Palestinians Give Thumbs Down to Israeli Election Results

It is no surprise that the Arabs bemoan the fact that Israel has moved their politics to positioning themselves to defend its people from those who wish to destroy them. The Arabs have the wealth and the land to develop a Palestine within the borders of kindred Muslim countries. However, it is to their benefit that they continue to use the Palestinians as pawns in their wish to eliminate the Jewish people from a land that they also have ancestral claims. As noted recently by Amnesty International, Hamas has participated in terrorizing abducting, beating and murdering Gazans who they felt collaborated with Israel soldiers. The election of Hamas, like the Nazi's in Germany, eliminates any attempt by the Palestinians to live beside the Israelis and Arab nations are complicit with the same ideology. The "us or them" point of view is not a good starting point for bringing peace to the area.

Davey of Massachusetts of MA 2:09PM February 15, 2009

Individual posting under the screen name John Smith of IL demonstrates extreme ignorance or willingness to spread false information out of hatred for Isreal.

He / She posts:

"Palestinians realize that Israelis have overwhelmingly approved of the recent massacre in Gaza of 1,300 people. Of those killed, 40% were women and children.

Is this genocide of Palestinians supposed to inspire hope? "

Certain Facts that get in the way:

1. Palestinians have the genotype of Arab, in order to be committing genocide one would need to be attempting to kill all Arabs, or if you wanted to stretch the definition of Genotype the ridiculous ot least all people in Gaza. There are over a million people in Gaza. If Israel had using atomic weapons, or rounding up all civilians it gained military control over in Gaza and gassed them to death, or carpet bombed all the densely populated cities of Gaza with cluster bombs this might be arguable but they did just the opposite of all those things.

2. Less than 10% of the people in Gaza are Civilians who are the easiest to kill. Yet even by your numbers militants, who were hiding deep underground, were killed at a rate at least 400% greater than their presence in the population. Obviously Israel was working very hard to kill militants - otherwise they would have killed at least 90% Civilians.

3. There is know evidence - at all that Israel rounded up 100s of Civilians as you claim - and massacred them.

4. Only 1,500 people out of a population of over a million tightly packed into densely populated cities and refugee camps were killed. In a period of over two weeks of air superiority - tens of thousands could have easily been killed if massacres or genocide had been the Israeli objective.

Reality Check of WA 12:13PM February 14, 2009

What is all this talk going to solve? Nothing. Look the animal squarely in the face and realize what it is. All (or most) of the war on the face of the earth is perpetrated wherever "certain peoples" reside. If all of the Israelis were suddenly transported overnight to another location on the farthest location from the middle east the violence would still go on in the Arab countries. That is the nature of the beast. There is no desire for peace - or even civility. We all know what the agenda of the Arab peoples is. They have declared it repeatedly and we refuse to believe them. They have had opportunities, but they have not accepted them. If they had, by now all of their lands would be gardens and modern cities instead of rude concrete buildings or mud huts. There would have been peace long ago. After 60 years why go on arguing about it? The leopard can't change its spots.

Maybe it's better this way, for they only have stones to throw and rockets to shoot.

Realist in AZ of AZ 1:07PM February 13, 2009

"Neither Likud's Binyamin Netanyahu or Kadima's Tzipi Livni would be able to move toward peace even if he (or she) wants to."

That sentence itself shows how mired you are in your left wing prejudice, perhaps without realizing it. Are you insinuating that people on the right wing do not yearn for peace? The fact that the right wing disagrees on the path to peace, for instance, not negotiating and giving in to child killers and terrorist but rather fighting them with their own rules, are violence lovers?

The fact that the way to peace, and this is true throughout the natural world, is through ELIMINATING the threat, not befriending them. Don't be an idiot and ask if I'm advocating eliminating the Palastinian people, God forbid. What I'm saying is if the enemy refuses to even recgnize that you legitimately 'exist' then you must defend yourself. I'm sure that you, Larry Derfner, would give the shirt off your back with love to a thief who invades your home. You would give a kiss to the one who punches you in the face. Or maybe you wouldn't, its only 'other' people who dare not defend their peaceful existence with might.

How can such an ignorant doofus be taken seriously? I guess the people who hired you must be doofuses themselves.

Mickey Stein of NY 8:42PM February 12, 2009