Israel is not the only nation on the planet with the right to defend itself. The Palestinian people have the same right to defend themselves from the US-Israeli concentration camps into which they have been forced to live. The reason that the world signed on to the Geneva Conventions and the International Rules of War was precisely because of this international need for the right of every nation to self-defense. (1) These are the same conventions and laws that Israel has smashed at every turn in their current slaughter of the Palestinian people. If every nation does not have the right to self-defense, then no nation can claim to have that right. 'The Bible' is not a globally recognized basis for anything in secular or civil law, and given its conflicted history between the old and new testaments; it apparently has no moral authority when it comes down to how any modern nation treats its people today. The barbarity of the paternalistic order instituted under the terms of the Judeo-Christian ethic is a slander upon the rights and responsibilities of hundreds of millions of men and women everywhere. Biblical 'CONQUEST' carries "The Burning Flag of All Nations in its volcanic fist; and is backed by the pawns of war upon the shield of WAR that has been used and abused since long before there was an "Israel." (2) This is especially repugnant when those adhering to these outdated practices attempt to claim that among all the people of the earth 'they and they alone have been chosen above all other people on this earth.' If Israel continues to cling to this insult, then she will just finish digging that grave for herself which apparently is her chosen goal. Here's a classic from Mordechai Eliyahu: "All civilians living in Gaza are collectively guilty for Kassam attacks on Sderot, former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has written in a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Eliyahu ruled that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket launchings. The letter, published in Olam Katan [Small World], a weekly pamphlet to be distributed in synagogues nationwide this Friday, cited the biblical story of the Shechem massacre (Genesis 34) and Maimonides' commentary (Laws of Kings 9, 14) on the story as proof texts for his legal decision. According to Jewish war ethics, wrote Eliyahu, an entire city holds collective responsibility for the immoral behavior of individuals. In Gaza, the entire populace is responsible because they do nothing to stop the firing of Kassam rockets. The former chief rabbi also said it was forbidden to risk the lives of Jews in Sderot or the lives of IDF soldiers for fear of injuring or killing Palestinian noncombatants living in Gaza." (3) Maybe what 'Israel' was chosen for, is the example of how not to treat the rest of the planet-maybe this accounts for why she has been evicted from so many nations around the world since the days when Carthage was still powerful. History matters greatly; especially when there is such over whelming evidence of such an anti-social society as the one that has co-opted the Jewish state in its efforts to assist the money-changers in the enslavement of this world. Israel is demanding that Gaza be permanently disarmed and that the Palestinian people never be allowed to resist them, "ever again.' This despite the fact that virtually everything that Israel has done to what's left of that nation has been done with the clear threat of exterminating an entire people. Just take a close look at the Israeli Wall of Shame. This makes the Berlin Wall look like a kindergarten exercise. (4) Israel plays with media-spin and global intimidation based on the full and obscene backing the Un-American Administration and especially the congress that has forgotten which country it supposedly represents, which makes everyone that voted for this criminal-act of support for the criminal-state of Israel, guilty of treason, against those Americans that disagree completely with this on-going war-crime in Gaza. (5) The flaunting of International Law and the contravention of all human rights inside occupied Israel must be terminated before that entire region is buried in clouds of permanent global war. Obama is not going to do anything except to further the bloodshed in this international farce that is based on nothing but the self-serving lies of Israel and the corporate-state of America, so any attempt to stop this madness must come from the outrage of the world and especially from the Americans that make it all possible by arming and funding Israel to the teeth. kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net 1) America's Shame http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21712.htm 2) Ending the Threat from the Judeo-Christian Bible http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2008/art19.htm 3) Eliyahu advocates carpet bombing Gaza http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? cid=1180527966693&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull 4) Israel's Wall in the West Bank http://www.vtjp.org/background/wallgraphics.htm 5) The United States promotes Israeli Genocide against the Palestinians http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21722.htm