'Jewish Only' - Slander and Racism in Huffington Post

Once again you ignore the facts in a post addressed to you and continue your lies-- Arab violence against Jews in Palestine began in 1920, 13 years BEFORE Hitler came to power.

Hamas is now in the sixth year of a four-years elected term. Is that your definition of democracy? If it is, then we are apparently not speaking the same language, sir.

Mr. King, you can denigrate the missiles fired from Gaza because they're not being fired at you. I would like to see your reaction if such "firecrackers" were landing in your neighborhood. Just because they don't kill large numbers of Israelis doesn't mean the intent is not there. Have you never heard of the concept of criminal intent?

Tim King: I do not deny that the rockets are dangerous, or that they have killed people and considering the total number of Israelis killed from these attacks since they began in the early 1990's is 29, and then comparing that to last week's death toll in Gaza from Israeli attacks- 26, I fail to see any balance or even a hint of it. And with regard to this, our Photographer Dexter Phoenix covered a fatal rocket launch in Israel, one of the 29, and we were called names for it by some in the pro-Palestine crowd and tough beans, it is a death and every death is terrible and lamentable.  

Sadly, Zionists simply believe their lives are far more important than those of any and all other human beings and this is where the problem comes in.  Regarding the problems in the 20's, let's step back even farther, Herzl launched the platform in the 1890's, Jewish Zionists began moving to Palestine long ago.  In most cases people got along, in some cases Jews attacked Arabs and Arabs attacked Jews.  We all know the region always had people of all three faiths, the Muslims being the latest arrival and the Jews the first; the fighting did not become terrible until the Nakba in '47 and '48.  It was the Holocaust that caused the exodus of survivors to move en mass to Palestine, there was the Irgun and there was the Stern Gang; the Jews terrorized the Palestinians because they were there to take the Palestinian's property and homes, as they have, and continue to, and you suggest apparently, that the people in this position should not react, should not have anger, should not have a resistance, and if they do, and they are undergunned next to an Israeli military machine, they are branded terrorists.  You and your supporters have a massive superiority complex and it scares the majority of we Goyim, we are after all less according to your doctrine.  Still, everything is possible with the right approach, I have to say you may be on the other side of this issue, but you are more cordial than most and I do not mean to be insulting, I want us to all get along.  I believe in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and until a human's basic needs are met, we all live in misery.      

When Operation Cast Lead began, I was there, within 2 km of where the bombs were falling, and within a few meters of where rockets were falling. But I couldn't see your video - so I have no right to talk about it?

Editor: Damn, here we go... Israel blocks you from seeing the truth friend, it explains many things. 

I forgot to mention that in the same apartment building where I lived when Cast Lead was happening, also lived Chinese foreign workers, an older Russian woman, a family from Morocco, and some young adult Arabs - Palestinians who lived and worked in town. Strange brand of Apartheid, if you ask me.

Dear Mr. King:

There's a reason for the fact that "Hamas, years ago, ended suicide bombing, for this it is given zero credit"-- Hamas stopped because of the law of diminishing return: it became more expensive for their side to commit these acts than the damage they did to Israel.

Tim King: I find your comment to be nothing but false innuendo, you write bare faced lies in a world where the figures can easily be looked up.  

The video attached to this article losed whatever credibility you may have had with this reader, since it incoudes all the lies, half-truths and innuendoes about Operation Cast Lead that have since been debunked.

 Tim King: Not true at all, every piece of this is backed up in many places, you are injecting a lie into this comment again.

For starters, even Hamas has admitted that of the 1400 dead, more than 1,000 were fighters for Hamas and affiliated organizations. Even Justice Goldstone has recanted his comments made in the much-publicized Goldstone report, which could have been a propaganda piece for Hamas rather than, as the narrator claims, a "pro-Zionist: report. Only one short paragraph condemns Hamas for fighting in civilian clothes from civilian areas, while almost 500 pages castigate Israel from everything to turning off Gaza's electricity to deliberately destroying UNWRA warehouses with food intended for the Gaza population (neither of which were true, BTW).

IF the sao-called "Palestinian-Israeli conflict" were all it is, then theree is no existential threat... but most people, yourself included, seem to forget that it's part of the larger, older Arab-Israeli conflict, that has been going on since Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, incited riots against the Jews in Jerusalem (1920), Jaffa (1921), Hebron and Safed (1929), and all over the British Mandate of Palestine (1936-1939). An ally of Hitler and appointed Middle Eastern head of the "Final Solution for the Jewish People", al-Husseini was a wanted war criminal (Yugoslavia, where he raised 3 SS divisions of Muslims) and lionized by the Arab public (Yasser Arafat even falsely claimed that al-Husseini was his uncle, to gain initial legitimacy with the PLO despite the fact that he was an Egyptian of Palestinian descent, not Palestinian himself). You sir, have bought into a narrative made of lies, half-truths and pure fiction without checking any of the facts behind the headlines. Poor journalism at best.  I expect this post will be censored, because you won't have the courage to post a dissenting opinion.

Tim King: Right, we have no obligation to carry any comment, however yours was carried and addressed by me.  The truth is that Palestinians and Jews and Christians all lived in peace in Palestine until the monster Hitler set out to kill millions of people in Europe, with the Jews at the head of the list.  But the Palestinians had nothing to do with this at all, in fact they helped the British take Jerusalem in WWI only to be betrayed by Balfour.  I have no objection to any religion or culture of people, as long as they are not dangerous and do not violate the civil and human rights of people and this is where Israel is a terrible and disappointing failure.  Israel is a hard right wing government today, there are incredible people there but they get no credit the way Israeli press also gives no coverage to the way the IDF treats demonstrators at Bil'in and other places on a weekly basis.  So many have died needlessly,and we are at the anniversary of Israel's murder of  Rachel Corrie right now.  Did you hear what Gilad Shalit's dad said this week by the way?  You can stand for the religious fundamentalist settler nutjobs if you want, they are as terrible as any zealots in existence..

Hamas is an elected group, sure they're imperfect but they are an elected government.  This branding of people as terrorists is bullshit and needs to be over because it is only a tool to strip human rights.  Some jihadist fires an unguided rocket into Israel, you fly over in an F-16 and drop bombs on their heads, and you call them terrorists?