Throughout Jewish history, through times serene and turbulent, the People of Israel looked to the Torah for guidance and stability. Only through steadfast adherence to Torah principles, - the Rebbe insisted - can Israel achieve true peace.
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God Bless you for reminding us all that we need not fear at this time, but walk faithfully, doing our best to follow His Commandments and doing mitzvoh. We are one family jewish brothers and sisters, let us live like it and help one another. Thank you again
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Thanks for this video. It remind us not ot be afraid for the future of Eretz Israel, that Hashem is always there to protect it. That our mission is to do the mitzvot, and Hashem will always be with us. Amen!
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A fantasic video, we are complaisant about what it is to be a Jewish and this wonderful video reminds us of our duty to G-d and Israel
I am so proud to be a jew and every day that I study the words of the Torah, I am again reminded of the greatness of Hassam.
I love Israel and Hassam.
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Amazing website, great viedo.
I've decided I will donate to your site. It's too often that I am affected and want the same for my relatives without making some type of committment. Thanks for the inspiration, keep it up.
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this is an amazing and inspirational video however ther eare some parts that i couln't understand can uyou please add subtitles? thanks
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Please subtitle this so that we all can understand what the Rebbe is saying to us!
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Please keep showing the video over and over again,Show it intill anyone who does not understand what is going on in isreal gets it. Esp. Sderot under attack This is why we need a buffer zone. No more land for peace. it does not work.
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that you will not allow my post to appear on your site--
But please tell all what we should think about the innocent children and women in Gaza who are being slaughtered by Israel's massive weaponry--and about the starving and unemployed in Gaza--people who lost their homes to Israelis as my 95-year-old friend in Czechahova lost his home to usurpers in 1945 after the Russians liberated him from the work camp outside Auschwitz.
Do tell. We need to find a better way than importing Jews from Brooklyn to take more land, more settlements, in provocation of those who seek justification for terrorism and find it in the abuses of a people who should have higher standards, if Torah is the guide,
Forgive my ignorance and understand that I speak for thousands who love Israel.
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As a citizen of Calgary I am appalled at the stunning silence from the Calgary Jewish Community about the travesty occurring in Israel and the Gaza strip. Is your silence an endorsement of the slaughter being perpetrated on the innocent women and children residing in the modern day concentration camp known as Gaza? It is incumbent on you as Jews to publicly and loudly call for a cessation of this murderous rampage in the Middle East. The hypocrisy of all this killing of desperate civilians as a defensive measure is palpable. The slaughter continues unabated despite calls for a ceasefire by the UN. It is time for the Calgary Jewish community and its leaders to speak up and help save lives in the region. The mantra of "Never again" is sounding pretty hollow to my ears right now.
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To call Israels response to months of terrorism and rocket attacks, "murder" is profound ignorance, or outright lies.
If your kids were shot at by someone hiding behind HIS kids and you had only 2 choices, shoot back or your children die, do not expect people to believe that you'd sit there and let your kids die.
Those who care about "innocents" should have cared decades ago when the Arabs abused their own kids brainwashing them into hate filled terrorists with no future except as homicide bombers.
It is not Israels fault they abuse their women and children.
If they have tunnels to smuggle weapons & plenty of money for thousands of rockets at a cost of thousands of dollars each, they have it for food.
They are like the gambler who gambles his money away & cries he has nothing to buy food or pay rent.
The Arab countries & leaders created the
"camps" not Israel.
Nothing is stopping any or all of 22,
from taking in their Arab bretheren & giving them good lives.
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In response to a previous comment posted here, understand that Israel is doing what they have to do so that NEVER AGAIN is a reality! Hamas is devoted to wiping Israel off the map! Huge dittos for Iran! Israel has put up with years of their civilians, including children, being PURPOSELY TARGETED AND KILLED. Israel is NOT targeting civilians, including children. Their objective is SOLEY to remove Hamas' ability to continue to do so!! Hamas, on the other hand, SRATEGICALLY AND PURPOSELY position themselves and their ammunition amongst their civilians. WHY??
As an Arab himself said, it is done so as to incur as many civilian casualties as possible, thereby looking as if Israel is "the bad guy" to the rest of the world. Before bombing a house where Hamas ammunition is stored or where a Hamas militant resides, Israel has warned the residents to vacate the house, in order to save their lives!
Cases occurred where the residents did not leave. AGAIN, WHY?? To make Israel look bad? AMAZING!!
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The land that the Arabs live on is land stolen from the Jews.
Israel is a postage stamp size country compared to the smallest Arab country and the Arabs have 22 countries, some of which are are far larger then their smallest one.
Yet they had to slaughter many of the Jews in Hebron in 1929, in order to steal their land.
Jews have always been in Israel since before the first Arab ever got there.
As for Jews from Brooklyn or other places moving in since when do Jews have no right to move into Jewish land?
Did any of the critics of "Brooklyn Jews" ever complain about Yassar Arafat and many others taking up residence on stolen Jewish land even though he, was from Egypt, and many others were also from "outside" those territories?
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History is full of mystery - the facts are not all that clear ,but the blood of children being spilled by Israel today is bright red and stains the reputation of Jews everywhere.
I guess "never again" doesn't apply if you happen to be a Gazan because killing a thousand Arabs here and there doesn't matter because there's lots of them all every the region?
Any court of law would reject the " I wasn't targeting them" defense after you were caught shooting into a crowd.
Try honest, and sincere negotiations for peace for a change.
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You obviously support the abuses by Arabs against their own children so stop pretending to care about them.
Also EVERY war ever fought had civilian casualties, and since you take the Arabs side in this war you cannot logically, claim to be against war in general.
If you gather a crowd just to shoot at innocent civilians and use YOUR crowd as human shields, that is not the fault of those you are attacking.
You obviously have no problem with innocents getting slaughtered by those who TARGET them, but when the victims fight back, suddenly you pretend to care about "innocents".
By showing your concern about ONLY the Arab side, you prove you really couldn't care less about innocents, it's just an excuse to espouse hatred against the Jews, you would hate no matter what.
Have your Arabs, try honest and sincere negotiations for a change.
They are the onse who broke every single peace agreement often before the ink was dry.
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Your trotting out of the tired, anti-semitic brush to tar anyone who doesn't agree with Israel's loutish aggression is typical when logic and intelligence fail.
I feel sorry for Jews living on the purloined lands with the blessing of their warmongering government, but it does not excuse the bloody free for all the Zionista army is exacting as revenge. To call this a war is to sully the meaning of the word.
The Arabs can't even afford uniforms, yet alone the sophisticated equipment being used against them. Primitive Rockets VS Guided Missiles, Rocks VS Machine guns. - that's fair.
Please note that not even one Israeli citizen was killed in the six months prior to this attack.
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Again-to make it clear to you!! Who is responsible for most of these civilians being killed? Hamas!! They are putting their women and children in places they KNOW Israel will attack (where ammunition is stored). There is a video showing terrorists dragging young Palestinian boys AGAINST THEIR WILL, to an area where they expect Israel will target. THEY have the blood of their OWN PEOPLE on their hands. THEY obviously don't care if their cilvilians are killed!! In fact, they MAKE IT HAPPEN!!! What do you expect Israel to do?! Go home and let the terrorists continue their daily firing of 80 or so rockets into Israel, aiming to kill civilians?! What country would do that?! If they would stop their rockets, Israel wouldn't be firing at them. End of story! NO ONE would be killed. Israel is defending itself, as any nation would, but the TERRORISTS are putting their own people in harm's way. Never again applies to ALL PEOPLES OF THE WORLD... Why don't you confront the TERRORISTS? HMMM !
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I am participating in discussions with many arabs about this travesty as well and in those talks my position is not supportive of their ongoing rocketing of Israel or for the practice of human shielding.
It is important to stop the wanton killing of civilians, however that killing might be argued as defensible, by citing weapons caches etc. and peace negotiations begun in earnest. A plan to roll the borders back to the UN decreed positions (pre1967), a commitment to halt the army-backed aggression. This would be preferable to the current state of affairs even if a DMZ was required for the beginning stages of the peace building process.
Labeling all Arabs who disagree with Israeli policy as terrorists is counterproductive, if peace is really the desired outcome. It is time to stop this fight before so much bad blood passes that your positions become intractable ... if that point hasn't already been passed due to all the bad decisions made on all sides of this conflict.
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Israel, thinking it will bring peace, has given up land, but what happens, as we all see, is that the TERRORISTS use that land to encroach closer to the inhabitants of Israel, sending in rockets to kill them! WHERE IS THE PEACE?! We don't call all Arabs who disagree with Israeli policy as terrorists, only those who use terror, violence and killing to intimidate. Check out some websites of Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese Arab,and listen to what she has to say, having had many difficult experiences in the Middle East, first hand. She states unequivocally that what Hamas and the other terrorist groups want - is TO GET RID OF THE JEWS, it's not about the land or any piece of geography PER SE, it's simply about their hatred of Jews, period!!! There are also pictures and videos of them teaching hatred of Jews to children in schools, starting at preschool age. Preschoolers who were 'interviewed' say plainly they want to grow up to kill Jews. How is all this geared towards making peace? Beats me.
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It's always ok for Jews to be attacked but never for them to defend themselves.
Like in the story about the Jew in the Roman Empire.
He is forced to fight in the arena against a lion and buried up to his neck without any ability to move his arms or legs; Then the lion is let loose and the Jew manages to bite the lion and the crowd yells out "fight fair, Jew."
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By taking the assault into the homes of Palestine, where these pre-schoolers live aren't you cementing in the bricks of hate so carefully laid by your detractors. Better you should show these children that Jews are in fact a caring, loving and forgiving people, not an invading, vengeful and paranoid army.
Pledge food, aid, and financial help to develop opportunity, build hope, instead of destroying lives. It is time to try something new, something unprecedented. Surrender to sanity. The cycle of violence has to stop. The killing has to stop. The strongest side in this conflict must lead the way to peace.
BTW: AntiSemitic Excuses, I am still waiting for an apology for your unwarranted and nasty accusation.
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You apologize to me for your unwarranted nasty accusations.
You call Jews defending themselves "rampaging murderers" then lie that Jewish land is not Jewish but supposedly stolen from the invading murdering land stealing terrorists.
Then you make personal insults and claim I owe YOU an apology?
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You keep 'conveniently' ignoring the facts. Before bombing a house that shelters loads of ammunition, or where a terrorist resides, the Israeli army has warned them of the impending attack, so that all the people should vacate the premises. The Israelis are trying to SPARE THEIR LIVES!! Isn't that compassion? On the other hand, the terrorists have been known to have the women and children STAY in the home, so that they will be killed, thereby making it seem that Israel is ruthless. Are these terrorists compassionate?! Do they do the same? And for their OWN PEOPLE??! ! Why don't you check out the facts and get the real truth. Go to Brigitte Gabriel's websites and listen to what this woman, an Arab, has to say about Hamas and the other terrorist groups.
She calls them barbarians, and tells it as it is and has a LOT to say! She knows from firsthand experience. The facts speak for themselves, whether you want to believe them or misinterpret them to suit your own beliefs. BE HONEST NOW!
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Go on the internet to Brigitte Gabriel's story when she spoke at The Heritage Foundation. She is an Arab woman who can tell you about the compassion of the Jewish people, and the barbaric atrocities of the terrorists. I have heard other Arabs talk in the same vein as well. These are people who have had all kinds of firsthand experiences. You should listen to what they have to say. I wonder how YOU would fare living among terrorists. You would probably be used as one of their human shields, as their own people are. It's really very sad. I do feel sorry for their people who are brainwashed to be 'held hostage' by them.
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Sorry, but the last time I checked "compassion" wasn't delivered by guided missile or artillery round. I can't believe you can still blindly defend this outrage. Pol Pot would want to shake Olmert the Obliterator's hand for the fine humanitarian work he's doing in Gaza.
The kill ratio is now over 110 arabs for every Israeli who has died in the last 3 weeks (including the three killed by friendly fire) UN relief agencies have been targeted twice now, killing the drivers of relief supply trucks and now all the UN emergency food and medical supplies were destroyed. This is compassion?
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The militants have been very compassionate, using their people as human sacrifices! Sending in rockets to target and kill Israeli citizens. Killing children in Israeli schools, bombing buses, firing at houses where their aim is solely to kill civilians, year after year after year. Dancing in the streets, giving out candy to children after killing Israelis and over 3,000 people in the world trade center! And other atrocities, the list goes on and on. Visit Brigitte Gabriel online and you'll hear TRUTHS from this Arab woman who has 'been there'.
You sound like you're a compassionate person, then check out the whole story! You'll get a better understanding of what's going on. Does it bother you that the militants are abusing their own people and using them as human shields? Does it bother you that militants dragged young Palestinian boys to an area they knew was going to be targeted? What's wrong with the picture here? It seems you're going to think what you want, no matter what! byebye
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Yea we "compassionate" Jew haters want all you Jews to lay down and die when our terrorists decide they want to kill, you.
We will feign concern anytime the kids used as human shields are killed, while saying nothing to their own abusive parants.
Who ever cared in any previous war about "kill ratios"?
Only Jews are held to that false standard, no one else EVER.
And of course terrorists have every right to hide and smuggle weapons and bombs and bombers, in UN facilities and mosques and hospitals schools ambulances etc...
And the Jews must sit there and accept being destroyed because if they don't die like good little Jews, they are "rampaging murderers".
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Good work Chris, as a non-jew let me tell you how glad I am that you're not blinkered as so many Israeli's and Jews seem to be. If anything is going to result in a resurgence of anti-semitism it's the actions of Israel. So many people here are ready to justify any actions Israel takes, the truth is that Israel broke the ceasefire, Israel fostered Hamas at the expense of less fanatical groups and that even Hamas is willing to accept the existence of Israel if it returns to the 1967 borders.
Can anyone here actually show evidence of Hamas using human shields?
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Where is the proof Israel broke any ceasefire?
The fact is the Arabs broke EVERY agreement with Israel they ever made, and I mean ALL Arabs in the territories and Arab countries and ALL agreements.
And Chris are you coing to call
Anonymous, from LosAngeles
"paranoid" as you did with me for not using his real name?
Israel fostered Hamas.
Hahahahahaha
What a joke.
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Despite previous posters insistence that the 365+ dead Gazan children were all purposefully "sacrificed' for headlines or to create international sympathy; the grim and glaring truth is that Israelis pulled the triggers of the guns used to kill them. This is doubly horrific, when it was known that the occupants had not vacated such targeted homes, I wonder how Israel could "know" without any doubt where the ammo dumps are located, but can so easily lose track of the inhabitants. The glib excuses and justifications are getting less believable by the minute.
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There is actual evidence that Hamas uses their innocent civilians as human shields. They recently put out some videos where they proudly admit to doing so. One of them is "Hamas uses women and children as human shields". Using civilians as human shields is a violation of international law, is a war crime and is immoral, according to the Geneva Convention.
Hamas has not adhered to any ceasefire. What planet are you from? They've been firing scores of rockets into civilian areas for years. Israel showed restraint for all these years until enough is enough. My recommendation to you before you resort to hating all Jews is to listen to Brigitte Gabriel, an Arab,online at her website and speaking at the Heritage Foundation. There are other Arabs from the middle east who say similar things as she does. The son of one of Hamas' top leaders
defected and says these terrorists are SICK. He couldn't stand their atrocities and immoral behavior.
And,the bottom line is that G-D knows the truth!
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Question #1
What if the shooter was hiding behind kids while doing it and there were only 2 choices.
Either he could watch his kids die (and he'd be next anyway) or shoot back.
Does anyone here believe that Chris would sit there and let HIS kids die?
Question #2 SEPARATE question;
And yes we NEED to put "too fine" a point on it how about if the shooter and the kids were all Jews?
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Well said, antisemitic excuses! Some people aren't aware of their own hypocrises. Hypocritical and blinded. The facts don't matter to them. They understand what they want to understand. The truth, in the end,will prevail.
They cannot accept that we don't want to kill civilians. It's hard for them to believe. They can't understand how the terrorists can be held responsible for putting their innocent civilians in the line of fire, and even their very young children in the front lines of fire, for them to be killed instead of themselves! That they are using their civilians as 'passive weapons'! Incredible! It speaks volumes! What is black is looked at as being white, and vice versa. Signs before the coming of Moshiach!
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I know you wonder how Israel could.... whatever. Israel's intelligence knew where stockpiles of ammunition were being held or where a Hamas militant lived. Some time BEFORE sriking at the place, Israel would drop leaflets onto the ground, telling them to vacate the premises. Does that tell you something? The militants, however, I guess didn't care for these people's lives, and told them to die for allah.
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Thanks Emett, and you have reminded me of something else.
They have been brainwashing and killing their own kids for many years.
There never has been this "outrage" over the fact that the Arabs use their own kids as human shields and as homicide bombers
and don't give them any education or any hope.
All they raise them to be is cannon foddor for their war against the Jews, where dying is their big goal in life.
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Dying is their big goal in life - is unfortunately very true. In one of their websites, they state that the Israelis love life and that they (the terrorists and the people who listen to them) love death. People in our society have no idea how totally opposite their ideals are from the rest of the world. Their way of thinking is completely foreign to us. By visiting some of their websites, and also by listening to some Arabs who have lived in the middle east who experienced the barbaric behavior of the terrorists, people will have their eyes opened as to what these people are about.
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So, Brooklyn, are you now claiming that the UN compound was also an ammo dump?
Let's be clear, I am not on this site to engage in personal attacks against any of the other posters here or to delve into abstract hypatheticals. What I am commenting on is what I see as a government gone mad. Bombing a city state into rubble and causing so much death, pain and suffering all in the name of defense from an undefinable underachieving foe is a reprehensible "final solution". One that anyone with their eyes open can see will be neither final, nor a solution.
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Israel was accused of using white phosphorus illegally. The Red Cross investigated and FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF ISRAEL USING WHITE PHOSPHORUS ILLEGALLY. IT WAS FOUND, HOWEVER, THAT HAMAS WAS USING IT ILLEGALLY IN THEIR FIRING AGAINST ISRAEL. What d'ya know!
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To those who are concerned about the death of innocent civilians in Gaza, I wonder if you get that angry and protest against those who blow themselves up in a Mosque a market or a street in Irak, Pakistan or Afganistan.
If you ask yourself why those tunnels are used to smuggle missiles and not medicines and food.
If you ask yourself where are those leaders who speaks so much about the destruction of Israel and do not show up to care enough for their people.
What are those leaders doing, to take care of the basic needs of the population .
I think Israel is doing much more for them.
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How stupid do you think the world is? You must think the global community gullible to the extreme, to even try a statement like this. How is it you can expect anyone to believe you do not want to kill civilians, when you are striking with missiles into a densely populated city? and that the victims wanted to die, that they were in fact bred to be cannon fodder....!!!!
Where I see war crimes unfolding, you see the normal unfolding of some dusty old scripture. This proves to me that blind belief is a dangerous thing. I wish the UN was really an autonomous organization.
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Click on "Hamas uses women and children as human shields".You don't know their ideology, they think it's the greatest honor. They say the Israelis love life, but that THEY love death! It's on one of their videos. Also seen videos where they are training 3 year olds and older to use rifles, guns, etc. and how to behave as a militant. An Arab woman, Brigitte Gabriel, in different videos online will tell you a lot more about this. She says they wanted to kill her and all the other Christian Arabs just because they were Christian, and she says they want to do the same with the Jews. Go to her websites and LISTEN to what she says about these people! And laying down their lives for this cause is their greatest honor! She says a lot more too! Hamas should be protecting their civilians,but instead urged them to die for allah.These militants then praise their women for dying-it's all there in videos online.It's very hard for you to accept this information,I understand where you're coming from.
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After all is said and done, you keep insisting that Israel WANTS to kill civilians. It's a lie and deep down you know it, but refuse to accept it. Visit all the those sites that were recommended, and maybe that will help you. Hamas' tactics of HUMAN shields is a crime and is immoral, but they are happy to tell you that this is what they did!! DON'T BE AFRAID - CHECK IT OUT! They are proud that their civilians died! They say so themselves! Their civilians volunteered their lives to be human shields.
It's illegal and a horrific crime and is prohibited by the Geneva Convention!
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If Israel didn't WANT to kill civilians ,then they WOULD'T be firing on civilians. End of story. They ARE firing on civilians, thus they WANT to kill civilians. Yes?
This can't be the only way to fight against the rocket problem. Try peace and reconciliation with reparations for the "unwanted" casualties.
I for one am extremely disappointed with Israel's solutions for "peace". Have a nice life, at least you still have one for the time being. Please use the time to start thinking!
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Your density is remarkable! DUH! Israel gave up Gaza with the promise that it would lead to an enduring peace. Uh huh!So....what happened then? The terrorists now use that very piece of land as a launching pad and send rockets into civilian areas in Israel. They have sent in more than 8,000 rockets into civilian areas since 2005, and 3,700 rockets into civilian areas in 2008 alone. DUH! When Israel asks them to stop, they ignore and keep firing, they have no interest in 'negotiating'. DUH! After years of restraint, Israel says it's time to put a stop. Israel also tells them again and again that as soon as they put an end to firing rockets, they will end their attack against them. Instead of terminating their rocket firing into Israeli civilian centers, they call upon their women and children to be human shields (SEE THEIR VIDEO) and to lay down their lives. They then praise their women for volunteering (SEE THEIR VIDEO). DUH! Your inability to understand is very transparent.
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Read "Moral clarity in Gaza" by Charles Krauthammer of The Washington Post. It's online and easy for you to get to.
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Your last comment reveals your sincere, overwhelming 'compassion'! You revealed now exactly what you are!
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Emmet, Same old arrogant, aggressive Jewish approach to open discussion. Anyone who doesn't agree with the Zion solution is an idiot, right? If you don't agree with killing women and children you must have a mental defect or simply don't have the capacity to grasp the situation, right?. It is pretty sad when you can't get your way through intelligent discussion, you resort to throwing insults and attempt to mock your dissenters. Can you see a trend developing here? Should I invest in a flak jacket too, or just shut up and go away?
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I know you have lots of support in the "Jewish controlled" press, we have the same booster club working for you here in Canada, that was never the issue here as you have done a great job of stifling true open discussion about your methods.
The issue is, is it acceptable for a modern army to target unarmed, innocent women and children in the pursuit of its military objectives? I say it is not moral or ethical in the face of the local animosity and problems you helped create.
Visit cbc.ca for a snapshot of what many Canadians are saying in an open forum.
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No one said you're an idiot! Didn't mean to offend you. It's just that it's exasperating that the chain of events that have occurred with regards to Gaza, and explained in my last post, are not seen for what they are! Guess you feel the same way! We'll have to agree to disagree and leave it at that. There's no such thing as a 'Zion solution'. There will come a time when everything will be revealed and understood.
Thanks, Anonymous USA, for telling us about the article entitled 'moral clarity in Gaza'.
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Hey Calgary! "Have a nice life, at least you still have one for the time being" is a nasty insult.
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Why respond to that person's comments with "arrogant, aggressive Jewish approach"? Why can't we relate as person to person, not as stereotypes?
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They're targeting Hamas, but Hamas' shields are their people, which they openly stated recently. Why would anyone want to use his wives and children to protect him, to be his shield? He'd rather they be killed instead of himself maybe? If Hamas has been refusing to negotiate, and has also been refusing to end their rockets at civilians, and Israel has repeatedly told them they'll stop firing if they stop their rockets, but Hamas refuses to do so, then what does anyone expect to happen. Any country would have reacted the same way as Israel.
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We saw a video of the IDF finding a school, and a zoo filled with birds and caged animals, rigged with explosives in Gaza. Why does Hamas involve their own innocent children and animals?
We also saw a picture of a 2-year-old Arab child with a suicide belt around his (or her) waist.
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In reading many of the above comments, it's interesting to read one person's comments that the blood spilled....." stains the reputation of Jews everywhere". When Arab terrorists hijacked planes and crashed them into the world trade center and their people rejoiced, and when Arab terrorists blow themselves up in crowded civilian places, when they've done other acts of terrorism in the world, do they stain the reputation of Arabs everywhere? I would like to know.
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Calgary is disappointed with Israel's solution for peace. Doesn't he recognize the fact that ISRAEL GAVE UP LAND FOR PEACE? Giving up Gaza was part of the agreement that this would bring an enduring peace. Then what's the question here? After giving away Gaza, Hamas decided Gaza would be a good launching ground to fire rockets into Israeli populations. After sending in about 8000 rockets for several YEARS for the purpose of killing Israeli civilians, Israel finally responded, with the intention of wiping out Hamas' ability to aim at Israel's civilians. Then, Hamas decides it would be good to use their women & children & involve them in the battlefield. Hamas made sure to fire at Israel from people's homes & public buildings & to place explosives there. Israel, on the other hand, sent leaflets & made phonecalls to warn the people to get out before attacking. What other country does that? Wonder why he's not disappointed with Hamas' BREAKING of peace, & REFUSAL TO END THEIR ROCKETS. !!!
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Mr. Hooymans should really be addressing Hamas, advising them to sit down and talk instead of firing rockets. Firing rockets is no solution for peace. Israel said if Hamas stops their offensive, then they would stop retaliating. True compassion here would also be to speak to Hamas to stop involving their civilians in the battlefield. It's so obvious. That would solve the problem.
Unfortunately, however, Hamas doesn't seem to care about its people. Egypt was willing to receive casualties from Gaza. The Egyptian foreign minister announced Hamas was not letting the casualties to arrive, said Hamas was to blame. Also an Arab commentator claimed Hamas didn't reply to Egypt's invitation to come to internal Palestinian dialogue and also prevented supply convoys from arriving in Gaza. Now we hear that Hamas confiscated loads of supplies that were destined for 500 Gazan needy families.
As a compassionate person, Mr. Hooymans should be directing his dialogue to Hamas.
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Only a few wage war, battle, fire rockets, spew vicious rhetoric in the media, and draw attention to their beliefs, their ways, their solution. The vast majority watch as one side contests the other, trying to discover who tells the truth, whose actions are truly for the people. When the peoples hearts are won through good deeds and words, through actions based on compassion and caring for others, then the mass of people will oust their own leaders who are actually hate mongers. The Palestinians themselves will oust Hamas once they know for sure who they can trust and who are purveyors of lies and deceit. If Israel and its allies will invest themselves in truth telling, compassionate actions, and deeds of right and righteousness, the seeds of peace and reconciliation will be scattered throughout the region. War is not the answer. It can not bring a sense of peace or accomplishment. War does not produce brothers out of combatants. The hand of reconciliation is the only answer.
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What has years of negotiations + land giveaways ever gotten Israel?
More terrorism on more land against a shrinking Israel.
Arabs = 22 countries to go to, Jews have one tiny 1 several times smaller then smallest of Arab countries & shrinking.
Israel forcibly against own citizens, made some settlements Judenrein, for the Tarribists to steal (as if Judea and Sumeria (Gaza, West Bank) + the other land they have stolen from the Jews, hasn't been enough).
That land included greenhouses which grew flowers for export and earned profit over 2 million dollars/year.
Within 24 hours of Arab takeover, the greenhouses were totally destroyed by these terrorist thugs.
They hate civilization like a drug gang does.
No deals with them will EVER result in peace, it's a total fantasy.
Only defeating them will ever result in peace.
It was the same w/Nazi Germany, & Neville Chamberlian who thought he had "peace in our time" because Hitler had signed some stupid piece of paper.
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| Times change. The wheel of fortune never stops spinning. But throughout it all, the good times and the tough ones, one thing never changes...
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| There is only one thing like the love of a mother to her child...
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The Legacy of Liviu Librescu
One year ago, on April 16, 2007, amidst horror and heartbreak of the Virginia Tech Massacre, the courage of one man who gave his life to save his students awed and inspired people all over the world.
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A Vacation Meditation
For hundreds of years--perhaps since the beginning of Creation--a piece of the world has been waiting for your soul to purify and repair it. And you are there... now.
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How every thought, speech, and deed can make a world of difference.
Although today's world is a scary place, as evident from the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, one good deed can tip the scales. In Waves, hear the Rebbe explain how each deed, however insignificant it may seem, is universally important.
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The Rebbe's relentless call for every Jew to never rest
The Rebbe's message was as old as the Torah itself, yet his approach was as rousing as dawn. He urged each person, in personal and communal life, to never be satisfied with yesterday's achievements or today's successes, but to soar tomorrow to even greater heights.
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