Actor Mark Pellegrino played Jacob in Lost, and it does not seem lost on him what the sons of Jacob are going through.
He has gone out of his way on Twitter to defend Israel and explain the conflict in a way the Israeli government could learn from.
Great quote from an Islraeli Lt. Col: “Israel uses weapons to safeguard civilians. Hamas uses civilians to safeguard weapons.”
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 11, 2014
@_nathy and sadly they display those bodies for political effect. The blood of those children is on the hands of those who use them as
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@_nathy shields
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@StormJPad as I said to Vanessa. The death of innocents is the responsibility of the party that initiated force. That would be Hamas. It is
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@StormJPad not Israel's fault that those terroristic cowards hide behind children and fire rockets from apartment complexes.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@StormJPad then display the bodies of the children they used as human shields to shame the Israelis. The shame is entirely on Hamas.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@NessinhaG @_MercuryV @_nathy when a people aggress on another. Are impervious to reason, and explicitly want to wipe you out, what choice
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@NessinhaG @_MercuryV @_nathy do you have?
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@NessinhaG @_MercuryV @_nathy the alternatives for the Israelis are to fight or be destroyed. This is a choice FORCED upon them by the
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@NessinhaG @_MercuryV @_nathy terrorists. War is a solution of last resort for them as it is for any peace loving country
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@NessinhaG @_MercuryV @_nathy Israel has tried to work with the various gov of Palestine. To NO avail. Hamas is the ruling party in the
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@NessinhaG @_MercuryV @_nathy region and their charter explicitly calls for the elimination of Israel. When the terms of one side are the
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@NessinhaG @_MercuryV @_nathy the complete destruction of the other, what us to be done. Israel has negotiated in good faith over and
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@NessinhaG @_MercuryV @_nathy over again only to be betrayed. Do you honestly think that if Hamas laid down its weapons tomorrow there
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@NessinhaG @_MercuryV @_nathy would be conflict?
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@NessinhaG @_MercuryV @_nathy Israel has laid down her arms. On many occasions. And made diplomatic concession after concession with no
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@NessinhaG @_MercuryV @_nathy with no reciprocity from Hamas. NONE. It cannot be emphasized enough that Israel's military strikes are in
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@NessinhaG @_MercuryV @_nathy RESPONSE to violence perpetrated upon them FIRST. What you are asking for is irrational. You are asking
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@NessinhaG @_MercuryV @_nathy Israel to allow itself to be destroyed
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@NessinhaG @_MercuryV @_nathy not propaganda at all. A matter of public record. And please don't punctuate your claim with 'I'm sure you're
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@NessinhaG @_MercuryV @_nathy more intelligent than that'. THAT is an unintelligent way to argue. Insult is the last refuge of the ignorant
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@NessinhaG @_MercuryV @_nathy if, as you claim, the Israeli side of the argument is propaganda. Prove it.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@sheila_jon @_nathy not true. First of all the movement of European and other Jews into the holy land had been taking place since the 19th
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@sheila_jon @_nathy century. ( though Jews have ALWAYS been there) do not forget that when the Zionist movement started ( in response to
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@sheila_jon @_nathy pogroms) that region was ruled by the Ottoman Empire. Absentee Arab landowners who sold their land to the Jews, did so
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@sheila_jon @_nathy knowing there were tenant farmers in the land, and / or Bedouin tribes ( who were nomadic and recognized no property
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@sheila_jon @_nathy limitations) they left them to their own fates. The Jews actually tried to accommodate the tenant farmers by one:
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@sheila_jon @_nathy integrating them into their work forces or two: giving them time to leave along with financial compensation. This was
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@sheila_jon @_nathy not only fully legal, it was morally correct and a hell of a lot more than the Arab landlords had done for them.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@sheila_jon @_nathy as for the nomads that used their wells.. There were some early clashes until the transplanted jews adapted to the new
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@sheila_jon @_nathy culture, at which times they shared their wells ( though they were not legally bound to) even with these accommodations
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@sheila_jon @_nathy there were hostilities perpetrated on the Jews by Arabs claiming rights to land they did NOT legally have. Bare this in
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@sheila_jon @_nathy mind. Under the Arab land owners the land was arid and infertile. Punctuated by malarial swamps. Steeped in poverty.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@sheila_jon @_nathy the life expectancy of Arabs in that part if the world was extremely high. Infant mortality the worst in the world.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@sheila_jon @_nathy the Jews brought law. Agriculture. Industrialization. Modern medicine. These remarkably increased the well being of the
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@sheila_jon @_nathy Arab world. And for this... They are persecuted.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 12, 2014
@holberg_m @ChuckNellis yes they do. And Hamas fires rockets from their apt complexes and keeps their weapons caches there. Let me ask YOU
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 15, 2014
@holberg_m @ChuckNellis something. Does Hamas announce their rocket strikes? Do they give innocents a chance to flee the scene? LIKE THE
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 15, 2014
@holberg_m @ChuckNellis ISRAELIS? Or do they INTENTIONALLY target civilians? They only reason more innocent ISRAELIS aren't dead is because
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 15, 2014
@holberg_m @ChuckNellis of their iron shield missile defense system. But the MORAL difference between the conduct of Hamas and the
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 15, 2014
@holberg_m @ChuckNellis conduct of the IDF is such that this argument becomes incomprehensible. One side tries to avoid civilian casualties
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 15, 2014
@holberg_m @ChuckNellis the other seeks it.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 15, 2014
@holberg_m @ChuckNellis but the civilians are the ACCIDENTAL victims if Israel and the INTENDED victims of Hamas. There would be more...
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 16, 2014
@holberg_m @ChuckNellis dead Israelis without the Iron Shield, and there would be more dead Palestinians without Israeli restraint.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 16, 2014
@holberg_m @ChuckNellis the fact that so many military operations in the last few days have caused so FEW casualties is a testament to their
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 16, 2014
@holberg_m @ChuckNellis restraint. I hope you do not think, as your tweet implies, that all killing is MORALLY equal.
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 16, 2014
@holberg_m @ChuckNellis I don't like personal attacks Ivan. If you think that context does NOT apply to this.. That accidental and
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 16, 2014
@holberg_m @ChuckNellis deliberate deaths are murder then there is no reasoning with you. And that's fine. You want to have a discussion
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 16, 2014
@holberg_m @ChuckNellis how is retaliatory force the same as initiated force?
— Mark Pellegrino (@MarkRPellegrino) July 16, 2014
Thank you for your support - and patience - Mark!
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