ISRAEL IS THE BIGGEST TERRORIST IN THE WORLD BECAUSE OF THIS : Israel’s Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, is one of the world’s most bloodstained terrorists. He is responsible for the cold-blooded slaughter of at least 1,500 men, women and children MOSLEM AND CHRISTIAN in the Beirut refugee camps of Chatila and Sabra. Even a formal Israeli commission found Sharon personally responsible for the Lebanese massacres.4

In 1982, as Israel’s defense minister, Sharon directed Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and the carpet bombing and devastation of the city of Beirut (In Lebanon five times more women and children died than in the September New York attack). This terror bombing was carried out by Jews using jet fighters and bombs supplied by the United States.

In their effort to wrest control of Palestine from British control, the Zionists waged a campaign of relentless terror, including the bombing of the King David Hotel, which killed 93 people. They ruthlessly murdered British officials and soldiers. The Zionists assassinated anyone in their way, including the world-respected U.N. mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte, who dared to tell the world of the Zionist terror and murder campaign. Since 1948, Palestinians have faced ongoing terrorism from Israel. Hundreds of villages have been obliterated and literally wiped from the map. Tens of thousands of homes have been bombed, bull-dozed or dynamited during peacetime! Tens of thousands of men, women and children have been killed. Even greater numbers have been blinded, crippled, disfigured and maimed. Hundreds of thousands have been imprisoned and/or tortured. The terror of Israeli torture: at least 150,000 victims

The brutal torture of thousands of one’s enemies must be classified as a particularly vicious form of terrorism. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been tortured in Israeli jails. A Jewish human rights group in Israel confirmed in a 60-page report that 85% of Palestinian detainees undergo torture while in custody.17 And make no mistake about it; many of the tortures endured by these Palestinian victims are the stuff of one’s worst nightmares. Israeli torture includes everything from choking victims with urine and feces soaked bags tied over their heads, to using electric cattle prods for anal rape and mutilation. Israel often doesn’t even admit to who they are holding, so if they decide to kill or torture a Palestinian to death while he is in custody, his body will simply disappear, or they will later claim that they died in a battle with Israeli police before capture. Many thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese have died while in Israeli custody.

Israel’s slaughter of civilians in this terrible 10-day offensive - 206 by last night - has been so cavalier, so ferocious, that not a Lebanese will forgive this massacre. There had been the ambulance attacked on Saturday, the sisters killed in Yohmor the day before, the 2-year-old girl decapitated by an Israeli missile four days ago. And earlier yesterday, the Israelis had slaughtered a family of 12 - the youngest was a four- day-old baby - when Israeli helicopter pilots fired missiles into their home.

Shortly afterwards, three Israeli jets dropped bombs only 250 meters from a UN convoy on which I was traveling, blasting a house 30 feet into the air in front of my eyes. Traveling back to Beirut to file my report on the Qana massacre to the Independent last night, I found two Israeli gunboats firing at the civilian cars on the river bridge north of Sidon…In 1954, the Israeli government launched a secret operation of terror against the United States called Operation Suzannah. In 1967, during the Six Day War, Israel again committed a grievous terrorist act against the United States of America. Searching through hundreds of articles trying to track down the true Israeli death toll, I found a New York Times piece that clarified the precise number of Israelis who died in the World Trade Center attack. It turned out that of the 130 Israelis President Bush claimed had died in the World Trade Center, 129 of them were still alive. Only one Israeli had actually died. Does that make sense?

FOR GOD SAKE, IF YOU CLAIM AS A HUMAN AND CHRISTIAN THEN YOU SHOULD DEFEND YOUR BROTHER FROM ISRAEL. BUT IF YOU ARE DEFEND ISRAEL THEN YOU MUST KNOW THAT YOU DEFEND THE ENEMY OF GOD.

I am supportive of Israel in this particular situation. Hamas was wrong to resume hosilties upon expiration of the cease fire. I also think Hamas intentionally establishes positions close to civilian targets for the sole purpose of creating civilian casualties. From their perspective, a few civilian casualties are justified if it turns public opinion againist Israel. And contrary to the opinion of others on this blog, I think Israel has been using great restraint. And I think the Palistinian people have to take responsibility for putting Hamas in power.

But my support of Israel in this specific instance does not mean that I do not have sympathy for the Palistinians. I think the entire world has failed them. First, the UN failed them, by developing a partition plan for Palistine knowing full well that none of its members were willing to make the committments necessary to enforce it. Second, that Jordan and Egypt failed them by not establishing some type of Palestinian homeland in the West Bank and Gaza Strip when they controlled those terrirories from 1948 to 1967. Third, they were failed by their own leadership when, during the Camp David Summit of 2000, Israel agreed to hand over 97% of the disputed territory plus 3% of territory in Israel and Yasser Arafat refused to accept the deal.

The whole world has to take responsibility for this, which is why I have never been an adovate of the "let them fight it out" strategy that some people seem to advocate. You don't create a mess and walk away from it. I also think that both Israel and the Palistinians have to take responsibility for their history of intolerance and inability to compromise. A lot of this comes from their respective religious beliefs - when people think that something has been granted to them by God - that's when the lack of compromise reaches its peak, because to compromise is to defy the will of God. That is why I am such an advoate of the seperation of church and state.

There is much work to be done in order for there to be peace. And if starts with stopping the rockets, mortars and bombs on both sides. Right now, all that is needed to make that happen is for Hamas to stop the rockets and mortars. And once that happens, we can move on to the next step in the peace process. And it is quite possible that when that happens, I may be blogging against Israel. But we have to take things one step at the time. And right now, the first step is to get Hamas to stop the shelling.

To SShrestha:

Probably encourage Egypt to get Gaza back and teach Gazans good manners. Let Abbas to make agtreement with Israel about West Bank future.