SeekingAllah'sMercy: What "genocide" has Israel committed against anyone, let alone Muslims? "Genocide" is defined as the act of exterminating- or attempting to exterminate- an entire class of people, whether by race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or creed. 2 out of every 10 Israelis is a Muslim. Obviously you are wrong. The problem is this: Arab leaders use Israel as a scapegoat to deflect attention and energy away from their own genocidal policies and actions. Syria? How many Muslims here are expressing anger over the Assad butchering of tens of thousands of Muslims AS WE SPEAK? Egypt? Mubarak existed fpor 3 decades torturing his own population solely out of greed? Yet here you are, focusing on this issue while ignoring ALL those.
It is propaganda meant to fool the Arab and Muslim masses for the benefit of the Arab leadership. Of course it is difficult to recognise within the Arab and Muslim Worlds because it has been spoonfed since birth. Take your nation for example, Pakistan. In 1971 3 million Pakistani Muslims were butchered by the Bangladeshi. Instead of worrying about THAT, or Jammu-u-Kashmir, or Baluchistan, Waziristan, and a dozen other cases of genocide within your own borders you are focused outwardly on tiny Israel, a nation you know practically nothing about.
You imagine Israel as a 100% Jewish nation bent on destroying Islam and Muslims and yet until today you didn't even know that 20% of us are Muslim! This is because you have been manipulated by your government and your media. Israel is firmly allied with several Muslim nations, something else you never hear about. So please, if you insist on discussing "Israeli genocide," do so factually. Make a specific accusation and I will be glad to discuss it.
"Islam teaches respect of Jews.": Ameen, Ameen.
"If the Hebron Massacre was really true.": Google is not an entity, it is a search engine. By examining each source based upon its own merits one can certainly determine veracity. I encourage you to research the issue, as well as my family history. 67 of us were hacked to death that day, but as I said it was but 1 of 11 towns that were attacked. Such violence has taken place often, sorry to say, so there is indeed a lot that has been kept from you.
"Your land, your land...": Perhaps the English is keeping you from fully understanding. Islam permits both private land ownership AS WELL AS nationalism. Of course it is the Creator's land but as his vessels we humans are custodians of it under his Will and Dictate. You are Pakistani. Do you have an ancestral village? Do you refer to it as, "my village"? That is equivalent.
"What is it that makes it mine?": 3,400 years of continous Jewish existence, a soil literally composed of the bones of my ancestors, etc.
"Christians will say it is their land because Jesus was born and died there.": You are confusing spiritual attachment with nationalism. Israel has never denied the land's sanctity to both Christians AND Muslims. Both are allowed to pray freely and receive full government protection. al Waqf controls al Masjid al Akhsa and Masjid 'Umar, as well as all other Islamic sites.
"Blockading and depriving of the most basic rights.": You will not know but at the height of the Gazan Blockade there was a water park, golf course, 5 Star hotel, Michelin rated cafes and bistros, equestrian club, amusement parks and markets were always well stocked with basic items. The only thing denied was luxury and non-essential goods and THAT was obtained through dozens of tunnels. I should post my photos of Gaza. You say that you don't trust Google and yet form these opinions from spurious sources.
"White Phosphorus isn't legal.": It is 100% legal.
"White Phosphorous hurts.": Indeed it does. Gazans should stop bombing Israeli babies and no Israeli will ever have to waste their time and risk their life in Gaza. After all, we abandoned it 6 years ago.
"Is it OK to use White Phosphorous for Smoke in such a heavily populated area?": Would you rather we take F16s and drop 1 tonne bombs on apartment buildings? Because THAT would be the alternative. By using Smoke HAMAS cannot see us and attack us. If we didn't use Smoke we would have to clear the neighbourhoods we enter and there is only one way in which to do that. Can you understand that armed conflict isn't nice? Hard decisions must be made and made unemotionally. The human cost must be weighed. To do nothing and enter Gaza would mean certain death for most Israeli soldiers. Therefore steps must be taken to protect the soldiers as they neutralise sepcific threats by HAMAS. Before Smoke is used a neighbourhood is blanketed with warnings by 3 means:
1) Media
2) Automated Phone Calls by banks of computers
3) Leaflets dropped by air
IF residents remain they should remain indoors. If they do not, you have to let them assume the cost. It is much better for them than dropping 2000 pound bombs on their heads. Surely any rational person can see why.
"Jewish occupation of Palestine.": There has NEVER been a nation called "Palestine." Nor has there EVER been a single Arab OR Muslim nation on that land. It has only ever held Jewish nations or else existed as a neglected backwater province of some vast foreign empire. What "occupation" do you imagine to have taken place?