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April 6, 2009
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Getty Images. US President Barack Obama (L) attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey on April 6, 2009 in Ankara, Turkey. Obama is on a two-day visit to Turkey to revitalise links between Turkey and the United States and he has vocalised his support for the country's efforts to join the European Union.
Getty Images. US President Barack Obama (L) attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey on April 6, 2009 in Ankara, Turkey. Obama is on a two-day visit to Turkey to revitalise links between Turkey and the United States and he has vocalised his support for the country's efforts to join the European Union.
Getty Images. Turkish President Abdullah Gul (R) and U.S. President Barack Obama shake hands during a welcoming ceremony in the courtyard of the Cankaya Presidential Palace on April 6, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Getty Images. Turkish President Abdullah Gul (R) and U.S. President Barack Obama shake hands during a welcoming ceremony in the courtyard of the Cankaya Presidential Palace on April 6, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey.
DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images. A Turkish protestor shouts slogans and holds a banner reading 'Obama go home' during a demonstration against upcoming visit of US President Barack Obama in Istanbul on April 5, 2009.
DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images. A Turkish protestor shouts slogans and holds a banner reading 'Obama go home' during a demonstration against upcoming visit of US President Barack Obama in Istanbul on April 5, 2009.
GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images. The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fuad Twal, leads the Palm Sunday procession at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on April 05, 2009. The ceremony is a landmark in the Roman Catholic calendar, marking the triumphant return of Christ to Jerusalem the week before his death, when a cheering crowd greeted him waving palm leaves. Palm Sunday marks the start of the most solemn week in the Christian calendar.
GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images. The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fuad Twal, leads the Palm Sunday procession at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on April 05, 2009. The ceremony is a landmark in the Roman Catholic calendar, marking the triumphant return of Christ to Jerusalem the week before his death, when a cheering crowd greeted him waving palm leaves. Palm Sunday marks the start of the most solemn week in the Christian calendar.
MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images. Catholic clergymen take part in the traditional Palm Sunday procession from Mt. Olives to Jerusalem's old city on April 5, 2009.
MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images. Catholic clergymen take part in the traditional Palm Sunday procession from Mt. Olives to Jerusalem's old city on April 5, 2009.
MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images.Catholic nuns take part in the traditional Palm Sunday procession from Mt. Olives to Jerusalem's old city on April 5, 2009.
MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images.Catholic nuns take part in the traditional Palm Sunday procession from Mt. Olives to Jerusalem's old city on April 5, 2009.
MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images. Palestinian children wear Kefiyeh, traditional Arab scarf, during a rally in Gaza City to mark the Palestinian children day on April 05, 2009. Former international prosecutor Richard Goldstone will lead a broadened human rights probe into violence during Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip, the UN said on April 3. Israel's offensive against Hamas in Gaza, killed more than 1,300 Palestinians, nearly a third of them children, and injured 5,300 others, according to Gaza medics.
MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images. Palestinian children wear Kefiyeh, traditional Arab scarf, during a rally in Gaza City to mark the Palestinian children day on April 05, 2009. Former international prosecutor Richard Goldstone will lead a broadened human rights probe into violence during Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip, the UN said on April 3. Israel's offensive against Hamas in Gaza, killed more than 1,300 Palestinians, nearly a third of them children, and injured 5,300 others, according to Gaza medics.
MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images.Palestinian children attend a rally in Gaza City to mark the Palestinian children day on April 05, 2009.
MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images.Palestinian children attend a rally in Gaza City to mark the Palestinian children day on April 05, 2009.

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Roselakota (Canada)   April 6th, 2009 8:16 pm ET

All the bright coloured paint in the world cannot change the look of hopelessness and despair on the faces of these Palestinian children.....
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I am glad they are continuing the human rights probe into violence (that's a mild word for that situation) during Israel's military offensive in Gaza – all I have to say is that this is the same army that dropped cluster bomb mines recently in Lebanon – when the rest of the world is condeming the use of such air-dropped mines. Mines kill and mutilate men, women, children, and animals indescriminately – and are so difficult to eradicate – what else does one need to say about the morality of Israel's army?

M Ariely   April 7th, 2009 7:52 am ET

Moral values condemned by the west people majority:
Teaching children in kindergarten to hate and kill
Using children to carry on terror attacks
Terrorists using civilians as human shields
Indiscriminate daily shelling with rockets civilian areas
However, some condemn those worldwide
**** Unless it is done against Israel****
They never demonstrate against: women persecution, chasing of Christians and other religions, terror attacks worldwide (India,Spain,UK,Philipins, ext..), abuse of human rights and no real democracy in Arab countries and Iran, witch threats to destroy and are killing Israelis worldwide.
Unfortunately they demonstrate only when the attacked Israel has enough suffering and reacts against terrorists
The quiz question is: who are those people and what are their real moral values?
A; Innocent
B; Brain washed
C: Anti-Semites under cover
The correct answer will support the basics of human existence and values

dan perman   April 7th, 2009 11:42 am ET

roselakota

get a life and stop spreading hamas propaganda

tell me, do you condemn the lynching of the two soldiers in ramallah who made a wrong turn? the deliberate shooting of the baby shalhevet paz in her fathers arms in hebron? the disco bombing in tel aviv? the passover massacre in nataniya? the hamas call to kill jews wherever they are?
do you or don't you?

a simple yes or no will certainly suffice

Hope   April 7th, 2009 3:03 pm ET

Roselakota- Agree. This is a classic example of a picture worth a thousand words..

These Palestinian children dressed up supposedly happy clowns yet unable to muster the faintest smile. Clearly these young eyes seen so much Evil from Israel in their short life time. Children, is not what they are anymore but rather young bodies who have lived through the fires of hell in a form of systematic bombing, butchering the masses, homelessness, seeing their elders stripped of basic human right and dignity. Hummm...and I wonder why they are not smiling..

Great shot!, the best I have seem here yet.

JIM CARROLL INTERNET FREE PRESS   April 8th, 2009 2:31 am ET

JEWS ARE NOT GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE
America needs to get off of the notion that Jews are God’s chosen people.

If there were a God, he undoubtedly would be smarter than people and chose them all.

The time has come that a person running for public office should not have toget down on both knees and swear to God that he or she will put Israel first and America second.
Obama has it right. We are a nation of all kinds of people with all kinds of religious ideas.

dan perman   April 8th, 2009 8:44 am ET

jim carrol

prove that anybody running for public office ever went down on both knees and swore to put israel first

if you cannot, than apologize for being a liar

Right   September 10th, 2009 4:46 pm ET

Dan you are obviously upset, but let us not be ignorant, Jim is not a liar. For the last 60 or so years every president has out israel above any policy even those of which are crucial to the people. It is about time that someone makes a stand. It is known that Israel is a bully it kills innocent people. Women and Children! , And America is a worse for condoning such acts if violence, Israel will cease to exsist and until then they will never have peace.


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