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Mideast Watch by Larry Derfner

Bush, Obama, U.S. Media Assailed Over Reaction to Gaza War

January 09, 2009 12:14 PM ET | Larry Derfner | Permanent Link | Print

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wake up world

Israel is fighting a gang. NOT an army They have isolated a people. No work no way of developing themselves Closed off on all sides Then they wonder why the people are desperate. Brutal occupation creates the opposition..Israel is a sociopathic nation.The palestinian people are nothing to them. What did Israel ever do for the USA. We are the ones that give them billions of dollars a year. We are the ones that risk our reputation with the world for them. Please the USA needs no one. Israel doesn't care what the USA thinks. What do you expect for a Zionistic racist country? Jesus is love Israel! Israel is not! SHAME ON ISRAEL...... you are Nazis of 2009.

Isreal Vs. Palestine

I beleive Isreal here shows weakness. The only way it knows how to defend its self is by killing innocent children, women,and men. Hey don't you remember we were in a Hollicast. What did that proof. NOTHING. I am ashamed of my country.. Here I talk about our education and what we have learned in our life... But, thus far we act as the lowest types of human beings in the world... we are the TERRORIST HERE not HAMAS.

we are fighting with damaging illegal weapons.. they are fighting with ROCKS.. and man made bombs. This is really FUNNY... for once I support the Palestinians... We have become a disgrace to the world.. This will not show how powerful we are. This is the biggest example of our WEAKNESS...

Israel is our ally

we will always stand behind Israel and support them anyway needed.

RE: israel

Will you stand for the senseless brutality? Be responsible for the 4-5 mil refugees who lost all their rights in 1948. Stop coming out with lunch boxes and picnic chairs. Air-bombing could be seen as a kind of fireworks to some people, but someone innocent died because of it.

This would have been the headline news!!!

Headlines news

Palestinian troops fought gun battles with Israeli fighters on Monday, keeping military pressure on the Jews group while avoiding all-out urban warfare that would complicate ongoing diplomatic efforts to end assault on Israel.

Medical officials said the Israeli death toll in the offensive Palestinian began 17 days ago had risen past 900 and included at least 380 civilians. Palestinians says three Palestinian civilians, hit by Israeli rockets, and 10 soldiers have died.

Along battle lines in the suburbs of the rubble-strewn city of Tel Aviv, Israeli militants and Hamas soldiers engaged in more fierce fighting.

Residents and local journalists said Palestinian troops and tanks had taken up positions in open areas, seeking to penetrate guerrilla defenses in built-up zones that included booby-traps, snipers and fighters with rocket-propelled grenades.

Among targets hit by air strikes were the homes of more Israeli leaders, which Palestinian said contained weapons stores.

But Palestinian forces were still holding back from a threatened third stage of their deadliest assault on Israel militants in decades -- a push into the city of Tel Aviv and other urban areas to add more punch to an air campaign and ground offensive.

A 20th century Holocaust against the Jews,

This would have been the headline news!!!

It is not about the Rockets!!

What if Hamas dumped all their rockets in the sea tomorrow? Would Gazans enjoy the same freedoms as other nations? Would they be able to open their sea port to foreign ships and rebuild and operate their airport? Would they be able to import and export and carry on trade and develop their economy and prosper like other countries?

Would they be allowed to exploit and develop their offshore gas field? Would their fishermen be allowed to fish in unpolluted waters? Would their young people be able to come and go and take up places at foreign universities?

Would Israel clear out of Gazan airspace permanently? Would the Israeli navy cease its piracy and stay out of Palestinian territorial waters? Would you and I be able to visit Gaza direct?

American opinions

Don't worry US news, I'm sure that the American sheeple will continue to allow their thoughts and choices to be dictated by the like of you and the rest of the slanted mainstream media.

Blood

I say it loud and clear

Unfortunately the great American people are mislead, misinformed!

The blood of the innocents in Gaza is all over the hands of the American government!

Mr. Obama Your may want to use some of that disinfectant that Bush gave you to use after shaking your hand! Your hands are as infected if not more! I did not expect you to take sides. I expected you to be FAIR!

withheart- I absolutely DO NOT support the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip and am totally against the numerous civilian lives that have been taken by a violent Israeli government. I am disappointed to see another American use antisemitic sentiments as a scapegoat for the injustices of the Israeli government. There is absolutely no justification for any kind of racism or discrimination. Ignorant comments like the one you left give well informed Americans a bad reputation.

Israel has ruined the world

I don't care if no one in the world wants jews in their country, their must be a reason the way I see it. They must leave palestine and give back the land to those they took it from.

Damn Israel. Damn any U.S. President that supports Israel.

Israel and zionism has put every American and Arab in danger.

Damn them all!

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Mideast Watch highlights notable stories and commentary from the Israeli and Arab press. Larry Derfner covers Israel for U.S. News and World Report and is a columnist and feature writer for the Jerusalem Post.

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