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Our Defense Forces, our war crimes, our terrorism
By Bradley Burston
Tags: Burston, war crimes, terror 

Author's note: This is the second version of this piece. The first was written, I freely admit, in anger and in suspicion, not least because of the many cases of the unwarranted killings of Palestinian civilians which have gone unreported, underreported, glossed over, or misrepresented in the Israeli media, and because the army was initially unwilling to provide its side of the story, and has been less than completely forthcoming since.

Allow me, if you will, to preface this piece by pointing out to those of you who began your comments "If you had ever served in the IDF ..." to state that it was because I served in the IDF, as a combat medic, as an enlisted man and for 16 years in annual reserve duty, that I wrote what I wrote and felt what I felt. And if what I wrote was an over-reaction, it was for this reason as well.

Allow me to add, as well, that I believe that a tremendous effort has been made by the IDF to limit Palestinian civilian casualties, especially since late 2006, and statistics bear this out. But I still believe that more can, and must, be done in this regard.

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I want to apologize for the unforgivable.

It is time for us to stop "understanding" why we kill so many Palestinian civilians. It is time for us to stop explaining away the deaths we excuse as the unfortunate and incidental by-product of a terrible war.

If it had been only an isolated incident, a tragic aberration, I would have kept my peace, said nothing, just moved on.

But the same crime, the same - let's call it by its real name - atrocity, has been committed time and again, under the same circumstances, for the same reasons, with the same indefensible result.

Someone in an IDF uniform, in a position of responsibility, gave an order. We will probably never know who. Nor will we know who loaded the shell into the tank gun, if that was, indeed what happened, or who armed the air-to-surface missile, if that was what happened, who sighted the target, who gave the order to fire, who carried it out.

What we do know is that a mother in Beit Hanoun, a devastated area of northern Gaza from which Qassams and mortars are fired at Israel, was seeing to the breakfast of her four small children Monday morning when their world exploded.

We know that they are all dead.

The army said it fired two missiles at Palestinian militants near the tin shack of the Abu Meatik family, detonating explosives carried by the militants, sparking a "secondary explosion" that struck the home.

Witnesses said that a tank shell sheared through the roof and killed everyone inside, among them Rudina Abu Meatik, 6, her brothers, Saleh, 4 and Mousab, 15 months, and her three-year-old sister, Hana, 3.

We console ourselves, here on the Israeli side of the border, that, unlike the suicide bomber, the box cutter terrorist, the drive-by machine gunner, the Merkaz Harav gunman, the deaths of the children and their mother in Beit Hanoun were a terrible case of bad fortune.

We salve our doubts by stressing - and this is true - that the Israeli army never intentionally targets non-combatants. We protect our fragile consciences by suppressing case after case of Palestinian civilian casualties.

We deflect our guilt by shifting the blame to Hamas, to the Jihad, even - and for this I apologize seventy-fold - to the failure of Palestinian civilians to rise up and stop the terrorists.

We are prepared to excuse it again and again. We excused it when we heard the news today, just as we excused it in November, 2006, when an IDF artillery piece killed 19 people in Beit Hanoun, some of them children still sleeping in their beds when the shell hit.

No more.

It would pay, in this regard, for us to review the reasons why Palestinian mortars and Qassam rockets fired at civilian centers are considered a war crime. "Because Qassams are not capable of accurate targeting, it is unlawful to use them in or near areas populated with civilians," Human Rights Watch said after a Qassam killed a Sderot mother of two children, days after the 19, mostly women and children, were killed in Beit Hanoun.

It would pay, in this regard, for us to recognize that despite cutting edge technology, we can aim neither tank shells nor missile with assurance.

"International humanitarian law prohibits direct attacks against civilians and civilian objects as well as indiscriminate attacks and attacks that cause disproportionate damage to civilians," the organization declared. "A prohibited indiscriminate attack includes using weapons that are incapable of discriminating between civilians and combatants or between civilian and military objects."

We all know why we send in the assault helicopter, and the tank, and the fighter-bomber, and use them against Palestinians. We use them for the same reason we pulled out of Gaza. To spare our own soldiers. We know that occupation takes huge numbers of troops. We use armor against humans in order to limit the exposure of our own soldiers to risk.

The way we use them, however, kills children.

There will be those on our side who on principle doubt the Palestinian witness accounts, and who prefer to believe the army version. I am willing to believe that the army version, in the narrow sense, was correct. But even the army version does not explain insufficient concern for the proximity of civilians.

I am, however, unwilling to accept the approach of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, whose hand can clearly be seen in current military policy in Gaza. "We see Hamas as responsible for everything that happens there, for all injuries," Barak said, responding to the Beit Hanoun deaths Monday.

"The army is acting, and will continue to act, against Hamas, including inside the Gaza Strip. Hamas is also responsible, by way of its activity within the civilian population, for part of the casualties among uninvolved civilians," Barak said.

At the same time, the army has ordered a special inquiry into the incident. That is exactly as it should be. Soldiers and, especially, their commanders, must know that there will be intensive, impartial investigations and severe consequences for the killings of Palestinian civilians.

And while we're at it, let the Israeli who is stunned and stricken by Palestinian terror, begin to acknowledge that incidental killings of civilians are our shame, our war crime, our suicide bombs, the massacres for which we, virtuous as we believe we are, are directly to blame.

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Previous blogs:


For our worst enemy, Hamas, just two words
The New 12 Tribes of Israel
A place at the table
I want the Palestinians to win
The jihad against the Jews
Ten ways Israel keeps Hamas afloat

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  2.   No one is happy with this, but be an adult 15:51  |  Ilan 28/04/08
  3.   Bradley Burston obviously never served a day in the IDF 15:57  |  Josh 28/04/08
  4.   Pathetic Critisism - Got a solution Burston? If no... Shut up!! 15:58  |  David 28/04/08
  5.   Denise Thompson 15:59  |  Imad 28/04/08
  6.   You just don`t get it, do you? 16:00  |  A Gussman 28/04/08
  7.   BURSTON, FINALLY, COMES CLEAN 16:01  |  JH 28/04/08
  8.   If only the Israeli Government would show similar sentiments 16:01  |  T. Breaden 28/04/08
  9.   SHAME ON WHAT? 16:05  |  B 28/04/08
  10.   Our Defense forces 16:08  |  eric 28/04/08
  11.   Bradley, you should quit Haaretz 16:10  |  Rowan 28/04/08
  12.   An easy explanation 16:12  |  Burned Liberal 28/04/08
  13.   Kids were killed by Hamas Explosives 16:14  |  Colin S 28/04/08
  14.   "only following orders" #6 16:14  |  Steve 28/04/08
  15.   ISRAEL OFFICIALLY TO APOLOGISE THAN PEACE PROCESS START 16:16  |  Atilla Karagözoğlu 28/04/08
  16.   We (US) subsidize it 16:17  |  Michael 28/04/08
  17.   I agree. what do we do? 16:26  |  Israeli right wing 28/04/08
  18.   Well done Bradley Burston 16:27  |  Phillies Wright 28/04/08
  19.   IT IS FAR FROM ENOUGH, BRADLEY 16:27  |  indrajaya 28/04/08
  20.   Needs a serious investigation 16:28  |  Tosefta 28/04/08
  21.   Deesden 16:30  |  Keith 28/04/08
  22.   I thought they were all civilians 16:32  |  Andrew 28/04/08
  23.   Hard choices 16:37  |  Walter 28/04/08
  24.   Bradley I Back You Up But... 16:38  |  Yosemite 28/04/08
  25.   B #9 - AMEN TO THAT 16:38  |  Alain 28/04/08
  26.   Children, collateral damage? 16:39  |  Cord Henrik Kaldrack 28/04/08
  27.   keith from the UK 16:44  |  WWACD 28/04/08
  28.   SOMEONE TELL ME IF MR. BURSTON IS FOR PEACE OR POLITICS 16:50  |  Atilla Karagözoğlu 28/04/08
  29.   Dear David # 4 16:59  |  North American 28/04/08
  30.   Why apologies, the dead are only Arabs. 17:02  |  El-Birawi 28/04/08
  31.   Why on earth would Israel want a ceasefire in Gaza 17:03  |  Denise Thompson 28/04/08
  32.   Liberal whining 17:13  |  Mark Lincoln 28/04/08
  33.   BLAME HAMAS- THEY BROUGHT IT ALL UPON THE PALS... 17:16  |  YITZAK BEN SHLOMO 28/04/08
  34.   The Three Monkey Principle 17:18  |  Mark Lincoln 28/04/08
  35.   #31 17:22  |  Fritz 28/04/08
  36.   Burston smoking crack? 17:23  |  Victor 28/04/08
  37.   No more, no more, for 60 years: 17:24  |  S 28/04/08
  38.   The myth of the surgical strike 17:25  |  Mark Lincoln 28/04/08
  39.   #9 B: The Blame Game... Cry Me A River!! 17:29  |  Tupac 28/04/08
  40.   YOU THIEF MR. BURSTON :) 17:33  |  I CANT BELIEVE YOU 28/04/08
  41.   Denise Thompson 17:34  |  David Kass 28/04/08
  42.   an open letter to world ( the post published 11.40 am e ) 17:36  |  Israel 28/04/08
  43.   24: Earth to Yosemite... The Pals have the misfortune 17:37  |  Tupac 28/04/08
  44.   Burston doesn`t understand war 17:41  |  SystemF 28/04/08
  45.   MR. BURSTON, YOU OWE ME YOUR ARTICLE PLEACE FOR ONCE 17:44  |  ATİLLA KARAGÖZOĞLU 28/04/08
  46.   Sorry, Bradley, I disagree 17:55  |  Yonatan 28/04/08
  47.   Tosefta 17:58  |  wibism 28/04/08
  48.   burston`s plo `militants` 18:00  |  elliot 28/04/08
  49.   Those are not OUR values but YOURS, you are destroying 18:00  |  Kris Lazar 28/04/08
  50.   Yes. 18:00  |  cfs 28/04/08
  51.   wwacd the pedant 18:02  |  wibism 28/04/08
  52.   Barak is openly endorsing IDF to committ warcrimes. 18:03  |  Dutch Dirk 28/04/08
  53.   The myth of human shields 18:03  |  Tzfonit 28/04/08
  54.   #41 theres nothing in the Torah about compassion for the enemy 18:08  |  read it next time 28/04/08
  55.   Bradley burnston..wow who dat peepin in da window 18:12  |  wow 28/04/08
  56.   Sderot`s inhabitants are not people 18:13  |  Denise Thompson 28/04/08
  57.   Israel - the worst criminal state since 1945 18:20  |  Chanalau, Tova 28/04/08
  58.   Our Defense Forces 18:20  |  Jeff Schiffman 28/04/08
  59.   what stupidity. not worth killing a tree for. 18:27  |  ralph 28/04/08
  60.   get real people die in wars specialy if terrorists hide with citi 18:29  |  ralph 28/04/08
  61.   To Mr Bradley Burston...it is a war, and you are a stupid 18:30  |  soldier 28/04/08
  62.   GAZA IS INSANTY SHAME. THAT POORNESS MAKE HAMAS RIGHT 18:31  |  ... 28/04/08
  63.   you can come up with a solution on how to stop Islamic/Muslim 18:33  |  Mordecai Ben Natan 28/04/08
  64.   On Creating a NON-VIOLENT IDF. l 18:41  |  David J Feiger 28/04/08
  65.   On Creating a NON-VIOLENT IDF 18:44  |  David J Feiger 28/04/08
  66.   Bradley Burston 18:51  |  Jim 28/04/08
  67.   The IDF denies it 19:03  |  Elder 28/04/08
  68.   Remember successful US conclusion of WWII effort and 19:05  |  Pssd off American. 28/04/08
  69.   #56 Denise Thompson 19:16  |  Jim 28/04/08
  70.   Denise Thompson 19:26  |  El Shakry 28/04/08
  71.   FRIENDS! Time for the international community to go beyond 19:32  |  lakshmi 28/04/08
  72.   #57 tova the bad needs acourse in world history from 1945 19:36  |  v hardman 28/04/08
  73.   On Creating a NON-VIOLENT IDF. l l 19:42  |  David J Feiger 28/04/08
  74.   bradley succeeds today! he shows us all he knows f all 19:44  |  v hardman 28/04/08
  75.   #54 read it next time 19:56  |  Jim 28/04/08
  76.   Zionist Sociopaths - Not A Word Of Sympathy For The Children 20:03  |  chet 28/04/08
  77.   Killing the innocent 20:04  |  Steve a 28/04/08
  78.   Tupac 20:07  |  Yosemite 28/04/08
  79.   Mr Bradley Burston. 20:08  |  David Nigel Braham 28/04/08
  80.   Tupac 20:09  |  Yosemite 28/04/08
  81.   NOT THE TIME FOR HAND-WRINGING,MR BURSTON!! 20:19  |  Ian 28/04/08
  82.   War Crimes 20:25  |  Tare 28/04/08
  83.   IAN AND OTHER BLOODY APOLOGISTS FOR ISRAEL 20:30  |  JH 28/04/08
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  87.   Michael is right about US tax dollars 20:39  |  Fed up 28/04/08
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  94.   Burston... 21:23  |  Marcus 28/04/08
  95.   Cry me a river 21:28  |  Gili 28/04/08
  96.   Eisenhower 21:29  |  Marcus 28/04/08
  97.   these People who do not live in the war should shut up 21:37  |  Achmed Zahir 28/04/08
  98.   Why the confessions of the left are worthless 21:37  |  Ilan 28/04/08
  99.   re 53 Tzfonit 21:42  |  Mikey 28/04/08
  100.   MESSAGE FOR JH#83 21:44  |  Ian 28/04/08
  101.   hollingsworth - Bradly Burston and 21:46  |  17 28/04/08
  102.   WHY AREN`T YOU CRYING ABOUT SDEROT? 21:51  |  israeli 28/04/08
  103.   To Denise Thompson 21:53  |  Heinz 28/04/08
  104.   how full of kaka Esther is! 21:56  |  hollingsworth 28/04/08
  105.   not surprised to see this in haaretz 21:56  |  Lou 28/04/08
  106.   #56 denise thompson 21:58  |  Labhras 28/04/08
  107.   Protected Citizens and the Law of War 22:02  |  Moshe 28/04/08
  108.   Thank you Mr Burston it needs to be repeated 22:17  |  Labhras 28/04/08
  109.   Thank you Mr Burston it needs to be repeated 22:18  |  Labhras 28/04/08
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  112.   @Burston and his dear Islamists: Stop whining already! 22:29  |  Protected Civilian 28/04/08
  113.   #87 fedup with idiots who talk tax $$$ 22:29  |  v hardman 28/04/08
  114.   Israel,s war crimes are our shame 22:31  |  Lee 28/04/08
  115.   Brad where is YOUR APOLOGY...HUH???? 22:31  |  KJJ 28/04/08
  116.   The Jewish State 22:32  |  Ariel Blumentahl 28/04/08
  117.   Human shield breaking: "News"! 22:35  |  paper tiger 28/04/08
  118.   Burston, what are your sources? 22:36  |  Ronald 28/04/08
  119.   Israel - a self fulfilling prophecy 22:37  |  Mike 28/04/08
  120.   Burston: "I want to apologize for the unforgivable" 22:38  |  Encyclopedia 28/04/08
  121.   Such authority 22:45  |  Mr Ipp 28/04/08
  122.   Geneva Conventions 22:48  |  Joseph 28/04/08
  123.   Complete agreement with Bradley 22:53  |  Esther 28/04/08
  124.   Burston? 22:55  |  Doc 28/04/08
  125.   Burston, you are either a masoquist or a fifth columnist 23:00  |  George 28/04/08
  126.   Ariel and Lee, I am very proud of you 23:02  |  Alex 28/04/08
  127.   Your "rush to judgement" only helps our enemies 23:02  |  Nico 28/04/08
  128.   Burston`s unforgivable crime 23:09  |  European Nurse 28/04/08
  129.   Stay on 23:12  |  Angel 28/04/08
  130.   #30-Comments by El-Birawi 23:12  |  Nate 28/04/08
  131.   Remember Mohammed Al Dura, remember the Jenin massacre? 23:13  |  Richard Delaney 28/04/08
  132.   IDF should clearly disband 23:15  |  Dumb Liberal Hippie 28/04/08
  133.   hoe can you allow such a heading??!!! 23:15  |  felix 28/04/08
  134.   Israel is comitting WAR CRIMES 23:17  |  Khaled 28/04/08
  135.   IDF Defense Forces 23:18  |  Irwin Graulich 28/04/08
  136.   Mike from Maryland 23:20  |  Marcus 28/04/08
  137.   Nu i pridurok 23:23  |  Yakov 28/04/08
  138.   Bradley Burston 23:24  |  TonyL 28/04/08
  139.   #87 23:32  |  Moshe 28/04/08
  140.   Be just 23:35  |  Gary 28/04/08
  141.   Denise 23:41  |  Gary 28/04/08
  142.   Mark Lincoln 23:42  |  TonyL 28/04/08
  143.   Bradley Burston, If only... 23:53  |  4 a free country 28/04/08
  144.   #119 Mike 23:56  |  Moshe 28/04/08
  145.   Assymetrical War 23:59  |  Anonymous 28/04/08
  146.   Thank you, Mr. Burston for speaking the truth 00:01  |  Lee Kaplan 29/04/08
  147.   go to a synagoge 00:05  |  hollingsworth 29/04/08
  148.   #109 00:08  |  Moshe 29/04/08
  149.   #89 00:10  |  Moshe 29/04/08
  150.   #114 00:20  |  Moshe 29/04/08
  151.   Only powder puffs and marshmellows 00:23  |  American Attorney 29/04/08
  152.   No Apology Necessary! 00:26  |  Avram 29/04/08
  153.   What for? 00:29  |  Lev 29/04/08
  154.   Burston`s Folly 00:32  |  Joe 29/04/08
  155.   Remember Mohammed Dura? 00:51  |  Boris 29/04/08
  156.   IDF: Gaza blast caused by militants` explosives 01:00  |  soldier 29/04/08
  157.   Israelis are terrorists too 01:14  |  Sad 29/04/08
  158.   War crime is IDF`s modus operandi 01:16  |  mehmet 29/04/08
  159.   Slowman, I am instructing you to stop working NOW! 01:50  |  Dr. Anshel Pepper 29/04/08
  160.   killing children 01:54  |  Finkelkraut 29/04/08
  161.   why not take an autopsy and metallic remains 01:54  |  vladimir 29/04/08
  162.   I am humbled by your courage 01:59  |  Ali 29/04/08
  163.   Thanks Mr. Burston 02:12  |  John 29/04/08
  164.   Dear Hardman # 113 02:33  |  North American 29/04/08
  165.   "The only atrocity is the one committed daily by Haaretz 02:34  |  Dror 29/04/08
  166.   Marcus - speaking of my favorite President 02:35  |  Mark Lincoln 29/04/08
  167.   @76, chet, did you have regrets when 8 students were 02:38  |  vladimir 29/04/08
  168.   The bottom line 02:41  |  Mark Lincoln 29/04/08
  169.   Self flagellating rubbish! Burston & Levy belong with Hass. 02:41  |  Chaim 29/04/08
  170.   bb, you`re way off on this one... 02:43  |  Akiva P 29/04/08
  171.   soldier - the mechanism 02:46  |  Mark Lincoln 29/04/08
  172.   This line says it all.... 02:47  |  Johnboy 29/04/08
  173.   #4 Pathetic rationalization, David 02:50  |  Johnboy 29/04/08
  174.   The Arab and Israeli right 02:51  |  Mark Lincoln 29/04/08
  175.   #31 Unbelievable "logic", Denise Thompson 02:55  |  Johnboy 29/04/08
  176.   @104, hollingworth, you don´t need anything, you are fine 03:05  |  vladimir 29/04/08
  177.   Bradley, Shut Up- 03:06  |  Ron Day 29/04/08
  178.   burston,ia the perfect proof,that leftism is a mental disease 03:07  |  chaim 29/04/08
  179.   Five Hamas tunnels found by Egypt 03:11  |  Lynn 29/04/08
  180.   Achmed Zahir in Gaza #97 03:11  |  Free Gilad Shalit 29/04/08
  181.   why ? 03:17  |  m.AlAsaad 29/04/08
  182.   Like the American bombing of Dresden 03:30  |  redsmith 29/04/08
  183.   #130 03:30  |  Moshe 29/04/08
  184.   Shall recieve their 03:39  |  roger wallace 29/04/08
  185.   As a gay American I appload Bradley. Bravo 03:43  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/04/08
  186.   #131 03:55  |  Moshe 29/04/08
  187.   Isreal is blood thirsty 03:59  |  Joe 29/04/08
  188.   Israeli deaths are collateral damage 04:05  |  Joe F 29/04/08
  189.   #116 Ariel Blumenthal 04:13  |  Jim 29/04/08
  190.   #146 04:26  |  Moshe 29/04/08
  191.   dror doesn`t care 04:32  |  hollingsworth 29/04/08
  192.   #119 Mike 04:34  |  Jim 29/04/08
  193.   #144 Mark Lincoln 04:57  |  Jim 29/04/08
  194.   #153 Johnboy 05:03  |  Jim 29/04/08
  195.   Like the American bombing of Dresden 05:07  |  Mark Lincoln 29/04/08
  196.   GOTTA LOVE THEM "PEACE-LOVING" ISRAELIS 05:08  |  PADDY 29/04/08
  197.   #150 05:10  |  Moshe 29/04/08
  198.   redsmith 05:27  |  Mark Lincoln 29/04/08
  199.   #131 Moshe 05:29  |  Jim 29/04/08
  200.   #1,Denise Thompson, how smug you are! 05:38  |  Silvienne 29/04/08
  201.   #5, Imad re: Denise Thompson.... 05:39  |  Silvienne 29/04/08
  202.   slow motion mini genocide...against palestinian people 05:41  |  another shimon 29/04/08
  203.   #41, David Kass.... 05:41  |  Silvienne 29/04/08
  204.   #56,Denise Thomson-who do you think you are? 05:43  |  Silvienne 29/04/08
  205.   #76, chet... 05:45  |  Silvienne 29/04/08
  206.   #76, Fed up is right too--not on my money... 05:43  |  Silvienne 29/04/08
  207.   #91, Esther... 05:50  |  Silvienne 29/04/08
  208.   #102, israeli... 05:51  |  Silvienne 29/04/08
  209.   #106, Labhras.... 05:53  |  Silvienne 29/04/08
  210.   #159 m.AlAsaad 05:55  |  Jim 29/04/08
  211.   #145, vladimir... 05:56  |  Silvienne 29/04/08
  212.   #144 06:00  |  Marcus 29/04/08
  213.   Well said, Dror! 06:01  |  Protected Civilian 29/04/08
  214.   # 1 to denise thompson 06:03  |  eric 29/04/08
  215.   Who is Burston anyways? 06:09  |  Lev 29/04/08
  216.   #76 Silvienne - NOT a chance... 06:36  |  PADDY 29/04/08
  217.   burston baits the jackals again! 06:43  |  eric 29/04/08
  218.   #187 Silvienne 06:43  |  Jim 29/04/08
  219.   Burston, why do you choose Hamas` version over the IDF? 06:43  |  Zvi 29/04/08
  220.   What a Chutzpah Israel doesn`t just let us bomb her. 06:52  |  Fortuna Benmayor 29/04/08
  221.   SOME FACTS 07:01  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/04/08
  222.   # 197 who is this lev anyway? 07:03  |  eric 29/04/08
  223.   # 212 to zvi 07:13  |  eric 29/04/08
  224.   #130, Khaled, a fact for you 07:16  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/04/08
  225.   BRADLEY only one thing left for you to do. 07:36  |  PETER SM 29/04/08
  226.   Reality? a look through blinders 07:47  |  howiej 29/04/08
  227.   JIM #187, are you serious? 08:27  |  Lev 29/04/08
  228.   Recognizing the suffering of the other 08:31  |  MH 29/04/08
  229.   You just don`t get it, do you, Jim? 08:31  |  Lev 29/04/08
  230.   BRAVO BRADLEY! 08:32  |  Niva dos santos 29/04/08
  231.   119 Mike 08:39  |  Lev 29/04/08
  232.   God bless & protect Bradley for speaking the absolute truth 09:10  |  Clickfool 29/04/08
  233.   LEFTIZM IS A HAPPNESS GUIDE WHICH SHOULD BE FOLLOWED 09:13  |  LONG LIVE MR BURSTON 29/04/08
  234.   GUYS ! FACISM IS NOT GOOD. DONT DREAM ABOUT IT. 09:17  |  LONG LIVE MR BURSTON 29/04/08
  235.   I ANNOUNCE MR. BURSTON AS INSANE WHO DONT SELL HIS INSANITY 09:18  |  HONOR OF INSANITY 29/04/08
  236.   MR. BURSTON ONES KEEP ISRAEL SAFE FROM REAL DANGERS 09:19  |  WAKE UP 29/04/08
  237.   YOU DONT WANT MR. BURSTON ! WE TAKE HIM. 09:20  |  ITS FINE 29/04/08
  238.   #211 erratum 09:13  |  Jim 29/04/08
  239.   Bradley Here`s My Prediction Come True Again! It`s Burdensome! 09:29  |  Yosemite 29/04/08
  240.   hollingsworth #104 to Esther - are you happy now? 09:37  |  S 29/04/08
  241.   "Dual Citizenship" It Says, Actually... 09:43  |  Yosemite 29/04/08
  242.   eric #210 - I knew you are not like the others 09:47  |  S 29/04/08
  243.   #219 Lev 10:12  |  Jim 29/04/08
  244.   erratrum #2 10:16  |  Jim 29/04/08
  245.   Bradley Burston 10:19  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/04/08
  246.   We should take self-criticism when warranted 10:37  |  Elihu 29/04/08
  247.   Ignorant tears for those who voted for their own destruction 11:53  |  Denise Thompson 29/04/08
  248.   LOL @ speculation regarding my religion 12:03  |  Denise Thompson 29/04/08
  249.   #229 Lev Part 1 12:05  |  Jim 29/04/08
  250.   #156, SOLDIER, wouldn`t believe you 12:13  |  VIPER 29/04/08
  251.   Defence forces, war crimes, terrorism 12:27  |  JohnY Yorke 29/04/08
  252.   #131 13:58  |  Moshe 29/04/08
  253.   So What`s Your Alternative? 14:24  |  Sam 29/04/08
  254.   #252 14:18  |  Moshe 29/04/08
  255.   Burston 14:51  |  j10 29/04/08
  256.   Islam will survive Israel 15:26  |  Manolo 29/04/08
  257.   J`acusse: Dennis Thompson suport war crimes 15:40  |  Manolo 29/04/08
  258.   #229 Lev Part 2 15:52  |  Jim 29/04/08
  259.   Achmed Zahir is right. 15:59  |  Israeli 29/04/08
  260.   Funny THOMPSON 16:10  |  Chaval 29/04/08
  261.   Talkback loons showing their true stripes 16:35  |  Denise Thompson 29/04/08
  262.   #261 16:52  |  Moshe 29/04/08
  263.   #259 Israeli 16:54  |  Jim 29/04/08
  264.   #261 Denise Thompson 17:23  |  Jim 29/04/08
  265.   #216, Paddy...you have a good point... 17:54  |  Silvienne 29/04/08
  266.   #218, Jim, but that`s my whole point! 17:56  |  Silvienne 29/04/08
  267.   #262, Moshe... 18:01  |  Silvienne 29/04/08
  268.   #266 Silvienne 19:00  |  Jim 29/04/08
  269.   But Mr. Burtson, if you apologize for the unforgiveable... 19:03  |  christoph 29/04/08
  270.   Silviene cannot conceive of a non-jew comming to israel`s defense 19:05  |  WWACD 29/04/08
  271.   #267 Silvienne 21:06  |  Moshe 29/04/08
  272.   #258 Jim 21:38  |  Moshe 29/04/08
  273.   Insulting Esther, out of all Israelis on this site 21:48  |  hollingsworth 29/04/08
  274.   #272 Moshe 22:51  |  Jim 29/04/08
  275.   Innocent civilians 01:22  |  Alexander 30/04/08
  276.   Alexander defines the term "combatant" 05:17  |  hollingsworth 30/04/08
  277.   #232 05:21  |  Moshe 30/04/08
  278.   Such nonsense from a deluded leftist 05:58  |  David 30/04/08
  279.   Saving our conciousness or the truth? 06:31  |  Eitan 30/04/08
  280.   We (US) subsidize it 06:49  |  Eitan 30/04/08
  281.   # 242, to "S" (2nd try) 09:10  |  eric 30/04/08
  282.   Our Defense Forces, our war crimes, our terrorism 09:38  |  Ephraim Ben-Zeev, MD 30/04/08
  283.   jew immigration or jew invasion? 11:04  |  Manolo 30/04/08
  284.   Human Rights Watch and ratios 12:53  |  Joe Sittizen 30/04/08
  285.   HRW on Pals and Hamas... WOW! Read this! 12:55  |  Joe Sittizen 30/04/08
  286.   #272 Jim 14:05  |  Moshe 30/04/08
  287.   #283 Manolo 14:29  |  Moshe 30/04/08
  288.   #280, Eitan... 16:55  |  Silvienne 30/04/08
  289.   #288 17:21  |  Moshe 30/04/08
  290.   I apologize 18:09  |  christoph 30/04/08
  291.   Why is this an outrage? 23:58  |  B 30/04/08
  292.   To Eitan #279 00:25  |  Farooq 01/05/08
  293.   Strategic Significance of Inaccurate Targeting 09:13  |  LTT 01/05/08
  294.   Even yet, not far enough 18:47  |  Aaron Levitt 01/05/08
  295.   Farooq 20:34  |  Eitan 01/05/08
  296.   Aaron Levitt has the last word 20:43  |  hollingsworth 01/05/08
  297.   Strategic Significance of Inaccurate Targeting 20:48  |  Eitan 01/05/08
  298.   To Farooq again 21:10  |  eitan 01/05/08
  299.   To Farooq again 21:14  |  eitan 01/05/08
  300.   david no4.... heres the solution 22:21  |  ravi 01/05/08
  301.   Clarification of post #294 23:19  |  Aaron Levitt 01/05/08
  302.   Hollingsworth #296 Learn About Perspective.. 03:27  |  Tim R 02/05/08
  303.   #301, Tim R 05:56  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 02/05/08
  304.   #301 eitan 07:26  |  Farooq 02/05/08
  305.   Hold in, Tim R. 07:35  |  hollingsworth 02/05/08
  306.   To Denise Thompson In Post 261 08:19  |  CuriousLeprechaun 02/05/08
  307.   Speecial I Hell 09:07  |  James Hopkins 02/05/08
  308.   Cipora Julianna Kohn #303 09:33  |  Tim R 02/05/08
  309.   #308, Tim R 10:31  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 02/05/08
  310.   Hollingsworth #305 Have you Read My reference Site Yet? 11:40  |  Tim R 02/05/08
  311.   our defence 13:47  |  mohd amin 02/05/08
  312.   Shame on the IDF 17:22  |  Joseph 02/05/08
  313.   You jumped the gun and perhaps fell for Palestinian propaganda 17:29  |  Shalom Freedman 02/05/08
  314.   You may not have to worry much longer, Fed Up 18:10  |  hollingsworth 02/05/08
  315.   causing harm 19:31  |  hollingsworth 02/05/08
  316.   More Real Freedom of Information in Israel 20:46  |  ron davis 02/05/08
  317.   our defense forces 23:42  |  menachem nachshon 02/05/08
  318.   Aaron, you were clear the first time 23:43  |  hollingsworth 02/05/08
  319.   #314 Hollingsworth 00:57  |  Aaron Levitt 03/05/08
  320.   ralph:so, let`s stop making war 01:38  |  kay 03/05/08
  321.   Hollingsworth #314 Does That Mean That You Now Changed Your Mind? 01:45  |  Tim R 03/05/08
  322.   Hollingsworth #313 02:08  |  Tim R 03/05/08
  323.   tim r 02:26  |  hollingsworth 03/05/08
  324.   Hollingsworth #323 02:47  |  Tim R 03/05/08
  325.   mr. burston, my appreciation and respect for you... 05:53  |  eric 03/05/08
  326.   Statistics: Afghan Civilians Killed By US & NATO Troops 07:35  |  Tim R 03/05/08
  327.   there are not innocent people during a war 09:42  |  Shoshana Thomasson 03/05/08
  328.   WHY HASN`T HAARETZ REMOVED THIS HATEFULL ARTICLE FROM ITS SITE? 16:17  |  MR. AMI GOLDMAN 03/05/08
  329.   Do us a favor and spare us your "enlightenment" 20:19  |  Gili 03/05/08
  330.   Repeating words turns them into meaningless acustic sounds 21:08  |  Kris Lazar 03/05/08
  331.   Same old jewish defense mechanism kicks in 21:16  |  hollingsworth 03/05/08
  332.   1948 palestine jews were immigrants 22:28  |  Manolo 03/05/08
  333.   joking the innocent people! 22:45  |  Manolo 03/05/08
  334.   #327 Shoshana Thomasson 23:43  |  Boycott 03/05/08
  335.   BURSTON`S DEFEATISM IS TYPICAL OF A SUPPORTER OF OLMERT 06:53  |  ROB GOTTESMAN 04/05/08
  336.   # 329 to gili in MONTREAL, CANADA 07:49  |  eric 04/05/08
  337.   Abyss of guilt 14:31  |  Raoul 04/05/08
  338.   Hollingsworth #331 Admit It, The Truth Will Set You Free 23:28  |  Tim R 04/05/08
  339.   Hollingsworth #331 Admit It, The Truth Will Set You Free 00:50  |  Tim R 05/05/08
  340.   The Torah Is Full Of Atrocities.... 07:38  |  Under the Carpet 05/05/08
  341.   Figures 10:20  |  S Bertham 05/05/08
  342.   For Manolo, Madrid 17:30  |  Raoul 05/05/08
  343.   El-Birawi 19:53  |  Purple Canary 05/05/08
  344.   24: Earth to Yosemite... 20:18  |  Purple Canary 05/05/08
  345.   Farooq, 21:00  |  Eitan 05/05/08
  346.   Worse than the other schmocks!!! 16:54  |  Albert 11/05/08
  347.   #46 Yonatan GREAT ! 16:58  |  Albert 11/05/08
  348.   #332 to Manolo 17:02  |  Albert 11/05/08
  349.   TO ALL WRITERS 17:06  |  Albert 11/05/08
  350.   Manolo, why dont you tell jokes about gallegos? 17:09  |  Albert 11/05/08
  351.   #343 Purple Canary 18:21  |  Albert 11/05/08
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