tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post1384185893407040047..comments2024-01-11T10:25:57.007+00:00Comments on Labour of Gove: Conservative Friends of Israel: Justify Punishment of Gaza ChildrenChris Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-65174882417088219132009-01-01T19:42:00.000+00:002009-01-01T19:42:00.000+00:00What's wrong with a bit of asymmetry? Israelis don...What's wrong with a bit of asymmetry? Israelis don't go round detonating suicide bombs in cafes. They've got military superiority, the Palestinian's don't want to negotiate regardless of how much money the EU gives them. Hamas is a UN mandated terrorist organisation - screw 'em. <BR/><BR/> Glad I don't live there - a brilliant quote I heard was that extremists always shout louder than moderates.Dick the Prickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02683095612320513712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-13320146087501363162008-12-31T12:30:00.000+00:002008-12-31T12:30:00.000+00:00Israel is NOT "defending itself just like anyone w...Israel is NOT "defending itself just like anyone would" anonymous. Obviously not a means of making the people of Israel safer. Even in the short term. As my mate EHC says your Dresden example is shameful and it is no wonder that you hide behind anonymity and will not take responsibility for your vile utterances. <BR/><BR/>But even Churchill's shame was not as assymetric as the State of Israel's attacks on the elected public authorities and the innocent citizens of Gaza.Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-1381899936450789482008-12-31T10:02:00.000+00:002008-12-31T10:02:00.000+00:00I can't believe that anyone is using the shameful ...I can't believe that anyone is using the shameful example of Dresden to excuse what is going on in Gaza.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-3475072433426128132008-12-31T05:26:00.000+00:002008-12-31T05:26:00.000+00:00Israel is defending itself just like anyone would....Israel is defending itself just like anyone would. I am always flabbergasted when a Brit has the audacity to criticize Israel's response to terrorist attacks.<BR/><BR/>WW2: When Germany was rocketing London, Churchill's response in Dresden (rightly so) was, shall we say, 10,000 times greater!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-76894831473124545452008-12-30T12:58:00.000+00:002008-12-30T12:58:00.000+00:00Tell you what Chris. I'll find where you live, and...Tell you what Chris. I'll find where you live, and set a bomb off every day, fifty or sixty times a day for about a week, followed by a couple of weeks respite, followed by another 70 or so within your town or housing estate.<BR/><BR/>See if you find it "disproportionate" when all you can do is cower in fear in your bunker, not leave your house, or do anything with your life because of the fear of rocket attacks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-37559733398404471022008-12-29T15:57:00.000+00:002008-12-29T15:57:00.000+00:00"Escalation in rocket attacks"? One dead this week..."Escalation in rocket attacks"? One dead this week, four injured? Seventeen dead in eight years? I cannot support what they are doing though interestingly Mr Lightning Barak was quoted in today's Guardian saying he would become a terrorist if an accident of birth had found him on the other side.<BR/><BR/>So very alike.<BR/><BR/>It is like bazooka'ing a would be murderous little boy flashing a pen-knife about, instead of grabbing him and locking him up, and then what's more strafing to death 300+ of the gobby kid's neighbours - many of whom hated the little bastard just as much as you did Schmoo - to make sure the message of no more pen knifes gets through.<BR/><BR/>Instead 300 dead and 1000 wounded have 10s of 000s of relatives with reason to hate the state of Israel. Even if they also hate or hated Hamas.<BR/><BR/>There is no military solution to this. And I'm not sure Meretz would be happy with the "no compromise" that involves the murder of so many innocents, including kids etc ... and also the unarmed police recruits that were to police Hamas militias.<BR/><BR/>The majority of those who have been killed by the State of Israel are not as far as I can see formally or informally identified with Hamas military activity.<BR/><BR/>BHT - I think you are perhaps prattling on the wrong strand here.Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-45441558308425035832008-12-29T00:58:00.000+00:002008-12-29T00:58:00.000+00:00Even the Israeli left-wing Meretz party is support...Even the Israeli left-wing Meretz party is supporting the attack on Hamas. They issued a rare statement calling for military action last Thursday; "The time has come to act without compromise and without narrow political considerations to protect the residents of Gaza-area communities and Sderot". Meretz, which usually calls for negotiation and dialogue with Palestinian militants, said the current escalation in rocket attacks has left Israel with no choice but to work on two fronts simultaneously. "Strike Hamas in a targeted manner and work for a new cease-fire," it said.schmoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170537723889475331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-21563429036429931632008-12-28T22:06:00.000+00:002008-12-28T22:06:00.000+00:00worry not,Obhama will be differentworry not,Obhama will be differentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-37735205064647614302008-12-28T21:55:00.000+00:002008-12-28T21:55:00.000+00:00this just sums it all up, “..The scene is a basem...this just sums it all up, <BR/>“..The scene is a basement in the City. Cinderella, a redundant investment banker, is sobbing because she has been forced to take on a cleaning job. Suddenly, after a blinding flash, Gordon Brown is standing before her.<BR/><BR/>“Don’t be afraid, Cinderella,” he says, holding a magic wand aloft. “For I am your fairy godfather.”<BR/><BR/>“Oh, fairy godfather,” says Cinderella. “Please will you wave your magic wand and help me to escape from this life of drudgery?”<BR/><BR/>So Gordon waves his magic wand . . . and absolutely nothing happens.<BR/><BR/>“But everything’s still the same,” sobs Cinders.<BR/><BR/>“Oh no, it isn’t,” says Gordon.<BR/><BR/>“Oh yes it is,” cries the audienceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-42435551301179000462008-12-28T21:20:00.000+00:002008-12-28T21:20:00.000+00:00Come on schmoo Chris said he was against what had ...Come on schmoo Chris said he was against what had happened to the people of Gaza, he didn't say he 'supported' Gaza and I'm sure he doesn'tYousuf Hamidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17958494785795838278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-74308626380985828672008-12-28T21:14:00.000+00:002008-12-28T21:14:00.000+00:00i really do not understand how a blog with the wor...i really do not understand how a blog with the word 'love' in its name could possibly support the racist, homophobic, terroristic, torturing, murdering Hamas organisation. They broke the cease fire, they brought this on themselves and they are guilty for bringing this terrible tragedy to their people which was in their power to avoid.schmoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170537723889475331noreply@blogger.com