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In reply to the discussion: Netanyahu to US "Don't ever second guess me on Hamas again" [View all]lexington filly
(239 posts)to your flags: "We have met the enemy, and he is us." Your wholesale destruction of innocent lives, homes, hospitals, medical workers, mosques, roads, electricity plant, water supplies, the slaughtered lives and whole fabric of Palestinian culture ripped apart has been so grotesque to see and yet I felt I owed them the respect to bear witness through the reporting and pictures. How do you turn off that internal place of humanity we must each possess and avoid 2nd guessing YOURSELF?
what hate and rage must reside inside of you to fuel these recurring exercises of shooting and bombing men, women, and children like ducks captured in a small barrel. You and your wordy friends justifications are just yada, yada, yada. The numbers do all the talking: 3 civilians in Israel killed. Over 1699 Palestinians killed. 8,000 wounded. And we Americans are well aware of the kinds of wounds from missiles and explosives. So their hospitals and clinics are bombed and all the exits from Gaza are closed. Again, ducks in a barrel.
You wanted the Palestinian people to suffer and they will for years to come. That's a win for you? Will it be quiet enough for you? Cause that seems to be your purpose, a word you use a lot. Quiet. You want to forget they exist behind those tall fences, don't you. You don't want to hear anything from people being herded into pens and stalls like cattle with their economy controlled by you. Their carefully controlled lack of quality of life controlled by Israel. In becoming so indifferent to the very lives and conditions of the Palestinian existence you have become what was so detestable and horrible 60 years ago. in others who mistreated Jews.
I've know enough history and lived long enough to know that one group's terrorist is another group's freedom fighter. one group's savage is another group's resistance fighter.
The journalists and photojournalists have told us things and shown us pictures we can not unsee about things like your bombs with hundreds of darts that shred the skin from the bodies of children. I can't imagine the suffering. I'm aware of no God who condones brutality toward innocent children and mothers.
For every brother you've slaughtered a sister will rise up, and a couple of parents and grandparents to be new enemies. Your apartheid state humiliates, impoverishes, robs them of their land, their natural gas, makes other of their land uninhabitable. You create their dependence and wave it in their faces all the time and threaten to take away what little you allow them. You've shown you are a government without kindness, lacking in compassions, or value for lives that are not Jewish with no generosity of spirit.
I've seen how America has been a good friend to Israel: we send you billions of dollars, weapons, technology, speak up for you at the U.N., on every other world stage. But I don't see how you are a friend to us. You stir up geopolitical problems and then want us to fight the wars for you. By extension, your bully behaviors get carried over to us just because we're your friend. You act awful on the world stage but then we're hated more. To top it off, you've insulted our VP, Sec of State, and President!!! You've evolved into an arrogant thug and are no friend to the U.S. And as soon as our politicians do some evolving of their own and get their spines back from AIRPAC, you'll be sitting around a conference table with Hamas or whomever the Palestinians elect because your falling off American Christmas Card Lists quickly particularly after these last couple of weeks. You've shown us your real face and heart in these last weeks and wow--the lack of your qualities is appalling and not the stuff of friendship. Finally, it's unacceptable for you to be anything less that totally respectful to out president and his administration. Americans think folks who bite the hand that feeds them are just plain stupid, or need to be reminded that friends come and we can go. I sure don't a friend sends insults through the media. Someone who does is a little man with a weak, fragile ego. Perhaps one of your friends in your own neighborhood will be a more appreciated friend. You and Egypt seem to play well together these days.