Glad to see voices of sanity after so much rubbish and confusion from the usual suspects.
I see some wanna be fair to the Muslim terrorists and the insane Muslim leaders, such as Iran's...er...President Ammadamnjihad. How proud they are to watch evil and not take sides. Do as you like, but stop asking why the USA stands with Israel. We stand with Israel because it's the moral thing to do and (outside of scummy congressmen like John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich - today refusing to vote in favor of Israel's right to defend herself) we are proud of it.
I've come up in this thread even though, for the most part, I've pulled a Marr and severed my alliance with the World of Morrissey, or what it has become. I'll chime in.
I take a cue from Oriana Fallaci and the way she has described the so-called pacifists who always scream at Blair, Bush, and Israel and never scream at Saddam, Bin Laden, or Iran.
Like Fallaci, I know what side I'm on.
It is pathetic to see messages brushing aside crimes against humanity by Hizballah and Hamas, Iran and Syria, followed up by the programming: To scold Israel. To scold U.S. support for Israel. To scold Jewish lobbies. To condemn everything Israel does. To condemn anything Israel will ever do.
Some here say it was a kidnapping, what's the fuss? And Israel started it. Israel is evil and evil America backs her. They want us to believe Israel is the most evil country that ever existed, instead of - though far from perfect - the most civilized and democratic country to have ever blossomed in the Mideast.
That's their take when terrorists raid Israel to murder and kidnap and then shower Israel's civilian population with hundreds of rockets, as thousands swelter away in bomb shelters. That's their observation when Israel pulled out of Lebanon for 6 years and terrorists spent those 6 years stockpiling rockets, looking forward to committing atrocities. Terror-loving barbarians with no interest in peace, with the sponsorship of deranged regimes openly promising to wipe Israel off the map while actively seeking the weapons to do so, and the help of the useful idiots on the Far Left.
If you wanna know why civilians are suffering in this conflict, ask those who cause it. Try noticing that dead Muslim civilians are the intentional design of Israel's enemies.
And if you have an idea about "proportional responses", lay it out. What can Israel do to pass the special standards applied to Israel and no one else?
France said it might use nukes if attacked by terrorists sponsored by Muslim states (Google: Nuclear Chirac Terrorism). So we see what France has a right to do, something Israel has never even threatened. But Chirac says it's "disproportionate" to crater an airport so that kidnapped victims can't be flown away to some god-knows-where dungeon to never be heard from again, as has happened in the past (to those who say you know more of what's going on than Israelis do from your diet of anti-Israel bias from BBC scum).
I didn't run to Internet forums to condemn Israel when Israel was hit by unprovoked acts of war and atrocity by those who love nothing more than war. Instead I went to a rally at a Jewish Community Center attended by Holocaust survivors, to listen, and to declare that I do take a side, and ask if there's more I can do. No one was gung-ho for innocent Muslims dying. A stark contrast to the rampaging beasts rallying for Hizballah along with the degenerate Far Leftoids who admire them.
And I was given a small opportunity to help in the form of sponsoring the expenses of moving an Israeli child out of the danger zone and to a camp-like setting, safe and secure and away from the emotional scarring. Hopefully.
Perhaps someone should start a program where we can sponsor Muslim children to be raised away from the hands of filthy goat f***ers who teach them to strap on bombs to themselves and others up.
