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Ten Commandments for Arab and Jew at war
By Bradley Burston
Tags: Ten Commandments, Israel 

There is no conflict in the world more complex, more closely watched, and more historically intractable than the war between Israel and its Arab neighbors, a tireless blood feud now on the threshold of its seventh decade.

It helps little that each side lays claim to ultimate morality and consummate victimhood.

For Palestinian Muslim and Israeli Jew both, many of the most strident calls for escalation, for war until absolute victory, for refusal to compromise, for justifying injury to civilians on the other side, in fact, for eradication, political or physical, of the other side, come from ultra-nationalist religious leaders.

With radicalism at the clerical level having tainted and to some extent warped both Islam and Judaism, perhaps now is the time for the rest of us believers to put in our two cents.

Herewith, a first draft: Ten Commandments for the Arab and Jew at war:


1. Thou shalt not kill the civilian

Period.

Never target the innocent. In all armed operations and activities, make heroic efforts to respect non-combatants.

Marshal your ingenuity and skill and technical proficiency to avoid injury to children, the elderly, and all who are unarmed. If civilians on the other side are injured, investigate at once, thoroughly and impartially, and, where warranted, punish those responsible.

In populated areas, stop the use of weapons whose inaccuracy and/or lethal force, including Qassams, Kartyushas, main battle tanks, heavy artillery, fighter-bombers, flechettes, and cluster bombs, place civilians in direct danger.

2. Neither shall you use civilians as human shields.

Never launch attacks from populated civilian residences. Never use populated civilian residences as hideouts or firing platforms.

Protect civilians on your side from attack in any way possible. If the other side uses missiles against civilian areas, use all means at your command to keep civilians from harm's way.

If non-combatants are likely to become targets, find ways to shelter them, evacuate them, or ways to stop missiles before they strike.

3. Thou shalt not worship the use of force, nor mistake revenge for self-defense, nor confuse politically motivated attacks with justice, nor believe with perfect faith that military might, carried to an extreme, will resolve the conflict.

Be not deluded that your political ends will be served by the instruments of war.

Be not persuaded that the state you despise will bend to your will in deference to rockets, mortars, suicide bombings, roadside bombings, school shootings and drive-by shootings.

Be not convinced that assassination, invasion, occupation, enforced oppression, deepened poverty, blockade, strafing, bombing, shelling, raiding, and/or besiegement, will topple the government you revile.


4. Thou shalt not practice humiliation, nor collective punishment

Demonstrate respect.

Remove all checkpoints except those which can be demonstrated to be absolutely necessary. Reduce friction as much as possible at remaining checkpoints. Do everything possible to allow civilians on the other side to work, pray, study, and live as normally as possible.

The people on the other side are every ounce as proud and as obstinate as contrary and as immovable as you.

Turn off their lights and their gas, and they will hate you in the cold and dark. You, and not the people you want them to hate.

Rocket them, bomb them, gun them down, and they will do everything in their power to remain on the land you claim, give you nothing more, and see that things stay that way.

5. Thou shalt not dismiss ceasefire proposals out of hand.

Nor shall you turn aside diplomatic overtures, nor order military operations to foil them.

6. Thou shalt not demolish homes.

Demolition of Palestinian homes is not a tactic. It is a form of terrorism. It does not create deterrence. It fosters hatred. It incites against peace. It engenders revenge.

7. Thou shalt raze illegal outposts.

Be not deceived that this contradicts the previous commandment. Be not taken in by those who view illegal outposts as the highest form of patriotism. Take it for what it is, in the following light:

8. Thou shalt act to restrain the renegades in your midst, terrorists, bigots and bullies, whose actions betray their own people.

9. Thou shalt not aim to "close an account."

No military action in the Holy Land ever settled the score or closed a standing account. Military action only opens a new account.

10. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain

The clergyman - rabbi, reverend or imam ? who counsels hatred for the other, who preaches that the Lord is on the side of wider and deeper war, is not a man of God.

The man of the cloth who dismisses the beliefs of the other, the history of the other, the validity of the other's faith-based claim to this land, is not a man of God.

The spiritual leader who forbids all compromise leads his followers to ruin.

We are, in this Holy Land, Muslim, Christian, and Jew, all of us children of the same Lord, servants of the same God, every one of us the image of our one Creator.

The preacher who preaches otherwise, he who worships at the altar of force and disdains the possibility of accommodation, condemns all of us to an eternity of war.

God help us, every one.

______________


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  1.   worse than God`s commandments 09:15  |  Trooper 14/03/08
  2.   Collective Security is punishment for the Invaders 10:08  |  sam 14/03/08
  3.   G_D bradley buston is a bigger idiot than me :-)))) 10:10  |  Yitzak Ben Shlomo 14/03/08
  4.   Arab and Jew 10:13  |  Ralph 14/03/08
  5.   #1 10:23  |  Michael 14/03/08
  6.   Israel has failed to win the war that started 60 years ago 10:38  |  Velvl Shmerlson 14/03/08
  7.   BRADLEY HAS GONE COMPLETELY BARMY 10:39  |  PAUL HARRIS 14/03/08
  8.   Pretty Good Bradley .. 10:43  |  Natallie Durson 14/03/08
  9.   True, Bradley, but Israel`s not listening. 10:44  |  Michael 14/03/08
  10.   "Guilt" ratio according to Bradley: Israel - Palestine 4 - 1 11:07  |  Swiss (Dino) 14/03/08
  11.   I fully agree with you, accept your proposals 100% 11:08  |  Khalid Amayreh 14/03/08
  12.   How about this one 11:13  |  Marilyn 14/03/08
  13.   TEN COMMANDEMENTS FROM ME 11:16  |  indrajaya 14/03/08
  14.   10 commandments of Beebee 11:24  |  Larry54 14/03/08
  15.   ten commandments 11:31  |  elsie 14/03/08
  16.   I could not agree MORE with your faithful assessment 11:35  |  Hamzah 14/03/08
  17.   #1. Trooper. In full agreement with you. 11:39  |  Avi 14/03/08
  18.   You can make it complex but its really simple 11:41  |  pal 14/03/08
  19.   How nice it would be if we could put all aggressions 11:43  |  Harith 14/03/08
  20.   DOUBLE-STANDARD "commandments" 11:45  |  observer 14/03/08
  21.   Problem Is Bradley That... 12:08  |  Yosemite 14/03/08
  22.   Bunch of arse 12:20  |  Nik Miller 14/03/08
  23.   observer of Zurich 12:42  |  Garry 14/03/08
  24.   #Ralph, why don`t YOU tell us your version.? 12:44  |  Ari 14/03/08
  25.   My Ten Commandments 12:46  |  Tzfonit 14/03/08
  26.   #4 We would like too that what we are asking. 12:49  |  Husseini 14/03/08
  27.   #11. Very Good .Marilyn 12:54  |  Imran 14/03/08
  28.   Naive 13:14  |  Panther Jet 14/03/08
  29.   12Indrajaya,not 242 but 181,which is the only legally authorised 13:18  |  lakshmi 14/03/08
  30.   Palestinians are accepting those commandments 13:30  |  Palestinian 14/03/08
  31.   10 Khalid Amayreh,I am a regular reader of your articles and I 13:37  |  lakshmi 14/03/08
  32.   The Ten commandments by B Burston 13:55  |  Al Effendi 14/03/08
  33.   to Lakshmi 13:58  |  Khalid Amayreh 14/03/08
  34.   Here`s an eleventh commandment 14:04  |  x-ray 14/03/08
  35.   # 28, LAKSHMI 14:05  |  indrajaya 14/03/08
  36.   Palestinian if God`s in charge you need no `international 14:05  |  x-ray 14/03/08
  37.   THOU SHALT REMOVE THE HEATHEN FROM ERETZ YISRAEL ?? 14:06  |  Bill 14/03/08
  38.   Michael acknowledging that pals use human shields 14:06  |  Iz Ray Leigh 14/03/08
  39.   #24 Tzfonit 14:14  |  Panther Jet 14/03/08
  40.   THIS ONE IS UNACCEPTABLE BURSTON 14:16  |  indrajaya 14/03/08
  41.   yet another brilliant article! 14:27  |  ScotGuy 14/03/08
  42.   Dhimmi Burston ,I`d advice you to read about Wingate 14:39  |  Absolute Sweden 14/03/08
  43.   To Khalid re: resistance 14:41  |  Aphemia 14/03/08
  44.   Well aren`t you naive 15:00  |  Andrew 14/03/08
  45.   Well aren`t you naive 15:03  |  Andrew 14/03/08
  46.   Khalid ...on resistence..... 15:06  |  Lynn 14/03/08
  47.   #7 Natalie Durson 15:24  |  PlanoStu 14/03/08
  48.   Mr. Bradley Burston is no fun at all 15:25  |  Mark Lincoln 14/03/08
  49.   You`re both old Testament 15:32  |  Ben 14/03/08
  50.   Hello Bradley, this is Real World Morality calling 15:33  |  Tosefta 14/03/08
  51.   My true comandments 15:35  |  Indrajayah 14/03/08
  52.   12 - indrajaya 15:39  |  PlanoStu 14/03/08
  53.   How should Haaretz deal with Slowman? 15:46  |  Bursting Bradley 14/03/08
  54.   to Garry 15:49  |  observer 14/03/08
  55.   What if one party violates 15:54  |  Gerald Deutsch 14/03/08
  56.   There is no god. 15:56  |  Michael Steiner 14/03/08
  57.   Haaretz is a tool of the jihad 16:00  |  Pamela, Atlas Shrugs 14/03/08
  58.   to Tzfonit 16:00  |  Dik 14/03/08
  59.   Hello Bradley, this is Real World Morality calling 16:25  |  Tosefta 14/03/08
  60.   Be careful what you wish for...lakshmi 16:29  |  Elihu 14/03/08
  61.   TO 30, 32, 33 lakshmi, Sweden, Amayreh 16:35  |  us 14/03/08
  62.   It`s funny how the holier than thou crowd is so ready to have the 16:46  |  Jacob Blues 14/03/08
  63.   Gee Marylin, I guess that means cataract surgery 16:48  |  Jacob Blues 14/03/08
  64.   32 Khalid&34 Ahamia,Khalid greetings,I am in agreement with you 16:50  |  lakshmi 14/03/08
  65.   What do you know of honesty, justice, and goodwill, Khalid? 16:51  |  Jacob Blues 14/03/08
  66.   more on Jewish presence and origins in Mid East 17:11  |  observer 14/03/08
  67.   Isreal is accepting those commandments 17:14  |  Adrian de Klerk 14/03/08
  68.   #30 lakshmi - the answer is "0" 17:15  |  Adrian de Klerk 14/03/08
  69.   ten commandants 17:29  |  Carol 14/03/08
  70.   #12 Indrajaya/ 10 commandments 17:36  |  Rozz 14/03/08
  71.   #29 What proof do you have 17:40  |  Henryk 14/03/08
  72.   #29 Palestinian in Jerusalem accepting? 17:58  |  fiona 14/03/08
  73.   Hello Bradley, this is Real World Morality calling 18:04  |  Tosefta 14/03/08
  74.   Slowman, I am instructing you to stop working NOW! 18:11  |  Dr. Anshel Pepper 14/03/08
  75.   Well Well! 18:30  |  Paul 14/03/08
  76.   Your ignorance 18:32  |  Paul 14/03/08
  77.   For Hamzah 18:34  |  Rozz 14/03/08
  78.   #17 - Pal 18:44  |  Rozz 14/03/08
  79.   # 53 " Bradley : baclk to work" dear boy ! 18:46  |  Manouska 14/03/08
  80.   Indrajoka, Lakshmi and Khalid 18:56  |  ZISD 14/03/08
  81.   #28 Lakschmi 18:57  |  Rozz 14/03/08
  82.   Nice fantasy, but back to reality... 19:00  |  Jason 14/03/08
  83.   Dream dream dream 19:21  |  Lea 14/03/08
  84.   # 80, ZISD 19:25  |  indrajaya 14/03/08
  85.   BURSTON: Thou shalt not tell usual zionist lies 19:28  |  JACKAL 14/03/08
  86.   Tzfonit MY Favourite Arabist @25 19:37  |  GABE1 14/03/08
  87.   Jacob Blues 19:39  |  GABE1 14/03/08
  88.   if only 19:39  |  Yunis Mohamed 14/03/08
  89.   #12 Indrajaya- 10 Commandments 19:43  |  Rozz 14/03/08
  90.   should be for Indrajaya #13 and not 12 19:46  |  Rozz 14/03/08
  91.   The sacred Commandments by Bradley Burston 19:47  |  Emanuel C 14/03/08
  92.   To Haaretz 19:50  |  Angel 14/03/08
  93.   It`s been a tough week at work Gabe. 19:52  |  Jacob Blues 14/03/08
  94.   Attacking civilians worse than immoral, it is a mistake! 19:56  |  Voice of Reason 14/03/08
  95.   My one commandement 19:57  |  Danite 14/03/08
  96.   Tosefta`s morality. 3 times, #50,#59,#73 19:58  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 14/03/08
  97.   JACOB BLUES @93 20:14  |  GABE1 14/03/08
  98.   the honest truth 20:15  |  truth 14/03/08
  99.   Ten comm for 300 millions Arab and some Jews vs 14 millions 20:16  |  maths 14/03/08
  100.   Finally, a sane, moral approach 20:18  |  Frankie 14/03/08
  101.   Paris 20:21  |  Angel 14/03/08
  102.   Tosefta 20:23  |  ODP1 14/03/08
  103.   "All of us Children of the same Lord..... 20:24  |  Dagma 14/03/08
  104.   Hamas bragging again - for Indrajaya 20:26  |  Rozz 14/03/08
  105.   To Tosefta (50)...you nice ( pills are good ) 20:30  |  religious 14/03/08
  106.   Bradley 20:30  |  Yosemite 14/03/08
  107.   ten commandement 20:31  |  mike 14/03/08
  108.   # 104, ROZZ 20:37  |  indrajaya 14/03/08
  109.   FORGET ABOUT WARS, OLMERT HAS TO PULL 20:37  |  Smadar 14/03/08
  110.   ODP @102 20:38  |  GABE1 14/03/08
  111.   Comprehension of a Martian (Bird from Outerspace #96) 20:39  |  Tosefta 14/03/08
  112.   Tosefta -- It is always immoral to target civilians 20:42  |  Gina 14/03/08
  113.   Indrajaya... get a life even in Jakarta 20:46  |  Rozz 14/03/08
  114.   To Velvi Shmerlson # 6 You must be hallucinating 20:51  |  Dolly 14/03/08
  115.   Indrajaya #108 20:54  |  Rozz 14/03/08
  116.   10 commandments for Haartez Journalists 20:55  |  pace306 14/03/08
  117.   to Lynn..Yes, but 21:02  |  Khalid Amayreh 14/03/08
  118.   # 91 Mr B Burston and the "sacred commandments" 21:06  |  Marriana 14/03/08
  119.   Ah Gabe, I`m going to win free lunches for life from you 21:13  |  Jacob Blues 14/03/08
  120.   #111, Tosefta, Qassams, Katyushas are today 21:14  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 14/03/08
  121.   It is called cost/benefit ratio (ODP #102) 21:18  |  Tosefta 14/03/08
  122.   My Ten Commandments (From India) 21:24  |  George 14/03/08
  123.   For the attention of Bradley Burston 21:26  |  Nissim 14/03/08
  124.   Dik # 58 As long as Hamas charter is in force 21:27  |  Tzfonit 14/03/08
  125.   Cipora`s blindness 21:36  |  Mark Lincoln 14/03/08
  126.   Politically correct? 21:38  |  jorge grosz 14/03/08
  127.   For Cipora and the biblically challenged - Numbers 31 21:38  |  Mark Lincoln 14/03/08
  128.   comparing vile pal hatred of Jews with Israeli culture...as if 21:40  |  don 14/03/08
  129.   To Palestinian # 30 - ARE YOU A PALESTINIAN..?IAN 21:45  |  Natasha 14/03/08
  130.   Mr Tosefta...be happy Israel warned Syria it could pay price for 22:28  |  soldier 14/03/08
  131.   81 Rozz,ah the ancient dream of Greater Israel! 22:29  |  lakshmi 14/03/08
  132.   #7 Hey Paul Harris/Victor Hardman 22:36  |  ballistic 14/03/08
  133.   The World is Black and White 22:39  |  Yechiel 14/03/08
  134.   35 Indrajaya,ofcourse they legalised 242 because it would lend 22:42  |  lakshmi 14/03/08
  135.   Bezantine argument Rozz 22:42  |  pal 14/03/08
  136.   It is called cost/benefit ratio (ODP #102) 23:04  |  Tosefta 14/03/08
  137.   #111, Tosefta, Qassams and Katyushas are today 23:05  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 14/03/08
  138.   Tzfonit 23:07  |  danite 14/03/08
  139.   Mark Lincoln 23:09  |  Danite 14/03/08
  140.   Mark Lincoln, pure propaganda 23:11  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 14/03/08
  141.   #116, Khalid Amayreh 23:29  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 14/03/08
  142.   Jacob Blues #119 23:35  |  GABE1 14/03/08
  143.   Mark Lincoln -- Poodle of Hamas 23:35  |  Gina 14/03/08
  144.   9. Thou shalt not aim to "close an account." 23:37  |  Esther 14/03/08
  145.   Khalid Amayreh 23:43  |  Gina 14/03/08
  146.   one single rule will suffice abundantly, Bradley - 23:47  |  ivo 14/03/08
  147.   Danite 23:51  |  GABE1 14/03/08
  148.   Worldly wisdom for Cipora J Kohn #120 23:54  |  Mars H. Mallow 14/03/08
  149.   Cost/Benefit Ratio 23:55  |  Mark Lincoln 14/03/08
  150.   #136, Tosefta, people like you better get real 23:56  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 14/03/08
  151.   Danite - so? 23:57  |  Mark Lincoln 14/03/08
  152.   Cipora, reenter head first 00:07  |  Mark Lincoln 15/03/08
  153.   Hey there Mark Lincoln; glad to see you 00:09  |  ballistic 15/03/08
  154.   the 11th commandment: God doesnt exist 00:12  |  what does it matter 15/03/08
  155.   128 don,which israeli society are you talking about? 00:24  |  lakshmi 15/03/08
  156.   #s 1 to 3 Describe the Arab War Effort v. Israel the Rest Follow 00:29  |  Tom 15/03/08
  157.   # 117 Khaled....No issue is black or white 00:52  |  Lynn 15/03/08
  158.   ten commandments 01:20  |  Robin Hood 15/03/08
  159.   Rozz #77 that was very racist 01:23  |  ELIAS KHOURY 15/03/08
  160.   arab and jew at war 01:26  |  Robin Hood 15/03/08
  161.   54#. observer. my study is that they come from MESAPOTANIA. 01:27  |  Garry 15/03/08
  162.   Logic for Martians (Bird from Outerspace #111) 01:44  |  Tosefta 15/03/08
  163.   ballistic - reading the book(s) 02:15  |  Mark Lincoln 15/03/08
  164.   Difference between Law and Grace 02:17  |  marilyn 15/03/08
  165.   Cipora- "War Crimes" and Propaganda 02:19  |  Dorothy 15/03/08
  166.   #157, Tosefta, I understand what you say perfectly 02:24  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 15/03/08
  167.   #159 Mark Lincoln 02:28  |  ballistic 15/03/08
  168.   Tosefta and Morality 02:28  |  Elinor 15/03/08
  169.   No Dorothy, War Crimes Aren`t Relative 02:34  |  Tom 15/03/08
  170.   #165, Dorothy 02:44  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 15/03/08
  171.   Great commandments, hope for peace 02:57  |  Arabs 15/03/08
  172.   Dorothy - asymmetrical war, and asymmetrical crimes 03:00  |  Mark Lincoln 15/03/08
  173.   Sorry Tom, war crimes ARE relative 03:05  |  Mark Lincoln 15/03/08
  174.   Is it wrong to not allow oneself to be exterminated? 03:11  |  Mark Lincoln 15/03/08
  175.   to Garry 03:25  |  observer 15/03/08
  176.   Hillel`s next question 03:27  |  Mark Lincoln 15/03/08
  177.   # 116 pace 306..Gee I`m So Late in Arriving Here.I`l just Repeat 03:34  |  KATHY 15/03/08
  178.   A final observation about Cipora and Hillel 03:34  |  Mark Lincoln 15/03/08
  179.   The law is the law (Elinor #168) 03:37  |  Tosefta 15/03/08
  180.   TO MR.BURSTON.YOU OPENED A CAN OF WORMS,BUT! 03:43  |  KATHY 15/03/08
  181.   The law is the law (Elinor #168) 03:51  |  Tosefta 15/03/08
  182.   #147 Gabe1 re: your response to Danite 04:20  |  Smadar 15/03/08
  183.   Tosefta - the law, and the LAW 04:22  |  Mark Lincoln 15/03/08
  184.   Mark Lincoln -- 174 -Should Israelis target Arab children? 04:24  |  Gina 15/03/08
  185.   Tosefta # 179 04:29  |  Gina 15/03/08
  186.   Tosefta - on the other hand, Elinor is right 04:30  |  Mark Lincoln 15/03/08
  187.   Tosefta 04:45  |  Elinor 15/03/08
  188.   Tosefta 04:52  |  Elinor 15/03/08
  189.   The 21st century vision 05:36  |  allang 15/03/08
  190.   Tosefta - who speaks of dangerous and useful things 05:54  |  Mark Lincoln 15/03/08
  191.   Mark Lincoln 05:55  |  danite 15/03/08
  192.   Dorothy 05:58  |  Danite 15/03/08
  193.   Gina, what do you want to hear? 06:04  |  Mark Lincoln 15/03/08
  194.   Danite Investiture 06:16  |  Mark Lincoln 15/03/08
  195.   Mark Lincoln -- That there is never an excuse to target children 06:32  |  Gina 15/03/08
  196.   Very Good article 06:38  |  Denise 15/03/08
  197.   #7Paul Harris. So there you are! You brave little soldier! 07:14  |  Maureen Ann 15/03/08
  198.   Reminder: Thou shalt not bear false witness 07:17  |  x-ray 15/03/08
  199.   Elinor you are brighter than Tosefta and more moral 07:24  |  x-ray 15/03/08
  200.   Bradley. Good :):):) 08:06  |  John Isenhower 15/03/08
  201.   PAUL HARRIS - obviously from the "front lines". 08:13  |  PADDY 15/03/08
  202.   What sensible commandments . . . 08:50  |  Charles Cohen 15/03/08
  203.   Amen 09:05  |  Rafeh Hulays 15/03/08
  204.   Burston: You have FORGOTTEN THIS COMMANDM ENT 8B....! 09:34  |  Dagma 15/03/08
  205.   Why talk about rules instead of root causes? 10:00  |  Dutch 15/03/08
  206.   To x-ray # 198 - Unfinished Reminder - Thou shalt not 10:01  |  Dolly 15/03/08
  207.   Bradley Burston 10:13  |  TonyL 15/03/08
  208.   Tosefta #162 10:15  |  S 15/03/08
  209.   Pals are not pals 10:16  |  Dror 15/03/08
  210.   Cipora #96 10:24  |  S 15/03/08
  211.   Cipora #96 10:26  |  S 15/03/08
  212.   5 Michael 10:30  |  trooper 15/03/08
  213.   First Commandment must be: "You shall not demonise Israel" 12:04  |  Amnon HaCohen 15/03/08
  214.   Give a little Thought to those in Pain Mr.Burston....... 12:51  |  Dolly 15/03/08
  215.   #205 doris and the law of her invention 13:00  |  v ictor hardman 15/03/08
  216.   #170 Cipora- Moral Relativity and International Law 13:50  |  Dorothy 15/03/08
  217.   No. 13 Dear Indrajaya 13:59  |  Sohel Saheen 15/03/08
  218.   #170 Cipora (& echoes) Pt 2 International Law and Morality 14:23  |  Dorothy 15/03/08
  219.   To Natasha 129 - No Privilegeto be a PALISTINIAN today 15:02  |  Sheister 15/03/08
  220.   Danite v Dorothy @192 15:04  |  GABE1 15/03/08
  221.   #192 Danite- Thank you/yesterday, today and tomorrow 15:25  |  Dorothy 15/03/08
  222.   To #114 Dolly 15:25  |  Velvl Shmerlson 15/03/08
  223.   #180 Mr.Burston.Here are my Ten Commandments 16:01  |  KATHY 15/03/08
  224.   That there is never an excuse to target children - Gina 16:35  |  Mark Lincoln 15/03/08
  225.   Following your debate Dorothy & Cipora... 16:41  |  Smadar 15/03/08
  226.   # 217, SOHEL SAHEEN 16:51  |  indrajaya 15/03/08
  227.   S- Laws and "private morality" vs. right of rebellion/revolution 16:56  |  Dorothy 15/03/08
  228.   First Commandment: Love Haaretz=the land of Israel 16:56  |  Sholem BenTov 15/03/08
  229.   Dolly it`s wider than that 17:05  |  x-ray 15/03/08
  230.   To Dorothy # 216/218 - Israel 17:09  |  Dagma 15/03/08
  231.   Elinor you are brighter than Tosefta and more moral 17:13  |  x-ray 15/03/08
  232.   To 222 velvi Shmerlson = Got yours and 17:30  |  Dolly 15/03/08
  233.   To # 227 Sholem BenTov - The enemy Within 17:51  |  Dolly 15/03/08
  234.   Smadar- advantages and disadvantages 17:52  |  Dorothy 15/03/08
  235.   # 227 Love Eretz Yisrael 17:54  |  Zvi Mordechai 15/03/08
  236.   Dorothy #226 about rebellion... 18:06  |  S 15/03/08
  237.   Dorothy considers that Hamas has no need to play by the rules 18:25  |  Iz Ray Leigh 15/03/08
  238.   Mark Lincoln 18:25  |  danite 15/03/08
  239.   Dororthy and the past 18:29  |  Danite 15/03/08
  240.   Dorothy 18:30  |  danite 15/03/08
  241.   Tosefta - for once you are 100% correct! 18:37  |  Jewboy 15/03/08
  242.   Dorothy and Samadar 18:41  |  GABE1 15/03/08
  243.   Beats the bible version, any day 18:53  |  Chanalau, Tova 15/03/08
  244.   Danite - seige warfare in ancient times 19:23  |  Mark Lincoln 15/03/08
  245.   Jacob Blues on Bets 19:31  |  GABE1 15/03/08
  246.   Burston`s 10 commandments 19:34  |  hollingsworth 15/03/08
  247.   To danite # 235 - Interestingly enough..... 19:36  |  Dagma 15/03/08
  248.   #235 Iz Ray Leigh..Dorothy is Philosophising From Back Of a Camel 19:37  |  KATHY 15/03/08
  249.   Garry the fact that you are unaware of the Jews living in their 19:40  |  x-ray 15/03/08
  250.   Danite keep it civil- I do not thank you nor will I 19:46  |  Dorothy 15/03/08
  251.   # 238 Danite and Dorothy`s Twisted version of Events 19:48  |  KATHY 15/03/08
  252.   Haaretz. My Ten Commandments Are:Where?? I Did My Best 19:53  |  KATHY 15/03/08
  253.   S-We need civilized insurgencies! 20:20  |  Dorothy 15/03/08
  254.   #238 -Danite`s definition of international law 20:23  |  Dorothy 15/03/08
  255.   Dorothy 20:27  |  Danite 15/03/08
  256.   Kathy 20:28  |  Danite 15/03/08
  257.   ballistics anti semitism 20:43  |  Danite 15/03/08
  258.   ballistic PS 20:47  |  Danite 15/03/08
  259.   Mark Lincoln -- Because your Hamas uses civilian shields 20:51  |  Gina 15/03/08
  260.   #210, S 20:51  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 15/03/08
  261.   Mark Lincoln 20:55  |  Danite 15/03/08
  262.   Dagma 20:56  |  Danite 15/03/08
  263.   # 254 Danite..That was Last Year? Excuse me BUT! 20:57  |  KATHY 15/03/08
  264.   Dorothy 21:01  |  Danite 15/03/08
  265.   Kathy 21:02  |  danite 15/03/08
  266.   Dorothy #251 21:02  |  S 15/03/08
  267.   Dorothy PS 21:05  |  Danite 15/03/08
  268.   #216, Dorothy 21:07  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 15/03/08
  269.   Wrong Is Bradley To Claim Moral Equivalence As Ultimate Morality 21:07  |  Joseph E . post 1 15/03/08
  270.   Vatican legitimized terror PLO and coerced Israel to recognize it 21:08  |  Joseph E . post 2 15/03/08
  271.   AIDS, Arab Ideological Doctrine Syndrom . 21:11  |  Joseph E . Post 3 15/03/08
  272.   #218, Dorothy 21:13  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 15/03/08
  273.   Kathy, Dorothy belongs to the Lady Bountiful school of morality 21:14  |  Iz Ray Leigh 15/03/08
  274.   # 244 hollingsworth..Burston`s 10 commandments**. 21:17  |  KATHY 15/03/08
  275.   Smadar how odd 21:21  |  Iz Ray Leigh 15/03/08
  276.   #265, S 21:23  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 15/03/08
  277.   Dorothy:all sizzle no bacon 21:28  |  peter 15/03/08
  278.   IZ RAY LEIGH 21:30  |  Gabe1 15/03/08
  279.   #253, Dorothy 21:31  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 15/03/08
  280.   #273, Izzy 21:34  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 15/03/08
  281.   Joseph E #1,2,3, etc etc etc 21:38  |  Esther 15/03/08
  282.   # 273 Izi Ray Leigh..Of Course I got It.. 21:54  |  KATHY 15/03/08
  283.   # 265 Danite..Thanks for:With Love And Irony.. 21:59  |  KATHY 15/03/08
  284.   Cipora- Terror groups bound by international law?? 22:00  |  Dorothy 15/03/08
  285.   Question - how were the Kosovo refugees treated with 22:04  |  Smadar 15/03/08
  286.   Dorothy # 234 -- Hamas chose to isolate itself 22:07  |  Gina 15/03/08
  287.   Kathy re: Dorothy 22:16  |  Gina 15/03/08
  288.   kathy-incorrect on Hamas #251 22:19  |  Roo 15/03/08
  289.   Cipora-International Conflict and occupation 22:24  |  Dorothy 15/03/08
  290.   Dorothy #250 Sharon`s formaldehyde plan 22:32  |  hubal 15/03/08
  291.   # 270 Joseph E..Thanks. I Have so Much To read Now.!. 22:44  |  KATHY 15/03/08
  292.   International HUMANITARIAN Law vs. The Laws of Armed Conflict 22:51  |  Dorothy 15/03/08
  293.   Lady Dorothy talks now of terror and justice in the same breath 23:05  |  Iz Ray Leigh 15/03/08
  294.   to Khalid 23:05  |  Hilda 15/03/08
  295.   to Jakarta propagandist Indajaya 23:09  |  Hilda 15/03/08
  296.   # 287 Gina..Gosh Doesn`t Time Fly eh?But... 23:10  |  KATHY 15/03/08
  297.   The diatribes of St Chrysostom against the Jews 23:17  |  hollingsworth 15/03/08
  298.   # 288 Roo..Just a quick One:Are we Splitting Hairs Here? 23:26  |  KATHY 15/03/08
  299.   Iz Ray Leigh Re Unintentional killings #275 23:26  |  examiner 15/03/08
  300.   S-I see you don`t appreciate the truth 23:53  |  Dorothy 15/03/08
  301.   Dorothy #250 `Sharon`s negotiating table` 23:57  |  hubal 15/03/08
  302.   Danite- RE: your PS 23:58  |  Dorothy 15/03/08
  303.   International HUMANITARIAN Law vs. The Laws of Armed Conflict (2) 00:01  |  Dorothy 16/03/08
  304.   Two classic cases of hysteria 00:02  |  Mark Lincoln 16/03/08
  305.   # 293 hollingsworth "Explain your say ? , please " 00:02  |  Joseph . E 16/03/08
  306.   #284, Dorothy 00:20  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 16/03/08
  307.   kha\lid, honesty and you??? are well off 00:24  |  vladimir 16/03/08
  308.   # 275 Iz Ray Leigh..Smadar how odd? Not really.Why? 00:30  |  KATHY 16/03/08
  309.   # 303 Joseph E..hollinssworth.Shows his True Colours.. 00:40  |  KATHY 16/03/08
  310.   # 292 KATHY 00:45  |  Joseph . E 16/03/08
  311.   # 289 KATHY 01:01  |  Joseph . E 16/03/08
  312.   Cipora. #304 Of course they can. 01:13  |  hubal 16/03/08
  313.   @135, pal, you will dream in LA forever. 01:33  |  vladimir 16/03/08
  314.   Dorothy 01:43  |  danite 16/03/08
  315.   Bradley, I love you more than Moses, great commandments 02:16  |  Yaakov Sullivan 16/03/08
  316.   Charles, How to make both sides 10 Commandments 02:27  |  John Isenhower 16/03/08
  317.   It is simple 02:30  |  Abraham 16/03/08
  318.   KATHY does not understand 02:32  |  hollingsworth 16/03/08
  319.   KATHY2 02:34  |  hollingsworth 16/03/08
  320.   # 299 HUBAL. 02:41  |  I 16/03/08
  321.   Why Does The Slowman Stop Working? 02:45  |  I 16/03/08
  322.   answering Givatayim 02:47  |  hollingsworth 16/03/08
  323.   # 300 Dorothy says Something More Sensible For Once.. 02:48  |  I 16/03/08
  324.   # 300 Dorothy.I thought You Were Being Sensible.My Mistake. 03:23  |  I 16/03/08
  325.   Shame on you for moral fuzziness of the worst kind... 03:39  |  Gary 16/03/08
  326.   297 examiner,it`s called 03:43  |  lakshmi 16/03/08
  327.   Mark Lincoln -- Quit defending Hamas 03:53  |  Gina 16/03/08
  328.   Shameful Behavior - Is Morality Dead in Israel? 03:58  |  Reader 16/03/08
  329.   Kathy -- Is time flying for you? 04:09  |  Gina 16/03/08
  330.   # 299 HUBAL Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts re:Dorothyy 04:17  |  I am who I am 16/03/08
  331.   #275 Iz Ray Leigh Boy, you purposely misread my post 04:53  |  Smadar 16/03/08
  332.   To # 6, 222 Velvl Shmerlson 05:08  |  US 16/03/08
  333.   #26 Husseini I`m sure you would "settle" for 05:33  |  MaryRose 16/03/08
  334.   I -- You`re cracking me up # 300 05:45  |  Gina 16/03/08
  335.   Cipora Julianna Kohn 05:46  |  Gina 16/03/08
  336.   Fellow talkbackers, remember that to the world... 06:10  |  Smadar 16/03/08
  337.   Bradely, Jesus would be proud of your analysis. 06:20  |  Yaakov Sullivan 16/03/08
  338.   #333, Gina 06:45  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 16/03/08
  339.   Gina, you raving lunatic - I DO NOT DEFEND HAMAS 06:48  |  Mark Lincoln 16/03/08
  340.   Gina, Gina 06:53  |  Denise 16/03/08
  341.   It must be clear by now 06:55  |  Mark Lincoln 16/03/08
  342.   TO 29,179,181, 187,242 Lakshmi & gang 06:57  |  FROM UPDATE 16/03/08
  343.   Where Mr. Burston gets it. 06:59  |  Mark Lincoln 16/03/08
  344.   Mark Lincoln -- Not once 07:55  |  Gina 16/03/08
  345.   Mark Licoln 07:55  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 16/03/08
  346.   Cipora Julianna Cohn #336 It`s One Thing To Advocate Liberation.. 07:59  |  Tim R 16/03/08
  347.   Denise 08:00  |  Gina 16/03/08
  348.   Cipora Julianna Kohn 08:07  |  Gina 16/03/08
  349.   I like the G-d of Israel`s commandments better, thanks 09:05  |  Burned Liberal 16/03/08
  350.   Burston, short sentences do not literature make 09:08  |  Yissachar 16/03/08
  351.   #346, Tim R 09:10  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 16/03/08
  352.   GINA #347, GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL 09:15  |  ELIAS KHOURY 16/03/08
  353.   #345 Tim R 09:25  |  Johnboy 16/03/08
  354.   #292 Dummest post I`ve read in a long time, Dorothy.