1. The 69 Eyes said:

Protest votes my friend... they were protest votes.

2. Bill Levinson said:

69 Eyes, for once I find your comments very funny. Hmmm, maybe Mel Brooks could do a comedy in which the mainstream candidate is SOOOOO bad and corrupt ("HOW bad?" "Really, really bad") that everybody votes for a joke candidate in protest-- and the joke candidate ends up winning. Unfortunately, I don't think the Christians, gays, and women in Gaza find this election's results very entertaining.

3. Leonard said:

Its astounding how many naive political commentators in the media seem to think that now the Terrorists are in power that some how they are going to transform themselves into a peace loving Party. They forget that their appeal to their electorate was that they incinerated Jews en masse and are opposed to any form of compromise. What naivety - Hitler got into power through the ballet box. G-d help any Palestinian moderates - they are going to be strung up as collaborators.

4. mynewsbot said:

I detest fanatics .. its a bad situation .. I agree with 3

5. Bill Levinson said:

Leonard, it's easy to identify the moderates; they're the ones hanging from the lampposts or being dragged by their heels.

(You can click on the picture for far more but the other pictures are even worse so don't look if you are squeamish). This is, of course, the Palestine Solidarity Movement's vision statement for the entire West Bank.

6. Steven Q. said:

Do you honestly think that any one believes that you actually care about Palestinian christians, gays, and/or women? Seriously, you're on public record as calling Palestinians "locusts" who should all be driven out of their lands. Stop piggy backing on a cause that you care nothing about. Palestinian christians, gays, and women are not going to support you because the primary cause of their suffering isn't other Palestinians - but Israel's treatment of them as a whole. When the IDF shoots in the streets or bulldozes houses, it doesn't first ask whether any christians, gays, or women are going to feel the negative effects. The IDF's treatment of Palestinians is indiscriminate... all Palestinians are treated like shit equally!

7. Leonard said:

Thanks for that graphic illustration of my point Bill - I see this lynching took place in Manger Square, Bethlehem. Do you think that any Palestinian sympathisers that belong to various Church Groups will take issue on the defiling of the birthplace of Christ ?
I don't think so - they will continue to be in denial as to the true nature of the Palestinians.

8. Bill Levinson said:

Steven Q, I don't think you can deny that the Palestinians who took over Gaza BEHAVED like locusts when they destroyed greenhouses that were given to them as GIFTS, along with synagogues they might have converted into schools, houses, and hospitals. I am sorry if you (or Straylight, or 69 Eyes, or whoever you are) don't like the way I phrased it but your objection to my choice of words is not going to make the Palestinians' BEHAVIORAL CHOICES go away or bring that Palestinian in the picture above back to life. And, as shown by the Palestinians' FREE CHOICE to elect a terrorist government, they should indeed have been driven out of Gaza just as one would drive a rabid dog from one's back yard. When I say "they" I mean about two out of every three; the decent and productive ones should have been allowed and even encouraged to stay.

Yes, I do care about Palestinian Christians, gays, and women, just as I care about Iranian women who are hanged from cranes (typical Islamofascist use of construction equipment, by the way) or stoned to death for minor or, as is more usually the case, imaginary crimes. I am sorry but these cultures are simply not fit to govern themselves because they brutalize and murder their own people along with outsiders. The IDF is not throwing gay Palestinians in raw sewage after beating them half to death, the Palestinians are doing that all on their own. The IDF does not slit young women's wrists for "dishonoring" themselves by being raped, Palestinians do that just fine by themselves.

I don't see any IDF soldiers in this scene, only Palestinians.

http://www.gamla.org.il/english/feature/lynch2a.htm

9. Diana said:

Leonard and all you others here,
Im sure you are very happy indeed that Hamas was elected because now you have even more reasons to dupe and fabricate even more lies and try to sell it to the world. First off, your nonsense ''idea'' that they elected them because they prone the destruction of israel is WRONG.. They had no choice but to elect to stop corruption. Hamas has stopped all attacks on Israel since a few months and everything that has happened was claimed by islamic jihad, al aksa brigades, etc.. The truth is no matter what the palestinians do, you are never gonna be happy or satisfied unless its your terms 100% which is giving them less than 1% of the land. Your men care nothing about christians or muslims but only about jews and you dare bring up anti-semitism everytime you scratch your ass. your bulldozerds don't differentiate between women children, old helpless people but destroys their homes, lands everything and the only they have ever known, you shoot them in their streets with no pity or mercy...and you post those pictures to make them look bad but the truth is you dont even know the reason why they are killed or hung...Traitors!!! you know an american traitor is put on the death penalty too and im sure the same is done in israel...so if you want some graphic pictures, Ill send you live videos posted on al jazeera where a HELPLESS palestinian man was holding his 4 year old and was BEGGING not to shoot his little boy, to let him go but no....they shot him in cold blood...oh and back in the camp jenin story, the israeli army broke into a palestinian house and I do not give a f*** what the supposed reason is (a.k.a. ''arrest palestinian terrorists'')a PREGNANT young woman was shot and she was bleeding and she begged them to let her go to the hospital but no they did NOTHING...and no they didnt shoot her to end her misery but they stood there and watched her suffer and agonize...so dont you f***in lecture us about morality or terror...Terror is killing innocent people and it does not only come in a form of suicide bombings but in killings using weapons..you manipulate everything to make it look like your the good guy and there a bunch of uncivilzed animals and ya I agree it is very easy to do that and mix all muslims together in the same plate when you see graphic al qaeda killings...but thats called RESISTANCE..and you all know it but your just praying that with enough manipulation and with 9/11 which ur mossad knew about but didnt do anything to turn sympathy to ur unfounded cause, you are praying that no one will notice and that you can kick them out permanently out of their homes...U know I saw what you did in lebanon and the ONLY reason u withdrew was thanks to hizbollah who are a resistance movement and NOT a terrorist group which Jacques Chirac refused to name them as a terrorist group (for your info they were the ones that protected ALL christians in the south from your bombings and you terrorizing them...oh but you kill innocent people with your sophisticated weapons financed by our dearly beloved united states of america...so that DOESNT make you a terrorist right?) You are never gonna win until you acknowledge that your not the only party on the table and that you dont get to decide all the terms as you please and like and the when the PALES. refuse you run and say :'they dont want peace'...they do...you ahve deprived them of everything...their dignity, their pride, their freedom ...I mean anyobdy would be desperate enough to just kill themselves for the freedom of their land...you whine about jews being kicked of ILLEGAL settlements..but you never take a look at those poor people who have none because you stomped over them and decided oh, that land, G-d promised it to me...Please!!! you just keep using the same old song and dance of excuse that its about religion and anti-semitism...well I got news for all of you...the jewish communtiy in Iran , when asked in a recent american media poll, how is their life, any discrimination...98% said they were very respected and no discrimination from fellow iranians existed...so the iranian presidents comment was political u morrons not because he wants to kill jews...he was making a POLITICAL point because if he hated jews he would have made life HELL for them in Iran...trust me, I think there is more anti semitism in europe and america than in th arab world...the arabs are against jewsih policies and settlements and the jewish government , they dont hate israelis because they are jews....so stop making excuses and trying to convince yourselves that you are actually more civilized than they are because you kill people with weapons not through suicide bombings....you are allowing innocents to die on each side and that is just wrong!!!

10. diana said:

Oh and one more thing ''BILL'', I know your not educated enough to know this but honor killings happen not only in SOME muslim countries but in Africa, indonesia, India, Sri Lanka where the ones that are arrested or talked about are actually buddhists or other religions that muslim. That regards retarted social mentality and is often linked to social beleifs and backgrounds rather than religion.

11. Bill Levinson said:

Diana wrote in pidgin English, "Oh and one more thing ''BILL'', I know your not educated enough to know this but honor killings happen not only in SOME muslim countries but in Africa, indonesia, India, Sri Lanka where the ones that are arrested or talked about are actually buddhists or other religions that muslim. That regards retarted social mentality and is often linked to social beleifs and backgrounds rather than religion."

It's "you're not educated," as opposed to "your not educated" but I digress... Yes, I am aware that so-called "honor killings" take place elsewhere and even happened (as depicted in "Titus Andronicus") in Europe at one time. WHOEVER does it is a barbarian savage unfit to govern himself and I condemn it without reservation, unlike the Palestine Solidarity Movement.

12. Leonard said:

Diana - You are wrong about many things. It is difficult to respond to all your points at once since as an educated person you need to learn to use paragraphs. I'll respond to your main points:

1. We didn't elect Hamas - the Palestinians did. Just like it was the Germans & not the Jews who elected the Nazi's into power. No one needs to fabricate anything about Hamas - since the whole World knows what a murderous terrorist organisation they are and the Crimes against Humanity that they have perpetrated on innocent civilians chosen at random.

2. You say Israel won't give them 1% of the Land. Well, Israel has just withdrawn from Gaza, and Barak was prepared to offer them 97% of the West Bank which Arafat rejected since he wants all of what constituted the former British Mandate of Palestine;

3. The Jews & Christians both on this web, in Israel, & in most non-Islamic countries maintain an excellent relationship of shared values, and many Christian zionists are contributors to this site;

4. You appear to support the lynching shown above and appear to care little about due process or the rule of Law -by labelling the victim a traitor before any sort of trial has taken place. Is that the sort of Nazi type state of Palestine you wish to create?

5. The tragic event in which a father & son got caught in a cross-fire is shown over & over again in Pro-Palestinian circles, but it was one isolated incident. You appear to ignore the thousands of terror attacks carried out at random on Israeli civilians & the hundreds of suicide bombings that have slaughted hundreds and mains thousands more. They have quite rightly been condemned by Amnesty International as Crimes Against Humanity;

6.Over 100, 000 Christians sheltered within the enclave that used to exist along the Lebanese Israeli border until Barak abandonned them to Hizbollah. The PLO maintained a mini-State in Southern Lebanon with 20,000 troops called Fatah Land which they used to launch a barrage of 20,000 rockets on Israels Northern Towns provoking an Israeli response;

7.In Iran 90% of the Jews fled or were expelled following the rise of Khomeini. The remaining Jews live in fear & are subject to arbitrary arrest.Many of the Jews who left now live in California. Over 900,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries - most of which are now Juden-rein.

8. You appear to support the Irainian Presidents remarks when he declares his intent to wipe out Israel, and repeatedly denies the holocaust and declares his intent to resettle the Jews in Europe. I think the reader can form his own conclusions as to your true values;

As a Palestinian activist - what are you doing monitoring Pro-Israel Websites. In any event I am satisfied that I have responded sufficiently to expose you for the true bigot & terrorist apologist that you are.

13. Laura said:

Diana that is a load of BS. Honor killings are exclusive to muslims. I don't know where you got that bit of propaganda that Buddhists and other non-muslims practice honor killings, but it's wrong.

14. Laura said:

"trust me, I think there is more anti semitism in europe and america than in th arab world."
....................
You can't be serious. Is that why "mein kampf" and "protocols of the elders of Zion" are best sellers throughout the arab and muslim world? And how do you explain anti-Semitic incitement in schools, media, mosques throughout the arab world? Also a poll taken in Jordan concluded that nearly 100% of Jordanians are anti-Semitic. Jews aren't even allowed in some muslim countries such as saudi arabia. I could go on with numerous other examples of the most virulent anti-Semitism in the muslim world that resembles nazi Germany. In fact most of the increasing anti-Semitism in Europe is being perpetrated by muslim immigrants. There is little anti-Semitism in America except for some fringe elements of the radical right and left. Do you actually believe the things you say or do you assume we are all that stupid that we'd be duped by such propaganda?

15. Dan Barkye said:

Miss Diana, I'm not sure if you still read this article and its comments, b/c I'm surer (and THAT's GOOD English, though I really don't care in what illiterate language you write, I can understand you, unlike you us and truth and objectivity and unbiased point of view), but in case you read, just know that all your ramblings and babblings show only one thing: Absolute disinterest in truth and facts.

Stop shitting around w your Jenin lies, b/c you'll carry the stink w you wherever you go.

You don't know what really happened there, you're told stories, fabrications, conjectures, and you swallow them whole, as is your wont, you and all of your fascist leftist friends. Duped and deluded, you're bewildered and confused as only an ignorant and blind person can be.
Maybe the soldiers were under fire, maybe they tried to take her away to safety, but like Rachel Corrin and the little 4 yr old boy, they were killed or sacrificed in the name of the higher cause by YOUR pals, the Pals, and THIS is what really happened, not your propagandistic lies. The little boy was shot by YOUR friends, Rachel was left alone by HER nad YOUR friends to die in a terrible accident, the pregnant woman was under fire like all the soldiers there. And they probably fired from inhabited houses or a mosque or a hospital, or a school, as YOUR friends do w/o shame in all your "liberation wars".

And what is the cause in the name of which Rachel and the 4 yr old boy were sacrificed?

The terrible lie that this land is theirs. No, IT'S NOT, and this is the end of the discussion. The historical facts speak for themselves, I don't need to elaborate.

D, The caravan is passing by and the dogs are barking.

16. Bill Narvey said:

Diana, your comments and writing style are so similar to Catherine's comment regarding the post by Mediacrity, "Hamas Defeat" that it is fair to conclude that you are the very same person who doubtless has an endless list of pseudonyms.

I have the same comment in response therefor:

WOW Diana, you sure have unloaded a mouthful of .............

It would be impolite to be more explicit.

17. Dan Barkye said:

Diana, get out of the hole you're in and see the real world, not the one you're fed by your fascist frieds. Opne your eyes, girl, open them wide and start seeing. You'll be surprised what a landscape is out there.

18. Dan Barkye said:

Diana, get out of the hole you're in and see the real world, not the one you're fed by your fascist friends. Open your eyes, girl, open them wide and start seeing. You'll be surprised what a landscape is out there.

19. Dan Barkye said:

Ooops, twice? Must be that button.

20. george said:

Dan Barkye
Actually the AL DURAH boy has been reported alive and well in Gaza. Perhaps the only good thing to come out of the Pallywood cinematic productions at netzarim junction that launched the suicide bombings.

21. Dan Barkye said:

That's news to me, george. Goog to hear.