Posted on 12/31/2008 7:29:49 AM PST by vimto
Last week I was in Gaza. While I was there I met a group of 20 or so police officers who were undergoing a course in conflict management. They were eager to know whether foreigners felt safer since Hamas had taken over the Government? Indeed we did, we told them. Without doubt the past 18 months had seen a comparative calm on the streets of Gaza; no gunmen on the streets, no more kidnappings. They smiled with great pride and waved us goodbye.
Less than a week later all of these men were dead, killed by an Israeli rocket at a graduation ceremony. Were they “dangerous Hamas militant gunmen”? No, they were unarmed police officers, public servants killed not in a “militant training camp” but in the same police station in the middle of Gaza City that had been used by the British, the Israelis and Fatah during their periods of rule there.
This distinction is crucial because while the horrific scenes in Gaza and Israel play themselves out on our television screens, a war of words is being fought that is clouding our understanding of the realities on the ground.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
(as if....)
Completely out of the closet, does the Times appear to be.
Wilhelm Siegheil can’t hide his love and devotion to Hamas terrorists.
What was different 18 months ago?
It’s really pretty simple, stop firing rockets into Israel and they won’t retaliate against you. I don’t doubt that there are some decent people in Gaza who are interested in taking care of the needs of the people there, so I’m sorry to hear that some of the better people in Gaza, such as these policemen, got killed in the Israeli counterattack. However, unlike Hamas, the Israelis are not intentionally targeting innocent people, and it’s very difficult to conduct a large military operation and completely avoid casualties of innocent bystanders. The Gazans need to turn their anger against the perpetrators who are firing these rockets, as it is they who are baiting the Israelis and ultimately bringing destruction on their own people.
Lord Haw Haw played “pop” music on his radio show too. He was still a British fascist who serve the Nazi war effort broadcasting demoralizing antisemitic propaganda to England from Germany (Germany Calling).
I thought this was an Onion parody!
I couldn't get any further without cracking up. This guy is funny!
New York...London....Paris....Munich...everybody talk about Pop Music!
I suggest cleaning your telescopic sight before you take your shot.
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Gee. Maybe if, in the course of their police duties, they and their comrades had prevented terrorists from launching rockets into Israel, they would still be alive?
Maybe if they listened to Swing and Big Band music, they would still be alive!
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