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Wars and conflicts International USA

July 22-23, 2006

The Shame of Being
An American

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Do you know that Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon? Israel has ordered all the villagers to clear out. Israel then destroys their homes and murders the fleeing villagers. That way there is no one to come back and nothing to which to return, making it easier for Israel to grab the territory, just as Israel has been stealing Palestine from the Palestinians.

Do you know that one-third of the Lebanese civilians murdered by Israel’s attacks on civilian residential districts are children? That is the report from Jan Egeland, the emergency relief coordinator for the UN. He says it is impossible for help to reach the wounded and those buried in rubble, because Israeli air strikes have blown up all the bridges and roads. Considering how often (almost always) Israel misses Hizbollah targets and hits civilian ones, one might think that Israeli fire is being guided by US satellites and US military GPS. Don’t be surprised at US complicity. Why would the puppet be any less evil than the puppet master?

Of course, you don’t know these things, because the US print and TV media do not report them.

Because Bush is so proud of himself, you do know that he has blocked every effort to stop the Israeli slaughter of Lebanese civilians. Bush has told the UN “NO.” Bush has told the European Community “NO.” Bush has told the pro-American Lebanese prime minister “NO.” Twice. Bush is very proud of his firmness. He is enjoying Israel’s rampage and wishes he could do the same thing in Iraq.

Does it make you a Proud American that “your” president gave Israel the green light to drop bombs on convoys of villagers fleeing from Israeli shelling, on residential neighborhoods in the capital of Beirut and throughout Lebanon, on hospitals, on power plants, on food production and storage, on ports, on civilian airports, on bridges, on roads, on every piece of infrastructure on which civilized life depends? Are you a Proud American? Or are you an Israeli puppet?

On July 20, “your” House of Representatives voted 410-8 in favor of Israel’s massive war crimes in Lebanon. Not content with making every American complicit in war crimes, “your” House of Representatives, according to the Associated Press, also “condemns enemies of the Jewish state.”

Who are the “enemies of the Jewish state”?

They are the Palestinians whose land has been stolen by the Jewish state, whose homes and olive groves have been destroyed by the Jewish state, whose children have been shot down in the streets by the Jewish state, whose women have been abused by the Jewish state. They are Palestinians who have been walled off into ghettos, who cannot reach their farm lands or medical care or schools, who cannot drive on roads through Palestine that have been constructed for Israelis only. They are Palestinians whose ancient towns have been invaded by militant Zionist “settlers” under the protection of the Israeli army who beat and persecute the Palestinians and drive them out of their towns. They are Palestinians who cannot allow their children outside their homes because they will be murdered by Israeli “settlers.”

The Palestinians who confront Israeli evil are called “terrorists.” When Bush forced free elections on Palestine, the people voted for Hamas. Hamas is the organization that has stood up to the Jewish state. This means, of course, that Hamas is evil, anti-semitic, un-American and terrorist. The US and Israel responded by cutting off all funds to the new government. Democracy is permitted only if it produces the results Bush and Israel want.

Israelis never practice terror. Only those who are in Israel’s way are terrorists.

Another enemy of the Jewish state is Hizbollah. Hizbollah is a militia of Shia Muslims created in 1982 when Israel first invaded Lebanon. During this invasion the great moral Jewish state arranged for the murder of refugees in refugee camps. The result of Israel’s atrocities was Hizbollah, which fought the Israeli army, defeated it, and drove it, with its tail between its legs, out of Lebanon. Today Hizbollah not only defends southern Lebanon but also provides social services such as orphanages and medical care.

To cut to the chase, the enemies of the Jewish state are any Muslim country not ruled by an American puppet friendly to Israel. Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the oil emirates have sided with Israel against their own kind, because they are dependent either on American money or on American protection from their own people. Sooner or later these totally corrupt governments that do not represent the people they rule will be overthrown. It is only a matter of time.

Indeed Bush and Israel may be hastening the process in their frantic effort to overthrow the governments of Syria and Iran. Both governments have more popular support than Bush has, but the White House Moron doesn’t know this. The Moron thinks Syria and Iran will be “cakewalks” like Iraq, where ten proud divisions of the US military are tied down by a few lightly armed insurgents.

If you are still a Proud American, consider that your pride is doing nothing good for Israel or for America.

On July 20 when “your” House of Representatives, following “your” US Senate, passed the resolution in support of Israel’s war crimes, the most powerful lobby in Washington, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), quickly got out a press release proclaiming “The American people overwhelming support Israel’s war on terrorism and understand that we must stand by our closest ally in this time of crisis.”

The truth is that Israel created the crisis by invading a country with a pro-American government. The truth is that the American people do not support Israel’s war crimes, as the CNN quick poll results make clear and as was made clear by callers into C-Span.

Despite the Israeli spin on news provided by US “reporting,” a majority of Americans do not approve of Israeli atrocities against Lebanese civilians. Hizbollah is located in southern Lebanon. If Israel is targeting Hizbollah, why are Israeli bombs falling on northern Lebanon? Why are they falling on Beirut? Why are they falling on civilian airports? On schools and hospitals?

Now we arrive at the main point. When the US Senate and House of Representatives pass resolutions in support of Israeli war crimes and condemn those who resist Israeli aggression, the Senate and House confirm Osama bin Laden’s propaganda that America stands with Israel against the Arab and Muslim world.

Indeed, Israel, which has one of the world’s largest per capita incomes, is the largest recipient of US foreign aid. Many believe that much of this “aid” comes back to AIPAC, which uses it to elect “our” representatives in Congress.

This perception is no favor to Israel, whose population is declining, as the smart ones have seen the writing on the wall and have been leaving. Israel is surrounded by hundreds of millions of Muslims who are being turned into enemies of Israel by Israel’s actions and inhumane policies.

The hope in the Muslim world has always been that the United States would intervene in behalf of compromise and make Israel realize that Israel cannot steal Palestine and turn every Palestinian into a refugee.

This has been the hope of the Arab world. This is the reason our puppets have not been overthrown. This hope is the reason America still had some prestige in the Arab world.

The House of Representatives resolution, bought and paid for by AIPAC money, is the final nail in the coffin of American prestige in the Middle East. It shows that America is, indeed, Israel’s puppet, just as Osama bin Laden says, and as a majority of Muslims believe.

With hope and diplomacy dead, henceforth America and Israel have only tooth and claw. The vaunted Israeli army could not defeat a rag tag militia in southern Lebanon. The vaunted US military cannot defeat a rag tag, lightly armed, insurgency drawn from a minority of the population in Iraq, insurgents, moreover, who are mainly engaged in civil war against the Shia majority.

What will the US and its puppet master do? Both are too full of hubris and paranoia to admit their terrible mistakes. Israel and the US will either destroy from the air the civilian infrastructure of Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Iran so that civilized life becomes impossible for Muslims, or the US and Israel will use nuclear weapons to intimidate Muslims into acquiescence to Israel’s desires.

Muslim genocide in one form or another is the professed goal of the neoconservatives who have total control over the Bush administration. Neocon godfather Norman Podhoretz has called for World War IV (in neocon thinking WW III was the cold war) to overthrow Islam in the Middle East, deracinate the Islamic religion and turn it into a formalized, secular ritual.

Rumsfeld’s neocon Pentagon has drafted new US war doctrine that permits pre-emptive nuclear attack on non-nuclear states.

Neocon David Horowitz says that by slaughtering Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, “Israel is doing the work of the rest of the civilized world,” thus equating war criminals with civilized men.

Neocon Larry Kudlow says that “Israel is doing the Lord’s work” by murdering Lebanese, a claim that should give pause to Israel’s Christian evangelical supporters. Where does the Lord Jesus say, “go forth and murder your neighbors so that you may steal their lands”?

The complicity of the American public in these heinous crimes will damn America for all time in history.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: paulcraigroberts@yahoo.com

Forum posts

  • Ben Freedman became so disgusted with the Zionist movement that he changed his name from the Jewish spelling (Friedman) and he exposed some of the diabolical plots that helped set the stage for the endless wars in the Mideast. www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Freedman.html

    www.ussliberty.org

    www.ifamericansknew.org/

    I’ve never seen a President – I don’t care who he is – stand up to them [the Israelis]. It just boggles the mind. They always get what they want. The Israelis know what is going on all the time. I got to the point where I wasn’t writing anything down. If the American people understood what a grip those people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our citizens don’t have any idea what goes on - Admiral Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

    See Rep. Paul Findley’s book They Dare to Speak Out and ask yourself why the hell the Joint Chiefs of Staff feels compeletly hamstrung by a pisspot little nation that soaks the US taxpayer for $15 million a day in charity!

    Israel has a long and well-documented history of false flag attacks on US interests. Somehow the whore media fails to inform the US public.

    www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html
    www.whatreallyhappened.com/cutter.html
    www.ussliberty.org
    Lavon Affair

  • Gotta have a pretext; a bloody apron ain’t enough:

    THE LAVON AFFAIR IS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF?
    www.whatreallyhappened.com/lavon.html

    In 1954, Israeli agents working in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including a United States diplomatic facility, and left evidence behind implicating Arabs as the culprits. The ruse would have worked, had not one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to capture and identify one of the bombers, which in turn led to the round up of an Israeli spy ring.
    Some of the spies were from Israel, while others were recruited from the local Jewish population. Israel responded to the scandal with claims in the media that there was no spy ring, that it was all a hoax perpetrated by "anti-Semites". But as the public trial progressed, it was evident that Israel had indeed been behind the bombing. Eventually, Israeli’s Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon was brought down by the scandal, although it appears that he was himself the victim of a frame-up by the real authors of the bombing project, code named "Operation Susannah."

    It is therefore a fact that Israel has a prior history of setting off bombs with the intent to blame Arabs for them.

    This is not the only example of a "False Flag" operation designed to trick the United States into attacking Israel’s enemies. According to Victor Ostrovsky, a Mossad defector now living in Canada, Ronald Reagan was tricked into bombing Libya by means of a radio transmitter smuggled into Tripoli by the Mossad, which broadcast messages designed to fool the United States into thinking Libya was about to launch a massive terror attack on the west. On the basis of this fake evidence, the US bombed Libya, killing Khadaffi’s daughter.

    The Jews of Iraq is a story by a Jewish writer revealing yet another false flag operation where Israelis used bombs and planted the blame on Arabs

    More recently, Captain Ward Boston, who served as senior legal counsel for the Navy’s Court of Inquiry into the Israeli attack on USS Liberty, has come forward to report that the Court of Inquiry was ORDERED to conclude that the attack was an accident by President Lyndon Johnson. In hindsight, given the use of unmarked aircraft and boats by Israel during the actual attack, it appears that Israel intended to sink the US ship and frame Egypt for the attack, tricking the US into the war against Egypt.

    So, with this established history, it is now time to re-examine some facts about the World Trade Towers:

    1. There is no proof at all of who was actually on the hijacked airplanes last 9/11. Even the head of the FBI admits that the only hard evidence are the names used by the hijackers on faked IDs. At least 7 of the men whose names were on those IDs have since turned up alive. Another had died back in 1999. None of the names of the alleged hijackers were on the passenger lists of the four aircraft. We do not know who was on those planes, only that we are supposed to think they were Arab Muslims.
    2. The night before the attacks on the World Trade Towers, men using those stolen identities visited bars and strip clubs, making sure they would be noticed and remembered by all they met. Students of Islam will confirm that no Muslim devout enough to be willing to commit suicide would spend the night before he was to meet Allah violating so many of Islam’s laws regarding alcohol and nude women. This suggests the planting of a false trail ahead of time, doubly so because we know the identities were stolen. Coupled with the deception of the faked Osama "confession" video tape , it is beyond question that deception and fraud exists in the World Trade Towers case.

    3. Contrary to early reports (including a statement by George Bush) of large numbers of Israelis being killed in the 9-11 attacks, only two Israelis died, both passengers on the airplanes. No Israelis working in or near the World Trade Towers died. The foreign press has long rumored that Israelis were given an advance warning not to go to work on 9-11, and in the case of Odigo, an Israeli company with offices located near the World Trade Towers, the existence of a warning message sent before the four aircraft had even left the ground is an established fact. That someone in Israel knew of the attacks ahead of time is beyond question.

    4. There is an Israeli spy ring. As in the Lavon Affair, Israeli assets have been trying to dismiss the spy ring story (apparently with the FBI’s help) while accusing those who refuse to be silent of "anti-Semitism". The lesson from the Lavon case is that Israel’s strident denials and smear campaigns are a sure sign that something is indeed being covered up, even as the "art students" continue to be deported. And, as a US Official stated in Carl Cameron’s suppressed story on the Israeli Spy/Bugging Ring, evidence does exist that links the arrested Israeli spies with 9-11, but that this evidence has been classified by the United States Government, probably to keep from looking like total idiots at having been so easily fooled for the Nth time.

    The United States has been deceived before by Israeli covert operations with the intention of harming American relations with the Arab nations. Israel has never hesitated to kill Americans (USS Liberty) or allow Americans to be killed (The bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American Marines) when it serves a purpose. And, the fact remains that Israel has exploited 9-11 from the instant when Ehud Barak appeared on the BBC moments after the attacks on the World Trade Towers (holding a prepared speech) to the aggression against the Palestinian people which has escalated non-stop ever since 9-11.

    Who is responsible for the World Trade Towers attacks? We truly do not know. What we do know beyond all doubt is that someone went to a great deal of effort to provide an easy and at times all-too-obvious a target to blame. Our nation was fooled by that stunt before. The result was that our money and the blood of our children was spent to attack someone else’s enemies.

    There is an old saying that goes, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on ME!"

    There is another saying, "We won’t get fooled again!"

    www.whatreallyhappened.com/lavon.html

  • Why don’t you and the others that agree with the above article move from the USA? It is pretty obvious that you don’t like the USA. OH, But, But, I’ll bet you like everything what we have here. Well, guess what, big surprise, it doesn’t all come for free. I suggest that we (and you too) pray for Israel. Can you do that? Or is it easier to just complain?

    • It’s fools like you who make this world such a wonderful place. The first thing out of the mouth of people like you is always "Move from the United States." Did you read who Paul Craig Roberts is? He was one of Ronald Reagan’s boys. And even he cannot stomach this kind of atrocity.I will pray for Israel. I will pray that they stop immitating their tormentors of 60 years ago and try to act like decent human beings.

    • Well, Well, Well, A Fool! You called me a fool! Oh, Oh, Oh, Personal attack! And, yes, the world is a wonderful place. It is a beautiful day here and I just got back from Starbucks. I was able to sit outside and I didn’t even have to worry about being bombed. There were and are some pretty great people that did and contiune to do what ever it takes to allow me to continue to simply sit outside and have coffee on a beautiful day with out worry. I would suggest that you and the rest of the people that gobble up this kind of stuff printed here begin to take a more balanced look at what is happing in the world. And, as for Paul Craig Roberts, this is a free country and he can write what he wants, and that, in it self, is a great thing. It does however surprize me a little that he would write such a one sided and inflamitory article. But, I suppost that too was done by design for the reading pleasure of people like you. Cheers!

    • The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 22

      1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
      2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt show her all her abominations.
      3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.
      4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
      5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
      6 ¶ Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
      7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: Ex. 20.12 · Deut. 5.16 in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. Ex. 22.21, 22 · Deut. 24.17
      8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. Lev. 19.30 ; 26.2
      9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
      10 In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
      11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter. Lev. 18.7-20
      12 In thee have they taken gifts Ex. 23.8 · Deut. 16.19 to shed blood; thou hast taken usury Ex. 22.25 · Lev. 25.36, 37 · Deut. 23.19 and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
      13 ¶ Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
      14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.
      15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
      16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
      17 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
      18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
      19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
      20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
      21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
      22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.
      23 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
      24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
      25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
      26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, Lev. 10.10 and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
      27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
      28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
      29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
      30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
      31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.

      Hey, sounds like America to me. Hey, y’all have a nice day now.

    • Yeah, there are some pretty great dead and maimed civilians and kids strewn all over the middle east who were simply trying to survive from day to day that you can skip over in the world news section on your way to the financials while you sip your latte at Starbucks . Your idea of balance is the same as Stalin, Mao , Hitler and Ann Coulter :" Anyone who doesn’t agree with us must die . And if they fight back , their families will die , too . Nothing must interfere with our comfort , release the hounds ! " Enjoy your coffee while you can . What goes around comes around.

    • 64.77: First of all, why are you so interested in people you so obviously loathe? What’s your agenda, neocon? You know your bullshit doesn’t work here, so what’s the point?
      Your numbers have dwindled to less than a third of the voting population, and instead of eliciting support by using the facts and reasonable arguments, you’d rather fling more shit on walls already marinated with manure.

      As a neocon supporter, and you can’t deny that, you are showing a great ignorance of your own front’s fiscal policies, since this Gang of Four you support has been financing this country’s war of aggression through deficit spending, a staggering $600 billion so far, and many economic analysts agree that the total cost of this war of annexation will be over $2 trillion when it’s all said and done. So if any body needs to know that all this ’prosperity’ doesn’t come for free it is assholes such as yourself and definitely not anyone in the antiwar movement. My God, you necon supporters are as hypocritical as you are ignorant.

      Second of all, 64.77, educating the masses, many of whom are as dumbed down as you are by the way, isn’t ’just complaining’ it is our civic duty.

      THIRD OF ALL, THIS IS MY COUNTRY TOO, NUMBNUTS. Waging a war of annexation & conquest is not what my country is all about. Supporting an administration that is actively destroying our freedom is not a patriotic act, numbnuts, but the act of a fool who confuses his patriotism with blind obedience.

      If you don’t like how we who OPPOSE YOU AND YOUR KIND think about the amoral and tyrannical direction our country is heading, and detest how we feel about our eroding liberties, then join Black Water Security, grab a rifile & try to run us out, Mr. Supreme Goon. I am definitely not going to let yahoos like yourself dictate to me and my family where we should live and how we should think. You can take that to the bank.

      Fourth of all, numbnuts Supreme, if all the Americans who oppose this administration and its warmongering policies were to leave, you would have nothing left but the dregs of society, the category IVs, the uneducated, the unskilled and the mentally deficient. How long would any super power maintain its hold on world domination if all it has left at home is a population of unskilled, unthinking robots?

      The next time you are in Starbucks and I overhear you tell someone who doesn’t think like you to leave the country of their birth I will let you know without hesitation to GO FUCK YOUR SELF. Capice, Fascist lover? We can then easily take our argument outside and you can find out for yourself what ’exporting democracy’ really means. That’s another mistake you war lovers make, that all of us who don’t support this war and this administration are bunch of pansies. I’ll be more than happy to show you how dead wrong you are there, you sad sack of shit.

      Fools such as your self don’t understand what the word freedom really means.
      ’Freedom’ to some really means ’CONFORMITY’ and ’absolute obedience’, doesn’t it, 64.77?

      To the antiwar crowd: be strong in the face of these pathetic weaklings who can’t tell their asses from a hole in the ground. They have lost their hold on our hearts and minds, they are drowning fast and reaching for what ever straw they can find to make sense out of their favorite delusion, this false ’prosperous’ world where the dollar is shrinking fast and so are many of our jobs.

      Next time anyone tells you that this is America love it or leave it, tell them this is your country too, and you love it so much you that you are working very hard in removing all the garbage, all the deceit and all the corruption that is slowly but surely destroying this once great nation, so as to make it whole again. We will not leave our country when she needs us the most & we will FIGHT TO THE DEATH FOR OUR RIGHT TO BE HERE, capice, fascist goon?

      Remember that, 64.77, next time you’re at Starbucks, drinking your Latte`. The man sitting next to your table might just be me, a free individual who isn’t afraid at looking at reality as is, warts and all, who revels in this unadulterated vision, and refuses to view reality through some warped lenses no matter how brightly colored they might be with the ’red, whtie and blue’.
      You don’t solve problems by believing in lies, 64.77. The belief that this false prosperity that we supposedly have now, a false prosperity that is literally riding on nothing but thin air, will last forever is one of the biggest lies of all.

      And by the way, calling fascist lovers like your self ’numbnuts’ ’assnoles’, and sad sacks of shit is definitely not a form of character assassination. Character must be present before you can assassinate it.

  • Pretty pathetic piece for an allegedly educated person. Personally, I hope Israel manages to kick ass because it is about time to kill the terrorists. Israel has an internationally recognized right to exist, and if I might add, in a peaceful environment. Why no mention of the arab terrorist aggression against Israel for many, many years?

    Nobody here mentions a thing about how the arabs have been rejecting compromise and any hint of peace with Israel for over 55 years. Maybe if they would grow up and learn to truly negotiate everyone would benefit.

    Yes, it is sad to see civilan casualties, but this is a war brought on by a foolishly miscalculated move by a terrorist group. Sure, they thought the Israelis would just roll over to their tactics. They always do, right? Well, WRONG. Maybe the Israelis have finally awakend from their long slumber.

    And finally, let’s not forget that there have been many injured or killed by the Katyusha rockets which are still being fired on Israel for having the gall to want to exist. Imagine that...

    • Great reply Johan, This is a tough world that we live in. Not everyone, but there are some real bad people out there. It is hard to tell the difference, because they all dress and look the same. I am a little surprised how these supposedly peace loving people that feast on these mostly nonsense, one-sided articles rise up and threaten and even curse when someone tries to set them straight with their point of view. I’ll just bet that deep down, they really know their view points are purely idealistic and mostly impractible in the real world. Well, I guess that is what is great about this country. Please join me and pray for the success of Israel so we get this over with soon with the least collateral damage and injury to the ordinary people.