dum529001

Just read through some of the older comments here. I'm not mad with people who demonize Israel because I know you're all being brainwashed by the media and news channels such as CNN.

I read a comment here with someone claiming that Ben Gurion and Isaac Rabin ordered murders or exiles of Palestinians/Lybians and whatnot? I lol'd. Like, literally laughed. You should know that both of these former prime ministers were left wing. I have absolutely NO idea where you got that information from but it's not only false, it literally makes zero sense. Did you know Isaac Rabin was murdered by a right-wing extremist for signing the Oslo Agreements that included, among other things: dividing the west bank into territories marked as A (territories where the Palestinians have full authority), B (where Palestinians have civillian authority but Israel has military authority), and C (full Israeli authority). It also included Israel declaring that the PLO is not a terror organization despite all the terror attacks it was responsible for against Israeli civillians. This, and everything in these agreements was discussed, agreed upon and signed by both Israel and Yasser Arafat. You guys said he was never significant? The man was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Israeli innocents and never stopped sending suicide bombers and shooters and preaching against Israel. Just look for the Dolphinarium discotheque terror attack, the Sbarro restaurant suicide bomber, the Bus Line 300 hijack, and the list goes on and on. Not only by the PLO, but by many other organizations too such as the Jihad and Hamas.

Palestinians in cities such as Ramallah and Hebron live like kings. They have mansions and shopping malls and everything you can think of and Israel doesn't go near them because we respect our agreements. Many Palestinians have permits to work in Israel too and they make great money. Most construction workers here are Palestinians. Hotel workers. Truck drivers. They come to work in Israel by the thousands and earn honest pay. Gaza could have been an amazing place to live as well if not for Hamas seizing control over it by force. Israel gives Gaza free water, electricity, food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies. The Hamas uses it for themselves while neglecting it from the innocent people of Gaza, while teaching them that it's all Israel's fault from the day they are born. They literally have summer camps where they teach preschoolers to use assault rifles. Not to mention the millions upon millions of funds they recieve from Iran, Qatar and so on.

I also saw people saying that Israel wants to kill all the Palestinians. That is an ugly lie. Just a couple of weeks ago, 2 Pallies armed with knives attacked a group of IDF soldiers from the Kfir Brigade in a checkpoint near Hebron. They even managed to injure one of the soldiers. One of the Pallies was shot dead and the othet was wounded. After a few minutes, one of the Israeli soldiers killed the wounded terrorist. No trial. Was it the right thing to do? No, it was not. But he still did it. And you know what happened? That soldier was suspended from duty, put on trial, and is to be charged with up to 20 years in prison. And what did he do? He killed a terrorist thst stabbed his friend. Would an American soldier shoot a Taliban operative that tried to kill his friend? Yes. Would any of you wise guys that have so much to say about Israel think he deserves to be charged with murder and put behind bars? Tell me that you do. Please, I dare you.

And also these so called illegal settlements? Irrelevant. If that was the only thing that concerned the Pallies, they would have carried out attacks only against those settlements. And they do, which I will elaborate later, but they don't stop there. They get to Tel Aviv. Jerusalem. Be'er Sheva. Ra'annana. Kiryat Gat. Almost every city in Israel has suffered terror attacks in the past 6-7 months alone. And those cities are not even close to the West Bank. Have you ever been in a Palestinian riot, where they hurl rocks and molotov cocktails? I have. I have friends that nearly lost their lives in such riots. Do you know what your poor peace-craving victims chant in those riots? They chant, and I quote: "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free". From the river to the sea. The sea. What does that tell us? That's right. They want ALL OF ISRAEL. They won't settle for the West Bank. They want Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and Haifa and everything else between Metula and Eilat. Everything that was given to Israel by the UN in 1947. They won't settle for their half, they want ours as well. And they always have. Hence why they attacked the Jewish settlements rather than stand down and agree to what the UN council has voted. And you can't say Israel was the aggressor back in '47-'48 because Israel didn't even exist then. They have always used whatever land they had as terrorist bases of operations to send terror atracks and fire rockets at us. And the so called "illegal occupation"... yes, we took lands that were used to attack us. If someone hits you with a stick, wouldn't you take away his stick? And when you reach an agreement and you give him the stick back, and he hits you again... yeah, we didn't take the stick back. The Pallies still have about half of the West Bank and the entire Gaza Strip to themselves and what do they use it for? Terror. They keep hitting us with the stick we took and gave them back.

Any assault carried against Gaza is a retaliation to their rockets. Nobody wants their children to grow up fearing when the next rocket alarm will go off and you have to run for shelter again. Any civillian casualties in Gaza are collateral damage as a result of Hamas using heavily populated areas as human shields. Any Pallie in the West Bank that is being arrested is a retaliation to him throwing rocks or otherwise attacking Israeli civillians, because nobody wants their children growing up with the fear of going to school because you don't know when the next rock is gonna hit the car's windshield and crush your mom's ribs.

Nobody thinks Israel is a poor defenseless country. Because we aren't. We have an amazing powerful army. We could have turned Gaza into goddamn Disneyland years ago and we still can. But we don't. Because we are still hoping for peace. We are never the first ones to attack. We retaliate, and we retaliate hard. We try the best we can to minimize civillian casualties and we thoroughly investigate anything that might contradict the values of war (hence the sildier from Hebron being sentenced to jail). We are being debriefed literally every freaking day that we are NOT ALLOWED TO OPEN FIRE unless we are facing someone who has the means to kill (i.e a weapon), the possibility to kill (if someone runs at you holding a knife from 50 meters away, you cannot shoot until he is close enough for it to be life threatening), and the intention to kill (he can have a weapon and stand right next to you but unless he shows the intention of using it you can only arrest him). I bet you didn't know that Israel scatters leaflets warning civilloans to get the hell away before we send an airstrike against Hamas in Gaza. I bet you also don't know how many such airstrikes, that are targeted against Hamas based and batteries were called off because the pilot didn't want to risk civillians.

We gave the Pallies the stick and they keep hitting us with it. So don't blame us when we hit them back with a bigger stick every time they manage to hurt us.

Do any of you have any clue what goes on in Iraq and Afghanistan with your precious American troops? I can guarantee you they have a lot more blood on their hands than tbe IDF. I am willing to bet that they don't do half the things the IDF does to try and minimize civillian casualties. And I don't blame them. They are facing impossible situations, just like the IDF, and in war unfortunate things happen. But if you want to criticize the IDF, then don't forget to do the same with your men in Afghanistan. And with tbe French and the Belgians who make Muslims go through checkpoints after the terror attacks tbey experienced in the last few months. Don't forget to add an Israeli flag to the background of your Facebook profile pic after the next terror atfack just like half the world did with the French and Belgian flags when they suffered from terror as well. Don't forget that right after you weep for a Palestinian being killed after he was used as a human shield, yo weep for the hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children that President Bashar Assad massacres in Syria. Take a good long look in the mirror after the next time you apply your double standards. I want all of you who criticize Israel and read this post to look me dead on the eye and tell me you're not a hypocrite.

@dum529001: sigh... this is what I said in my original post here. Today's Jews are originated in Europe, Asia and Africa because WE WERE SENT ON EXILE BY THE ROMANS. All those Jews that migrated to Israel from all around the world have their roots in Israel. 2000 year old roots, but they're most certainly there. Jews were the ones who fought Antioco IV Epifanes, the Greek king who ruled the land of Israel in the middle of the 2nd century BC. And that is a fact. Check your history books if you don't believe me.