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No problem, I thought it was a great response to such utter BS, no wasted effort on such blatent propaganda. What is worth ziltch is your link and the non-information it contains.
Right, easy to call them "fucking lies", great response remind. I will take that for what it is worth...zilch!
Nice article, ohara. It says the Israelis are no worse than the U.S. and British in Iraq and the Russians in Georgia. What kind of Einstein came up with this scintillating logic?
If I thought there were any yiddishkeit left in Israel, its actions would make me ashamed to be a Jew. As things stand, however, as a proud Jew, I proudly declare my stand on the side of the Palestinian people against the Israeli mass murderers and aggressors. Their acts of desperation will end with their own destruction, as is always the case. The only concern is how many dreams, aspirations, and corpses (of Arabs and Jews) will be left along the way.
"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory). "
"This Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), clarifies its picture, reveals its identity, outlines its stand, explains its aims, speaks about its hopes, and calls for its support, adoption and joining its ranks. Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts. It is a step that inevitably should be followed by other steps. The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah's victory is realised. "
"Article Eight:
Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes. "
"Article Thirteen:
Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement. Abusing any part of Palestine is abuse directed against part of religion. Nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its religion. Its members have been fed on that. For the sake of hoisting the banner of Allah over their homeland they fight. "Allah will be prominent, but most people do not know."
Now and then the call goes out for the convening of an international conference to look for ways of solving the (Palestinian) question. Some accept, others reject the idea, for this or other reason, with one stipulation or more for consent to convening the conference and participating in it. Knowing the parties constituting the conference, their past and present attitudes towards Moslem problems, the Islamic Resistance Movement does not consider these conferences capable of realising the demands, restoring the rights or doing justice to the oppressed. These conferences are only ways of setting the infidels in the land of the Moslems as arbitraters. When did the infidels do justice to the believers?
"But the Jews will not be pleased with thee, neither the Christians, until thou follow their religion; say, The direction of Allah is the true direction. And verily if thou follow their desires, after the knowledge which hath been given thee, thou shalt find no patron or protector against Allah." (The Cow - verse 120).
There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors. The Palestinian people know better than to consent to having their future, rights and fate toyed with. As in said in the honourable Hadith:
"The people of Syria are Allah's lash in His land. He wreaks His vengeance through them against whomsoever He wishes among His slaves It is unthinkable that those who are double-faced among them should prosper over the faithful. They will certainly die out of grief and desperation."
There are always those who can apologize for mass murder in the name of the state. I give you Madeline Albright as one example. And then there are the Kissingers and Baraks who can rationalize mass murder in terms of real politik. Terrorism when applied against nice white people.
Right, easy to call them "fucking lies", great response remind. I will take that for what it is worth...zilch!
You want a detailed critique of that fascist bullshit?
How about start at No.1 which argues that proportionality doesn´t matter and that Israelis should be allowed to kill 10 Palestinians for every Israeli(that ratio has gone way up now as well), no mention of whether they are civillians, women and children. That was the exact attitude of the Phalangists in the Spanish Civil War, Sharon and Olmert and their fans have company with that policy.
This is all obvious, everyone I know from young to very old is apalled by this massacre, its just apologists like yourself who don´t get it, and I doubt you ever will. Real racists are rarely cured, they are just eventually made irrelevant.
An Iraqi baby with a life-threatening birth defect arrived in the United States on Saturday for medical treatment after being sent by U.S. soldiers who found her during a raid on her family's home.
The Hamas document does not even begin to establish the justification for a massacre- leaving aside whether such a possibility should be allowed for.
While your propaganda is not as offensive as Ohara's- it is at best meaningless. For example, even IF there is some exaggeration about Israel cutting off humanitarion aid... so what? That means there isn't a massacre?!??
So in the context of the reality ypur propaganda also serves no purpose other than to make people even madder.
3) “It’s all because of Israel’s siege. Israel should allow aid into Gaza.”
...Tuesday, another 100 trucks – double the
normal number –are expected to enter Gaza after Defense Minister Barak
approved the move.
Double the normal number? So does this mean that during the six month cease fire Israel was only allowing 50 trucks in a day to supply a population of 1.5 million? Pretty much, according to Barghouti's article
Quote:
Israel, however, did not live up to any of its obligations of ending
the siege and allowing vital humanitarian aid to resume in Gaza. Rather
than the average of 450 trucks per day being allowed across the border,
on the best days, only eighty have been allowed in - with the border
remaining hermetically sealed 70% of the time. Throughout the supposed
'cease-fire' Gazans have been forced to live like animals, with a total
of 262 dying due to the inaccessibility of proper medical care.
So in fact YNet's attempt to refute the claim that "It's all because of Israel's seige" inadvertently confirms what the Palestinians are saying.
Meanwhile the UN has called the cut-off to aid a crime against humanity. Racists lie even while killing. I mean, if Israel's actions are anything less than barbaric and evil before the massacre, why did they bar journalists from going there? Yes, yes, for their own safety.
The Hamas document does not even begin to establish the justification for a massacre- leaving aside whether such a possibility should be allowed for.
While your propaganda is not as offensive as Ohara's- it is at best meaningless. For example, even IF there is some exaggeration about Israel cutting off humanitarion aid... so what? That means there isn't a massacre?!??
So in the context of the reality ypur propaganda also serves no purpose other than to make people even madder.
That is not my propoganda, it is Hamas stated Covenant and goals. They wrote it, not me. It does not justify the killing of innocent people at all. I posted it to give some perspective here, as there have been scant condemnations of Hamas rockets, rocket factories, etc. Those firing the rockets though, if they believe in the Hamas Convenant, have no stated interest in an international peace agreement. Hamas is intent on killing civilians in Israel.
Israel has been broadening the appeal of Hamas over the past few days with their bombing campaign and working in direct opposition to its own interests. I can see how a Palestinian survivor whose family was just killed by an Israeli bomb would be looking for a violent organization to support. Someone needs to lay down their arms first, and it is not going to be Hamas. Israel should do it. Now, will this stop the rockets? Will a two-state solution an end to an occupation stop it? I am not sure, but it needs to be tried.
Your link does not indicate that Israel created Hamas, it states that Israel provided support - legal and otherwise. The article notes that Sheik Yassin created Hamas.
aka, the right wing Christian zealots in Canada, do not want to know the truth, they want to believe in Israeli lies, of the type Ghislaine is now espousing, so I am sure your words will fall on deaf ears.
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"watching the tide roll away"
aka, the right wing Christian zealots in Canada, do not want to know the truth, they want to believe in Israeli lies, of the type Ghislaine is now espousing, so I am sure your words will fall on deaf ears.
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I posted quotes from Hamas' own Covenant, not Israeli lies. There are plenty of disgusting comments and lies from both sides to be found. However, the post you are referring to was not an Israeli lie, but a Hamas quote.
Ghislaine, give it a rest eh, read critically and learn something before you spout off your nonsense. Though I suspect these words will fall on your deaf ears too!
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"watching the tide roll away"
Your link does not indicate that Israel created Hamas, it states that Israel provided support - legal and otherwise. The article notes that Sheik Yassin created Hamas.
Ok fine, let's just agree then that Israel helped Hamas with legal and other support in order to build them up for the purposes of undermining the PLO. The question remains the same - how's that working out?
Your link does not indicate that Israel created Hamas, it states that Israel provided support - legal and otherwise. The article notes that Sheik Yassin created Hamas.
If you dig a trench extending from a river, the water will flow into it.
Ok fine, let's just agree then that Israel helped Hamas with legal and other support in order to build them up for the purposes of undermining the PLO. The question remains the same - how's that working out?
Well, now Israel is helping the PLO with legal and other support in order to build them up for the purposes of undermining Hamas.
"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory). "
"This Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), clarifies its picture, reveals its identity, outlines its stand, explains its aims, speaks about its hopes, and calls for its support, adoption and joining its ranks. Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts. It is a step that inevitably should be followed by other steps. The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah's victory is realised. "
"Article Eight:
Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes. "
"Article Thirteen:
Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement. Abusing any part of Palestine is abuse directed against part of religion. Nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its religion. Its members have been fed on that. For the sake of hoisting the banner of Allah over their homeland they fight. "Allah will be prominent, but most people do not know."
Now and then the call goes out for the convening of an international conference to look for ways of solving the (Palestinian) question. Some accept, others reject the idea, for this or other reason, with one stipulation or more for consent to convening the conference and participating in it. Knowing the parties constituting the conference, their past and present attitudes towards Moslem problems, the Islamic Resistance Movement does not consider these conferences capable of realising the demands, restoring the rights or doing justice to the oppressed. These conferences are only ways of setting the infidels in the land of the Moslems as arbitraters. When did the infidels do justice to the believers?
"But the Jews will not be pleased with thee, neither the Christians, until thou follow their religion; say, The direction of Allah is the true direction. And verily if thou follow their desires, after the knowledge which hath been given thee, thou shalt find no patron or protector against Allah." (The Cow - verse 120).
There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors. The Palestinian people know better than to consent to having their future, rights and fate toyed with. As in said in the honourable Hadith:
"The people of Syria are Allah's lash in His land. He wreaks His vengeance through them against whomsoever He wishes among His slaves It is unthinkable that those who are double-faced among them should prosper over the faithful. They will certainly die out of grief and desperation."
Not really any point in deconstructing this text one more time, except to say that the concept of Jihad, roughly equates to struggle in an Muslim, and Arabic context. Stuggle can be personal, or external, and include anything from demonstrations to violence. Interpretting the concept, as it is done by you, and most of the western media, and political figures, as "war" is simply an example of your own ignorance and gullibility.
As for the text of the document itself, it has been interpretted variously by different Hamas officials, the late, Ismail Abu Shanab (assassinated by Israel in 2003) interpreted the destruction of Israel to mean the incorporation of Israel into an democratic Republic comprised of the entirety of Palestine, where all persons would (inlcuding the Jews who live their now) would have equal rights and vote in general elections. He mused that the majority, which would be Muslim would naturally vote for some kind of Muslim leadership.
Not quite the blood thirsty genocide that you imagine the document to mean. But of course, interpretations made by Hamas officials, are never widely promoted or talked about, leaving Israeli appologists to apply the most heinous interpretation to the text, without nuance or subtlety.
I'll leave you with this. Not some western or Israeli pundit talking about what Hamas intends, but what Hamas say they mean in their charter, as offered by Ismail Abu Shanab
Quote:
On 21 August 2003, Ismail Abu Shanab was assassinated by an Israeli helicopter missile strike while travelling by car in Gaza. Government press releases termed him "terrorist", "operative".
But veering off-message, an Israeli security source told the Washington Post after his killing, "To what extent that person was involved [in terrorism] or not is not important. What is important is that this man... is one of the people who makes decisions about what kind of policies Hamas should adopt."
In other words Israel itself elminated the most moderat Hamas leadership deliberately.
Quote:
Paul Hilder: You’ve said in the past that for this generation, it is time to start building a state along the 1967 borders, beside Israel. This has been considered quite radical within Hamas. Is this still your belief?
Ismail Abu Shanab: We cannot speak for the next generation, but for our own. That is what we know. We do not know what the goals of the next generation will be. We have suffered from Israeli occupation and from Israeli attacks for more than half a century. Since 1948, we Palestinians were kicked off our land and left in refugee camps. We now have 4.5 million Palestinian refugees. The Israelis continued in 1967, occupying the rest of the Palestinian land with all the pain and suffering involved in that.
But today’s generation, with all of these sufferings, wants to build and keep the Palestinian identity. This identity can be symbolised by this Palestinian state. This generation will be busy building this state, and making a better living for our children.
What the next generation will think, nobody speaks about. It is hard, anyway, to speak about the next generation’s thoughts while we are not achieving our own generation’s goals.
Consider for a second that if you read this interview, that you are for the first time in your life, actually reading the entire text of a Hamas official, in context, and complete, and ask yourself why this is?
This is an interesting column - showing that it's pretty hopeless, but not completely:
...some research published last year in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Scott Atran and others suggests that we can go a little further than that and that there is a logic to religious disputes and in particular the conflict in Israel and Palestine which cannot be reduced to secular calculations of interest but which can be treated with on its own terms....the absolutists who rejected with contumely the offer of profane money (or peace) for sacred land would accept deals that involved their enemies giving up things that they considered sacred. The paper cites both Israeli and Hamas leaders saying that they could make peace if only the other side would apologise for 1948, or recognise formally Israel's right to exist. Demanding this kind of wholly intangible mutual surrender of pride makes no sense on a utilitarian calculus, and yet it may be the only thing to unlock the situation.
If only this was as black and white as some here would like to believe. Here is an article to at least cogitate upon.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3647296,00.html
How about this propaganda:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Communiques/2008/Israeli_humanitarian_aid_to_Gaza_31-Dec-2008.htm
It cannot be true - I thought they were genocidal maniacs?
What a bunch of fucking lies, thanks for that Ohara.
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Well, to be precise its not [only] a pack of lies.
The best propaganda uses carefully packaged and circumscribed truths. Goebbels probably said something like that.
But this propaganda is an outrageous apology for a massacre.
No problem, I thought it was a great response to such utter BS, no wasted effort on such blatent propaganda. What is worth ziltch is your link and the non-information it contains.
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"watching the tide roll away"
I think you should piss off ohara. Seriously.
Call it intolerance, or whatever you like, but get out of here for the time being.
It would be easy to respond to your propaganda. But serve no purpose then to get everyone even angrier.
Nice article, ohara. It says the Israelis are no worse than the U.S. and British in Iraq and the Russians in Georgia. What kind of Einstein came up with this scintillating logic?
If I thought there were any yiddishkeit left in Israel, its actions would make me ashamed to be a Jew. As things stand, however, as a proud Jew, I proudly declare my stand on the side of the Palestinian people against the Israeli mass murderers and aggressors. Their acts of desperation will end with their own destruction, as is always the case. The only concern is how many dreams, aspirations, and corpses (of Arabs and Jews) will be left along the way.
Quotes from the Hamas Covenant:
"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory). "
"This Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), clarifies its picture, reveals its identity, outlines its stand, explains its aims, speaks about its hopes, and calls for its support, adoption and joining its ranks. Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts. It is a step that inevitably should be followed by other steps. The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah's victory is realised. "
"Article Eight:Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes. "
"Article Thirteen:Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement. Abusing any part of Palestine is abuse directed against part of religion. Nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its religion. Its members have been fed on that. For the sake of hoisting the banner of Allah over their homeland they fight. "Allah will be prominent, but most people do not know."
Now and then the call goes out for the convening of an international conference to look for ways of solving the (Palestinian) question. Some accept, others reject the idea, for this or other reason, with one stipulation or more for consent to convening the conference and participating in it. Knowing the parties constituting the conference, their past and present attitudes towards Moslem problems, the Islamic Resistance Movement does not consider these conferences capable of realising the demands, restoring the rights or doing justice to the oppressed. These conferences are only ways of setting the infidels in the land of the Moslems as arbitraters. When did the infidels do justice to the believers?
There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors. The Palestinian people know better than to consent to having their future, rights and fate toyed with. As in said in the honourable Hadith:
There are always those who can apologize for mass murder in the name of the state. I give you Madeline Albright as one example. And then there are the Kissingers and Baraks who can rationalize mass murder in terms of real politik. Terrorism when applied against nice white people.
You want a detailed critique of that fascist bullshit?
How about start at No.1 which argues that proportionality doesn´t matter and that Israelis should be allowed to kill 10 Palestinians for every Israeli(that ratio has gone way up now as well), no mention of whether they are civillians, women and children. That was the exact attitude of the Phalangists in the Spanish Civil War, Sharon and Olmert and their fans have company with that policy.
This is all obvious, everyone I know from young to very old is apalled by this massacre, its just apologists like yourself who don´t get it, and I doubt you ever will. Real racists are rarely cured, they are just eventually made irrelevant.
Those Israeli soldiers are just too kind. They must have been trained by the U.S.:
Iraqi baby arrives in US for medical treatment
There's nothing new there Ghislaine.
The Hamas document does not even begin to establish the justification for a massacre- leaving aside whether such a possibility should be allowed for.
While your propaganda is not as offensive as Ohara's- it is at best meaningless. For example, even IF there is some exaggeration about Israel cutting off humanitarion aid... so what? That means there isn't a massacre?!??
So in the context of the reality ypur propaganda also serves no purpose other than to make people even madder.
Double the normal number? So does this mean that during the six month cease fire Israel was only allowing 50 trucks in a day to supply a population of 1.5 million? Pretty much, according to Barghouti's article
So in fact YNet's attempt to refute the claim that "It's all because of Israel's seige" inadvertently confirms what the Palestinians are saying.
Care to comment, ohara?
Meanwhile the UN has called the cut-off to aid a crime against humanity. Racists lie even while killing. I mean, if Israel's actions are anything less than barbaric and evil before the massacre, why did they bar journalists from going there? Yes, yes, for their own safety.
That is not my propoganda, it is Hamas stated Covenant and goals. They wrote it, not me. It does not justify the killing of innocent people at all. I posted it to give some perspective here, as there have been scant condemnations of Hamas rockets, rocket factories, etc. Those firing the rockets though, if they believe in the Hamas Convenant, have no stated interest in an international peace agreement. Hamas is intent on killing civilians in Israel.
Israel has been broadening the appeal of Hamas over the past few days with their bombing campaign and working in direct opposition to its own interests. I can see how a Palestinian survivor whose family was just killed by an Israeli bomb would be looking for a violent organization to support. Someone needs to lay down their arms first, and it is not going to be Hamas. Israel should do it. Now, will this stop the rockets? Will a two-state solution an end to an occupation stop it? I am not sure, but it needs to be tried.
What a horrendous comment, both from a factual and a moral viewpoint.
Your link does not indicate that Israel created Hamas, it states that Israel provided support - legal and otherwise. The article notes that Sheik Yassin created Hamas.
How is it horrendous? What are rockets fired into a civilian area supposed to accomplish?
That's another immoral question, at a time when bombs are falling on police stations and universities. Have you no shame?
aka, the right wing Christian zealots in Canada, do not want to know the truth, they want to believe in Israeli lies, of the type Ghislaine is now espousing, so I am sure your words will fall on deaf ears.
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Why is it an immoral question? I am talking about rockets that were flying previous to these bombs.
I posted quotes from Hamas' own Covenant, not Israeli lies. There are plenty of disgusting comments and lies from both sides to be found. However, the post you are referring to was not an Israeli lie, but a Hamas quote.
Ghislaine, give it a rest eh, read critically and learn something before you spout off your nonsense. Though I suspect these words will fall on your deaf ears too!
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Ok fine, let's just agree then that Israel helped Hamas with legal and other support in order to build them up for the purposes of undermining the PLO. The question remains the same - how's that working out?
If you dig a trench extending from a river, the water will flow into it.
Well, now Israel is helping the PLO with legal and other support in order to build them up for the purposes of undermining Hamas.
If at first you don't succeed...
Not really any point in deconstructing this text one more time, except to say that the concept of Jihad, roughly equates to struggle in an Muslim, and Arabic context. Stuggle can be personal, or external, and include anything from demonstrations to violence. Interpretting the concept, as it is done by you, and most of the western media, and political figures, as "war" is simply an example of your own ignorance and gullibility.
As for the text of the document itself, it has been interpretted variously by different Hamas officials, the late, Ismail Abu Shanab (assassinated by Israel in 2003) interpreted the destruction of Israel to mean the incorporation of Israel into an democratic Republic comprised of the entirety of Palestine, where all persons would (inlcuding the Jews who live their now) would have equal rights and vote in general elections. He mused that the majority, which would be Muslim would naturally vote for some kind of Muslim leadership.
Not quite the blood thirsty genocide that you imagine the document to mean. But of course, interpretations made by Hamas officials, are never widely promoted or talked about, leaving Israeli appologists to apply the most heinous interpretation to the text, without nuance or subtlety.
I'll leave you with this. Not some western or Israeli pundit talking about what Hamas intends, but what Hamas say they mean in their charter, as offered by Ismail Abu Shanab
In other words Israel itself elminated the most moderat Hamas leadership deliberately.
Consider for a second that if you read this interview, that you are for the first time in your life, actually reading the entire text of a Hamas official, in context, and complete, and ask yourself why this is?
This is an interesting column - showing that it's pretty hopeless, but not completely:
...some research published last year in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Scott Atran and others suggests that we can go a little further than that and that there is a logic to religious disputes and in particular the conflict in Israel and Palestine which cannot be reduced to secular calculations of interest but which can be treated with on its own terms....the absolutists who rejected with contumely the offer of profane money (or peace) for sacred land would accept deals that involved their enemies giving up things that they considered sacred. The paper cites both Israeli and Hamas leaders saying that they could make peace if only the other side would apologise for 1948, or recognise formally Israel's right to exist. Demanding this kind of wholly intangible mutual surrender of pride makes no sense on a utilitarian calculus, and yet it may be the only thing to unlock the situation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2008/dec/31/religion-psychology