There was an unspeakable tragedy in Tel Aviv today, where a suicide bomber killed himself and nine other people this morning. This act is deplorable and unacceptable, and I know the Important Readers join me in condemning this mass murder in the strongest possible terms.
Today's suicide bombing is just one deplorable act that we should condemn in the strongest possible terms. In the last month, the Israeli army has dropped some 2,000 powerful artillery shells into Gaza -- including directly at heavily populated areas like Gaza City. Recently, one of these shells killed a young girl after it hit her house. The Israeli army acknowledges that its near-continuous shelling of Gaza threatens innocent Palestinian lives, but they continue it anyway. Earlier today, Israeli troops in the West Bank shot a stone-throwing thirteen year old boy. He was hit in the neck.
More than 17 Palestinians have been killed in the last two weeks alone, according to the Associated Press. The Palestinians have appealed to the UN Security Council to restrict the Israeli government's increasingly violent actions.
At the same time as Israeli forces shell Gaza and carry out military operations in the West Bank, the Israeli government has also maintained a blockade on Gaza, spurring a crisis in which Palestinians living in the fenced-in strip literally are running out of food and water.
While the brutal Israeli occupation continues to stifle everyday Palestinian life, the international community has united to starve the Palestinian Authority of funds. The PA has been unable to pay its police force for more than two weeks, but the US still calls on the PA to use its police force to prevent suicide bombing attacks in Israel.
On the political front, the new Israeli cabinet was sworn in today, and the work to solidify Israel's annexation of most of the West Bank (including Jerusalem) conintued unabated.
And finally, most any attempt to discuss changing the position of the US government toward Israel immediately falls victim to charges of anti-Semitism.
The Hamas movement called today's tragedy in Tel Aviv "self defense." The predictable further increase in Israeli military activity, which will kill untold numbers of Palestinians in the coming days, will also be called "self defense." The only way forward is to stop using "defense" as an excuse to kill.
I feel so sick to the core because as you know it's just a "small minority" among arab muslim palestinians who are bloody pro -murder of the innocent...
"Criticizing" Israel -- singling this democratic country out of all countries as "illegitimate" or for daring to defend it's babies from Arab mass murderers?
Yes that IS racism!
All those that are "offended" for being called Antisemites when bashing Israel (the victim) would never utter a word about real occupiers (on the real natives VS fake-"Palestinians" who's most ancestors don't date earlier than the 1880 in Israel - Jews' historic land) such as:
USA (American Indians & some part of Mexico)
Australia (aboriginals))
Egypt (upon Nubians)
Croatia (Expelled Jews were FIRST to that land before the Craots themselves).
Saudi Arabia - Medina
The city that was established by... JEWS!
Morocco/Lybia/Algeria upon native Berbers.
And more...
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Nor will these 'innocent' Israel-bashers utter a word about billions of dollars to:
Egpyt & Jordan, beacuse as you know they love the west so very much.
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So is the SILENT case of Islamofacists' GENOCIDE of over 2,000,000 on Sudanese.
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Nor will these Anti-Israel BIGOTS utter a word about Israel's preferred treatment to it's Arab citizens, not only with current expulsion of Jews in favor of Arabs but in most Israeli court - cases where Arab Israelis make up FIRST CLASS citizens in Democratic Israel.
Erik, how should Israel respond to the QASSAM rockets that continually fly over Gaza into Israel? In the words of Rambo, the so-called Palestinians "drew first blood." And let me remind you that this was the same Gaza that had its "occupation" ended. Israel gave up something that they were legitimately entitled to for a shitty "land-for-peace" utopian fantasy.
Ask me about all the million-dollar greenhouses and agricultural centers the Jews of Gaza were literally world-famous for and left behind after they were ethnically cleansed from Gaza: why couldn't the Arabs use them? Maybe becuase the Arabs are STUPID, wasting their hundreds of millions of annual world aid dollars on purchasing KARINE-A cargo ships, and running child-terrorist summer camps and smuggling military grade weapons into their pathetic excuse of a culture INSTEAD OF GIVING THEIR CHILDREN A TRUE EDUCATION AND BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE.
The overwhelming majority of the so-called Palestinians would flip you off Erik if you told them their attacks were "tragedies", for, to butcher members of the Jewish people is, to them, the most noblest characteristic of a true "Palestinian," mandated by the Qur'an.
I wonder where you get your notions, I seriously do.
Sincerely,
L.M.
I was going to post something intelligent, but I don't think it would fit in on your blog.
fascinating how your blog brings out the bigotry, racism, and plain stupidity of so many ignorant people