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Sinergy -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 8:59:13 AM)

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

This is the sort of ineptness that is going to make Israel disappear.  Just one big cock-up after another, all a big misunderstaning.

Ron


You never see Alumbrado and the State of Isreal at the same party?

A coincidence?  I think not.

StatingTheObviousergy




meatcleaver -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 9:02:10 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Aubre


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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

Since the Iranians haven't killed off the Jews in Iran, one might guess they won't kill them off at all. Maybe the American media don't report what Iran actually says, it seems like they don't by the reaction of most Americans. Iran says its argument is with the western backed zionist state, not with ordinary Jews.


Well the Iranians said it, it must be true.

I have no doubt that if there is nothing standing in their way they will attempt to kill all the Jews.


Well there is no answer to out and out prejudice.




Owner59 -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 9:05:33 AM)

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

It isn't I who had a confusion with fast reply on this thread though, it's Alumbrado lol!


<steps up>

No,... it was I.

<someone pushes me aside and says>

No,....it was I....

<and so on>




kittinSol -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 9:07:53 AM)

Exactly. Anyhow, the irony is, in the end... him and I agree.




Owner59 -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 9:23:25 AM)

(And Owner59 is conveniently forgetting that he took my sigfile at the time, and attached it directly to a forged quote, which I promptly called him on...he also feigned ignorance instead of clarifying who he was quoting.) 

Again,I have no clue as to wtf you`re talking about.

I asked you at the time and got zilch.

This is exactly how wars start.Bad faith players looking for a fight and to multiply misunderstandings.






Jeffff -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 9:38:59 AM)

No shit!

ArchDuke Ferdinand




luckydog1 -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 9:42:10 AM)

This is how wars start?!?!?




Owner59 -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 9:50:28 AM)

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ORIGINAL: luckydog1

This is how wars start?!?!?


ok Lucky,you got me.

It`s one way, wars start.




luckydog1 -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 9:53:54 AM)

There is no point arguing with Alumbrado when he gets like this, just let it drop.  Unless you are bored and feel like poking him untill he gets himself moderated.




kittinSol -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 9:54:49 AM)

[sm=biggrin.gif]Now, that should have been addressed to me.




luckydog1 -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 9:56:23 AM)

Do you need a spanking kitten?




kittinSol -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 9:59:55 AM)

I thought the answer to that was quite obvious.




mnottertail -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 10:01:00 AM)

quote:  Israel has dissappeared from this thread already. Unquote.

Edward R Murrow




Jeffff -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 10:23:49 AM)

Have you looked everywhere? It is always the last place you look

Jeff




RealityLicks -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 10:57:50 AM)

I hear Wavy Gravy and ask: why should Israel be above the rule of international law?  Not only do they possess nuclear weapons but reports suggest chemical and biological weapons, too.  The whole "never again" sentiment is every bit as strong among Israelis as is Arab distaste for Israel and probably more so. Take a look at other countries which never signed up to nuclear non-proliferation.  When India acquired nukes, it was only a matter of time before Pakistan did likewise.  It's not a great situation but there now exists the same balance of threat between them that has preserved a sort of peace elsewhere.  Pakistan and India are closer to rapprochement now than at any time in the past.  Could Iran having nukes actually be the catalyst to peace?

Ideally, ignoring the propaganda,  Israel would negotiate with the Palestinians and the land be divided equitably. That would mean removing settlers from the West Bank permanently as a first significant step. But with the current form of PR, it is impossible to conceive the Knesset authorising this because hard-liners are essentially guaranteed enough power to prevent it.  In the 40 years since they took the land, it is already unthinkable to return it, more settlers are going in and walls going up around them, too.  Israel is raising the stakes constantly, ignoring protests and throwing the west's protection back in our faces.

Apart from the admittedly slim hope that allowing a stand-off between nuclear powers brings about real and meaningful debate, what options are there?  We've seen that Israel leads the region not only in arms but also in brazenly flouting international law (neither of which, incidentally strike me as being points of pride but the seige mentality has been dinned into most) but it is only going to take one mis-step, one air raid too many, a particularly violent measure taken against the Palestinians before Israel can no longer count on the protection of its allies for fear of losing public opinion.  We've already seen a former Israeli general unable to enter England because a warrant was issued for his arrest for war crimes. Just as if he were in Hamas' military wing.  We've seen how unpopular the war in Iraq is; people are going to be less and less willing to listen to the excuses made by western gov'ts on behalf of Israel.  When that support is gone, will Israel's zionists talk to Hamas or will they simply strike?




juliaoceania -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 9:33:15 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Sinergy

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

I do not 'support Israel'; I support Israel's right, as a sovereign nation, to go about its business. This is largely hindered by the fact that there is a mini state inside Israel which advocates its destruction.




I agree with kittinSol's comments in a sense.

The problem I have with Isreal dates back to the circumstances of it's creation, and the fact that it has bullied and harassed and picked fights with it's neighbors ever since.  If Isreal went about it's business without relying on the fact that the US will come to it's aid no matter frequently it violates the civil rights of the people who live in it's borders, and picks fights with it's neighbors, I would not care one iota about whether Isreal exists or fades.  I do not have much respect for those who go around bullying other people while harping endlessly about being afraid of other people bullying them.

The problem Isreal has right now is the neo-cons have squandered America's military power in an insane boondoggle and we lack the ability to come to Isreal's aid if her long history of picking fights actually results in somebody like Iran actually invading.






I very much agree with your post. I remember once going to a conference at which an Israeli professor of anthropology gave a talk about her experiences being an Israeli that had no knowledge of the real history of her country or what they had done to the Palestinian people, taking their land away, etc. She used photographic evidence of the displacement of the Palestinian people, discussed how the knowledge of this is suppressed in Israel, and talked about how Israel is a theocracy. She was shouted down by some very vocal Zionists that showed up to keep her from talking. They did all they could to disrupt her presentation.

I have to say I am very angry at the government of Irsael, their lobby here in the United States, and the anti-deflamation League which uses fear of law suits and black listing to keep any critics of Israel silent. I resent their influence over my government. Now some think that I am anti semitic for these feelings, but I am just as angry at my own government for what it does in other countries. I believe some of our problems with terrorism is due to our support of Israel, and I resent this also. I do not see why we should be involved with Israel, because frankly they are an anchor around our neck.

I basically question why they have a right to be a nation and cause so much trouble by being one. They are there, and because we have pretty much supported them and given them so much military support they continue to exist... but for those who think that they have the right to exist, well without justice there will be no peace for Israel. They do not honor the right of return for the people they displaced, and they live on land that belonged to others in living memory. They invaded and took land from small scale agrarian people that were defenseless. These people have subsequently done what the Native Americans did when they were oppressed and vanquished by a much stronger force, they have embarked on guerilla warfare to fight back. I have often thought that it would only be with genocide of the Palestinians that Israel will finally feel remorse their actions... like we feel remorse for how we treated the Native Americans. When there are too few Palestinians left to put up a resistance then they will be given "rights".






Alumbrado -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/21/2008 11:16:32 PM)

And all of this rhetoric and playing keyboard commando games is smoke and mirrors to ignore the obvious facts.

There was no nation of Israel in the late 1800s - early 1900s, when the 'Palestinian' and other leaders launched their 'Death to the Jews' campaign. Even Tel Aviv wasn't settled until after the waves of anti-semitism swept the continent and the Middle East.

It is beyond disingenuous to 'forget' that the modern Zionist movement and the aliyahs came after the pogroms, after the Dreyfus affair, and so forth.
And the push to develop the full state of Israel gained primacy over other more moderate factions due in no small part to the Holocaust, and the WWII machinations on the part of Iranian and other Middle Eastern would be genocidists.
The same ones who are still swearing 'Death to all Jews' at every opportunity.

Not 'We want our land back'...but death to every Jew on the planet...Israeli Jews, American Jews, African Jews... And their definition of Jews is 'liberal' enough to include me and mine, so anyone who wants to keep on smirking from behind the safety of their keyboard everytime I bring up this inconvenient slice of reality can keep on doing so. 

They day I give up facing facts and pretend that these 'It's not anti-semitism' hoaxes are true is never going to come.




meatcleaver -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/22/2008 1:02:55 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado

And all of this rhetoric and playing keyboard commando games is smoke and mirrors to ignore the obvious facts.

There was no nation of Israel in the late 1800s - early 1900s, when the 'Palestinian' and other leaders launched their 'Death to the Jews' campaign. Even Tel Aviv wasn't settled until after the waves of anti-semitism swept the continent and the Middle East.

It is beyond disingenuous to 'forget' that the modern Zionist movement and the aliyahs came after the pogroms, after the Dreyfus affair, and so forth.
And the push to develop the full state of Israel gained primacy over other more moderate factions due in no small part to the Holocaust, and the WWII machinations on the part of Iranian and other Middle Eastern would be genocidists.
The same ones who are still swearing 'Death to all Jews' at every opportunity.

Not 'We want our land back'...but death to every Jew on the planet...Israeli Jews, American Jews, African Jews... And their definition of Jews is 'liberal' enough to include me and mine, so anyone who wants to keep on smirking from behind the safety of their keyboard everytime I bring up this inconvenient slice of reality can keep on doing so. 

They day I give up facing facts and pretend that these 'It's not anti-semitism' hoaxes are true is never going to come.



Your post is hysterical and a complete travesty of the facts.

I pointed out the facts of the history of this conflict to you earlier but you ignored my post because it is inconvenient to your views.

Alumbrado, I suggest you read the history of the conflict and you will themn see you talk nonsense.

Before Balfour, Arabs and Jews got on very well together in Trans-Jordania, the majority of each group not only speaking each others language but were neighbours with each other and had very much a shared experience. It was through Balfour that the British created the conflict by backing the zionists and agreeing to Jewish immigration, mainly from Eastern Europe and Russia. This influx of aliens (Jewish people from outside the region) brought into the area foreign customs and a disregard for local customs, this was accompanied by foreign Jews buying up land. Balfour in the 1920s made a tour of the area like a latter day messiah and was greeted by the immigrant Jews as such while his tour increased the fear of the indigenous Arabs that their land would be stolen. Later British governments, particualrly the war government realized what Balfour had done and tried to reverse the policy by stopping Jewish immogration into Trans-Jordania. By that time it was too late, neither side trusted the British and like all governments that make pacts with extremist and terrorist organisations, ended up in conflict with zionist terrorist groups. The western world (led by America) pressurised Britain into allowing immigration from post WWII Europe and at the end of its mandate Britain basically cut and run, while the newly formed UN agreed to the partition of Trans-Jordania but ignored the consequences. The consequences being, etnic cleansing by the zionists from large areas of the west bank. It is largely said that surrounding Arab states told the Arabs of the west bank to leave their homes while they annihilated the new Israel. However, the majority of the resident Arabs were warned by Britain to leave because they should expect trouble from the zionists. It is estimated that 750,000 Arabs were ethnically cleansed by the zionists, thousands left because they were warned by Britain to get out and thousands by the Arabs. Since Britain had control over the media, one can assume the a fair amount of the Arabs fled because of Britain's warnings. The British foreign minister at the time said that the Arabs of the region have suffered a great injustice so it was widely recgnized at the time that the Arabs were victims of both the zionists and western policies in the region, no doubt much of western policy being based on the feeling of collective guilt of the genocide of Jews in Europe. However, the Arab victims were not guilty of the genocide, it was Europeans. The Arabs of the region have only been trying to get justice ever since and the conflict has carried on because the west has continued to rub Arab faces in the dirt by blaming the Arabs for the conflict while arming the zionist state that stole their land. It was the Israelis along with the British and French that invaded Egypt in 1956. It was the Israelis with a nod and a wink from the US that started the 1967 war when most of the lands now in dispute where occupied.

However, carry on with your prejudiced view, you obviously know very little about the history of the conflict.


By the way, anti-semitism is very much a western Christian phenomenon not an Arab or muslim one. There was no conflict or animosoty between the Arabs(or any muslims) and Jews before the Balfour declaration and Balfour's pro-zionist policies. Anti-Jewish sentiment would probably soon disappear from the Arab world should a just settlement take place. Most of the anti-Jewish activity by Arabs in Europe is recognized as being directly the result of the middle east conflict and not related to any historical anti-semitism in Europe, which is Christian based.




kittinSol -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/22/2008 4:31:24 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado

There was no nation of Israel in the late 1800s - early 1900s, when the 'Palestinian' and other leaders launched their 'Death to the Jews' campaign. Even Tel Aviv wasn't settled until after the waves of anti-semitism swept the continent and the Middle East.

It is beyond disingenuous to 'forget' that the modern Zionist movement and the aliyahs came after the pogroms, after the Dreyfus affair, and so forth.
And the push to develop the full state of Israel gained primacy over other more moderate factions due in no small part to the Holocaust, and the WWII machinations on the part of Iranian and other Middle Eastern would be genocidists.
The same ones who are still swearing 'Death to all Jews' at every opportunity.

Not 'We want our land back'...but death to every Jew on the planet...Israeli Jews, American Jews, African Jews... And their definition of Jews is 'liberal' enough to include me and mine, so anyone who wants to keep on smirking from behind the safety of their keyboard everytime I bring up this inconvenient slice of reality can keep on doing so. 

They day I give up facing facts and pretend that these 'It's not anti-semitism' hoaxes are true is never going to come.



Thank you. People need to be reminded of the facts. That they are so easily manipulated by the lobbies whose interest it is to destroy Israel worries me. Why is it so easy [8|] ?




caitlyn -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/22/2008 5:49:15 AM)

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver
Your post is hysterical and a complete travesty of the facts.


As it relates to the Middle east, who was in bed with whom, during the Second World War?




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