Comments on: AP bias followup http://www.yourish.com/2008/12/21/5781 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Michael Lonie http://www.yourish.com/2008/12/21/5781/comment-page-1#comment-34779 Michael Lonie Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:56:10 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5781#comment-34779 So how many psychiatiric casualties have there been among the Israeli civilians of Sderot and the nearby region during Hamas' long campaign to destroy that town? Got to add the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder victims to the killed and wounded. Didn't you link to a story not long ago about high levels of stress among Israeli children? It must be at sky-high rates in Sderot. Nobody will take care of the Jews if the Jews don't take care of themselves. Hamas is making war against Israel. Both its actions and its talk declare that. Make war on Hamas back, more than the Gazans can stomach. To any states that object, Israel should say "If you love these terrorists so much, you take the Gazans into your own country, so they can send suicide bombers onto your busses and into your hospitals and shoot rockets at your schools. We will not tolerate them any longer." So how many psychiatiric casualties have there been among the Israeli civilians of Sderot and the nearby region during Hamas’ long campaign to destroy that town? Got to add the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder victims to the killed and wounded. Didn’t you link to a story not long ago about high levels of stress among Israeli children? It must be at sky-high rates in Sderot.

Nobody will take care of the Jews if the Jews don’t take care of themselves. Hamas is making war against Israel. Both its actions and its talk declare that. Make war on Hamas back, more than the Gazans can stomach. To any states that object, Israel should say “If you love these terrorists so much, you take the Gazans into your own country, so they can send suicide bombers onto your busses and into your hospitals and shoot rockets at your schools. We will not tolerate them any longer.”

]]> By: John M. http://www.yourish.com/2008/12/21/5781/comment-page-1#comment-34777 John M. Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:32:19 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5781#comment-34777 You see Meryl, just as WE should have responded to 9/11 with only intelligences and police actions, Israel should only respond to rocket attacks with "overtures" and "negotiation". The reason is that neither of our countries were "existentially" threatened by these actions. The only time you can use military force is if you're worried that your entire COUNTRY will be wiped out (for the US, that pretty much means an asteroid strike. Goodbye, Army and Navy. Hello Asteroid Deflection Corps). The death of a few hundred or thousand individual citizens is of no importance. They should accept their deaths as part of the give and take of the peace process. To actually take offense at these attacks would me "we have become our enemies" You see Meryl, just as WE should have responded to 9/11 with only intelligences and police actions, Israel should only respond to rocket attacks with “overtures” and “negotiation”. The reason is that neither of our countries were “existentially” threatened by these actions. The only time you can use military force is if you’re worried that your entire COUNTRY will be wiped out (for the US, that pretty much means an asteroid strike. Goodbye, Army and Navy. Hello Asteroid Deflection Corps).

The death of a few hundred or thousand individual citizens is of no importance. They should accept their deaths as part of the give and take of the peace process. To actually take offense at these attacks would me “we have become our enemies”

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