Easy to be brave for him, he’ll be back in his 5 star hotel in Qatar when he orders his brainwashed followers to start futile attacks against Israel. People who support Hamas & co are not pro-Palestinan, if they really cared about Palestinians they’d be calling for boycotts against Iran & Syria. & negotiations to begin to lead to a 2 state solution. But it’s easier to sprout anti-Israel & anti-US slogans & blame Israel for everything.

It’s nothing we didn’t see in Northern Ireland. Pretty f*cking scary.

Well frank you cant be a very attentive parent if you have just seen this photo of your son in the news report.

haha thats funny , but honestly though when you think about it the last thing you would sacfirice is your child its something ive always wanted to ask a suicide bombers mother

They don’t think the same way we do Frank. They don’t place the same value on individual life that we do. They regard it as a privilege to have a son sacrificed. That’s why they’ll never be beaten by bombs and bullets. Education is what’s needed, but I can’t see it. The Muslim world has no leadership, no-one to moderate the extremists. That’s why Islam scares me.

But then, anytime a moderate articulate voice emerges the hit-squads are mobilised.

The United Nations formed the land that is Israel in 1948 (the Jewish people believe the land is theirs by heritage), the Palestinians were not happy that the Jews obtained land and protested about it saying that it was far too much, of which Israel is one sixth of one per cent of the entire land of that which the Arabs have. On the day of the creation of Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Yemen attacked but were eventually defeated, since then some of these countries have launched attacks against Israel in 1967 and 1973.

In regards to Palestinians, they also were given a country by the United Nations, however after the 1948 war, Egypt seized the Gaza strip and Jordan took control of the west bank and east Jerusalem, only to have the lands taken from them by Israel in the six day war in 1967. Since then the west bank and the Gaza strip have been occupied to some extent by Israel, in 2005, Israel pulled out of the Gaza strip, leaving 200 greenhouses, of which would be a benefit to the Palestinian economy, when the Israelis left, the Palestinians destroyed the greenhouses and fired rockets into Israel.

The Palestinian people will only obtain a nation once Hamas has been removed and Fatah (or some other like minded political party) is the government of the Gaza strip, because Hamas will not compromise at any cost, they are determined to destroy Israel, but as it stands Israel will never be defeated (their military is far too advanced to be challenged by their neighbors).

Did you ring the Israeli embassy for that comment Liam?
Or do you get your history from the colouring books they give away in McDonald’s?

Liam, that’s not entirely true. British Palestine was to be handed over to the UN and split into two countries, to accomadate the demands of the Jews who had arrived their after the Second World War. Before this handover took place, the Israelis declared independence, beginning a terrorist campaign during which they took over the whole of British Palestine.

On the subject of the UN why don’t you tell us how many resolutions Israel are in breach of?

Another important question would be how the Palestinians/Arabs got the land? Who was there before them? How did it become ‘theirs’?

@ Stephen Maher – A typical response not founded in logic, if the best you can do is insult someone in order to give an opinion, then nobody should take you seriously, also I am not Jewish, not an Israeli and most certainly not a supporter of Israel so for you to say what you said in your reply shows your ignorance, if I was then why would I admit the fact that Israel bombs schools, bulldozes hospitals and murders children? The next time you respond to someone, don’t make such a sweeping generalization, you make yourself look foolish.

Dmc, There have always been Jews living in the Land of Israel. Starting in the mid-1800s, Jews began to return to the land and develop agricultural communities, entirely by peaceful means, i.e. they bought the land they lived on and many employed Arab labour.

Some Arabs objected to the revival of the Jewish community in Israel, either for financial reasons (feudal heads feared the emancipation of Arab serfs), or for religious reasons (muslims have been taught to believe their religion supersedes Judaism and Christianity and those communities were correspondingly oppressed, e.g. no Jewish access to Temple Mount or cave of the Patriarchs).

Rather than developing their own alternative economy, the anti-Jewish Arab factions sought to destroy the Jewish community by force, the first attacks happening in the 1890s, the first major ones in 1920. The Jewish community formed self-defence forces and continued to grow, becoming a state in all but name long before 1948 and before WWII/the Holocaust.

People often say that Israel was created out of the Holocaust, when in fact Israel was one of the few places where the Jews successfully defended themselves against the genocidal antisemitism of the 1920s-1940s.

Despite the Arab antipathy and the fact they waged war against the Jews, Israel today has a 20% Arab population – more if you include Judea & Samaria (AKA West Bank). Meanwhile, virtually every Jew has fled or been expelled from every Arab-majority country in the Middle east and North Africa – despite being peaceful law-abiding citizens .whose communities existed in those territories long before the Arab conquest. The descendants of these Jewish refugees now account for around 50% of all Jewish Israelis.

In short: Israel was formed by peaceful, legal means: land purchase and defensive war against attempted genocide by the Arabs.

Israel originally supported the Islamic Hamas as an alternative to the secular PLO because it suits its racist/sectarian understanding of the world rooted in the millennia old bible folklore of their tribe being the deistically ‘chosen people’( a lot of primitive tribes hold similar creation/origin myths sacred). Hamas is easier to demonise than the PLO was, and suited purpose until the usual Frankenstein syndrome clicked in.
A balkanised Middle East was always the aim of the divide-and-conquer European imperial powers who carved up the region post Ottoman collapse, and after two millennia of Christian anti-semitism culminated in the Auschwitz ovens both the US and UK completed Hitler’s ethnic cleansing by diverting post-war refugees into Palestine(most of them wanted to go to the US or Britain), which the Balfour Act traded to Chaim Weizmann(Russian born British chemist who devised a formula for synthesising acetone, a plasticiser for cordite in the crucial last year of the imperial Great War of ’14-’18)in return for his gratis granting of that same formula.
The biblical land-claim mythology was revived by Theodor Hertzl(Hungarian journalist)in the guise of Zionism, advocating a Jewish homeland in Palestine in parallel with the same pseudo-scientific race-theories that birthed Aryan Teutonic delusions of master-race ‘mission to civilise’ imperial notions(most empires justify their predations on less technologically developed peoples with similar propaganda(British Justice, Manifest Destiny, Roman Civilisation, Greek and Persian rival claims to being THE civilised versus THE barbarian etc.).
Most Jews rejected Hertl’s ideas, but after Rotschilds and other wealthy backers saw the importance of oil as the industrialised world evolved from coal-based fueling the enterprise advanced to its current mess.
Israel has moved from a democratic socialist dream based on a mix of nineteenth century race-theory(since disproved by genetic scientific research)and Marxist socialist critiques of monoplising capitalist empire to its hard-right nuclear-armed law-unto-itself paranoia refusing to contenance any rival power in the region.
The current leadership seems incapable of realising that alienating the rest of the planet by assuming to itself all legitimacy and denouncing any and all criticism as ‘anti-semitic’ is not actually in its best interests.
Hard to be optimistic, unless the Israeli people can somehow crack the iron dome of self-destructive propaganda they are bombarded with daily.
Thats my reading to date. No doubt I’ll be accused of anti-semitism, but then even Jews who criticise Israeli hubris(ironically their biblical original satanic cardinal sin of pride)are labelled as ‘self-hating Jews’.
Let the games commence.

10-year-old Israeli boy at a military show says “I picture a dead Arab, it makes me happy”

And people are describing Hamas supporters as brainwashed…

That is sad but hard to compare to this:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XkgE0FSEIKs

no no no it only happens on Hamas side

What a silly comment petr, how can you just pull things out of the air and attribute it to someone?

No justice, no peace. Apartheid is not justice.

There will never be a solution. Hamas are clearly training all the children to be soldiers as shown in a grainy video on the Internet. Israel also have compulsory military service so they’re in this for the long haul…….