Israeli bullet-proof vest (cartoon by Latuff)

That's never stopped the Palestinians before!

MYTH

"The governments of Arab states grant basic human rights to their citizens."

FACT

While much attention has been focused on alleged Israeli human rights violations in the volatile West Bank and Gaza, the popular press has chosen to virtually ignore violations of fundamental human rights that take place daily in almost every Arab country. According to annual reports compiled by the State Department, most of the Arab states are ruled by oppressive, dictatorial regimes, which deny their citizens basic freedoms of political expression, speech, press and due process.

That's a weird caricature, everyone knows that arab 'warriors' has the urge to hide behind a human shield (Remember Sadam Hussein in the gulf war?).
It is a well established fact that palestinians send their youth to confront the Israeli soldiers while the grownups stay behind.

>It is a well established fact...

Translation: "I have no proof, but blahblahblah..."

>that [our evil enemies] send their youth to confront
>[our brave, noble, peaceful] soldiers while the
>grownups stay behind.

Umm... What drugs are YOU taking? Please, let me avoid ever ingesting any of those!

Maybe you hadn't noticed, but pretty much EVERY SINGLE MILITARY FORCE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD is comprised principally of youth. At least, in terms of combat troops. Within those fascist institutions typically, the older you are, the farther you are likely to be from the front lines.

Example: During the decade+ when the United States illegally attacked and invaded the southern half of Vietnam, the US sent in many hundreds of thousands of combat soldiers. Most of these soldiers did not go voluntarily; they were forcibly drafted into the military, even amid massive domestic opposition.

Average age of a US combat soldier in Vietnam: 19 years old.

US military draft cut-off age: 35 years old.

So, regardless of what you may think of a strategy whereby (economically disadvantaged) youth are sent off to slaughter while the elders are conveniently spared, it is certainly NOT a strategy exclusive to "them."

From the reports I've heard, and photos I've seen, it looks suspiciously as though the Israeli government may be engaging in a similar pattern and practice of behavior.

Parhaps you didn't notice it, but i was referring to the caricature portreying an Israeli soldier at the upper portion of this thread.
Do i have proof? only if i choose to reflect on events that occured during the gulf war, where Saddam Husein forced hundreds of Iraqi children into military installations to prevent the coalition from attacking
them. More proof? how about a 16 year old palestinian girl that was sent on the 29 of march on a suicide bombing mission by her uncle.

Actually, i would like to know what proof does this Latuff guy have of IDF soldiers using palestinian children as shields. Or that pro-palestinians do not need to provide proof for their third raich style propeganda.

Latuff is wrong. Brasil will not win the World Cup this year. Neither will Palestine because they didn't even field a team. Argentina will win!! Viva Argentina!!

Latuff, do not spread your lies any further. Brasil does not have what it takes to win. Neither does Palestine because they did not even field a team. If they did, they would be called the Palestine Homocide Bombers, but they did not, because they do not have the talent or arsnel it takes to win on the field. They both will lose. Viva Argentina!! Viva Argentina!!

MITCH ALBOM: Terror, Mideast and hypocrisy
April 14, 2002
BY MITCH ALBOM
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST
When suicide bombers attacked America last September, nothing could stop our retaliation.
Yet when suicide bombers attack Israel, week after week, Israel is told -- even by Americans -- to back off. When we bombed Afghanistan, where Al Qaeda
was organized, it was a mission to "smoke them out."
Yet when Israel attacks its hornet's nest of terror, it is accused of "occupying" and told to retreat.
When we fired on Kabul, from the safety of the air, we said innocent people would be caught in the crossfire and, sadly, this was war.
Yet when Israeli soldiers go door to door in Palestinian areas, the most dangerous yet humane way to root out terrorists, we call them "murderers"
the moment one civilian is killed.
When Osama bin Laden denied any involvement with Sept. 11, we said he was lying and vowed to get him "dead or alive."
Yet when groups tied to Yasser Arafat boldly claim responsibility for suicide attacks, Israel is told not to harm their leader. When we struck
back against extremist terror, Israel was behind us.
When Israel strikes back, we say, "Enough is enough." You tell me. Is that hypocritical?
Sympathize and negotiate When we were scorned by critics who thought our treatment of prisoners in
Guantanamo was inhumane -- because we bound them, gagged them and blindfolded them -- we bristled and said, "These are dangerous people." Yet
when Israel demands certain Palestinians strip and stay on the ground, we say this is outrageous and must be stopped. When a videotape emerges showing bin Laden speaking of Sept. 11, we say it proves the man is evil.
Yet when Israelis produce documents to show Arafat funds terror, they are accused of forgery.
When certain Muslims suggest we hear out bin Laden and Al Qaeda, that we understand their cause and the reasons for their anger, we grit our teeth and say those people want us dead, why should we talk to them?
Yet when Israel says the same thing, it is told it must be sympathetic and negotiate -- even with people who deny Israel's right to exist.
You tell me. Is that hypocritical?
War means death. There are innocent victims -- Palestinians as well as Israelis -- on all sides of this equation.
But let's be consistent. Our nearly 3,000 dead in the World Trade Center was horrific, but Israel, relative to its small population, has lost a half-dozen World Trade Centers in the last 18 months -- all to suicide bombing. Every time you see five Israelis dead in an attack, it is like 250 Americans dead here. How many of those events would it take for us to lash out with all our power?
Would we pause and consider that the enemy wanted its own state? Or that its people were "desperate"?
No way. For radical groups such as Hamas and Hizballah, statehood is not a stop sign anyhow. They want Israel obliterated, state or no state, the same
way bin Laden wants Westerners obliterated. Bin Laden had his own country. He had billions. Did land and money keep him from murder?
No. No more than desperation drives you to it. There have been desperate people in Rwanda and Bosnia, yet they never chose to blow themselves up.
There have been occupied people across the globe -- even right here, with American Indians. Would we accept if descendants of the Sioux Nation began blowing themselves up in shopping malls?
There is a difference between "desperate" and "brainwashed." Desperate people want to make their lives better. Brainwashed people think "kaboom" sends you to heaven. Innocents are being killed on both sides. The difference is, for Palestinian terrorists, those are the targets.
We can tell the Israelis to stop, but we wouldn't stop. We can tell them to negotiate, but we wouldn't negotiate. We can see their dead and say it hurts as much as ours, but we don't mean it. Because if it were ours, we'd be doing what they're doing. And we'd damn anyone who spoke against us.

Contact MITCH ALBOM at 313-223-4581 or albom [at] freepress.com.

http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org./index.php

hey, grandpa, on what drugs are YOU on?
by me • Thursday May 02, 2002 at 06:58 AM






me writes "Do i have proof? only if i choose to reflect on events that occured during the gulf war, where Saddam Husein forced hundreds of Iraqi children into military installations to prevent the coalition from attacking
them. "

What kind of proofsd o you have for that demonizing? Is this similar to the infamous Kuwaiti hospital, Iraqui baby killing story, that was manufacture by the warmongers to change poll numbers so we would go to war in 1991?

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