Comment from Don   (IP: 69.118.100.255)
Time: February 4, 2009, 9:10 pm

The title of the piece is grossly misleading. Likud Party leader Binyamin Netanyahu never directly or indirectly expressed a need to kill Palestinian children. His calling for the removal of the Hamas terrorist organization from power in the Gaza Strip does not come close to such a statement.

Comment from Tony Logan   (IP: 75.71.11.86)
Time: February 4, 2009, 9:12 pm

I’m just like that, ‘Don’. I ‘mislead’ people unlike you! …lol… You are just too funny for words!

Comment from Don   (IP: 69.118.100.255)
Time: February 4, 2009, 9:16 pm

Tony Logan,

You inferred something that Mr. Netanyahu never directly or indirectly suggested. That is misrepresentation.

Comment from Ronald Goff   (IP: 71.187.139.75)
Time: February 4, 2009, 9:18 pm

Edward R. Murrow is turning in his grave over the journalistic standards employed, or, more to the point, not employed in creating the impression that Netanyahu either stated he wants to kill children. You also suggest the Jerusalem Post is biased in its news coverage, then you proceed to refer to an article in Al Jazeera. Too funny.

Comment from Tony Logan   (IP: 75.71.11.86)
Time: February 4, 2009, 9:21 pm

The two headed hydra monster is tickling me to death! Help! I’m dying with laughter!

Comment from Don   (IP: 69.118.100.255)
Time: February 4, 2009, 9:25 pm

Tony Logan,

You may find other’s reactions to your deliberate dissemination of disinformation funny. The posting of such information only reveals an extremely desperate attempt to demonize Mr. Netanyahu. After all, misrepresentation would be unnecessary if the facts allowed for such a conclusion. But they don’t.

Comment from Tony Logan   (IP: 75.71.11.86)
Time: February 4, 2009, 9:30 pm

Don’t be a pompous ass, ‘Don’.

Comment from Don   (IP: 69.118.100.255)
Time: February 4, 2009, 9:32 pm

Still no facts to back your inference, Tony. The absence of substantiation speaks volumes as to the lack of credibility of the title.

Comment from Ronald Goff   (IP: 71.187.139.75)
Time: February 4, 2009, 9:33 pm

By your logic, Americans wanted to murder German babies in Nazi Germany.

Comment from Tony Logan   (IP: 75.71.11.86)
Time: February 4, 2009, 9:38 pm

Good God, ‘Don’! You have put more spam on this blog in just one day than did that guy in one entire career span who was just arrested and described by the press as the Notorious Spam King! Congratulations!

See rupert murdoch on this one… Notorious Spam King Nabbed, but E-Mail Onslaught Continues http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276632,00.html

Comment from Don   (IP: 69.118.100.255)
Time: February 4, 2009, 9:39 pm

Ronald,

The sad thing is, I doubt that they realize just how illogical their arguments are. But with a disregard for facts, as appears more and more evident, a lack of logic is not a problem.

Comment from Tony Logan   (IP: 75.71.11.86)
Time: February 4, 2009, 9:39 pm

Your mother must be proud of you, ‘Don’!

Comment from Don   (IP: 69.118.100.255)
Time: February 4, 2009, 9:43 pm

Tony Logan,

Sadly, your arsenal of facts is as empty as your arsenal of insults is full. If you don’t have sufficient evidence to support your insinuation concerning Mr. Netanyahu, then change your headline. If you do, post it and support your claim.

Comment from Tony Logan   (IP: 75.71.11.86)
Time: February 5, 2009, 12:22 am

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Comment from Eric   (IP: 67.166.43.0)
Time: February 5, 2009, 1:17 am

Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, director of the Tsomet Religious Institute: “All of the Palestinians must be killed; men, women, infants, and even their beasts.”

Israeli spokesman Nachman Abramovic on Palestinian children:

“They may look young to you, but these people are terrorists at heart. Don’t look at their deceptively innocent faces, try to think of the demons inside each of them … I am absolutely certain these people would grow to be evil terrorists if we allowed them to grow… would you allow them to grow to kill your children or finish them off right now? … honest and moral people ought to differentiate between true humans and human animals. We do kill human animals and we do so unapologetically. Besides who in the West is in a position to lecture us on killing human animals. After all, whose hands are clean?”

Legal scholar Dr. Nachum Rakover: “They voted for killers and sent them to kill us. To call them [civilian] innocent is a tragic comedy… civilians are partners of the killers.”

Israeli Orthodox Shas party official Eli Yeshai: “extermination of the enemy is sanctioned by the Torah.”

Comment from Ronald Goff   (IP: 71.187.139.75)
Time: February 5, 2009, 5:39 am

Can you pls.provide sources for those quotes? Did you not learn a lesson from the incident of posting the false quote of Sharon that you need to provide substantiation? Further, cherry-picking such quotes from individuals in Israel does nothing to deflect the fact that genocide is an official stated policy of the Hamas Charter.

Comment from Don   (IP: 69.118.100.255)
Time: February 5, 2009, 6:08 am

Neither Rabbi Rosen, Mr. Abramovic, or Dr. Rakover are in the government. They are expressing their personal opinion, not government policy.

As for MK Yishai, he is but one member of the Knesset. You are assuming that he meant civilians by “enemy.” Please provide concrete evidence that he defined “enemy” to include civilians and combatants alike.

Comment from Eric   (IP: 75.173.196.181)
Time: February 8, 2009, 7:05 pm

Looks like these guys are losing their steam.

But I’m detecting a trend among comments on progressive sites in general. They reflect a wide unleashing of military-toned voices: sophist, pedantic, with a callous sense of humor.

I wonder whether the blogosphere can survive an onslaught of military propagandists whose chief task is to litter the internet landscape with unpalatable uninteresting droppings, rendering it unreadable.

Hopefully someone can develop a plug-in to filter IP addresses with .mil associations.