Comments on: Palestinian prisoners in Zionist jails

By: MohammadKF

MohammadKF — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:25:12 +0000

Its interesting that none of them addressed any of the points in the article either. But ditto what Arayus said, I long decided it wasn't worth it. Do you do any writing yourself by the way?

By: Sean2009

Sean2009 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:45:35 +0000

Like you've ever read Counterpunch. But this is your standard rebuttal to every post: "that's just a propaganda site!" For the record Counterpunch is regarded as one of the premier websites of the genuine Left in this country. It's one of the best sources for people who want non corporate-filtered news and opinions.

By: Sean2009

Sean2009 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:41:53 +0000

Thanks. Every now and then I get a wild hair up my ass and decide to respond to the cut-and-paste hasbara here. I do think its should always be challenged and refuted for the nonsense it is, but it does get tiresome.

By: Sean2009

Sean2009 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:39:32 +0000

She didn't punch a cop. That cop grabbed her forceably by the arm when she was rushing past the medical detectors as congresspeople routinely do. She turned around and instinctively poked him in the chest with her cellphone. It's interesting that you see someone getting manhandled by a cop and responding by poking him in the chest as an act of violent assault, but are perfectly comfortable with a cop tazering a 14-year-old girl in the head for misbehaving.

And you call Cynthia McKinney nuts.

Cynthia McKinney is one of the few politicians in recent memory who has demonstrated she has the guts and integrity to put her career and her very life on the line for what she believes is right. If that is crazy, then that is the kind of craziness we need right now.

By: Arayus

Arayus — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:45:13 +0000

I have no idea how you still have the will to respond to these trolls Sean.

But good job nonetheless.

By: eagle007blogger

eagle007blogger — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:54:43 +0000

Civil War in Mandatory Palestine began on November, 30, 1947.

The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948.

The killings were condemned by the leadership of the Haganah, the Jewish community's main paramilitary force, and by the area's two chief rabbis. The Jewish Agency for Israel sent King Abdullah of Jordan a letter of apology, which he rebuffed.

In the months leading up to the end of British rule, in a phase of the civil war known as "The Battle of [the] Roads,"[7] the Arab League-sponsored Arab Liberation Army (ALA)—composed of Palestinians and other Arabs—attacked Jewish traffic on major roads in an effort to isolate the Jewish communities from each other. The ALA managed to seize several strategic vantage points along the highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—Jerusalem's sole supply route and link to the western side of the city where 16% of all Jews in Palestine lived—and began firing on convoys traveling to the city. By March 1948, the road was cut off and Jerusalem was under siege.

In response, the Haganah launched Operation Nachshon to break the siege. On April 6, in an effort to secure strategic positions, the Haganah and its strike force, the Palmach, attacked al-Qastal, a village two kilometers north of Deir Yassin overlooking the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway.[8] On April 9, Irgun and Lehi forces attacked nearby Deir Yassin.

MORE HERE

By: eagle007blogger

eagle007blogger — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:39:46 +0000

Sean just do yourself a favor and read these two items: 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine 1948 Arab–Israeli War Interesting and informative.

By: eagle007blogger

eagle007blogger — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:23:53 +0000

You are going to have to sort through history and propaganda for yourself. That "palestine remembered" site is really bad, offering ideology and interpretations and faulty labeling. It is obviously a site to explain history from one ideological perspective, it is rife with propaganda and false assumptions, and reinforces the misconceptions people have. I'm not saying its all wrong, but some of it is.

I suggest using neutral sites, I've found Wikipedia to actually be pretty good.

Funny that your propaganda site is quoting Benny Morris. when it suits them, because he is generally hated by your kind for telling the inconvenient truth.

By: eagle007blogger

eagle007blogger — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:14:30 +0000

And if the Nazis had really planned to systematically exterminate the Jews

NEWSFLASH: The Nazis really were systematically exterminating Jews. Are you a Holocaust-denier also? This is a well documented historical event, it is not made up, the Nazis really planned and carried out systematic extermination of millions of Jews.

There is nothing even similar to "arguments of Nazi apologists" in the factual analysis I have provided you.

And there are no denials that the Palestinians experienced a catastrophe, which they call the Nakba. As usual, you twist the truth.

By: eagle007blogger

eagle007blogger — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:05:41 +0000

Sean, I wouldn't rely too much on COUNTERPUNCH. Their purposes are political and ideological, not informational.