Israeli commandos ready to board the 'Rachel Corrie'

Does that right apply to ONLY Israel? IS Israel the ONLY country that has the right to protect the safety of their citizens? It appears to some that the ONLY rockets that count are the ones INTO Israel, the ones out of Israel do not count, cause they are ONLY Palestinians.... So its okay to keep Gaza at 25% of the aid that was allowed into Gaza, BEFORE the Illegal blockade. It's quite reminiscent to the Warsaw ghetto that was in operation from 1940 to approximately 1944 for jews which Israel now thinks its okay to do to the Palestinians... And YET nothing about the death threats to an Arab Israeli member of the Knesset? Your silence speaks VOLUMES, only the Jewish lives count...we get it.

Israel faces very real threats from Islamist extremists and Iran. Israel has the right, but above all the duty, to protect the safety of its citizens.

And nothing about the death threat on facebook ? NOTHING?? Not a BIG fan of Helen Thomas myself. And NO, I watched her try to use her five minutes to speak in the Knesset and they were NOT very tolerant of her, in fact they heckled her, called her names, and did not allow her the time she was supposed to be given to make a 5 minute speech and now you are okay with that fact that there is death threat against her. I have problems with the manner in which women are second class citizens in muslim countries, I have spoken out about that before, but I would not call them fascist countries. I didn't think you would have a problem with the death threats against her....I am sure you are quite happy about that

Shuvonn: There is none so blind who will not see. Your bit of news concerning the arab member of the Israeli parliament, illuminates what a great and tolerant democracy Israel is. Do you see any Jewish members in the regimes of the fascist muslim countries that you champion? Didn't think so. I am sure Helen Thomas expressed your views perfectly didn't she?

There is now an Israeli group on facebook asking for the execution of M.K. Haneen Zoabi, a member of the Israeli parliament, she was heckled through her entire speech, calling her a terrorist etc... Really inappropriate, kids have been taken and questioned over wanting to slap a teacher, and no one is going to do anything about this? I see no reason for violence to be advocated on any level against either side, calm needs to prevail, I hope face book take that page down NOW.

PHPEARSE: Did you NOT get the memo, its only the governments that THEY want to have that right, did ya not KNOW that? Apparently the Irish government had no right to ask for safe passage of their citizens on the Rachael Corrie and the Turkish government (ISRAELS ALLY) had no right to either. How silly of us to even THINK they might have those same rights...the rockets INTO Israel count, NOT the ones that go into Gaza...silly you PHPEARSE :-)

Southernpride: " It's every goverments duty to protect it's citezens against terrorists" Can't diagree with that. Of course you include the Gaza government in this--they have a duty to try and protect their citizens too, don't they?

US of ISRAEL Games "One of the main purposes for increasing tensions on the Korean peninsula was to apply pressure on Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to reverse course on moving the U.S. Marine Corps base off Okinawa. Hatoyama has admitted that the tensions over the sinking of the Cheonan played a large part in his decision to allow the U.S. Marines to remain on Okinawa. Hatoyama's decision has resulted in a split in the ruling center-left coalition government, a development welcome in Washington, with Mizuho Fukushima, the Social Democratic Party leader threatening to bolt the coalition over the Okinawa reversal.

Apparently the government ministers who asked for the safe passage, the ones who support the Rachael Corrie are not decent Irish people in Southernprides opinion. No matter, *men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction* Blaise Paschal

Where do you get your stats? 95% of decent Irish people?.Does that mean the people you dont agree with dont count, Where is this survey ?.I dont think most Irish people would agree with the treatment of the people in the Gaza strip.

Southern Pride, You say the Irish Goverment had to use harsh measures during the Irish Civil war against IRA terrorist, by that you must mean interment, execution without trial, torture as well documented in Channel 4 especially in Kerry, and just so you know the Free State was backed by the Brits Arms and Intellegence. Learn your history.

No need to remind me, but you are selective in your thinking whom should be kept safe. Labeling the people on the Turkish ship terrorists does not make them so, Turkey is an ally of Israel. There were no weapons found on any of the ships, Israel has only used the footage that suits their agenda AND Israel has admitted that it tampered with the communications they taped between the ships before it illegally jammed the ability to communicate claiming that it was ONLY to make them easier to understand, not really believable AND the Israeli government has apologized for the tasteless video it released on youtube, made by a jp post columnist.

Thanks, teadoir. It's every goverments duty to protect it's citezens against terrorists. The Irish goverment had to use harsh measures during the civil war to protect innocent Irish people against IRA terrorists who were killing innocent Irish people and causing mahem in the South of Ireland. I just wanted to remind Shuvonn of what has to be done to combat dangerous terrorists lunatics to keep our citizens safe

There is no argument here, just merely differences of opinion. I do not care to be called a left wing nut job, and there are no buddies of mine in Jail anywhere, I am not a law breaker in any capacity. I am not calling you or the people who hold the same illogical arguments names. Not big on handouts either as you infer and allege. Pity the people on the Turkish vessel (Israeli ally) could not sleep at night when they were attacked in International waters.

Southernpride - forgot to mention, thanks for your service to Ireland....she probably doesn't understand it is because of people like you that she can have freedom of speech and sleep at night without worrying about getting attacked by another country...