In their own words

by on January 4, 2009 7

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (January 4, 2008): "Israel is not fighting Palestinians living in Gaza. They are not our enemy. They are victims of violent and cruel oppression. We will aid with food and medical supplies as any moral and enlightened country must."

Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (January 2, 2008): "PHR-Israel to Israeli Minister of Defense - Stop Attacks on Medical Infrastructure and personnel in Gaza."

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  1. Colin Murray says:
    January 4, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    "They are victims of violent and cruel oppression."

    Wow, P.M. Olmert is telling the truth for once. I wonder if he sees it?

  2. otto says:
    January 4, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    On a different point, see Kevin Drum on blog posts which you have to click on to read.

    http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/01/more_on_teaser_blogs.html

    Shorter version: don't do it!

  3. anonn says:
    January 4, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    Same old spiel Shrub's cabal's been using for years. We've come to save the day! To protect you from rotten apples amongst you! So we got Iraq, now Gaza, next Iran. The little engine that could just keeps chugging away. Fox News just devoted a whole hour to a son of a
    HAMAS leader (the charitable branch, not the terrorist branch) who
    found the light in Christianity by a chance meeting with some US
    evangelicals over there. To be repeated tonight. His epiphany came
    when he compared Koran text to New Testament text, which led him
    to see that the Koran allows itself to be cherry-picked for the convenient moment. LOL. Nothing like the Jewish holy or Christian
    scribblings, eh? This special is passing for balanced news soup
    being fed to average Americans. ROFL

  4. anonn says:
    January 4, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    More on the Hamas leader's son who found the light: He pinpointed
    one key passage in the New Testament that he said made him see the
    pernicious lie and tool the koran was for inhumane readers: There was nothing in the koran, unlike the Christian holy word, which said
    U should LOVE your enemies.

    No mention if the Old Testament, or Talmud said you should love
    your enemy.

  5. anonn says:
    January 4, 2009 at 4:18 pm

    Cool. And the US has not been fighting the Iraqi people either, nor will they and Israel be fighting the Iranian people soon–Shake n Bake–n Ah Heped!

  7. Jim Haygood says:
    January 4, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    'The members' restaurant on the third floor of Israel's parliament, the Knesset, isn't exactly the epitome of coziness. Here the Israeli MPs eat while packed closely together at bare Formica tables. Guests search in vain for waiters and ministers jostle at the main buffet, where the choice is between chicken legs and schnitzel. Tzipi Livni, 48, scans the room, but no one makes any effort to invite her to sit with them.'

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,481391,00.html

    Them's mighty big chicken legs. Not supposed to have two bones in them. Looks more like 'long pig,' if you ask me. But the batter's delicious.

    'Finger lickin' good,' declares Miss Tzipi.

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