Gaza Strip Genocide: Israel Goes Beyond Its 'Right to Exist'
Israel's Political Right Wing, Facing Another Election, is Making War to Hold Power
Hamas indeed declared that a Middle East truce had ended on December 18, and Hamas indeed lobbed some missIles into Israel. But Hamas does not possess major military power. Israel has responded to the comparative fly swat with a total assault into the Gaza Strip. When we hear that more than 300 have been killed, these are Palestinian citizens, homeless Palestinian people.
The tired statements regarding Israel's "right to defend itself" do not carry meaning when Israel goes so far beyond "defending itself" and becomes the assailant. Israel should be condemned and hopefully brought back to a diplomatic peace table.
George W. Bush needs to say something, to do something, to stand up and act as the president of the United States. Instead we have a situation where George W. Bush seems not to exist, while Obama spokesman David Axelrod goes on "Meet the Press" and says that Obama will remain silent because we only have one president at one time.
This tragedy on the Gaza Strip makes it seem as though the United States has no president.
To condemn the actions of the Israeli government, this would not constitute a violation of America's alliance with Israel. In fact, somewhere between 40 percent to 50 percent of the Israeli people, themselves, believe that their right-wing government has crossed the line of morality and diplomacy. Israel is still being governed by the comparative likes of Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz. America is making a sensible leadership change; many reasonable people in Isreal are yearning for a similar leadership change.
The goal of United States foreign policy is to bring greater peace to the world and less terrorism. Military strength is needed on the bottom line, but the desire for peace and justice must always be shown. Any analyst with common sense knows that Israel's overaggressive, overdone action on the Gaza Strip will just give more counterproductive strength to Hamas. Does George W. Bush have the common sense to say this? If not, he should just go ahead and cede the presidency to Barack Obama now, not on January 20.
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Post a CommentIsrael vs genocide, since the 1920's under Hitler' buddy the Islamic Arab leader the infamous MUFTI (who led the racist Arab massacre on Jews in Hebron 1929 and in Iraq 'Farhud' 1941), now the Islamic Hitler in Iran (Ahmadinejad [no, he wa not mistranslated], Hamas [as a top cleric said "the purpose pf the 'resistance' is to erase this entity", Hezbollah, all advocate publicly to ERASE Israel or 'all Jews'.
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How dare the racist Arabs and Islamic bigots call Israel's war on Arab terrorists while being so careful not to hit civilians (imagine how many would have been killed if Israel would not be so careful) as "genocide"??" what a hypocrisy!
what you fail to realize is that hamas is getting what they want sympathy=strategic growth; in the west bank and elsewhere.there goal wipe out israel not gonna happen so sorry!
We should support Israel...
In abject irony, this article has encouraged me to donate money directly to the Israeli government with a note attached "for the war effort".
Nevermind the Gaza rockets that hit Israeli civilians. Where's your condemnation of those?
I love when baffoons like this show their anti-semitism for the world to see.
Sticking the rest of the nation and his own children with the tab....as did McCain, who is also a CFR member funded by the Israeli Federal Reserve bankers....The banks in the bailout bill are the owners of the privately funded Federal Reserve, who are both unregulated and are not accountable to Congress except once a year when they make a "report." This is all about money, not religion or peace.
If there were to be a long term peace accord, there would go their profits so I wouldn't hold my breath since they also funded Obama's campaign which he repaid under that bailout bill.
Clinton believed in pre-emptive wars also, so this is not a right wing ideology, it is a Council on Foreign Affairs ideology which is funded by the international bankers who own the Federal Reserve and who are members of the Israeli lobby - Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Lehrman Brothers - all owned by Jewish bankers who support war in Israel for their own personal profits.....where have you been? This is not right wing....those bankers fund all the major candidates political campaigns to remain in power, just check the corporate donors of all major candidates. Their own people are the ones who are behind continuing the Middle Eastern conflict for their corporate profits. Clinton is quoted as saying he would "walk on his hands" for Israel, and now Hillary is Secretary of State. Clinton's speaking fees are come from his speaking engagements for the CFR, and it is they who fund the CFR and the Federal Reserve who are actually the ones waging war on their own people for their corporate
Yeah right 11 terrorists knocked over 2 N Y buildings 9/11, and you guys sent two armys out to Afganistan and Iraq to wipe out to countries.
I think Israels response is quite circumspect in comparison.