Matt Bors for November 19, 2012

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    lonecat  over 11 years ago

    They don’t need media, they need mediation.

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    hippogriff  over 11 years ago

    The pictures last week of a father grieving over his dead infant were of a reporter. This past week-end, two more of the civilian deaths in Gaza were of journalists. The Likud targets those reporting genocide just as surely as they do their own soldiers who refuse to shoot their neighbors’ children. Being the victims of genocide does not give a people the right to commit it on others. Stop taking orders from Bebe.

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    chazandru  over 11 years ago

    Lonecat is right.And the cartoon is painful to look at. Sadly, it is also fairly accurate. Nothing brings more attention to a tragedy than salacious details. One of the reasons I believe in life after death is a hope on my part that those who have done evil in the name of God will face a severe reality check.Though, if there is an afterlife and I am wrong about the nature of God, I may be in “a hell of a lot of trouble.”We’ll see.If I get there first, I’ll try to send back a post for you guys. ;)SadlyBut Respectfully,C.

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    Dtroutma  over 11 years ago

    In a tiny little prison camp called “Gaza”, or even “West Bank”, as with the Cherokee of the Carolinas and Georgia, Netanyahu and Likud is the modern day “Andrew Jackson and Congress” of rabble taking the land of those who’ve possessed it for millennia, and claiming “self defense” and “manifest destiny”.

    To cry out against the ongoing assaults and oppression of a people isn’t “anti-Semetic”, it’s recognizing the history of radicals with the bigger guns, and better press agents, being “the good guys”.

    Dead children in Afghanistan and Iraq were also the victims of the same “big guns and we own the press” “resolve”.

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    iamthelorax  over 11 years ago

    So what’s the real story behind this? Who’s toes did he step on for this to go out in the public? If we want to hear about adultery stories we’ll get it from people who look more like Kim Kardashian than this guy. No one sane actually cares. I’m assuming he’s being politically manipulated for something.

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    ARodney  over 11 years ago

    When there’s no solution by peaceful means, and no potential for talking to the Israeli government, what do they have left to break a blockade? I’m no fan of violence, and I think the region has no greater enemy than radical Islam, but what sent the US into revolution against Britain was little jokes compared to what the Palestinians have been putting up with. With no voice in their occupiers’ government, how can you complain about confiscation of the best lands, destruction of towns and farms, killing of citizens, and taking of water?

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    marilynrknits  over 11 years ago

    Hey, folks, the press always makes Israel look like the bad guy. Who always starts the shooting? Who sent suicide bombers into restaurants and onto buses to blow up Israelis and Americans? Betcha if the militant Arabists didn’t start it, Israel would not be so ready to finish it. And who condemned the displaced Arabs to those horribly squalid camps? Could it have been the Jordanians and Saudis who refused them humanitarian help and a place to call home. Good old Ishmael never got over his snit with Isaac (or was it Hagar and her snit with Sarah? Sure the Israelis are not perfect, just human. They just want to be left alone in their pinhead sized country without all their neighbors trying to wipe them out.

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    walruscarver2000  over 11 years ago

    Here we go again. Gaza tosses rockets at civilians. Israel targets militants. Gaza throws more rockets at Israeli civilians. But Israel is the bad guy.

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    Quipss  over 11 years ago

    Your right, butchering those children and women will help in institute law and order, Never mind that everything in human history and nature says that

    you will generally lead to more division, Chaos and violence. Take it to modern day where some countries like the USA and Israel have far larger guns and you get terrorism where you strap a bomb to your chest as you otherwise can’t fight

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    Quipss  over 11 years ago

    He also states Gaza as an instigator attacking Israel.

    Closer along the lines is McCain wants to see the USA backing Israel

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    Dtroutma  over 11 years ago

    ^Abraham screwed his first born son, sent him into the desert, and made the second born king.

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    hippogriff  over 11 years ago

    dtroutma: Actually it was that nag Sarah who caused the problem. Both Ishmael and Isaac, together, buried their father, after Sarah had died.

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    chazandru  over 11 years ago

    Prayer without action would be rather hollow Dr. I prayed when my children were ill but I took them to a doctor. I prayed for my politicians to make good decisions but I also wrote them letters. I pray for social justice but I talk to people in respectful tones in order to encourage them to consider the benefits of social justice. And while I have faith in my “Invisible Friend”, I do not require or request others do so, and I hope those I elect to pray/meditate for wisdom, but to legislate in a secular fashion. I completely understand and appreciate why the founding fathers made separation between Church and State.After death, we will know the truth or not care. Until then, I will consider hoping and praying to be two spokes on the same wheel as creating and communicating..Respectfully,C.

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    lonecat  over 11 years ago

    I don’t expect people to fight to lose, but that doesn’t mean no weapons or tactics barred. I agree that Israeli and American methods are counter-productive, but I also think that morality counts. When I was young I thought (and now that I’m old I still think) that carpet-bombing Vietnam was not just a bad tactic, it was immoral. The problem I have with this topic is that I really do support the right of Israel to live in peace and security, and I really do think that Hamas is a terror organization, and I also think that the Palestinians have a right to a state — and a state that makes political and geographic sense. But I still don’t like the Israeli response. So I’m kind of conflicted. I just can’t take the easy way out and say that one side or the other is all right.

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    lonecat  over 11 years ago

    Well, that’s the problem, then — a lot of puppies are getting killed in the crossfire. Not that this is the worst situation in the world — there are puppies being killed all over the place.

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    walruscarver2000  over 11 years ago

    So you consider fighting to hold on to what is yours and defending your loved ones being a “mad dog”? Then when is violence justified? Please clarify your position.

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