as your HUGE fan and a 2-state supporter believing Netanyahu’s abominable and the West Bank settlements are a war crime, I say you’re (like my many fellow lefty friend) WILLFULLY BLIND to (a) 8 millennia of Jewish OPPRESSED history, (b) including otherwise UNIMAGINABLE Antisemitism Diaspora Genocide, eventually the Final 6 million Solution (or do you too deny that?), (c) causing late 19th century Zionism, then the UN’s 1948 far-far lesser evil (but yes, “unfortunate”) Jewish state, (d) Hamas-Iran-etc.’s 7 decades of Genocidal-Terrorist-Murderous-Antisemitic (“GTMA”) ACTIONS, (d) culminating in Oct. 7’s far-far worse war crimes, (e) the also far worse war crimes of Hamas’ human shields & tunnels, (f) why’s Israel the only world’s nation not entitled to “self-defense”, (g) that the latter’s “proportionality,” the criterion for war crimes against civilians, is very hard to measure. Did it apply to Dresden, Hiroshima-Nagasaki – hard to say, vs. (clearly) Putin in Ukraine.
Re a Jewish state, see the IHRA Antisemitism “EXAMPLES ... Manifestations might include targeting Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity ... Denying Jewish people's right to self-determination, e.g., claiming the Israeli State is a racist endeavor ... ; and “Applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] behavior not expected of any other democratic nation.”
Yes, Schumer’s spot-on: Isr must show much better care re civilians and Netanyahu’s terrible/counterproductive. But – w/o & until 2-states & international security guarantees for both -- does Hamas’ human shield travesty mean we let them re-thrive to Keep Up The GTMA Work?? You go, Hamas! Clever moves (like Hitler’s)! You win!
Marty Rosenthal, Brookline MA, grandson of 4 pogrom survivors & w/ Dad overcoming 1930's Antisemitism
That is not a question that accomplishes anything.
It ignores the fact that Hamas and its supporters, have made it clear that Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth. Blaming Israel of genocide is not going to solve anything.
A two state solution must be negotiated by an international community prepared to solve this crisis!
Well, yes. Is there anything that can't be justified by recalling the atrocities committed on October 7th? Yes, Hamas and the attacks that sparked this war were horrible, awful, no good terrorism. But does that justify killing 31,000 Palestinians (yes, some of who may be in Hamas) and causing another round of children and families to suffer and die? Yes, October 7th was an atrocity. So, does Israel keep committing other atrocities until Palestinians are wiped off the face of the earth? Just curious what is the moral and tactical goal here.
Mark, others. Hamas gave up trying to defeat Israel militarily and devised an attack that it hoped would provoke Israel to do what it did in Gaza, and turn the entire world against Israel and its benefactor, America, and that’s pretty much how it’s played out. Hamas took hostages to bargain to get its people out of Israel’s prisons. Hamas doesn’t care about the people of Gaza. Israel doesn’t care about the people of Gaza. Religious fanatics run Hamas and Israel. and religious fanatics in America insist America back Israel, because that’s where Jesus was born and crucified by Rome at the behest of Jewish leaders. The American right would like to see Israel wipe out Islam in the Middle East. I imagine for so long as Israel exists, there will be awful things happening in Palestine.
That video was hysterical. We can do it all. Bombs and aid, then aid you with more bombs... Crazy woohoo.🙃🤯🗽
Bombs & Aid, hee haw, move over Stephen King, Dr. Strangelove is very much alive and well,
as your HUGE fan and a 2-state supporter believing Netanyahu’s abominable and the West Bank settlements are a war crime, I say you’re (like my many fellow lefty friend) WILLFULLY BLIND to (a) 8 millennia of Jewish OPPRESSED history, (b) including otherwise UNIMAGINABLE Antisemitism Diaspora Genocide, eventually the Final 6 million Solution (or do you too deny that?), (c) causing late 19th century Zionism, then the UN’s 1948 far-far lesser evil (but yes, “unfortunate”) Jewish state, (d) Hamas-Iran-etc.’s 7 decades of Genocidal-Terrorist-Murderous-Antisemitic (“GTMA”) ACTIONS, (d) culminating in Oct. 7’s far-far worse war crimes, (e) the also far worse war crimes of Hamas’ human shields & tunnels, (f) why’s Israel the only world’s nation not entitled to “self-defense”, (g) that the latter’s “proportionality,” the criterion for war crimes against civilians, is very hard to measure. Did it apply to Dresden, Hiroshima-Nagasaki – hard to say, vs. (clearly) Putin in Ukraine.
Re a Jewish state, see the IHRA Antisemitism “EXAMPLES ... Manifestations might include targeting Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity ... Denying Jewish people's right to self-determination, e.g., claiming the Israeli State is a racist endeavor ... ; and “Applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] behavior not expected of any other democratic nation.”
Yes, Schumer’s spot-on: Isr must show much better care re civilians and Netanyahu’s terrible/counterproductive. But – w/o & until 2-states & international security guarantees for both -- does Hamas’ human shield travesty mean we let them re-thrive to Keep Up The GTMA Work?? You go, Hamas! Clever moves (like Hitler’s)! You win!
Marty Rosenthal, Brookline MA, grandson of 4 pogrom survivors & w/ Dad overcoming 1930's Antisemitism
Mute. Block.
That is not a question that accomplishes anything.
It ignores the fact that Hamas and its supporters, have made it clear that Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth. Blaming Israel of genocide is not going to solve anything.
A two state solution must be negotiated by an international community prepared to solve this crisis!
War is hell!
On October 7, Hamas decapitated parents in front of their children, and microwaved babies!
Viciously Slaughtered over 1000 people, took hostages, tortured and raped them
Built hospitals on top of their tunnels!
The Israeli people can’t forget that.
Nor do they forget the pledge of Hama to annihilate Jews from the “river to the sea”
Well, yes. Is there anything that can't be justified by recalling the atrocities committed on October 7th? Yes, Hamas and the attacks that sparked this war were horrible, awful, no good terrorism. But does that justify killing 31,000 Palestinians (yes, some of who may be in Hamas) and causing another round of children and families to suffer and die? Yes, October 7th was an atrocity. So, does Israel keep committing other atrocities until Palestinians are wiped off the face of the earth? Just curious what is the moral and tactical goal here.
Mark, others. Hamas gave up trying to defeat Israel militarily and devised an attack that it hoped would provoke Israel to do what it did in Gaza, and turn the entire world against Israel and its benefactor, America, and that’s pretty much how it’s played out. Hamas took hostages to bargain to get its people out of Israel’s prisons. Hamas doesn’t care about the people of Gaza. Israel doesn’t care about the people of Gaza. Religious fanatics run Hamas and Israel. and religious fanatics in America insist America back Israel, because that’s where Jesus was born and crucified by Rome at the behest of Jewish leaders. The American right would like to see Israel wipe out Islam in the Middle East. I imagine for so long as Israel exists, there will be awful things happening in Palestine.