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World leaders seek an end to violence in Gaza
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Hot air

by Outsider (not verified) - 30/12/2008 - 23:19

The EU's reactions are made to make the speakers feel good about themselves. The EU has sat on its hands over the Gaza blockade and the subsequent bombing just like it did during the Lebanon crisis of 2006.

It's time to face some facts in the Middle East: Palestine has some really unrealistic aspirations and the Israelis have yet to show any good faith in negotiations.

There is a simple yet radical solution: the EU withdraws all support of Palestine and severs the economic favours it currently grants Israel. Let them work it out together. This would make both parties pay just a little more attention. If Palestine stops receiving EU funds, its population will very quickly face serious problems. These will have to be met by the occupying power, Israel. The current situation is that Israel has all but annexed the West Bank but is not supplying any support in terms of economic development, social services, etc. Why? It's not as if there was a recognisable peace process.

If Israel has a problem doing this, then it will have to reconsider its current ambivalent attitude towards the West Bank and hand over power. If it can provide these services, then the EU's funds can go to other urgent areas such as Darfur or the Congo.

The current EU support is only maintaining an unhealthy status quo.

Israeli moral superiority - not so fast

by London (not verified) - 30/12/2008 - 21:51

It's easy to show moral superiority but the Israeli point of views below are just too rosy to be true. Israel can offer some modernity to the territories (At a later stage) but so far we haven't seen this happening, instead all of you are infected with the seeds of hatred. There is however some hope in the newest Israeli generation (after 2000) who doesn't seem so hatred inflicted, instead prefers to listen to Ivri Lider for example and don't seem to be in the politics of nowhere.
Apart from that it's easy to spend those annual 2+ billion from the US (the official aid only).

Gaza Ceasefire

by Frank (not verified) - 30/12/2008 - 19:42

The spokesman for the British Foreign Office has spoken of the death toll and emergency meetings. Why are there not "emergency meetings" about Darfur or Zimbabwe? What did the EU about Russia's ILLEGAL invasion of Georgia!

France, Britain, USA and the EU sold Israel out in 2006 with UN Security Council Resolution 1701. Hezbollah was not disarmed, it was not constrained to North of the Litani River and Syria has entrenched itself in Lebanon again.

Israel will not be sold out again!

Moral differance Arabs and Israel

by M Ariely (not verified) - 30/12/2008 - 18:14

Moral differances between Arabs and Israel
ISRAEL VALUE: DESIRE LIFE+PEACE
HAMAS ISLAMIST VALUE: DESIRE DEATH+WORLD DOMINATION BY ISLAM SWORD

Israel value–SAVING LIFE-examples
-SPIEGEL:
Palestinian woman gave twins birth in Israel hospital rocketed from Gaza
-Health Assembly:
35000 Palestinians treated in Israel hospitals the past year
Public Health Issue:-
Palestinians receive care in Israel they could not receive in Arab countries
Israel Programs:-
Saving Children:980 Palestinian children free cardiac surgery
Save A Child's Heart:828 Palestinian children with heart problems free medical attention in Israel

Example:DEATH indoctrination of 5 years old boys by Hamas
Watch youtube;Type on search: Muslim Kindergarden Graduation ceremony

.You will see msked , in uniforms,with swords and Quaran Kindergarden boys saing:
What is your path? Jihad.
What is your most lofty aspiration?
DEATH FOR THE SAKE OF ALLAH.

Palestinian violence specifically targeting Israeli children-examples
Non stop targeting civiliance by Hamas
Targeting civilians by Hisbula
Ma'alot massacre -22 children killed
Avivim school bus massacre -9 children killed
Kiryat Shmona massacre -9 children killed
discotheque 13 children killed
Bomb detonated near women waiting for their children killed 11 people, 7 children
SPECTATOR.CO.UK-2008

Palestinian using their children for terrorism
16year sent to blow himself up. Caught at a checkpoint
12year was given a bomb to detonate it at a checkpoint
11year smuggled explosives into Israel
Palestinian terrorists used "human shields children "in el-Bureij fight.
3boys 13,14,16 caught on the way to shoot in Afula.
4boys hired to smuggle weapons to Israel
Global Report on the Use of Child, there have been at least nine documented suicide attacks involving Palestinian minor

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