![]() ![]() That's about one person dying every six seconds.īut just how many people are sickened by secondhand smoke has been less clear, which led researchers to try to investigate how big the problem is. Health officials have known that more than 1 billion people around the world smoke and 5 million people die each year from tobacco-related illness, according to the World Health Organization. And the comparisons of Palestine to the Jewish ghettos of Berlin are one of the scariest ironies I've ever seen.1 in 100 people around the world die from secondhand smoke each year, a new study reveals, and nearly two-thirds of the deaths occur in children. If your direct ancestors haven't been in the area for 1000+ years it is pretty inconsiderate to marginalize the people who have been there for at the last several hundred years. It would be much like Germans wanting to claim back a part of Italy due to them having the Kingdom of the Visigoths there 1000 years ago. The claim that it is their god given right to be there is just a fairy-tale when you consider that they were forced from the area over 1000 years ago. It is pretty rude to make yourself at home in someone else's country and refuse to integrate with local cultures and customs. While I think both sides are to blame and that their religions and religious customs are 99.99% of the problem the fact that the Palestinians have been cordoned off in a getto in their own country by a religious group who were given over part of their country by the UK who had no right does tip the scales a little in the direction of the Israelis for fault. It truly seems that neither side wants to live together in harmony and I don't mean with a wall between them. ![]() They are all just people, its not like foxes and hens trying to live together. This seems to be clearest example today of religion turning a society into a sink hole. It is just deplorable behavior on both sides. “And from the moment that negotiations collapsed in this late March, this illusion that you can go back to Washington, deal with China and Ukraine and ignore the Middle East, was a dangerous illusion.” “The moment you try to have peace in this land, the way Secretary Kerry did in a courageous way, you cannot step back.” “The fact that the Israeli government failed to be very tough with these extremists is now making that very government a victim to that extremism.”Īs for the Americans, Shavit said that they have taken a hands-off approach to Israel ever since Secretary of State John Kerry’s much-lauded push for peace between Israel and the Palestinians fell apart earlier this year. He has not cracked down on “extreme Jewish nationalists, who have been acting in a very violent way for years.” Shavit praised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for preventing violence, but “he should be criticized, very much so, for not controlling the extremists in his government.” “The extremists have taken the lead and might dictate their will and their way to the moderates.” And the result is that all of the above are responsible for this escalation, with extremists on both sides are leading the way and might create major, major violence in the coming days.”īoth the Israeli and Palestinians have “wasted five precious years” of calm, he said, scuttling any real attempts at reaching peace. “We didn’t have American leadership we didn’t have Israeli courage we didn’t have moderate Palestinian strength. “No one is holy here,” Shavit said of current tensions. “The danger, the great danger tonight, is that after the Israeli action that must come now, we will have more rockets shooting into Israel and a real escalation.” “But Hamas – that kept on saying it wants to stop escalation – fired dozens of rockets into Israel in the last few hours, and Israel will not be able to be restrained anymore.” We’ve seen remarkable restraint on the behalf of the Israeli government – quite surprisingly for many, a right-wing, conservative government led by Benjamin Netanyahu did everything possible not to get into another war or cycle of violence. “For the last few days we’ve seen extraordinary attempts to stop the escalation. Tensions have already been high, with tit-for-tat violence a 16-year-old Palestinian was kidnapped and burned alive, itself a possible act of retaliation for the deaths of three Israeli teenagers. I do not want to over-dramatize, but the last few hours may have been, God forbid, the tipping point.” The latest airstrikes Monday night between Hamas and Israel may presage a serious escalation in violence between the two sides, Ari Shavit, senior correspondent for Ha'aretz, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
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