Israel at it again

[Gandalf]

And to hell with the Israeli argument that "they attacked us". You boarded their boat armed up to the nines along with planes and helicopters! Their self defence was no more than the Palestinians throwing rocks to defend themselves. You invade a boat on neutral territory then you are the aggressing party!

The Israeli's have warned their citizens not to travel to Turkey. I would add Korea to the list. I once met a guy from Israel in Korea and he was a cunt, I should have glassed him while I had the chance. No, that would have been mean. But had we talked politics and he defended their bullshit I should have. That would be like an Englishman defending the Iraq war, you would deserve a good slapping for that. I'm surprised we haven't seen more slain Americans TBH.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

I saw this on the bbc website so thought I'd log on here to see Miles' thread, knowing it would be up already.

Sure enough

Yes, it's one of my pet topics.

If they would stop being such lunatics I wouldn't have to keep starting threads on them. I only didn't start the last one because Jaz beat me to it.

I cannot believe they actually boarded the ship and started shooting. A minimum of 19 dead and 30 plus injured? This is beyond outrageous. I hope there is a huge response internationally and that people take to the streets everywhere. The suffocation of the Gazan people needs to end, just maybe this will wake everyone up. I see there have been huge protests in Turkey.

I just saw on the news William Hague apparently saying something along the lines of "we think the loss of life is terrible but there was always risk in approaching Gaza in such a way". Why should there be any risk? Palestine should be a free country. The waters were international waters. Aid should be allowed into Palestine at any time. Unbelievable attitudes. Israel should NOT be getting away with this shit! The ships were nowhere near the shore anyway.

this makes you a jew hater along with a khan hater

shalom to you miles

[OumaFan]

did someone mention the legend killer?

[Kev]

Scary thread really. This could be the beginning of the end............

World turning against Israel is what kicks off Armageddon.

The Bible makes it clear to choose which your side you're on......

Israel doesn't won't lose any coming war.

I've seen on facebook Christians calling to stand with Israel and petition outside Downing Street.

This shit is genuinely frightening to me, as someone who knows Revelation is all true.

[Nameless]

Scary thread really. This could be the beginning of the end............

World turning against Israel is what kicks off Armageddon.

The Bible makes it clear to choose which your side you're on......

Israel doesn't won't lose any coming war.

I've seen on facebook Christians calling to stand with Israel and petition outside Downing Street.

This shit is genuinely frightening to me, as someone who knows Revelation is all true.

Don't worry, the bible is a part of history with imagination and myths around it, JEsus disciples arrived 70 years after his death in average (discovered for quite a long time now), the bible has no real prophecy, you can sleep on your 2 hears little hobbits

[Kev]

BBC News - Israeli army releases 'flotilla footage'

This video is pretty enlightening.

I think it clearly shows the idea that these Turks were just passive humanitarians is kind of bogus

I think Israel is in an intolerable position, a position like we cannot imagine. Yes it's hard for both sides, but they are technically at was with Palestine and with Hamas and are obviously not going to allow a flotilla of ships through their blockade to possibly arm the enemy.

The news reporting, and especially in this thread is one sided. Peaceful aid humanitarians.............unprovoked Israeli aggression....there are two sides to the story and everyone is just assuming the activist side is the truth.

No country would allow a nation they were at war with and blockading their ports to recieve supplies from ships from other lands.

They were told not to enter the waters and had to be restrained. They then turned violent on the Israelis, I don't see what else they could do.

If the police were attacked by a crowd like that attacking them with with axes, and weapons they would open fire, there is simply no other choice.

It's a wretched situation on both sides, but Israel as a tiny state surrounded by enemies on all sides, and whom have a civilisation spanning history of being attacked, oppressed and reviled are obviously a paranoid nation.

[Kev]

Scary thread really. This could be the beginning of the end............

World turning against Israel is what kicks off Armageddon.

The Bible makes it clear to choose which your side you're on......

Israel doesn't won't lose any coming war.

I've seen on facebook Christians calling to stand with Israel and petition outside Downing Street.

This shit is genuinely frightening to me, as someone who knows Revelation is all true.

Don't worry, the bible is a part of history with imagination and myths around it, JEsus disciples arrived 70 years after his death in average (discovered for quite a long time now), the bible has no real prophecy, you can sleep on your 2 hears little hobbits

Jesus disciples only appeared 70 years after his death eh. That's interesting. So who followed him and why was he killed? I mean why execute a man who had no followers in his lifetime, if nobody knew who he was?

Seriously that is lame bro. Biblical prophecy is irrefutable, there is nothing in the Bible that has been disproved or contradicted and everything continues to come true exactly as stated to this day.

[Kirkland Laing]

I do think you guys are being very one sided in this.

The blockade is in place because terrorists were bombing and killing Israeli's in Israel on virtually daily basis up until Israel invaded.

If Wales revolted from the UK and was killing English people in English towns and cities every day we would do exactly the same.

Hamas was a legitimate terror threat and Israel were/are at war with them. The blockade has been in place the past couple years to try and prevent them from being able to rearm and minimise the threat to the Israeli people.

It's really hard to comprehend what it must be like to be a small country surrounded by enemies on every border like Israel is.

America and the UK typically have invaded countries thousands of miles away under the pretext that they 'may' pose a threat to us at some indeterminate future.

It's obviously far from ideal but it's not fair to just put all the blame onto Israel, I really doubt our country or America would act any differently to how they have the past decades, and especially in recent years.

The blockade is illegal. Israel is only allowing about a quarter of humanitarian supplies (food, medicine etc.) through to Gaza of the amount actually needed. They're basically starving 1.5 million people. As an Israeli minister said a few years ago, they're putting the Palestinians on a diet. Currently tens of thousands of Gazan children are suffering from chronic malnutrition. Israel is collectively punishing 1.5 million people illegally. We put Nazis on trial at the end of WW2 and executed them for taking part in the collective punishment of relatively small numers of people, village-sized numbers.

Wales isn't really a good analogy except size-wise. Imagine if the French had invaded and ethnically cleansed every British person into Wales, took over the rest of the country (England, Scotland, N.Ireland) and settled their people there, kept the British people in cramped refugee camps in Wales under brutal military occupation for over 40 years, pumped half of Wales' water out to England for French use, prevented Brits fishing off the Welsh coastline, constantly killed and maimed large numbers of civilians, spent 40 years building French settlements in Wales and taking over up to 50% of Welsh land, refused to recognise any kind of British state while demanding the Brits recognise that the French now own the rest of Britain etc. That's a much more accurate analogy.

You can't be at war with a bunch of people that use terrorist tactics. Israel have a smaller version of the US army and Hamas have sugar-powered rockets and small arms.

On a more general note, Israel won't allow journalists access to the peace convoy people and are managing the media as per usual so we only get their side of the story. The fact that they've released only a couple of minutes of video means we don't know what started it and broadcasts by the peace people from the boat where the Israeli video comes from show journalists decribing the boat coming under attack from Israeli vessels before they were even boarded. The people on board could well have believed they were fighting for their lives when the Israelis boarded, had probably already seen people they knew killed by Israeli fire. There's no way the peace people initiated any violence and it's a joke to suggest they were armed with guns.

The US Congress will probably pass a resolution applauding Israel's brave defensive attack on the terrorist convoy. And Israel have done much worse stuff to Palestinians on a regular ongoing basis for decades. Because there are euro politicians, Christian clergy, Nobel peace prize winners etc. on board these vessels this will get some attention but the usurping entity does this kind of thing all the time to the Palestinians, peace be upon them. Israel shot two Palestinian teenage girls today in the West Bank for protesting the killings on the boats. You never see that kind of everyday thing in the papers. If everything done by Israel in the Palestinian territories was reported every day it would be clear who are the terrorists and who are the terrorised.

[CFH]

I do think you guys are being very one sided in this.

The blockade is in place because terrorists were bombing and killing Israeli's in Israel on virtually daily basis up until Israel invaded.

If Wales revolted from the UK and was killing English people in English towns and cities every day we would do exactly the same.

Hamas was a legitimate terror threat and Israel were/are at war with them. The blockade has been in place the past couple years to try and prevent them from being able to rearm and minimise the threat to the Israeli people.

It's really hard to comprehend what it must be like to be a small country surrounded by enemies on every border like Israel is.

America and the UK typically have invaded countries thousands of miles away under the pretext that they 'may' pose a threat to us at some indeterminate future.

It's obviously far from ideal but it's not fair to just put all the blame onto Israel, I really doubt our country or America would act any differently to how they have the past decades, and especially in recent years.

And if England (or America, Canada, France, Zaire etc.) had invaded Wales with the support of an imperialistic and self-serving nation-state and it's allies, stolen their land, subjugated, murdered and exiled their people, and exerted tyrannical rule over them, I would be cheering the Welsh on as they killed the English.

[Kirkland Laing]

A Palestinian woman whose house has been occupied by Jewish settlers argued with Israelis who came to celebrate Jerusalem Day in the mainly Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, Wednesday. (Ahmad Gharabli/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Pictures of the Week: May 9 - May 14 - Photo Journal - WSJ

[Kirkland Laing]

This girl got shot in the face today but apparently survived. Photographs of the two dead girls haven't made it out of the West Bank yet.

[JazMerkin]

Thank god, Bilbo is talking shite again. I'd been worried recently with all the sense spewing from his typing fingers, but thankfully I can sleep easy knowing he's reverted to form

[CFH]

Jesus Christ man, I don't think we needs pictures of dead and badly wounded people to understand that what's going on it fucked up.

[Kirkland Laing]

Jesus Christ man, I don't think we needs pictures of dead and badly wounded people to understand that what's going on it fucked up.

I don't agree. I don't think people have a clue what's going on over there every day.

[CFH]

Jesus Christ man, I don't think we needs pictures of dead and badly wounded people to understand that what's going on it fucked up.

I don't agree. I don't think people have a clue what's going on over there every day.

When people read that one woman was shot in the face and that two girls were killed, they have a pretty good idea of what's going on. Perhaps the general public does not, but no one participating in this thread doesn't know what violence looks like.

Those pictures are only anecdotal evidence anyways. I'm sure you could find images of dead Israeli soldiers and civilians and of Arab's doing things comparable to what those Jewish kids are doing in the other picture. It adds very little to the argument IMO, and it drives people like myself away from these types of discussions. Maybe other people feel differently or that I'm a pussy or whatever, but that is my opinion. And for the record, I firmly sympathize with the Palestinians.