Comments on: Two weeks under fire in Gaza http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2009/01/10/two-weeks-under-fire-in-gaza/ Beyond the World news headlines Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:15:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: D.Gibbons http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2009/01/10/two-weeks-under-fire-in-gaza/#comment-14092 D.Gibbons Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:36:53 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/global/?p=2147#comment-14092 Abbas is a traitor to the Palestinian people Abbas is a traitor to the Palestinian people

]]> By: brad http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2009/01/10/two-weeks-under-fire-in-gaza/#comment-5323 brad Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:07:49 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/global/?p=2147#comment-5323 I believe Israel is doing the right thing. Having put up with the weeks of rockets being fired at them, they continually stated that they would react if the Hamas did not stop. They are defending themselves. The fact that Hamas and others have placed their launch sites in crowded areas was on purpose. They placed them specifically by schools, making it difficult to take them out. I commend Israel for doing what is right, and doing the best they can to avoid civilian casualties while still accomplishing their goals of taking the rockets and Hamas fighters out. I believe Israel is doing the right thing. Having put up with the weeks of rockets being fired at them, they continually stated that they would react if the Hamas did not stop. They are defending themselves. The fact that Hamas and others have placed their launch sites in crowded areas was on purpose. They placed them specifically by schools, making it difficult to take them out. I commend Israel for doing what is right, and doing the best they can to avoid civilian casualties while still accomplishing their goals of taking the rockets and Hamas fighters out.

]]> By: Bill http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2009/01/10/two-weeks-under-fire-in-gaza/#comment-5278 Bill Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:23:26 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/global/?p=2147#comment-5278 I really do not see any purpose to be served in allowing posts like that last one. They are inflammatory, offensive and have much libel. Every civilized human being on the planet right now is anxious for everyone involved to rise above rhetoric that is not worth the death of so many innocent lives. Why don't we see posts allowed which urge compassion and responsibility to human rights and international law? I really do not see any purpose to be served in allowing posts like that last one. They are inflammatory, offensive and have much libel. Every civilized human being on the planet right now is anxious for everyone involved to rise above rhetoric that is not worth the death of so many innocent lives. Why don’t we see posts allowed which urge compassion and responsibility to human rights and international law?

]]> By: Franck Weil-Rabaud http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2009/01/10/two-weeks-under-fire-in-gaza/#comment-5274 Franck Weil-Rabaud Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:31:02 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/global/?p=2147#comment-5274 Hi Nidal I'm reading every day what you're writing from Gaza. As usual it's very good stuff even though Ican imagine how it's difficult for you, your family and all the people in Gaza to cope with this situation. Please send me your email because I would like to be able to keep in touch with you. All the best and take care Franck, former french correspondent in the Gaza strip (1994-1998) Hi Nidal

I’m reading every day what you’re writing from Gaza. As usual it’s very good stuff even though Ican imagine how it’s difficult for you, your family and all the people in Gaza to cope with this situation. Please send me your email because I would like to be able to keep in touch with you. All the best and take care

Franck, former french correspondent in the Gaza strip (1994-1998)

]]> By: VultureTX http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2009/01/10/two-weeks-under-fire-in-gaza/#comment-5267 VultureTX Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:36:23 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/global/?p=2147#comment-5267 in reply to commenters "legally palestinian territory." Hmm an interesting fiction. There is Israel as recognized by the UN in '48. There is the West Bank and Gaza ceded w/o property/ownership restrictions by Jordan and Egypt respectively. Even after the accords there is no Israeli guaranteed piece of land that is defined for Palestine. Don't like it, tough. If you don't recognize the Israel state that the UN did, we would also have to not recognize the muslim countries created in the 40's that were also UN recognized. If you got a claim of Palestine, you forgot to have Egypt and Jordan recognize it as independent instead of an administered territory. As for the US support of Israel, be glad of it, otherwise the best tactical solution would be to wipe out the palestinians en mass. Since a war of attrition does not favor Israel. As for world wide support, I suspect you don't understand that it does not exist except as mobs. People of the world did not stop DPRK from starving it's own. They are not helping solve Darfur. So why should they help palestinians? The Egyptians.Jordanians, and even Saudis don't really want to deal with them. As has been shown by this latest round of fighting in Gaza. And a little note for the difference between the arab/muslim mindset and the West: Deliberate targeting of civilians is never justified by supposed crimes committed against you. And that is what those rockets into Sederot and elsewhere did. That combined with a charter calling for ethnic cleansing. /A solution may only exist when palestinians and their supporters actually have a firm grasp of history. Not individuals facts but the fabric of history of which nations are built and laws are enforced. in reply to commenters
“legally palestinian territory.”
Hmm an interesting fiction. There is Israel as recognized by the UN in ‘48.
There is the West Bank and Gaza ceded w/o property/ownership restrictions by Jordan and Egypt respectively. Even after the accords there is no Israeli guaranteed piece of land that is defined for Palestine. Don’t like it, tough. If you don’t recognize the Israel state that the UN did, we would also have to not recognize the muslim countries created in the 40’s that were also UN recognized. If you got a claim of Palestine, you forgot to have Egypt and Jordan recognize it as independent instead of an administered territory.

As for the US support of Israel, be glad of it, otherwise the best tactical solution would be to wipe out the palestinians en mass. Since a war of attrition does not favor Israel.

As for world wide support, I suspect you don’t understand that it does not exist except as mobs. People of the world did not stop DPRK from starving it’s own. They are not helping solve Darfur. So why should they help palestinians? The Egyptians.Jordanians, and even Saudis don’t really want to deal with them. As has been shown by this latest round of fighting in Gaza.

And a little note for the difference between the arab/muslim mindset and the West: Deliberate targeting of civilians is never justified by supposed crimes committed against you. And that is what those rockets into Sederot and elsewhere did. That combined with a charter calling for ethnic cleansing.

/A solution may only exist when palestinians and their supporters actually have a firm grasp of history. Not individuals facts but the fabric of history of which nations are built and laws are enforced.

]]> By: bill http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2009/01/10/two-weeks-under-fire-in-gaza/#comment-5265 bill Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:50:00 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/global/?p=2147#comment-5265 Nobody condones the violent escalation on both sides, it serves no purpose and only civilians pay the price, but Gaza has been under siege for a long painful time for the people living in it, and because of it they endured great hardships, and people like Hamas use this as propaganda to gain support, and they willingly let civilians pay the price for it. Israel is very foolish in not trying seriously -and it isn't, no matter what their government says, everybody can see that from how they handle growing illegal settlements- to talk to Palestinians as fellow human beings and neighbors on equal grounds, and the US administration is responsible as well for giving a blank check of support for the Israelis, and vetoing any UN resolution that the Israelis every time they commit an outrage. When will these people realize that until they join hands with the rest of the world in warning both sides equally to knock it off, violence and atrocities like this will continue to everyone's loss, including the Americans? Nobody condones the violent escalation on both sides, it serves no purpose and only civilians pay the price, but Gaza has been under siege for a long painful time for the people living in it, and because of it they endured great hardships, and people like Hamas use this as propaganda to gain support, and they willingly let civilians pay the price for it. Israel is very foolish in not trying seriously -and it isn’t, no matter what their government says, everybody can see that from how they handle growing illegal settlements- to talk to Palestinians as fellow human beings and neighbors on equal grounds, and the US administration is responsible as well for giving a blank check of support for the Israelis, and vetoing any UN resolution that the Israelis every time they commit an outrage. When will these people realize that until they join hands with the rest of the world in warning both sides equally to knock it off, violence and atrocities like this will continue to everyone’s loss, including the Americans?

]]> By: mona http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2009/01/10/two-weeks-under-fire-in-gaza/#comment-5262 mona Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:35:05 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/global/?p=2147#comment-5262 in response to commenter 1. there reason is probably because not many people can sympathize with occupiers and oppressors. i find it interesting that the rockets being fired into israel is legally palestinian territory. also the ceasefire was broken by israel when they killed six palestinians nov 4, 2008. in response to commenter 1. there reason is probably because not many people can sympathize with occupiers and oppressors. i find it interesting that the rockets being fired into israel is legally palestinian territory. also the ceasefire was broken by israel when they killed six palestinians nov 4, 2008.

]]> By: Heidi http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2009/01/10/two-weeks-under-fire-in-gaza/#comment-5261 Heidi Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:52:26 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/global/?p=2147#comment-5261 All human life is valuable. How many Israeli's were killed by those missiles? I pray for the Palestinians. All human life is valuable. How many Israeli’s were killed by those missiles? I pray for the Palestinians.

]]> By: David http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2009/01/10/two-weeks-under-fire-in-gaza/#comment-5259 David Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:59:18 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/global/?p=2147#comment-5259 Why didn't people protest when Hamas was firing missiles into Israel during the last ceasefire? Why didn’t people protest when Hamas was firing missiles into Israel during the last ceasefire?

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