JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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kinniku
Newsman,
He would not be arrested, just fined.
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kinniku
USinJapan2,
Exactly.
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kinniku
rajakumar,
You are half correct. The reason for the fence is mostly economic (and safety). However, it has absolutely nothing to do with language differences.
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kinniku
Grafton,
LOL!
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kinniku
Helter Skelter,
No matter what you think of President Obama, there is no way Ms. Clinton could make a decision like this without the CIC's full and complete approval.
I feel for these three individuals. In that part of the world, borders are not always particularly clear. They made a simple mistake and it seems they are going to pay pretty dearly for it.
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kinniku
Ummm...Hamas admitted they were tunneling. They acknowledged the tunnel. Do try to keep up.
No. We only have a purposefully (?) uninformed person, you claiming this. Hamas acknowledged the tunnel existed. They had just had people arrested by the Palestinian Authority for building a tunnel and storing and using weapons in it in the West Bank in the same month. Hamas had also used a similar tunnel to capture an Israeli soldier before.
LOL! 'There was no tunnel!' 'If they were tunneling, it's okay!' Make up your mind! No, they only have legitimate reasons to make a real peace. Things like rockets, floating bombs and tunnels (INTO Israel of all places!) for smuggling weapons and killing only work against peace.
Who is defending Israel's treatment of the Palestinians? If Hamas would act like true representatives of their people and work toward real peace between Israel and Palestinians and Israel truly rejected this, Israel would then be at fault. However, this is not the case, no matter how many times you attempt to misrepresent the facts. Hamas puts its OWN people in danger by its actions. Hamas has even STOLEN food meant for its own people. How can Palestinians continue to put up with such horrible leadership? That is the real question you should be asking.
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kinniku
Sorry. One more:
http://axn.co.jp/lost/schedule.html
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kinniku
Your wish is my command! BTW, it will be on almost nightly starting on Feb 16th for bilingual and the 17th for subtitled.
http://axn.co.jp/lost/
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kinniku
Yes, we do know that.
The reaction from Israel was to kill the people attempting to enter Israel. The incident ended there and Israel declared its intention to continue to abide by the ceasefire. The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel then continued for about a month until Hamas rockets started again when Hamas declared they would not extend the ceasefire.
As I just mentioned above, they didn't. They just hit the tunnels in response.
Israel did that. Until Hamas declared about a month later that they did not want to extend the ceasefire.
Since throughout the ceasefire Hamas was in fact planning and preparing for attacks against Israel, the ceasefire was not worth very much at all. It is not today either it seems. This is the problem. It is not real. The Palestinians and Israelis need to be talking about real peace, not these 'ceasefires'.
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kinniku
Which is incorrect.
It is completely faulty and is based on only one DNA marker. Amateur science. Your comparisons fail in that regard. BTW, I was not specifying which Israelis and Palestinians to put side by side. You put any one Israeli and any one Palestinian next to each other and you will not be able to tell them apart. Since you seem to have met neither, I don't expect you to know this.
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kinniku
sabiwabi,
Yes, Hamas was just planning a picnic on the Israeli side of the border and that is why they tunneled on over. Nevermind the fact Hamas members were arrested by the Palestinian Authority in tunnels with stored weapons in the same month and nevermind they used a similar cross border tunnel to kidnap a soldier in the past. Yes, they were just in a picnic kind of mood and were misunderstood by Israel.
Incorrect, there is plenty of evidence that the tunnel was not going to be used for making peace.
Ummm...the very same Goldstone report and human rights agencies accuse Hamas of endangering civilian Palestinians by shooting rockets and mortars from civilian areas.
Was that before or after they had murdered Fatah officials? Probably during.
There was absolutely no reason for Hamas to be tunneling INTO Israel,except violent ones. It was counterproductive, as is this latest event.
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kinniku
Actually, they were not created by Israel, but they were certainly originally supported by some people in Israel, for example Sharon. As a religious charitable organization, they were seen by such people as a better alternative to the then stubborn Arafat and Fatah. Boy, were they ever wrong!
Yup. It is high time for them to actually do something good for their people, too.
Yes, if you use extremely faulty DNA analysis methods, one would get that incorrect conclusion. The fact is that if you put an Israeli and a Palestinian next to each other, you would never know the difference.
Bottom line, this action on the part of Hamas aligned militants will bring no good to the Palestinian people for whom Hamas claims to be working.
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kinniku
Actually, in the world today, this is the kind of thing that not only breaks ceasefires, but starts wars. However, there is more background about Hamas tunneling. You see just in that very same month, the Palestinian Authority arrested Hamas soldiers building tunnels in the West Bank in which they were storing smuggled weapons and conducting exercises using those weapons. In addition, a similary tunnel into Israel was used to kidnap an Israeli soldier leading to an extremely strong response from Israel. So, with Hamas' history with tunnels it is pretty clear they weren't planning a trip to Mecca.
Nah. Instead of tunneling, rocketing, stealing UN supplies and selling them, and floating bombs, it would be better if they negotiated for real peace with Israel.
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kinniku
Hamas and its aligned militant groups still continue to fire rockets and float bombs. There is no 'ceasefire' now and there has not been one for quite some time.
Incorrect. The ceasefire was broken by Hamas when they attempted to tunnel INTO Israel.
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kinniku
Incorrect. The ceasefire was broken by Hamas when they attempted to tunnel INTO Israel.
Untrue. You once attempted to argue this with examples, all of which proved to be incorrect.
That is not the point. Israel did in fact leave Gaza and you admitted that the average Palestinian in Gaza was happy about this and was using the border between Gaza and Egypt until Hamas messed it up and Egypt, Israel, the EU, the US and the United Nations put sanctions on the Hamas leadership.
Hamas had and still has a chance to be true leaders for their people. So far, they are failing miserably.
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kinniku
TumbleDry,
Well, they can't get their land back if they don't make peace.
Well, then Hamas should stop doing that.
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kinniku
I agree. Hopefully Hamas and its aligned militant groups will soon see that violence is not the answer.
No, what is baffling is that Hamas still is not willing to negotiate for a real peace even after all this time of seeing how much pain the continued violence puts on the shoulders of the average Palestinian.
No, they have not. In point of fact, they have done nothing of the sort, sadly.
You seem to easily forget that your explanation was proven to be incorrect.
Hamas has never agreed to negotiate with Israel for a true peace. When Israel left Gaza, Hamas took the happiness of finally having Gaza to themselves away from the Palestinian people with their continued stubborn attitudes.
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kinniku
While there are certainly those in Israel that might feel that way, Ehud Barak is quoted right in this article as not feeling that way at all. Regardless, the present situation is worse for Palestinians than it is for Israelis.
Are these bombs going to get the Palestinian people the peace they want? No. Have the rockets gotten them the peace that they want? No. Would ramming fishing boats (?!) into Israeli nave boats get them the peace that they want? No. The only thing that will get them the peace that the average Palestinian wants, needs and deserves is serious negotiations toward that end. The actions described in this article run completely against any hope of peace and just continue the cycle of violence.
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kinniku
But they were heading in that direction. Hamas messed that up.
No. Restrictions were imposed because Hamas refused to go along with agreements already in place between the Palestinians and Israel and Egypt.
Again, the fact that there were restrictions and further that they were increased were the direct result of actions on the part of Hamas.
Yes, it really is about time both sides were willing to negotiate seriously.
Yes, it really is about time both sides were willing to negotiate seriously.
Well, we do not know for sure that Israel had anything to do with this killing. However, as I wrote before, assassination is hardly unheard of on any side in the Middle East. Look at how an Israeli killed Rabin and how Fatah and Hamas kill each others' leaders. Hamas and its aligned militant groups also have no business sending bombs along the seas or rockets through the air to kill whomever they may hit.
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kinniku
sabiwabi,
Are Hamas and its aligned militants could act responsibly and intelligently and work toward peace instead of acting completely irresponsibly and inviting more and more violence on the very people they should be respresenting.
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