Gaza Special Hot Docs: Israel, Hamas Girding for a Long Fight, Have Conflicting Strategies

Holocaust is the genocidal crime against people based on their ethnicity. This genocide could be perpetrated through different means such as poison gas, guns, tanks, air raids, biological warfare, economical siege, starvation, destruction of vital natural resources, eviction into desert, and deprivation of basic vital materials among others, to produce the same result; mass deaths. For the last sixty years Palestinians have been suffering from all these methods in a deliberate programmed holocaust. The perpetrators are not Nazis, but those who claim to be survivors, and their descendents, of Nazi-caused holocaust; Zionist Jewish Israelis.

Mike of CA 12:45PM January 04, 2009

The Israelis have had enough. They are tired of letting these terrorists push them around for so long. You're right Marge, USA of VA, Hamas is just an organization. But Israel is doing exactly what we did after 9/11. We alerted the military and went straight towards whom we thought was attacking us. These people do not need the courtesy of fighting on equal terms with their enemies. Hamas and other terrorist gorups have enough cowardice to hide behind civilians and use hijackings and suicide bombers to be a menace to a sovereign state like Israel and the US. With that being said, don't you think Israel is justified. And watch the news, these terrorists do have automatic weapons, gernades, and rocket launchers. Not to mention mortars and few home-made bombs lying around.

Omid of XX, Israelis are trying to give the Palestinians autonomy (the ability to govern themselves), but they are not just going to shrug their shoulders and say, "Oh, I'm so sorry that you used your right to a democracy (that we gave you) to hurt us. Here, let's talk this out together like we have been doing the past few years." No! They're tired of families hiding under beds at night, they're tired of radical/racial fanatics blowing up in public places, and they are not going to put up with it anymore.

Once again, I believe that if given the chance, Israel would be more than willing to bring her enemies to their knees. Afterward they'll calm down. This isn't hard people.

Dr. Shade of NC 4:09PM January 01, 2009

Islamic Revolution Leader issued a statement Sunday on the horrendous tragedy of Gaza bloodbath in the hand of the Zionists

Islamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei issued a statement Sunday on the horrendous tragedy of Gaza bloodbath in the hand of the Zionists, strongly condemning the heinous complicity of the criminal Bush's regime with the Zionists, adding that the silence of some international bodies and some Arab states provided for the crimes.

Ayatollah Khamenei declared Monday as day of general mourning and called on all Muslim people and free men of the world to render their duty towards the tragic issue. The text of the statement is as follows.

Bismillah-e Rahman-e Rahim

"We belong to Allah, and to Him we return"

The horrific atrocity of the Zionist regime in Gaza in which hundreds of innocent men, women and children were massacred pushed the curtain of deception from the blood thirsty face of the Zionist wolves and noted the negligent about the presence of this hostile disbeliever in the heart of the lands of Islamic umma.

The horrendous ordeal is very heavy and moving for any Muslim not to say for any free and noble human being in any corner of the world. However, the larger ordeal is the encouraging silence of some Arab governments which claim to be Muslims. Which ordeal could be larger than the fact that Muslim governments, otherwise expected to support the innocent Gaza people against the usurping and hostile regime, adopted a mood which encouraged the criminal Zionist authorities to impertinently consider them as in harmony with the large tragedy?

Which answer the heads of those countries have prepared to give to the Messenger of Allah (S.A.)? Which answer they have prepared to give to their own nations which are indeed mourning the tragedy? Indeed today the heart of the Egyptian, Jordanian and the people of other Islamic countries is overwhelmed with sorrow about the bloodshed as well as the protracted food and medicine embargos.

By his complicity in the large crime, the criminal Bush's administration in the last days of his shameful rule more darkened the face of the American regime than ever and added to its dossier of war crimes. The European governments with their indifference and sometimes their complicity in the large tragedy once more proved that their claims of advocacy for human rights are false and also showed they are present in the front against Islam and Muslims. Now, I ask the scholars and Alims of the Arab world and the chiefs of the Egyptian al-Azhar center "isn't it the time to feel the threat facing Islam and Muslims?" "Isn't it the time to fulfill the mandatory act of standing against any bullying ruler?" Is an additional, more divulging scene of complicity between the hostile disbelievers and the hypocrites of umma in repressing the Muslims than the current Gaza and Palestine developments is needed to prompt you to feel responsibility?

I have also a question to ask the media and the intellectuals of the world of Islam and especially the Arab world. For how long you have decided to remain indifferent regarding your media and intellectual responsibility?

Has there remained any more face for the scandal-hit human rights bodies of the west and the so-called 'security' council of the United Nations to lose?

All the Palestinian Mujahid and other faithful of the world of Islam are supposed to defend the defenseless people of Gaza. Anyone who is killed in the legitimate and holy defense is a martyr and is hoped to be among the ranks of the martyrs of Badr and Ohud battles in the presence of the Messenger of Allah (S.A.).

The Organization of the Islamic Conference must fulfill its historical responsibility in the sensitive conditions and form a solid front, bereft of inaction and preservations, against the Zionist regime. The Zionist regime must be punished by the Muslim governments. The heads of the usurping regime must be tried and punished in person for their crimes and the protracted siege.

The Muslim nations are able to materialize the demands through firm resolve. The duty of politicians, Alims and intellectuals in this juncture is much heavier than others.

I declare Monday a day of general mourning in commemoration of the Gaza tragedy and instruct the country's authorities to fulfill their duties regarding the sad incident.

"And those who do wrong shall surely know by what overturning they will be overturned"

Sayyed Ali Khamenei

December 28, 2008

Hossein 12:25PM January 01, 2009

Israeal and platain can not represent to each other, each one mast be free from the ather

i bleave the problem is a third hand, that alowed israeal to posses an advanced weapons to conquer plastain while plastine not allowed to posess such weapons iven to defend itself.

do the world comunity say the death for plastain and the victory for israel, i think that is not a fir and would say whenever it comes the trouth will come.

M.abdi of 1:57AM January 01, 2009