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Pray for a Lack of “Proportionately” in Numbers. There will never be an Equivalence of Intent.

18 Friday Jul 2014

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Israel is blessed with many creative minds. It has used this gift to cure diseases and win Noble prizes in various fields of science and economics. Because of the vicious neighborhood it resides, it also uses its creativity to build sophisticated offensive and defensive weapon systems.

Israel has a vastly superior military capability than the Palestinian terrorists. The country’s defensive technological edge has helped to greatly reduce their casualty figures in the latest wave of terrorist attacks. In particular, the “Iron Dome” has shielded Israeli civilians from well over 1000 rockets launched from Gaza towards dense population centers. Had the Israeli technology not been in place, the casualty figures would certainly be high.

Would more Israeli deaths somehow make this combat “fair”? Do an “even” number of casualties make each side comparable? Those are distorted views of proportionality.

Would the world somehow be happier with more dead Israeli teenagers on…

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17 Thursday Jul 2014

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An introduction to “Students for Justice in Palestine”:

The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) today exists as a consortium of campus “clubs” throughout the American and Canadian college systems which work to oppose the existence of Israel and to promote Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against the Jewish state. There are at least 80 chapters of these clubs on campuses throughout the US and Canada. The SJP goes under other assorted names on some campuses. Names such as Palestine Solidarity Committee or Students for Palestinian Equal Rights are also common.  In Canada, some SJP chapters have adopted the name Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA), or Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), while others use similar sounding names but advocate for the Palestinian “revolution”or resistance against the Israeli and US governments when they are perceived as allies together against “Palestinian” irredentist goals. The SJP could be said to operate on the campuses in a classic Rico Statute style of infiltration as a method of promoting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement throughout the USA and Canada via a “grass roots movement.”

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/lee-kaplan/backgrounder-the-students-for-justice-in-palestine/ – 7/17/2014.

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Gaza and the ICC – ” . . . could we ourselves be indicted?” Surprising Answer by Ibrahim Khraishi, Palestinian Human Rights Council Ambassador

16 Wednesday Jul 2014

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But in an astonishing admission this week, the Palestinian representative to the UN Human Rights Council, Ambassador Ibrahim Khraishi, suggested that things are not so simple. (Watch the YouTube clip here.)

Speaking on July 9th to Palestinian Authority TV, Khraishi told a very blunt and very inconvenient truth: the rockets fired from Gaza toward Israel are “each and every one a crime against humanity whether it hits or misses, because it is directed at civilian targets.” While he argued that settlements were also a crime against humanity, he challenged the idea that ICC prosecutions would be a one-way street. Noting that he was not a candidate in any elections, and so he could speak the truth, he went on . . . .

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/alan-johnson/will-palestinians-take-israel-icc-probably-not – 7/15/2014.

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Barbaric Iranian Bullying on TV and in Press: Investigative Journalist Lee Kaplan Faces PressTV Debate with Rania Masri

16 Wednesday Jul 2014

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Iranian Bullying on TV and in Press: Investigative Journalist Lee Kaplan Faces PressTV Debate with Rania Masri: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/07/16/371482/israel-has-no-right-to-strike-gaza/ – Video 21:30 minutes, 7/16/2014.

Parties engaged in argument tend to their arguments.  Viewers, however, may observe how each uses — or abuses — not only language but their conversational partners, and “talking over” a partner, mouthing the same to near death, is abuse.

Keeping in mind “malignant narcissism”, listen for and to the script — and note how the “transcript” has been altered from the video.

Enjoy!

One more thing: PressTV has taken the above cited clip of almost 22 minutes and reduced the debate portion to just about six minutes, perhaps not even that, of YouTube presentation.  What are they hiding?  You may now do the comparison.

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16 Wednesday Jul 2014

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Goldberg then claims that this is a war that, “nobody wanted…not even the enemy, Hamas.” This is dangerously naïve. Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of the State of Israel. There has never been a terror attack against Israel that Hamas has not celebrated or endorsed in some fashion. Not only does Hamas want to launch rockets at our civilians, they want Israel’s response. They want to use Palestinians as human shields to drum up international attention.

To claim that Hamas does not want this war is to ignore what Hamas is: the physical and organizational manifestation of a century old Palestinian hatred towards the Jewish people.

Read more: http://forward.com/articles/201972/gaza-war-unintended-nope-hamas-is-sworn-to-destro/#ixzz37dHwXd1U

The Turkish Chickpea: Recep “Hummus” Erdogan

15 Tuesday Jul 2014

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“Israel is dropping 400 tons of bombs on our brothers, not chickpeas…to agree with brutality is brutality itself,” said the prime minister.

The Turkish Prime Minister has come to the side of Gaza again, seemingly with a bowl of hummus.

Just over one year after Erdogan extracted an apology from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the killing of nine “activists” on the Mavi Marmara, Erdogan is pointing an accusing finger at the victim of aggression again.

A satire of the Netanyahu apology to Erdogan is below. Perhaps Erdogan should leave it in his favorites folder.

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http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Erdogan-accuses-Israel-of-using-terrorism-in-its-operations-against-Hamas-in-Gaza-362759

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