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originally posted by: FlyersFan
originally posted by: gsbltd
a reply to: FlyersFan Nice try, but once again you only spoke half-truths.
Wrong. I posted the truth. Israel has mandatory military service for DEFENSIVE reasons. Teenagers are given prep classes for when they are adults and are really in the Israeli Defensive Forces. Whereas Hamas is taking 14 year old boys, sticking a rifle in their hands, and telling them to go destroy Israel and slaughter Jews because of HATE. MAJOR DIFFERENCE.
From the youngest age, Israeli children are taught to despise Gentiles -and all they represent- just as they are taught that all Muslims are likewise evil.
Got some proof of that? Israel gets along just fine with nations that aren't Jewish. Hamas ... not so much. The basics of Islam says that nonmuslims are to be killed or subjugated. And speaking of being indoctrinated in hate from the youngest age ....
From a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood about HAMAS -
I was Raised to Curse Israel and Pray for the Destruction of Jews
I was raised to curse Israel and pray for the destruction of Jews, writes AYAAN HIRSI ALI... That's why I know all too well Hamas is another ISIS - whatever useful idiots in the West say.
The worst insult in the Somali community was to be called a 'Jew', not that any of us actually knew one. To be called a 'Jew' was so abhorrent, some felt justified in killing anyone who so dishonoured them with this 'slur'.
I vividly remember sitting with my female fellows in mosques, cursing Israel and praying to Allah to destroy the Jews. We were certainly not interested in a peaceful 'two-state solution': we were taught to want to see Israel wiped off the map.
When I was 16, my school's teacher of religion was Sister Aziza. She read to us the Koran's lurid descriptions of the everlasting fire that burns flesh and dissolves skin — the place reserved for Jews.
Sister Aziza described Jews as physically monstrous, with horns coming from their heads, out of which flew devils that would corrupt the world. Jews controlled everything, she told us, and it was the duty of Muslims to destroy them.
I abandoned my religion, but I have never lost my clear-sighted understanding, forged in my childhood, of Islamism's pathological hatred of Jews, as well as Muslims considered as heretics and non-Muslims in general.
The former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi — a one-time leader of the Muslim Brotherhood — declared that Muslims should 'nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred' of Jews. His organisation has done just that — and the despicable sentiment is the underlying context to Hamas's most recent attacks.
The truth, however, is that Hamas is no more a friend of the Palestinians than it is a friend of Israel.
Those who see the conflict as a simple territorial dispute between a colonial state and a dispossessed minority fail to recognise Hamas for what it really is: a gang of genocidal Islamist thugs backed by a theocratic, anti-Semitic regime in Iran.
originally posted by: gsbltd
You may wish to review who fired the first shots in the 1967 Six-Day war since there was absolutely nothing "defensive " about that action. Further, when the USS LIBERTY was cruising in international waters during that same wicked week, IDF forces attacked it from both sea and air -even though it was clearly identifiable- in an action that left 34 USN crew/officers dead and another 171 wounded. But what was the Israeli response? "Oops.. we made a mistake!" And to this day good luck finding any memorials to those innocent dead anywhere in that nation because to admit fault is to admit weakness.