Why is Isreal attacking...airports???

[bignate73]

The Iwo Jima is a Wasp class LHD. Helo carrier. You could put a whole platoon in a Sea Stallion. Not sure of the passenger capacity of an Osprey either.

250,000?

if they moved an LHD then they are planning on evac'ing only important people. 53's and 46's moving consistantly would take forever for a fraction of that number of people.

 

[bran987]

I dunno much about this man but I'm reading all this and the israelis sound like a bunch of assholes

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

I haven't been watching the news lately, and just managed to get an update on what is happening.

It's worrying for the world as a whole to see this situation develop into what seems like a battle ready to break all out into all out war. Maybe, it is war as we speak, That depends on the semantics.

Yes, The palestinians and Hezbollah were wrong to abduct Israeli soldiers. In exchange they require release of prisoners. However, this has happened before and the end result after a long drawn exchange of firepower, Israel caved in.

I live in a multicultural area that has a nice mix of religions and races. I've got to know a lot of muslims. A lot of them do have a feeling of disgust and hatred for Israel. Not the jews of Israel necessarily. More the policies, its practices and indiscriminate killing of innocent palestinian civillians.

Funnily enough, I was watching the news today and i believe Benjamin Nethanyou said something along the lines of "they fired a rocket and killed 2 innocent civillians and this is terrorism.." Absolutely.

However, what about the thousands that have been killed over the years in Palestine as a result of Israel military action? Is that not state sponsored terrorism? Is an israeli life worth more than an arab?

This hypocrisy is what really irritates me and a lot of other people, muslims and non muslims alike about the Israeli government.

Palestine is a key issue for muslims all over the world, extremists and non extremists. Events that unfold before our eyes, serve the purpose of fanatics and enhance their recruiment process.

Maybe if there was peace in Palestine, we would not have had the rising tide of terrorism and fundamentalism. They work on the basis of oppression, suppression and indiscriminate murder of muslims in Palestine, Iraq etc.

I genuinely believe, and im sorry to say this, that there will never be peace in the middle east. I cannot see the Palestine issue being resolved, the roadmap to peace and existance of a 2 state solution. Consequently, the situation will escalate further in the future and as a result the rest of the world suffers.

War in Middle east is detrimental to Europe, and particularly USA. USA are staunch supporters of Israel, who attack palestine using US Supplied military equipment. What does this tell muslims? That USA are sanctioning this attack.

Terrorism will always exist or more accuratly fundamentalism and its doctrine will always live on due to the past, present and future legacy of decision making of USA, and its staucnh support of Israel.

So why don't we stop supporting them? Because it would make the Arabs feel better about us? Maybe one form of terrorism is less detrimental than another, both politically and financially. Once again, politics.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Somewhat dated but still relevant-


Brigadier General Says Israel is the problem not Iraq
Jan 7, 2003
by James J. David a retired Brigadier General


(James J. David is a retired Brigadier General and a graduate of the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College, and the National Security Course, National Defense University, Washington, DC. He served as a Company Commander with the 101st Airborne Division in the Republic of Vietnam in 1969 and 1970 and also served nearly 3 years of Army active duty in and around the Middle East from 1967-1969.)

Question: Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons?

Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections?

Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East seized the sovereign territory of other nations by military force and continues to occupy it in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions?

Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East routinely violates the international borders of another sovereign state with warplanes and artillery and naval gunfire?

Answer: Israel

Question: What American ally in the Middle East has for years sent assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies (a practice sometimes called exporting terrorism)?

Answer: Israel

Question: In which country in the Middle East have high-ranking military officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed?

Answer: Israel

Question: What country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?

Answer: Israel

Question: What country in the Middle East created 762,000 refugees and refuses to allow them to return to their homes, farms and businesses?

Answer: Israel

Question: What country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation to people whose land, bank accounts and businesses it confiscated?

Answer: Israel

Question: In what country in the Middle East was a high-ranking United Nations diplomat assassinated?

Answer: Israel

Question: In what country in the Middle East did the man who ordered the assassination of a high-ranking U.N. diplomat become prime minister?

Answer: Israel

Question: What country in the Middle East blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship, the USS Liberty, in international waters, killing 34 and wounding 171 American sailors?

Answer: Israel

Question: What country in the Middle East employed a spy, Jonathan Pollard, to steal classified documents and then gave some of them to the Soviet Union?

Answer: Israel

Question: What country at first denied any official connection to Pollard, then voted to make him a citizen and has continuously demanded that the American president grant Pollard a full pardon?

Answer: Israel

Question: What Middle East country allows American Jewish murderers to flee to its country to escape punishment in the United States and refuses to extradite them once in their custody?

Answer: Israel

Question: What Middle East country preaches against hate yet builds a shrine and a memorial for a murderer who killed 29 Palestinians while they prayed in their Mosque.

Answer: Israel

Question: What country on Planet Earth has the second most powerful lobby in the United States, according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders?

Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East deliberately targeted a U.N. Refugee Camp in Qana, Lebanon and killed 103 innocent men, women, and especially children?

Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East is in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council resolutions and has been protected from 29 more by U.S. vetoes?

Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East receives more than one-third of all U.S. aid yet is the 16th richest country in the world?

Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East receives U.S. weapons for free and then sells the technology to the Republic of China even at the objections of the U.S.?

Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East routinely insults the American people by having its Prime Minister address the United States Congress and lecturing them like children on why they have no right to reduce foreign aid?

Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East had its Prime Minister announce to his staff not to worry about what the United States says because "We control America?"

Answer: Israel

Question: What country in the Middle East was cited by Amnesty International for demolishing more than 4000 innocent Palestinian homes as a means of ethnic cleansing.

Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East has just recently used a weapon of mass destruction, a one-ton smart bomb, dropping it in the center of a highly populated area killing 15 civilians including 9 children?

Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East routinely kills young Palestinian children for no reason other than throwing stones at armored vehicles, bulldozers, or tanks?

Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East signed the Oslo Accords promising to halt any new Jewish Settlement construction, but instead, has built more than 270 new settlements since the signing?

Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East has assassinated more than 100 political officials of its opponent in the last 2 years while killing hundreds of civilians in the process, including dozens of children?

Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East regularly violates the Geneva Convention by imposing collective punishment on entire towns, villages, and camps, for the acts of a few, and even goes as far as demolishing entire villages while people are still in their homes?

Answer: Israel

Question: What country in the Middle East is the United States threatening to attack because of fear that it may be a threat to us and to our allies?

Answer: Iraq

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a109.htm



I'm willing to bet something like this would never make it to CNN.

 

[gjohnson5]

I dunno , Hezbollah is also responsible for terrorist activity to the American embasy in Beruit. Many other attacks they have taken responsibility for. I'm not so sure it the talk about how evil Isreal is and how "loving and caring" Lebanese are is really accurate.

The fact that Hezbolla has killed Americans should have some impact on how the US sides in this issue

 

[Blue Star]

So why don't we stop supporting them? Because it would make the Arabs feel better about us? Maybe one form of terrorism is less detrimental than another, both politically and financially.

Your latter point maybe true. It's just that world seems to be descending into chaos on every corner.

I think if the USA policy was reversed, and Pro arab..you have to ask yourself..would we have this increasing rise of islamic fundamentalism? Would there be this hatred, distrust and disrepect towards American Administration, not only by muslims and non muslims alike.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

I dunno , Hezbollah is also responsible for terrorist activity to the American embasy in Beruit. Many other attacks they have taken responsibility for. I'm not so sure it the talk about how evil Isreal is and how "loving and caring" Lebanese are is really accurate.

The fact that Hezbolla has killed Americans should have some impact on how the US sides in this issue

The fact that we're the most powerful nation on earth and siding with they're sworn enemy might have something to do with it to. Of course they're not going to love us.

 

[bran987]

Question: Which country in the Middle East receives more than one-third of all U.S. aid yet is the 16th richest country in the world?

Answer: Israel

Question: Which country in the Middle East receives U.S. weapons for free and then sells the technology to the Republic of China even at the objections of the U.S.?

Answer: Israel

wow are those true?

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

wow are those true?

(James J. David is a retired Brigadier General and a graduate of the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College, and the National Security Course, National Defense University, Washington, DC. He served as a Company Commander with the 101st Airborne Division in the Republic of Vietnam in 1969 and 1970 and also served nearly 3 years of Army active duty in and around the Middle East from 1967-1969.)


I honestly dunno myself, but it would seem it's from a credible source.

 

[Blue Star]

Somewhat dated but still relevant-

Whoah.

Is all this true, documented and factual information?

If so, no wonder the muslim world are pissed off, lol