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Meet the World's Youngest Prisoner
Marco Villa , Connecticut: Jul 3 2009
Made Popular Jul 3 2009
Palestine :

The false claim that Israel is the only established democracy in the Middle East never rings more hollow when one considers how Israel treats Palestinians in general and specifically children.

While Israel was an independent court system for Israeli Jews, it enforces nothing but a military dictatorship against the Palestinians. Palestinians are routinely taken from their homes, sometimes kidnapped, without any charges and held in detention for weeks even years awaiting trial on so-called confusions of guilt acquired during torture. This is how America’s premier publication Time describes Israel’s treatment of Palestinian children:

Walid Abu Obeida, a 13-year-old Palestinian farm boy from the West Bank village of Ya’abad, had never spoken to an Israeli until he rounded a corner at dusk carrying his shopping bags and found two Israeli soldiers waiting with their rifles aimed at him. “They accused me of throwing stones at them,” recounts Walid, a skinny kid with dark eyes. “Then one of them smacked me in the face, and my nose started bleeding.”

According to Walid, the two soldiers blindfolded and handcuffed him, dragged him to a jeep and drove away. All that his family would know about their missing son was that his shopping bags with meat and rice for that evening’s dinner were found in the dusty road near an olive grove. Over the course of several days in April last year, the boy says he was moved from an army camp to a prison, where he was crammed into a cell with five other children, cursed at and humiliated by the guards and beaten by his interrogator until he confessed to stone-throwing.

Walid says he saw his parents for only five seconds when he was brought before an Israeli military court and accused by the uniformed prosecutor not only of throwing stones but of “striking an Israeli officer.” The military judge ignored the latter charge and chose to prosecute Walid only for allegedly heaving a stone at soldiers.

The boy got off lightly: he spent 28 days in prison and was fined 500 shekels (approximately $120). Under Israeli military law, which prevails in the Palestinian territories, the crime of throwing a stone at an Israeli solider or even at the monolithic 20-ft.-high “security barrier” enclosing much of the West Bank can carry a maximum 20-year-prison sentence. Since 2000, according to the Palestinian Ministry for Prisoner Affairs, more than 6,500 children have been arrested, mostly for hurling rocks.

Walid’s story is hardly unusual, judging from a report on the Israeli military-justice system in the West Bank compiled by the Palestine office of the Geneva-based Defense for Children International, which works closely with the U.N. and European states. Human-rights groups in Israel and elsewhere have also condemned the punishment meted out to Palestinian children by Israeli military justice. Most onerous, says Sarit Michaeli of the Israeli human-rights group B’Tselem, is that inside the territories, the Israeli military deems any Palestinian who is 16 years and older as an adult, while inside Israel, the U.S. and most other countries, adulthood is reached at age 18.

The report states that “the ill-treatment and torture” of Palestinian child prisoners “appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalized, suggesting complicity at all levels of the political and military chain of command.”

So while Israeli settlers do not even get light punishment for beating up a Palestinian elderly woman with sticks, a Palestinian child who “threatens” an heavily-armed Israeli occupation troop served years in jail where he will most likely be routinely tortured.

Israel’s arrests of Palestinian children is meant to do nothing more than demoralize them. It has become part of the fabric of Palestinian life that being arrested and beaten by Israeli occupation troops is now considered a rite of passage. I never appreciated more the courageous and steadfastness of the Palestinian people when I watched the documentary Slingshot Hip Hop.

The Jackie Salloum, an American of Palestinian-Syrian heritage, documentary present two young boys, Rami and Bilal, living inside a refugee camp in the West Bank. After telling about how their friend was shot by an Israeli occupation soldier for throwing rocks, the two young boys rap in his honor. The audience then learns that both Bilal and Rami were shortly after taken from their homes and held in detention awaiting trail all for throwing rocks...two years prior.

Both in speaking from prison via phone, the two boys did not at all convey a feeling of dismay, sadness or fear. Instead they spoke like men, real men, men with more courage and honor then all those supporters of Israel whom think they are so tough and cheer Israeli terrorism with calls of “Don’t fuck with the Jews!”

Rami and Bilal accepted with infinite maturity that their imprisonment was the cost of occupation that the Palestinians must endure and that complaining about it was unbecoming. I appreciated then more than ever the strength of the Palestinian people. How they cannot be broken. That for a century they have been beaten, but they will not give up nor give in. That a people that produce men like this will never be defeated.

Rami and Bilal both served more than four years in Israeli jail. They were badly tortured. But as they spoke that day on the phone, they stated that this is the cost of occupation but their justice will come for an injustice cannot last forever. Rarely truer words.

Rami and Bilal are not the only ones. Israel houses the largest group of child prisoners. Over 400 Palestinian youth, mostly in jail for rock-throwing, are imprisoned after trials without lawyers and testimony retrieved from torture.

Israel always has another dubious honors: the youngest prisoner in the world:

Meet the World's Youngest Prisoner
Meet the World's Youngest Prisoner

He is 17 months old and clearly a menace to society.

The world will never forgive the inhumanity of Israel.

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Michael Davison
Raanana, Israel
How does this compare with Palestinians murdering Israeli children, Marco?

See my response to your other post on Palestinian children.

Will the world ever forgive the murderous inhumanity of the Palestinians?
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shihadeh
West bank, Palestine
Michael
Every one knows who are inhuman Israelis or Palestinians. You know how many children were killed in the recent attacks on Palestine by Israeli forces?
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Michael Davison
Raanana, Israel
Shihadeh: “Every one knows who are inhuman Israelis or Palestinians. You know how many children were killed in the recent attacks on Palestine by Israeli forces?”

Do you know how many Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians? I’m sure that not only don’t you know, you don’t care. Here’s a partial list for you:

Shalhevet Pass, age 10 months, was killed by sniper fire at the entrance to the Avraham Avinu neighborhood in Hebron.

Eliran Rosenberg-Zayat, 15, of Givat Shmuel and Naftali Lanzkorn, 13, of Petah Tikva were killed in a suicide bombing at the Mifgash Hashalom (”peace stop”) gas station. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Yossi Ish-Ran, 14, and Kobi Mandell, 14, both of Tekoa, were found stoned to death in a cave about 200 meters from the small community south of Jerusalem where they lived.

Marina Berkovizki, 17, of Tel Aviv; Roman; Ilya Gutman, 19, of Bat Yam; Anya Kazachkov, 16, of Holon; Katherine Kastaniyada-Talkir, 15, of Ramat Gan; Aleksei Lupalu, 16, of the Ukraine; Mariana Medvedenko, 16, of Tel Aviv; Irina Nepomneschi, 16, of Bat Yam; Yelena Nelimov, 18, of Tel Aviv; Yulia Nelimov, 16, of Tel Aviv; Raisa Nimrovsky, 15, of Netanya; Simona Rodin, 18, of Holon; Liana Sakiyan, 16, of Tel Aviv; Maria Tagilchev, 14, of Netanya; and Irena Usdachi, 18, of Holon were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself outside a disco near Tel Aviv’s Dolphinarium along the seafront promenade just before midnight on Friday. Yael-Yulia Sklianik, 15, of Holon; and Yevgenia Dorfman, 15, of Bat Yam died subsequently from their injuries.

Yehuda Shoham, aged 5 months, of Shilo, died of injuries incurred in a fatal stoning on June 5.

Ronen Landau, 17, of Givat Ze’ev, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists while returning home from Jerusalem with his father.

Tehila Maoz, 18, of Jerusalem; Michal Raziel, 16, of Jerusalem; Malka Roth, 15, of Jerusalem; Ra’aya Schijveschuurder, 14, of Neria; Avraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder, 4, of Neria; Hemda Schijveschuurder, 2, of Neria; Tamara Shimashvili, 8, of Jerusalem; and Yocheved Shoshan, 10, of Jerusalem were killed and about 130 injured in a suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizzeria on the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aliza Malka, 17, a boarding student at Kibbutz Merav, was killed by terrorists in a drive-by shooting at the entrance to the kibbutz in the Gilboa region, west of Beit She’an. Three teenage girls who were with her in the car were injured, one seriously.

Shoshana Ben Ishai, 16, of Betar Illit and Menashe (Meni) Regev, 14, of Jerusalem were killed when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a sub-machine gun shortly before 16:00 at a No. 25 Egged bus at the French Hill junction in northern Jerusalem. 45 people were injured in the attack.

Assaf Avitan, 15, of Jerusalem; Israel Ya’akov Danino, 17, of Jerusalem; Yosef El-Ezra, 18, of Jerusalem were killed and about 180 injured - 17 seriously - when explosive devices were detonated by two suicide bombers close to 11:30 P.M. Saturday night on Ben Yehuda Street, the pedestrian mall in the center of Jerusalem. A car bomb exploded nearby 20 minutes later. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Ido Cohen, 17, of Jerusalem, fatally injured in the attack, died of his wounds on December 8.

Yair Amar, 13, of Emmanuel and Avraham Nahman Nitzani, 17, of Betar Illit were killed when three terrorists attacked a No. 189 Dan bus and several passenger cars with a roadside bomb, anti-tank grenades, and light arms fire near the entrance to Emmanuel in Samaria at 18:00 P.M. About 30 others were injured. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nehemia Amar, 15, and Keren Shatsky, 15, both of Ginot Shomron were killed and about 30 people were wounded, six seriously, when a suicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday night at a pizzeria in the shopping mall in Karnei Shomron in Samaria. Rachel Thaler, 16, of Ginot Shomron died of her wounds on February 27. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.

Eleven people were killed and over 50 were injured, 4 critically, in a suicide bombing at 19:15 on Saturday evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem where people had gathered for a bar-mitzva celebration. The terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue. The victims: Shiraz Nehmad (7) and Liran Nehmad (3), of Rishon Lezion; Shaul Nehmad (15), of Rishon Lezion; Lidor Ilan (12) and his sister Oriah (18 months), of Rishon Lezion; Ya’akov Avraham Eliyahu (7 months), of Jerusalem. Avraham Eliahu Nehmad, 7, of Rishon Lezion, died of his injuries on June 20. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade took responsibility for the attack.

Avia Malka, 9 months, was killed and about 50 people were injured, several seriously, when two Palestinians opened fire and threw grenades at cars and pedestrians in the coastal city of Netanya on Saturday evening, close to the city’s boardwalk and hotels. The terrorists were killed by Israeli border police. The Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

16 people were killed and over 40 injured in a suicide bombing in Haifa, in the Matza restaurant of the gas station near the Grand Canyon shopping mall. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Ran, 18, and Gal Koren, 15, of Haifa; Orly Ofir, 16, of Haifa; Ofer Ron, 18 of Haifa; Adi Shiran, 17, of Haifa.

Elmar Dezhabrielov, 16 of Rishon Lezion, was killed and about 40 people were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself in the Rothschild Street downtown pedestrian mall of Rishon Lezion.

Sinai Keinan, aged 14 months, of Petah Tikva was killed and 37 people were injured, some seriously, when a suicide bomber detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Netanel Riachi, 17, of Kochav Ya’akov; Gilad Stiglitz, 14, of Yakir; and Avraham Siton, 17, of Shilo - three yeshiva high school students - were killed and two others wounded in Itamar, southeast of Nablus, when a Palestinian gunman infiltrated the community and opened fire on the teenagers playing basketball. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Erez Rund, 18, of Ofra died of gunshot wounds to the chest sustained in a shooting attack near Ofra, north of Ramallah, when Palestinian terrorists opened fire from an ambush.

19 people were killed and 74 were injured - six seriously - in a suicide bombing at the Patt junction in Egged bus no. 32A traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem. The bus, which was completely destroyed, was carrying many students on their way to school. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Among the victims: Shani Avi-Zedek, 15, of Jerusalem; Galila Bugala, 11, of Jerusalem.

Neria, 16, Zvika, 12, and Avishai Shabo, 5 - as well as their mother and a neighbor who came to their aid, were murdered when a terrorist entered their home in Itamar, south of Nablus, and opened fire. Two other children were injured, as well as two soldiers. The terrorist was killed by IDF forces. The PFLP and the Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Hadar Hershkowitz, 14, of Herzliya was killed and 15 others were wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber set off a relatively small pipe bomb at a shwarma restaurant in Herzliya.

Linoy Saroussi and Hadas Turgeman, both 14 - were killed and two were wounded when a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and wearing an explosive belt opened fire, after infiltrating the settlement in northern Samaria. The terrorist was shot dead. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Gastón Perpiñal, 15, of Ra’anana, a recent immigrant from Argentina, was killed and about 70 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a shopping mall in Kfar Sava. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Matan, 5, and Noam Ohayon, 4, and three others were killed when a terrorist infiltrated the kibbutz, located east of Hadera near the Green Line, and opened fire. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Eleven people were killed and some 50 wounded by a suicide bomber on a No. 20 Egged bus on Mexico Street in the Kiryat Menahem neighborhood of Jerusalem. The bus was filled with passengers, including schoolchildren, traveling toward the center of the city during rush hour. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Among the victims: Hodaya Asraf, 13, of Jerusalem; Ilan Perlman, 8, of Jerusalem; Yafit Ravivo, 14 of Jerusalem; Michael Sharshevsky, 16, of Jerusalem.

Seventeen people were killed and 53 wounded in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus #37 on Moriah Blvd. in the Carmel section of Haifa, en route to Haifa University. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Among the victims: Smadar Firstater, 16, of Haifa; Kamar Abu Hamed, 12, of Daliat al-Carmel; Daniel Haroush, 16, of Safed; Mordechai Hershko, 41, of Haifa; Tom Hershko, 15, of Haifa; Elizabeth Katzman, 17, of Haifa; Tal Kehrmann, 17, of Haifa; Abigail Litle, 14, of Haifa; Yuval Mendellevich, 13, of Haifa; Asaf Zur (Zollinger), 17, of Haifa.

Noam Leibowitz, 7, of Yemin Orde was killed and three members of her family wounded in a shooting attack near the Kibbutz Eyal junction on the Trans-Israel Highway. The terrorist fired from the outskirts of the West Bank city of Kalkilya. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command claimed responsibility for the attack.

Twenty-three people were killed and over 130 wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself on a No. 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem’s Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Avraham Bar-Or, 12, of Jerusalem; Binyamin Bergman, 15, of Jerusalem; Elisheva Meshulami, 16, of Bnei Brak; Tehilla Nathanson, 3, of Zichron Ya’acov; Issachar Reinitz, 9, of Netanya; Shmuel Taubenfeld, 3 months, of New Square, New York and Shmuel Zargari, 11 months, of Jerusalem.

Hila, 11, Hadar, 9, Roni, 7, and Merav Hatuel, 2 - of Katif in the Gaza Strip were killed along with their mother when two Palestinian terrorists fired on an Israeli car at the entrance to the Gaza Strip settlement bloc of Gush Katif. Fatah and Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Yuval Abebeh, 4, and Dorit (Masarat) Benisian, 2, both of Sderot, were killed by a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza while playing in the street. Some 20 people were wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Ayala-Haya (Ella) Abukasis, 17, of Sderot was mortally wounded when a Qassam rocket landed near her and shrapnel penetrated her cerebellum, leaving her brain dead. She was struck while protecting her younger brother, who was lightly wounded. Kept on life support throughout the week, her parents agreed to stop treatment when doctors told them there was no chance of recovery. She died on January 21.

Avihai Levy, 17, of Beit Hagai was killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting at a hitchhiking stop about 200 meters from the entrance to Beit Hagai, south of Hebron. Aviad Mansour, 16, of Otniel, fatally wounded in the attack, died on June 26. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Eight students of the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem were killed when a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle infiltrated the yeshiva and opened fire in the library where about 80 people were gathered, mostly teenagers. Eleven others were wounded, three critically. The terrorist, a resident of East Jerusalem, was killed by an IDF officer.
The victims: Segev Peniel Avihail, 15, of Neve Daniel; Neria Cohen, 15, of Jerusalem; Yonatan Yitzhak Eldar, 16, of Shilo; Yehonadav Haim Hirschfeld, 18, of Kokhav Hashahar; Yohai Lifshitz, 17, of Jerusalem; Doron Meherete, 26, of Ashdod; Avraham David Moses, 16, of Efrat; and Ro’i Roth, 18, of Elkana.

Shlomo Nativ, 13, was killed by an axe-wielding terrorist in his community of Bat Ayin in Gush Etzion.

This list only covers the time from the start of the second Intifada to now, and is not complete—I’ve left out those children who were maimed or wounded in attacks, as well as those whose parents were murdered in front of their eyes. I’ve purposely left out all adult names. The names on this list were all Israeli children, with ages ranging from a few months to 18 years—the same ages Palestinians and Marco love to wave at the world. Other than being Israeli and/or Jewish, what was their crime?

I’ve also purposely left out the names of Israeli Arabs and foreign nationals working, studying or touring in Israel who were murdered by Palestinians. Apparently, the Palestinians don’t care who they murder. They seem to excel at murdering each other when there’s nothing else to do.

Mr. Shihadeh, while Palestinians celebrate each Israeli death and pass out candies to passersby, Israelis mourn each death, Palestinian and Israeli as a tragedy. Just as you claim that “the occupation” breeds resistance, so do the actions of Palestinians attacking Israel breed resistance—resistance to the peace process and resistance to a Palestinian terrorist state as a neighbor.

Palestinian actions have done as much or more to kill the peace process as any Israeli actions have done, but somehow Palestinians don’t seem to understand that.

In the end, if Palestinians are left with nothing, you will have only yourselves to blame.
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ARVIND K.PANDEY
PRAYAG, India
Children should not be sacrificed at the altar of narrow interests.
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Michael, is a dedicated person to dump huge responses to any subject, so people would only get lost in his long text.

I know that during the GAZA war , hundreds of children on the Palestinian side were killed, while few or maybe none on the Israeli side got killed.

I am sure you believe as all Israelis do that the blood of all Palestinians does not value as a single Israeli.

Anyhow, here are some statistics and numbers for you:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4294502.stm

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/deaths.html

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/19/gaza.war/

http://www.jerusalemites.org/reports/64.htm

http://www.imperialismkills.org/stats/palestine/

http://endthesiege.blogspot.com/2008/03/key-gaza-statistics-from-report-gaza.html

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/14/israel.gaza/index.html

http://www.phrmg.org/aqsa/child_fatalities.htm

and much more on the web.
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Michael Davison
Raanana, Israel
Peace Watcher: Do you really think that after you put references like ”ifamericansonlyknew”, a Palestinian web site and a cover site for ISM (a Palestinian-supported ”movement”), you can be considered a real source for any kind of objective information?

”I am sure you believe as all Israelis do that the blood of all Palestinians does not value as a single Israeli.”

If you believe this, you really are a sick individual.

”I know that during the GAZA war , hundreds of children on the Palestinian side were killed, while few or maybe none on the Israeli side got killed.”

That number is still in dispute, and even this morning there was a claim that a 17-year-old Palestinian girl was killed by ”Israeli fire” that turned out to be Islamic jihad mortar fire... and while the hospital claimed the girl was 17, Hamas claimed she was 3. How can such ”statistics” be believed?

I remember that you’re the one who still believes in the ”Jenin Massacre” fairy tale despite all the evidence to the contrary.

If the Palestinians haven’t managed to kill Israeli children recently, it’s not for lack of trying or intent, just a testimonial to their own incompetence. They seem to do a better job of killing Palestinians than Israelis.
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Michael: sure you did miss the other links as you usually pick what suit you.

M: ”That number is still in dispute”, oh yes off curse and it will be for ever since the Israelis will never admit that they kill any child in Palestine.

M: ”If the Palestinians haven’t managed to kill Israeli children recently, it’s not for lack of trying or intent, just a testimonial to their own incompetence.”, sure they have the weapons and the support as the Israelis but they choose to fight a guerrilla war and instead of using their F16 they decided to lunch those home made rockets, because they are incompetence, what a joke.
(Global Perspectives)
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Michael Davison
Raanana, Israel
PW: “sure you did miss the other links as you usually pick what suit you.”

I didn’t miss any links, but once you start with those I mentioned, your choices all become suspect- and omit others legitimate stories, such as Colonel Robert Kemp (Ret.), who told the BBC that he “couldn’t remember another instance in the history of war where an army went to such lengths to avoid civilian casualties”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WssrKJ3Iqcw

That’s an article you were careful not to look at, I’m sure.

PW: “That number is still in dispute”, oh yes off curse and it will be for ever since the Israelis will never admit that they kill any child in Palestine.”

Now here’s something I never said. The plain fact is, though, that as time goes on, more and more supposed “civilians” on the lists of casualties have turned out to be terrorists. The number of children has become smaller than the original 400 claimed, too.

PW: “If the Palestinians haven’t managed to kill Israeli children recently, it’s not for lack of trying or intent, just a testimonial to their own incompetence.”, sure they have the weapons and the support as the Israelis but they choose to fight a guerrilla war and instead of using their F16 they decided to lunch those home made rockets, because they are incompetence, what a joke.”

I guess it would be far too much to expect you to understand the difference between deliberately targeting civilians (a war crime) and attempting to hit only military targets (permitted under international law).

Blame Hamas for the battleground they knowingly created, placing weapons stores, firing points and fighting points deliberately in areas with dense civilian populations (also a violation of international law).

Make up your mind: either Hamas is responsible for obeying international law or Israel is exempt from it as soon as Hamas attacks under those conditions. Holding one side accountable while exempting the other is just the kind of idiotic thinking that has drawn this conflict out for so long.

If Hamas knows they can’t compete, why do they endanger their own populations with their actions? There is only one possible answer: they do not give a f**k for the welfare of the Palestinian people.

You might take a look at the Hamas insignia one day—it shows a map of “Palestine” that covers the entirety of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Israel. Hamas doesn’t want peace with Israel, it wants an Islamic state in place of Israel. You will pardon us for taking exception to Ismael Haniyeh’s statement that “There’s no place for the Jews in Palestine”. You see, we have this quaint objection to being targets for genocide.
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I am sure you are a good cheery picker Mr. Michael,

Just for your big heart see this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lVCAUBpG3w&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcontent1.clipmarks.com%2Fcontent%2F002C063D-2990-466A-BDB0-BA9F42EC84B6%2F&feature=player_embedded

and this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MpWPQcDNi4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcontent4.clipmarks.com%2Fcontent%2FEC76D767-3B2F-449B-830F-CB2E0244E0CA%2F&feature=player_embedded

and here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0aEo59c7zU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcontent5.clipmarks.com%2Fcontent%2F3FD73CD4-6867-4B3F-B8EA-179051D8265D%2Fstarted%2520gaza&feature=player_embedded

and some images for you:

http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/811C72BF-6A75-42EE-BEB7-79910D531F78/


and before you blame Hamas for the last war watch this and guess who started the Gaza War:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDBiycEz12s

don’t worry, it is a CNN report.


It is clear that Israel being an illegal occupier, blockading Gaza because they don’t Like Hamas in power and starving it people to death with now power, medicine, food ...etc and off curse daily attacks and bombing and killing is not an enough reason for Hamas to fire back what ever weapons they have.

It is the war between the Occupier who is working to kill or push the people out of the land, and the resistance which is trying to defend the life basics of its people.

And off curse Hamas is saying that its target is to destroy Israel, but killing all Arab in Palestine are the target of a good percentage of the extremest inside Israel as well, how about killing of all them in return.


M: ”You might take a look at the Hamas insignia one day—it shows a map of “Palestine” that covers the entirety of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Israel. Hamas doesn’t want peace with Israel, it wants an Islamic state in place of Israel. You will pardon us for taking exception to Ismael Haniyeh’s statement that “There’s no place for the Jews in Palestine”. You see, we have this quaint objection to being targets for genocide.”


Sure comparing Israel to Hamas is a good starting point for us because both of them are a terrorist group or state, working hard on Killing civilians and applying ethnic cleansing in your won words.

Good work Michael.
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Michael Davison
Raanana, Israel
Well, Peace Watcher, I have to admit that you deserve an A+ as far as toeing the party line is concerned—but an F for credibility, especially if you think that either clips from Al Jazeera or a slide show of pictures selected by you can be considered objective.

Anyone who thinks that Mustafa Barghouti, or any Palestinian representative being interviewed on TV would do anything other than blame Israel for starting the “Gaza War” has to be simple-minded. The only thing that amazes me is that people believe the highly selective “proof” he presents in the interview without verifying anything independently.

Despite the number of lies the Palestinians get caught in, there are always “willing idiots” who believe them without question either because of their personal bias against Israel, Zionism or Jews in general, or simply because their interests are pro-Arab in general.

You’re allowed to have your opinion, that’s everyone’s right—but representing propaganda as honest reporting and one-sided (and incomplete) information as “proof” is another thing.
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So you what you say or bring is a proof and what I say or bring is a propaganda even if it was a CNN report.

I just start to realize the propaganda you are after.
(Global Perspectives)
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Michael Davison
Raanana, Israel
Are you really that obtuse?

Mustafa Barghouti’s statement WAS propaganda– and there was no way he could tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth without endangering his life. I don’t blame him– I blame you and those like you who accept his statements at face value for whatever reason.
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You represent the perfect propaganda.

I think every one should take the truth from you and the criminal gangs on your government or form the Zionism Hakhams teaching young Israelis how killing Arabs is a religious duty they should perform.
(Global Perspectives)
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Michael Davison
Raanana, Israel
Peace Watcher, search through my posts as long as you want, you will not find one single word of mine supporting these “Zionist Chachamim” you describe. You may find words of mine condemning them, but not supporting them.

However, what you describe is a daily practice among the Imams in the mosques of Gaza, teaching young Palestinians that killing Jews is a religious and nationalist imperative. When do you condemn them?
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M: ”However, what you describe is a daily practice among the Imams in the mosques of Gaza, teaching young Palestinians that killing Jews is a religious and nationalist imperative.”

Again conflicts are a rich soil grounds for extremest to grow in but unfortunately you seem to see only one side of, you keep attacking a nation for the behavior or ideas of a few.

And nice move mixing between Jews, Settlers and Israelis, don’t you ever get tired of this, or do you really believe that an armed settler on an illegally occupied land is an innocent civilian, I don’t think so.


M: ”When do you condemn them?”
I am condemning any violence actions against civilians and innocent people whatever crazy outdated religions, extremest group, terrorist governments and/or people with sick mentalities are behind those actions.
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