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Originally posted by seenavv
The difference is that the (homemade) rockets are stored and used to defend the occupied Palestinian territory against the monstrous, American funded state of the art army used on behalf of Israel that will use any means (including chemical weapons) to exterminate anything that stands in the way of their "God" given land
Isreal doesn't make bombs
Israel makes plutonium for atomic bombs at Dimona, a secret nuclear complex in the Negev Desert. The French-supplied reactor there has produced plutonium free from international controls since 1963. The quality of the plutonium created by the Dimona reactor is ideal for making atomic bombs.
Israeli Sperm Count Drops A Whopping Forty Percent...Radiation...
Originally posted by nightbringr
Originally posted by seenavv
The difference is that the (homemade) rockets are stored and used to defend the occupied Palestinian territory against the monstrous, American funded state of the art army used on behalf of Israel that will use any means (including chemical weapons) to exterminate anything that stands in the way of their "God" given land
LOL! A rocket that can only be aimed in a general direction and lands within miles of a possible target is NOT a defensive weapon.
Try again, troll.
Congrats on pulling the anti-semite/ kill all Jews card. All I see is the Zionists who are causing the destruction yet when anyone brings these kind of issues to light it is deemed Satans grasp on their soul
Originally posted by buster2010
Originally posted by nightbringr
Originally posted by seenavv
The difference is that the (homemade) rockets are stored and used to defend the occupied Palestinian territory against the monstrous, American funded state of the art army used on behalf of Israel that will use any means (including chemical weapons) to exterminate anything that stands in the way of their "God" given land
LOL! A rocket that can only be aimed in a general direction and lands within miles of a possible target is NOT a defensive weapon.
Try again, troll.
So a missile has to have a guidance system before it's a defensive weapon? Message to any Hamas members who may be reading this your a bunch of poor people you can't afford guidance system's so no more rockets.
Nice take one statement out of context to make yourself look right.
Originally posted by Danbones
Israel makes plutonium for atomic bombs at Dimona, a secret nuclear complex in the Negev Desert. The French-supplied reactor there has produced plutonium free from international controls since 1963. The quality of the plutonium created by the Dimona reactor is ideal for making atomic bombs.
www.wisconsinproject.org...
and of course we know Israel is selling nuclear weapons missles and bombs because of the south africans leaking documents..
selling Israeli made bombs and missles to the people who want to defeat the the US too I'll wager, and if so, made with US aid to boot
It is their only means of weaponized retaliation and considering their rockets are sticks and stones compared to the state of the art military they are up against im pretty sure they would be classified as their only means of defense. Btw Hamas said theyre sorry they cant afford guided weapons because warmongering superpower nations wont provide it for them
Originally posted by nightbringr
Originally posted by buster2010
Originally posted by nightbringr
Originally posted by seenavv
The difference is that the (homemade) rockets are stored and used to defend the occupied Palestinian territory against the monstrous, American funded state of the art army used on behalf of Israel that will use any means (including chemical weapons) to exterminate anything that stands in the way of their "God" given land
LOL! A rocket that can only be aimed in a general direction and lands within miles of a possible target is NOT a defensive weapon.
Try again, troll.
So a missile has to have a guidance system before it's a defensive weapon? Message to any Hamas members who may be reading this your a bunch of poor people you can't afford guidance system's so no more rockets.
That's is not what I said at all. I simply stated a missile with such a broad landing range could never be considered defensive. Further, as it is no where even accurate enough to strike military targets, it must be considered weapon of terror.
West Bank does quite well, but then again missiles and artillery don't regularly fly out of it either.
Hamas demands the genocide of Israel based your Pro-Israel, "all our enemies = terrorists and harbringers of death" source. Regardless of what you think they "demand" they are not getting it. Israel is not demanding genocide, they are committing it! Israel blockaded Gaza ILLEGALLY and violently prevents any attempt for anyone to provide them with aid. There is 50% unemployment. They deprive them access of vital resources they need to survive. They use chemical weapons on them. They bomb them. They shoot them. They harass and sometimes even kill reporters who try and gather information from the region. If thats not a prison then I don't know what is. You clearly have your head in the sand
Originally posted by JohhnyBGood
reply to post by seenavv
Why don't you just admit it - your support of Hamas is an act of blind political faith, nothing more! - you don't even know why you support them and consequently have nothing to back it up but grotesque 'inversion of reality' propaganda canards.
Israel builds a wall to stop suicide bombers etc - you accuse them of 'imprisoning' them - ludicrous and shamefull!
Hamas demands the genocide of Israel on the basis of Islamic mandates - you pretend they don't (but if they do it's only you know 'understandable' - you whole position is an ill thought out joke!
Hamas demands the genocide of Israel based your Pro-Israel, "all our enemies = terrorists and harbringers of death" source. Regardless of what you think they "demand" they are not getting it.
“Israel is not demanding genocide, they are committing it!”
“Israel blockaded Gaza ILLEGALLY”
“and violently prevents any attempt for anyone to provide them with aid.”
“There is 50% unemployment.”
“They deprive them access of vital resources they need to survive.”
“They use chemical weapons on them.”
“They bomb them. They shoot them. They harass and sometimes even kill reporters who try and gather information from the region.”
“If thats not a prison then I don't know what is.”
Originally posted by xXxinfidelxXx
reply to post by JohhnyBGood
Try to remember that when the Jews came into Israel, they uprooted hundreds of thousands of Muslims that had already lived there. In my personal opinion, all the power to the Palestinians as one Palestinian has bigger stones than all of you Americans combined. To hell with Israel.
Stunning academic study: Reuters engages in anti-Israel propaganda
From PRWeb: Roosevelt University academic study documents systematic use of propaganda by world's largest news agency.
A study published in the November/December issue of the Journal of Applied Business Research finds that Reuters coverage of the Middle East conflict is systematically tainted by propaganda and influences readers to side with the Palestinians and Arab states against the Israelis.
Researcher Henry Silverman of Roosevelt University analyzed a sample of fifty news-oriented articles published on the Reuters.com websites for the use of classic propaganda techniques, logical fallacies and violations of the Reuters Handbook of Journalism, a manual of guiding ethical principles for the company’s journalists. Across the articles, over 1,100 occurrences of propaganda, fallacies and handbook violations in 41 categories were identified and classified.
Recently a few members have posted on ATS that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, that the Gazan society is one of the richest (per capita) as they import LCD's and Mercedes automobiles. They have made some outlandish claims in regards to the undemployment figures in Gaza and some have stated that it the Gazan economy is better off then the US. As a student of Economics, I have taken the libery to dispell these myths. In order to do so I will be sourcing the CIA World Factbook: www.cia.gov... and making comparisons between the Gazan economy, the American economy and the Israeli economy (to a lesser extent). I will aim to adress 2 major catogories: Unemployment and to a lesser extent poverty.
Unemployment
The Gazan unemployment figures are both blunt and clear. Currently they stand at 40% (2010)
www.cia.gov...
Some may be unable to grasp what 40% unemployment entails, however one could use two prime examples to compare with. Libya and the U.S. Firstly before I begin its important to note that full employment is impossible and unwanted, therfor countries set unemployment objectives. The U.S has an unemployment objective of 4% or anything below.
Take the Libyan economy which has a large public sector, large subsides, free health and education. The 3 most important items, food, oil and accomodation are all subsidised by the Gaddafi regime. Yet when the outbreak of civil strife in Libya began there was a massive 30% unemployment which directly impacted on the mass of the protests and later the civil war.
Gaza currently has 40% unemployment. They rank 184th in the world behind Swaziland, Gabon and Albania. By comparison Israel currently has 6.4% unemployment (rather good in this post global financial crisis world) with a real growth rate of 4.6% which is strong (too strong infact- to much growth results in inflation)
The Israeli aims in regards to the blockade were to damage Hamas (much like the American embargo on Cuba wanted to damage the Castro regime) and force the people to force Hamas from power. If one looks at the labor force figure they can see which jobs are recieving the most employment:
agriculture: 12% industry: 5% services: 83% (June 2008)
The 83% servives happens to be largely public not private. Industry and agriculture is virtually non-existent and has collapsed under Israeli pressure. This has strengthened the role of Hamas as the government as they provide public jobs where the private sector is lacking. Much like the Cuban embargo, the blockade has been counter productive in terms of strategic goals.
Poverty
My discussion on poverty figures will be breif. Currently 70% of Gazans live below the povery line: www.cia.gov...
One dosen't need half a brain to come to the conclusion that this is both serious and alarming. It is what people call a "humanitarian crisis". The international poverty threshold is anything including and below $1 a day. By comparison Israel has 23.6% people living below the poverty line, however, their threshold is living on anything including and below $7.30 per day.
Take Australia for example: The CIA World Fact Book states Australians living below the poverty line are NA% (not assesed) which means that the number is miniscule.
Conclusion
I hope people will look at these facts all available here:
www.cia.gov...
When one looks at the actual figures they see the truth. The truth is the Gazans are not rich, they are not wealthy and they are living in conditions far worse than you. They are ranked amongst some of the porest nations in the world. This is a fact as shown by the CIA World Factbook
Will the suffering never end?er end?
elderofziyon.blogspot.com...
Now Gaza has a car glut! Palestine Today reports that car dealers in Gaza are suffering - because they have too many cars available. Between the dozens of cars that enter via Kerem Shalom each week and the cars that arrive through the smuggling tunnels, the profit margins are plummeting. In some cases they have had to reduce car prices by as much as $8000.
Really? Show me one hungry Palestinian child.
About 10 percent of Palestinian children suffer permanent effects from malnutrition, according to a survey published Wednesday, a result of widespread poverty in the West Bank and Gaza.
The root cause is poverty, according to Khaled Abu Khaled, who directed the study for the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. He said the numbers are up slightly over the past two years.
"One obvious effect of malnutrition is stunted growth among children, which has increased about three percent in the last two years," he said.
"This is a chronic chronic. Even with interventions, the rates don't go down fast," he said.
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