Israel going in?

[dennishoddy]

U.S. resupplies Israel with munitions as Gaza offensive rages

The United States has allowed Israel, waging an offensive in the Gaza Strip, to tap a local U.S. arms stockpile in the past week to resupply it with grenades and mortar rounds, a U.S. defense official said on Thursday...

Additional Israeli requests for U.S.-manufactured ammunition were also being processed in the United States, the official said. The official did not offer further details on quantities or costs of ammunition already supplied or requested...

Separately, U.S. lawmakers were working in Congress to provide millions of dollars in additional funding for Israel's "Iron Dome" missile shield.

The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee added $225 million for Iron Dome to a spending bill intended mainly to provide money to handle an influx of thousands of Central American children across the U.S.-Mexico border...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/30/us-mideast-gaza-usa-munitions-idUSKBN0FZ2EY20140730

If Hamas would quit shooting rockets into Israel, the conflict would stop.

What part of this simple solution do you have a problem with?

 

[dennishoddy]

I really think the reason most Arab countries aint helping the Palistinians at the moment is because Syria, Egypt, Libya and Iraq are kinda busy. Iran is jockying for power. Lebanon or Jordan could be next to fall. Qatar and Yemen im not sure about. Saudi Arabia is kinda making the monkeys dance. They are the puppet masters.

Wrong. Egypt is one of the country's that brokered a humanitarian cease fire. Hamas responded with rockets.

Who is the aggressor?

 

[Billybob]

If Hamas would quit shooting rockets into Israel, the conflict would stop.

What part of this simple solution do you have a problem with?

You asked a question and I answered it, simple as that.

 

[Lurker66]

Wrong. Egypt is one of the country's that brokered a humanitarian cease fire. Hamas responded with rockets.

Who is the aggressor?

Egypt barely has a govt. As to who is the aggressor? Kinda a moot question at this point. Both sides been aggressing on the other since Abraham banged his slave girl. The spawn of that relationship have been fighting ever since.

 

[Billybob]

I really think the reason most Arab countries aint helping the Palistinians at the moment is because Syria, Egypt, Libya and Iraq are kinda busy. Iran is jockying for power. Lebanon or Jordan could be next to fall. Qatar and Yemen im not sure about. Saudi Arabia is kinda making the monkeys dance. They are the puppet masters.

Gatar appears to be pulling some strings also...

Behind Qatar's Intervention In Libya

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/68302/david-roberts/behind-qatars-intervention-in-libya

How Qatar seized control of the Syrian revolution

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f2d9bbc8-bdbc-11e2-890a-00144feab7de.html#axzz397SJ6dLV

Behind Qatar's bet on the Muslim Brotherhood

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2014/0418/Behind-Qatar-s-bet-on-the-Muslim-Brotherhood

Qatari tech helps Hamas in tunnels, rockets: Expert

http://www.timesofisrael.com/qatari-tech-helps-hamas-in-tunnels-rockets-expert/

Qatar Is Playing A High Stakes Double Game With The US And Hamas

http://www.businessinsider.com/qatar-playing-dangerous-double-game-with-us-and-hamas-2014-7

 

[dutchwrangler]

Jews as individuals have a right to exist and did so for years while living abroad as people of many religions do. Freedom of religion or non-religion are basic human rights. Israel demands to be recognized as a "Jewish state", which means all non-Jews in Israel will eventually become targets persecution.

The nation state of Isarel came into existence with a pen. It has no right to exist. No nation has a "right" to exist.

The USgov is guilty of genocide of Palestinians by helping arm Israel: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-provides-ammunition-israel-attack-un-school-2014-7

The USgov is us (in theory). Those in the USgov who support Israel should be tried for war crimes which includes a vast majority of Dems and Repugs.

 

[mightymouse]

Damn, a cry baby troll. Cry us a river, Dutchie. While you're at it, stop reading bumper stickers to get your political philosophy. Have a nice day.

 

[TedKennedy]

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/gove...cle_4bcfb587-033c-5d85-8317-e2853303b1b2.html

"has the right to do more than defend itself"
So, we need the government leading our children in prayer, and foreign policy dictated by religion.
Sounds kinda familiar.

 

[Hobbes]

So, if I am understanding you both correctly. If the roles were reversed, then you would be supporting the Jewish side of the conflict?

Absolutely!
I used to be an unwavering supporter of Israel but over time I have learned that Israel is not always the innocent victim they prefer to appear to the US public.

Look at Gaza.
Israel doesn't just blockade imports into Gaza, they blockade exports as well.
The justification for blockading imports is ostensibly to prevent the importation of weapons like rockets and concrete for tunnels.
That policy isn't working very well apparently.
What is the justification for blocking exports? Who assigned Israel the role of regulating Palestinian commerce and trade?

Comparison between Israeli treatment of Gaza with German treatment of Jews:
Many people have noted the similarities between the way European jews were treated in the mid 30's and the way the residents of Gaza are treated today.
Millions of people hemmed into some of the densest population centers in the world and restricted in all kinds of ways.
I suppose in this analogy the current revolt on the part of palestinians might be comparable to the warsaw uprising in some small way.

Even among Israelis some people see the troubling imagery.

 

[Glocktogo]

Jews as individuals have a right to exist and did so for years while living abroad as people of many religions do. Freedom of religion or non-religion are basic human rights. Israel demands to be recognized as a "Jewish state", which means all non-Jews in Israel will eventually become targets persecution.

The nation state of Isarel came into existence with a pen. It has no right to exist. No nation has a "right" to exist.

The USgov is guilty of genocide of Palestinians by helping arm Israel: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-provides-ammunition-israel-attack-un-school-2014-7

The USgov is us (in theory). Those in the USgov who support Israel should be tried for war crimes which includes a vast majority of Dems and Repugs.

This made me LOL.