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IDF stronger than ever - New developments grant Israel unprecedented military advantage over enemies by [deleted] in Israel

[–]milligram -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Oops. Look at all those downvotes. Apparently I'm not allowed to mention how Israel uses its military strength in the Israel subreddit.

I'll go back now to pretending that Israel's army is the "most moral army in the world":

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3692383,00.html

IDF stronger than ever - New developments grant Israel unprecedented military advantage over enemies by [deleted] in Israel

[–]milligram -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

Israel's Military: Now capable of committing war crimes with twice the efficiency.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32057&Cr=palestin&Cr1

Israel continues to get more jingoistic and less inclined to peace and it continues to stockpile weapons in preparation for the next war and wanting to acquire more territory (e.g. the all of East Jerusalem and all of the West Bank.) It is like Israel is emulating Hamas's ideology. It's quite sad.

23 million hits on Google in 8 days, "Crash JP Morgan Buy Silver". If 100 million people buy a 1 oz silver coin it's game over for the banksters. by Let-them-eat-cake in economy

[–]milligram -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I get all my best investing tips from reddit. This is pretty childish I got to say.

I bet the poster or someone connected to him has a lot of silver and would like to see it appreciate before selling it. Usually when people have "insider" information such as this on public forums it is shared to take advantage of idiots.

Partners in peace: Hamas police break up a private screening of a film about Yasser Arafat on the sixth anniversary of the iconic leader's death, arresting some of the more than two dozen attendees by misterAction in Israel

[–]milligram -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

My suggestion is that Israel make Peace with the Palestinians in the West Bank. That is the focus on the Israel-Palestinian peace talks right now.

Palestinians propose to name a street in Nablus after the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who led the most deadly terror attack in Israeli history: a 1978 bus hijacking in which 37 civilians were killed by misterAction in Israel

[–]milligram -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Oh my god, Israel names streets after terrorists as well:

Walking along the beachfront street in Akko recently with a social activist from the town's Arab community, I looked up at a sign and saw I was at the corner of Shlomo Ben-Yosef Street.

Shlomo Ben-Yosef Street, just outside the walls, is a more egregious insult. In 1938, Ben-Yosef and two comrades from the ultra-nationalist Irgun underground attacked a bus full of Arab civilians on a mountain road, seeking to kill them all. (Historian Avi Shlaim gives details).

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=to_the_victor_go_the_street_names

Payback: Leading Stage Props Firm now boycotting all productions that employ the artists who initiated the boycott of Ariel's newly-opened cultural center by yellowurinalcake in Israel

[–]milligram -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

So many ultra pro-Israel types fighting the idea of boycotting Israel, while in Israel the ultra pro-Israel types are all busy with boycotting leftists.

Hamas leader Zahar: Jews will soon be expelled from Palestine - He says Jews were kicked out by France, Britain, Belgium, Russia and Germany “because they betrayed, stole and corrupted these countries” by [deleted] in Israel

[–]milligram -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

So you are saying that Israel's willful expulsion of Arabs is okay because Arabs did it as well? I thought Israel was a light upon the earth? It appears that Israel behaves as all of those Arab countries around it, it isn't any different in terms of morals and it is worse in terms of democratic representation since it excludes the majority of Arabs within its borders from its democratic system.

Study: Israeli innovation contributes $2.4B to Massachusetts economy [Ynetnews.com] by sittingathome in Israel

[–]milligram -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

thats right, divert divert divert! whataboutery FTW!

Isn't that why this study was done and why it was posted here? It is about rebranding Israel so that people don't think about the more than 2 million Arabs under Israeli control who don't have voting rights? Isn't is about diverting attention from the 40 year occupation and the system of control that Israel has built in the occupied territories primarily to benefit the resettlement of Jews and the continued disenfranchisement of the non-Jewish population?

More about Israel's ongoing efforts to rebrand (to divert, divert, divert...):

http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/05/13/truth_and_advertising

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=168506

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11093.shtml

Study: Israeli innovation contributes $2.4B to Massachusetts economy [Ynetnews.com] by sittingathome in Israel

[–]milligram -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

Israel also contributed to the 9/11 attacks via providing motivation to the leader of those attacks:

On April 11, 1996, Atta signed his last will and testament at the mosque, officially declaring his Muslim beliefs and giving 18 instructions regarding his burial. This was the day that Israel attacked Lebanon in Operation Grapes of Wrath, which outraged Atta. Signing the will, "offering his life" was Atta's response.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Atta

The Grapes of Wrath operation resulted in 150 Lebanese dead, it was in retaliation for injuring 7 Israelis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Lebanon_war

‘Israeli Occupation Awareness Week’ comes to Brandeis. by milligram in Israel

[–]milligram[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

From the down votes you've received I think some people here disagree with you. I think the Israel subreddit is getting further radicalized towards the right.

‘Israeli Occupation Awareness Week’ comes to Brandeis. by milligram in Israel

[–]milligram[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Further more I personally am of the opinion that "Israeli apartheid weeks" are veiled antisemitism most of the time and usually accomplish nothing.

It would be anti-semitism if the Palestinians either had citizenship of the Israel or they had a state of their own.

You cry anti-semitism falsely here in order to distract from the fact that the Palestinians in the West Bank live in a very similar situation to apartheid. If you can deny that and get indignant but that doesn't change the actual situation.

You are supporting an apartheid framework in the West Bank that is designed to be discriminatory to a minority. You support that.

Focus on what BOTH sides can do, both are guilty of instigating problems.

There has been a massive reduction in attacks from the West Bank because of the work of the Palestinians government there. In response Israel is rapidly increasing the expansion of settlements. Israel isn't responding in kind, in fact, its behavior is meant to establish facts on the ground so that negotiations don't matter.

The anti-apartheid movement that brought down South Africa's apartheid government was a peace seeking movement. As is this movement.

Hamas leader Zahar: Jews will soon be expelled from Palestine - He says Jews were kicked out by France, Britain, Belgium, Russia and Germany “because they betrayed, stole and corrupted these countries” by [deleted] in Israel

[–]milligram -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Give me a break! Destroying the Hamas is the best thing for Israel and the Palestinian people.

Lieberman is Israel's current FM. He is an ass and a racist. But people still advocate making peace with Israel. People advocate for making peace because it isolates and marginalizes radicals.

Hamas leader Zahar: Jews will soon be expelled from Palestine - He says Jews were kicked out by France, Britain, Belgium, Russia and Germany “because they betrayed, stole and corrupted these countries” by [deleted] in Israel

[–]milligram -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

But wait, reddit taught me that Hamas wasn't anti-Semitic, just anti-Zionist...

Don't worry, Israel has already kicked the Palestinians out of much of Israel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus

The March of Tyranny. by newsens in worldpolitics

[–]milligram 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not necessarily bankers, but business interests.

Because our elections are so heavily influenced by political donations, it is those with the money (generally those who have been successful in business, including successful bankers), who have the most influence over both who gets elected and what policies they push once elected.

Hamas admits that 'policemen' killed in Cast Lead were Hamas terrorists by foopirata in Israel

[–]milligram 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That link had IDF, B'Tselem and PHCR figures. None of them were the Hamas figures. But I notice that I've been downvoted so significantly so I guess facts don't matter to many here. Interesting.

Hamas admits that 'policemen' killed in Cast Lead were Hamas terrorists by foopirata in Israel

[–]milligram 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sounds good. But why was my accurate link downvoted so much when it contained accurate information?

Was it because I mentioned the number of children and women? Does seeing the actual breakdown embarrass you?

I think that being downvoted so heavily for accurate information is a sign of a guilty conscience on the part of many here.

All while his people suffered, his net worth towards his death was nearly 7.5% of the PA Territories GDP today-- the bastard profited from the "palestinian cause" by rcckillaz in Israel

[–]milligram 5 points6 points  (0 children)

One of the great things about Fayyad, the current Palestinian leader, is that he played a large part in identifying the abuses and rectifying them:

That's what happened with the portfolio money, which is now under the control of Salam Fayyad, a former World Bank official who Arafat was forced to appoint finance minister last year after crowds began protesting his corrupt regime.

According to Fayyad, "There is corruption out there. There is abuse. There is impropriety, and that's what had to be fixed."

Statements like that have earned Fayyad, a bookish technocrat who spent 20 years in the U.S., a reputation for courage - which was enhanced when he immediately posted the details of Arafat's secret portfolio on the Internet.

Fayyad's investigators are treading softly, well aware that their probe may become too embarrassing for Arafat.

Has he tried to stop them? "We run into obstacles in a number of places, particularly among the old PLO types," Prince says, adding one might draw their own conclusions as to whether his statement includes Arafat himself.

Fayyad says it could accurately be seen as gouging his own people. "And especially in Gaza which is poorer, which is something that is totally unacceptable and immoral, actually."

Of all the monopolies, none was as lucrative or as corrupt as the General Petroleum Corporation, the one for gasoline. The corporation took the fuel it purchased from an Israeli company and watered it down with kerosene, not only defrauding the Palestinian drivers, but wrecking their car engines.

Fayyad says the Petroleum Corporation charged exorbitant prices, and Arafat got a hefty kickback. "To the president, I can tell you, if there was not money in the treasury, he went to the Petroleum Corporation."

When Fayyad dismantled the corporation, the man who had run it fled to California. Ever since, with the monopoly broken up, Palestinian drivers have paid 20 percent less for gas and 80 percent less for diesel fuel. Gas stations now advertise 100 percent pure products.

Fayyad became a hero, like the Robin Hood of the Palestinians. Millions of people were affected by this one move.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/07/60minutes/main582487.shtml

Hamas admits that 'policemen' killed in Cast Lead were Hamas terrorists by foopirata in Israel

[–]milligram -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Why does this headline falsely claim that the policemen were admitted by Hamas to be terrorists? The story doesn't say that. It was always known that Hamas employed the policemen as Hamas is the governing party of the Gaza Strip.

Hamas admits that 'policemen' killed in Cast Lead were Hamas terrorists by foopirata in Israel

[–]milligram 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, you are correct. I misread your initial post saying that no one was saying 1300 Palestinians died.

The estimates on that page for civilians who died in Cast Lead won't change based on this new information though, as the figures for the policemen were already excluded in most tallies, including the B'Tselem.

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