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Their only aim is to win the PR war, not the actual war. More images of dead Palestinians is the goal here. World sympathy towards them and animosity towards Israel.

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Honestly, I don't think Hamas - or any of the so-called terrorist organizations* - are looking to wipe Israel off the map. People In Gaza would settle for ending the blockade.

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They've been beaten, they're on the ground, they can't possibly inflict as much damage on Israel as Israel can on them, and everybody knows it- Hamas knows it, the Palestinians know it, Israel knows it, and the whole world knows it. That's why the world sees Israel as the "bad guy"- the total imbalance of power.

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Speaking at the Eucharist service in Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral Canon Patrick Comerford recalled that, in the context of what has been happening in Gaza, the Israeli ambassador to the US Ron Derner had told a Christian lobby group there last week that some were “ shamelessly accusing Israel of genocide and would put us in the dock for war crimes. The truth is that the Israeli Defence Forces should be given the Nobel Peace Prize . . . a Nobel Peace Prize for fighting with unimaginable restraint.”

Canon Comerford, lecturer in Anglicanism, Liturgy and Church History at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute in Dublin, rejected this assertion, recalling also that truth was the first casualty in war.

‘Battered children’ “Night after night, on television screens and impartial news outlets, I see the wounded, injured, maimed and battered children, frightened, screaming and even mute in shock and terror, brought by inconsolable and despairing parents to hospitals deprived of adequate facilities and medicine,” he said.

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In a lengthy declaration labeled as a message of "faith, hope and love," dozens of Arab Christian leaders from various churches represented in the region denounced Israel as the main obstacle to peace and rejected the validity of the biblical link between the Jews and the land.

Published on Friday by regional leaders of the Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican and Baptists churches, the document, titled "A Moment of Truth," lamented that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process had reached an impasse, and that there was now little hope of reversing "Palestinian suffering."

"We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence for all the inhabitants of this land," read the statement. "Today we have reached a dead end in the tragedy of the Palestinian people."

Israel was solely blamed for the situation. In a section titled "The reality on the ground," the Christian leaders listed the reasons peace had not been reached, including Israel's security wall, the presence of Jews in Judea and Samaria, Israeli checkpoints, the jailing of Palestinian terrorists, and Israel's control of a unified Jerusalem.

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1) Algeria
2) Bahrain
3) Comoros
4) Djibouti
5) Egypt
6) Iraq
7) Jordan
8) Kuwait
9) Lebanon
10) Libya
11) Malta
12) Mauritania
13) Morocco
14) Oman
15) Qatar
16) Saudi Arabia
17) Somalia
18) Sudan
19) Syria
20) Tunisia
21) United Arab Emirates
22) Western Sahara
23) Yemen

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I added to my post. Your list of nations confirms your love of tyrants.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And, similarly, I have not defended any of the nations that you claim I'm defending, nor have I taken up any of their causes.

Two can play at your cheap-shot argument game, you maroon. I can paint you as a tyrant-loving pro-jihadist based on your arguments with as much authenticity as you can try to paint me as a Putin-loving socialist.

In fact, I think I'm going to continue doing exactly that.

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.... Magonsdaughter:
An interesting video map explaining the conflict. Not sure if this has been posted before, but not going to waste my time trawling through insults to find out.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/05/gaza-conflict-map_n_5651753.h
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Even Hillary admitted the Hamasians "are required to shoot their missles from schools and hospitals" because of the "population density" of the strip.

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I also keep hearing about this population density go-se on MSM all the time.

Seems Gaza Strip has about 734/sqKm covering about 6,000 SqKm.

Tokyo is the 50th most dense city in the world with about 4,750 /sqkm covering about 7,000 sqKm.
NYC is 114th with about 2,050 covering 8,700sqKm.
Los Angeles is around 2,750 covering about 4,320sqKm.

Tel Aviv and Jerusalem both have population densities greater than Gaza - you may have heard of Hamasians bombing Tel Aviv(in Israel), with density around 5,050/sqKm?

London's density seems around 5,100.

The whining of the Hamasians regarding density seems a bit lame.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Truce off.

2 more missile attacks @ Israel .

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