Comments on: People out there just don’t want to understand the truth

By: The Numantine

The Numantine — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:10:19 +0000

“It’s very clear, that while they shell and pound and kill and destroy Palestinian people and their institutions with total impunity, they are putting enormous pressure on the Palestinians, on their victims, to calm things down and not to respond and not to react.”

–Hanan Ashrawi (2002)

By: Leeroy Glinchy

Leeroy Glinchy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:03:04 +0000

About the human shields I wonder why Israel does not evacuate the civilian populations of Sderot and other civilian areas that are being hit by rockets. There are so few people there. If the purpose of all their operations over the last few weeks was to protect civilian populations why not move the few people in the line or fire out of the way? The rockets mainly fall in a known area which is lightly populated. Nobody in the media has answered this question. After all, anyone with money has all ready fled the line of fire. Why not move out the poor as well?

The civilians of Gaza seem to be struggling to run from the IDF, but there is nowhere to go. So my second question is why not let the Palestinians take shelter in the Sinai Peninsula? Again, since the rocket range is so short, nobody in the Peninsula could hit Israel so there would be less civilian casualties.

The media never even asks the simplest of questions. It is completely useless to learning.

I thought that the pictures of using people, literally, as human shields was disgusting.

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:21:23 +0000

I’m glad I have Aljazeera on my cable, otherwise, I’ll be stuck watching biased reports. Now reports are trickling in of the atrocities committed on the hapless civilians. Bulldozing homes with people inside is barbaric. Or telling people to gather at a certain building only to shell it later. Israel never ratified the Rome statute that would put them under the power of the ICC. What really angers me is how Rgev and Leibovich can lie through their teeth in denying that civilans are not being targeted but reports coming from the UN personnel in Gaza says otherwise. Slowly, Gazans are discovering hundreds of bodies buriied in the rubble. It is time that Israel be made accountable.

By: Professor Mikey

Professor Mikey — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:00:16 +0000

Sadly, many don’t pay attention to what is going on outside of their own world, especially in the US. The events with Gaza may be on the other side of the Earth, but affect all of us.

By: Ahmad Samra

Ahmad Samra — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:28:21 +0000

Ahmad Samra : The last one, simply

By: Ahmad Samra

Ahmad Samra — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:23:37 +0000

The other Arab countries, simply

By: Paul Mackenzie Ross

Paul Mackenzie Ross — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:13:39 +0000

Have you seen Carlos Latuff's work? His art speaks volumes more than our useless governments.

By: Cookie Monster

Cookie Monster — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:51:17 +0000

Ok, so after abstaining the last time from voting… I voted this time (yes, I am a hypocrite)

I voted for other Arab nations because at no point have they jumped in the middle and tried to stop the two from fighting. Not now, not in the past, and the good money says not in the future.

It’s a shame that the centre of the world – the region where culture, intelect, civilization originated from…. the Arabs are watching their own being distroyed, and don’t have the balls to do anything about it.

By: Meyrick Kirby

Meyrick Kirby — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:39:14 +0000

It is a harsh question, but do you think Hamas are good for the Palestinians?

That is not to say, if Hamas are bad for the Palestinians, then Israel is right to bomb the crap out of Gaza.