Comments on: Outraged about Gaza? Fine. Now worry about Syria https://leftfootforward.org/2014/07/outraged-about-gaza-fine-but-what-about-syria/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Sat, 09 Aug 2014 14:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: Graf Potozky https://leftfootforward.org/2014/07/outraged-about-gaza-fine-but-what-about-syria/comment-page-3/#comment-396208 Sat, 09 Aug 2014 14:21:00 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=86599#comment-396208 The interesting question however, should have been why there are Palestinian refugees in Syria?

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By: Devilworshipper https://leftfootforward.org/2014/07/outraged-about-gaza-fine-but-what-about-syria/comment-page-3/#comment-364881 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:06:00 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=86599#comment-364881 In reply to mls31286.

My point did not mean that Syria ‘should have a free rein to kill people’. It was simply an explanation over why there is much less popular protest over it than there is over Israel.
Thousands of people took to the streets in Britain to try to persuade the warmonger Blair from siding with the Americans over Iraq and Afghanistan, so I don’t where you get he idea that ‘nobody spoke’ from.
Again, you misunderstand that logic of
my point about ant-Semitism. I am the first to deplore racist demonstrations of any kind; but peaceful protest against Israel is not anti-Semitism.

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By: Guest https://leftfootforward.org/2014/07/outraged-about-gaza-fine-but-what-about-syria/comment-page-3/#comment-363947 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:57:00 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=86599#comment-363947 In reply to Marc Letford.

No, it’s simpler – you don’t have a problem with Syrian abuses.

As you try and push the Assadist mentality of yours onto Israel.

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By: Guest https://leftfootforward.org/2014/07/outraged-about-gaza-fine-but-what-about-syria/comment-page-3/#comment-363946 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:56:00 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=86599#comment-363946 In reply to Devilworshipper.

Yes, of course you don’t have a clue about English, a language you can’t deciper. Using English is now a “syndrome” to you, which requires a terrorist like you to murder the sufferers blah blah.

Good Jihaddi crap from you.

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By: mls31286 https://leftfootforward.org/2014/07/outraged-about-gaza-fine-but-what-about-syria/comment-page-3/#comment-363875 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 20:57:00 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=86599#comment-363875 In reply to Devilworshipper.

So because Syria doesn’t have dialogue with the Western powers they should have a free reign to kill people…Also, the US and Britain have much worse civilian to militant kill ratio. Further, no civilians die in Britain and the US when they went to war with Afghanistan and Iraq but no one spoke of the dis-proportionality of the fighting to the extent it does against Israel.

The point is Israel is surrounding by countries like Syria that don’t respect the rules of war and have genocidal intentions against Israel. The US and Britain are surrounded by Western nations that live in peace with it. It’s completely unfair to expect Israel to hold up to the same standards of Western armies, but as General Kemp from Britain and any other Western army commander will tell you, no one puts in as much effort to avoid civilian casualties as Israel.

You mention the “usual accusation of anti-Antisemitism”, given the recent protests, are you serious? Turkey asked all of it’s Jews to apologize on behalf of Israel and compared said Israel has surpassed Hitler in brutality – this is anti-Antisemitism. In Europe, 6 Synagogues were firebombed along with Jewish businesses. Protests like these are happening around the world and Jews are being assaulted everywhere. Not every pro-Palestinian activist or Anti-Zionist are Antisemetic but you can’t deny that there are enough to call it an issue.

It’s like people want Israel to allow their people to be massacred before they can retaliate instead of preventing it from happening. Israel is very serious about “Never Again”.

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By: Guest https://leftfootforward.org/2014/07/outraged-about-gaza-fine-but-what-about-syria/comment-page-3/#comment-359038 Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:42:00 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=86599#comment-359038 In reply to Marc Letford.

Killed without comment? Are you mental? What about the notice given before bombardment, or the field hospitals set up to cater for Gazan civilians, or the materials/food sent in every day (most of which gets misappropriated). In the west people are taught that Jews are pernicious or just plain bad. It’s so endemic in western culture that lots of people can be easily radicalised. Killing people is awful, but to continually point the finger is not the solution.

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By: Wo Shi Xiong Mao https://leftfootforward.org/2014/07/outraged-about-gaza-fine-but-what-about-syria/comment-page-3/#comment-358507 Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:22:00 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=86599#comment-358507 In reply to Schtev.

that’s because jews and christians are evil and believe the wrong religion

muslims are pure and kindhearted and can do no wrong. those people who died in syria were not killed by syrians.

evil zionist jews used evil jewish magic to make the bullets fly all over the place killing kind hearted holy,peaceful,peaceloving,pious,chaste, handsome , hijab wearing, motherly,voluptuous, god fearing, honest, just, five legged , beautiful muslims

so it’s the evil jews fault don’t let the muslims brainwash you with their propaganda.

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By: Odumba100 https://leftfootforward.org/2014/07/outraged-about-gaza-fine-but-what-about-syria/comment-page-3/#comment-357908 Sun, 20 Jul 2014 22:06:00 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=86599#comment-357908 Why is it ok for people to cry for Gaza but they don’t do anything when it comes to Syria? Unbelievable. Assad is 1,00000 times worse than Israel.

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By: Gary https://leftfootforward.org/2014/07/outraged-about-gaza-fine-but-what-about-syria/comment-page-3/#comment-357655 Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:33:00 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=86599#comment-357655 In reply to Kad.

Why is there nothing that can be done? If british left wingers genuinely cared they would pressure the government and UN to send peace keeping troops to Syria to stop the open murders. The fact that they do not, but vigorously oppose Israel is striking

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By: Gary https://leftfootforward.org/2014/07/outraged-about-gaza-fine-but-what-about-syria/comment-page-3/#comment-357640 Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:27:00 +0000 https://www.leftfootforward.org/?p=86599#comment-357640 Brilliant article

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