mhaze,

The problem with making assumptions is that they can sometimes be wrong.

I'm not a female but in fact a male in his mid-sixties and unlike some of the agenda-driven reactionaries that prowl sites like this I don't see history as a moving 3-week wide window but from a much wider perspective. This is not some brand new event but a continuation of a deliberate process that's been planned and under way for decades.

I've been around long enough to know the difference between fact and propaganda and when somebody's trying to yank my chain.

It's interesting that while the UK condemns the actions they continue to sell them the weapons that make it possible and the USA actually stands in the way of progress by letting Israel continue to defy international law. By it's own actions Israel is an international pariah and a rogue state.

As for being a virulent jew-hater I have no more problem with Judaeism than any other religion and my criticism is directed toward the extremist Zionism that's behind the last decades of atrocities in that region. As a prominent Jewish author once said, the typical charge of anti-Semitism is "a trick, intended to shut down discussion and debate". The definition of the term term Semites includes Arabs.

These actions are actually anti-Jewish because they label them all as vicious oppressive thugs whose end-game has always been the total occupation of the region under the bogus claim that they are always the victim and under some sort of threat.

SR,

Hamas is a recognised terrorist organisation that rules Gaza tyrannically and arbitrarily executes all opposition, gays lesbians and Jews. Yet here you are cheerfully celebrating as they murder women and children because they are Jewish.

Hamas builds bunkers to protect their weapons and fighters and is yet to provide any protection for the women and children it uses as human shields.

You are a despicable person and you are Australian only in the way that Ivan Milat was.

... women and children it uses as human shields.
shadowminister,
Men, for want of better description in this case, could not stoop any lower than that !

SR

"You regurgitated that story from some rightwing hack site not knowing it was 7 years out of date. To be now insinuating you knew all along is absolute garbage."

You just assumed I didn't know it was from 2014. No evidence - just a giant leap to conclusion. How very SR of you.

In fact I've used that same quote several times over the past years, even, as I recall on these pages. I like the quote because it succinctly demonstrates how the press slants the story so as to misled the usual dills.

"you are just doing it because it comes with Trumpism right wing baggage."

I've been supportive of the Jewish state from way back. Indeed the first essay I ever wrote for publication was a contemporary account of the Yom Kipper war and the astounding Jewish victory there in the face of Arab/Soviet aggression. Long before the rise of Trump.

But I would reiterate that none of this would have been happening if Trump were still president.

rache,

Sorry to have misgendered you.

"I've been around long enough to know the difference between fact and propaganda and when somebody's trying to yank my chain."

Knowing there is a difference between fact and propaganda is not the same as recognising one from t'other. Falling for the propaganda from the Arab terrorist state and its cheer-squad, indicates a problem recognising each.

"virulent jew-hater I have no more problem with Judaeism than any other religion"

Its got nought to do with religion. Jew hatred goes back centuries. It is also part of the great socialist belief system from Marx to Corbyn. Hatred of the Jewish state is part of the hatred of the US and capitalism in general. And of course those who support America's enemies are also obliged to oppose its friends.

I can't help but notice no acknowledgement of dead Jewish kids.

mhaze,
Your logic is like a series of poorly strung together brain-farts.

Firstly replace the term anti-jew with pro-human.

If being pro-jew as you are means supporting killing women and kids just because you can to further your sides national agenda, or if it means believing God gave you the land or that God gave you a responsibility to rule over non-Jews, and tip urine and feces out you window upon your Palestinian neighbours;

Then I am ANTI-JEW, and not afraid to say it.

If Jews want to denounce this sub-human attitude I might start to think of them differently.
- Is it my fault that I think of them based on the merits of their own beliefs and actions?

You can twist it any way you wish.
But let me tell you I don't support that Jewish girl being killed either.
It's you that only sees the deaths on the side you have bias for.

You're so dumb.
What is Hamas anyway?
- Anyone who doesn't bend over and pull their bum cheecks apart for the occupation?
- Anyone who doesn't love the situation on the ground to the point of being blindly besotted religiously by 'God's chosen people'?

Some of us don't give a shite about any of that.

I told you before why they took that building down, antennas!!
It doesn't have to be anything more or less to be a target of the IDF.

You want to knock out any ability of the enemy to know what your doing, as well as reduce their communication capabilities.
- So you drop the damn building, right?
It's a no brainer.

Then you tell people Osama Bin Laden was hiding in there, when the real terrorists are the Israeli government.
And that's the truth, from 70+ years ago and continues to this day.
- terrorist government -

No one will ever know if you'r lying about 'Hamas',
(That is anyone who doesn't love the occupation, Israel and her national agendas)
Because you get to fabricate the evidence, and the building itself is now a huge pile of damn rubble.

One dead jewish girl, but how many people did did Israel make dead to make up for it.
The numbers are ALWAYS going to be massively disproportionate, because that's how Israel rolls.
'You kill one of us, we'll kill 10 on you'
- 'Know your place, accept the occupation and LOVE IT, or we'll kill you and your family'

Which brings us back to the beginning.
The human response to this cancer on the planet should be to nuke the whole god damn lot to end all the suffering, that will just going to keep on going FOREVER otherwise or until all the Palestinians are wiped from the face of the earth entirely.