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smallislander says:

I'm fairly cynical about Israel's crimes, because I can do very little about them.

This photo, though, made me begin to cry.
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Chaos Rampant says:

Oh God, this brought tears in my eyes.
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GeirBergh says:

jesus...............
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iknowjustincase says:

Children shouldnt have to died because the ....i dont even know how to word this.....because of the ....absurdity of adults
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You can read the full, horrendous story at:

chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1 673-gazing-a...

"The three little children lying on the floor of the overcrowded morgue looked like sleeping dolls.

"Get up, boy, get up" cried the weeping father, who lost a total of 13 close relatives when an Israeli shell hit his house east of Gaza City. "Please get up. I am your dad and I need you," he implored helplessly.

The oldest was 4 years old. Their mother was killed too."

With that, if you don't weep, you should feel very, very ashamed.
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math0ne says:

Israel's actions are clearly wrong, but I'm always amazed at American's ability to be outraged when it's not them.

Israel has caused 200-300 civilian deaths as of my comment here. In a few years of war the US has cause untold (some say 1 000 000) civilian deaths in Iraq.

The US people need to concentrate on stopping their own atrocity which has no end in sight.
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btnheazy03 says:

The Israelis are making their move while Dubya is still in office. Will Bush and Israel be held accountable for their actions? Time will tell.
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John Rohan says:

1. I am somewhat skeptical about the photo, so I will reserve my outrage for a moment.

2. It is a copyrighted Reuters photo taken by someone else, so posting it here violates Flickr's terms of service.
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sonokie says:

John Rohan: You're skeptical that the photo isn't real, but at the same time you're worried that it's copyrighted by Reuters? Really?

How did you miss the dead children in the photo?
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KGTattoo says:

Ridiculous.
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Avasopel says:

John Rohan: What exactly are you skeptical about? Maybe this will help you - www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5wrwZlwAq8
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smallislander says:

@mathOne - I'm not American, so I feel I have every justification for being outraged by Israeli atrocities (and, many times, American ones)

What does surprise me is how many Americans accept , and applaud their behaviour.

One day, look up a French, Spanish or even English, newspaper on the net, and see how much more information you can gather.

@John Rohan - would you be just as cautious if Dr Goebbels or Julius Streicher held the copyright to the photos? Caution is not very apt in the sight of genocide, which, by any definition short of gas ovens, this is.

I've been watching Israel closely for over 30 years now, and their appalling behaviour doesn't surprise me a bit.
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pappu687 says:

Israelis - the F*cking bastards wont even shed a sympathetic look at this. All their feelings are long gone in the barbarianism. It's quite surprising that how the world is silently watching this. And it's a shame for all the Americans that their country is fueling such aggression in public. Sick!
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Boris Kafka says:

How horrible. War is not the answer. Genocide is not the answer. Israel should be ashamed of themselves.
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simonstudionyc says:

did not the German Nazis have children when we bombed them in Dresden? Does your worst and most vile enemy not have the capability to have children and is not population growth a war in itself? tell Hamas to stop the rockets.
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Silveira Neto says:

One sadest images I have ever seem.
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darscohen says:

It is obviously beyond sad and unacceptable that innocent children and adults should ever be harmed or killed! But lest we forget that the firebombing of Dresden during WWII killed so many bystanders too - and this is fortunately no Dresden. War is an unrelenting and tragic state in our human existence. This as genocide though? The deliberate and systematic destruction of a people like in Darfur and Yugoslavia and during the Holocaust's Final Solution?

If someone lifts a piano into a six story window and drops it on someone, killing them, if they are reckless or not, is that genocide too? In another dangerous event, war, if a country non-deliberately kills innocents in what Egypt, the European Union President, the US, and many other countries agree is a response that is surely overwhelming, but ultimately justified in the face of the thousands of Hamas rockets, is that really genocide? Palestinian president Abbas said last week, after appealing to Hamas NOT to end the cease fire as Hamas shot hundreds of rockets at Israel, that "The one responsible for the massacres is Hamas, not the Zionist entity. Hamas needs to stop treating the blood of Palestinians lightly."

Hamas is the group of people that killed hundreds of Palestinians from the opposition last year in Gaza to maintain power - and handed out cake and candy in the streets by the thousands, celebrating innocent death in New York, Madrid, London, Mumbai... It seems their government consists of a radical dictatorship that will use any means necessary to maintain absolute power - even by exploiting her own people.

Indeed, I truly appreciate the humanity that people have in the face of tragic and unnecessary deaths in Gaza, so lets call a spade and spade and realize that Hamas openly calls for the elimination of opposition groups, on many occasions the actual genocide of the entire Jewish people, and the destruction of the State of Israel - a country that has let in thousands of refugees from Darfur in the last year, contributed immensely to the sciences - potentially saving millions of lives, and has helped our world in countless other ways.

Israel wants to give the Palestinians a state in Gaza and in 95+ percent of the West Bank (everywhere except two large population centers of a few square miles, where hundreds of thousands of Israelis live today.) In return? Reassurance that if they leave those lands as they left Gaza three years ago (evicting thousands of Jewish settlers - for the sake of stability and in realizing that Gaza should be for Gazans), they won't be thanked with endless rocket fire.

Until we drop the radical rhetoric and address real solutions for a lasting peace in Israel/Gaza/Palestine/The Middle East, I fear that in ten years we will be right where we are today.

-Israeli who wants Peace
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ilze.diebele says:

This is sad :'(
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john_gancis says:

You call this a war?. I dont.

This is massacre. and nothing less. and Israelite's who hold pride of being religious will surely have to witness the wrath of the God they believe in for these atrocities.

A strike and blow down of Israel at the hands of the affected are sure to be witnessed by this generation. You call it a prophecy or take it as you wish, but count on more terrorists are born in this world by the suppression of powers of these sorts.

How could they mean to stike an area of just a few hundred square kilometres thickly populated with airforce to flush out a minority force armed with just shoulder carried rocket launchers and assault rifles only!!!. You mean to say this is a war?. i cant digest it.

I have no attachments to the Palestinian people. but i do have one to any suffering Human in this world. And count on me only if i could make it i would do everything to stop You do this.
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andyw99 says:

@darscohen - Israel broke the cease fire this time. It wasnt hammas rockets. Even the idiot media outlets sucked it up to report against their corporate cause. Isreal has a standing army with technologies donated by the United States genocide group.

Tell the stupid fucking americans to stop funding Isreal. Isreal has pretty much any piece of military hardware the united states does, hammas is firing rockets older than the Russian/Afghan war.

Tell hammas to stop the rockets? Tell isreal to grow a pair of balls and tell everyone who gave them the slotted land after ww2. what was the prize for getting the united states into world war2 to create the United Nations? Since the league of nations was a one sided world dictator meeting group and failed, they needed another world government body.

The united nations is a bigger joke than isreal and every time you see images like this hundreds more swear their lifes to ending Israels hypocritical jesus / god loving idiots crusade to make their stupid fucking religion #1.

Fuck religion and fuck isreal; a bunch of pussies without those american bombs.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

sorenly says:

@simonstudionyc: so you're basically saying, tell Hamas to stop the rockets or we will bomb their children. Nice terror campaign...

Years back when Arafat (Fatah) was being bombed? Was it also "tell Hamas to stop the rockets" back then?
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

supertard6779 says:

You are all ignorant to jump on the anti-Israeli band wagon. where is the outrage when Israeli children die? war is war, there will never be peace unfortunately. but this is not your place to speak in.

oh and btw all the "America commits war crimes" b.s remember that it could have been a lot worse. still less troops have been lost that during Clinton's two terms in a "peacefull time" the media lies, government lies,
the only thing to do is if you dont like the world change it stop bi****ng about it in some forum.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

ReparateMe.com says:

Reparate me for Palestinians using their young as human shields.
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tomaburque says:

My tax dollars at work...
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luthered says:

Fuck israel ( with a small " i " )
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warts666 says:

Good ol' religion.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Speak2Animals says:

@smallislander: I didn't weep, but I feel very angry and sad. I don't think that means I need to feel ashamed. We're not all wired the same.
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jlatino says:

Religion is Slavery! Religion is Bullshit!
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thegrafixguy says:

Fellow Americans,

This image is one of the root causes of terrorism. Do you think this man will ever forgive Israel? Can you blame him if he were to pack some explosives and blow himself to Allah at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem? What you do if this was your child?

Only now, with the propagation of digital cameras and the internet can we see this. Like the TV did to the Vietnam War, people will see these images and hopefully become disgusted enough to do something about it.

America and her allies have caused scenes like this since before the turn of the 19th century. Native Americans, slavery, imperialistic territorial fights, America is far from innocent and the American support of Israel just deepens our responsibility for these acts. I pray that Obama will actually be able to do something to stop this. Unfortunately, I also fear that the "Jewish interests" and their political dollars will likely prevent anything of substance from occurring.

In closing, I can only say that seeing this image and knowing my country supports Israel in whole, then I believe even stronger that I am American by birth, NOT by choice!
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tspyder90 says:

It's okay when Hamas uses human shields to fire Qassams into civilian towns, but when Israel makes an attempt to protect itself by getting to the problem at its source--Gaza--the entire world flips out.

I feel terrible for that family, but all of you shouldn't be blaming Israel. Instead, blame war and hatred, because that's what is driving this whole Middle East conflict.
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LATACO says:

No Justice, No Peace
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LifeSunDeath says:

It's genocide. Way to repeat history Israel. :(
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math0ne says:

@smallislander: Sorry didn't mean to make it sounds like i was responding to your comment. I was just saying, in general...
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Danish S says:

This is a nice video. Though the presenter (Jon Stewart) tried to be funny, he still conveyed an important message.. and guess what, he's jewish!

www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoI d=213380
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Matt Gilley says:

@smallislander: Those are the Americans who don't know they are talking about and don't care that their government is full of criminals. Don't make assumptions about Americans without meeting every single one. Sheesh. You want us to stand up to our government? What are we going to do? They have been governing this world without our consent for a while and the majority of the population of the US would laugh and make a fool of anyone who actually knows the truth of anything. These aren't assumptions, they are facts.
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Some call me...Tim? says:

@ John Rohan
In an attempt to assuage your doubts, here is the same group of dead children in a photo taken by an AFP photographer, posted in the UK's Guardian.

www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/jan/04/ israel-gaza-...

I love how your outrage about copyright was a postscript to your partisan hawkish pseudo-skepticism.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Sugavan says:

I can't take it when my 11 month old daughter undergoes pain when blood is drawn out of her, I am welling with tears as I think what those babies must have gone through, this is insane! America says the world hates them but if they promote (indirectly) this kind of violence, I fear the worst. And again, the consequence will be innocent lives lost!
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

antonio & ali says:

Hey hypocrites, Hamas has killed just as much (if not more) Israelis. I'm not defending Israel's actions, but the grass is just as red on the other side.
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Gadoocrew says:

This is a good thing. Less terrorists for Israel to deal with later on. And there is nothing greater than all this talk of American war criminals. Thank god flickr doesn't run our judicial system.

I'm sure the systematic destruction of Belgrade by Clinton's war machine, complete with bombing embassies and train stations, does not bring charges of war crimes to you pansies.

I can't wait to see all this evidence linking Bush to Hitler-esc war crimes...where is it all again?

Oh, and Hamas has killed more palestinians than Israel has, but lets not let that get in the way of our anti-semitism
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McWilliMedia says:

Will the fighting ever stop? Will we ever see an end to the death of innocents?
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aeroppon says:

Wars are stupid.
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errore_77 says:

Innalilahi wa innailaihi rojiun
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Amjad shahani says:

This is not new for palestinians coz since the invasion of this land by ZIONISTS with the help of British ,USA, FRANCE and other western countries,Palestinians are killed, and in past,media was not that free or easily available so rest of the world didnt know.wht kind of atrocities these Israelis are committing, and some times i think ,HITLER WAS RIGHT AGAINAST THEM???? when i see and read about jews atrocities.........who is not agree with me, read their history.......Allah bless us and whole world
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syntheticamatrix says:

Israel is a tiny country surrounded on all sides by countries filled with people who hate them. I may be 1 off, but I think it's 56 Muslim countries and one Jewish country in the Middle East and Israel is being called the racist one because they won't let Palistinians flood into their country in greater numbers than their own, which would eventually displace them. And it is their own country, not just some 'occupation' and anyone who says it isn't is racist. It is populated by Jews cast out of all the Middle Eastern countries who faced genocide there. These countries, many of them filthy rich, fund Hezbollah and Hamas to eradicate the Jews in Israel like you would vermin. To combat all the weaponry and money funneled into their enemies hands, the US funnels money and weaponry into Israel. That's what I call a fair fight. Also, Israeli Intelligence is the best in the world for movements in terrorist organisations, i.e. the WESTERN WORLD NEEDS THEM, which means YOU NEED THEM in your comfy little world of judgement.

High Palistinian death toll helps Hamas, which is why they put the Palistinian people in the line of fire using them as human shields. What is very common is to confuse Hamas, whose base is in Syria and funding is from Iran, mostly, with Palistinian civilians. Hamas doesn't give a rat's behind about the Palistinian people. They seek to control and use them for the proximity of their country to their foe, Israel. And they're really good at it, because they've got all of you against Israel saying things like 'Hitler was right' (Amjad Shahani). Here are some examples of how they do it:
Hamas cuts off electricity and blames Israel saying they've run out of fuel when they have a month's supply
Hamas places Palistinians on top of munitions and blames Israel when they get blown up.
Hamas steals food, fuel & medical supplies and blames Israel and its 'blockade'.
Hamas binds members of Abbas's Fatah party and throws them off tall buildings for their defiance and willingness to recognise Israel's right to exist.
Hamas tells the Palistinian civilians, to whom all information they control, that the rockets they send into Israel are just 'fireworks'.
I can forgive the Palistinian civilians for not getting the true picture and making subsequent unfair judgement of Israel. All of you condemning Israel, on the other hand, have as much information to hand as you wish, and have no such excuse.

Israel left Gaza in 2005 and left in tact infrastructure, such as working farms, buildings and greenhouses, ready to employ Palistinians and enjoy statehood. Hamas destroyed it all and dug tunnels. They could have become part of the political process but wouldn't recognise Israel's right to exist and have routinely sent thousands of rockets into Israel since 2005. During the cease-fire, they took this opportunity to dig tunnels through which they could smuggle arms and terrorists. Why didn't they spend money on building hospitals and shelters for the Palistinian people they say they care so much about? Because then there'd be no dead bodies to exploit.

Hamas is a terrorist organisation which uses schools and other seemingly stable and innocuous organisations as fronts to give them legitimacy to the outside world who knows no better. Most Palistinians know they are being used but can do nothing about it and if they do they face bloody reprisal from Hamas. Calls reporting the U.N. school as a launching point came from within Gaza from people who remained anonymous to avoid such reprisals.

It's horrible, yes. Everyone who instantly piles all the blame on Israel do not corner the market on compassion. Israel has learned the hard way that cease-fires allow Hamas to go underground. They have been dropping papers all over Gaza stating that they are going after Hamas and asking the Palistinians to evacuate their neighborhoods. Do not forget how this started: During the cease-fire, Hamas attempted a raid such as the one they perpetrated in 2006 which took Israeli soldiers hostage, one of which they still hold - Gilad Shalit. Israel prevented it and Hamas took this as their cue to re-start their rocket attacks on civilians.

So many have pointed out that so many Palistinian civilians have died, but so few Israeli civilians have died. This is because the Israeli government spends money on shelters and training for neighborhoods to prevent deaths. And they're very good at it. Practice makes perfect. All Israelis have to be in the Army regardless of class or gender. No such shelters and training exist in Gaza; why build them when all the dead bodies, exploited properly, get all of you on Hamas's side? Hamas is smart and you're falling for it - hook, line and sinker.
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nushoin says:

syntheticamatrix - this was one of the most thorough analysis of the situation I have ever read.

I live in Israel, I have seen the torn bodies and wrecked remains of *Israeli* victims of Palestinian terrorist attacks. And believe me, there were plenty. Many of the commentators here only see partial information and half truths.

Wake up. It's sad when people and children die as a by-product of war. it's sadder when they are deliberately murdered - which is what the Hamas and other terrorist organizations do. Hamas has to be stopped. In the long run it will be better for everyone involved, especially the Palestinians.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

smallislander says:

gadoocrew, synthecamatrix and nushoin - your comments betray an ignorance of your country's history, and your own callousness, which, put together, are breathtaking.

Learn some real history, and forget your politicians' propaganda.

Hamas, if not created by Israel, was at least strongly supported in its early days.

"Also, all these wars were planned in some detail in advance, with the Israeli government just waiting for -- or even, on occasion, provoking -- some action from the other side that they could use as a launch pretext. All have received strong financial, rearming, and political support from the U.S., not least because they were waged in the name of counter-terrorism.

But the outcomes are important, too. At a purely military level, the two FRC (For Regime Change)wars against the PLO were the ones that Israel was able to "win" in terms of being largely able to dismantle the structures it targeted. But the longer term, political-strategic outcomes of both those wars were distinctly counter-productive for Israel since they paved the way for the emergence of much tougher minded and better organised movements".
justworldnews.org/archives/003317.html

All of this bloody carnage is just to give Livni and Barak a few extra votes in your parish elections.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

saadhusain says:

Even the Nazis did not firebomb their ghettos like the Israelis are doing.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

kidzmix says:

I was brought up believing what the Jews suffered during the Holocaust believing this could not happen again but here we are now watching that very same race just killing women and very small children the world should stop sitting back and do something about it
isreal will never get my support after seing this
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

rochakchauhan says:

Its is terrible and very sad that they had to die....but isn't what Hamas has this in Israel ? So why be a hypocrite ?
History will tell you, as a matter of fact war is the only solution. It will end only if one of them is wiped off. Peace never comes from talks. We Indians have first hand experience in such terror attacks.

If talks and peaceful rallies worked, Tibet would be free from China by now.
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