Poll: Was Israeli air attack justified on (...) camp in Syria? Beat Freep!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

http://www.globeandmail.com

You'll find poll in the upper-right corner of the home page.

The freepers are on to it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/996176/posts

[Taxi Driver]

1. Are DUers against the attack?

I'm sort of neutral on the Israeli issues.

[secretshopper]

10. Israeli issues underscore ALL mideast issues

The ongoing violence against the Palestinians fuels the feeling that the Arabs, specifically the Palestinians, can't get a fair shake. Thus, to the extent that the U.S. is viewed as the financial and moral support for Israeli policies against civilians, we are viewed in the same light.

If we want to have peace in the mideast, ending the forced removal of people from the already squalid refugee camps will help. If we want to end the killing of Israeli (and American) targets, creating a real state, with real government will help. The Palestinian Authority "rules" without benefit of telephones, computers, reliable electricity, health care, etc. over a discontiguous set of pockets of people, all surrounded by Israeli checkpoints. Think Hawaii, except the ocean occasionally comes onshore and steals your computers to look for terrorists.

And before any apologists try to say "But the Israeli army had to do that to find terrorists..." ask why the destruction includes
o "computers, printers, Xerox copiers smashed. Papers burnt; documents destroyed; main safe blasted; those offices inspected in total disarray: papers strewn across floors; furniture broken; graffiti on walls" That's not looking for terrorists, it's willful destruction of the PA.
o "2 safes, containing vital documents detonated." How will that help you find anyone?
o "Half archeological artifacts, relocated from Tulkaram for safety, were destroyed;"

http://www.occupationalhazard.org/article.php?IDD=320

To then say that the PA doesn't do enough to curb terror makes you wonder, how could they? And if the Israeli Army is the model, unless they destroyed their own computers, what would the PA have to do?
See also http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/role/globdem/globgov/2002/0409wb.htm

Arab-Israeli conflict powers much of the anti-US hatred, not "our (disappearing) freedoms."

[fla nocount]

11. Great post. Welcome to DU.

Watch it though. Too much of that measured and reasoned opinion will get this post and your august self teleported to IP/NS where I can't follow for fear of being vaporized........happens everytime.

[TeeYiYi]

2. ...

TYY :thumbsup:

[Tinoire]

3. 71% No 21% Yes Morality is winning, thank God.

[nickine9]

4. as a brit i just had to vote in the poll...

When i went to the freep site (i assume they are not nice people) and saw that someone thought the globe and mail was a british newspaper and started being rude about us. I also dont like the way they subtly altered the poll title. Syrian soil vs Islamic Jihad training base.

Just discovered your site and think it is great keep up the good work.

and i voted NO which i would have done anyway.

[TNOE]

8. Done

and yes Welcome to DU nickine 9 :hi:

Amazingly No's are winning so far. Do you ever catch The Washington Journal in Britan? I love with the Brit's call in as they always know what the hell they are talking about and make really great points. So good to have you here - and yes - tell all your friends!

[newyawker99]

13. Hi nickine9!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[nickine9]

5. as a Brit i had to vote in the poll...

When i went to the freep site (i assume they are not nice people) and saw that someone thought the globe and mail was a british newspaper and started being rude about us. I also dont like the way they subtly altered the poll title. Syrian soil vs Islamic Jihad training base.

Just discovered your site and think it is great keep up the good work.

and i voted NO which i would have done anyway.

[karlschneider]

6. Hi there nickine9 welcome to DU. Tell your friends too.

:D

[Javneh]

7. 70/30 but still overwhelmingly no n/t

[fla nocount]

9. 70% no with almost 20,000 voting.......WOW. n/t

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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. So the freeping netted 1% for Yes

Wheeee. NOT! :evilgrin: