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Egypt to Ease Gaza Blockade & Permanently Open Border Crossing

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt will open its only crossing with the Gaza Strip this weekend, the Cairo military government announced Wednesday, significantly easing a four-year blockade on the Hamas-ruled territory but setting up a potential conflict with Israel.

Egypt’s official Middle East News Agency said the Rafah border crossing would be opened permanently starting Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day except Fridays and holidays.

Egypt to Ease Gaza Blockade & Permanently Open Border Crossing

Demonstrators wave Palestinian flags during a demonstration in Rafah on Sunday along the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip.

This gives Gaza Palestinians a way to freely enter and exit their territory for the first time since 2007, when Hamas overran the territory, and Israel and Egypt closed the crossings.

Israel’s crossings are more significant, since they handle most cargo. A year ago Israel significantly eased its restrictions on cargo entering Gaza, but it still severely limits entry and exit of Gazans through its northern crossing into Israel.

MENA said the decision to open the Rafah crossing was part of efforts “to end the status of the Palestinian division and achieve national reconciliation.”

The statement said rules in effect before the blockade would be reinstated. At that time, European observers had a role in operating the crossing, and Israel monitored people and cargo to keep out militants and weapons.

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Nabil Elaraby told the Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera late last month that the closure of Rafah crossing was about to end, calling the decision to close it “a disgusting matter.”

Gazans have circumvented the blockade by operating hundreds of smuggling tunnels under the 9-mile (15-kilometer) Gaza-Egypt border. The tunnels have been used to bring in all manner of products, as well as people. Israel charges Hamas has used the tunnels to import weapons, including rockets that can reach main population centers in Israel’s center.

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  • Ricky A. Patriotson
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 5:04pm

    To:Non-sequitur
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:49pm
    “They want the world to think of the Jews as evil, bad, and nasty all the while it is Hamas that is evil, bad, and nasty.”

    Sorry dude, Israel bombs civilians with white phosphorous and collectively punishes a whole population for the deeds of a few radicals. Both sides are to blame here.

    What would you do if your neighbors on all sides started lobbing **** on your house, smile and wave?

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    • Dean Lester
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 5:28pm

      The Palestinians have had multiple opportunities to have their own state and peace. It is obvious by the Palestinians deeds and words that they only want Israel to disappear. I believe they have shot themselves in the foot for the last time with their election of HAMAS. They are so lucky that Israel has not killed them all. I think the Israelis have shown great restraint! Israel is not perfect, but they look perfect compared to HAMAS.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 5:35pm

      This is dudette to you.

      You are mistaken. Israel retaliates when the Islamic terrorists blow up school buses, metro buses, hack up sleeping Jews, etc. Most of those homes destroyed by Israel are destroyed because they are being used by terrorists to launch attacks or hide fm legitimate retaliation.

      You have been successfully lied to abt the Jews and Israel. It is the Arab who persecutes the Arab.

      If you really care abt the history of it — http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/05/arab-apartheid-ben-dror-yemini-must.html

      If you don’t want Israel to attack, then leave Israel alone. Just that simple. What don’t you get about that? The Arabs start something then blame Israel when Israel defends itself.

      Jesus said that we are to turn the other cheek. His reference was to insults. Archbishop Tutu has the right idea when approached by an angry Afrkaaner who tells the diminutive cleric that he (the big guy) was not going to go in the gutter for no gorilla. To which the Archbishop responds that he will.

      Nowhere does the Bible call Israel to roll over and be slaughtered.

      If Mexico shelled Brownsville weekly or daily, do you seriously think we would let that go?

      It’s the same problem for Israel. Their neighbor shells them and attacks WITHOUT provocation.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:35pm

      As a catholic i was raised to believe all who didn’t accept jesus would be anihilated.This was standard christian doctrine till the second vatican council.Muslims’ primary identification is as muslims [as oppossed to nationalism though countries like egypt and perhaps iraq[babylonia] have a more nationalist identy.If they believe they as a people in their homelands are threatened as a people they will wage jijad to defend themselves from a threat.The threat can be invasions, occupation[israel or intrusions by colonial or american regimes that have meddled in their own governance [propping up brutal regimes.If it were true that Muslims do not tolerate christians or jews then there would not have been christians and jews in those lands.And there were and there still are,Thanks to western intrusions ,there are now tensions between christians and muslims[as the colonial occupiers privilegded the christians economically] Jews because of the ongoing conflict with israel no longr are there yet as septhrdic people they are discriminated by european israelis.The koran can be interpreted any way one pleases as can the bible.That you are quick to interpret their theology in purely vile evil ways when you could look at christian history as see the same evil vile history of intolerence, exposes your genocidal agenda.. Genocide has not happened yet though millons have died from our invasions.Everything said about arabs/Muslims implies they are evil and therefore must be killed[.Genocide

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 3:10pm

      @Rose-Ellen I was raised half Anglican, half Southern Baptist. We were taught to read the Scriptures for ourselves. Sorry you did not have the same opportunity. I hope you are reading and rereading.

      In general Protestant terms, those who reject Jesus are already condemned to eternal life without Him. This is the message that the NT puts forth. I cannot recommend trying to find other ways. Other ways are likely to be dark dead ends.

      In the Middle East, religion is the CENTER of being. I commend to your reading Mark Gabriel’s book: Islam and Terrorism. The 1st few chapters tell his story of moving fm being a PhD in Islamic Studies at Al Ahzar in Cairo and an imam to rejecting the koran because of its inconsistencies to finding Jesus and following Him. In Islamic countries, there just are not many secularists. Those that are, are usually the ones in power like Al Assad and Saddam. Iran’s leaders are really quite normative for their culture. This is a highly foreign concept for Westerners who think in secular/national identity terms rather than in religious identity terms.

      Islam tolerates Jews & Christians as dhimmis — they must submissively pay a hefty tax in order to practice their religions and live in muslim countries. It gives islam the “out” to say we tolerate “the people of the book.” It is duplicitous in the extreme.

      I ask you to do some more reading and expand your horizon.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 3:25pm

      @ Rose-Ellen (cont)

      Jihad is also an offensive weapon in the koran and haddith. I am offering you their own interpretation of their koran. I offer you a PhD candidate’s understanding of the Bible. You are more than free to consult other Biblical interpreters to find that what I am giving you is approved of by Protestants and Catholics. I do not stray fm accepted orthodoxy. You can find some who stray far and wide fm a traditional orthodoxy, and they sometimes make for interesting reading. I would, however, offer you that a more orthodox view will lead you well.

      No one is calling for a genocide of Arabs…not the Jews, not the Christians, not any sane person. The Arabs are quite capable of destroying their own. The muslim Arabs do seem to have a fetish for killing off or driving out the Christian Arabs though. Arabs have spilled more Arab blood thru history than has the West or Jews. Christian Arabs are a tiny fraction of the Arab population, yet you seem to think they are numerous. Many Arab Christians were driven to the States during the Lebanese Civil War by their muslim counterparts. Today, Arab Christians are being killed in Iraq and Egypt where they are not Arab but Copt, whose ancestors were the original Egyptians of pharaoh’s time. They are just as vulnerable to muslims though.

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  • ChuckJ
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:50pm

    What a seriously nice thing to do for Hamas. Now their rockets won’t get dirty from being smuggled through those dirty tunnels.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 8:39am

      They justify their attacks because they are at war not because Jews or Christians arn’t Muslim but because a state was created in their midst for Jews at the expense of non Jews which was inherently unjust because it deprives natives of their homelands..Believe all you want that God calls you to displace and demonize arabs [who are also Christian] You see them as existentially evil based on your biblical interpretations-that is as racist as you can get and a familiat narrative to justify genocidal hatred of a people..I believe people encounter Jesus in their encounter with other people ["not everyone who says lord lord is pleasing says the Lord.But those who do his will."His will is to be just and to seek peace and understanding.Even non Christians can be saved if they respond to their encounter with Jesus by how they treat others in their lives especially the least of their brethren namely in this case the "enemies" the arabs.People can't help what they truely believe and [And we christians have the imagery of the banquet of the lord for heaven.The Muslims have the ecstasy of sexual encounters [with virgins[].Both are symbols of bliss, not taken literally by either christians or muslims. ]Casting aspersions on Islam is the anti-semitism of the 21st century. Jesus does not hold it against people if they dont happen to believe in Him.Their response to Jesus is manifested in their actions towards the least of their brethren,hence non believe can be saved too.

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    • boyydz
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:19am

      Rose-Ellen, you are seriously mixed-up in your thinking.

      “You see them as existentially evil based on your biblical interpretations-that is as racist as you can get and a familiat [sic] narrative to justify genocidal hatred of a people.” This is simply untrue. Reading the Koran and the hadiths leads one to the unfortunate conclusion that a Muslim who dutifully follows the Islamic holy books SHOULD hate Jews and Christians and want to kill them. That is not a racist statement; it is simply a conclusion drawn from Muslims’ OWN HOLY BOOKS. Have you read the Koran? Furthermore, no genocide of Palestinians has occurred, and I challenge you to prove that it has.

      “Casting aspersions on Islam is the anti-semitism of the 21st century.” Again, Islam is being attacked on the basis of the contents of its own claimed scriptures, not on falsehoods made up out of whole cloth like anti-Jewish sentiment has always been. Your statement is a complete crock.

      “Jesus does not hold it against people if they dont [sic] happen to believe in Him.” Again, this is easily refuted. Read John 3:18, John 14:6, and Mark 16:16. Or do you make your Christianity up the way you want it to be instead of believing what the Bible says?

      Seriously, you need to rethink your entire approach to religion and theology. It is based on what the books say, not on what you would like them to say.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 2:55pm

      @boyydz — Excellent post!

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  • EZDOZIT
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:48pm

    Obama say Israel must go back to pre- 67 boarders. Does that go for Jordon too?
    King Hussein of Jordan kicked the POL out and sent them to Lebanon because they were trouble makers. While in Lebanon they started a war and destroyed it,so they kicked them out.
    Now they want Lsrael to take them?
    The Palestinians are descentance of the philistines of the Bible.
    No one has been able to live as neighbors with them next door.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 11:17pm

      By killing leftists all that remained for alot of oppressed arabs was religious fundamentalism though their terrorists attacks were about our policies toward them,not because we ‘re not muslims.They believed their attacks were justified because we started with them by our policies of propping up dictators, military bases, support of expansionist israel, first gulf war [where previosly we supported saddam even after he killed his own people because he was against iran only to then get indignant about it when we wanted a new military base there and to therefore invade and topple him]And we freely gave russia half of europe to tyranize for 60 years to reward them for defeating the nazi’s.Nasser was a leftist who did alot to help his people but of course we subverted that like we do whenever it is against our interests [no right to choose your own government for anyone but us].We paved the way for “terrorism” as the israeli have .Hopefully the arab spring will result in democracy and soveirnty for arabs in their homelands .We intruded there and started these wars by doing so unjustly [brutal dictators and before that colonization and artificial western imposed borders and priveleging christians over muslims in these western created countries[borders].and of course blind unjust one sided support of israel.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:55am

      @Rose-Ellen You’re such a kidder! You obviously have not read very much of the Koran or the Haddith. You have such an underdeveloped understanding of what islam is and who their prophet was. Islam sets Muhammad up as the ideal man — every muslim is to live a life of emulation of their prophet. I suggest you go to any number of web sites abt islam or even read the historical portion of Yusef Ali’s English translation of the Koran to better understand the inherent bloodthirstiness of islam.

      Every Jewish mom would love for her son to be like Moses, Jesus is the ideal man whom Christian are to emulate. HUGE difference between these, don’t ya think?!

      Muslims justify their attacks on Jews and Christians because we don’t convert to their religion. THey attack one another over disputes like honoring their Shia saints.

      Israel was not expansionist until it was attacked. It pushed the 1948 borders then the 1967 borders to prevent further attacks on its civilians.

      I was in Gulf War I w/the US Marines. I’m a retired Navy Chaplain. Yes, that war was fought over oil. If you want to sit in the dark and suck your thumb, be my guest. I, for one, like my electricity and air conditioning.

      The Cold War‘s subjection of Eastern Europe was a failure to understand Stalin’s intents. After a long, bloody war that killed off 50 MILLION people worldwide, nobody wanted another one w/the Soviets. No excuses, just what happened.

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  • Elena2010
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:37pm

    Hello Helen Thomas aka Rose-Ellen

    Rose-Ellen, you are incorrect in some of your comments as well as being misled in your approach.

    You said that Arabs were displaced by Jews coming to Israel fm the Holocaust. Not so. Check your facts. Arabs sold property to Jews and left with the intent of having their cake and eating it, too. The plan was for the Jews to buy property then be killed off by Arab armies coming in fm Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and every other Arab nation. That way, the so-called displaced Arabs would reap a financial reward twice.

    Another point you are missing is that while Arabs left of their own accord, Sephardic Jews fm Arab countries did not. Rather, these Jews were thrown out by Arab gov’ts w/little more than the clothes on their backs. Their belongings and bank accounts were retained by Arab gov’ts that did the expulsions. There were more Jews displaced in this than Arabs who left Israel.

    As to oppression, Egyptian Yasser Arafat demanded Arab countries NOT allow Arabs fm Jewish lands be settled in any useful manner. Furthermore, he destroyed Lebanon and nearly destroyed Jordan and Tunisia. Wherever he went, he left trails of death and destruction due to his ideology of terrorism and desire for personal power.

    The Jews left fruitful greenhouses in Gaza which the Arabs promptly destroyed. So much for an economy. Jews and Israeli Arabs have freedom and the vote. Do Gazans? Egyptians? Who is the real oppressor?

    No- I’m not Jewish,

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:45pm

      (cont)

      I’m Christian.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 6:10pm

      When you sell property to people you don’t think that gives them the right to create a state on that property.Of course they the arabs believed if the Zionists did that they would fight them for doing that[creating a jewish state in their homeland].Yes once Jews and Arabs war warring, Sephardic Jews were thrown out.That is a result of the war between both groups[during ww2 we rounded up people who were part of the group that was our enemy]Arafat wanted a just settlement-67borders] for his people, not to scatter them elsewhere so we could then pretend they were never there and never displaced like the Zionists would like us to to do even now.Your slurs about“ terrorists” just exposes your belief that the a Jew from anywhere has the right to occupy land where an arab lives and if they fight back they are wrong.That is to believe in tyranny,the tyranny of the most powerful[israel ]over a people whose only way left to resist such tyrancy is “terrorism’.We supported and propped up murdering dictators who severd our interests [and that of israel's]. Leftists were murdered during the cold war by such american backed regimes who never cared about rights for arabs and tolerated such regimes for our benifit.Those greenhouses were using up the palestinians water supply .They were never starving before the state of israel and the israeli’s have upset the ecology which ararbs lived and thrived under prior to those greenhouses being created.The arabs lived in harmony with the lan

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 6:28pm

      @ Rose-Ellen
      Sorry but I define terrorism as an act designed to create fear and/or loathing in the victim of the act. I have been very specific in my use of the term which does not incl just any Arab. It incl only those who seek to drive the Jews out of their land. I am slurring no one.

      If you sell property or abandon it because the Arab armies tell you to, then you lose your rights to it.

      There are Arabs living in Israel, completely at peace there. These were the folks who decided not to believe that Arab armies would destroy the Jews in 1948 an onward.

      The Jewish state has offered 95% of what the Arabs wanted and still could find no peace w/the militant Islamists. Let’s face facts, Islam is the problem. Christian Arabs may hold a cultural dislike for Jews, but it’s not Christian Arabs creating the mayhem for EVERYONE living in the Levant.

      The problem is with Islam that seeks to dominate, destroy, or convert all others. The problem is that Islam believes that once a Muslim has ruled a land, it can never revert to other rule.

      The problem is textbook, Koranic Islam.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 6:35pm

      @ Rose-Ellen

      As to leftists murdered by regimes our country backed — no apologies. Murder is wrong regardless of who commits it.

      I was a child when the Cold War ramped up. I recall vividly duck & cover drills. My schools were CD shelters. The threat fm the USSR was REAL, regardless of what they say now. I can understand, while not condoning, killing to keep communists out of power in allied countries. To think otherwise is simplistic and not grounded in the history of the day.

      Rather than risk all out nuclear war, both the USA and USSR fought a series of proxy wars and jockeyed for position in the realm of diplomacy. If you’d bother to check, you will find that more people were murdered by leftists than were murdered by our proxies. Witness millions murdered in China, Indochina, Cuba, to name a few. Chunks of Africa were also subjected to mass murder as a result of the USSR’s tinkering.

      Gamal Nasser was a puppet of the Soviets. It’s not as if he did his people any favors…he barred any Arab coming fm the Levant into Egypt. He trapped those civilians in Gaza into starvation that Israel relieved.

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  • miri55
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:36pm

    how is a great time to send to gaza “peace now” and the resat of leftists rats….and arabs from judea and samaria…relocation. oh…Israel can stop sending them goods,water,electricity,medical etc…let egypt provide them now.

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  • usnconstitution
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:35pm

    my fellow Americans, the clock is ticking. I pray we make it to 8/24. It does not look good for Israel. Dont worry…the BIG GUY upstairs said HE will protect them….but so should we. We must Stand against the hate….PEACE. GEN 12:3

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  • miri55
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:33pm

    on which floor they will sale weapons and rackets?

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  • 68Truthseeker
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:28pm

    Full interview
    Jerome Corsi To File Criminal Charges Over Obama Birth Certificate. 5/24/11

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmmqaXn6S90

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:40pm

      Oh, give it a rest. We are stuck w/this man until we vote him out in 2012. Focus your energies there.

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  • ED4237
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:21pm

    Let them mopen that up and the Israeli’s need to then push all the nuts into Egypt and take back their land and then close that border down permanetly.

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    • dizzyinthedark
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:46pm

      Seriously, I think Israel should start thinking about getting into the parking lot business and build a nice big parking lot to her N, NE, E, SE & S, yeah that’s the ticket!

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    • Non-sequitur
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:58pm

      Yes, the Israelis need more Lebensraum, don’t they?

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 1:52am

      @Non-sequitur — what they have is sufficient. They have already given up Gaza and the Sinai peninsula. Would you have them driven into the sea to suit the militants?

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  • BOMUSTGO
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:18pm

    We alreay know which side our fake Bumbling idiot Socialist/liberal leader is on.There is a book out where every time that an American President speaks ill against Israel, some sort of disaster hits our Country.Look what Obama said last week and see what happened to us this week.9-1-1 and the Columbia shuttle accident,Katrina, were such events after something bad was said about Israel.

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  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:15pm

    How about LOCKED? Who says “food insecure” or “vulnerable to food insecurity?”
    The same kind of person who would say someone is weight-challenged?

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    • Non-sequitur
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:56pm

      Maybe he uses these terms because the studies he refers to use these terms?

      Would “often starving” and “close to starvation” be more to your gusto?

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  • thegoldman
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:12pm

    I see in my crystal ball that Egypt will be in a world of hurt in the near future…

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    • vennoye
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:44pm

      Yeah, just two words…………….Isaiah 19:

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  • Jarhead John
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:05pm

    it’s official, the palestinians AND egypt are now at war with Israel now will this be reported as such, or will Israel still be refereed to as the imperialists? i ask rhetorically, of course.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 6:29pm

      They came and killed Jews when the Jews decided [and the europeans who believed they had the authority] to create a Jewish state.Had they lived there but not created a jewish state there would not be disputed land and no war.Ancient history is irlelevant here ,what is relevant is they came from elsewhere[europe] and set up a state where previously the people living there were now not part of that state[whether forced out or gambling they would later return or whatever is irrelevant] a state that is for jews but has displaced native peoples has violated their rights [to be allowed to live in one’s native land and not be ethnically cleansed-jto be told that since you sold your house to a european Jew you can no longer live where those jews live is ethnic cleansing pure and simople and they are fighting for the right to not be ethnically cleansed.That they now concede to 67borders and a seperate palestinian state is a great compromise on the part of those displaced arabs and only genocidal racists object to it.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 9:18pm

      @ Rose-Ellen — It is precisely the ancient history that fuels this feud! It began with Abraham and two sons. It makes a really good case for monogamy (**snicker**). As much as Abraham loved God, he tried to compromise on a promise using Hagar. God responded by giving Isaac to Abraham and Sarah. Furthermore, God made the promise of the Land to Isaac’s descendents.

      Nevertheless, God DID respond with love for Ishmael and made him a great nation, too. Ishmael was given Arabia and Isaac was given the Levant. Now Ishmael wants it all. How sad for both sons!

      Lesson — be satisfied with what the Lord gives and do not covet what does not belong to you.

      God is not mocked and will call Ishmael to account for his bad behavior toward Isaac, just as it happened before in Genesis when Ishmael’s wickedness to young Isaac got him removed fm the Promised Land.

      Is God unfair, Rose-Ellen? It sounds as if you are saying He is. You may wish to pray and reconsider.

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  • GetRealThinker
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:53pm

    Please remember that the Palestinians left the land on a bet, and they lost! They thought the Jews would loose the battle and they would be able to just come back and take over. So to bad, so sad!

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 5:14pm

      They“lost”.Like its a game?That they were there for hundreds or a thousand or more years is what is relevent, not how they left by hook or by crook after having been overrun by foreign occupiers.[settling there since the late 19th century ]either way that was then this is now, they have the right to believe and teach what they will about their and israel’s history[that it was ignoble ,unethical and a land grab followed by ethnic cleansing when the U.N.allowed such practices by european colonizer].The fact remains the arabs have been in conflict with that state preciely because it has harmed and ethnically cleansed those arabs living their .It is not a settled issue though biased americans [due to brainwahing by zionist propaganda] speak as if it is a settled issue.[comprable to u.s.and mexican borders say].This is dishonest and unjust and designed to whitewash history and validate racist israeli expansion and eventually genocide of arabs under occupation.-iif not all arabs.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 5:45pm

      @ Rose-Ellen — the Jews have been ethnically cleansed more than any other group on the planet. First it was the Babylonians who removed them. They came back. Then the Persians and Greeks invaded the land w/mixed results. Then there were turf wars betw Ptolemy and Seleucid kings w/the Jews caught powerless in the middle. Then came the Romans who barred the Jews fm Jerusalem and their homeland. Like the Cherokee in the mountains, some managed to hide and stay on their land. Then the crazy Arabs came and killed Jews and took over in the name of their god. Still the Jews persisted in the land. Their numbers were also increased in other lands to which they had been cast.

      Then Europeans ethnically cleansed them in what we call the Holocaust. Before that, it was pogroms on a fairly consistent basis. The Europeans wanted the Jews to return to their homeland in what we now call Israel. Those Jews who survived European ethnic cleansing decided it was better to be Palestinian Jews than to be dead in Europe. They bought property fm Arabs who were all too happy to sell.

      The Jews DISPLACED no one! Jerusalem has been a majority Jewish city since mid-1800s! Arabs left all on their own, betting they would be back when the Arab armies finished what the Nazis started.

      Truth is truth, not brainwashing. If anyone is brainwashed, it it you.

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    • Itchee Dryback
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 7:38pm

      rose-ellen
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 5:14pm

      They“lost”.Like its a game?That they were there for hundreds or a thousand or more years is what is relevent,
      ______________________________________________________

      …and the Jews were there for 3000.
      Let me guess…suddenly facts like that aren’t quite so important?

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 9:53pm

      God does not go back on His word but he did sent his Son because he loves all mankind-choseness gets expanded to include all humanity though historically he chose the Jews to first reveal Himself to. We are called to partake in the Kingdom of God on earth by building it [that is a spiritual dimension not a geopolitical one].And we can’t serve two masters.God and state are not one.You’re muddling geopolicitcs with religion.All non Jews are gentiles [from a Jewish perspective]and all humanity is grafted on that root [of jesse].From reading all these posts i’m starting to think maybe the rapture did happen the other day but there were so few worthy to be raptured nobody notices.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:36am

      @ Rose-Ellen. You are incorrect abt “choseness [sic] gets expanded to include all humanity though historically he chose the Jews to first reveal Himself to” The expansion is not based on being human, it’s based on faith in the Lordship of Jesus, the Jewish Messiah. The New Testament theology does not say universalism but rather universal acceptance based on our response to God’s act of grace.

      Geopolitics are a reality of a fallen world. We were separated one fm the other at Babel. We are called to do our part about reclaiming this world for Him. Nowhere did He go back on declaring the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as His Chosen People. He merely made a way for us gentiles to join ourselves to the Jews through faith in Jesus Christ.

      Only in the West is there a separation betw geopolitics and religion, and that only came thru Martin Luther and later the Enlightenment. The Middle Eastern world that you would change sees no such distinction. Islam is a geopolitical force. It demands your whole life conform to Sharia.

      Torah is not just a set of Laws. It’s a way of living life before God.

      The New Testament, which is firmly anchored in Torah’s core, is also a way of living life before God.

      Secular humanism is a way of living life w/o God, merely using the ethical guidelines of Torah and NT.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:44am

      @ rose-ellen

      You are being hypocritical on the point of geopolitics, history, religion, and Islam.

      If we are building a Kingdom of God on earth and everybody is at the banquet table now, what does it matter if the Jews keep the portion God gave them at the git-go? Why is it so important to you that the Arabs destroy the Jews and take what is not theirs?

      All have been invited to the Heavenly Banquet, but few bother to RSVP… Jesus asks that you RSVP, not just expect to show up and eat. Remember the parable He tells of the king who put on a banquet and the invited guests did not show up? Then he sent to the byways for new invitees. One came not dressed for the banquet. What happened to him?

      Bottom line: RSVP as directed by God. Show up at the right time in the right uniform of the day (as we’d say in the Navy). All is forgiven, and you can come Home, but you have to make the travel connections correctly. You cannot take the Cleveland to Detroit bus and hope to get to Boise.

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  • sacrificeforkids
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:50pm

    Do not under estimate Israel’s most powerful force…..Sincerely,,God

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    • momprayn
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:22pm

      For those interested, missed my other previous posts , here’s an alleged “prophetic word” (from God/Jesus) written by Wendy Alec, “Journal of the Unknown Prophet” in 1999 re Israel that I think a portion may have just came to pass w/Obama’s 5/19 speech fiasco:
      “I shall allow the thoughts and motives and intents of the nations and govn’ts to resurrect to the surface that you may be in no doubt as to who is your friend & who is your enemy….For even the govn’ts of the West and the Western Powers shall shift & sway & even those who you thought were solid allies to you shall ..shift allegiance…My Spirit has heard the conversations in the corridors of the White House…..whispered conversations of the bankers & the traders of oil and the armaments…For each is a betrayer..each one is full of treachery, each one looks to that which is expedient…even your named feew friends are your enemies..And I am grieved with a great grieving. (to be continued in next post)

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    • momprayn
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:24pm

      (continued)..”So it is now in this season that even your hidden enemies shall arise and yes, it shall seem as even on ONE DAY that the whole world has forsaken you (5/19/11 ?). But know this, O Israel; they may forsake you but I will never forsake you – they may desert you, but I, the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel will never forsake you…When the veil starts to be lifted from those who profess to be your friends, and your allies start to scatter…so in that moment you shall hear the sounds of war and the sounds of war shall increase. Yes, and in the twinkling of an eye, so shall they unite against you. And you shall say: “We are without help. We shall be driven into the sea.” But I tell you that in that day and in that hour you shall call upon My Name, and I Myself shall sovereignly scatter them. I shall winnow them & I shall make you a terror among the nations. And they shall shake bc of My sovereign hand upon you….And so shall Michael, mighty Prince of Israel, and his mighty angelic warriors join with you and a great victory shall occur. And then there shall be peace for a season until the time of the great end when all nations shall gather against you – from the East and West and the South and the North – at that battle called Armageddon.”

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 5:36pm

      God is NOT a nationalst[least of all a racist one] His Kingdom is not of this world and the old testament where God first chooses the Jews to reveal Himself to mankind becomes after jesus’ resurrection ,the God who redeems ALL mankind and hence all humanity becomes “Chosen” Our home is heaven and God loves us as individuals ,not as a people.And God calls us to be peace makers not genocidal bigots [against anyonewhether jews or muslims].And arabs[palestinians] are also Christians[decended from the time of Jesus].To turn the palestinian/israeli cionflict into a cosmic battle of good versus evil [where israel is good and arabs are evil], is a nazi tactic designed to simplify reality for people who want simple solutions to human confflicts[every mass murdering society has chosen this simplistic good versus evil platitute to justify their oppression,explotation ,mass murder, torture and genocide of others who impede their desire for conquest].You’re doing the same.God calls us to be spirtual and to equate religious nationalism and political borders with authentic spirituality is to have lost sight of what Jesus is about.I assure you Jesus does not want you to falsely claim that one group has the right to ethnically cleanse[by hook or by crook] another group but rather to recognize both parties in any dispute as being called to seek a just solution to the conflict.The 67 borders would and could be acceptable for justice and security for both parties.Only genocieists oppose it.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 6:45pm

      @ Rose-Ellen

      Nowhere does the New Testament say that God has gone back on the Jews being His Chosen People. Rather, Paul makes it quite clear that we gentiles are grafted into the Jewish people.

      Nowhere has anyone indicated that we are talking abt the Kingdom of God. In fact, if you want to go there, remember that Jesus says the Kingdom of God is here! It is the Body of Christ. Jesus says His Kingdom is not of this world to Pilate for a very specific reason. You are muddling the passages.

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  • harumph
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:26pm

    I wonder where Barry stands on the issue…. hmmm…
    Guess we need to pony up a little more to help build more sturdy roads into Egypt. Military equipment and munitions can get heavy, ya know.

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  • wordsworth
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:18pm

    Gaza was Egyptian “occupied land” before 1967.

    Rather than award land to a 3rd party, Israel should officially place it in the hands of Egypt, who they have a treaty wit. If Egypt doesn’t get Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood (same organization) in line to honor that treaty…well…….

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    • sdranger
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:34pm

      That would be a brilliant stroke. Either Egypt keeps the ground and the Palistinians are still occupied or they give it up to Hammas and they have their own country for the first time in world history. Back it up with another first time real disclosure; you attack us we nuke you. Yes that’s right the rumors are true so you either live in peace or die in a glass coffin.

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  • geonj
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:13pm

    with obama’s constant support of the palestinians it will only get worse for Isreal.

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    • starman70
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 6:23pm

      Here comes the Moslem Brotherhood.

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    • standupbcounted
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 7:39pm

      I agree. Obama hates Israel even worse than he hates the USA.. He said in one of this books that if push came to shove , he would side with his Muslim brothers. We are going to have to stand up and be real Americans. Things are only going to get worse.

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  • Oh, God!
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 2:56pm

    Found one! Rose-Ellen. Wow, that was fast.

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  • RADDAD
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 2:51pm

    Hamas won’t have to use tunnels now.They will just roll right down the street now.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:09pm

      I hope they do. Netanyahu will blast them to hell…oops, I mean introduce them to their 72 virgins.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:14pm

      @gonzo, you mean 72 virgin hams .right???

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    • IAMNOTKNOWING
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:45pm

      The 72 virgins that all look like Helen Thomas?! ;D

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    • BOMUSTGO
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:09pm

      This is why “Cluster Bombs” were invented!

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    • Non-sequitur
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:50pm

      “This is why “Cluster Bombs” were invented!”

      Also, this is why “Cluster Bombs” are considered illegal.

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    • crackerone
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 5:19pm

      72 little boy’s bums!

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 5:26pm

      Non-sequitur
      “Also, this is why “Cluster Bombs” are considered illegal.”

      Considered to be illegal by who? The U.N.? Another useless organization the U.S. needs to quit funding. I vote we move the U.N. building out of New York to a more suitable location for their idiotic mindset like the Gaza Strip.

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  • nothiefsallowed
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 2:50pm

    so weird how all the terrorists are banding together after years of killing each other and the POTUS just goes around trashing all of our friends…which side is POTUS on…things tha make ya go hmmmm

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 2:48pm

    This is going to get nasty………..Egypt is now against Israel and are playing with Hamas and it will not turn out well for all of the middle east…….Israel will be forced to kill millions just to survive.

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    • IAMNOTKNOWING
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:43pm

      Fact!

      Sad, but true.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:56pm

      It doesn’t matter the name given to where the palestinians livedprior to the state of israel being created ;what matters is that they lived there and were displaced because they were not jewish by jews from elsewhere[europe].That is racism and ethnic cleansing[by hook or by crook].Peace would come when American or European jews love THEIR children more then they love building settlements in others people’s homelands.That someone born and raised in the U.S would choose to do that speaks of hubris and hatred of the indigenous populationaand that hubris being stronger then love of their own children to rist their lives by living on occupied land.All arabs have said the 67 borders would be acceptable.That conflict have been ongoing since the U.N.[back when it was a white man's clud] gave that land to european [Jews].Might does not make right and the fact that israel “won” more land in67 did not end the conflict because it is disputed land.The israeli state itself is morally illigitimate so any agreement on the part of the arabs to the 67 borders is a concession by them Of course arabs have the right to believe that the creation of the state of israel is illigitimate because it’s creation harmed themand therefore it is unjust and to forever teach that.Israeli‘s want to control what people think about israel’s origin as well as the borders.They are tyranical ,not the arabs who are defending themselves from racist tyranical occupation yet have said israel with 67 borders

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    • BOMUSTGO
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:00pm

      In order for the peace treaty (Dan 9:27) to be made, there has to be a conflict first.This treaty will then kick off the last seven years, or the time known as “The Times of Jacobs troubles.”The treaty will be signed sometime in the fall on a Yom Kippur.Maybe this year, maybe not.Daniel chapter nine just tells how it all starts.With a false peace deal.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:09pm

      Hey Rose Ellen, Hate to break it to you but, as Netanyahu said “that’s not going to happen”.

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    • JustPeachy
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:47pm

      Rose-Ellen and how many other countries do you think should give back land? If Israel must, then certainl you must advocate that there are others that should do likewise. How about the US? Fair is fair, right? As you said, “Might doesn’t make right” so all over the world, countries will be needing to be giving land back to other people groups.

      Won’t this be fun????

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 5:08pm

      Rose-Ellen, Just where do you come up with this B.S? Jews were the ones displaced in the first place. Israel is their historic homeland. You seriously need to look into a little history. Israel only defends itself from Arab attacks. Matter of fact when Israel took the Sinai they could have kept it seeing that they were once enslaved by the Egyptians and were led back to their homeland of Israel. I can tell you have probably never been there but I can tell you first hand when you cross the border from Egypt to Israel you are going from a third world crap hole (Egypt) into a modern western country (Israel). Interacting with both cultures I found the Arabs to be lazy which is why they live in huts, and the Jewish people to be motivated to get ahead in life. That is why the Arabs hate the Jews because like liberals in America Arabs want something nice but are unwilling to work for it.

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    • In a Bunker
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 5:48pm

      Rose-Ellen, yeah sure, that‘s your name and mine’s Jane Doe. So Rose, hows the weather in Syria today?

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  • rose-ellen
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 2:48pm

    It’s about time the Egyptians show solidarity with the oppressed occupied palestinians.The israeli’s should go back to the 67borders and then there would be true peace.Only racist expantionist zionists and their american brainwahed Fox lackeys who want genocide of arabs are opposed to a return to 67borders.Hamas and all arab nations have called for it for years.Kudos for the egyptians [now free of american backed dictatorship] for doing what is right.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 2:57pm

      @rose-ellen — Surely you jest! There is no Arab genocide unless it’s Arab on Arab violence.

      As to the Arabs calling themselves Palestinians, they belonged to Egypt before 1948, maybe they should go back to Egypt now.

      Peace will come when Arabs stop shelling Jewish civilians and kidnapping Jewish soldiers. Peace will come when (as Golda said) Arab mothers love their children more than they hate Jews!

      What I’d like to know is why Arabs cannot be happy with the lands of oil and gas, but they also demand the land of milk and honey. It’s positively irrational! They hate to hate…what a terrible way to live.

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    • Oh, God!
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 2:59pm

      Hey, I know, you can go over there and help them since you feel so strongly about it. One less troll/progressive on this site.

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    • Petrol
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:00pm

      Really? moving back to the pre ‘67 borders would bring lasting peace… Really”
      and you have what… the islamic militants ‘word’ on it? LOL

      such naivety

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:05pm

      You have a very inverted view of right and wrong. People like you usually end up in prison. How do you look in stripes?

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    • f2345ranky
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:07pm

      Read history and quit drinking the Kool-aid. The Israelis were attacked at two fronts and won what’s called the Six Day War in 1967. These territories belong to Israel.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:12pm

      @rose, you are be called back to you crazy house, you past time for your communist,anti America,Israel hating, new world order, medicine, so go now, and nighty night.

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    • Rickfromillinois
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:21pm

      When Israel was at the pre-67 borders before the 67 war they were attacked. The borders changed because they were attacked. So by what logic can anyone say that if they moved back to the 67 borders there would be peace? The Palestinians refuse to admit that Israel has a right to exist. Their chief “spiritual leaders” said last week that “Allah permitted Israel to come into being so that all of the Jews would be concentrated in one place making it easier to wipe all of them off of the face of the earth. Those who don’t come to Israel will be the next objective. Wipe them off the face of the Earth”. Yeah, make peace with this people. The same ones who were dancing in the streets after 9-11 and the same ones who danced in the streets and passed out candy and sweets upon the news of the murder of a Jewish family, including a 6 month old baby who had it’s throat cut. Yeah, make peace with these people, just give them whatever they want. That always works out when dealing with barbaric animals.

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    • JoeBtfsplk
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:46pm

      roseellen – wouldn‘t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it! You take the cake!

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    • BOMUSTGO
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:53pm

      You will just have to excuse Rose-Ellen, she just had her meds changed and she is in a daze.She needs to read the good BOOK and see what the ALMIGHTY (not talking about Obumbler either) has to say about the land of Israel and who he gave it to.

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    • christos
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:23pm

      ……@ROSE-ELLEN Watch,your petals are dry,and they are blowing in the wind,just as your word’s,lacking wisdom of the living +GOD+JESUS+ the King James Bible says you are cursed,ROSE-ELLEN for you have spoken against +GOD’S+ chosen people,the JEWS,Watch it manifest in your life,your word’s ROSE-ELLEN,Watch,the petals have left only a stem for a tale,Watch ROSE-ELLEN.Watch……

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    • JustPeachy
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:33pm

      It amazes me how you and others believe the propagandist lies put out by the liberal media, liberal politicians, and those who would just as soon see us all dead. You’re on Team Obama on this one. You realize that–right?

      Sorry, but. . . I STAND WITH ISRAEL and will until the day I die!

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    • crackerone
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:34pm

      @ Gonzo

      You asked how she would in stripes? Rose-Ellen aka as Elizabeth Ann Rogers, spent two days in a Clearwater jail, after her outburst in the Casey Anthony case.

      Not much to look at, but she did look good in stripes!

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    • In a Bunker
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 5:37pm

      Rose-Ellen, what are you smoking? Are you on crack?

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    • Dean Lester
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 6:05pm

      Let me give you some cold hard facts…
      1. The Palestinians did not own the land in Palestine. The land was owned by rich Turks and the Ottoman Government for over 400 years.
      2. The Ottoman Empire got their butts kicked in WWI.
      3. The British were given that land in a Mandate from the League of Nations after WWI.
      4. TO THE VICTOR GOES THE SPOILS!!! (It simply means the person that wins gets the stuff.)
      5. The British did what they wanted with THEIR LAND!!!
      6. The Israelis accepted the land given to them by the UN and declared statehood.
      7. The ARABS refused to accept their piece of land that was given to them by the UN (Bad decision). Instead, they decided to drive the Jews into the sea and kill them all. The NAZI SS General, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was their leader.
      8. Five different ARAB nations attacked Israel at once and they got their butts kicked!
      9. The ARABs got their butts kicked again in 1967.
      10. TO THE VICTOR GOES THE SPOILS!!! (It simply means the person that wins gets the stuff.)
      11. There are hundreds of civilizations that no longer exist because of bad decisions and losing wars. Here are a few examples. (The Roman Empire, The Ottoman Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bengal, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Tibet, Rhodesia, The Persian Empire, East Pakistan, etc.)
      GET THE PICTURE?
      12. There is an ARAB state in Palestine and it is called Jordan.

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    • yosemitefan
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 7:57pm

      @Dean

      I agree 100% – The loving Palestinians who were run out of Jordan by King Hussein when Arafat was the bomber in charge killing Jordanians by the hundreds.

      As Herman Cain said on foxnews sunday – give the palestinians nothing until they demonstrate their willingness to live in peace.

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    • chips1
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 8:02pm

      DEAN LESTER:
      You forgot to mention which war we lost California.

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    • fatjack
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 8:18pm

      rose-ellen
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 2:48pm

      It’s about time the Egyptians show solidarity with the oppressed occupied palestinians.The israeli’s should go back to the 67borders and then there would be true peace.Only racist
      —————————————————————————————————————

      Please note I stopped reading when you threw in the racist word.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 3:17am

      @Rose-Ellen

      How do you figure caving in to the demands of people (and I use the term loosely) who have repeatedly stated their fondest wish is to annhilate every Jew on the planet is a ‘humnaitarian act’? And why would Israel want to give them territory that will make it impossible to defend themselves against these nuts? As for the poor starving Palastinians, if they are really so weak from hunger as the media portrays them, where do they find the strength and energy to dance wildly in the streets every time one of their subhuman kind kills another American?

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  • Locked
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 2:46pm

    Well, this should be interesting. While the supply route will help Palestinians starving to death or lacking medical supplies, it will also open up a way for Hamas terrorists to get weapons to piss of Israel even more. It’ll likely lead to more military strikes.

    Better idea would have been to wait for Obama’s “peace process” to make ending the blockade a condition. Then we could insult him when it fails!

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:01pm

      @ Locked — Gazans are not starving nor do they lack medical supplies. Their stores have food on the shelves. They are not living in tents in the dirt, as our military has done while in the field.

      What Gazans lack is freedom. What Gazans lack is a gov’t that is devoted to their well being. What Gazans lack are meaningful jobs that employs their minds and bodies. What they have is a gov’t devoted to the total destruction of a neighbor who would happily leave them alone. What they have is an irrational hatred of Jews.

      Pity Gaza for lacking love not for lacking food.

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    • Locked
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:30pm

      @Elena

      Over three quarters of Gaza’s population is food insecure or vulnerable to food insecurity, relying heavily on aid subsidies, according to a report by the World Food Programme and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), published in November last year. The report said the population of Gaza was being sustained at “the most basic or minimum humanitarian standard.

      Rising unemployment and poverty – 42 percent of Gaza’’s workforce was unemployed in the first quarter of 2009 and 70 percent of the families were living on an income of less than one dollar a day per person in May 2008, according to OCHA

      Gaza’s population experiences rolling blackouts of up to 12 hours every day. Gaza’s sole power plant, the Gaza Power Plant, is able to produce only half the electricity that it did prior to January 2010, due to a lack of funds to buy the industrial fuel needed to run the plant.

      There are often shortages of key supplies and drugs. Delays of up to three months occur on imports of certain types of medical equipment, such as Xâ€ray machines and electronic devices. Clinical staff frequently lack the medical equipment they need while medical devices are often broken, missing spare parts or out of date, the WHO added.

      It seems to me that there are key shortages and problems stemming directly to the blockade and Israeli military incursions over the past few years. If it’s changed since Nov. 2010, please let me know; these figures might be dated.

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    • Mgindi26
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:57pm

      @ Locked
      Biggest Palestinian shopping mall being built in Gaza
      By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
      05/24/2011 04:42
      JPost.comMiddle East
      Photo by: ISAFA/Courtesy Biggest Palestinian shopping mall being built in Gaza
      By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
      05/24/2011 04:42
      Three-story retail complex near Gaza City will be first of its kind in Palestinian territories; set to open in mid-June.
      The biggest Palestinian shopping mall is scheduled to open in the Gaza Strip in mid-June.
      This will be the second shopping mall to open in the Gaza Strip in a year. Last July, Palestinians opened a two-story mall that includes a supermarket, international clothing stores, a food court, beauty products, a children’s playground and a restaurant.
      The modern three-story complex is the first of its kind in the Palestinian territories, said Ehab al-Issawi, executive director of the Al-Hayat Tureed Company that owns the mall.
      He said that the 3,000 squaremeter shopping mall is located near the Haidar Abdel Shafi Square west of Gaza City.
      Issawi told the Palestinian news agency Safa that construction work at the new mall was almost complete. He said that Palestinian engineers and architects have been working on the project since August last year.Issawi added that despite the shortage of building materials caused by the blockade on the Gaza Strip, the work at the site continued without disruption
      Issawi explained that the first floor would house a huge supermarket that would consist of various depart

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:26pm

      @Mgindi26 Thank you for even more factual material to make the point.

      @Locked — it’s the policy of the Hamas Kapos to keep things stirred and looking bad for Israel. They want the world to think of the Jews as evil, bad, and nasty all the while it is Hamas that is evil, bad, and nasty.

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    • Non-sequitur
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 4:49pm

      “They want the world to think of the Jews as evil, bad, and nasty all the while it is Hamas that is evil, bad, and nasty.”

      Sorry dude, Israel bombs civilians with white phosphorous and collectively punishes a whole population for the deeds of a few radicals. Both sides are to blame here.

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    • vennoye
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 7:11pm

      @Locked
      Here are pictures of the starving Pals that you hear so much about!!

      http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001127.html

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 9:30pm

      And so it begins….

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on May 25, 2011 at 2:45pm

    Remember when the Hamas had broken down the barrier and had its people spend conterfeit money on the Egyptian side. Now they’re one big happy Islamic fundamentalist family.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 2:52pm

      I wonder how long it will be until Hamas or another band of extremists decide the Egyptians are too tempting of a target and want their own regime change to occur – as you posted, they already have done the counterfeit ring with Egyptian money, so why not go for the whole prize and take the nation as well?

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 2:59pm

      I‘d expect nothing less from Rashid Khalidi ’s policies

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    • Sinista MACE
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:02pm

      The TSA isn’t going to withhold their blockade of Texas Air Traffic.

      Texans unanimously voted to make TSA groping a felony, and the Feds threatened them, and they stood down.

      If you live in Texas, go to your statehouse now and demand the Feds stand down to States rights.

      Who cares what’s ahppening overseas, our rights are under attack right here.

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:02pm

      Emboldened no doubt by Obama and American Taxpayer money …

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    • IAMNOTKNOWING
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:20pm

      “Danger, Will Robinson!!!!!!”

      Who needs tunnels when the new “Leaders/People in power” in Egypt open borders/stop preventing the extreme radical factions from smuggling weapons and rockets into Gaza.

      Any doubt why it was a mistake to lean on Ariel Sharon and force him to give Gaza to Arafat and the Fatah (who just joined with Hamas, who was created by the Muslim Brotherhood?!!)

      Unbelieveable!

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    • RayOne
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:21pm

      This is all pre-game to the port party.
      It is still about weapons.

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    • Mgindi26
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:51pm

      @ Locked
      Please read below.
      Biggest Palestinian shopping mall being built in Gaza
      By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
      05/24/2011 04:42
      Three-story retail complex near Gaza City will be first of its kind in Palestinian territories; set to open in mid-June.
      The biggest Palestinian shopping mall is scheduled to open in the Gaza Strip in mid-June.
      This will be the second shopping mall to open in the Gaza Strip in a year. Last July, Palestinians opened a two-story mall that includes a supermarket, international clothing stores, a food court, beauty products, a children’s playground and a restaurant.
      The modern three-story complex is the first of its kind in the Palestinian territories, said Ehab al-Issawi, executive director of the Al-Hayat Tureed Company that owns the mall.
      He said that the 3,000 squaremeter shopping mall is located near the Haidar Abdel Shafi Square west of Gaza City.
      Issawi told the Palestinian news agency Safa that construction work at the new mall was almost complete. He said that Palestinian engineers and architects have been working on the project since August last year.
      Issawi added that despite the shortage of building materials caused by the blockade on the Gaza Strip, the work at the site continued without disruption.
      Issawi explained that the first floor would house a huge supermarket that would consist of various departments offering food and household items as well as stationary.
      The second floor would have many clothes and gift shops, while t

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 6:45pm

      This opening of the boarder is not going to be popular with the Egyptian officials that where counting on the bribes they were getting to keep the tunnels safe.

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    • GODSAMERICA
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 7:43pm

      Well since they have that way open then my recommendation to Israel is to CLOSE ALL OTHER WAYS INTO GAZA.

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    • D0ntTread0nMe
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 9:22pm

      It looks like 5minutes before the showdown at the ok corral. I have this bad feeling that this isn’t gonna end well…
      http://www.mythoughtsfromthemiddle.blogspot.com

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    • Down2TheC
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 11:54pm

      Start at the Northern border and shove them all into Egypt. Problem solved. Let Egypt have them all. There’s no such thing as a “Palestinian” anyway.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:23am

      @Sinista MACE — I live in Texas and have heard nothing of which you speak. Cite your source that TSA is doing anything abt Texas air travel, pls.

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    • jackrorabbit
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:44am

      The birth pangs are coming closer and closer.

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    • militiaman
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 1:43pm

      Sinista MACE
      Posted on May 25, 2011 at 3:02pm
      “If you live in Texas, go to your statehouse now and demand the Feds stand down to States rights.”

      Yes, and while you’re there stop by and see Sinista Mace in the slammer.

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 2:23pm

      and the caliphate glenn spoke of continues to form of course with help from obama the trator and his treasonous regime.

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    • militiaman
      Posted on May 27, 2011 at 2:06pm

      While I’m an Israeli supporter….it‘s the US’s only true friend in the Middle East…..I think the suffering of the Palestinian people has to end. Closing off the Gaza crossing cut the people off there from much needed supplies of medicine and food. While the tactic might be justified in all-out war, it’s just too harsh short of that.

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