“What is happening in Gaza right now is holocaust against Palestinian more than 1000 were killed, more 3000 wounded. Israel has to leave Gaza completely. Open the borders, the seas, the air. Let the Palestinians live like humans on their land. Occupation is the root cause for all of this. And Yes!! Israel is still occupying Gaza by controlling its borders.
Palestinians in Gaza have been deprived from the basic needs for humanity. Students lost their access to education abroad. Pregnant women have given birth at checkpoints. Hundreds of ill people have died so far. Break the siege!”

Twaddle! When those conditions were met in 2005, Hamas celebrated its “victory” by a heavy intensification of its Qassam rocket attacks. Check out the history instead of bombastulating sanctimoniously.

The whole braininess meme might be something of a red herring on my part anyway. Maybe it’s not that important. I guess when you know you’re outside the Establishment consensus and center of gravity of power, you draw on what extra resources you can given the asymmetry of power and influence.

cheerleading on behalf of Hamas and the like has been disgraceful in itself, and has encouraged its already out-of-control megalomania and fanaticism.

Ho, ho. And the mindless cheerleading of apologists like yourself and the thousands of hoodwinked Israeli-flag-waving American Jews attending pro-Israel soldiarity rallies has not “encouraged” Israel’s “out of control megalomania and fanaticism???” Who ya kiddin’?

This is all hamas’ fault and the fault of those that voted for them

I never cease to be amazed by your utter callousness. Are you saying that any Gazan who voted for Hamas deserves to die in a hail of Israeli rocket fire?? You don’t feel “too bad” about entire families wiped out if the parents voted for Hamas? What kind of monster are you? They exercised a democratic right and you justify their murder?

If you are wondering why so many civilians in Gaza have been killed, well it’s because that’s where the Hamas.

Now I’ve heard everything. Willie Sutton, the world’s most notorious bank robber used to justify Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. BTW, where would you have Hamas be if not in Gaza? In Paris perhaps? Or Tel Aviv?

You wingnut Hamas haters are simply pathetic. You trot out a document written in 1988, 20 years ago as if it is the governing document of Hamas today. It no more determines Hamas policy today than the 2008 Republican Party platform obligated John McCain to implement its agenda.

And I’m not a “useful idiot,” though I will do something useful in banning you from commenting in this blog until you can become less insulting.

But I do take yr pt. I think generally we have a far more august, distinguished intellectual circle that is critical of the Gaza attack.

Apropos of Edward Said (if, had he lived, would be in big trouble with Hamas because of his (Episcopal!!) religion:

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One must never deride,
Nor in any way be snide,
To a fellow in a fez, Said says.

One must never abuse
Any chap in a burnoose,
Not in word, not in deed, said Said.

There is simply no disturbin’
Any person in a turban.
That’s what Said said, so I’ve read.

If still, nonetheless,
Said Said, you must aggress,
Throw a stone or two at a —
(You know who!)

The fact is, it won’t matter how many Palestinian children are butchered in the end in this Israeli rampage, you will insanely find some way to rationalize, even celebrate, the murder. You guys are utterly lost–morally, intellectually, spiritually. I don’t even think you’re evil. You’re just morally indifferent & incapable of independent thought. You might have our pathetic government and conformist punditry at your back, but more and more of us Americans are waking up to the horror of the ongoing atrocity being committed by the IDF against Palestinians in Gaza.