survivors. As it exploded, journalists standing by the terrace wall shouted: 'They are only children.'"*UN high commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay: "A number of incidents, along with the high number of civilian deaths, belies the [israeli] claim that all necessary precautions are being taken to protect civilian lives."*United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, 2009: "The tactics used by the Israeli armed forces in the Gaza offensive are consistent with previous practices, most recently during the Lebanon war in 2006. A concept known as the Dahiya doctrine emerged then, involving the application of disproportionate force and the causing of great damage and destruction to civilian property and infrastructure, and suffering to civilian populations. The Mission concludes from a review of the facts on the ground that it.. appears to have been precisely what was put into practice." 4) Only Hamas is guilty of war crimes, not Israel Human Rights Watch: "Israeli forces may also have knowingly or recklessly attacked people who were clearly civilians, such as young boys, and civilian structures, including a hospital - laws-of-war violations that are indicative of war crimes."*Amnesty International: "Deliberately attacking a civilian home is a war crime, and the overwhelming scale of destruction of civilian homes, in some cases with entire families inside them, points to a distressing pattern of repeated violations of the laws of war." 5) Hamas use the civilians of Gaza as 'human shields' Jeremy Bowen, BBC Middle East editor: "I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel's accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields."*The Guardian: "In the past week, the Guardian has seen large numbers of people fleeing different neighbourhoods.. and no evidence that Hamas had compelled them to stay."*The Independent: "Some Gazans have admitted that they were afraid of criticizing Hamas, but none have said they had been forced by the organisation to stay in places of danger and become unwilling human-shields."*Reuters, 2013: "A United Nations human rights body accused Israeli forces on Thursday of mistreating Palestinian children, including by torturing those in custody and using others as human shields." 6) This current Gaza conflict began with Hamas rocket fire on 30 June 2014 Times of Israel: "Hamas operatives were behind a large volley of rockets which slammed into Israel Monday morning, the first time in years the Islamist group has directly challenged the Jewish state, according to Israeli defense officials.. The security sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, assessed that Hamas hadprobably launched the barrage in revenge for an Israeli airstrike several hours earlier*which killed one person and injured three more.. Hamas hasn't fired rockets into Israel since Operation Pillar of Defense ended in November 2012."The Nation: "During ten days of Operation Brother's Keeper in the West Bank [before the start of the Gaza conflict], Israel arrested approximately 800 Palestinians without charge or trial, killed nine civilians and raided nearly 1,300 residential, commercial and public buildings. Its military operation targeted Hamas members released during the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange in 2011." 7) Hamas has never stopped firing rockets into Israel Jewish Daily Forward: "Hamas hadn't fired a single rocket since [2012 Gaza conflict], and had largely suppressed fire by smaller jihadi groups. Rocket firings, averaging 240 per month in 2007, dropped to five per month in 2013."International Crisis Group: "Fewer rockets were fired from Gaza in 2013 than in any year since 2001, and nearly all those that were fired between the November 2012 ceasefire and the current crisis were launched by groups other than Hamas; the Israeli security establishment testified to the aggressive anti-rocket efforts made by the new police force Hamas established specifically for that purpose.. As Israel (and Egypt) rolled back the 2012 understandings - some of which were implemented spottily at best - so too did Hamas roll back its anti rocket efforts." 8) Hamas provoked Israel by kidnapping and killing three Israeli teenagers Jewish Daily Forward: "The [israeli] government had known almost from the beginning that the boys were dead. It maintained the fiction that it hoped to find them alive as a pretext to dismantle Hamas' West Bank operations.. Nor was that the only fib. It was clear from the beginning that the kidnappers weren't acting on orders from Hamas leadership in Gaza or Damascus. Hamas' Hebron branch -- more a crime family than a clandestine organization -- had a history of acting without the leaders' knowledge, sometimes against their interests."*BBC correspondent Jon Donnison: "Israeli police MickeyRosenfeld tells me men who killed 3 Israeli teens def lone cell, hamas affiliated but not operating under leadership.. Seems to contradict the line from Netanyahu government." 9) Hamas rule, not Israel's blockade, is to blame for the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip US State Department cable: "Israeli officials have confirmed to Embassy officials on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis.. Israeli officials have confirmed.. on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge."*The Guardian: "The Israeli military made precise calculations of Gaza's daily calorie needs to avoid malnutrition during a blockade imposed on the Palestinian territory between 2007 and mid-2010, according to files the defence ministry released on Wednesday under a court order.. The Israeli advocacy group Gisha.. waged a long court battle to release the document. Its members say Israel calculated the calorie needs for Gaza's population so as to restrict the quantity of food it allowed in." 10) The Israeli government, unlike Hamas, wants a two-state solution Times of Israel: "[Netanyahu] made explicitly clear that he could never, ever, countenance a fully sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank.. Amid the current conflict, he elaborated, 'I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.'" 11) All serious analysts agree it was Hamas, and not Israel, that started this current conflict Nathan Thrall, senior Mid East analyst at the International Crisis Group, writing in the New York Times: "The current escalation in Gaza is a direct result of the choice by Israel and the West to obstruct the implementation of the April 2014 Palestinian reconciliation agreement."Henry Siegman, former national director, American Jewish Congress, writing for Politico: "Israel's assault on Gaza.. was not triggered by Hamas' rockets directed at Israel but by Israel's determination to bring down the Palestinian unity government that was formed in early June, even though that government was committed to honoring all of the conditions imposed by the international community for recognition of its legitimacy." by Taboola http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/5624401

[coffee_rules]

^ No word on Tunnels? The main reason for the ground offense.

[Sooda]

Have you forgotten that India was partitioned because of Muslims and for a large number of Indians their mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers were indeed thrown out of their land and farms - if not dishonored and looted - 67 years ago ? The irony is that Muslims of this subcontinent - who divided the land for their religion in an orgy of violence - keep cursing the Jews for dividing Palestine.

No I havent forgotten but that is not the point. The thread is called WTF 'ISRAEL'. Anyway JourneyMan is hugely wrong, the only similarity in the creation of Israel and Pakistan is the fact that the British/ British Empire are behind both. The muslims who went to Pakistan are those who were living in the subcontinent and had been for generations. Jews who migrated to Israel in the 40's and the decades leading into it were, for the most part, from Europe.

[Sooda]

Your numbers are wrong Hamas has refused many ceasefires Hamas is usually the first one to launch as soon as the ceasefire time is over Hamas launched missiles from near the 2 centers where people were given shelters so they got bombed. There are so many tunnels that israel has not even identified 50% of them, what peaceful purpose were they supposed to serve ? As far as missiles are concerned, Hamas has been launching at least as many as Israel if not more, Israel has a better defense system hence not as many casualties.

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Debunking Israel's 11 Main Myths About Gaza, Hamas and War Crimes Mehdi Hasan*28/07/14 11:53 You've got to hand it to Israeli spinners like Mark Regev. They are masters of PR. In fact, as the*Independent's*Patrick Cockburn*revealed over the weekend, "the playbook they are using is a professional, well-researched and confidential study on how to influence the media and public opinion in America and Europe". Let's be clear: I'm no fan of Hamas, a brutal and*anti-Semitic*group which has been accused by Amnesty International and other NGOs of*human rights abusesagainst the people of Gaza and of*war crimes*against the people of Israel. Firing rockets into civilian areas isn't justified under international law, even if it is framed as part of a (legitimate) struggle against foreign military occupation. Having said that, however, in recent days I've been debating supporters of Israel's latest assault on Gaza on*radio*and onTwitter*and I've been astonished not just by the sheer number of fact-free claims made by those supporters, but also by their confidence, slickness and sheer message discipline. According to the pro-Israel, pro-IDF crowd, Hamas is to blamefor everything. This, of course, is utter nonsense. Toquote*the late US senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts." So, in a Moynihanian spirit, here are fact-filled, evidence-based rebuttals to the 11 main myths, half-truths and self-serving 'talking points' that are repeatedly pushed by various Israeli spokespersons, both on the airwaves and on social media: 1) The Gaza Strip isn't occupied by Israel Boston Globe: "Israeli-imposed buffer zones.. now absorb nearly 14 percent of Gaza's total land and at least 48 percent of total arable land. Similarly, the sea buffer zone covers 85 percent of the maritime area promised to Palestinians in the Oslo Accords, reducing 20 nautical miles to three."*Human Rights Watch: "Israel also continues to control the population registry for residents of the Gaza Strip, years after it withdrew its ground forces and settlements there."B'Tselem, 2013: "Israel continues to maintain exclusive control of Gaza's airspace and the territorial waters, just as it has since it occupied the Gaza Strip in 1967." 2) Israel wants a ceasefire but Hamas doesn't Al Jazeera: "Meshaal said Hamas wants the 'aggression to stop tomorrow, today, or even this minute. But [israel must] lift the blockade with guarantees and not as a promise for future negotiations'. He added 'we will not shut the door in the face of any humanitarian ceasefire backed by a real aid programme'."Jerusalem Post: "One day after an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire accepted by Israel, but rejected by Hamas, fell through, the terrorist organizationproposed a 10-year end to hostilities*in return for its conditions being met by Israel, Channel 2 reported Wednesday.. Hamas's conditions were the release of re-arrested Palestinian prisoners who were let go in the Schalit deal, the opening of Gaza-Israel border crossings in order to allow citizens and goods to pass through, and international supervision of the Gazan seaport in place of the current Israeli blockade."*BBC: "Israel's security cabinet has rejected a week-long Gaza ceasefire proposal put forward by US Secretary of State John Kerry 'as it stands'." 3) Israel, unlike Hamas, doesn't deliberately target civilians The*Guardian: "It was there that the second [israeli] shell hit the beach, those firing apparently adjusting their fire to target the fleeing survivors. As it exploded, journalists standing by the terrace wall shouted: 'They are only children.'"*UN high commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay: "A number of incidents, along with the high number of civilian deaths, belies the [israeli] claim that all necessary precautions are being taken to protect civilian lives."*United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, 2009: "The tactics used by the Israeli armed forces in the Gaza offensive are consistent with previous practices, most recently during the Lebanon war in 2006. A concept known as the Dahiya doctrine emerged then, involving the application of disproportionate force and the causing of great damage and destruction to civilian property and infrastructure, and suffering to civilian populations. The Mission concludes from a review of the facts on the ground that it.. appears to have been precisely what was put into practice." 4) Only Hamas is guilty of war crimes, not Israel Human Rights Watch: "Israeli forces may also have knowingly or recklessly attacked people who were clearly civilians, such as young boys, and civilian structures, including a hospital - laws-of-war violations that are indicative of war crimes."*Amnesty International: "Deliberately attacking a civilian home is a war crime, and the overwhelming scale of destruction of civilian homes, in some cases with entire families inside them, points to a distressing pattern of repeated violations of the laws of war." 5) Hamas use the civilians of Gaza as 'human shields' Jeremy Bowen, BBC Middle East editor: "I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel's accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields."*The Guardian: "In the past week, the Guardian has seen large numbers of people fleeing different neighbourhoods.. and no evidence that Hamas had compelled them to stay."*The Independent: "Some Gazans have admitted that they were afraid of criticizing Hamas, but none have said they had been forced by the organisation to stay in places of danger and become unwilling human-shields."*Reuters, 2013: "A United Nations human rights body accused Israeli forces on Thursday of mistreating Palestinian children, including by torturing those in custody and using others as human shields." 6) This current Gaza conflict began with Hamas rocket fire on 30 June 2014 Times of Israel: "Hamas operatives were behind a large volley of rockets which slammed into Israel Monday morning, the first time in years the Islamist group has directly challenged the Jewish state, according to Israeli defense officials.. The security sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, assessed that Hamas hadprobably launched the barrage in revenge for an Israeli airstrike several hours earlier*which killed one person and injured three more.. Hamas hasn't fired rockets into Israel since Operation Pillar of Defense ended in November 2012."The Nation: "During ten days of Operation Brother's Keeper in the West Bank [before the start of the Gaza conflict], Israel arrested approximately 800 Palestinians without charge or trial, killed nine civilians and raided nearly 1,300 residential, commercial and public buildings. Its military operation targeted Hamas members released during the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange in 2011." 7) Hamas has never stopped firing rockets into Israel Jewish Daily Forward: "Hamas hadn't fired a single rocket since [2012 Gaza conflict], and had largely suppressed fire by smaller jihadi groups. Rocket firings, averaging 240 per month in 2007, dropped to five per month in 2013."International Crisis Group: "Fewer rockets were fired from Gaza in 2013 than in any year since 2001, and nearly all those that were fired between the November 2012 ceasefire and the current crisis were launched by groups other than Hamas; the Israeli security establishment testified to the aggressive anti-rocket efforts made by the new police force Hamas established specifically for that purpose.. As Israel (and Egypt) rolled back the 2012 understandings - some of which were implemented spottily at best - so too did Hamas roll back its anti rocket efforts." 8) Hamas provoked Israel by kidnapping and killing three Israeli teenagers Jewish Daily Forward: "The [israeli] government had known almost from the beginning that the boys were dead. It maintained the fiction that it hoped to find them alive as a pretext to dismantle Hamas' West Bank operations.. Nor was that the only fib. It was clear from the beginning that the kidnappers weren't acting on orders from Hamas leadership in Gaza or Damascus. Hamas' Hebron branch -- more a crime family than a clandestine organization -- had a history of acting without the leaders' knowledge, sometimes against their interests."*BBC correspondent Jon Donnison: "Israeli police MickeyRosenfeld tells me men who killed 3 Israeli teens def lone cell, hamas affiliated but not operating under leadership.. Seems to contradict the line from Netanyahu government." 9) Hamas rule, not Israel's blockade, is to blame for the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip US State Department cable: "Israeli officials have confirmed to Embassy officials on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis.. Israeli officials have confirmed.. on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge."*The Guardian: "The Israeli military made precise calculations of Gaza's daily calorie needs to avoid malnutrition during a blockade imposed on the Palestinian territory between 2007 and mid-2010, according to files the defence ministry released on Wednesday under a court order.. The Israeli advocacy group Gisha.. waged a long court battle to release the document. Its members say Israel calculated the calorie needs for Gaza's population so as to restrict the quantity of food it allowed in." 10) The Israeli government, unlike Hamas, wants a two-state solution Times of Israel: "[Netanyahu] made explicitly clear that he could never, ever, countenance a fully sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank.. Amid the current conflict, he elaborated, 'I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.'" 11) All serious analysts agree it was Hamas, and not Israel, that started this current conflict Nathan Thrall, senior Mid East analyst at the International Crisis Group, writing in the New York Times: "The current escalation in Gaza is a direct result of the choice by Israel and the West to obstruct the implementation of the April 2014 Palestinian reconciliation agreement."Henry Siegman, former national director, American Jewish Congress, writing for Politico: "Israel's assault on Gaza.. was not triggered by Hamas' rockets directed at Israel but by Israel's determination to bring down the Palestinian unity government that was formed in early June, even though that government was committed to honoring all of the conditions imposed by the international community for recognition of its legitimacy." by Taboola http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/5624401

Hope King Tendulkar and all the other Zionist apologists read that

[coffee_rules]

... Hope King Tendulkar and all the other Zionist apologists read that

Why does Hamas need to build tunnels into Israel?

[JourneyMan]

Disarm both sides, disband the police and military, and let UN peacekeeping forces take over police and military activities for the whole are (israel, palestine, disputed territories)