Originally posted by MBFlyerfan:
Holy crap, now the muslims are going to blow up this board!

Originally posted by FlyFishingX:

Here are a few recent articles from Al Jazeera, the "moderate" English-language Middle Eastern news source:

Challenged by Reliable Sources host (and Washington Post media writer) Howard Kurtz on Sunday, Robertson suggested Hezbollah has “very, very sophisticated and slick media operations,” that the terrorist group “had control of the situation. They designated the places that we went to, and we certainly didn't have time to go into the houses or lift up the rubble to see what was underneath,” and he even contradicted Hezbollah’s self-serving spin: “There's no doubt that the [Israeli] bombs there are hitting Hezbollah facilities.”

Originally posted by NY Madman:
Speaking of foreign news sources..... The BBC is running out of anti-Israeli stories and are soliciting Palestinians to send them some anti-Israeli stuff they can run with....

Originally posted by NY Madman:

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Originally posted by FlyFishingX:

[b]Here are a few recent articles from Al Jazeera, the "moderate" English-language Middle Eastern news source:

I would guess that Al Jazeera is a preferred "foreign news source" for Gaston and his varied fellow travelers across Canada and Europe.[/b]

Originally posted by BIBXTERRA:

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Originally posted by NY Madman:
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Originally posted by FlyFishingX:

[b]Here are a few recent articles from Al Jazeera, the "moderate" English-language Middle Eastern news source:

I would guess that Al Jazeera is a preferred "foreign news source" for Gaston and his varied fellow travelers across Canada and Europe.[/b]

Hate comes in many forms. True,the muslims hate the jews right now, but the jews hate the muslis equally as this picture shows: "Israeli children sending thier love? "

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Umm... Can you say "Photoshop"? Elsewise, how do you explain the english love poems on the bombs... Hebrew is the national language of Israel, not English...

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Originally posted by BIBXTERRA:

Hate comes in many forms. True,the muslims hate the jews right now, but the jews hate the muslis equally as this picture shows: "Israeli children sending thier love?

Show me the same pure hatred coming out of Israel.

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Anti-Soviet activities
The Jewish Defense League during the early seventies campaigned to allow the emigration of Soviet Jews from the Soviet Union. The organization was linked with a 1970 bomb explosion outside of Aeroflot's New York City office and a 1971 detonation outside of Soviet cultural offices in Washington, DC. Also in 1971, a JDL member allegedly fired a rifle into the Soviet Union's mission office at the United Nations. In 1972 two JDL members were arrested and charged with bomb possession and burglary in a conspiracy to blow up the Long Island residence of the Soviet Mission to the UN. The two JDL members pleaded guilty and were sentenced to serve 3 years in prison for one and a year and a day for the other.

In 1975, JDL leader Meir Kahane was accused of conspiring to kidnap a Soviet diplomat, to bomb the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, and to ship arms abroad from Israel. A hearing was held to revoke Kahane's probation for a 1971 firebomb making incident. He was found guilty of violating probation and sered a one year prison sentence. JDL activities were condemned by Moscow refuseniks who felt that the group's actions were making it less likely that the Soviet Union would relax restrictions on Jewish emigration. On April 6, 1976, six prominent refuseniks, Vladimir Slepak, Alexander Lerner, Anatoly Shcharansky, and Iosif Begun condemned the JDL's activities as "terrorist acts" stating "Such actions constitute a danger for Soviet Jews... as they might be used by the authorities as a pretext for new repressions and for instigating anti-Semitic hostilities." [3]

Durind the 1980's, then JDL Chairman and current Jewish Task Force Chairman Chaim Ben Pesach led a campaign of bombing Soviet targets which he credits as the reason for the complete removal of the ban of Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union and as well as the reason for the fall of the Soviet Union. He has said that the bombings brought strains in US-Soviet relations which he says helped his cause.

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Terrorism and the JDL
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has described the Jewish Defense League in Congressional testimony as a "violent" and "extremist" group. In a sidebar in its "Terrorism 2000/2001" report, the Bureau said, "The Jewish Defense League has been deemed a right-wing terrorist group." It identified the group in a 1999 terrorism report as the perpetrator of several bombing and arson incidents that took place between 1980 and 1989. Mary Doran, an FBI street agent, described the JDL in 2004 Congressional testimony as "a proscribed terrorist group," though Doran also acknowledged that she is not involved in "policy and administrative decision-making processes." The group drew heavy criticism for its support of Baruch Goldstein, a JDL member who killed twenty-nine Muslim worshippers at the Cave of the Patriarchs in 1994. The National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) says in its knowledge base that the last known attack by JDL was on 26 February 1992 and that "(t)oday, JDL is not actively engaged in terrorist actions." The FBI suspects that Arab-American Congressman Darrell Issa was targeted by JDL members who planned then aborted a terror attack against his office [4].

The Jewish Defense League denies that it is a terrorist organization or a sponsor of terror. Its website states: "The Jewish Defense League unconditionally condemns terrorism of all forms. Terrorism is never a legitimate means to the furtherance of political goals."[5]

Nevertheless, on a number of occasions the JDL has expressed support for acts of vengeance in reprisal to Arab terrorist attacks on Jews. On October 26, 1981 after two firebombs damaged the Egyptian Tourist Office at Rockefeller Center, JDL Chairman Meir Kahane said at a press conference: "I'm not going to say that the JDL bombed that office. There are laws against that in this country. But I'm not going to say I mourn for it either." The next day, an anonymous caller claimed responsibility on behalf of the JDL. A JDL spokesman later denied his group's involvement, but said "We support the act."[6]

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Reactions to the JDL
The JDL's approach has been criticized by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as a "gross distortion" of the situation faced by American Jews. The ADL also states that JDL's founder, Meir Kahane, "preached a radical form of Jewish nationalism which reflected racism, violence and political extremism" and that those attitudes "were replicated" by Irv Rubin, the successor to Kahane [7] [8]. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has added the JDL to its list of watched "hate groups".

You probably need to read what Israel's enemies say in their own words.

Originally posted by BIBXTERRA:

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Show me the same pure hatred coming out of Israel.

I just did. Here is the picture again:



This is not from a pro Hezbollah blog. It's a Jewish one from israel.

Originally posted by BIBXTERRA:

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Show me the same pure hatred coming out of Israel.

I just did. Here is the picture again:

Originally posted by GrayHam:
I'm surprised that many of the people so upset by what Israel is doing in Lebanon (and posting in this thread) are Canadians . . .

-fabien/zizou/bartez
-SE4X4
-BIBXterra

Huh.

Originally posted by GrayHam:
I'm surprised that many of the people so upset by what Israel is doing in Lebanon (and posting in this thread) are Canadians . . .

-fabien/zizou/bartez
-SE4X4
-BIBXterra

Huh.

Originally posted by GrayHam:
[QUOTE]I think there is still a culture that says, Hey, chill out, wait it out, everything will be fine.

Of course, that's just an opinion . . . I could be full of shit.

Originally posted by SE4X4:
I think Canadians are more apt to disagree with their government, or any government.

So I don't know perhaps more Canadian's simply give a shit.