Netanyahu is betraying the victims of the Holocaust.
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He hasn't committed a Holocaust yet, but he was turning Gaza into a Warsaw Ghetto and that was before he started committing mass murder; which is what is taking place now.
If Netanyahu were to start a holocaust, I'm convinced some of the more extreme members of the Knesset would support him just from their recorded statements that the mothers of the "*terrorists" should be killed as well, not taking into account that Israel's abusive, anti-humanitarian policies has been the mother of all mothers in creating an environment for "terrorists' to be raised.
On June the 2nd, when Hamas joined Fatah in the West Bank to form a Palestinian unity government; such a deal held the prospect of turning Palestine into a united democracy, this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Netanyahu's government didn't want the Palestinians united by peace, he does want them united by war as this serves him and his party's political power interests.
*"Terrorists" is also a term used by the Nazis against the Warsaw Ghetto Freedom Fighters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_forget_%28political_phrase%29
From the late 1940s to 2001, the phrase was used to protest genocide. While the main message of 'never forget' is to remember the past so history does not repeat its mistakes, it also arguably implies vengeance and militarism, especially after 9/11 when the term was used by supporters of the War on Terror.[4]
Netanyahu is putting Israel in the position of losing its humanity.
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Peace to you. 
On a thread by madfloridian.
I pray for the day that the leaders of Israel will come to their senses and apologize to the Palestinians and to the world for what they have done. Peace and love is just so much easier than War and hate. Tear down those walls, swing the gates open and let those people go.
The world needs a Peace Doctrine. We need to wage Peace. Thanks, Uncle Joe for these words.
promotion of torture as being anti-American.
Peace to you, intaglio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
The 1948 Palestinian exodus, known in Arabic as the Nakba (Arabic: النكبة, an-Nakbah, lit. "disaster", "catastrophe", or "cataclysm"
,[1] occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.[2] The term nakba also refers to the period of war itself and events affecting Palestinians from December 1947 to January 1949, and is synonymous in that sense with what is known to Israelis as the War of Independence (Hebrew: מלחמת העצמאות or מלחמת הקוממיות, Milkhemet Ha'atzma'ut, a term which covers those two events).[3][4][5][6]
The exact number of refugees is a matter of dispute.[7] But around 80 percent of the Arab inhabitants of what became Israel (50 percent of the Arab total of Mandatory Palestine) left or were expelled from their homes.[8][9] The causes remain also the subject of fundamental disagreement between Arabs and Israelis. Factors involved in the exodus include Jewish military advances, attacks against Arab villages and fears of another massacre after Deir Yassin,[10]:239–240 which caused many to leave out of panic; expulsion orders by Zionist authorities; the voluntary self-removal of the wealthier classes,[11] the collapse in Palestinian leadership,[12] and an unwillingness to live under Jewish control.[13] Later, a series of laws passed by the first Israeli government prevented them from returning to their homes, or claiming their property. They and many of their descendants remain refugees.[14][15] Later in the war, Palestinians were expelled as part of Plan Dalet.[16][citation needed] The expulsion of the Palestinians has since been described by some historians as ethnic cleansing,[17][18][19] while others dispute this charge.[20][21][22]
During the Lausanne Conference of 1949, Israel proposed allowing the return of 100,000 of the refugees, in what it referred to as a goodwill gesture prior to negotiation for the whole refugee population,[23] though not necessarily to their homes, and including 25,000 who had returned surreptitiously and 10,000 family-reunion cases.[10]:577 "Israel formally informed the PCC of its readiness to take back '100,000' refugees on 3 August, making it conditional on 'retaining all present territory' and on the freedom to resettle the returnees where it saw fit."[10]:577 The proposal was conditional on a peace treaty that would allow Israel to retain the territory it had taken, and on the Arab states absorbing the remaining 550,000–650,000 refugees. "The Arab states rejected the proposal on both moral and political grounds."[24]
The status of the refugees, and in particular whether Israel will grant them their claimed right to return to their homes or be compensated, are key issues in the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The events of 1948 are commemorated by Palestinians both in the Palestinian territories as well as elsewhere on 15 May, a date now known as Nakba Day.
Hamas had come to realize that rocket attacks were wrong and were cracking down themselves, other groups sprang up because the Ghetto of Gaza created by Israel sustains and feeds the kind of hatred needed to launch those and other types of attacks.
Even so in 2013 rocket attacks dropped 98% because Hamas was putting a stop to it, but after Israel's attack; which was in truth motivated by the Fatah/Hamas formation of a unity government and the threat of unified democracy breaking out on June the 2nd of this year, rocket attacks increased 1500%
If Israel cracking down on them was such a great deterrent, there shouldn't be any rocket attacks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel
Annual number of attacks and casualties[1][137][140][141][142][143] Year Dead Injured Rocket attacks Mortar attacks Total attacks Total attacks
% change
2001 0 4 4+
2002 0 35 35+ negative increase 775%
2003 0 155 155+ negative increase 343%
2004 4 281 281+ negative increase 81%
2005 2 401 854 1,255 negative increase 346%
2006 2 371 1,722 55 1,777 negative increase 42%
2007 2 578 1,276 1,531 2,807 negative increase 58%
2008 8 611 2,048 1,668 3,716 negative increase 32%
Israeli and Egyptian blockade of Gaza after Operation Cast Lead to stop missile fire into Israel[144] and arms import into Gaza.[145][146]
2009 0 11 569 289 858 positive decrease 77%
2010 1 35 150 215 365 positive decrease 57%
2011 2 81 419 261 680[147] negative increase 86%
2012 * 6[136][148] 284+ 2,256[149] 17 2,273+[150][151] negative increase 234%
2013 0 32 12 44 positive decrease 98%
2014 1 16 680 25 705 negative increase 1500%
Total * 28 1971+ 10,138 4,890 15,047
Israel isn't in danger of being destroyed, they have the most powerful military in the region, not to mention nuclear weapons, the Palestinians on the other hand are relatively helpless and are in danger of being destroyed.
It doesn't take "playing in the court of public opinion" to be painted as an underdog or victim, just logic and common sense.
I agree we didn't come to this place in a vacuum but to ignore or sweep under the rug what has been done and is happening to the Palestinians is wallowing in willful ignorance and a self-perpetuating travesty.
I'm not "declaring Israel to be evil," however Netanyahu's government with this ongoing massacre against an already oppressed people in Gaza is doing precisely just that.
them into what they claim to or should hate the most.
The survivors of the Holocaust stared into the abyss and saw evil, their contemporaries have never been there.
The same holds true for many people that never experienced what the early labor movement had to go through, so they forget or it's never passed down and taught them.
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to operate from a position of strength or as an honest broker in negotiating a peaceful resolution. Netanyahu's government knew they could tell Kerry to basically go and stick it.
It's sad to say, but it probably took a supreme act of political courage for Obama to come out and condemn the blowing up of a U.N. School. The Congress needs to come out as well on this, but I don't expect it.
As my post #13 states, there had been only one attempted suicide bombing the past six years, that coming from the West Bank and it was thwarted. There had been no Rocket Attacks from Hamas in over 19 months, until Netanyahu's government attacked. Rocket attacks in 2013 had been reduced 98%.
Hamas was coming around to Fatah's point of view that rocket attacks were counterproductive and an obstacle to peace, Israel even credits Hamas with trying to stop rocket attacks.
On 6/2/14 Fatah and Hamas had reached a deal on a unity government and were going to hold elections, this upset Netanyahu to no end and I'm convinced he was looking for reason to attack and restart hostilities.
In my book Netanyahu is no different than Cheney or Bush.
The only logical reason I can see for the Congress in passing such a vote considering the facts and contradictory evidence was political expediency ruling over justness or even long term security for Israel.
This being an election year, the Democrats were too afraid of giving the Republicans a wedge issue with evangelical, fundamentalist and possibly even moderate Christians that interpret the Old Testament as God giving the Jews the land of Israel as an ethnic blessing instead of a transactional one.
I believe some of those Christians subconsciously if not consciously want to see the end times because they're afraid of dying alone.
Ghandi and Naomi Wolf had different takes on the Old Testament below.
http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5300080
And now a word to the Jews in Palestine. I have no doubt that they are going about it in the wrong way. The Palestine of the Biblical conception is not a geographical tract. It is in their hearts. But if they must look to the Palestine of geography as their national home, it is wrong to enter it under the shadow of the British gun. A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb. They can settle in Palestine only by the goodwill of the Arabs. They should seek to convert the Arab heart.
On a thread by kpete.
http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/10025292023
(snip)
Again and again in the "covenant" language He never says: "I will give you, ethnic Israelites, the land of Israel." Rather He says something far more radical - far more subversive -- far more Godlike in my view. He says: IF you visit those imprisoned...act mercifully to the widow and the orphan...welcome the stranger in your midst...tend the sick...do justice and love mercy ....and perform various other tasks...THEN YOU WILL BE MY PEOPLE AND THIS LAND WILL BE YOUR LAND. So "my people" is not ethnic -- it is transactional. We are God's people not by birth but by a way of behaving, that is ethical, kind and just. And we STOP being "God's people" when we are not ethical, kind and just. And ANYONE who is ethical, kind and just is, according to God in Genesis, "God's people." And the "contract" to "give" us Israel is conditional -- we can live in God's land IF we are "God's people" in this way -- just, merciful, compassionate. AND -- it never ever says, it is ONLY your land. Even when passages spell out geographical "boundaries" as if God does such a thing, it never says this is exclusively your land. It never says I will give this land JUST to you. Remember these were homeless nomads who had left slavery in Egypt and were wandering around in the desert; at most these passages say, settle here, but they do not say, settle here exclusively. Indeed again and again it talks about welcoming "zarim" -- translated as "strangers" but can also be translated as "people/tribes who are not you" -- in your midst. Blew my mind, hope it blows yours.
https://www.facebook.com/naomi.wolf.author/posts/10152548360004476?fref=nf
Peace to you, sabrina.