UN Security Council calls for mideast cease-fire, fighting continues

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The U.N. Security Council called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, but an intense bombardment of missiles from Israeli jets and helicopters early Friday and a barrage of Hamas rockets indicated there may be no quick end to the fighting.
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33 comments // UN Security Council calls for mideast cease-fire, fighting continues

  • Highr0ller
  • Highr0ller
  • freecrack
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  

    • "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind...War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." ...John F. Kennedy

    • 1 year ago
  • lfm
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      lfm  

    • So what is being taken as the loss? That peace cannot be guaranteed by a committee of people completely aside from the actual conflict (?), or that we wish to have an all mighty powerful UN or US or whatnot that would always be able to stop all conflicts?
      Regardless of the “evil master plan for 2012” of controlling all military via something like the UN, but obviously with brains in the north atlantic area, sometimes it seems decisions that need to be made for others cannot be willingly accepted by those others, aka war, polluting, etc. old question, who knows better?

      Anyway, the only ones that can stop a fight are the fighters, the dudes selling the tickets and the other dudes yelling from the corner have no true decision making whatsoever. Time to time, right? :-P

      What can be argued is that for some decisions to be made, maybe there is a need for the evidence to be extremely evident only because it is hard to see, aka lack of information, distractions allure, 24 service, bullets flying over your head, constant threat of nuclear holocaust, etc.
      If it is true that with time, technology and knowledge eventually almost all people will know how easily most problems can be solved, easy mainly because we created most of them ourselves, then we have nothing to worry about…

      it ends up being some sort of social backtracking but now with know-how and tools gathered from that reach that we achieved, at our OWN expense and the earth’s expense, but still achieved nevertheless…… with time we have stood up and grabbed certain tools that now we must put to use while sitting down…… before there was a larger need for abrupt reactions more than precise results, now it seems to be the opposite…..damn, clearer? The fighters need to sit down

    • 1 year ago
  • petarro
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      petarro  

    • "At least 30 rockets have been fired from inside the Gaza strip to Israel since the fall to cease fire"

      Sky News:
      But Hamas rejected the resolution saying it is not in the best interests of Palestinians.

      The militant group "is not interested" in the ceasefire because it was not consulted and the resolution does not meet its minimum demands, said a spokesman.

      Hamas has been looking for the blockade to stop in order to bring in weapons from Iran and get fully armed like Hezbollah.

    • 1 year ago
  • Elkintoi
  • WorldPeaceTV
  • cheezynuts
  • WorldPeaceTV
  • cheezynuts
  • WorldPeaceTV
  • petarro
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      petarro  

    • Nadecrat, and how about the 3000 mortars sent from Gaza to israel, how about them? You don't look like you care, simply because you are taking sides.

    • 1 year ago
  • nadercrat
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      nadercrat  
    • petarro:

      First of all, those numbers are inflated because you're giving no time frame. Furthermore, if quantitative measures of munitions spent is a measure of morality then Israel is losing miserably by that measure. Not only have they launch more munitions than that in these 14 days, but the impact of the munitions! I think that no rockets should be fired on Israeli civilians or soldiers not engaging in aggressive violations of international law; however, Israeli soldiers are in violation of international law, they are the aggressors, and the only way that rockets will not be fired upon Sderot and other southern Israeli towns is if they immediately cease their aggression!

    • 1 year ago
  • nadercrat
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      nadercrat  

    • If the nature of the IDF attacks were defensive against rocket attacks, then why are they killing unarmed protesters in the West Bank?!?

      Over 200 children have been killed! You are barbarians if you think that is justifiable in any way! They are not being used as cannon fodder by Hamas, if they were: 1. Hamas wouldn't be so popular within their own community. 2. Israel would have ample evidence that would be corroborated by international observes--the presence of whom Israel has long fought. 3. International workers, like drivers for UNRWA and their buildings have been attacked by the IDF despite having given the IDF their GPS coordinates and Israel's intimate knowledge of Gaza and its buildings. They acknowledge that no militant activity took place in the grounds of the UN compound that was bombed killing over 40 civilians taking refuge there.

    • 1 year ago
  • iameam
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      iameam  

    • I saw a BBC report yesterday of the UN voting for ceasefire, and it was said that the US abstained from the vote. Abstained? WTF?

    • 1 year ago
  • nadercrat
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      nadercrat  
    • iameam:

      Are you kidding me!? Abstaining is the nicest thing the US does! The votes on Israeli-Palestinian matters in the UN are usually the entire world vs. Israel/US (150ish - 2ish--sometimes a few random islands go along in exchange for cash aid). There is a broad international consensus on this matter and the US and Israel have done everything in their considerable power to prevent a political solution.

    • 1 year ago
  • lfm
  • lfm
  • SummerSeale
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      SummerSeale  

    • These calls for peace "action" and truces make me laugh.

      I can just imagine the idiots trying the same thing during WWII, trying to make the Axis and the Allies agree that a truce and negotiations were the best thing for all.

      I guess these people need to pick up a history book and read it. We bombed our enemy into the dust, and I hope that Israel does the same. We had every right to do so, and they do as well. It didn't make us Nazis, and it certainly doesn't make them Nazis either.

    • 1 year ago
  • nadercrat
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      nadercrat  
    • SummerSeale:

      You are barbaric and are expressing a view that is akin to those expressed by the very Nazi's whose subjects you feel deserved to be "bombed into dust."

      Maybe you should pick up a history book and read about the unnecessary bombing of Dresden and the war record of General Lemay (forgive the spelling) -- the first head of the Air Force when it was a branch of the Army in your beloved "great war." According to himself--and he was the most hawkish of hawks that has ever lived--the only difference between himself and his colleagues and the men on trial at Nuremburg was that Lemay and his colleagues had won. McNamara is fond of using the quote, I thikn it makes him feel less guilty about his own war crimes, by kind of equating them with those committed by "great men" during the "great war."

      The "they are different from us" attitude is barbaric and leads to the atrocities that are being committed currently in Gaza.

    • 1 year ago
  • SummerSeale
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      SummerSeale  
    • SummerSeale:

      You're right. I am barbaric. I am barbaric inasmuch as war is barbaric.

      Dresden was not a war crime. Hitchens famously defends it as a necessary action and I concur. You may debate that all you like, but the fact remains that today, it still is not categorized as a war crime.

      Too bad for your attempted legal argument.

    • 1 year ago
  • petarro
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      petarro  

    • This is quite not true, Hamas keeps sending Rockets to Israel, clearly giving the message that they are not interested into this Cease Fire.

    • 1 year ago
  • MuslimGhost
  • nadercrat
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      nadercrat  
    • petarro:

      You are factually wrong. Hamas publicly indicated a desire to perpetuate the cease-fire under the condition that the blockade on Gaza be eased! Israel refused and broke the cease-fire on Nov. 4. The blockade is a violation of international law, as is the response to the rocket fire that has killed fewer Israelis than Israeli bombs have (3 - 7). This is a long-running attempt by Israel to reduce the non-Jewish population in the region and ensure that Gaza can never be a viable community for Palestinians.

    • 1 year ago
  • petarro
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      petarro  
    • petarro:

      MuslimGhost, at least we don't kill our own people. And your discriminatory remark reminds me of how low people can be.

      Nadecrat, wrong. You can even see this at AlJazeera web site were the Hamas leader said they did not renew the Cease Fire because they want to end "the occupation" Seriously, you are poorly informed.

    • 1 year ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
  • nadercrat
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      nadercrat  
    • WorldPeaceTV:

      Thank you for your post. However, it is important to realize the real threats that people face by protesting in support of Palestinians, particularly in these hard times when an arrest that leads to the loss of a job may be devastating in way that people alive today don't really understand. I live in South Florida and there was a small protest in Miami where Palestinian rights protesters squared off against pro-genocide protesters and the Palestinian protesters were arrested, with absolutely no media coverage--not even in the local media. There was a CNN "ireport" of it, but no audio was added to offer an explanation of the images.

    • 1 year ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  
    • WorldPeaceTV:

      Thats pure popycock and not true..to be arrested in the US for protesting peacefully happens rarely and I doubt any of that is true..but if it is, it gives us a better reason to go out and protest!

      STOP THE GENOCIDE!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • mohawknation
  • cheezynuts
  • Robroy1
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      Robroy1  

    • I guess the UN can call for anything they want, but as we all know, no one pays attention to them, what they need are some kind of teeth to put some bite behind what they call for. They have good intentions but no way to back them up.

    • 1 year ago
  • baterva

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