The following is the official response to the comment made by Rasool Snyman on the post “Hot Topic: Gaza/Israel – Published the 10th of January 2009″.
The original article can be viewed at the following URL’s:
- http://sweetbru.com/2009/01/hot-topic-gaza-israel-noel-harrison/
- http://www.noelharrison.net/archives/93
Hello Rasool,
Let me handle your questions that you asked in the previous post, then I will come to what I have to say about the long article that you attached;
I want you to know, that to me, what I am discussing here has nothing to do with the religion (however this could be a massive debate backing to ages ago, and of course you will have a conflicting view to me on this too) , I am not a Jew, Muslim or a Zionist. However I see that you are a member or some sort of affiliate and a sympathizer to the people of Palestine – seen in your Palestine Support Group and your pro-Palestine poetry, so of course you are going to do absolutely anything to defend anything that is done against Israel, where as myself, I am not a member of any pro this or that groups and I do not share a religion or faith with any of the groups. I have taken the time to look into the history and have identified that;
a.)Hamas has committed acts of terrorism
b.)Hamas has been classified and is internationally recognized as terrorist organization, and not only by America, but by many of the other countries in this world. So I think that you need to stop trying to say that Hamas is not a Terrorist organization
c.)Rasool (now I dont want you ducking from this question, its really important that the readers get an answer to this) What does your religious book say about the Infidel? Correct me if I am wrong – All followers of Allah have been commanded to to kill everyone who is not of your faith so they can have a place in heaven? Is that correct?
d.)Did you know, that according to International – INTERNATIONAL law, Israel is still within their boundaries legally.
e.)My answer to the apartheid question would be – different. One is done out of hate of a group of people, however, what Israel is doing is out of pure defense and out of pure protection for their people. I dont think that you would be vocal at all if this war was the other way around.
Answer these questions for me before you make any more statements;
1. Where were the protest marches all those years Hamas was firing rockets into Israel?
2. If you see a group of kids playing in the park… not harming anyone, would you be upset if someone constantly fired rockets at them, killing a few here and there?
3.If your neighbor was firing rockets into my back yard putting your children in danger, what would you do, would you just leave it because maybe only one or two of your children get hit and die?
As expressed by many readers, I feel sorry for those who die in the pursuit of peace, bu that it what happens very often in order to secure peace, you critiqued me on this point a while ago, but let me back it up;
When Hitler was disrupting peace and taking over masses of land and killing thousands and thousands of people, do you think the rest of the world should of said, well in order to make peace there we should do nothing and lets say, just let things work themselves out? I think not!
Now to the article, Rasool, I am sure that you will agree with me, that in every group of people, Jewish, Muslim and so on, you will have extremists and then you will have people who are not. This is probably written by one of those kinds of people.
This is how I see the situation in a step by step guide;
1. Israel has agreed to a peace treaty
2. Hamas breaks the peace treaty
3. Israel does nothing, but maybe warns Hamas
4. Hamas is not interested in the warnings, no they know what their objectives are – to see Israel destroyed! TO SEE ISRAEL DESTROYED!!!
5. So they continue firing their rockets, and Israel does nothing.
6. One day Israel thinks enough is enough, we need to deal with the treat and the constant fear that our people live in
7. They vow to attack until certain objectives are met
8. The rest of the world (well actually not, America does not) backs Palestine? Why did they not back Israel when Israel was being attacked
Rasool, stop trying to debate the fact that Hamas is not a terrorist organization, they have been declare one, and in fact that is a generally agreed upon things – Hamas is a terrorist organisation
It is so clear that you are a Palestine Supporter and therefore, of course you will not be willing to see any fault on the behalf of Hamas. Your opinion and your understanding of the situation seems to overshadow anything that has happened to Israel, and you continue to ignore certain select statements and questions I have made. I want to answers to those questions, I answered your, now you answer mine.
Noel Harrison
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