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It's very true. Israel has the highest media and UN attention per-capita. America almost killed more Iraqis in one month, then Israel kills in a year. And these numbers that are put out about the many Palestinian deaths are blotted because they also count those killed by Israeli soldier while engaging in hostile activities. Not rock throwing, but throwing fire bombs and shooting at israeli soldiers. The number of Palestinian dead also includes the deat

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Purely from my experiences of two nearby feuding neighbours, passivity in the face of aggression can be very difficult to maintain. It becomes especially difficult when people's homes are being demolished, or land is being fenced over. I have fueds with my neighbors too, but I don't send my children ove

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Like I said, what are Israel's options here? Let their own children have fear everytime they leave the house. Israeli children are subjected to a life that revolves around safety and security that hte rest of the world will never have. Now in parts of Israel bombs come from the air. You speak of Arabs fear as if they are the only one's that are suffering. Israel has it's own population to protect and that is why it has an army and they enter Arab town

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Muggaz, These brutal methods you speak of. There is no other way for Israel to defend citizens in it's own cities without getting them where they plan attacks, recruit other terrorists, and make the bombs. That is a lot smarter then waiting for the bomber to reach his city of destination and then catching him. When there's a terrorist alert in a city the police and army turn it inside out. It's insane the way people have to live. People become ansy and scared. People have to watch their

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Kingbee, The fact that you even brought up America's border with Canada shows that you must have a clear misconception of what is really going on in Israel. I am not going to start making differences between the 49th parallel and the Green Line. This is a classic example of the attacker becoming the defendant. Through sympathetic pictures in the media Israel will always look bad, but you should look at the stories behind the pictures if you want to make a judgement. Things aren't as the

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That's true, and thats the scary part. For example, Israel is going to withdraw from Gaza, and the situation is so screwed up that they aren't even expecting anything in return. They recognize that "this situation fueled by hate" as you put it, isn't from Israel being in Gaza, but Israel being there in the first place. The average, non-haetful person (in America) I believe does support Israel, but this propoganda war is far from over. If people "see it for what it is" then they won't really see

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s long as they feel they have the right to use the label Anti-Semite as a WMD, they'll get less and less sympathy when the shoe really fits. Very true, but when does Israel get sympathy? In today's world the Arabs play the aggressor and defendant. This was first used when they, en masse, were attacking

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Of course not all people who disagree with Israeli policies are anti-Semetic. Are leftist Israelis anti-Semites? Of course not. But it important to go back to the core problem that Israel faces from many of it's enemies. Many of the arguments made by people trying to change Israeli policy is done not out of hatred to that particular policy, but out of hatred of any Jewish presence in Israel. That is why much media in Arab countries still depict the sam

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That picture that was taken by the Arabs, Hizbullah to be exact, had several picture of dead Israelis, inclduing a decapitated one. Chances are that the Israelis in their Lebanon border post knew the men who were shown in those disgusting pcitures. The sign also read "Sharon, don't forget, your sons are still in Lebanon" in Hebrew to mock the soldiers and Sharon. This is the sick mentality Israel faces daily from the terrorist onslaught it has to figh