A Fair Comparison?

[Gromit]

Benjamin Netanyahu has compared Hamas rocket attacks on Israel to what Britain endured during World War Two. The similarity seems slight...

1940-41:
More than one million London houses were destroyed or damaged, and more than 40,000 civilians were killed, almost half of them in London.

2013-14.
ONE person has been killed by Hamas missiles in the last 18 months. 28 in total over the last 13 years.

[naomi24]

He clearly wasn't here.

[jeffa]

That would have been rather unlikely, naomi :-)

[ChillDoubt]

Might be time for Hamas to give it up then and agree a ceasefire. Their defiance is costing a lot of innocent lives.

[jno]

another 8000+ killed and 20,000+ wounded by V1s and V2s later in the war.

[Gromit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10988018/Israel-Gaza-conflict-Netanyahu-compares-Hamas-rocket-attacks-to-the-Blitz.html

[ChillDoubt]

He clearly wasn't here.
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Indeed not. If anywhere during WWII, he'd have been located here:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutchinson_Internment_Camp

[Zeuhl]

/Their defiance is costing a lot of innocent lives. /

To be accurate; the Israeli response to their defiance is costing a lot of innocent lives.

[Gromit]

// If anywhere during WWII, he'd have been located here //

He wasn't born until after the War. I don't think we interned Israelis.

[ChillDoubt]

He wasn't born until after the War. I don't think we interned Israelis.
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Er, that was kinda my point...............

IF he had been in the UK(which he clearly, impossibly wasn't) he would in all likelihood as a prominent Jew have been found on the Isle of Man.

Geddit?

[Orderlimit]

Good job Israel has the Iron Dome defence system, reported to have intercepted more than 400 (approx 90%) enemy missles from Gaza in just over a year.

[Gromit]

// Geddit? //

Perhaps I am being think. The Isle of Man Camp housed Germans and Austrians suspected of being Nazi sympathisers or spies. Are you claiming Netanyahu is a Nazi?

[Gromit]

// Good job Israel has the Iron Dome defence system //

Which has cost the United States $1billion.

[sandyRoe]

And while the Israelis can dip into the bottomless pockets of the Americans to fund their defences there'll be no incentive to compromise.

[mikey4444]

We should ignore whatever this Israeli twit sayd. I have just watched a news report on Ch 4 news tonight, that shows that Israel arte now are now targeting United Nations schools with their shells...yet another milestone that the modern and so-called democratic State of Israel has passed...what next ?

[ChillDoubt]

Gromit,
Ho back and look at the wiki link and have a read about some of the famous former inmates in there. They were all basically there because they were Jews or had Jewish parentage and had in fact been persecuted in Germany.
Even some of David Baddiel's relatives were there.
As he said in a programme he made about it, most were there because they were Jews, nothing more.

http://timewitnesses.org/english/IsleOfMan.html

[mikey4444]

Netanyahu needs to learn some history here. While the Allies were trying to defeat the Nazis, the Germans were busy killing as many Jews as possible in the final solution, almost certainly some of his own relatives.

How many concentration camps and gas ovens are in Gaze at the present time ?

An ignorant man without doubt.

[ChillDoubt]

How many concentration camps and gas ovens are in Gaze at the present time ?
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Is that a serious question?

[Booldawg]

a quick reference back to WW2 to excuse their behaviour no doubt. Lest we forget....

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// We should ignore whatever this Israeli twit sayd. ///

'Israeli twit'??????????????

It is interesting what you said mikey, but I am not just criticising you as others also seem afraid to put the 'J' word.

The same occurs where Muslims are concerned ie Islamics, don't seem so offensive that way I presume.

[naomi24]

I'm not with you, AOG. What's the 'J' word? Jew? Why would anyone be afraid to use that?