Comments on: Despite video evidence, officer who shot Israeli demonstrator won’t be charged

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:07:54 +0000

Wow this is crazy… it seems they have no regard for human life. They do as they please.

I saw just this video of Israeli’s dropping a gas grenade onto unarmed civilians, and I cannot believe my eyes.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82380889/?utm_source=EBW&utm_medium=Post&utm_campaign=Israeli-Army-Gassing-Civilians

By: FILIPINO

FILIPINO — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:20:28 +0000

I dont understand why you people are fighting, why dont you just help each other for the good of your country? there is sooo much hatred in your country. I believe each one of you want peace?

By: Yousef

Yousef — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:10:41 +0000

ANON. Your hate and disgust for Palestinians is pretty sad. I hope you don’t live your whole life completely brainwashed by enemy creation tactics. Stereotype an entire group of people based on ethnicity into being so bad that they do not deserve human rights, voices, or lives at all. What do you meannnnn you people?!?!? Just like white Americans dehumanized black people post slavery, just like Europeans dehumanized native Americans before they wiped them out, just like the Pharaohs dehumanized the Jews, you my friend, suffer from enemy creation tactics which have been indirectly and directly intentionally driven into your concious by your government. It feels good to be better than everyone else. Don’t let that feeling stop you from seeing that we are all human, and all have the same flesh, organs, emotions and feelings in the inside.

By: Piotr Berman

Piotr Berman — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:36:03 +0000

There is a certain tradition of making sloppy investigations. The event:

“The Qibya massacre, also known as the Qibya incident, occurred in October 1953 when Israeli troops under Ariel Sharon attacked the village of Qibya in the West Bank. Sixty-nine Palestinian Arabs, two thirds of them women and children were killed. Forty-five houses, a school, and a mosque were destroyed.”

Results of the investigation:

“None deplores it more than the Government of Israel, if … innocent blood was spilled … The Government of Israel rejects with all vigor the absurd and fantastic allegation that 600 men of the IDF took part in the action … We have carried out a searching investigation and it is clear beyond doubt that not a single army unit was absent from its base on the night of the attack on Qibya. (Statement by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, ISA FM 2435/5)”

By: Palestinian

Palestinian — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:18:51 +0000

@ your people need to enforce humanity among themselves which they lost decades ago ,and again you havent replied to my question , how many Israelis have been charged ? you claim to be a state of law but obviously its ok to murder Palestinians and steal their properties under your law.Btw the video doesnt say anything about the Olympic atheletes,and notice he used the word resistance ,the pronoun “we” not “I” .Dont Israeli institutions encourage and force all Israelis to join the ITF (Israeli terror forces)?and the only case where they go to jail is when they refuse to serve.Dont act as if you are the peaceful pigeons among those horrible Arabs ,a thief and a murderer in a gucci suit is a thief and a murderer.

By: Yehuda

Yehuda — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:26:33 +0000

* Asymmetrical

By: Yehuda

Yehuda — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:25:00 +0000

Anonymous: I think your defensiveness on this issue is very telling. Are you saying that I as an Israeli have no right to criticize anyone else’s actions because my society is committing wrongs? So if Jews living in some other country are being persecuted by the government I shouldn’t complain because Israel is persecuting Palestinians? I can’t criticize China’s occupation of Tibet because Israel occupies the Palestinians? We both know this is nonsense, just like you criticizing the Palestinians for doing the very same things Israel is doing.
I am not saying the Palestinians are perfect, far from it, as Israel is imperfect. And as far as I can tell you have no qualms about criticizing the Palestinians, so do they not have the right to do the same and criticize Israel?
Beyond this, the conflict as it stand now is symmetrical. If you want to start exploring the history you will find faults on both sides, that does not however strip Palestinians of the right to criticize their occupiers. Spend your energy criticizing those who have lost touch with the basic liberal democratic values on which Israel was founded, rather than combating individual people who criticize this obviously immoral and unjust system.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:26:30 +0000

Rob: Oh, they can criticize to their hearts content. But until they muck out their own shed, they’ll be hypocrites who are in no moral position to be criticizing anyone.

By: directrob

directrob — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:24:46 +0000

It is beyond me that the people who are occupied cannot criticize the application of the so called “rule of law” by the occupiers.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:12:51 +0000

APA: That’s exactly what I am saying. The Israelis should keep a clean house, and so should the Palestinians. Until the Palestinians have a society that isn’t one of the worst on the planet, they have no right to criticize anyone else.

“Palestinian:” Your people need to enforce the rule of law among your own people. The fact that you seem unwilling to do this probably indicates a problem among Palestinian society in general, though perhaps you’d be willing to provide more information.

Just for the record, here’s Abbas admitting his complicity in violence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V7Gf_-Pls8

I wait earnestly upon your next excuse not to punish him.