The fact is I have five members of family who have or still live in Israel, all Orthodox Jews including Rabbi that might have something to do with my sympathies for Israel. They were all formerly Australian citizens and I will defend their right to life and I will condemn the constant anti-Israeli propaganda that would threaten their life. Not one of them has handled a rifle or explosives, but two have been in the presence of exploding Palistinian bommers.

Philo, I have good friends who live in Israel but that does not stop me recognising the fact that they live where they live because of dispossession and injustice.
Your relatives may have a 'right' to live in Israel of original borders but they do not have a right to live anywhere else. Neither do they have a right to maintain an illegal occupation, support an illegal and immoral colonisation, refuse to compensate those they have dispossessed and to support a State which sanctions terrorism against the Palestinian people.
If Israel had compensated those it dispossessed; had apologised for the wrongs inherent in its creation; had ended theoccupation and paid for the reconstruction of all that they have destroyed ..... Israelis would not be attacked.
Any country which uses violence and terrorism to occupy and colonise will be attacked. The violence which Israelis face is of their own and their supporters making.
Israelis can claim no true 'rights' until they, like other colonising nations have admitted to the wrongs of their foundation and made redress.

Yes, I do, Strewth. I speak English much better than you speak Arabic, for instance, but I am not privileged to post to this page twice per day.

Philo, you're defending the indefensible: the right of some Australians to be given automatic citizenship in Israel while the original inhabitants of the land rot in refugee camps, denied the right of every refugee - to return to their homes and land. Yet another example of your (and Israel's) monumental hypocrisy.

From the article at the bottom we can see the power obsession and neglect of the people of Iran by its Government. Iran will feed Hamas the weapons to attempt the destruction of Israel.

This is a quote from a friend in Israel,"Internally we see Hamas positioning itself in a posture that says they are getting ready to hit Israel with everything they have - in the near future. Possibly when Iran makes its move to destroy the Jewish State. What many of us here in Israel are struggling with is why Israel sat still for weeks and allowed truck loads of weapons to flow into Gaza through the open border with Egypt?"
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Increased Child Prostitution In The Islamist Regime

Western Restistance, April 25, 2006

“News today from AKI reports that child prostitution in Iran is on the increase, according to sociologist Amanollah Gharaii Moghaddam. He told AKI that the reason for an increase in prostitution as a whole among young people in the nation is a consequence of the widespread unemployment and a failing economy. 28% of young people aged 15 to 29 are unemployed.

Other factors include restrictions on women, along with drug addiction and domestic violence, causing many young women to leave their homes. Amanollah Gharaii Moghaddam claims that girls as young as 12 are now selling their bodies on the streets of Iran's cities. There are an estimated 300,000 prostitutes in Tehran, the capital, but the sociologist states: "the number isn't so high when compared to the four million unemployed only in Tehran and the five million drug addicts today in Iran."…”

At: http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/002018.htm

About as relevant as the following in yesterday's Australian Jewish News: "SEX SCANDAL ROCKS AIF: The Israeli Air Force was rocked by allegations of serial statutory rape at one of its bases...allegations that as many as 30 airmen at a base in southern Israel had sex with a local girl when she was 13 and 14." Like I said, Philo, monumental hypocrisy.