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AddReply(386938,"#18","Right On","Arizona","01/16/09","Your statement is a classic example of moronic ignorance fuelled by emotional instability, spoken on the backs of those who have fought for freedom.  ");
AddReply(385183,"In reply to Nitzan","Brian","London","01/13/09","Nitzan wrote; “Why do you \"hope\" for \"minimum loss of life\" on the enemy side in this war? Don\'t we want the enemy to suffer maximum loss of life?”\n\nI thought this was a very revealing, but also deeply disturbing comment.\n\nThe first point to make, of course, is that attacking practically defenceless civilians using heavy armour and jet aircraft in an illegally occupied territory that does not control its own borders, ports or airspace is not “war” - it’s genocide.\n\nI hope that the Israeli Government does not share this correspondent’s desire to murder as many gentiles as possible, although the evidence of the last few weeks would, sadly, suggest that they do.");
AddReply(384678,"PROPAGANDISTS MUST STOP POSTING COMMENTS!","Arab Member Knesset","Mandate Israel","01/12/09","Arabs and Jews are both advantaged in the sphere.  Why don\'t pseudo-humanitarians and pseudo-intellectuals notice that??  \n\nThe popular single pov is in parallel to nearly a century of regional exporting.  Majority victimhood, by proxy or otherwise, should raise questions.  Questions which would lead to thought patterns non-cliche.\n\nIt\'s ridiculous and embarrassing to watch minions blame the regional (non-energy-exporting) minority State.  You\'re being led, but by Whom??? ");
AddReply(384231,"ISRAEL MUST STOP KILLING INNOCENT CITIZENS IN GAZA!","i.casillas","Sacramento","01/12/09","Israel and the United States are the real terrorists of the world.  \n\nIsrael with the assistance of the US has been terrorizing Arabs, Palestinians, in the Middle East for years.\n\nIsrael has never kept any of its agreements which its leaders signed over the past 50-60 years.\n\nIsrael is the one who has created problems in the Middle East for years and years.  \n\nIt has been stealing property rights of Arabs and Palestinians, Lebanese, etc., etc.  \n\nIt has created over 200 settlements on Palestinian lands with a design which entraps Palestinians and Arabs in a smaller, and smaller area - like a prison.\n\nIt has built freeways for Israelis use on Palestinian lands; it does no allow Palestinians or Arabs to use the new fast roads.  \n\nIsrael has built walls on Palestinian lands to keep Arabs and Palestinians in its Israeli-planned prison for Arabs and Palestinians.\n\nIsrael, with");
AddReply(384131,"Sara, that\'s right. We\'re not like them.","Expellee","Gush Katif","01/11/09","We don\'t train our toddlers to kill and dress them in military uniforms, sometimes like suicide bombers. There are NO civilians in Gaza. In Gaza children are trained to be terrorists as soon as they can stand.");
AddReply(383918,"To Sara #10","D\'veed Natan","Kfar Adumim","01/11/09","Moral ground? Bad news. It doesn\'t matter who is right or wrong; only who is left.");
AddReply(383802,"to # 10 Sara - liberalism will cost Jewish lives","Y","Nitzan","01/11/09","It is of no concern whether we are like or unlike them - what is important is to save Jewish lives (both civilian and military) by a quick, decisive, and devastating victory.  Let the philosophers and European courts discuss goyish morality and ethics afterwards.  The more arabs killed in Gaza, the more they suffer, mourn, and fear us - and the sooner they lose the will to fight - hence more of our Jewish boys in uniform remain unscathed and the sooner the missiles stop.  I have a son in a combat unit; he\'s worth more than 10,000 arab \"civilians\" - better him alive with the world (and silly Liberal Jews) saying we \"were like them\" than the alternative.  Since your comment is of an ethical nature - go to the source of morality and see how Torah instructs a Jewish nation to fight a war.");
AddReply(383797,"loss of life...","Laura Ben-David","Neve Daniel","01/11/09","When war is necessary it must be fought; I have no problem with this. A terrible result of fighting a war is the loss of human life. But it is never - or should never be - the goal. \n\nWhile Hamas has no qualms about their mission to wipe every Israli/Jew off the face of the earth, the opposite is not our mission, and could never be. If it was there would be far easier - and far less dangerous to our troops - ways to accomplish this. Despite the tendency of world opinion to demonize our every act, we will never live up to their negative expectations of us.\n\nLet us hope and pray for our troops in Gaza, that they should succeed in removing the threat of terror from our cities and our people, and return home safely to their families.");
AddReply(383778,"Loss of life on the Arab side...","CDG","Yerushalayim","01/11/09","As long as Arab children are being sought out and taught to fight and kill Jews, and given weapons to do so, they are fair game. We may feel that they are victims of child abuse; no doubt they are. However, we should not be confused. Who is teaching them these horrible things? Their very own government sponsors it and Arab adults support it. Laura and Sara, have you not seen the videos of children training for war against the Jews? Every weapon in the hands of the Arabs, including their brainwashed children, should be wiped out. Some will learn the lesson and avoid fighting us. \n\nMay haShem inspire and bless genuine efforts on our part to keep our place on this planet -- the one He gave us.");
AddReply(383704,"west funding terrorism","truth","","01/11/09","until Israel comes to grips with the fact that western governments are being asked to send millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinians,the Palestinians themselves are not worried about the losses of property or disruption to national life, because they know the west will come in and take up the bill for them . Until the west knows that these countries given over to terrorism, will need to pay the price for their own actions of violence, this war will just keep recurring.  ");
AddReply(383677,"Watching the news","Aubrey Wulfsohn","Leamington spa","01/11/09","Had Barak done his job properly in the last three years, there woukld not have been so many casualties");
AddReply(383605,"to Y. Nitzan","Sara","Jerusalem","01/11/09","I am 100% behind the IDF action in Gaza now, but i, like laura, view every loss of life as a tragedy. WE are not like THEM and we must never become like them, or we will have lost our moral ground.\n\nlaura, i enjoyed your article.");
AddReply(383600,"minimum loss of life - on all sides. No!","D\'veed Natan","Kfar Adumim","01/10/09","[Air Force head, General Curtis] LeMay wished to destroy completely the material and psychological capital of the Japanese people, on the brutal, theory that once civilians had tasted what their soldiers had done to others, only then might their murderous armies crack…. People would not show up to work to fabricate artillery shells that killed Americans when there was no work to show up to. Solders who kill, rape, and torture do so less confidently when their own families are at risk at home….\nFrom the Prologue of Victor David Hanson, The Soul of Battle (Free Press, 1999). Had Israel followed this reasoning long ago, thousands of Israelis would be alive; and many more unwounded today. With such compassion as we show, who needs cruelty? All this compassion has done is prolong the suffering and misery on both sides. Give \'em a glimmer of hope and they\'ll fight forever. Crush it, they quit");
AddReply(383451,"The News","Ed Gee","Anderson, SC","01/10/09","While I cannot view Gaza from a comfortable distance through binoculars, I can through the lenses of honest reporting on the web. \n\nThe cable channels all show the plight of the Palestinians because of those awful Israelis. \n\nYes, it was on this very web site of Jewish news where I first learned of the \"retaliation\" -- long overdue retaliation.\n\nGood article, Laura!");
AddReply(383103,"Watching And Thinking (part2)","JTP","USA","01/09/09","cont\'d\n\nIt\'s the global economic (deflated), a stimulus for the frustrated and impatient.  It\'s int\'l forces being replaced by other int\'l forces.  It\'s the \'border\' wall/fence.  Most obviously it\'s the peculiar current mapping for two states; connected by a roadmap road.  The latter could be symbollic of decades until demilitarization.  \n\nWe have to watch the physical landscape amidst all of the explanations and cliche explanations.  This is the long haul of the newcoldwar, amongst other things.  The ME Conflict/Process is institutionalized.");
AddReply(383100,"Watching And Thinking  (part1)","JTP","USA","01/09/09","\"..this effort, let it not be in vain\"\n\nHilltop or internet; don\'t lose sight of the obvious.\n\nWe should also take things out of context.  Give ourselves opportunity to know what we already know.\n\nThere have been eight years of rocket attacks, amidst decades of everything everything else.  The current escalation (War) \'implies\' a turning point.  There\'s an unusual measured approach by many foreign spokespersons.\n\nI don\'t think anything has changed.\n\nIt\'s not the fringe dressed as Arafat, encouraging contempt and violence.  It\'s the UN prefacing resolutions with arbitrary \'occupation\' terminology (as always). ");
AddReply(383062,"Thank you","Sue C.","Charleston","01/09/09","Thank you for this beautiful narrative! \nMay 2009 bring peace to Israel and the world.");
AddReply(383057,"The war in Gaza","Shira","New York","01/09/09","May G-d protect you, your family, and all the soldiers and people of Israel.");
AddReply(382984,"a few points of criticism","Y","Nitzan","01/09/09","Your point about the small size of Israel and the resultant vulnerability of so much of the country is well taken.  However, as polls show an increase in support for both Kedima and Labor it\'s hard to accept your statement that no one is far \"mentally and spiritually\" from the suffering of our fellow Jews.  As long as this rulling coalition restrains the IDF from bombing the source of missiles in arab cities and missiles continue to pound the cites of the south and coastal plain - I have to conclude that supporters of Meretz, Kedima, Labor do not feel the pain of their fellow Jews.  \nWhy do you \"hope\" for \"minimum loss of life\" on the enemy side in this war?  Don\'t we want the enemy to suffer maximum loss of life?");
AddReply(382792,"Watching the news unfold","eha","","01/09/09","We watch the market drop, you watch rockets drop. There is no feeling like things falling out of control. I believe God is getting our attention and calling lives to return to Him and pray.");
AddReply(382731,"peace be with you and be safe","charlene","boynton bch","01/09/09","Good to hear that your family and home are safe.  Israel monopolizes the news.  We are 100% behind you.  Commentaters say Israel has bent over backwards for peace and Hamas relentlessly sends there rockets.  Too bad so many people are getting killed and hurt, but they voted for Hamas, and are suffering from there bad choice.  ");

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