As Gaza Grabs The Headlines, Epic Slaughter Engulfs The Rest of The Region

Apocalypse ignored: As Gaza grabs the headlines, epic slaughter
engulfs the rest of the region. But where are the protests?
By Michael Burleigh
Published: 17:54 EST, 7 August 2014 | Updated: 05:13 EST, 8 August 2014
The fragile ceasefire in Gaza was still holding last night after three days, offering a glimmer of hope that the brutal conflict between Israel and the militant group
Hamas might be at an end.
Israel believes it has killed more than 700 Hamas fighters in the past four weeks and destroyed at least 32 of the underground passages through which Hamas
smuggles weaponry and launches terrorist attacks on the country.
In their cold-blooded parlance, Israels military leaders say they have mown the grass sufficiently to enable a withdrawal of troops from Gaza. In other words, they
have degraded Hamass military capacity to the extent that they believe it will take three or four years before the terrorist organisation can become truly belligerent
again; before the gruesome cycle of Hamas provocation and ruthless Israeli retaliation begins once more.
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Militant: Palestinian fighters from Islamic Jihad hold their weapons at the funeral of a fellow militant in Gaza
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Aftermath: A Palestinian rides past residential buildings in Beit Lahiya town, all but obliterated by Israeli shelling and air strikes, in the northern Gaza Strip
Destruction: A boy sits among the ruins of a destroyed house in Beit Lahiya, hours before the 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came to an end
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Cost: Mohammed Ali Wahdan, a two-year-old Palestnian boy, lies on his bed at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, as he receives treatment for burns and other injuries
Recovering: Wala Abu Zaid, a 10-year-old Palestinian girl injured in an Israeli military strike on Gaza, lies in a bed at the the Makassed hospital in East Jerusalem, where she was transferred by the Red
Cross during the ceasefire which has endured since Tuesday
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Hanan Abu Leil, a six-year-old Palestinian girl injured by an Israeli airstrike, recovering in the Makassed hospital in East Jerusalem. Doctors and aid agencies are trying to capitalise on a truce in Gaza
to evacuate more wounded Palestinians for life-saving medical treatment in east Jerusalem, Israel and Jordan
The battle raging in the Gaza Strip has transfixed the world. Relentless TV and media coverage has concentrated on the appalling death toll of 1,900 Palestinians,
hundreds of them children.
Protest marches sprung up across the globe as the conflict caused widespread outrage and some of the worst manifestations of anti-semitism the West has
witnessed since the Thirties.
At Westminster, Foreign Office minister Baroness Warsi who was passed over for promotion in David Camerons latest reshuffle resigned allegedly as a matter
of conscience, while the Tricycle Theatre in North London cancelled its annual Jewish film festival.
Horrific though events in Gaza have been, they were actually a sideshow to the appalling slaughter now raging across much of the Middle East as well as Libya in
North Africa.
What is so extraordinary is that the voices protesting so vehemently against Israels actions remain resolutely silent over this bloodshed which is on a far greater
scale than ever took place in Gaza.
Despite the indignation of so many at Israels ruthless display of power, the country has gone to great lengths to prevent civilian casualties by using leaflets, text
messages and phone calls in Arabic to warn people to leave targeted buildings.
No such niceties were afforded the hundreds of innocent victims of armed militia groups running rampant in Libya and battling for control of its major cities Tripoli
and Benghazi. There were a staggering 1,700 of these groups at the last count.
John Kerry on Libya trouble: "It's up to Libyans themselves"
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Inferno: A closer view of the fuel depot shows flames licking upward as thousands of tons of oil burn
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Battle: Militiamen take cover as they fight for control of the airport
Libya is now a country in meltdown. The government has disintegrated, law and order has been abandoned, violence is endemic, thousands have been killed,
airports are in flames and high-grade weaponry is available on every street corner, able to find its way to Islamist militia groups in countries such as Mali,
Mauritania, Chad and Niger.
Libya has become an open door for illegal migrants from all over Africa seeking to reach southern Europe and eventually Britains generous welfare system.
The Italian navy cannot expect cooperation from its Libyan counterpart, which used to help it stem the flood of refugees in Gaddafis day, since that navy is now in
the hands of five rival militias.
Last Saturday the United States shut down its embassy and evacuated its diplomats to neighbouring Tunisia under U.S. military escort.
On Monday the Royal Navy was sent in to help Britons leave Libya, while the Foreign Office has advised people not to visit the country.
The fact is that while the world protests over Gaza, it has given up on Libya.
Just three years since Gaddafi, its despotic ruler of 40 years, was deposed and David Cameron made that hubristic visit with President Sarkozy of France to
congratulate the Libyans on their new-found freedom the country is no longer functioning, as warring tribes and sects slug it out for supremacy.
There is an old Libyan saying: Within Libya, it is region against region; within regions, tribe against tribe; within tribes, family against family.
Meanwhile the situation in Syria and Iraq is as bad, if not worse.
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Ready to fight: Kurdish Peshmerga troops and Shiite volunteers take position during fighting with Islamic State (IS) fighters, in Amerly town, north east of Baghdad, Iraq
Wreckage: A burnt vehicle of the Iraqi security forces is seen in Udhaim district, north of Baghdad, where they repelled repeated attacks from Islamic State militants
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Bodies of Islamic State militants lie on the ground after fighting with Iraqi security forces, backed by Iraqi Turkmen Shiites, on Monday, in Amerli, some 100 miles north of Baghdad, as the city has
been completely surrounded by IS fighters for more than six weeks. Residents say a humanitarian disaster is imminent in the town
Syrian People's Protection Units (YPG) members fight against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Rabia town, Mosul, Iraq on Wednesday
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Thousands of Yazidi and Christian people flee Hamdaniyah town of Mosul to Erbil yesterday after the latest wave of Islamic State advances that began on Sunday
Yesterday, it emerged that 40,000 members of one of Iraqs oldest minorities have been stranded for days on a mountain in the north-west of the country without
food or water.
These people from the Yazidi sect were driven there by Islamist militant group the Islamic State, formerly ISIS. They now have to choose between slaughter at the
hands of the Islamic State jihadists waiting for them below, or death by dehydration if they stay on the mountain.
Where are the protests in the West for action to stop their suffering?
Last week the Islamic State released a 36-minute video to mark Eid, an important Muslim festival celebrating the end of Ramadam.
Eid should be a time of happiness, a holiday known as the Sweet Festival to end a month of fasting. Instead, the Islamic State chose to signify its arrival with a
shockingly violent video which revels in the carnage in Iraq and Syria as Islamic State militants conquer vast swathes of the country. (Only this week, Islamic State
fighters seized control of Iraqs biggest dam, as well as an oilfield and three towns.)
The video showed men crammed into the back of an open-topped truck, weeping in fear before being driven off to be executed. In another sequence, hundreds sit
on the ground in the desert, their hands bound, waiting to be shot. Still more men are shown being hit with rifle butts as they march, bent and blindfolded, one
behind the other. When they reach their destination, the blood-soaked edge of a small jetty, each of them is shot dead and tossed into the water.
Thousands upon thousands of innocent people Muslims and Christians have been murdered by the Islamic State since it captured the countrys second
largest city of Mosul. Last month it declared its own Islamic caliphate, or kingdom, across northern Iraq and Syria.
In a development with overtones of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, Christian families have had their doors ominously marked to inform them they face the bleak
alternatives of conversion to an extreme version of Islam or death. In the past 24 hours, 200,000 Assyrian Christians have fled the Islamic State into Kurdistan
where there are already 1.56 million refugees.
Crucifixions and beheadings are commonplace, while the Islamic State runs extortion rackets in every town it conquers and has looted hundreds of millions from
banks.
Amid this brutality, the flight of refugees is destabilising the entire region still further and reviving ancient rivalries between Sunni and Shia Muslims rivalries dating
back to the 7th century which concern divergent beliefs in who was the successor to Mohammed.
Nine million people have had been displaced within Syria as the civil war rages, but millions more are fleeing to neighbouring countries. Lebanons population of 4.8
million, for example, has been forced to cope with an extra 1.1 million people from Syria.
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Syrian refugees ride a truck towards Syria through the Masnaa checkpoint from the Lebanese town of Arsal near the Syrian border, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, yesterday, after a truce was
announced to end fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants on the Syrian border
More Syrian refugees stream towards the border back to their home country: Islamic State militants tried to seize control of a Lebanese town this week
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Syrian refugees flee from the Lebanese eastern town of Arsal on their way to cross back into Syria, as they ride in the back of a pickup truck with their belongings at the Lebanese border crossing
point of Masnaa, eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Thursday
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A Syrian refugee girl sits on cement blocks amid damage and burnt tents from the fighting between Lebanese army soldiers and Islamist militants in the Sunni Muslim border town of Arsal, in eastern
Bekaa Valley yesterday. Militant Islamists have mostly withdrawn from the Lebanese border town of Arsal, which they seized at the weekend, taking with them captive Lebanese soldiers, militant and
security sources said on Thursday, as a truce to end the deadly battle appeared to hold
Most of these refugees are Sunni Muslims, which upsets a potentially explosive balance in Lebanon, in which Christians, Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims share
power. The Islamic State has now tried to seize a town in northern Lebanon.
Meanwhile, the influx of one million Sunnis to Jordan a country of just 6.6 million people is boosting the (Sunni) Muslim Brotherhood, a political organisation
which seeks to overthrow the monarchy of King Abdullah II, a staunch ally of the West.
Within Jordan, there have been growing signs of support for the Islamic State last month there were anti-poverty marches in which protestors unfurled the
groups black flag which is threatening the border from Iraq in the east.
As we witness the disintegration of entire states in Syria and Iraq, some observers have been claiming that erasing their borders, cooked up by British and French
colonial rulers in the Twenties, would be a good thing.
But if we allow such countries to disappear, whole communities would be caught on the wrong side of newly-drawn borders.
This is already the fate of Christian and Shia people in the Iraq city of Mosul (regarded as heretics by the Islamic State, who are all Sunnis) or the Sunni population
in Baghdad (where the ruling class and the countrys Prime Minister are Shia).
It would be a licence for wholesale slaughter by religious maniacs.
Yet even this would not be the end of it. Because the rival religious factions carving up Syria and Iraq are supported by their own local superpowers, Iran, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia and Turkey among them. And as Sunni battle Shia, these countries are now being drawn into the conflict. Syrias President Assad and his ruling party
are Alawite Muslims, which is a form of Shia. Lebanons Hizbollah militia are also Shia. They are both supported financially and militarily by Iran, the main Shia
power.
The jihadist groups, on the other hand, are puppets of Qatar and Saudi Arabia which are Sunni and determined to fight President Assad of Syria to the death.
The Islamic State is partly funded from private Qatari and Saudi sources.
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Mad men: Power struggles were kept in check when when dictators such as Saddam, left, in Iraq, and Gaddafi, centre in Libya, were in power. Absurdly, Britains Middle East envoy Tony Blair, right,
claims that this chaos has nothing to do with Western intervention in Iraq and Libya.
This age-old power struggle was kept in check when dictators such as Saddam in Iraq, and Gaddafi in Libya, were in power.
But now it has been unleashed, many ordinary people in the region yearn for the restoration of the kind of strongmen in whose overthrow the West naively
connived. As the Arabic proverb says: Better a thousand years of tyranny than one of anarchy.
Absurdly, Britains Middle East envoy Tony Blair claims that this chaos has nothing to do with Western intervention in Iraq and Libya.
The truth is that, by displacing their dictators, we have caused carnage. And this descent into chaos has coincided, like a perfect storm, with Americas weariness of
overseas conflicts and mischief-making by Russia which supports President Assad of Syria, where it wants to keep a naval base.
But make no mistake, key allies of the West are now under threat from the Islamic State, and the crisis is lapping at our own shores. The so-called blowback threat
from jihadi terrorists on the streets of Britain, for instance, is growing by the day as disenchanted British Muslims are sucked into the holy war in Syria and Iraq.
For sure, we should grieve for the children in Gaza. But we cannot afford to ignore how many more innocents will die in the infinitely more dangerous conflicts in the
Middle East, in a cycle of murder that could last for decades rather than just four weeks.

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hindsight, Bourne, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago
We could start by making it a headline in the DM and not a page 3 issue.
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Doug, Oldham, 2 hours ago
Its the same with all things, if you do not run around shouting and screaming you do not get noticed. Its the same in the NHS the ones who complain most get attended to, everyone can tell you that.
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Sam Huston, Dominion of Canada, Canada, 2 hours ago
That's just what's going on in the Middle East, meanwhile the low level blood letting by these people in the rest of the world is still being ignored.
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IAmNoWhere, SomeWhereOverThere, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago
Most of the countries in conflict are as a result of meddling by Western governments who have very little to no understanding of the region.
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excusemyfrench, Reims, France, 2 hours ago
Funny that the same people who flooded us with news about Gaza several times a day are now telling us that maybe more important struggles have been taking places, overshadowed by the
Israeli-Gaza conflict...
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Spiney, Manchester, 2 hours ago
Public announcement: Is there a Middle East Peace Envoy in the house?
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Doug, Oldham, 2 hours ago
Pick a fight with Israel and you will get beaten, so all you can do is make headlines unfortunately this is not the biggest problem at the moment. The Middle East is in turmoil and the Russians in the
East of Ukraine are under massive attack from their own government, but little is written on these issues.
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XuXa, london, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago
israel is doing its crimes on a scale unseen in other conflicts using weaponry they cant match
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Lancer17, Stoke on Trent, 3 hours ago
There'll be no protests, because Israel aren't involved and can't be blamed.
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MsMontreal, Somewhere, Canada, 3 hours ago
Murderous lunatics the lot of them.
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MORISH, London, United Kingdom, 3 hours ago
People with different religions can live together in harmony but only when there is respect, tolerance and organization. Muslims, jews and christians lived together for more than 700years in the
Adalus (spain) with no problem. I wish the whole world is similar to London where every individual is valued and respected no matter their religion or origins.
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Philip, Cleveland, United Kingdom, 3 hours ago
Give Tony Blair a one way ticket to the Hague, a charge of war crimes is in order.
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Brian, Northamptonshire, 3 hours ago
Are Blair and Warsi taking notice ? No, I thought not - not enough money or newspaper column-inches in it for them to get off thei9r butts !
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Frank, London, 3 hours ago
And the winner is, Toyota. Suppliers of vehicles to all sides.
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Hilton, London, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago
They tried that with Gaza remember, but they dug tunnels and sent rockets.
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Tom ford intl, London, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago
The deaths are tragic but can easily come to an end if hamas agrees to stop firing rockets at israel, what other choice do they have but to retaliate?
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millie, Exeter, 4 hours ago
Good article. Political correctness prevents wider reporting.
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Tom ford intl, London, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago
Ceasefire: Israel ceases Hamas fires
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TotallyRandomComment, plymouth, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago
Why these so called martyrs have to kill their innocent kinsmen by their selfish actions is beyond me. I would like Hamas to explain how many fighters have been killed - Have all these innocent
people in Gaza died at the hands of a dozen Palestinian fighters or more ? And does this action carry the vote of all in Gaza? I sincerely believe youtake Hamas out of the equation Israel have
nothing to argue about
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b19upj, London, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago
Syria 200,000 dead, but focus on Israel... Seriously madness
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Elton, Brighton, 4 hours ago
What sort of life is it for the innocent peoples? And to want to have your life dedicated to war and killing is a sure sign that you have gone mad. If God created the Middle East, he must be having
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second thoughts about his wisdom in doing so. Unless he is the devil in disguise!
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clive 28, holetown, Barbados, 4 hours ago
All the problems of the middle east today stem from 9/11 and our desire to deliver the exact opposite of what the perpetrators of this event sough, a peaceful democracy with each person having
equal rights and freedom ,in fact we have given them more than they could have dreamed of ,the emergence of a super terrorist state.
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Jim, Norwich, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago
But now it has been unleashed, many ordinary people in the region yearn for the restoration of the kind of strongmen in whose overthrow the West naively connived. As the Arabic proverb says:
Better a thousand years of tyranny than one of anarchy How many times have I said this and posted this. The world is not the same and you cannot expect the people's of the world to be the
same; but you can expect that every man women and child has the right to peace; even under a Dictatorship that keeps it's people safe but is serves harsh punishments to those who break the law.
Mr Cameron take note.
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Cath, Marseille, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago
Way too much testosterone in the Middle East.
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Art, Newry, 4 hours ago
We are now rock bottom in credibility, over our Governments stance on the deliberate murders of civilians in Gaza.
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Mr Kevin, Dubai, 5 hours ago
All of this is happening and all of it is disgusting, but how exactly does it excuse Israel killing innocent children?
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Stukeley, Devizes, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
I wait with bated breath for the street protests, the vigils outside universities and the flag of christ to be flown in sympathy above town councils.
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Tim Wells, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
I went on 3 peace marches in Sheffield against the Iraq war, I wash my hands of it now, I could have told you the outcome.
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baloochy, london, 5 hours ago
This is because Israel presents the bloodshed as progress when in reality it's the opposite
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Isaac, South of the border, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
At least the Syrian and Iraqi children can leave to refugee camps, Gaza is jail you can't leave.
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EBOWARRIOR, HULL END OF THE WORLD, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
American government and policy caused this.
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EBOWARRIOR, HULL END OF THE WORLD, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
American government and policy caused this.
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Bradley Chinchilla, The Chilla Cage, 5 hours ago
"...Apocalypse ignored..." Yet it remains buried under headlines such as "...The Playground Prince!.." Shows our priorities does it not?
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Ted, Middle Earth, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Rich and soaked in oil and gas they prefer blood and centuries old grievances, the mind boggles at these people. One day they will return back to nomads (bomb themselves back to their middle
ages) and the world will not miss them.
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Spencer, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
There are no protests because the hip and trendy progressive liberals cannot protest against this. It doesn't fit their ideological opinions. To say they pretend to support tolerance they are despicably
intolerant to any opinions not the same as their own and literally shut down debate by any means necessary.
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Richo, Clacton, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Media bias has seen to ignoring the plight of Christians
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GRANDAD65, SCOTLAND, 3 hours ago
Your right Richo but a lot of the Worlds Christians have also been ignoring there plight..
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Dam You, Kent, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Religion....Believe what I say or I will hurt you.
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Dam You, Kent, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Religion....Believe what I say or I will hurt you.
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Jane, UK, 5 hours ago
And this morning Hamas has refused to continue the cease fire and commenced firing rockets at Israel again. Brief mention on the BBC news because the current trend is to vilify Israel as the
aggressor. Hamas complete disregard for the safety of its people and its eagerness to re-start hostilities in order to parade its dead and injured as the most cynical PR action the world has ever
seen is being empowered and assisted by the world media who are more than happy to fill our screens and papers with the images. Where is the universal condemnation of Hamas this morning for
their refusal to continue with the cease fire - no doubt the chattering classes will be silent about the despicable behaviour of Hamas, but will once again rise in indignant outrage once Israel is forced
to retaliate.
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Captain Hurricane, Wallasey, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
With the exception of Israel/ Palastine all of the other North African / Middle East countries that are in barbaric turmoil arrived at this disastrous position due to the actions of two men , Blair and
Bush !
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cornelius, Liverpool, 5 hours ago
There are protests all over the world, however, the CONTROLLED mainstream media is being told not to report them.
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Steve., Huddersfield, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Religion has a lot to answer for.
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bbrw2000, Teesside, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
I've seen the IS video and it's shocking! an absolute blood bath. This is only what has been recorded and shown so far never mind what's not shown. The numbers killed are staggering with zero
remorse shown. This is, and for years has been the threat not Russia. From Nigeria to Pakistan this is happening. The making of a world war has started and it will take more than talk and air strikes
to stop it
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Sarah, Leeds, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Maybe now the world will see that Israel was right all along. If you don't stop terrorists immediately, you have a much, much worse problem in your hands. I'm so pleased that Israel doesn't take
advice from the West. They'd have all been slaughter by now!
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Jamesuk1, London, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Maybe if Israel is asked nicely it could help with the other problems. It has a lot of experience dealing with these terrorists as it's surrounded constantly having to fight for its survival from groups
blind to their own people intent on its destruction
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Antler, London, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
What a good job the peace envoy from "hell" has done.
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hackop, Blandford, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
I dunno really. You're the media, you're used to making a mountain out of a molehill. Start a story, link them together, tell us the main players and let us read about it.
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Nadia, Surrey, 5 hours ago
There are a lot of Israeli defenders that are suddenly very concerened with every other conflict in the region except Gaza.
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UKIP For England, Clitheroe Lancashire, 5 hours ago
What has Warsi to say about the massacre of Christians in Iraq?
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George, City, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Keep out of something you don't understand. The wars in this region have been going on for centuries so don't blame recent events for the differences of religion, politics, power and money which
are at the root of these conflicts.
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Outoftheblue, Kent, 5 hours ago
Israel's scientists are great workers, especially when you consider that they have to spend one month in the army each year. There is no country which such brain power per population. It is
remarkable what they have accomplished. It is unfortunate that the likes of these terrorist government can't work with them instead, to make the entire region prosperous but no they are out to kill,
hate and destroy, for a bit of land ( my backside) They continue to fire thousands of rockets for years, day after day into Isreal, trying to provoke them to retaliate, then set up a whole media empire
of propaganda to bring Isreal down. Why should Israel DEFEND its citizens ? because it cares and they have a responsibility- unlike Hamas who kill citizens and blame it on Israel. Netanyahu
knows Israel's ( and the West ) enemy. I can't wait for the truth to be revealed.
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misslawbore, London, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
A sensible DM article at last after all the "disproportionate" media reaction to the Israeli Gaza war
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potless, livinginbox, 5 hours ago
Wait until it starts here then you have something to moan about
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BB Green, Toronto, Canada, 5 hours ago
The people in Britain have had their fill of war.
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Dotty, UK, 5 hours ago
Blair is solely responsible for all the carnage in the middle east. He will go down in history as the man who started the third world war. And where is. he???? Sunning himself whilst. spending his
billions made from all this. Time to make him pay.
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Truthteller, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
The truth is out there if you know where to look. How the Illuminati are Reordering the Middle East... Richard Evans... Truthseeker.. Nothing ever happens by accident.
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JE, London, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago
Aren't the Illuminati a fictional creation of Dan Brown?
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bill, nuneaton, 5 hours ago
Blair is the biggest criminal of the 3 of them
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Big Davey, Glasgow, 5 hours ago
Most if not ALL Middle East conflicts have been created by the US/Israel and the UK.
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Interesting news, Down the road, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Pack of cards--eh Tony ! Anybody for another round of ozymandias---Your deal Mr Blair ?
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b19jfm, Macclesfield, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Nice to see Blair in the Rogues Gallery where he belongs!
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Bravo Hotel, South West, 4 hours ago
Anyone else notice that Blair is sporting a halo? God must be supporting all his endeavours..!
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Paul, Grimsby, 5 hours ago
This is the legacy of bush & blair.
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cinjon, Kidderminster, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
In persepctive and from an historic point of view, while Western Europe spent centuries killing, dictating and imposing various leaders will on their own and neighbours there was no other so called
more civilised region to interfere so Western Europe learned lessons the hard way and finally democracy was established , the rights of others to have opposing ideas, religions or no religion etc.
Perhaps we should leave the Middle East to learn the same way. Our interference makes it worse and they do not understand democracy as we know it or religious tolerance. Harsh but maybe
there is truth in it.
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Big Davey, Glasgow, 5 hours ago
A pathetic and desperate attempt to justify Israeli war crimes and the slaughter of children in Gaza.
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PeterJackson, London, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Most of it is our and the american's fault e.g. the intervention In Iraq and lybia and the funding of rebels in syria
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schnibsey, York, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Appeasement. Don'tget involved. It's not our fight. We are facing the greatest threat to the free world since WW2. It isn't going to change it will get worse and the 'right' thinking international
community need a cohesive gameplan and soon!
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blondie2014, Durham, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
This is not a competition!
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jimbobwalton, Mordor, 5 hours ago
it's always the fault of us westerners, taking down bloody dictators, trying to give people a vote in who runs their country, etc, .all the evil stuff we in the west impose on other people's ,,,how ironic
that a sovereign country like Israel, which wants to live in peace ,but keeps getting rockets fired at them , then retaliates and is condemned by the ignorant pro terrorist, all Palestinians are good
people, numpties,,, how knieve, how simplistic, ...
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Talks to strangers, Leeds, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Won't be long before our little gap year warriors come home to roost. Full of hate & victory.
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maxine, newcastle, 5 hours ago
now Iraq got rid of Christians could bomb it and riid these evil militia for good!!!
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YaaBooSucks, Genuinely British, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Thugs so like playing soldiers and they're always very pleased with themselves particularly when killing the unarmed who can't fight back. I'm sure that not what the Prophet had in mind.
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truth, london, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Any way minority nations in the world are in danger !! if they go against those who are trying to systematically wipe out minority nations.world power come against it because of the vote bases and
the majority market availability around the globe.
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Oil and Land caused all this.
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William51, Reading, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
No, actually this is all to do with religion, two sides of the same one. This is the same as the Protestants and Catholics fighting each other 500 years ago. Remember "no when expects the Spanish
Inquisition"?
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So you think that the military intervention of the western world in Irak and Libia was to liberate people from dictatorship and introduce democracy and not because of Oil ! What about Israel, I guess
the reason why they're killing people is terrorism and not land. lol Behind every move US and UK do there is an interest. Love and care dont exist in politics. I wish the whole world become like
London all religions live together in harmony.
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Deborah, Hull-UK, 5 hours ago
And the people of Gaza, as soon as the cease fire ended sent at least 10 rockets into Israel. And what is the proportionate response that Israel should do in response?
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Rob Mo, West Sussex, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
It amazes me that our own ancient feudal fighting, which we experienced in the 18th century is alive and evident throughout the Middle East. There is so much wealth in the region, I wonder why a
simple solution cannot be agreed to stop the incredible waste of lives and what is the end goal of the people orchestrating these troubles?
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Dutch Ovens, Still stuck here..., United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
We had ancinet feudal fighting in the 18th Century? Do you by any chance mean the Jacobite Rebellions, or is your timeline off by about 900 years?
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RWP, Back of Beyond., United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Hussein, Gaddafi and Blair, if this is a competition of spot the tyrant, I have the answer so where do I send my entry?
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lodge60, abergavenny, 5 hours ago
The israeli pr machine has been hard at work. Yet none of these ``epic slaughter' examples involve a government slaughtering hundreds of civilians in a territory that does not belong to them.
Indeed, in some of these examples of `epic slaughter' - Iran for example - there is no mention of any killings. Sadly, the only countries where there is internal slaughter are those where we interfered
- Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan - or where the west armed the opposition - Syria.
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alistairboone, manchester, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Be very wary of the pictures presented from Gaza all over the internet!!! Many are from different conflicts in different areas!!!! Of course there is much damage, but the number of casualties and
dead have to be taken with caution. Hamas terrorists dont have uniforms and their many of their own rockets have misfired landing in Gaza, killing Palestinians too. ISIS and Hamas have the same
agenda, to destroy western civilisation!
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Rodd, Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
To the Hague with blair
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Ted, Middle Earth, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
And Bush.
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Kieran1981, Wirral, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Religion and oil plays a massive part to a lot of problems in the middle east.
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cae, London, 5 hours ago
Ya don't say. Insightful.
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sS2, salford, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Only one is behind all this
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Dotty, UK, 5 hours ago
Nostradamus predicted all this a very long time ago. Read them and weep! They are frighteningly right.
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JB, anywhere, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
All these protests are engineered and the vast majority that take part have little or no idea what it is they are protesting about. They will join a protest about anything. You only have to watch the
video footage to spot them. I bet if someone started a protest and protesting they would take part.
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June, Canvey Essex, 5 hours ago
Strange its all gone unremarked and unresigned upon by a certain Baroness; but we should stay out of it
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Woody, Somewhere up North, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Spot on..
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Jay, London, 5 hours ago
Tony 'war criminal' Blaire would say that, this is his fault for sticking his nose in and up Bush's!
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reeda, malaga, Spain, 5 hours ago
And your leading story is about a young man at a party!?!
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Theone2013, Manchester, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Right look at it this way when obama did the prisoner swap a while back has anyone else noticed it all kicked off from then?
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dot2dot, Bradford, 5 hours ago
The difference is that Israel is supported financially and with arms by the west, so we could have influence. The other situations are absolutely terrible, but it is dificult to see what we could do.
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alistairboone, manchester, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
No time in the history of guerilla warfare has a country, Israel, gone to such lengths to warn the other side. Hamas, like Isis, are terrorists and must be dealt with sending a warning to all Islamic
terrorists. The whole of Gaza is not densely populated, yet Hamas deliberately chooses to fire from populated areas, threatening people not too leave so to win world sympathy at the expense of
civilians, and the western media lap it up. Hamas leadership is safe in bunkers or enjoy lavish lifestyles abroad, expense at the european taxpayer. Does the world not know the brutalites and
executions Hamas inflicts on their own people? doubt it very much. They are a mafia. Where was the world the past 10 years when hamas has sent thousands of rockets to southern Israel? No one
doubts the carnage, but the numbers and identities of civilian deaths need to be reassesed. Hamas terrorists dont have uniforms, often mistaken for civilians and numbers of casualties are
presented by hamas themselves!
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joyce ovenden, Haute Vienne, France, 5 hours ago
Sometimes I wonder if all these 'fighters' remember what they are fighting for, is it just a release for blood lust by testosterone filled thugs?
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merlyboy, london, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Yes
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joyce ovenden, Haute Vienne, France, 5 hours ago
Sometimes I wonder if all these 'fighters' remember what they are fighting for, is it just a release for blood lust by testosterone filled thugs?
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Mal1, Scotland, 5 hours ago
Where is B.Liar the Peace Envoy you ask? Don't get him involved, the situation will get even worse and he'll get richer!
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poppy, Yellow Brick Rd., United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Don't they get sick and tired of fighting and for what......................????
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Chelsea, Essex, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
No, they have no life apart from what they are told to do by their masters.
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Jane, Durham, United Kingdom, 3 hours ago
they are mindless sheep who are seen as cannon fodder by those that are power mad. Unfortunately there are plenty of brainless thugs to do their dirty work.
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PATRICIA, LONDON, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
And where is our Middle East Peace Envoy - step forward Mr Blair and give us your latest sound bite on this.
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Richard 3rd, Bosworth, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Lets not forget that the invasion of Iraq by the USA and its pets kicked all this off, before this all these countries were held together by strong ruthless leaders that were treated like friends by the
west.
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MrKay, London, 5 hours ago
DM a more fitting headline is - Aftermath carnage in Libya and Iraq after UK/US lead invasion to 'Free the people'
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Prof, Lunnen, 5 hours ago
Hamas has great PR and the gullible outsiders base their opinions on emotional and western values. They will never understand until they judge these groups by their own values. They are fasc ist
in their treatment of women and minorities and revel in de ath. Look at the evidence
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sS2, salford, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Only the Left are gullible
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Berty Wooster, South, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Oh Cameron you really do deserve the name Camoron.
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J Mitchell, Sheffield, 5 hours ago
Well done Blair.....a great Middle East 'peace envoy'. Surely the powers that be must now realise what a waste of space this man is...and sack him.
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Philk, Manchester, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
No one will protest unless Israel are involved. Always has been that way.
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laraine, rhodes, Greece, 5 hours ago
and the worldwide media is to blame, the onesided reporting has caused most of the deaths
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BassZilla, the death star, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
This article was correct in placing a picture of Blair alongside Gaddaffi and Hussein. All people who have killed countless numbers in their own pursuit of power.
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