Comments on: Reactions to Obama’s first televised interview on Al-Arabiya

By: LonnieH

LonnieH — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:33:59 +0000

obamastolemyboyfriend you are so right. I am getting sick and tired of us not being able to use the “M” word with Hussein, but he uses it HIMSELF when it fits his hidden agenda. He used the black thing to get votes, now he’s using his “international man of mystery” BS to put us in a horrible place with terrorist who want to blow us off the planet. This is the most ridiculous nonsense. Obama. ROFLMAO. President my ass.

By: pjs, stillwater mn

pjs, stillwater mn — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:20:57 +0000

What makes you think Obama’s brand of diplomacy with “”just words” without action”?

By: House Name

House Name — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:29:42 +0000

Did you mean “re-sod” grass at the “Black House”?

By: I Agree

I Agree — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:25:46 +0000

THANK YOU….

By: I Agree

I Agree — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:23:54 +0000

I TOTALLY AGREE……THANK YOU.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:56:43 +0000

I view Ed Morrissey’s essay at Hot Air as right on. He points out some key facts some find more convenient to ignore….

By: barb

barb — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:28:54 +0000

I agree with you that Obama pulled some kind of power trip on Osama Bin Laden. Going to his turf and trying to lure in Osama Bin Laden’s supporters. Like a tomcat spraying on another cat’s turf. The most dynamic part of the Obama/Osama struggle is this masculine need for control by both parties. These are the two new antagonists of the world power game. The future will not look well for at least one of these two cocks of the walk. Which one I don’t know. As an American I just hope it will not effect me personally. We are living in a very interesting time and I hope we will all live to tell about it.

By: fif

fif — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:05:48 +0000

Since they are being investigated in numerous states for corrupt practices, WHY are they in there at all?!

By: fif

fif — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:03:39 +0000

Very disingenuous. Obama has a long and well-documented history with ACORN. That makes it much more suspicious–especially in light of his plan to fortify “Organization for America,” his grassroots network, which will plant two full-time paid employees in EVERY Congressional district in the country to push through his legislation (by targeting local and state officials and pressuring them), and to raise money and begin his 2012 campaign. Who else is naive?

By: fif

fif — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:00:06 +0000

Especially since, as Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey notes, Obama has a “charming and dangerous naivete.”

Now it’s “charming” for the President to be naive.

Oy vey.

By: lark

lark — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:00:45 +0000

Correct. Suppose that as marketing managers they considered their market made of up to 1 billion Muslims and many filthy rich. They could have made billions and buy up 1/2 of Israel for twice its value and still be making offerings Israelis couldn’t believe.

By: Tess

Tess — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:34:14 +0000

Mo oown caveat for this mess is that Palestine has spent more than 60 years trying to obliterate Israel. Had they spent time building statehood instead of eradicating Israel, this would be a different discussion.

By: Maria G

Maria G — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:12:35 +0000

To mountainaires, Still blaming the wrong party for Palestinians murder of its own children via tactics of human shields?
Even the EU laid the entire blame on Palestine Hamas.

Operation ‘Cast Lead’ and the four Islamic crimes: 1 – Terror on Israeli civilians, 2 – hijacking its own women and children as human shields to cause them to die, 3 – Inflaming its youths via showing most graphic photos of injured/dead kids on Arab TV, 4 – calls for genocide on Israelis or on all Jews
More…

EU Blames Hamas For Gaza Crisis- Traducir
… added that the EU will not engage in talks with the Hamas until it renounces … He also said that Hamas was not a legitimate resistance movement as it uses …

http//www.skynews.com.au/politics/article.aspx%3fid=298023

By: Maria G

Maria G — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:02:54 +0000

The answer to Obama spinning words (hinting a possiblity to interpret it by the Muslim world, as if peace and pro Israel are contradictory), we’ve got “news” for you, you can be pro democracy, pro freedom, pro Israel (anti Jihad) and wanting to achieve peace.

How about some true words, like: ‘Pro Palestinian’ means more Jihadism, oppression and dictatorship in the name of Islam, terrorism masked as “freedom fighting”, war using kids in the theater of war under the banner of “freeing land”?

Next time Mr. Obama, be clear in what you say don’t intentionally mislead and create room for different “versions”.

By: mountainaires

mountainaires — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:48:44 +0000

Oh, for G*d’s Sake. Is there no end to this outrage? What moral person could condone this?

Apart from white phosphorus, the Israeli army used a variety of other weapons in densely populated civilian areas of Gaza in the three-week conflict that began on 27 December.

Flechettes are 4cm long metal darts that are sharply pointed at the front, with four fins at the rear. Between 5,000 and 8,000 are packed into 120mm shells which are generally fired from tanks. The shells explode in the air and scatter the flechettes in a conical pattern over an area about 300m wide and 100m long.

An anti-personnel weapon designed to penetrate dense vegetation, flechettes should never be used in built-up civilian areas. The Israeli army has used them in Gaza periodically for several years. In most cases their use has resulted in civilians being killed or injured.

Amnesty International’s fact-finding team in Gaza first heard about the use of flechettes in the most recent conflict some ten days ago. The father of one of the victims showed the team a flechette which had been taken out of his son’s body.

In its latest post on Amnesty International’s Livewire blog, the team described how on Monday it visited towns and villages around Gaza and found more hard evidence of the use of flechettes.

In ‘Izbat Beit Hanoun, to the south-west of the town of Beit Hanoun, several flechette shells were fired into the main road, killing two people and injuring several others on the morning of 5 January.

Wafa’ Nabil Abu Jarad, a 21-year-old pregnant mother of two, was one of those killed. Her husband and her mother-in-law told the team that the family had just had breakfast and were outside the house drinking tea in the sun.

Wafa’ and her husband were standing by the corner of the house when they heard a noise, followed by screams. They turned to go back into their house but at that moment Wafa’ and several other members of the family were hit by flechettes. Wafa’ was killed outright.

That same day, at the other end of the street, 16-year-old Islam Jaber Abd-al-Dayem was struck in the neck by a flechette. He was taken to the hospital’s intensive care unit but died three days later. Mizar, his brother, was injured in the same attack and still has a flechette lodged in his back.

In the village of al-Mughraqa on the morning of 7 January, a shell struck the room where Atta Hassan Aref Azzam was sitting with two of his children, Mohammed, aged 13 and Hassan, aged two and a half. All three were killed. The six other members of the family who were in the house fled to the nearest school for shelter. The team examined the bloodstained wall by which the three were killed. It was full of flechettes.

Source

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/israeli-army-used-flechettes-against-gaza-civilians-20090127