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Israel-Palestine
Gaza: US blamed
2004-10-03
But natch. Who else?
Hamas' representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, said the massacres committed in Gaza were carried out with American consent. "It is obvious that these massacres couldn't have happened without an American political cover or through American pressure on the members of the UN not to condemn the Israeli actions," he told Aljazeera.net "With the US now committing crimes in Iraq and before that in Afghanistan, this reveals that the American mentality and style is similar to the Israeli one. The US can't criticise Israel because it will be criticising itself." John Greshman, co-director of the US-based Foreign Policy in Focus thinktank, attributed US reluctance to be more condemnatory of Israel on the large number of pro-Likud supporters within the Bush administration compared with former administrations "Many of them see Israeli interests and US national security interests as aligned," Greshman said.
Or maybe we just don't care. Or maybe, taking casualties daily in an Iraq "intifadeh," that's the reason we don't care. A dead terr is a dead terr, and live terrs love to surround themselves with non-combatants. We're on to the trick. It only happens so many times before the sympathy's all used up. Having terrs take a school full of kiddies hostage only hastened the process.
Posted by:Fred

#9  Why aren't they thanking us for all their pagan relatives achieving paradise? You know, the spot in Hell right next to a furnace, their 72 virgin pigs and their head shoved up where the sun doesn't shine on Allan five times a day. Isn't this what they wanted? Maybe the problem is they really don't want paradise after all. Perhaps they have some deep-rooted misgivings about their spirituality.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2004-10-03 7:43:22 PM  

#8  Another vote for America making all of their propagandist dreams come true. We need to begin exterminating the entire government structures that promote terrorism.

Sudan should see Khartoum's government house blasted to hell while in full session. Syria's leadership should be blown off of the map, as with Iran too. Screw any diplomacy, it's obvious that most Arab nations dispensed with it a long time ago. Our moral reticence regarding indiscriminate slaughter is being turned against us. While we should forebear any outright anti-civilian offensives, neither should we hesitate to begin cooking off the support networks that terrorists enjoy throughout the Middle East.

America needs to put its own face on the determined effort to make any and all terror supporters pay for the least complicity with their very lives.
Posted by: Zenster   2004-10-03 2:45:33 PM  

#7  fine. Israel? Would you like some more JDAMs? If we're gonna get the blame we may as well really earn it :-)
Posted by: Frank G   2004-10-03 1:30:14 PM  

#6  Part of the Palestinian's problem is that blowing themselves up to kill Israeli women and children, doing the insane car swarms where charred corpses are dismembered and passed around, and joyously celebrating the deaths of Americans do not engender a propensity for sympathy among Westerners. Further the outrageously overblown rhetoric and self-parody of Palestinian statements make it hard for we Crusaders to take them seriously. In short, Palestinians have, through conscious effort, made themselves into something that we in the West find hard to consider human. Therefore, they should realize that we are not responsible for anything that happens to them because WE JUST DON'T CARE and as far as most of the West is concernerd they can all just FOAD.
Posted by: RWV   2004-10-03 1:23:44 PM  

#5  "U.S. Blamed"

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yadda, yadda, yadda.

*Yawn*
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-10-03 11:40:56 AM  

#4  I am astounded. We are blamed again. Who gives a flip? Al-Jizem can spare us the self-rightous indignation. We are on to the jihadists and their fellow journalistic (read propaganda) travelers.
Posted by: John   2004-10-03 11:31:27 AM  

#3  The enemy U.S.-Coalition forces are confronting in Falluja, Samarra & Sadr City is the indentical, destructive, terrorist mindest the IDF confronts today in the Gaza Strip, Nablus & Ramallah.
Posted by: Mark Espinola   2004-10-03 11:20:24 AM  

#2  Shouldn't have been caught celebrating on 9-11-2001, should you. Payback is a bitch. May your self inflicted hell be long and painful.
Posted by: ed   2004-10-03 11:08:33 AM  

#1  Ah yes. The ever-growing, popular world mantra: "The US did it! The US did it!"

The more I hear it, the less sympathy I have for any of these dinks. Probably time to start ratcheting up our actions worldwide so we truly can live up to their opinion of us.
Posted by: nada   2004-10-03 10:55:01 AM  

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