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	<title>Comments on: Obama: Gaza Siege &#8216;Forced on Israel&#8217;</title>
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		<title>By: Ted Marcus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ted Marcus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So my advice to the Palestinians- hang on, you&#039;ll get your state, a bigger state actually, one that includes the present-day Israel. Surely, there&#039;ll be a Jewish diaspora again &amp; you&#039;ll get all you&#039;ve been fighting for. 
The new economic powers of the East will need more Arab oil than anything the Jews can offer</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So my advice to the Palestinians- hang on, you&#8217;ll get your state, a bigger state actually, one that includes the present-day Israel. Surely, there&#8217;ll be a Jewish diaspora again &amp; you&#8217;ll get all you&#8217;ve been fighting for.<br />
The new economic powers of the East will need more Arab oil than anything the Jews can offer</p>
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		<title>By: Cameron Kirchhoff</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cameron Kirchhoff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Israel is nothing more than a terrorist state.</description>
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		<title>By: Bahjat Tabbara</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bahjat Tabbara</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The siege of Gaza is at least 18 months old, but began in 2005 when the first shortages of supplies were reported. Everybody knows (or should know) that the disparity between the Israeli military &amp; HAMAS is not only enormous, but claims that HAMAS poses a threat to Israel &amp; that Israel is &#039;defending itself&#039; is an odious statement to say the least.

HAMAS doesn&#039;t have the advantage of F-15s, F-16s, AH-64 &#039;Apache&#039; &amp; thick skinned Merkava tanks. By contrast Israel has all these &amp; yet claims it is the victim of &#039;garage projects&#039; that HAMAS has fired for a mere x4 casualties thus far. A lucky hit would be just that, a lucky hit. By contrast Israel is using high powered weaponry in populated areas. Do they expect HAMAS commanders to go out in the open? Certainly they&#039;re not hiding among civilians or using human shields.

Yet perhaps one must look to find out that 450-500 Israelis die on the roads every year from road accidents. That&#039;s far more in two years than the number of Israelis who were killed in any if the Intifadas &amp; certainly more than HAMAS rockets have inflicted. If anything any body in Israel (or visiting Israel) is more likely to die in a car accident than a HAMAS suicide bomb or rocket.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The siege of Gaza is at least 18 months old, but began in 2005 when the first shortages of supplies were reported. Everybody knows (or should know) that the disparity between the Israeli military &amp; HAMAS is not only enormous, but claims that HAMAS poses a threat to Israel &amp; that Israel is &#8216;defending itself&#8217; is an odious statement to say the least.</p>
<p>HAMAS doesn&#8217;t have the advantage of F-15s, F-16s, AH-64 &#8216;Apache&#8217; &amp; thick skinned Merkava tanks. By contrast Israel has all these &amp; yet claims it is the victim of &#8216;garage projects&#8217; that HAMAS has fired for a mere x4 casualties thus far. A lucky hit would be just that, a lucky hit. By contrast Israel is using high powered weaponry in populated areas. Do they expect HAMAS commanders to go out in the open? Certainly they&#8217;re not hiding among civilians or using human shields.</p>
<p>Yet perhaps one must look to find out that 450-500 Israelis die on the roads every year from road accidents. That&#8217;s far more in two years than the number of Israelis who were killed in any if the Intifadas &amp; certainly more than HAMAS rockets have inflicted. If anything any body in Israel (or visiting Israel) is more likely to die in a car accident than a HAMAS suicide bomb or rocket.</p>
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		<title>By: TheRationalist</title>
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		<dc:creator>TheRationalist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The sad truth of the conflict is that israel will only condone a democracy it sees fit. even after hamas won the vote of palistinians by a rate of nearly 95% they are STILL regarded as terrorists. The world remains silent for fear if they interfere with israel they will be called anti jew racists because 70 years ago a bunch of christians decided to kill some jews, and they see fit to punish muslims.

4 isralies killed to 400 arabs? War crime much?

Israel: &quot;God gave us the land as described in the torah&quot;.

If the bible condones killing jews, shall we all go out and do that too? If i write a book that says i am entitled to the worlds wealth am i permitted to bypass all laws to get it because it was written? No. 
And they have the audacity to tell palistinans to get out of the combat zones. WHERE ARE CAN THEY GO?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The sad truth of the conflict is that israel will only condone a democracy it sees fit. even after hamas won the vote of palistinians by a rate of nearly 95% they are STILL regarded as terrorists. The world remains silent for fear if they interfere with israel they will be called anti jew racists because 70 years ago a bunch of christians decided to kill some jews, and they see fit to punish muslims.</p>
<p>4 isralies killed to 400 arabs? War crime much?</p>
<p>Israel: &#8220;God gave us the land as described in the torah&#8221;.</p>
<p>If the bible condones killing jews, shall we all go out and do that too? If i write a book that says i am entitled to the worlds wealth am i permitted to bypass all laws to get it because it was written? No.<br />
And they have the audacity to tell palistinans to get out of the combat zones. WHERE ARE CAN THEY GO?</p>
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		<title>By: eman</title>
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		<dc:creator>eman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>THE ISRAELI GOVERMENT PAYS EVERY DAY A LOT OF MONY IN ORDER TO FIGHT AND KILL  &quot;HAMAS&quot; GROUPS ;INNOCENT CIVILIANS IN GAZA; CHILDREN AND WOMEN ETC...)IMAGINE HOW MUCH BETTER IF ISRAEL GOV. PAYS THESE ACCOUNTS OF MONY ON THE WELFARE OF THE CIVILIANS THAT SUFFER AND WILL GO ON SUFFERING FROM THIS NONSTOP ISSUES.....
FROM 1970 TILL NOW ISRAEL DID&#039;NT FULFILL HER AIM...THE PEACE&#039;S KEY IS WITH ISRAEL ...BUT SHE LOST IT&#039;....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THE ISRAELI GOVERMENT PAYS EVERY DAY A LOT OF MONY IN ORDER TO FIGHT AND KILL  &#8220;HAMAS&#8221; GROUPS ;INNOCENT CIVILIANS IN GAZA; CHILDREN AND WOMEN ETC&#8230;)IMAGINE HOW MUCH BETTER IF ISRAEL GOV. PAYS THESE ACCOUNTS OF MONY ON THE WELFARE OF THE CIVILIANS THAT SUFFER AND WILL GO ON SUFFERING FROM THIS NONSTOP ISSUES&#8230;..<br />
FROM 1970 TILL NOW ISRAEL DID&#8217;NT FULFILL HER AIM&#8230;THE PEACE&#8217;S KEY IS WITH ISRAEL &#8230;BUT SHE LOST IT&#8217;&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Obama on Gaza: ‘No Comment’ &#124; MATADOR NINETY-FOUR</title>
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		<dc:creator>Obama on Gaza: ‘No Comment’ &#124; MATADOR NINETY-FOUR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] don’t expect much better from the Obama camp. Remember how he scolded the UN for daring to even discuss the Gaza [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] don’t expect much better from the Obama camp. Remember how he scolded the UN for daring to even discuss the Gaza [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Obama: No Comment on Gaza Slaughter &#171; DC: Freedom &#38; Linux</title>
		<link>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/01/24/obama-gaza-siege-forced-on-israel/comment-page-1/#comment-105123</link>
		<dc:creator>Obama: No Comment on Gaza Slaughter &#171; DC: Freedom &#38; Linux</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] on Palestinian families. However, we have to understand why Israel is forced to do this,” Obama wrote in a letter to ambassador Khalilzad. “Israel has the right to respond while seeking to minimize [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] on Palestinian families. However, we have to understand why Israel is forced to do this,” Obama wrote in a letter to ambassador Khalilzad. “Israel has the right to respond while seeking to minimize [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Obama on Gaza: ‘No Comment’ &#124; New World Order Truth</title>
		<link>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/01/24/obama-gaza-siege-forced-on-israel/comment-page-1/#comment-105112</link>
		<dc:creator>Obama on Gaza: ‘No Comment’ &#124; New World Order Truth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] don&#8217;t expect much better from the Obama camp. Remember how he scolded the UN for daring to even discuss the Gaza [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] don&rsquo;t expect much better from the Obama camp. Remember how he scolded the UN for daring to even discuss the Gaza [...]</p>
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