Jerusalem Post Reports IDF Violations of Laws-of-War

Please defend your argument the the Guardian is not idependent? And include the context that embraces the scanty sources you supply?

The source is listed and highlighted. And the author is santioned for publication at the Jerusalem Post. It is the quotes and the news embedded in a long article that is excepted. You can read the entire article with the link. That'S why it's there.

To say I am dishonest in my reporting, only continues your slanderous characterizations of my reporting. The last reply from you labeled me to be against Jews as a whole. That slap in the face is beyond any aceptability.

I expect from you an apology for your personal attacks in an attempt to discredit and slander my person. Is that fair? Or must I report you? I would hope you retract your slander and continue with a civil and factual dialogue.

Nothing substantial or substantiated. Nothing but innuendo, slander, unfounded allegations, media fog, and loose rhetoric.

You obviously like to disrespect those in history who have REALLY suffered from the terror of anti-Semitism. Better that you loosely and casually and indiscriminately call people with no facts or figures Micky Mice than abusing the real meaning and horror of anti-Semitism.

Have you ever read as a chld 'The Boy Whoe Cried Wolf'? If we are to protect all Jewish peoples from anti-Semitism, real anit-Semitism, then we must be very careful in throwing around that term.Otherwise it loses its meaning. You are contributing to that loss of meaning, and I hope you will be more careful before using a term like anti-Semitism, anti-Jewish, anti-Israel for a quick attempt at drawing sympathy based on the REAL suffering of Jewish people in the past. Honor them, don't exploit them and water down the horror or real anti-Semitism.

Firing rockets as self-defense against a murderous occupier? Is that a war crime? No.

However as a pacifist I abhore all violence and do not in any way support the Hamas and other Palestinian factions who responded to the Israeli rupture of the ceasefire (read Jimmie Carter) when they attacked some tunnel users, killing six. As Israel sieges and blockades Gaza, the people need the tunnel not only to import weapons but life-supporting supplies. The food rations allowed by Israel at the time they attacked the tunnel and broke the ceasefire leading to the use of rockets as retaliation amounts to only 20% of the needs.

Did you know as well that teenagers refused exit by Israel during its siege have died for lack of medical care, that is, ten cancer patients, totally unable to even hold a gun in their condition, and yet refused medical treatment in Israel. That is a death sentance for sick people.

The question is not as you see it, who to blame? that is a blame game. The fact is that Israel committed war crime, child murder and the slow torture of a free people, whose land they have stolen and whose liberty they brutally deny.

Remove the thumbscrews, and let's see how Palestine develops. Where I come from Palestinians and Jews live in harmony. My direct family has both Islamic and Jewish members. We laugh a lot at holidays when we cook Matza bread and Bedouin food, my Cuban and German and Swedish and Mohawk direct family members at the table.

You mention war crime against killing children? Please specify during the War on Gaza or Operation Cast Lead, how many and if there were Israeli children killed. My research finds your statement to be utterly false and therefore evasive and in denial of Israel's mass murder of Gazan children. Respect all human life and stop your tit-for-tat conconted revengeful argumentation. It won't work and your blame game strategy will only push the world to a brink that helps noone, repeat, noone.

Palestinians are a glorious people. Israeli's are loyal friends. Those Israeli's massacring Palestinians and those Israeli's denying their nation's war crimes are going to push the world, as Bush did, to a deadly brink. It doesn't have to be that way. Let Palestine be free. Ignore Israel's and Palestine's ultra-hateful individuals. They are not worth the lives that are robbed with them as the blame and excuse. There are a majority of decent Israelis and Palestinians and if you study natural history you willunderstand that human cooperation is actually genetic. Those who cooperate and tolerate by their nature lived longer and produced more offspring. Those early humans who were uncooperative and intolerant, wehn sick or injured, were ignored by their tribes. There is even an Israeli Neanderthal (homo neaderthalensis) male specimen that study has shown was buried in a ritual and although the bone data showed he was blind and lame for more than 14 years, the question is why did people come to care for him, bring him food? What did he know or do for the community?

Cooperation if not genetic, for those who wish to avoid any socio-biology inference, is at least human nature, prefered and prospering. Israel currently is one of the world's worst examples for massacring civilians based on some single or small number of fanatics who will without provocation, disappear by the general decency of the Palestinians. Have you ever met a Palestinian you didn't like? I haven't. I haven't either any Israeli friend who I don't admire and enjoy conversing with.

158, first of all my nick is con10t

please inform me how i am misinformed? to confuse and thereby try to diffuse the fact of war crime in Gaza over the past month.

your example of other murderous histories in japan, russia or germany do not mitigate in the least the war crime and murder of palestinians by israel. bringing up some tit for tat only becomes a revenge argument. no basis there.

you are misinformed concerning the territorial borders of israel. but it is too boring to remind you of that, as everyone knows israel has and even calls the land they stole 'occupied territory'.

i have never called for revenge and child murder. on the contrary. i refuse your attempt to justify 1000 eyes for 1 eye defense. israel must and will be prosecuted for war crimes in gaza.

if a country like israel sets civil society and international tolerance and justice aside and allows or disregards war crime, i would suggest the world is no safer and that when a supposedly democratc and civil nation ignores war crime, what will the other terrorists fear and do?

imagine kim jong il when he sees that israel decides its ok to burn and kill children with white phosphorus and the bombs that send shrapnel 300 meters, both banned, and that israel thinks it is justified and ok, in the ace of world opinion and evidence that such weapons were in fact used against gazan civilians by israel. that's a recipe for a kind of world you ought to do all in your power to avoid. prosecute the war crimes by israel now, nip denial and acceptance, and hence support for legitimizing war crime, stop pointing fingers as a defense of israel's war crimes, or claiming any who try to salvage israel's reputation by owning up to their grave mistake in gaza dn their sanctionig of weapons that maim and mass murder children.

report on it, expose it, and let's get some civility back into israel. it deserves it and it is much needed for stability everywhere, as you must know. protecting and excusing and rationalizing and denying war crime in gaza by israel is a mug's game that bolsters terrorists by sanctioning it as a policy of the israeli military.