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In reply to the discussion: Palestinian Villages May Soon Go Dark: Israeli Government To Remove Solar Panels And Wind Turbines [View all]Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)38. I have no words.
Well, I'd first like to point out that nothing you have said is remotely factually accurate. Palestine is not blockaded. Gaza is, but that's only a small part. Yet even in Gaza there are plenty of journalists and NGOs. There are tons of people who report on the situation constantly besides the Israelis. This is common knowledge. The fact that you are unaware of it demonstrates a profound lack of knowledge about the conflict on your part.
You point me to a reliable source where utilities, hospitals and schools are running in Palestine.
This is so sad... you haven't bothered to read a single book or even magazine article about what is going on, have you? Palestine is probably the most well represented section of the entire middle east regarding journalism. There are TONS of journalists there from all over the world. One of the most important industries in the West Bank is TOURISM.
The Palestinians are the most well educated people in the Arab world. The UNRWA runs the schools, they report a literacy rate in the high 90's. The economy in the West Bank has been steadily improving since 2007 as reported by Ha'aretz, the New York Times, The Washington Post and the Palestinians themselves. Even in Gaza, where a blockade IS in effect, the International Red Cross has reported that there is no humanitarian crisis.
I have heard many people try and make a comparison between Gaza and the Warsaw Ghetto. The motive behind making such a comparison is clear... to try and equate modern Israelis with Nazis, and people will go through the most twisted logic to try and make the case. To anyone with even a rudimentary education about the conflict such a notion is ridiculous. And the motive behind it is nothing less than odious. But in your case you have not even bothered to get bad information from a biased website. You tried to equate PALESTINE with the Warsaw Ghetto. You think that it is all blockaded and that no schools or hospitals are running there. You assume that it is impossible for any journalists to report from there which would only be possible to someone who studiously avoided trying to google any news about Palestine. Bearing that in mind, I have a question for you. How do you have the nerve to draw Nazi comparisons wrt a subject that you display such a complete lack of knowledge about? Have you no shame?
I named my oldest son for David Ben Gurion
Do you think I'm retarded?
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Palestinian Villages May Soon Go Dark: Israeli Government To Remove Solar Panels And Wind Turbines [View all]
stockholmer
Feb 2012
OP
Ma'an has a series of articles on the Israeli demolitions of European funded Area C projects
azurnoir
Feb 2012
#4
Cut off. No power, no sanitation, no medical, no jobs, no food, no education... did I miss anything.
kickysnana
Feb 2012
#10
"Over 100,000 of the Ghetto's residents died due to rampant disease or starvation..."
oberliner
Feb 2012
#12
Wait, what? You are claiming Israelis are really nazis in search of a "final solution"?
Ruby the Liberal
Feb 2012
#37
One comment made in 1959 vs constant, repeated bleatings complete with hosting holocaust denial?
Ruby the Liberal
Feb 2012
#76
I don't think you can make predictions based on the technical vagaries of religions...
shaayecanaan
Feb 2012
#115
How many Iranian civilians is Israel prepared to kill in order to delay the Iranian nuclear program?
kayecy
Mar 2012
#123
at least we now understand your morality...but how many to kill to protect your kids?
pelsar
Mar 2012
#131
Is that an approximate extension of your hypothesis to Israel’s attack on Iran?...
kayecy
Mar 2012
#142
Time magazine? and "senior israeli official' Atlantic Magazine....LOL.I got some too!!
pelsar
Mar 2012
#149
And your considered opinion is still that Israel should proceed to attack Iran?
kayecy
Mar 2012
#156
it (Israel) deliberately, indiscriminately and recklessly bombed civilian targets .........
kayecy
Mar 2012
#162
Hitler thought he knew what would happen when he invaded Russia....He was wrong.....
kayecy
Mar 2012
#166
Kayecy, why do you persist in defining an Israeli strike on nuclear facilities...
shira
Mar 2012
#182
....60 million+ dead, the enslavement on Eastern Europe in your eyes was the moral choice?
pelsar
Mar 2012
#183
It is not a question of like or dislike, merely that historical speculation is a waste of time......
kayecy
Mar 2012
#186
of course its my own "idiosyncratic opinion".....its my ethics and my morals...
pelsar
Apr 2012
#191
Kayecy, Iran is behind Hezbollah, Hamas, and P.I.J. rocket attacks on Israel now....
shira
Mar 2012
#180
So, you think Israel would be totally justified in demolishing those solar panels and wind turbines?
Violet_Crumble
Feb 2012
#18
You aren't seriously arguing that building solar panels is about "Demonizing Israel".
Ken Burch
Feb 2012
#47
The solar panels do no harm. There's no way that they could threaten Israeli security.
Ken Burch
Feb 2012
#46
Same BS anti-Israel demonization. Different day. Apparently, haters need their daily fix. N/T
shira
Feb 2012
#25
Why the obsession over the permitting process? And what difference does "the legal framework" make?
Ken Burch
Feb 2012
#52
Why can't the Israeli side admit that, in a situation like this, where the construction is harmless
Ken Burch
Feb 2012
#58
The EU isn't trying to harm Israel. Not filling out these forms doesn't threaten Israel.
Ken Burch
Feb 2012
#69
If it's in a military Occupation zone, an area that's certain to end up in Palestine anyway
Ken Burch
Feb 2012
#70
Is there some reason that it's more threatening to have them install them in Area C?
Ken Burch
Feb 2012
#73
Double standard time. Nasty antisemitic comments exist on the FGM and BDS facebook pages...
shira
Feb 2012
#35
Left-wingers were fighting Hitler and Mussolini while most of the Right were backing them
Ken Burch
Feb 2012
#68
The government, NOT the people-the two are not the same in ANY democratic society
Ken Burch
Feb 2012
#79
I read about her in that entry...but don't know enough about her to have an opinion
Ken Burch
Feb 2012
#84
It's not "slandering" simply to make an observation-Clearly it applies to most of the government
Ken Burch
Feb 2012
#89
what i take "personally" is your slandering of a main stream politicians..as if they are monsters.
pelsar
Feb 2012
#96
Well, yes, obviously they see the situation differently. That goes without saying.
Ken Burch
Feb 2012
#112