Gaza faces 'alarming' humanitarian situation (Ya think?)
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090101/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_un_israel_palestinians_humanitarian
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Gaza's 1.5 million residents are facing an "alarming" humanitarian situation under constant Israeli bombardment, with the main power plant shut down, overcrowded hospitals struggling to cope and very limited food supplies, U.N. officials said.
The power plant shut down on Tuesday because Israel has blocked fuel delivery through the main pipeline since Dec. 26, U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes said Wednesday. This has forced hospitals to use generators, which have limited fuel supplies, and left many of the 650,000 people in central and northern Gaza with power cuts of 16 hours a day or more, he said.
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derek901
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Hamas child killers.
- 3 years ago
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derek901
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anglcazn
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This is getting ridiculous. Many of you sound like children playing the blame game. "IT'S THE HAMAS' FAULT!" "IT'S THE ISRAELIS' FAULT!"
How about this? BOTH, and I mean BOTH, are responsible (notice how I didn't say fault?) Many of you are starting to sound alike whether you're arguing with one side or the other. Here's a solution! Instead of playing the stupid blame game and who is the victim, let's discuss a fucken solution!
Everyone's constant bickering is leading no where. It makes me question whether ANY of you want peace because it sounds like you all want to fucken further the war.
- 3 years ago
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anglcazn
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WorldPeaceTV
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Yea, right...go in with a one ton bomb to kill one person not caring for the dozens of innocent civilians AND many babies.
The cowardly Israeli military could have gone in and arrested the terrorist they had targeted. Apparently, human life has no meaning for Israeli terrorism against the innocent Palestinians.
Cut off medical supplies
cut off water
cut off electricity
cut off food
put a wall around them
not allow them to come in or leaveALL before the bombing, all DURING the cease fire.
and since the bombing, Israel continues to block aid for the most part. the small amount they have let in is only a ruse intended to make it look like they are helping.
These people were starving because of what Israel did before the blood shed...they were dying from not having medications and proper medical supplies before the bombing.
This is Israels death camp
(Israels telephone calls warning of imminent strikes are bogus and many Palestinians have come to ignore them becuase most of the time there are no strikes where Israels says it will strike. Those calls in itself are terrifying, which imo is terrorism.)
- 3 years ago
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WorldPeaceTV
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William9 [removed]
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William9 [removed]
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Betico
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William9:
speak for yourself, asshole.
- 3 years ago
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Betico
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WhiteNoise
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William9:
Party to Murder
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081229_party_to_murder/OCCUPATION 101
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http://www.myspace.com/occupation101CHILDREN ON BOTH SIDES ARE VICTIMS...
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“In a democracy some are guilty but all are responsible. The opposite of good is not evil; the opposite of good is indifference.” –Abraham Joshua Heschel
- 3 years ago
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WhiteNoise
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cheezynuts
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The only way I can see an end to the violence it to get rid of both, Hamas and the Zionist ruling Israel
- 3 years ago
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cheezynuts
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SpaceMoses
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Israel wants peace. It is the Arab fanatics that will not be satisfied until there are no Jews left in Israel.
I cant believe how everyone treats palestine as a victim. Israel gave them gaza for hopes at peace. Israel was trying to compromise but ever since its establishment it has been under constant assault from terrorist factions that have embedded themselves into the arab population.
No one said anything about the hundreds of terrorist attacks that take place in israel over the years but now that Israel has given up on talking and has resorted to violence OUT OF PROTECTION everyone points a finger at israel and says "how could you be so horrible"Anyone who is knowledgeable about the situation would be aware of the fact that Israel is doing this as a last resort and has tried on multiple occasions to relieve stress between the two parties.
Was Israel supposed to sit and allow Rocket attacks to continue as they had every since the Gaza strip was given away IN PEACE
- 3 years ago
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SpaceMoses
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mendokusai
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types the man while he sits behind his computer
when u say "rest assured I would do my level best to bring you to your knees." does that include doing things like firing random rockets into israeli neighborhoods becuz then ur best still wudnt do shit to israel n both u n ur children wud be screwed
by the way when u try to toss around the term "chosen" like some sort of insult u need to remember ur basics on judaism n islam. ur ignorance sounds typically american
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mendokusai
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akamaial [removed]
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If you hate me because you believe that you are chosen, and I don't accept Allah my God, then persecute and attack me and my children, rest assured I would do my level best to bring you to your knees.
- 3 years ago
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SpaceMoses
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akamaial:
(sarcasm For you retards) what better way to bring israel to its knees than firing explosives into schools, right?
Try to understand the entire history before you start pretending to be wise and proud and noble.
You disgust me...
What have you ever done to try and help the situation. - 3 years ago
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SpaceMoses
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WhiteNoise
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The universally accepted definition of INSANITY is to persist in the same behavior but expecting a different outcome.
"The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership....a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures." - William Fulbright
- 3 years ago
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WhiteNoise
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capt_ayhab
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According to peace loving Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister, "there is no humanitarian crisis in the [Gaza] Strip, and therefore there is no need for a humanitarian truce."....
- 3 years ago
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capt_ayhab
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capt_ayhab
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Humanitarian situation is good for what?????? for KILLING????
I cried................. I cried for children - 3 years ago
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capt_ayhab
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Salaam
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did anyone catch livni's interview on abc last night? she stated that the israeli government did not agree to the ceasefire because the humanitarian situation in gaza was GOOD and it was not necessary to let in more supplies.
i don't know whether to laugh or cry.
- 3 years ago
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Salaam
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capt_ayhab
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Without USA policy change regarding the entire region, without USA and taxpayers pressure on Israel to act human-like, only thing Israel will settle for would be to have entire region [cleansed] from Arabs and Muslim, or even perhaps Christians as well, or enslave the entire race, and countries. Muslims and Arabs are paying for what Germans did to Jews, and for that fact entire world.
Hamas did not exist prior to Zionist Imperialism and prior to Israeli LUST for land ad blood. Neither did the so called [Muslim- terrorist]. Hamas did not exist prior to Ariel Sharon's brutal and genocidal crimes of leveling 16,000 homes and killing 1000's in Gaza just to open up a wider roads for his TANKS, in order to invade Lebanon.
Which decent human being can strip the right of 1.5 million disparate people to STAY ALIVE??????
- 3 years ago
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capt_ayhab
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In this situation nobody is right and everybody is wrong. The problem is tragic and intractable. It is a grim and depressing reality that should haunt everyone, for it speaks to the dark and destructive forces of human nature. If we as a species are unable to master such dark passions they will destroy us all.
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unimatrix0
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damnneargenius
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Two wrongs don't make a right.
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damnneargenius
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sousa
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Israel's violence and inhumanity cannot go on for another year! Israelis really need to stop and ask themselves what have Gazans (who are technically jailed animals deprived of every human right under the sun from the right to movement, to livelihood, to education, to food, and even aid) really done to them!
SHAME ON IGNORANT American taxpayers who allow their foreign policies to be bought by Zionists and on Israelis for not learning anything from their own history!
its sickening! - 3 years ago
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sousa
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Robroy1
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Israel has been blockading Gaza in one way or the other for years and I don't blame Hamas for wanting thier God given right to be free. Americans and all other people would do the same. The only hope is to drive the opressors out at any cost and Hamas is doing it, can't blame them for wanting to live like human beings. America needs to quit backing this murder of innocent people seeking to live like human beings with pride and dignity instead of constant harassment by Israel. Not all Jews are responsible, needs to be remembered, there are some very decent Jewish people in the world it is just to bad none of them have power in Israel to stop this killing.
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Robroy1
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capt_ayhab
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Blame it on Hamas only till you are blue in face, but lets not forget that Israel has been blockading Gaza for past 6 months. They cut off water, electricity, and allowed just enough food for gradual starvation of 1.5 million. What hamas do in return??? rocket the Israeli civilians.
Israel has turned Gaza to a concentration camp. argue with it as much as you want, it will not change the fact. It will be almost as denying the holocaust. Wake up folks, Israel is no angel.
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capt_ayhab
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JanforGore
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Yes, only mighty backed by the US taxpayer. Imagine that. Billions of dollars wasted on bombs for their military when children in this country cannot even afford a doctor. Something is TERRIBLY wrong with this picture.
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JanforGore
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Tayllerand
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In Georgia Israelis were training the georgian army to attack the Osetian people and look what happened the Russians kicked their asses.
I wonder why Israel dont pick a fight with a country like North Korea,Russia or China.
They will be crying like little girls , Israel is paper tiger. - 3 years ago
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Tayllerand
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Tayllerand
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Remember what happened in Lebanon a few years ago.
Same story, provoke the guerrilla groups and bomb
the civilian population. - 3 years ago
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Tayllerand
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JanforGore
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"Murdering children by using them as human shields is unforgivable."
That is despicable if true, but it is even more despicable and unforgiveable to shoot and kill a child being used as a shield. Don't you think? I would think those that do didn' t care about that child either. THERE IS A CHOICE. So you can plaster all the pictures of flowers here you wish, but it is disengenuous if you do not condemn those that shoot at and kill those children using that lame excuse because their hatred just couldn't stop them from doing so. So do you condemn the Israeli govt for killing a child who is being used as a shield? Do you?
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JanforGore
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Clear example of becoming the beast you fight...that is now the Israeli govt as it was this govt in Iraq. This is appalling. But don't dare to show compassion for innocent people because right away you are branded a terrorist lover or anti semitic by the ignorant ones who hate themselves. Amazing that this has come as far as it has and people still don't get that bombs SOLVE NOTHING. I am really beginning to wonder about what really is behind all of this and the timing of it.
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JanforGore
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arcticspirit
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(These flowers aren't much, but they are dedicated to all of those who have been slain as human shields by Hamas, and to the people who are stuck in Gaza, and remain the human shields of the terrorists, Hamas.)
If Hamas cared about the population of Gaza they would have gotten the women and children out of the city thru the tunnels before the 12/26 bombing campaign into Israel.
Instead they wanted to embed themselves into the civilian population. They want human shields.
What's worse, is they think they world will protect them if they cause murder the the women and children in Gaza by using them as human shields.
Hamas has dug a new low as a terrorist group.Murdering children by using them as human shields is unforgivable.
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arcticspirit
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Salaam
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arcticspirit:
with all due respect, you might have failed to notice that israel is equally as guilty of using palestinians as human shields.
please see:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jan/02/israel1
http://djiin.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/dailymail_humanshield.jpgand there are many more examples of this.
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Salaam
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arcticspirit:
I have always said that both sides are wrong. You can look back in the last 3 weeks, every single thing I said was both sides were wrong.
- 3 years ago
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arcticspirit
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arcticspirit:
How do you suggest they take out over a million women and children through the tunnels, especially as Egypt wouldn't take them? How many tunnels do you think there are (were, until Israel destroyed them)? How wide and high do you think they are? How long do you think it would take to usher out over a million women and children through a handful of narrow tunnels?
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arcticspirit:
Yea, right...go in with a one ton bomb to kill one person not caring for the dozens of innocent civilians AND many babies.
The cowardly Israeli military could have gone in and arrested the terrorist they had targeted. Apparently, human life has no meaning for Israeli terrorism against the innocent Palestinians.
Cut off medical supplies
cut off water
cut off electricity
cut off food
put a wall around them
not allow them to come in or leaveALL before the bombing, all DURING the cease fire.
and since the bombing, Israel continues to block aid for the most part. the small amount they have let in is only a ruse intended to make it look like they are helping.
These people were starving because of what Israel did before the blood shed...they were dying from not having medications and proper medical supplies before the bombing.
This is Israels death camp
(Israels telephone calls warning of imminent strikes are bogus and many Palestinians have come to ignore them becuase most of the time there are no strikes where Israels says it will strike. Those calls in itself are terrifying, which imo is terrorism.)
- 3 years ago
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WorldPeaceTV
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iloveravi
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Alarming Humanitarian situation. Yeah. It's ethnic cleansing.
Israel has become the abused child that grows up to be an abuser themselves.
Trying to exterminate an entire race of people is not tolerable behavior.
Building prisons around communities like the warsaw ghetto is not tolerable behavior.
Using your treatment by the Nazi's a s "get out of jail free card" while you go and carry out THE EXACT same atrocities on another people is not tolerable behavior.
I am so sickened by Israel right now.
It's fair to say that I would support nearly anyone who is against them. That is crazy I know, but I am that disgusted by them.
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iloveravi:
I guess you're just gunna completely ignore the Israeli schools Hamas bombs on a regular basis. They aren't even military targets, their just murder for the sake of murder. That doesn't sicken you? I don't think any german children died at the fate of Jewish bombs. To compare this land conflict to the holocaust is a gross misunderstanding of history.
This is not ethnic cleansing, its called war. People die on both sides, no one is right no one is wrong. When you pick a side, you become wrong.
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RonenA
