Dutchman returns Holocaust medal after family deaths in Gaza

[cronus]

I'm about to become an uncle past 45, I doubt I'll know my nephew/niece's kids much unless they are begotten in a real hurry

Well, you know what they say…

Better a Grandpa at thirty be,
Than to become a Father at thirty-three.

I was 33 when my youngest was born!

The defence rests.

Not so fast. Seems he returned the medal because of nearish relatives dying. If they had not died would he have kept the medal? This is putting his own above other folks and precisely half the issue causing the massacring.

[JimC]

I'm about to become an uncle past 45, I doubt I'll know my nephew/niece's kids much unless they are begotten in a real hurry

Well, you know what they say…

Better a Grandpa at thirty be,
Than to become a Father at thirty-three.

I was 33 when my youngest was born!

The defence rests.

Resting, eh...

Lazy bloody defence lawyers!

[pErvinalia]

Harbouring people obviously runs in the family: he harboured a Jewish refugee, and his grand-niece's family harboured a member of the Al Qassam Brigades.

And they deserved to die for it, yes? Fuckwit.

[Strontium Dog]

Harbouring people obviously runs in the family: he harboured a Jewish refugee, and his grand-niece's family harboured a member of the Al Qassam Brigades.

And they deserved to die for it, yes? Fuckwit.

You are human strychnine. Fuck off.

The moral of the story, naturally, is that harbouring terrorists makes you a legitimate mlitary target.

[colubridae]

Harbouring people obviously runs in the family: he harboured a Jewish refugee, and his grand-niece's family harboured a member of the Al Qassam Brigades.

And they deserved to die for it, yes? Fuckwit.

You are human strychnine. Fuck off.

The moral of the story, naturally, is that harbouring terrorists makes you a legitimate mlitary target.

You are human strychnine

reported

[Svartalf]

Hmmm... SD, where do you get that any of the dead people or their relatives are/were terrorists?
From what I read they were looking pretty civilian.

[mistermack]

Hmmm... SD, where do you get that any of the dead people or their relatives are/were terrorists?
From what I read they were looking pretty civilian.

Without a link to a reliable source, I have to assume that SD is bullshitting.
It wouldn't be the first time. Nor the second.

[Hermit]

Hmmm... SD, where do you get that any of the dead people or their relatives are/were terrorists?
From what I read they were looking pretty civilian.

Without a link to a reliable source, I have to assume that SD is bullshitting.
It wouldn't be the first time. Nor the second.

Don't be so fucking stupid, fellas. The IDF blew up a house with peopole in it. Ipso facto, it housed at least one terrorist.

Unless of course the IDF blew up a wedding party because it mistook it for a terrorist meet, but that's the speciality of the US military.

Elsewhere, plucking civilian airliners out of the air is soupe du jour.

And mentioning renditioning of suspects, subjecting them to torture and imprisonment without bothering to bring forth any charges for years on end is definitely out of fashion now.

Wait another month, and the media focus will shift to the nuclear threat from North Korea once again, replete with pictures of funny haircuts.

[Strontium Dog]

Hmmm... SD, where do you get that any of the dead people or their relatives are/were terrorists?
From what I read they were looking pretty civilian.

Well, it helps immeasurably if you look at a list of the deceased.

http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index ... Itemid=194

This is the one you're looking for:

At approximately 14:00, an Israeli warplane launched a missile at a 3-storey house belonging to Jameel Sha’ban Ziada, in which 20 people live, in al-Boreij refugee camp. The house was destroyed and 6 members of the family, including 2 women and a child, and a guest were killed: Jameel Sha’ban Ziada, 53; Yousef Sh’aban Ziada, 43; ‘Omar Sha’ban Ziada, 32; Sha’ban Jameel Ziada, 12; Muftiya Mohammed Ziada, 70; Bayan ‘Abdul Latif Ziada, 39; and Mohammed Mahmoud al-Maqadma, 30.

Spot the odd one out. Protip: he's the victim none of the news reports have mentioned.

In case there was any lingering doubt, here is Mohammed Mahmoud al-Maqadma's Al Qassam Brigades martyr poster:

[Strontium Dog]

Without a link to a reliable source, I have to assume that SD is bullshitting.
It wouldn't be the first time. Nor the second.

Coming from you, that's pretty funny.

[Svartalf]

Yeah, right, killing any number of civilians, including nonfighting females and children is alright so long as at least one valid target is gotten. Udderly and todally jusdified...

[pErvinalia]

Harbouring people obviously runs in the family: he harboured a Jewish refugee, and his grand-niece's family harboured a member of the Al Qassam Brigades.

And they deserved to die for it, yes? Fuckwit.

You are human strychnine. Fuck off.

The moral of the story, naturally, is that harbouring terrorists makes you a legitimate mlitary target.

Moral of the story is that you have no morals. Civilians are never "legitimate" military targets. Only in fascist land.

[pErvinalia]

Yeah, right, killing any number of civilians, including nonfighting females and children is alright so long as at least one valid target is gotten. Udderly and todally jusdified...

Yeah. Not that we needed any further verification, but the fact that he calls himself a liberal and a proponent of freedom makes him a joke of the highest order.

[Svartalf]

Moral of the story is that you have no morals. Civilians are never "legitimate" military targets. Only in fascist land.

What kind of land do you take israel for?

[Svartalf]

Yeah, right, killing any number of civilians, including nonfighting females and children is alright so long as at least one valid target is gotten. Udderly and todally jusdified...

Yeah. Not that we needed any further verification, but the fact that he calls himself a liberal and a proponent of freedom makes him a joke of the highest order.

You know the old Jacobin slogan... No freedom for the enemies of freedom.