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Agree makes no sense. If the target really is a terrorist inside, its likely a male who is most able to vacate in time. The ones that can't get out are the elderly, disabled, and women with children

Nice work huh, just parroting the BS narrative he gets from fox. Must be nice renting your brain out to the network that most championed the lies got us into Iraq. Geesh, when will some people learn to think for themselves.

You know its funny. If not the first I was one of first to say all of Palestine needed to adhere to a pacifist approach, no matter how disgusting the Israeli practises. But to act as if the occupying power whose so dominant the kill ratio is over 300 to 1, bears no responsibility, criticism, or scrutiny of any kind, is truly shameful and utterly ridiculous. And who knows what this supposed cease fire was all about that Hamas supposedly rejected. They said they never received it. Who knows who is to believe at this point. I do know netanyhu is incented to keep the conflict going since calm provides the setting for legitimate peace talks... Last thing the champion of illegal settlements wants. Heck even meazza admitted as much

Hey Bibi, 300 deaths and 2,250 injured enough for your political agenda? Bloodthirsty ghoul... UN chief heads to Middle East to help end conflict as Gaza toll rises to 300 Fresh Israeli air strikes killed 11 people in Gaza on Saturday, hiking the death toll above 300 as UN chief Ban Ki-moon headed to the region to bolster truce efforts. http://www.hindustan...h.T7GtcYoW.dpuf

Ironic how the foreign policy of a largely Christian nation has taken such a toll on the historic Christian communities of the mideast: ISIS Forces Last Iraqi Christians to Flee Mosul By ALISSA J. RUBIN JULY 18, 2014 BAGHDAD — By 1 p.m. on Friday almost every Christian in Mosul had heard the Sunni militants’ message — they had until noon Saturday to leave the city. Since 2003, when Saddam Hussein was ousted, Mosul’s Christians, one of the oldest communities of its kind in the world, had seen their numbers dwindle from over 30,000 to just a few thousand, but once ISIS swept into the city in early June, there were reports that the remaining Christians had fled. Interviews on Friday with Christian elders and leaders suggest that in fact many had hung on, hoping for an accommodation, a way to continue the quiet practice of their faith in the city that had been their home for more than 1,700 years. Chaldeans, Assyrians and other sects, including Mandeans, whose Christianity is close to that of the Gnostics, could still be found in Iraq, and many made their home on the plains of Nineveh in the north of the country, an area mentioned in the Bible’s Book of Genesis. A YouTube video shows ISIS taking sledgehammers to the tomb of Jonah, something that was also confirmed by Mr. Hikmat. The militants also removed the cross from St. Ephrem’s Cathedral, the seat of the Syriac Orthodox archdiocese in Mosul, and put up the black ISIS flag in its place. They also destroyed a statue of the Virgin Mary, according to Ghazwan Ilyas, the head of the Chaldean Culture Society in Mosul, who spoke by telephone on Thursday from Mosul but seemed to have left on Friday. http://www.nytimes.c...WT.nav=top-news

some good news...... NBC News Reverses Decision, Will Put Ayman Mohyeldin Back in Gaza Suspicion over the cause of NBC’s initial decision to remove Mohyeldin followed a widely seen report he gave on Wednesday, describing an Israeli missile attack that killed four Gazan children and injured three others. Glenn Greenwald, who first reported NBC’s decision on First Look, criticized the networkfor removing the correspondent “at exactly the moment where he brought the humanity of this war and the humanity of Gazans to the world.” Greenwald called the reversal “GREAT news” on Twitter Friday, crediting the social media outcry for pressuring NBC to reconsider its move. http://www.mediaite.com/online/nbc-news-reverses-decision-will-put-ayman-mohyeldin-back-in-gaza/

lol @ Israel needing help looking bad. On that front its doing a great job of making itself look terrible.

Roosevelt looks stoned ... lol

that BuK missile is scary. mobile, launched in seconds, travels nearly 3,000 mph, altitude up to 72,000 feet ... wow

If you're not absolving them of anything, then I don't understand the purpose of your comments. Why dont you actually criticize Israel for a change?

Sharon did everything he could to help radicalize Gaza on the way out by assassinating political figures and, just like the recent experience, wiping out families on the beach. BBC, Friday, 9 June 2006 Palestinians killed on Gaza beach Palestinians recover a blood-stained table cloth from the bombed beach in Gaza The shelling has caused outrage among Palestinians Seven people, including three children, have been killed by Israeli shells which hit a beach in the northern Gaza Strip http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5065008.stm You people just can't "restrain" yourself from murdering families on Gaza beaches, can you? Wel then your point is even more stupid and hypocritical than I thought. Because some Arab countries don't support palis enough, in no way absolves israel of guilt or responsibility for their war crimes and occupation.

That Egypt thing is just a bogus, racist, biased argument. Egypt didn't want a million+ refugees pouring thru their borders, they have their own problems. If you're saying palis are inherently bad for that reason, then how about jews who were repeatedly expelled from various European countries?

Point is who provoked it and its clearly netanyahu. You have no clue about politics and recent history. Japan is an absolute silly referance. What are the Palestineana going to surrender to? Japan got their country back. What do palestineams get? The right for more west bank settlements on stolen land? The right for Israel to shell kids on the beach with absolutely no consequences?

Even though they weren't involved and netanyahu scapegoated them for the kidnappings ... Something they denied and no evidence has been presented. Netanyahu arrested hundreds of them and then killed some in Gaza. He instigated this, no doubt. Seriously you jackass why don't you do some research before spouting more crap

Basically talking palistinean holocaust at this point. With no one monitoring Israel and their built in excuse of "targeting terrorists" there's really no amount of civilian deaths that are too many. Netanyahu is thumbing his nose up at the world and humanity. "In all, 260 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed since the fighting, which has destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes, began on July 8, Gaza officials said. Palestinian health officials said 27 Palestinians, including a baby, two children and a 70-year-old woman, had been killed since Israel sent ground forces into the densely-populated strip of 1.8 million Palestinians on Thursday." http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0FI04420140718?irpc=932

Lol @ white and black hats. Good comments bob, hope to hear more from you

Thanks for the response. Agree with your point that some think there are no limits to US power and influence. I dont say it's all our fault, just that when we get materially involved we have a tendency to make things worse, which demonstrates our limits of power and influence lol ... see what I mean! I bought some cotton shirts today that were MiV

season and/or playoff extension I dont want. NFL has the perfect balance right now of letting about 1/3rd of the teams make the playoffs. Add more and youre really starting to dilute the value of the regular season. That IMO is what ruined NHL years ago. Although not sure how much can be blamed on goodell. i suspect its being driven by owners of media-hungry mediocre teams like dallas

NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been told by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately. According to an NBC source upset at his treatment, the executives claimed the decision was motivated by “security concerns” as Israel prepares a ground invasion, a claim repeated to me by an NBC executive. But late yesterday, NBC sent another correspondent, Richard Engel, along with an American producer who has never been to Gaza and speaks no Arabic, into Gaza to cover the ongoing Israeli assault (both Mohyeldin and Engel speak Arabic). Yesterday, Mohyeldin witnessed and then reported on the brutal killing by Israeli gunboats of four young boys as they played soccer on a beach in Gaza City. He was instrumental, both in social media and on the air, in conveying to the world the visceral horror of the attack. Mohyeldin recounted how, moments before their death, he was kicking a soccer ball with the four boys, who were between the ages of 9 and 11 and all from the same family. He postednumerous chilling details on his Twitter and Instagram accounts, including the victims’ names and ages, photographs he took of their anguished parents, and video of one of their mothers as she learned about the death of her young son. He interviewed one of the wounded boys at the hospital shortly before being operated on. He then appeared on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, where he dramatically recounted what he saw. Despite this powerful first-hand reporting – or perhaps because of it – Mohyeldin was nowhere to be seen on last night’s NBC Nightly News broadcast with Brian Williams. Instead, as Media Bistro’s Jordan Chariton noted, NBC curiously had Richard – who was in Tel Aviv, and had just arrived there an hour or so earlier – “report” on the attack. Charlton wrote that “the decision to have Engel report the story for ‘Nightly’ instead of Mohyeldin angered some NBC News staffers. https://firstlook.or...ling-four-boys/

This is not meant to be partisan or take sides in any foreign conflict, but let's consider the facts: US INTERVENTION ... 1. Israel: $3B+ year to Israel, $200MM+ to Palestineans. The situation is going on it's 7th decade without being resolved. And it's only getting worse with teenagers kidnapped and shot on highways, and 10 year olds blown to bits by mortar fire on beaches while playing soccer. 2. Iraq: we spent over a trillion and lost thousands to bring "democracy" to this country. Soon after we leave it's dissolving into chaos. 3. Syria: we've been supporting the rebels (terrorists if they were fighting against one of our "allies") with military and political assistance. Obama just asked congress for another $500MM worth of weapons for them. The civil war has no end in sight, over a hundred thousand civilians have been killed, and millions have fled to neighboring countries and are now in refugee camps. ISIS - the most radical of radical Islamists - is using eastern Syria (which we helped destabilize) as a home base to invade Iraq (who we supposedly stabilized) and setup an Islamic state using terrorities from Syria, Iraq and Turkey. 4. Ukraine: we didn't like the economic agreement they signed with Russia, so we support an uprising which ousted a democratically elected president. This is on Russia's border, and they react but annexing Crimea and supporting other separatist movements. 5. Korea: we fight an unresolved bloody battle in the 50's, and now 6+ decades later we maintain a presence of approx. 30,000 US troops. China keeps propping up the NKorean regime because an actual war would flood refugees into their country (last thing they want is more people), and put a strong US military presence on their border (tied for last thing they want). COMPARES WITH NON-INTERVENTION/PERMANENT WITHDRAWAL .... We exit Vietnam, the 2 sides north and south reconcile, the country is peaceful and they're now an active trading partner of the US.

it could be, and that's why Putin blamed Ukraine for the general conditions, rather than whoever may have perpetrated this specific act. "This tragedy would not have happened if there were peace on this land, if the military actions had not been renewed in southeast Ukraine. And, certainly, the state over whose territory this occurred bears responsibility for this awful tragedy." Read more: http://www.politico....l#ixzz37msJsYay

Certainly a lot of jockeying at the UN to secure votes and domestic politics considerations/leverage, and I see how the arabs viewed it as political (European colonialism), and many jews religious (return to biblical homeland). Its the economic angle I'm not seeing since there's no oil there.

Nice work by mccainiac..... After again noting that he has not yet arrived at any conclusions, the senator said: “But if it is the result of either separatist or Russian actions mistakenly believing this was a Ukrainian war plane, I think there’s going to be hell to pay and there should be.” Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/plane-ukraine-shot-down-john-mccain-reaction-109050.html#ixzz37lsYxdK2 Basically says if Russia or rebels did it "hell to pay", no mention of consequences if Ukraine did it.

Actually he's partly right for a change. The popular understanding is the immigrants were rejected because they were Jews, but the main reason is that they were viewed as another wave of European colonialism.

I don't know. They're saying it came down in pieces. Which is what happened at lockerbie