tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445934795757240361.post4479310270708633573..comments2008-02-22T03:03:58.885-08:00Avi Schwartzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09583941877380404390noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445934795757240361.post-71228061345279963712008-02-22T03:03:00.000-08:002008-02-22T03:03:00.000-08:00Mr. Barrow,<BR/><BR/>Every death of a civilian is a tragedy. <BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, the deaths of Israelis are discounted or justified by our opponents, even when those civilians are deliberately targeted.<BR/><BR/>Palestinian civilians are not deliberately targeted by the IDF. When there is evidence of wrongdoing by IDF soldiers, they are investigated and often prosecuted. <BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, rhetoric from anti-Israel agents claim that no Israeli is killed by the fire from Gaza and that the rockets are harmless. This is simply not true.<BR/><BR/>Israeli advocates will never claim that people are not killed as a result of Israli operations. The difference is that military facilities in Gaza are in civilian areas and Palestinian terrorists deliberately engineer the deaths of civilians. <BR/><BR/>Palestinians can stop the civilian deaths by ending the terror.Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321837238529740677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445934795757240361.post-32485117258565987422008-02-20T03:14:00.000-08:002008-02-20T03:14:00.000-08:00Blue Truth - You ask in another of your blogs: "Is Israel perfect? Of course not" and then point out that there is no perfect country.<BR/><BR/>This is healthy and realistic. If you showed even more of this open minded attitude, you would win more people over to your arguments. Just because those you rail against are extreme in their arguments and language, doesn't mean you have to copy their worst traits.<BR/><BR/>You are right to stand up against the hypocrisy and double standards you see with regard to how Israel is regarded by many in the west,and with regard to how quickly the shortcomings of some Palestinians are immediately overlooked - especially the hateful brainwashing of the young in many Palestinian schools.<BR/><BR/>Surely it is your humanity that drives you to point out these wrongs. Therefore you list the innocent civilians killed by missiles. You are right to do so. For the period between 2004 and 2007 you list 10 names - each death a tragedy.<BR/><BR/>So equally your humanity must lead you also to point out the wrongs of the state of Israel too? The list of Palestinians killed by Israeli troops listed on the B'Tselem website shows that 10 Palestinians who were not participating in hostilities were killed between 15th and 31st January 2008 alone. Each one a tragedy.<BR/><BR/>Why do you not list these too? When observers around the world see these kinds of figures (10 innocent Israelis killed in 3 years - 10 innocent Palestinians killed in 2 weeks) are you really surprised that many people point out these wrongs done by Israel?<BR/><BR/>James Barrow<BR/>UKJames Barrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18351905833497569743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445934795757240361.post-73089749048533068642008-02-08T01:26:00.000-08:002008-02-08T01:26:00.000-08:00Go to StoptheISM.com where we have a television show shot in 2005 and we show how Rachel Corrie was not<BR/>1) protecting a house<BR/>2)was in a trench as part of a weapons smuggling tunnel<BR/>3)dong what the ISM claimed (we show how the ISM doctored photos so people would think she was protecting a house.<BR/>Corrie wrote home to her mom two weeks before her death that she had helped remove a dead terrorist from one of the weapons smuggling tunnels. She also called terrorists and suicide bombers incredibly brave martyrs.<BR/>How sad that Jews are still repeating at least the calumny of her protecting a house.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com