Comments on: 3-Year-Old Child’s Skull Crushed at Israeli Checkpoint

By: MagMa Report

MagMa Report — Wed, 17 May 2006 23:43:07 +0000

Because we remember that terrorism is condemned precisely because it kills the innocent, we can�t justify counterterrorism tactics that kill them too.
Unfortunately, even the most carefully planned strike can produce a great deal of collateral damage. So the goal is to reduce those dommage, as mkilling innocent people will surely call into question the legitimacy of the entire counterterrorism campaign againt islmo-terrorism.
It�s why both the U.S. and Israeli governments are working hard to improve their intelligence and rapid-strike capabilities, in order to better kill suspected terrorists, along with developping and deploying weapons that can kill evildoers without causing too much collateral damage. It�s all about matching policy with good intelligence and better defensive measures.
But when are killings appropriate? First, intelligence officials suggest targets. Second, military officials review the information. Third, military leaders, the minister of defense, and the executive leaders sign off on the action.
Or course, this purely executive process includes no judicial checks, but only top executive approbation of the target list.
Any government killings are always embedded in a larger counterterrorism program.

By: Mohammed

Mohammed — Tue, 16 May 2006 00:16:09 +0000

I have been reading all of the comments above and im disgusted about the 3 year old being killed! All I can do is Imagine that child to be my 3 year old whenever I see her! this only makes me angry and so angry that I would never hesitate to take revenge from these real terrorists by any means I can. However I must remind you all that this is not only about 1 small 3 year old child !!!! its far far byond this and I seriously believe that we are now rapidly moving towards WWIII which will lead to chaos. Remember no muslim, christian or jew dies….The innocent die and that has to STOP AND STOP SOON. I assume someone will raise the question How do you stop this evil Killing?? Well there are many many ways and I will jott down 1 of them ” FOLLOW YOUR SCRIPTURES” READ AND FOLLOW AS ALL SCRIPURES PREACH PEACE..I invite the rest of you to give other suggestions how to stop killing? GBU all

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By: kimmy

kimmy — Mon, 08 May 2006 03:18:17 +0000

I am of Jewish descent. I am appaled about reading a child dying at the controll of a Jewish controll point.
It does not matter if the child was Jewish or Muslim!
A child died!
The politics are going to be a problem.
BUT STILL A CHILD DIED!
Israel is still going to deny any wrongdoings. The Palestinians are still going to say it is genocide.
A CHILD DIED! YOU ARE BOTH WRONG! A CHILD DIED!
You have to get Bush out of the equasion and settle this amongst yourselves.
DO THIS BEFORE ANOTHER CHILD DIES.

By: Muslimah

Muslimah — Sun, 07 May 2006 03:06:29 +0000

Corina,
Let me remind you this is a blog whose responses are majority from people of Arab descent. Do you think you will find them commenting on how they hate themselves? There is hate no doubt, but its easy to preach equality when you are standing aside and watching the conflict from your side-view. Go to an Israeli blog, you wouldn’t even find this tragic story first of all, let a lone have people comment on it.(obviously) You will find stories of how horrible Palestinians are and you will see the same HATE. And they would say that a Jewish life is more valuable than a Muslim life. I can say so because I have not seen one report about Palestinians being killed by Israeli “terrorists” yet I see stories of the deaths of Israelis all the time.

By: raymond

raymond — Sat, 06 May 2006 06:56:04 +0000

Jake took the opportunity to revisit some long discarded notions about the non-existence of Palestine and illegitimacies of their claims on the land. I countered those notions because silence only lends credibility to the lies that are spoken.

By: raymond

raymond — Sat, 06 May 2006 06:52:23 +0000

Jami,
I think the point of the story is that while an innocent girl was killed, accident as it may be, her life was not as important as reporting on Leonardo di Caprio’s love life. In the end, it does become a reflection of politics, both in the broad (governments) an local (ethics) senses.

By: raymond

raymond — Sat, 06 May 2006 06:46:36 +0000

Grog’s opinions do not reflect the majority of Palestinian ones. It is not fair to say “Of course you would say…since you are of Palestinian descent.” The Palestinians do not have collective attitudes any more than the Israelis do. Please recognise that.

By: corina222

corina222 — Sat, 06 May 2006 03:27:49 +0000

Grog,
How dare you say one life is “worth” more than another, for any reason? Of course you would say that a Muslim life is worth more than a Jewish life, since you are (according to your comment) of Palestinian descent. Let’s focus on the matter-at-hand: the horrible death of a 3-year-old child, regardless of her religion. It’s people like you who generate hate and self-righteousness amongst religious groups, which in turn leads to unspeakably horrendous acts of violence towards “opposing” religious groups; worse, innocent children are often seriously injured or killed because of this stupid and needless violence. When does it end? Not until ignorance and hatred is extracted from the souls who bear it.

By: Jami

Jami — Fri, 05 May 2006 15:24:03 +0000

First of all, as a Canadian, Grog, I don’t know anyonw who be;ieves that the life of a Jewish person is worth more than the life of a Muslim. But we also don’t believe that the life of a Muslim is worth more than the life of a Jew. All lives are equal, whether they be atheist, Christian, Jew, Muslim, or Hindu.
Second, I believe that the important point in this story is lost. It’s not about politics or who started the war. A child has died and most of you are more focused on how much knowledge you have, rather than grieving her loss. I’ve even seen people in here refer to the child as a “him”, proving my point that you have completely forgotten about the child already, and it’s not even on a different page. We were told so that we can form our own opinions, not try to persuade someone that’s NEVER going to be persuaded of what “actually” happened. You have different beliefs, different opinions. Get over it. You have to understand that no matter how much arguing back and forth that you do, the other will never change their mind. So say a prayer for the little girl, send mental condolences to the family, and know that whatever you believe is what you believe, and may not be the truth.