hiding behid civilians and using them as shield and letting them get killed in military actions is war crime ... that is exactly what arabs and most of muslims do in every war they fight. Then they cry how many civilians are killed. Allah will not have mercy with them seeing how many innocent people and childreen they let be killed. They could take all those people on safe place but obviously for some reason they don't want to. They use them as live shield and when they are dead again they kill them and use as propaganda war. People are just blind around the world and don't realize that. As for what is happening now .... in Lebanon .... that hizbollah thinggie didn't think at all about their country prosperity ... they ruined probably good tourist season .... oh I forgot. Those are not even people from Lebanon but from Iran and Syria. Pussy countries who uses some small Lebanon who cannot defend itself properly for their own interests and crazy ideas of arab world without Israel in their crazy stupid heads.
In a hypothetical world, imagine if Cuba invaded America - and managed to successfully occupy the States. Do you think the American Government would try to get its people to get on diplomatically with the Cubans? Of course not; it would try to get its people to rebel by any means necessary. I am not saying that Israel has occupied Palestinian territory, but I am not saying it isn't either. It is all a matter at how you look at it.
Liminal, I think that one thing that would help you understand the dynamics in that region is by reading this web site: http://www.ifamericansknew.org . It will show you exactly how "one sided" things have been in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, by death tolls and by American aid.
Really stupid comparison ... this is problem that goes from 1883 when it all really started And it is interesting how arabs say that jews took their land ... please ... look at how big arab world is and if I remember corectly arabs even didn't want palestinian land ... not to say that those people were settling down almost at the same time as israelis..... also palestine was "settled" by nomads in 19 century
if that bank robber is firing rockets on all US, killing civilians and capturing hostages they won't ask nicely second time They'll tell all innocent people to run away to not get hurt and shoot this guy
Instead of analyzing numbers instead of looking at what caused these casualties, I'd really like for you to watch that trailer. Please do and than will talk
I watched your propaganda trailer; and loved how it showed Arafat talking in 2000 about peace, then right after would go back to 1995 or 1996 and show him talking about fighting; certainly not trying to distort the truth in that trailer are they.
The comparison is not stupid to those prepared to open their eyes IMHO. It is about what a lot of the people there believe. And I am trying to get you to visualise how you and your governemnt would feel if some country invaded "your" land. But if you want to dismiss that as "really stupid", then fine. If people were as open-minded as you and prepared to look at things from a new perspective, then we would almost certainly have world peace
Iatbm knows what he is talking about. On another note, many lebanese familes were chased into the northern mountains of lebanon by islamic extremest from Syria. Why? Because they were Christians...Maronites to be exact.
I guess you are referring that the dates in the trailer pieces matter somehow. I am afraid I am not following your point as to how they matter though. Anyway, these pieces are taken directly from Palestinian national TV. So, yes you nailed it on the head when you call it "propaganda" (Palestinian propaganda that is).
liminal the facts and statistics speak for themselves: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/ None of your silly one-sided propaganda movies are going to change what the numbers say.
This thread contains a lot of info for you to conisder that explains what exactly is causing civilian casualties
From your site: What has happened to all of the foreign aid that Palestinians have received from the US? Weren't they going to use it to build better schools, infrastructure and provide their kids with a better future? Yeah, I remember ... what happened? Oh wait ... they chose to buy guns and other weapons with it. I'm glad that someone in the world has their priorities straight
Buy weapons from who? Who is selling them weapons? Perhaps the small amount of aid (in comparison to israel's) we send them is spent burying the 734 children and 4,020 palestinians that were killed by israelis.... perhaps some of it was spent on medical care for the 30,281 palestinians injured by israelis... perhaps some of it was spent housing the 4,170 palestinian families who have lost their demolished homes .... And perhaps the unemployment rate is even higher now, after israel bombed their electricity, cities, bridges and roads. Hmmm.
Maybe they are so busy hating, they don't see straight. But why should they worry? Everytime they do something bad, they can always start whining and the anti Semetic people of the world will unite, help them and feel sorry for them. And in return use them for their own anti Jewish agendas. Too bad the Palestinians just follow some cause instead of starting to think for themselves.
They *did* build some schools so that they can teach their kids that Israel does not exist (it actually is not on the map in any of their textbooks) and the sole purpose of these kids is to kill jews anywhere they encounter them.
that's an old estimated statistics from CIA worldbook... the real stats are like 50% unemployment well unless you count being a member of terror group, burning flags, throwing stones and all that stuff as job. here's a good list of their jobs
Is that what you really, truly believe is taught in Palestinian schools to childern? I am interested to see if you are attempting to be humorous, or if that is really your view.