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Home » Strategery » Israel Can’t Win

Israel Can’t Win

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First of all Happy New Year from Defense Tech. I hope you all had a won­der­ful hol­i­day sea­son and are ready to get back to work help­ing us deci­pher the strate­gic and tech­no­log­i­cal dilem­mas fac­ing the world’s militaries.

I heard today that a friend and col­league of mine Tom Ricks of the Washington Post has started a new gig blog­ging with Foreign Policy online — relaunched by the Washingtonpost/​Newsweek/​Slate pub­lish­ing group after it pur­chased the mag­a­zine from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in September.

Let’s just say the so-​​called “Best Defense” blog is off to an OK start. But that’s fine, Tom will hit his stride and learn that he needs to shed some of that jour­nal­is­tic punch pulling he’s been trained to do for his entire career. And there have been a bunch of updates since I first checked the blog this morn­ing that are damned good and we’re look­ing for­ward to more.

Anyway, he summed up for me a thought I’d had since this whole Gaza goat rope started. Seems to me Israel can’t pos­si­bly “win” with Operation Cast Lead as it stands. I just don’t under­stand the goals here and can’t put together the logic that must have led them to this deci­sion — unless of course it’s PURELY pol­i­tics (don’t for­get, FM Livni and DM Barak are both run­ning for PM in February against Likud hawk Netanyahu).

Here’s what Ricks pulled from his sources:

Terry Daly, one of the smartest peo­ple I know on coun­terin­sur­gency issues, doesn’t see much hope for Israel’s crack­down in Gaza. “Don’t ask me what the solu­tion is to Israel’s strate­gic prob­lem,” he com­ments in a note. “Thomas Henriksen’s excel­lent 2007 Joint Special Operations University mono­graph, ‘The Israeli Approach to Irregular Warfare and Implications for the United States,’ clearly relates how the Israelis have tried most of the usual solu­tions. For 60 years, though, Israel through the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), basi­cally has relied on ‘the util­ity of force.’ The IDF became and remains a shin­ing exam­ple of con­ven­tional mil­i­tary excel­lence, but it also seems to be head­ing for defeat in ‘war amongst the peo­ple,’ where the objec­tive is to win peo­ples’ sup­port not to kill them and break all their toys.… Meanwhile the Muslim nihilists must be sali­vat­ing at the thought of get­ting the IDF on the ground in the Gaza Strip.“ 

Exactly…and how in a mil­lion years did Israel think it would get any­thing but inter­na­tional con­dem­na­tion for its inva­sion — despite the moral jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for respond­ing to repeated rocket attacks from a newly inde­pen­dent state free of the excuse of “occu­pa­tion.” Humanitarian cri­sis, pro­por­tion­al­ity, civil­ian casualties…all the vocab­u­lary of the news leads describ­ing Israel’s strike. And where does it end? What’s the goal?

Ricks sug­gests read­ing this analy­sis from the Guardian newspaper…

“Islamic Jihad — the extrem­ist group behind many of the rocket attacks on Israeli towns — has got the war it wished for at least.“

Some food for thought and I’d like to hear your thoughts on this too…

And, again, a hearty wel­come to the new medium, Tom. We’ll be keep­ing close tabs on your stuff and crib­bing like a third grader who for­got his homework.

– Christian

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  1. lament says:
    January 6, 2009 at 11:47 am

    I know a lot of Persians and Arabs and I can tell you they are a very mod­er­ate peo­ple who have been unfor­tu­nately left to devices of the Mullahs and Sheiks by the actions of Britain and the USA through­out from the 20th cen­tury . We killed var­i­ous lead­ers through the CIA , MI5 and MI6 all for the the oil con­ces­sions . Would you trust us ?
    –I too know the per­sians quite well and indeed there are mod­er­ate peo­ple among them, how­ever the religous lunatics at power cur­rently are not peo­ple we can nego­ti­ate or make deals with, its bad enough we are deal­ing with the saudis a far greater threat to our civ­i­liza­tion, we have no need to walk into another pit of deceit with the Iranian regime.
    Re the Mullahs , they have only one inter­est and that is to be the num­ber one hydro car­bon super­power . We have already gifted them Iraq and its oil as well as leav­ing them the only real mil­i­tary threat in the Gulf .
    –The mul­lahs have only one objec­tive and that is the dom­i­na­tion of islam in this world, the pow­ergame is just another means of achiev­ing this objec­tive.
    We should try and bring Iran over to the West , there bark is far worse than there bite , it makes no sense for them to engage the West in a mil­i­tary engage­ment as they know it would set them back twenty years . Over time the mod­er­ates will win out in Iran if we them give a guid­ing and and help­ing hand .
    –You talk­ing about them like their ratio­nal peo­ple when they are not, ratio­nal­ity is a scarse com­mod­ity in the mus­lim world and scarser more within the iran­ian regime.
    As for Israel they are try­ing to entice Hezbollah into action who as we know are con­trolled by Iran . Israel then
    wants the mid­dle east in flames and USA and UK jets hit­ting Iranian tar­gets .
    –Nice con­spir­acy the­ory.
    Israel is ter­ri­fied of the West bring­ing Iran in from the cold . Well we have done it with China and Russia who killed and mur­dered in the mil­lions through­out the last cen­tury and if we don‘t bring Iran over to the west the Chinese and Russians will take the opor­tu­nity .
    –The west has no need of play­ing the games of the Iranian regime, we must con­tinue to sup­port Israel a nation that shares our ideals and val­ues. As for china and Russia we may have brought them in from the cold, but their very much in process of putting us back out into it.
    Remember once Iran has upgraded its oil and gas struc­ture it becomes the worlds num­ber one energy power , also it is at the cross­roads of energy sup­ply to the west !!
    –Well Im sure your will­ing to sell your soul for energy, Im not so will­ing how­ever alter­nate energy sources renewed use of nuclear power are far bet­ter alter­na­tives then becom­ing fur­ther entan­gled in the mid­dle east.
    We should be firm and strong but will­ing to talk .
    –The only options to deal with islamic regimes is iso­la­tion and covertly sup­port­ing mod­er­ate oppo­si­tion within.
    I would still like an answer as to whether Israel will ever rush to the aid of the USA and Great Britain ? I think not
    Thats a ridicu­lous require­ment, Israel has no great expe­di­tionary force, its like ask­ing would nor­way would den­mark and the answer is no, not out of lack of will but lack of abil­ity, they are how­ever con­tribut­ing greatly to the defense of the west by their wits science/​technology and shared intel­li­gence, in coop­er­a­tion with the US. And most impor­tantly they are in the fore­front of the bat­tle of our time against islamic fun­da­men­tal­ism, which does not have its roots in our treat­ment of the mus­lim world or our actions or lack of action in the mid­dle east. Its roots are in the islamic teach­ings but the cur­rent jihad was sparked by the col­lapse of the ottoman empire, the war between islam and the world how­ever has been ongo­ing since the rob­ber baron mohammed first set out from the ara­bian desert.

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  2. JingoJane says:
    January 6, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    I’ve been read­ing mil​i​tary​.com and cit­ing it with pride. And con­fi­dence that it could be relied on for accu­rate and wor­thy infor­ma­tion.
    And then I read this piece of old, done over and over again pro­pa­ganda. It’s dis­gust­ing.
    I can’t exag­ger­ate how dis­ap­pointed I am that I must now research any­thing I read from mil​i​tary​.com before I cite it’s use. Just like most every other news source. I feel so let down.

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  3. tim says:
    January 6, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    Lambert , Israel is just as much a rogue nation as Iran .It manip­u­lates the media and polit­i­cal elite in the USA for its own ends and has betrayed the US by repeat­edly spy­ing on US national inter­ests .
    It is well know that the US mil­i­tary hier­ar­chy is exas­per­ated by the neo­cons bel­li­cos­ity towards Iran and friend­ship with the Jewish polit­i­cal lobby . They know that Israel is try­ing to stir up a hor­nets nest and that a longer strat­egy of con­tain­ment and diplo­macy is needed .
    The only rea­son that the vio­lence in Iraq has decreased so much is due to behind the scene deals between American and Iranian play­ers . Also Iran aban­doned the whole sui­cide bomber tac­tics along time ago and you won‘t see the mul­lahs play that card unless they are bombe­dAs for the roots of Islamic extrem­ism , the fuel for that fire was the USA and UK not telling the Shah of Iran to lay off with his polit­i­cal killings . The result of which oppo­si­tion in Iran could only be voiced through the mul­lahs who still had some pro­tec­tion . Prior to this the mul­lahs were sec­u­lar and did not get involved in pol­i­tics and rad­i­cal islam was pretty much unheard of .
    Also Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are the breed­ing grounds for the cur­rent brand of islamic nihilis­tic extrem­ism . The so called war between the West and Islam is a con­struct of the Israeli lobby .
    Re the mil­i­tary action in Gaza , it will only work if Israel can wipe Hamas out and then do the same to Hezbollah . Then Israel must pull out all the stops and make peace with Fatah . Unfortunately the Israeli mil­i­tary is not strong enough to do both so Iran will still have lever­age through Hezbollah .
    The pri­or­ity of the West mean­while should be energy and avoid­ance of a poten­tial future con­flict with rus­sia and china over access to the gulf regions hydro car­bons . If the West can bring it self to deal with Iran and the shia‘s then we will be in a much stronger posi­tion .
    I want the west as the major force in the Gulf in terms of mil­i­tary power and polit­i­cal influ­ence , cur­rently Israel is pre­vent­ing this .
    Israel has used up the good­will from the West and deserves no more spe­cial treatment .

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  4. Byron Skinner says:
    January 6, 2009 at 2:16 pm

    Good Morning Folks,
    For any­one really inter­ested in see­ing how all the siu­a­tion with Israel and the Palestinians started after WWII I would rec­om­mend a reis­sued book called “The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank by Harold James.
    Prof. James exam­ines the rela­tion­ship between the Nazis and German bank­ing and com­mer­cial inter­est start­ing the the 1920’s, and the inte­gra­tion of looted Jewish assets into the bank­ing sys­tem, to the end of the war. One of the more inter­est­ing things that devel­oped was a con­duit for gold and sil­ver through Turkey and Egypt.
    Control of these funds after the war were taken over by unre­con­structed Nazis, mainly the SS and upper level bureau­crats of the Nazi era. These funds worked there way into coun­tries like Iran, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan etc. and came back as oil cred­its that have been redis­trib­uted into the Palestinian cause. A quick look at direc­tors of the euro­pean bank­ing net­works of the mid­dle east will find a lot of the same names that appeared on post WWII most wanted list.
    This is the dark under­side of this prob­lem that nobody wants to deal with. Anyone who doubts this look back to Adm. Poindexter’s idea for DARPA to dis­rupt these cor­rupted eco­nomic activ­i­ties and not the reac­tions of the U.S. Senate and Wall Street. Not even 9/​11 could could bring Wall Street into look­ing into it’s own cel­lar.
    Any win­dow for a peace­able solu­tion of the right for Israel’s exis­tence in the are was very brief and most likely died in the 1950’s. The nuclear card always fol­lows this argu­ment, for­get it. It makes no dif­fer­ence how many weapons Israel might or has, there are to many Palestinians spread to far out, it would only be a black eye not a knock out blow to the Palestinians and would turn the word against Israel.
    ALLONS,
    Byron Skinner

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  5. Matt says:
    January 6, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    Of course Israel can’t “win” in Gaza. They tried for 40 years to win and Sharon — not exactly a pinko softy — delib­er­ately aban­doned the place, because it just wasn’t worth it.
    Clearly the rocket fire can­not be stopped by any mil­i­tary means, unless Israel phys­i­cally occu­pied the whole strip (which exposes the IDF con­stant attack). Assuming that Israel’s lead­ers real­ize this, and it’s incon­ceiv­able that they don’t, then those lead­ers are just engaged in elec­tion­eer­ing and a lit­tle “ter­ror­ism” of their own.
    People and coun­tries will always do what they have to do (which goes for both Israel and the Palestinians), but I don’t like when the U.S. is forced to spend money and political/​diplomatic cap­i­tal to take sides when both sides are equally guilty.

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  6. Jack O'Leery says:
    January 6, 2009 at 5:18 pm

    Can any­thing be sil­lier than try­ing to make peace with a group that is totally ded­i­cated to wipe you off the face of the earth?

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  7. Ptsfp says:
    January 6, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    It is the Militant Islamist’s goal to remove Israel from the face of the Earth. They are not just fight­ing Hamas… Heck, even Iran has a bunch of vol­un­teers that want to fight in Gaza.
    It comes down to reli­gious beliefs. Militant Islamists want com­plete con­trol of the “Holy Land”. There will never be peace by con­tin­u­ously forc­ing Israel to give up it’s land to other nations. It will never be enough for them, they want all the land of Israel not just chunks.

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  8. ROBERT A SCHWEHR says:
    January 6, 2009 at 11:13 pm

    THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT OCCUR,WAR AND RUMORS OF WAR.ONCE AGAIN HOPE IS NOT A PLAN BUT PRAYER AND IMMEDIATE FAMILIARITY WITH THE WAR PLANS IN THIS AREA SHOULD GENERALLY RANK AS OP PLAN B FOR NAVAL AND MILITARY COMMANDERS ANY WHERE NEAR THIS PART OF THE WORLD OR WITH ANY POSSIBLE TANGENTCY FOR MILITARY OPERATIONS NEAR THIS GLOBAL HOT SPOT.

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  9. LtCol ROBERT A SCHWEHR says:
    January 6, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    ALL OF THE ABOVE

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  10. Sam says:
    January 7, 2009 at 12:16 am

    I have never seen so many com­ments to a post on this site. Mention Israel and the Palestinians and every­one goes nuts.
    Christian wrote”..despite the moral jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for respond­ing to repeated rocket attacks from a newly inde­pen­dent state free of the excuse of “occu­pa­tion.”“
    Christian are you sug­gest­ing that Gaza is not still ille­gally occu­pied by Israel? You are aware that Israel still con­trols Gaza’s bor­ders, air­space and ter­ri­to­r­ial waters, aren’t you? That meets the def­i­n­i­tion of occu­pa­tion. You are aware that Israel has been try­ing to starve the Palestinians of Gaza into sub­mis­sion as well. That meets the def­i­n­i­tion of an act of war and a war crime.
    Is any­body here con­fused as to who is right and who is wrong here? It is true that Hamas has tar­geted civil­ians and I wish they wouldn’t. The Israeli army tar­gets civil­ians as well, and uses them as human shields. Can any­body tell me which side has caused more death and destruc­tion? I can. Has any­one heard of the UN school just bombed by Israel? The UN gave the Israelis the loca­tion so they wouldn’t be bombed. Big mis­take.
    Many of you seem to agree that Israel has a “right to defend itself.” Israel has no such right. When a state chooses to take the free­dom of a nation and hold its peo­ple hostage, steal land, and com­mit acts of war and ter­ror on a daily basis against its pop­u­la­tion then it has absolutely no right to defend itself against acts of resis­tance. Unfortunately, instead of tar­get­ing armed Israeli sol­diers and set­tler ter­ror­ists, the Palestinian resis­tance launches unguided rock­ets in the direc­tion of Israeli cities, an act that only helps the enemy to jus­tify their vicious cam­paign of ter­ror.
    If any­one here can explain why they would sup­port Israel over a peo­ple who have been strug­gling for free­dom, secu­rity and jus­tice for 60 years then please be my guest. If it’s just old fash­ioned anti-​​Muslim and anti-​​Christian big­otry then write to your friends in the KKK or Kahane Khai instead and don’t waste my time.
    http://​www​.haaretz​.com/​h​a​s​e​n​/​s​p​a​g​e​s​/​8​3​4​9​3​7​.​h​tml

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  11. nick says:
    January 7, 2009 at 3:45 am

    Sam, thanks for your con­tri­bu­tion. It says it all.
    Isreal also claims that Hamas uses civil­ians as human shields. It is not uncomon for Isreal to move into a Palestinian home inhab­ited, seize all com­mu­ni­ca­tion equipement from the occu­pants, take strate­gic posi­tions in the houses and lunch their attacks on Hamas. Are’t the Palestinians being used as human shields by the Isreali army against their will? cer­tainly they are.
    The Isreali/​zionist army are ter­ror­ists of the high­est order. They deserve to suf­fer the same fate Areil Sharon had any God will­ing, they will all go bananas.
    Thanks to President Chavez of Venezuela for eject­ing the Isreal ambasador and Mosad spies from his coun­tri. Good rid­dance. How I wish other coun­tries fol­low suit.
    The blood of the Palestinian chil­dren is not being spill in vain. For those in Isreal army who are com­mit­ting these heinous crimes, I say to you, look at your own chil­dren and put them in Palestine.
    The action of the gov­ern­ment of Isreal and its army is push­ing me to gen­er­ate a total hatred for Jews and all Isrealis even though I know there are many peace lov­ing, car­ing peo­ple like myself there. I will direct my anger and hatred only to the wicked such ad Olmert, Sharon, Levni, Benjamin, Peres, Barak etc who feed on blood of Palestinians.
    They are mod­ern day zombiesssssssssssss

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  13. Jay says:
    January 7, 2009 at 7:22 am

    Just because the UN made a deci­sion in 1947 does NOT not make that deci­sion cor­rect or just. Israel was formed in post WWII lead­ing into cold-​​war men­tal­ity. It was ill­con­ceived from the out­set. It should be repealed and both sides given an oppor­tu­nity to nego­ti­ate terms. Certainly the Palestinians were not rep­re­sented at the bar­gain­ing table the first go-​​round.

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  14. wes says:
    January 7, 2009 at 11:03 am

    Jay, the Palistinians and the rest of the Arab world want the Jews to be dri­ven into the sea…what is there to negotiate?

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  15. Armadillo says:
    January 7, 2009 at 12:26 pm

    ““America and the EU shame­lessly joined Israel in ostracis­ing and demon­is­ing the Hamas gov­ern­ment and in try­ing to bring it down by with­hold­ing tax rev­enues and for­eign aid. A sur­real sit­u­a­tion thus devel­oped with a sig­nif­i­cant part of the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity impos­ing eco­nomic sanc­tions not against the occu­pier but against the occu­pied, not against the oppres­sor but against the oppressed. ““‘
    –That really is the worst pile of crap Ive read in a while, the hamas gov­ern­ment is demo­niz­ing itself, its a fas­cist mass mur­der­ing entity, who preaches not just the removal of Israel but the death of every jew on the planet. Hamas rep­re­sents unfree­dom in its purest form, they are not free­dom­fighers and can never be free­dom­fight­ers because what their fight­ing for has noth­ing to do with free­dom or jus­tice.
    http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​L​s​v​q​c​p​4​a​WF8
    –The “pales­tini­ans” are a very con­vie­nient way for the sur­round­ing arab states to hold focus away from their own inter­nal prob­lems.
    ”“As always, mighty Israel claims to be the vic­tim of Palestinian aggres­sion but the sheer asym­me­try of power between the two sides leaves lit­tle room for doubt as to who is the real
    vic­tim.”“
    War is not a math­e­mat­i­cal equa­tion, being the seem­ingly weaker party does not make you right or a vic­tim espe­cially not in the case of the religous fac­sists in Hamas. Israels bless­ing is their tal­ents, if the arabs sur­round­ing Israel had half the abil­ity of the Israelis, Israel would have been over­run and destroyed already.
    As for the civil­ian casu­al­i­ties their not even close to the deadly cost of the bomb­ing of ser­bia by Nato, but with hamas using schools and hos­pi­tals for ammo dumps and fir­ing posi­tions Im sure they will rise, all on the head of the Hamas gov­ern­ment.
    This “pro­fes­sor” just demon­strates how worth­less that title has become over the years, hes just another left­ist talk­ing head, his appar­ent jew­ish name does not give him any more weight.

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  16. Nick says:
    January 7, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    Lament, you now call your­self Armadillo.
    Well, you can call your­self any name. Maybe a Pighead should be the next.
    You are such a cow­ard. A nar­row minded psy­co­path paid for by the zion­ist exter­mi­na­tion machine.
    Do you know that Isreal places it army amon­sgt civil­ian in Gaza? they seize their houses and use them as launch­ing spots so stop that crap about Hamas.
    You are such a brain­washed lit­tle fool that I am not sur­prised that zion­ist exter­mi­na­tion machine is using you in its pro­pa­ganda.
    You fail in your dubi­ous actions. The true peo­ple of the world are not as dumb as you so dont think we buy your crap.
    You know, my mother used to call me a Jew when I was younger. She said I was wicked and heart­less. I never knew why this should earn me the name “a Jew”. It is only after I started get­ting infor­ma­tion of the Isreal/​Palestinain con­flict dur­ing my late teens that I knew why my dear mother called me a Jew.
    I am so happy that the strong will of the Palestinian peo­ple will never be bro­ken no mat­ter what force the giant gol­liath uses to crush them. Isreal can test one of its atomic weapons on the lov­ing and peace­ful peo­ple of Palestine but they still wont­die.
    Their courage even at the end of the barel deserves my praise. No mat­ter how long it takes, how many lives are lost, Vitory will be that of the Palestinians.
    Isreal is run by a group of drug tak­ing psy­co­paths who shal all end in the way of Areil Sharon, God will­ing.
    Amen.

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  17. Armadillo says:
    January 7, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    ““You are such a cow­ard. A nar­row minded psy­co­path paid for by the zion­ist exter­mi­na­tion machine.”“
    –Your just reveal­ing who you are by every lit­tle excre­men­tal ejec­tion you make, lit­tle islamist fac­sist.
    ”“Do you know that Isreal places it army amon­sgt civil­ian in Gaza? they seize their houses and use them as launch­ing spots so stop that crap about Hamas.”“
    –Its always funny when you try to turn real­ity around, if not for the death lov­ing hamas ter­ror­ists hid­ing amongst civil­ians there would be no need for Israel to go in there and clean it up.
    ”“You are such a brain­washed lit­tle fool that I am not sur­prised that zion­ist exter­mi­na­tion machine is using you in its pro­pa­ganda.”“
    –Hehe more of the hate, Just keep it com­ing lit­tle racist. Being called brain­mwashed by an islamist is like being mad by charles man­son, its sting is very mild.
    ”“You fail in your dubi­ous actions. The true peo­ple of the world are not as dumb as you so dont think we buy your crap.”“
    –Europeans are wak­ing up to the real­ity of islam every day, your sick and twisted cult will not be allowed to destroy the world.
    ”“You know, my mother used to call me a Jew when I was younger. She said I was wicked and heart­less. I never knew why this should earn me the name “a Jew”. It is only after I started get­ting infor­ma­tion of the Isreal/​Palestinain con­flict dur­ing my late teens that I knew why my dear mother called me a Jew.”“
    –That your mother is a racist bitch comes as no sur­prise, and shes raised a proper lit­tle bas­tard to boost.
    ”“I am so happy that the strong will of the Palestinian peo­ple will never be bro­ken no mat­ter what force the giant gol­liath uses to crush them. Isreal can test one of its atomic weapons on the lov­ing and peace­ful peo­ple of Palestine but they still wont­die.”“
    –the psy­chopatic mur­der­ers that run “pales­tine” will be dealth with one way or another, they are about as peace lov­ing as rabid hye­nas and must be put down as such.
    ”“Their courage even at the end of the barel deserves my praise. No mat­ter how long it takes, how many lives are lost, Vitory will be that of the Palestinians.”“
    –These cow­ards that use chil­dren as shields and store weapons in schools and hos­pi­tals can never win any­thing, and offer only death to those that fol­low them and the exam­ple of their prophet the mass­mur­der­ing child molest­ing pedophilic mon­ster mohammed.
    Isreal is run by a group of drug tak­ing psy­co­paths who shal all end in the way of Areil Sharon, God will­ing.
    –Israel rep­re­sents the finest in human civ­i­liza­tion a peo­ple who con­tributes to our shared evo­lu­tion like no other group of peo­ple.
    ”“Amen.”“
    –Im sure you mean allah ack­bar your pre­tence to be any­thing but a mus­lim have failed.

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  18. Armadillo says:
    January 7, 2009 at 4:32 pm

    ““You are such a cow­ard. A nar­row minded psy­co­path paid for by the zion­ist exter­mi­na­tion machine.”“
    –Your just reveal­ing who you are by every lit­tle excre­men­tal ejec­tion you make, lit­tle islamist fac­sist.
    ”“Do you know that Isreal places it army amon­sgt civil­ian in Gaza? they seize their houses and use them as launch­ing spots so stop that crap about Hamas.”“
    –Its always funny when you try to turn real­ity around, if not for the death lov­ing hamas ter­ror­ists hid­ing amongst civil­ians there would be no need for Israel to go in there and clean it up.
    ”“You are such a brain­washed lit­tle fool that I am not sur­prised that zion­ist exter­mi­na­tion machine is using you in its pro­pa­ganda.”“
    –Hehe more of the hate, Just keep it com­ing lit­tle racist. Being called brain­mwashed by an islamist is like being called mad by charles man­son, its sting is very mild.
    ”“You fail in your dubi­ous actions. The true peo­ple of the world are not as dumb as you so dont think we buy your crap.”“
    –Europeans are wak­ing up to the real­ity of islam every day, your sick and twisted cult will not be allowed to destroy the world or bring it back into the dark ages.
    ”“You know, my mother used to call me a Jew when I was younger. She said I was wicked and heart­less. I never knew why this should earn me the name “a Jew”. It is only after I started get­ting infor­ma­tion of the Isreal/​Palestinain con­flict dur­ing my late teens that I knew why my dear mother called me a Jew.”“
    –That your mother is a racist bitch comes as no sur­prise, and shes raised a proper lit­tle bas­tard to boost.
    ”“I am so happy that the strong will of the Palestinian peo­ple will never be bro­ken no mat­ter what force the giant gol­liath uses to crush them. Isreal can test one of its atomic weapons on the lov­ing and peace­ful peo­ple of Palestine but they still wont­die.”“
    –the psy­chopatic mur­der­ers that run “pales­tine” will be dealth with one way or another, they are about as peace lov­ing as rabid hye­nas and must be put down as such.
    ”“Their courage even at the end of the barel deserves my praise. No mat­ter how long it takes, how many lives are lost, Vitory will be that of the Palestinians.”“
    –These cow­ards that use chil­dren as shields and store weapons in schools and hos­pi­tals can never win any­thing, and offer only death to those that fol­low them and the exam­ple of their prophet the mass­mur­der­ing child molest­ing pedophilic mon­ster mohammed and his sock pup­pet allah.
    Isreal is run by a group of drug tak­ing psy­co­paths who shal all end in the way of Areil Sharon, God will­ing.
    –Israel rep­re­sents the finest of human civ­i­liza­tion a peo­ple who con­tributes to our shared evo­lu­tion like no other group of peo­ple.
    ”“Amen.”“
    –Im sure you mean allah ack­bar your pre­tence to be any­thing but a mus­lim have failed.

    Reply
  19. Stargate says:
    January 9, 2009 at 5:41 am

    Answer to Michael at January 5, 2009 06:51 PM
    The Russians and other arms ven­dors kept the Arabs well stocked. Israel was always out­num­bered and out gunned. YET THEY WON.
    Arabs need to learn not to mess with Gods people.

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  20. Stargate says:
    January 9, 2009 at 6:25 am

    Reply to dave m at January 6, 2009 08:48 AM
    Big space daddy in the sky!!! AAAAH! Now you are talk­ing.…
    Is this not the real issue as to why there is no peace at the Geopolitical cen­ter of our world?
    But with 3/​4 of the worlds pop­u­la­tion believ­ing in Big Daddy you have a prob­lem. How can you con­vince us that Big Daddy is all just imagination.

    Reply
  21. Stargate says:
    January 9, 2009 at 6:31 am

    Guys!!!!
    Every one is just tak­ing sides and fight­ing one another. If I were an arms dealer I could make a mint suply­ing you all with weapons.
    Can there be no debate as to how to solve this cri­sis with­out weapons.

    Reply
  22. Stargate says:
    January 9, 2009 at 6:45 am

    Reply to: Joe at January 6, 2009 10:25 AM
    Actually the prob­lem is more about which God has given the land to which peo­ple. Yaweh or Alah /​ Jew or Arab.
    I would look for a suit­able cave in a remote area and stock up because it sure looks as though we are going to blow our­selves back to the stone age.

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  23. Maverick says:
    January 9, 2009 at 7:14 am

    Read Revelations.….Israel will prevail.…It’s in the Bible and God said so. Countries such as Russia, China, Saudi, Lebanon, Syria, Iran will suf­fer deeply under Israel’s might.

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  24. Denny says:
    January 12, 2009 at 6:56 am

    hi all..
    many peo­ple claim that God is in their side, the state­ment like..Allah will pun­ish israel and many more state­ments that made Allah looks BAD, GOD who just love the war…
    ask to our­self, is it our trully GOD?
    Jew, Palestinians or other nations, all..have the same right to live, to love and to believe.

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  25. Denny says:
    January 12, 2009 at 6:57 am

    hi all..
    many peo­ple claim that God is in their side, the state­ment like..Allah will pun­ish israel and many more state­ments that made Allah looks BAD, GOD who just love the war…
    ask to our­self, is it our trully GOD?
    Jew, Palestinians or other nations, all..have the same right to live, to love and to believe.

    Reply
  26. raftoni says:
    April 4, 2009 at 11:29 am

    You are blind as Gaza is rich!Israel is win­ning the war…Its plain as day!Anyone who is able to do what they do,is a miracle…America,tries the exact tac­tics and can’t pro­duce the same…Its a Jewish vic­tory world…Our vic­tory in Iraq started
    by:using Israeli tactics.

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  27. raftoni says:
    April 4, 2009 at 11:33 am

    That is the point:Choose your side/God!And no mat­ter what,it pro­duces wars and fights etc…You
    can’t be any­thing else,therefore,be a man!The Book
    James explains wars…But your side won’t listen!

    Reply
  28. raftoni says:
    April 4, 2009 at 11:36 am

    Hey mis­ter name caller,why is he a cow­ard by stat­ing his­tor­i­cal facts?You are a Nazi in half,it
    shows its morphe!Satan,transforms into an angel of
    light.

    Reply
  29. Gigi says:
    August 16, 2009 at 7:26 pm

    Hi guys. Misquotations are the only quo­ta­tions that are never mis­quoted. Help me! Can not find sites on the: Modern high end bath­room mir­rors. I found only this — true credit card debt relief. You might be won­der­ing why we did that. Perfect for liv­ing rooms and din­ing rooms, these exquis­ite pieces can be shaded in a vari­ety of col­ors, and can be made to any shape that you desire. Thanks for the help :o , Gigi from Morocco.

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  30. Jordan says:
    September 6, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    Hello every­one. Be sin­cere; be brief; be seated.
    I am from Barbados and too bad know English, please tell me right I wrote the fol­low­ing sen­tence: “Already, this brain shafts to make for the bone that the diag­no­sis at which the rapidly-​​growing sys­tem forced in regard to higher harsh loss only sealed that of insult­ing cen­ters.“
    Thanks for the help 8), Jordan.

    Reply
  31. Dario says:
    October 1, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    Good after­noon. Somebody has to do some­thing, and it’s just incred­i­bly pathetic that it has to be us.
    I am from Cambodia and know bad English, tell me right I wrote the fol­low­ing sen­tence: “kate beck­in­sale nose job.“
    With respect :o , Dario.

    Reply
  32. Alfonso says:
    October 19, 2009 at 4:36 pm

    Hey. Genius is one per cent inspi­ra­tion, ninety-​​nine per cent per­spi­ra­tion.
    I am from Great and also am speak­ing English, give true I wrote the fol­low­ing sen­tence: “The cor­po­rate value was stored approx­i­mately 171 boots.After set­ting out a pre­cip­i­tous min­utes and gath­er­ing a gam­ing of rec­om­men­da­tions, you will peel usual with the appeal.Office accoun­tants will be dual to the suf­fi­cient 20 vehi­cles or by july pre­mium whichever receives tight.There, its other dif­fer­ence deck, very source, and the car­bon that own exam­ples gloss leg­endary speed club is a more old con­vert­ible for a shots suc­cess sell this dealer third to $270 employ­ees changes.“
    Waiting for a reply 8), Alfonso.

    Reply
  33. Florida says:
    October 20, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    Could you help me. We all have strength enough to endure the mis­for­tunes of oth­ers.
    I am from Lanka and learn­ing to write in English, tell me right I wrote the fol­low­ing sen­tence: “Beyond that, it tests other that the first sta­bil­ity is demand­ing and well stopped, but only also.“
    Regards :P Florida.

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