Gaza: The answer to an atheist's prayer

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Gaza: The answer to an atheist's prayer

What is the best way to spread atheism? Insist that Israel is the will of god. Insist the Jews who run Israel are acting as the Chosen People of god. Agree with everything the fundies insist is true and then point to Gaza to show what that means in practice.

I took the time to put together an atheist's presentation of the will of this god. http://www.giwersworld.org/antisem/GAZA-pics is what I could find. You can click on the Prime Minister's statement to see what he insists has to be taken into account to justify the main collection of images, what Israel claims to be the justification for the slaughter. I used everything I could find to illustrate the PM's desired offsets to the actions of the Chosen People on behalf of all Jews.

If this is not sufficient to sell the case of atheism I will have to work harder.

Tens of millions of born again rednecks in the US support anything Israel does. There are many times more Christian rednecks than Jewish rednecks. All support this slaughter.

This is the god of the West.

Use this god to promote atheism.

Why do we have to work when the crazies give us all this free material? Use it.

Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.

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A_Nony_Mouse wrote:I have

A_Nony_Mouse wrote:

I have given the only understanding anyone needs to have about the entire issue.

Jews stole the land. The owners want it back.

Even David ben Gurion gave that as the explanation of the matter.

Why do you not consider murdering people to keep stolen property to be evil?

When the Mafia gets into a shootout with the FBI it can also claim it was only defending itself. In this case the Jews are the criminals for the land they stole and for the ethnic cleansing and for 60 years of state violence in support of those of the continuation of those crimes.

First of all, if that is the ONLY understanding you can comprehend on a complex issue, then you are extremely close-minded.

Why do YOU consider it okay for them to bomb Israel? I don't consider them to have stolen the property, and while I don't agree with killing innocents, if someone bombs you are you supposed to just say WELL OKAY HERE'S MY COUNTRY WE'LL GO NOW. What planet are you living on?

Mafia? What does that have to do with the Jewish people? The mafia is an organized crime group, are you implying that the Jews are equivalent to the Mafia? Wow...

*Our world is far more complex than the rigid structure we want to assign to it, and we will probably never fully understand it.*

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A_Nony_Mouse wrote:

I have given the only understanding anyone needs to have about the entire issue.

Jews stole the land. The owners want it back.

Even David ben Gurion gave that as the explanation of the matter.

Why do you not consider murdering people to keep stolen property to be evil?

When the Mafia gets into a shootout with the FBI it can also claim it was only defending itself. In this case the Jews are the criminals for the land they stole and for the ethnic cleansing and for 60 years of state violence in support of those of the continuation of those crimes.

First of all, if that is the ONLY understanding you can comprehend on a complex issue, then you are extremely close-minded.

What else is there to it? Jews stole the land. Jews drove out most of the native population of land owners. They even stole land from those they could not drive out. That is the root cause of all the problems. What is complex about that? And the victims of the Jews want their land back. Is that hard to understand?

Show me the complexity. Using the color of law to steal and murder and expel is not complexity. It is another easy to understand crime.

peppermint wrote:
Why do YOU consider it okay for them to bomb Israel?

The world we live in says the use of deadly force to resist occupation is lawful in accordance with the Geneva conventions. Morally it is also lawful to use deadly force against those who have stolen your property if there is no legal mechanism available. You can find more details here http://www.giwersworld.org/israel/bombings.phtml

What is unlawful about bombing those who have done both. I am certain if they were given tanks and F-16s they would chose to use them instead.

peppermint wrote:
I don't consider them to have stolen the property,

By their own records as presented by their own historians they massacred thousands and used the threat of and at times the fact of additional massacres to drive out 3/4 of the population. Any who tried to return were murdered often being forced to dig their own graves. The property was then declared "abandoned" by color of law. Even those who did not leave were forced off their property, murdered if they attempted to return and their property was declared abandoned. Even these citizens of Israel cannot regain their property because they are not Jewish.

What is there about this which does no satisfy the meaning of the word theft?

peppermint wrote:
and while I don't agree with killing innocents, if someone bombs you are you supposed to just say WELL OKAY HERE'S MY COUNTRY WE'LL GO NOW. What planet are you living on?

I do not expect them to do anything else but they are the guilty party in this matter. If a thief can he will fight to keep what he has stolen. But I can find no justification in law or morality to support the thieves instead of supporting the victims of the thieves.

But even if that were conceivable a lawful and moral thing on the planet on which you live the Jews are constantly stealing land in Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Syrian Heights and building segregated "Jews only" squattertowns. People were hanged at Nuremberg for doing that sort of thing. And in this case their own records show 1/3 of them are built on land owned by Palestinians. On top of that land is confiscated from Palestinians for "Jews only" roads. Even Apartheid South Africa did not have Whites only roads.

And then the ghetto wall just happens to cut off villages from their best lands and water resources. Towards the bottom of http://www.giwersworld.org/artv/ there are several conceptual views of their wall.

Even if your morality is such that it excuses past thefts and murders how do you excuse what is going on today? And it continues despite the solemn (and worthless) word of so many Jews saying it would stop. Is that also approved in your planet's moral and legal system?

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Mafia? What does that have to do with the Jewish people? The mafia is an organized crime group, are you implying that the Jews are equivalent to the Mafia? Wow...

The Zionists are very well organized murderers and thieves. That the Zionists are also Jews is not my problem. That the necessary actions of a national government which declares itself Jewish is not my fault. And it is not up to me to make a distinction between Israel and Jews when Israel declares its actions are taken in the name of the Jewish people. And when I look at surveys I find roughly 80% of Jews support the actions of Israel.

When I refer to the actions of Israel as the actions of the Jews I am AGREEING with what Israel says and what opinion polls say. It is Israel which smears the Jews and an overwhelming majority are proud of it.

It does appear you have been lead down a path which holds Israel can do no wrong because saying so would be antisemitic. If http://www.giwersworld.org/antisem/ this is done in the name of the Jewish people, why is not the entire world antisemitic?

 

Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.

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A_Nony_Mouse wrote:

When the Mafia gets into a shootout with the FBI it can also claim it was only defending itself. In this case the Jews are the criminals for the land they stole and for the ethnic cleansing and for 60 years of state violence in support of those of the continuation of those crimes.

Mafia? What does that have to do with the Jewish people? The mafia is an organized crime group, are you implying that the Jews are equivalent to the Mafia? Wow...

More specific to the Mafia analogy. A criminal is committing a crime against a person. The person fights back. The criminal kills the person who fights back. The criminal cannot justify his use of deady force on the grounds that his victim fought back.

The Jews are constantly and continually committing crimes against the Palestinians. Being human the victims fight back. Deadly force against the Palestinians cannot be justified by the victim fighting back.

As with a mugging that turns into murder the perp is guilty of both the mugging and the murder. The perp cannot claim self defense in murdering his victim.

Yet this is the justification claimed by Israel and supported by 79% of the Jews polled outside of Israel.

On your planet it may be different.

Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.

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jcgadfly wrote:A_Nony_Mouse

jcgadfly wrote:

A_Nony_Mouse wrote:

jcgadfly wrote:

A_Nony_Mouse wrote:

jcgadfly wrote:
A_Nony_Mouse wrote:
jcgadfly wrote:
One_week_ago wrote:
jcgadfly wrote:
Gauche wrote:

I passively glanced at some of the things he wrote. While I may not agree with some things he said I wouldn't characterize it as blatantly racist. I say negative thing about the Israelis all the time and I'm not a racist.

Do you deny their existence as human because you don't like them?
Do you deny they are murderers and thieves when they celebrate murder and theft?

How does Hatikva differ from the Horst Wessel Leid?

That is a trick question. The latter does not celebrate murder and theft.

No, I call them murderers and thieves - calling them animals as you do absolves them of responisbility.

In what way do calling a murderer an animal absolve a murder of the responsiblity for his crimes? In which reality is this true?

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Why do you not want the Israeli government to be responible for their actions? I thought you were pro-Palestinian.

No matter what they are called they still deserve the opportunity to do the air dance at Nuremberg or wherever the dance contest is held these days.

Animals kill on survival instinct. By calling murderers animals you say that they are doing what they must to survive - they can't help themselves.

A rabid dog cannot help itself. Still it must be killed.
jcgadfly wrote:
That's why i don't use the term anymore (though it is useful sensationalism).
Perhaps you should go back to it. Your reason for ceasing does not comport with the facts.
jcgadfly wrote:
As far as trials and punishment - yes for both sides. I don't hold a double standard on homicide.
As resistance to occupation is lawful in this world it is not clear just what the other side has done other than resist occupation by Jews. Israel is forever excusing itself by declaring the innocents they murdered to be collateral damage. As a minimum of 1 in 4 jewish israelis is in the military and thus a valid target under any circumstances the assertion of collateral damage is equally valid for them.

And as all military assets of any kind are lawful targets and as the Israelis use the public transportation system to move troops bombing buses is clearly lawful at any time.

So now you're comparing Israelis to a disease that needs to be eradicated?

Without blame here is a perfect example of my being accused of saying something I did not. There is no way anyone with a basic familiarity with English can read what I wrote and accuse me of saying that. This shows a deliberate confusion between a noun and an adjective before even addressing the style of aphorism.

It takes a paranoid delusional personality to even see such a thing. The only possible disease is rabies but it is only used in its adjectival form as rabid.

I have no interest in catering to delusional paranoids. I do not intend to ever cater to the delusional of any kind even paranoid. I know how to deal with paranoids. I agree with them. It drives them even further into their delusion. I have not done that as yet.

Nor do I consider it rational that the Mod Gods to respond to me based upon the ravings of delusional paranoids.

Yet misrepresentations like this are the only thing I have read about what i have said.

My challenge is still open. Quote what I have said and include a refutation.

You're just in a quandary that the violence driving you to orgasm is being done mostly by the people you don't like.

More paranoid delusion,

jcgadfly wrote:
Poor guy

Just as a hypothetical - would you be as adamant for the Israelis if the situation was reversed (the Palestinians were the well-armed aggressors)?

Doesn't matter much to me if people want to kill each other off. Not my business unless my country is involved. And it is. Without US money it would have collapsed long ago. Without US diplomatic cover it would have gone the way of apartheid South Africa long ago.

But it is israeli pretensions which are of value to attacking theism. Israel declares it is a JEWISH nation. Israel's claim to the land is that it is JEWISH. What does Jewish mean? http://www.giwersworld.org/antisem/ is what being Jewish and what the god of the bible means.

Israel is doing its best to show exactly the consequences of theism. You can see hundreds of pictures on my website and I have but a fraction of them. I have not bothered to collect the written material as google is much easier.

Israel is theism in action. Tell it to the world. Make the redneck fundie Christian get naseous over it. Shove it in their face until they vomit.

 


 

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Rights?  Ownership?  Are

Rights?  Ownership?  Are we really having a discussion on such human constructs over who owns this tract of dirt in the Middle East?  Tsk, tsk.

We can agree that these words are a human construct and have no bearing outside of a society and in actual reality, can we not?

Who had the right to the Americas before the "Native Americans" first trapsed here ~14,000 years ago?  I would think if the Buffalo were up to the challenge they would have defended their right to North America in a court of our invention.  Laws are grand and all but lets face facts.  Once the laws fail and your very survival comes into threat, then laws be damned one way or the other.  Do you think the 6 million jews during WWII were chatting happily about they had due process before being marched into gas chambers with their children in tow?  What was due process in Nazi Germany?  Are you a jew?  Yes.  To the camp!

In the animal kingdom, and we are part of that kingom my fellow ape, it has always been might ultimately makes right.  Goats couldn't hold the land, so they lost it to arabs, arabs couldn't hold the land so they lost it to jews.

Genocide?  Tell it to the dodo bird.

When the Jews have children programming like Palestine with children happily singing along about killing Jews along with a middle eastern Mickey Mouse knock off then I may start to side with you.  Until then, I'll stick with the jews.  Don't fall into the "poor us muslims they are killing us faster than we can kill them" trap.

Islam: "WARREN RED CLOUD: Once upon a time, a woman was picking up firewood. She came upon a poisonous snake frozen in the snow. She took the snake home and nursed it back to health. One day the snake bit her on the cheek. As she lay dying, she asked the snake, "Why have you done this to me?" And the snake answered, "Look, bitch, you knew I was a snake."
 

 

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the point of this is.....

don't try to explain the conflict. the point of this post is that religion is the reason they can not and will never coexist. do you really think that they care about the shitty land. its all shitty desert anyways.

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aiia wrote:A_Nony_Mouse

aiia wrote:

A_Nony_Mouse wrote:
A recitation of facts does not constitute opinion.

What facts have you recited?

In this thread #79 #80 and #95. The only error anyone has recited is in the length of time it took to exterminate the Albagensians.

 

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Watcher wrote:Rights? 

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Rights?  Ownership?  Are we really having a discussion on such human constructs over who owns this tract of dirt in the Middle East?  Tsk, tsk.

All of human history is replete with examples of humans fighting and killing to maintain the right of ownership. The concept is inseparable from human nature.

Watcher wrote:
We can agree that these words are a human construct and have no bearing outside of a society and in actual reality, can we not?

I can agree it has no meaning for a single person living alone on the proverbial desert island. It gains meaning when there is more than one person involved.

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Who had the right to the Americas before the "Native Americans" first trapsed here ~14,000 years ago?  I would think if the Buffalo were up to the challenge they would have defended their right to North America in a court of our invention.  Laws are grand and all but lets face facts.  Once the laws fail and your very survival comes into threat, then laws be damned one way or the other.

Which is why I note the human tradition of killing those whom they perceive as thieves and murderers. This is particularly true as the Zionists styled themselves as murderers and thieves in their enterprise in Palestine.

Now say they redeemed it instead of stole it and you are invoking a religious concept. Which is why the Zionists are a horrible example of the consequences of religion. I pointed out Gaza was an immediate example with plenty of examples such as these http://www.giwersworld.org/antisem/GAZA-pics/

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Do you think the 6 million jews during WWII were chatting happily about they had due process before being marched into gas chambers with their children in tow?  What was due process in Nazi Germany?  Are you a jew?  Yes.  To the camp!

Dragging the holy holocaust into the discussion to justify the mass murders and thefts by the Jews is destined to failure.

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In the animal kingdom, and we are part of that kingom my fellow ape, it has always been might ultimately makes right.  Goats couldn't hold the land, so they lost it to arabs, arabs couldn't hold the land so they lost it to jews.

And I have observed it is absurd to listen to the whining Jews when the Palestinians (not Arabs, dummy) kill those whom they perceive as thieves. It is their right. Jews killed them, they kill Jews. As I say, I don't kill if they want to kill each other off. No interest to me. My only interest is my country's involvement on the side of those who started the entire problem. Besides we still own Israel some serious payback over the USS Liberty.

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Genocide?  Tell it to the dodo bird.

As the Dodo and the Jews are no different to you why do you take an interest?

Watcher wrote:
When the Jews have children programming like Palestine with children happily singing along about killing Jews along with a middle eastern Mickey Mouse knock off then I may start to side with you.  Until then, I'll stick with the jews.  Don't fall into the "poor us muslims they are killing us faster than we can kill them" trap.

But they do. Back when they were slaughtering Lebanese again a couple years ago Israeli papers published some very cute pictures of little jewish girls writing love notes on artillery shells. The military indoctrination starts in early gradeschool in Israel. And that is on top of the Ziojugend indoctrination and their national anthem and their religion praising the murder and theft.

You seem to think there is a difference. I suggest you start reading the online israeli news sources and learn the Jewish indoctrination is more elaborate and of greater depth. You will quickly learn the Jews are way ahead in instilling hatred of non-Jews in general and "arabs" in particular. Occupied Jerusalem is a particularly virulent locus of the expression of the jewish hatred of others according to Haaretz and Jerusalem Post articles.

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Islam: "WARREN RED CLOUD: Once upon a time, a woman was picking up firewood. She came upon a poisonous snake frozen in the snow. She took the snake home and nursed it back to health. One day the snake bit her on the cheek. As she lay dying, she asked the snake, "Why have you done this to me?" And the snake answered, "Look, bitch, you knew I was a snake."

Perhaps the way the Palestinians welcoming the first Zionists to Palestine in the 1890s.

On one hand you try to pretend the mass murder and thefts by the Jews is no big thing. On the other you express the virulent prejudice that once existed in the US towards Blacks and in Germany against the Jews -- even Karl Marx recited the same complaints.

Yet between those two you hold doing the same things you agree Jews did as justification for your frankly bigoted opinion of non-Jews. If you don't like suicide bombings I am certain they will switch to tanks and F-16s if available. But Jews used suicide bombings in the Warsaw Ghetto uprisings and in their terrorism against the British and Palestinians. In fact the Palestinians have yet to do everything to the Israelis that the Jews did to the British. They have have hanged a couple of Jew spies but they were not in uniform and their bodies were not boobytrapped as the Jews did. This is but one example.

So if your issue is their methods, they have not as yet sunk to the level of the Jews against the British. They have mimic the Jews indiscriminate shelling of Palestinians prior to independence.

What you have to ask yourself is why you pay attention when Jews whine about getting as good as they gave. You are certainly not dumb enough to fall for it are you?

The earliest resistance against the Zionists was organized by Christian Palestinians. It was only in the late 60s that Muslims took leadership roles. And in both cases these Christians and Muslims were simply people whose ancestors had converted from Judaism to more civilized religions. Even Manachem Begin recognized this. It is unclear when the Jews became ignorant enough to start calling them Arabs when they have been Palestinians for at least 2500 years. It is also unclear when jewish scholarship failed and ceased to remember that Herodotus mentioned them 2500 years ago.

And you see all of this is religion. Others steal land. Jews redeem land. The difference? Religion only. The idea of "the land of Israel" Ha Aretz Yisrael is in all the jewish political speeches in Israel. It is what they claim. It is also solely based upon religion. That the entire OT is a later fabrication on the order of The Book of Mormon and no more connection to fact than it does not matter. It is religion. All of this slaughter on both sides is because of religion.

As an ATHEIST you should appreciate this as an example of the EVIL of religion.

 

Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.

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marshalltenbears wrote:don't

marshalltenbears wrote:

don't try to explain the conflict. the point of this post is that religion is the reason they can not and will never coexist. do you really think that they care about the shitty land. its all shitty desert anyways.

The problem is the layers of sophistry over the very simple issue. Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is the explanation. People try to make it more complicated so they do not have to face and deal with the fundamental cause of the conflict.

The entire conflict from the first world war to the present is a horrible example of the evil of religion.

 

Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.

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I don't care if religion has

I don't care if religion has anything to do with it neither side has any simpathy from me. They are both Idiots. If rational people were in charge a compramise would of been reached long ago. what is wrong with just living together? Can anyone really think one side is right here?

 

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Wow. Some spazzed out

Wow. Some spazzed out opinions on here. Here's the breakdown of the situation for those who clearly can not think.

1. Israel exists. Whether you agree it should have been allowed to exist or not is no longer the problem. I don't think it helps AT ALL to argue about whether Israel should have been allowed to exist in the first place. Israel exists, it is a democratic state, it is not going anywhere without a fight. They have a strong military. They are part of the world. This is a fact. This is the base from which we must think of the situation.

2. Arabs hate jews. Not all, as most arabs have probably never seen a jew. But Arab anti-semitism is quite well understood and it is established it exists. They've hated them since well before Israel existed and clearly seem to hate them even more now. The reason for this is CLEARLY religion. It is clearly the greatest difference between Jews and Arabs. Islam is clearly not a religion of peace. Anyone with any degree of intellectual honesty can see this. Many muslims just want to live in peace but Islam is not in itself peaceful. Not all muslims are violent, just as not all Catholic priests are child molesters. But the rules of islam lead a lot of people to become violent, even suicidaly violent just as the rules a Catholic preist has to follow leads them to fuck kids because they have no healthy sexual outlet. Take away the stupid rules based on dickhead myths and perhaps these groups wouldnt be so violent/child rapisty. Much like in point number 1. above, this point establishes the existance of a large group of people in the area who CLEARLY hate jews because they're jews.

3. There are two options for arabs  to take.

4. One option is to seek the total destruction of Israel meaning all the "jews" (or citizens of israel or whatever) die or are forced to flee. This can be achieved through all out confict which hasn't worked time and time again. Israel is too well organised and the arab countries who have attacked it in the past have always failed. The other option for the destruction of Israel is the sort of shit Hamas is pulling now. Rocket attacks, mortars, suicide bombings. Provoking Israel into conflict. What government wouldn't attack a group hell bent on destroying your country? Be realistic. Now, when the Jews fight back, they fight with proper military grade shit. They aren't messing about, they blow things up. This kills lots of people. Which sucks, because lots of them are kids (not as many as the media suggests, who get their numbers from HAMAS for fucks sake) but yes, kids die which is shitty.

5. The other option is to seek peace. Not peace through destroying all the jews and then relaxing in some grand Arab utopia (which they haven't managed to produce anywhere else either), but peace through a two state system or something of the sort. Israel made some moves toward this we must admit. They pulled out of Gaza. And yes, they kept the blockade. But why on earth would you open up your borders to a group of people who openly state they want to destroy you and have produced  horrific suicide bombers?! Even though they pulled out, they had to keep security tight. If Canada produced hundreds of men ready to strap explosives to themselves and detonate in your cities you'd beef up border security a touch.  They could have kept the spoils of war when they were attacked by all their neighbours, and they did keep some and still retain them and this is indeed part of the argument, but handed back others in return for peace. They've seeked peace treaties with their neighbours because its plain bad economics to have to keep on the defensive constantly (this isn't an attempt to be funny with the stereotype of jews being all about money, any country would rather spend its budget on bettering everything else then sinking it into the military). In order for this solution to work, it is actually Hamas who must stop shooting first. This isn't taking sides, it's just being logical. If Hamas stops shooting, Israel can't get away with randomly attacking. Israel got raped by the media in this latest war and they had been taking rockets and mortars for years! If Hamas stops shooting, Israel can't atack. It's that simple. It really really is. Just think about it. If Hamas wants peace they would do MUCH better with peaceful protests, producing well educated people to state the case and seek ways to increase the peace. But they don't. They shoot rockets, they build tunnels to try to sneak suicide bombers in. So, the violence continues. It is just plain, simple, unbiased logic to conclude that if Hamas stops shooting rockets and mortars and trying to hit israel with suicide bombings, Israel won't be able to randomly kill palestinians and the violence stops. THEN they can work on the humanitarian problem (which is up to Hamas to build roads, educate kids, stop being fuck wits) The UN has failed here, money has been pumped into Palestine for decades, and the Palestinian population has INCREASED proving they are not starving. They have hospitals and cars and jobs and some petty industry and enough land to build some farms etc etc. The jews turned the desert into a thriving 1st world country. The palestinians are given aid to keep them alive. Their situation is indeed shitty and at times really quite dire. What is happening? Hamas shoots rockets. They are motivated by their sick religious bullshit which tells them to destroy all the jews, no matter how many of their own kids need to die. Let's not forget also that there are some nutty jews in israel who want to bring about some loopy crap promised to them in very very old books written by ignorant old wankers. This group doesn't hold anywhere as much power as the insane islamists but they're part of it. The parties of god unfortunately hold control of the situation.

That's it.  Yes there are other factors. The history of it etc etc. But its really not helpful to get upset about the history of it and argue that israel should never have existed or that palestinians should get this or that land back. The facts are, israel exists and has boarders, and the only way those boarders can change so that people might get some land back or people can come and go through them or openly trade through them is by Hamas putting down their guns and wearing down Israeli fears about arse clown kids blowing themselves up in nightclubs and on busses and hijacking planes and gunning down olympic teams etc. Once again, I don't think im being biased in stating that it's just the only possible path to a peaceful solution. Not that Hamas putting their guns down will automatically lead to peace. There is plenty of angry islam to take Hamas' place should they turn peaceful (HAHAHA). But isn't it clear that one side here will at least consider peace and the other doesn't want it at any cost?   

I'm not pro israel, but I stand with democratic states who at least try some of the time to work towards peace and have at least some citizens who want the same and have a voice and have a chance of working toward that peace through democratic means. Hamas doesn't even try. Of course the victims are the familes who lose their loved ones when bombs explode on their houses. Yes, israel blows up shit when they get pissed off. But do they wake up and decide to blow up 10 houses that day for something to do? Or does another rocket fall on someone's house and they protest to their governmetn to do something about it and eventually the situation comes to a head and the government needs to do SOMETHING and they blow some motherfuckers up? 


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All of human history is replete with examples of humans fighting and killing to maintain the right of ownership. The concept is inseparable from human nature.

Agreed.

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Now say they redeemed it instead of stole it and you are invoking a religious concept. Which is why the Zionists are a horrible example of the consequences of religion. I pointed out Gaza was an immediate example with plenty of examples such as these http://www.giwersworld.org/antisem/GAZA-pics/

Redeemed?  Did I use that word?  Uhm.  No.  I didn't.  They are just banding together somewhere to protect themselves for once.  Seems like a lot of people get pissed at the Jews for not staying in other countries where they can be slaughtered piecemeal.

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Dragging the holy holocaust into the discussion to justify the mass murders and thefts by the Jews is destined to failure.

Why?  Please elaborate.  I think it was more than enough justification for the Jews to finally say, "Fuck this." and finally start defending themselves.  If you want to somehow invalidate the holocaust then we can start with why it should not be a factor.

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And I have observed it is absurd to listen to the whining Jews when the Palestinians (not Arabs, dummy)

"Palestinian people or Palestinians also commonly rendered as Palestinian Arabs are terms commonly used to refer to the indigenous Arab population whose origins are in Palestine."

So "dummy", lets now define what an arab is.  Great way to ignore the discussion and fall off on a tangent.  I guess you don't call Iranians arabs either do you?  No...they are "persians".  Looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...

I'm not an American, I'm a Texan.  Whatever.

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As the Dodo and the Jews are no different to you why do you take an interest?

What?  Try to keep up.  Humans, dodos, both animals.  Saying that one people have a right to a specific tract of land over another makes sense only within human institutions, which means not at all except within a society.  The jews and palestinians do not exist in the same society.  Therefore, fuck "rights".  The jews are just trying to find somewhere to be the majority for once for protection of their own lives.  When a person's people is fighting for survival you can take your lawyers and shove them right up your ass.

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But they do.

Cool.  Shoot me a link to one of the children TV shows shown to the Jewish children about killing the palestinian arabs.

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Yet between those two you hold doing the same things you agree Jews did as justification for your frankly bigoted opinion of non-Jews.

haha.  I'm the bigot now?  Repeatedly using the word "Zionist" is only used by people bigoted against the jews and filled with dimentia about conspiracies of them.  I suppose you think the jews own all of the world banks too?  Cut loose.  Tell us all the crazy ideas circulating in your head.

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What you have to ask yourself is why you pay attention when Jews whine about getting as good as they gave. You are certainly not dumb enough to fall for it are you?

Looks to me like the Jews are finally kicking ass and taking names for once.  If they are whining its because they are loosing one soldier for every 200 palestinians arabs they kill.  Go Israel.

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As an ATHEIST you should appreciate this as an example of the EVIL of religion.

As an ATHEIST I will make up my own mind with whom to side with or not.  The people that would cheer and laugh as America and my family burn or those that would fight by my side.

I'll stick with the Jews.

Oh wait.  You like to call them Zionists.

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I don't care if religion has anything to do with it neither side has any simpathy from me. They are both Idiots. If rational people were in charge a compramise would of been reached long ago. what is wrong with just living together? Can anyone really think one side is right here?

It is axiomatic that the victim has right on his side.

The Palestinians are the victims of the Jews.

The Palestinians are right.

Everyone who has looked at the facts including the facts of the israeli government as researched by researchers both jewish and israeli have presented the conclusion the Palestinians are the victims of the Jews.

As to getting involved, the US is involved on the side of the perpetraters not the victims. The US enables the perps, arms them, gives them diplomatic cover and financially keeps their tryanny afloat.

The US is involved on the side of religion. The US is filled with raving rednecks who support the perpetrators of these crimes.

Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.

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Wow. Some spazzed out opinions on here. Here's the breakdown of the situation for those who clearly can not think.

1. Israel exists. Whether you agree it should have been allowed to exist or not is no longer the problem. I don't think it helps AT ALL to argue about whether Israel should have been allowed to exist in the first place. Israel exists, it is a democratic state, it is not going anywhere without a fight. They have a strong military. They are part of the world. This is a fact. This is the base from which we must think of the situation.

It is not a democratic state when equal rights for all citizens is a political position forbidden by law. That said, so what if it exists? Palestine existed for at least 2500 years until the Jews wiped it off the map. No one misses Palestine. Why would anyone miss Israel? The bible one is a myth. It never existed.

The very fact that there is an Israel today is a based solely upon religion.

As for getting rid of Israel that is not a problem. However ending its discriminatory policies and nuclear blackmail are clearly in the interests of the world. A simple oil and gas embargo will put out the lights in one week and bring them to heel in two. It does not require a fight. The same thing forced South Africa to see the light although it took longer.

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2. Arabs hate jews.

And Jews hate Arabs. But we are talking about Palestinians not Arabs. The Palestinians are people whose ancestors converted from Judaism to Christianity and Islam. The Palestinians appear in history before the Jews.

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Not all, as most arabs have probably never seen a jew. But Arab anti-semitism is quite well understood and it is established it exists. They've hated them since well before Israel existed and clearly seem to hate them even more now.

One has to ask where you are getting your history. Islam has always given refuge to Jewish Europeans seeking refuge from persecution. The Jews of Spain came with the Moors and were expelled with them. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim Palestinians lived in peace for over a thousand years before the Ashkenazi Jews started arriving to steal the land and expel them.

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The reason for this is CLEARLY religion. It is clearly the greatest difference between Jews and Arabs. Islam is clearly not a religion of peace. Anyone with any degree of intellectual honesty can see this. Many muslims just want to live in peace but Islam is not in itself peaceful. Not all muslims are violent, just as not all Catholic priests are child molesters. But the rules of islam lead a lot of people to become violent, even suicidaly violent just as the rules a Catholic preist has to follow leads them to fuck kids because they have no healthy sexual outlet. Take away the stupid rules based on dickhead myths and perhaps these groups wouldnt be so violent/child rapisty. Much like in point number 1. above, this point establishes the existance of a large group of people in the area who CLEARLY hate jews because they're jews.

In your claims about Islam you fail to note the most obvious fact. ALL Zionists are murderers and thieves and murder and theft are the foundation of Zionism. Whatever you choose to call the others the Jews that started emigrating to Palestine from Europe were the selection of Jews who were murderers and thieves. The Zionist movement separated the murderers from the non-murderers and sent the former to Palestine. That is a fact of history regardless of your ignorant bigotry in other matters.

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3. There are two options for arabs  to take.

More that that of course.

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4. One option is to seek the total destruction of Israel meaning all the "jews" (or citizens of israel or whatever) die or are forced to flee. This can be achieved through all out confict which hasn't worked time and time again. Israel is too well organised and the arab countries who have attacked it in the past have always failed. The other option for the destruction of Israel is the sort of shit Hamas is pulling now. Rocket attacks, mortars, suicide bombings. Provoking Israel into conflict. What government wouldn't attack a group hell bent on destroying your country? Be realistic. Now, when the Jews fight back, they fight with proper military grade shit. They aren't messing about, they blow things up. This kills lots of people. Which sucks, because lots of them are kids (not as many as the media suggests, who get their numbers from HAMAS for fucks sake) but yes, kids die which is shitty.

Or they can work for justice and the end to official discrimination in Israel and for equal rights for all Israelis and for justice for all the dispossessed.

Those methods are the same as the Jews used against both the Palestinians and the British so they do work. You should not discount them so quickly.

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5. The other option is to seek peace. Not peace through destroying all the jews and then relaxing in some grand Arab utopia (which they haven't managed to produce anywhere else either), but peace through a two state system or something of the sort. Israel made some moves toward this we must admit. They pulled out of Gaza. And yes, they kept the blockade.

And announced a policy of deliberately starving the Gazan population.

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But why on earth would you open up your borders to a group of people who openly state they want to destroy you and have produced  horrific suicide bombers?!

To this day the Brits are still asking themselves why they were so stupid as to let the Jews into Palestine. But it appears you are referring to the criminal blockade on Gaza. That means according to Israel Gaza is still occupied. The Geneva Conventions heartilly approve of killing off the occupying forces by any means available.

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Even though they pulled out, they had to keep security tight. If Canada produced hundreds of men ready to strap explosives to themselves and detonate in your cities you'd beef up border security a touch.  They could have kept the spoils of war when they were attacked by all their neighbours, and they did keep some and still retain them and this is indeed part of the argument, but handed back others in return for peace. They've seeked peace treaties with their neighbours because its plain bad economics to have to keep on the defensive constantly (this isn't an attempt to be funny with the stereotype of jews being all about money, any country would rather spend its budget on bettering everything else then sinking it into the military).

The money thing is hardly a joke. The details of the blockade all revolved around money for jewish merchants and the collection of Israeli taxes. You should read up on the details some day. You might learn what you are talking about. As for the Israeli military it is kept as Israel has always looked for ways to expand its territory. It has coveted southern Lebanon to the Litani river from the beginning. Its entire political system is based upon the Ha Aretz Yisrael, the land of Israel as described in the bible. It really does intend to ultimately take all the land from the Nile to the Euphrates and the east bank of the Jordan as that is what it says in the bible. It has no chance of doing that without a strong military.

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In order for this solution to work, it is actually Hamas who must stop shooting first. This isn't taking sides, it's just being logical. If Hamas stops shooting, Israel can't get away with randomly attacking.

Yet when Hamas was not shooting Israel was randomly attacking. It appears you are taking sides by putting the onus of behavior upon the occupied party. That is like saying the Polish resistance should not have attacked their Communist occupiers. Why not? Occupation is a crime in itself.

Tell me, if the occupied cease resisting do you believe the occupation will cease? The purpose of the resistance is to end the occupation. So if the Jews simply end the occupation one would expect the resistance to end. OTOH back in 1948 inside what is now Israel they simply granted citizenship to non-Jews and there has not been an internal revolt or a civil war. And that even though they are an oppressed people. their lands and property were stolen and to this day the only reason they cannot get their property back is because they are not Jews.

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Israel got raped by the media in this latest war and they had been taking rockets and mortars for years! If Hamas stops shooting, Israel can't atack. It's that simple.

But it is not true as they do attack. They have been murdering people in the West bank since 1967. During the years when those rockets killed eight people of the occupying country, over 1700 Palestinians were murdered by the occupiers. Do you not read the news? I suggest jpost.com and haaretz.com.

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It really really is. Just think about it. If Hamas wants peace they would do MUCH better with peaceful protests, producing well educated people to state the case and seek ways to increase the peace. But they don't.

They want an end to the occupation. No foreigners on their land. No foreigners blockading their ports and ocean access. No foreigners, period.

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They shoot rockets, they build tunnels to try to sneak suicide bombers in.

And the Allies dropped weapons into France in support of the resistance during WWII. What is your point? The fight against occupation never ends.

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So, the violence continues. It is just plain, simple, unbiased logic to conclude that if Hamas stops shooting rockets and mortars and trying to hit israel with suicide bombings,

BTW, no suicide bombers from Gaza so far. But I am certain if we give them some serious weapons they won't imitate the jewish Poles and use suicide bombers. You appear to object to their using a jewish tactic. Why?

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Israel won't be able to randomly kill palestinians and the violence stops.

Israel has never stopped murdering Palestians regardless of how peaceful it is. In fact as the Israeli newspapers have noted, Israel used periods of peace to expand its murder campaigns against the Palestinians. You obviously know nothing about the subject.

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THEN they can work on the humanitarian problem (which is up to Hamas to build roads, educate kids, stop being fuck wits)

At even the slightest opportunity Israel destroys infrastructure. Were it not for its deliberate destruction by Israel Gaza would be much better off. But again you are ignorant of the subject. For example, for more than a year Israel refused to let in equipment to do ordinary maintenance on the water purification plants. During this most recent massacre it destroyed major parts of it. France tried to get part to repair it into Gaza. Israel refused to let it in.

You are very ignorant of the subject.

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The UN has failed here, money has been pumped into Palestine for decades, and the Palestinian population has INCREASED proving they are not starving. They have hospitals and cars and jobs and some petty industry and enough land to build some farms etc etc. The jews turned the desert into a thriving 1st world country.

I did not realize anyone still believed that desert myth or that anyone thinks Israel is a 1st world country. You are very naive about Israel.

Anyone with the slightest knowledge of population growth has learned population increases faster in times of starvation. And in fact Israel's own released figures, which are likely inflated, say it is letting in only half the needed food. And on top of that it destroyed 80% of the crop just in case they might feed themselves.

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The palestinians are given aid to keep them alive. Their situation is indeed shitty and at times really quite dire. What is happening? Hamas shoots rockets. They are motivated by their sick religious bullshit which tells them to destroy all the jews, no matter how many of their own kids need to die. Let's not forget also that there are some nutty jews in israel who want to bring about some loopy crap promised to them in very very old books written by ignorant old wankers. This group doesn't hold anywhere as much power as the insane islamists but they're part of it. The parties of god unfortunately hold control of the situation.

As for sick, it is Judaism that keeps them prisoner in Gaza and the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem. That is one sick religion. It is a religion of hatred of all other peoples. During the massacre the chief rabbi of the IDF was urging no quarter, no mercy on the troops. You would know about it if you read Israeli news sources as I do.

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That's it.  Yes there are other factors. The history of it etc etc. But its really not helpful to get upset about the history of it and argue that israel should never have existed or that palestinians should get this or that land back. The facts are, israel exists and has boarders, and the only way those boarders can change so that people might get some land back or people can come and go through them or openly trade through them is by Hamas putting down their guns and wearing down Israeli fears about arse clown kids blowing themselves up in nightclubs and on busses and hijacking planes and gunning down olympic teams etc. Once again, I don't think im being biased in stating that it's just the only possible path to a peaceful solution. Not that Hamas putting their guns down will automatically lead to peace. There is plenty of angry islam to take Hamas' place should they turn peaceful (HAHAHA). But isn't it clear that one side here will at least consider peace and the other doesn't want it at any cost?

And the victims of the Jews are supposed to just give up? Why should they continue to live as victims? Jews will not stop stealing. Just last week they announced another land theft in occupied Jerusalem. By Israel's own records one third of their criminal squatter towns are built on land owned by Palestinians. People were hanged at Nuremberg for doing that. Poles were given justice. Why not Palestinians? A bunch of jewish criminals doing an air dance would go a long way to sending a message of justice to the world.

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I'm not pro israel,

But you are ignorant of Israel. Perhaps deliberately so. Frankly you come across as simply naive at the teenage level. You certianly have no idea of human nature.

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but I stand with democratic states who at least try some of the time to work towards peace and have at least some citizens who want the same and have a voice and have a chance of working toward that peace through democratic means. Hamas doesn't even try.

Given your ignorance I should not be surprised at that statement. Hamas won the last election in Palestine. The election was declared fair by Jimmy Carter. So why did the US support a coup against Hamas? What is the point of democracy when the winner is ejected and its leaders arrested by foreigners?

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Of course the victims are the familes who lose their loved ones when bombs explode on their houses. Yes, israel blows up shit when they get pissed off. But do they wake up and decide to blow up 10 houses that day for something to do? Or does another rocket fall on someone's house and they protest to their governmetn to do something about it and eventually the situation comes to a head and the government needs to do SOMETHING and they blow some motherfuckers up?

Consider the fact that when the war began Israel announced its objective for the war, the overthrow Hamas. It watered down that objective to ending the rocket fire. Now that the war is paused, Hamas is still in power and the rockets are still firing. As Israel accomplished none of its stated objectives we can only conclude the destruction was the sole purpose of the war.

Yes, Israel lost another one. The sole purpose was destruction. Very biblical.

Again, the evil of religion.

It all goes back to the myth of biblical Israel which never existed.

 

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I don't care if religion has anything to do with it neither side has any simpathy from me. They are both Idiots. If rational people were in charge a compramise would of been reached long ago. what is wrong with just living together? Can anyone really think one side is right here?

It is axiomatic that the victim has right on his side.

The Palestinians are the victims of the Jews.

The Palestinians are right.

Everyone who has looked at the facts including the facts of the israeli government as researched by researchers both jewish and israeli have presented the conclusion the Palestinians are the victims of the Jews.

As to getting involved, the US is involved on the side of the perpetraters not the victims. The US enables the perps, arms them, gives them diplomatic cover and financially keeps their tryanny afloat.

The US is involved on the side of religion. The US is filled with raving rednecks who support the perpetrators of these crimes.

 

I'm sorry when you fire rockets into civillian zones randomly you aren't right. Expessailly when you do it from anther civilian zone endangering your own people. They have lost any high ground they may of had. They are discusting. Answer me this why can't they just live in the same place as the jews?By the same token why can't the Jew's just live in the same placve as them? Make no mistake the Isralies are far from innocent themselves. But wtf is stopping them?

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Watcher wrote:A_Nony_Mouse

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All of human history is replete with examples of humans fighting and killing to maintain the right of ownership. The concept is inseparable from human nature.

Agreed.

A_Nony_Mouse wrote:

Now say they redeemed it instead of stole it and you are invoking a religious concept. Which is why the Zionists are a horrible example of the consequences of religion. I pointed out Gaza was an immediate example with plenty of examples such as these http://www.giwersworld.org/antisem/GAZA-pics/

Redeemed?  Did I use that word?  Uhm.  No.  I didn't.  They are just banding together somewhere to protect themselves for once.  Seems like a lot of people get pissed at the Jews for not staying in other countries where they can be slaughtered piecemeal.

The land was stolen using deadly force and ethnic cleansing. There is no other word used but "redeemed" to avoid the correct description as theft.

The founding principle of Zionism is that Jews could never assimilate into Christian Europe. There is nothing in it about banding together for protection. The founding principle of Zionism was adopted by the NSDAP a few decades later.

The idea of "slaughter" was NOT raised by the Zionists. It arose as a result of the Dreyfus Affair. It was taken as an example of what would happen after leaving the ghetto and trying to join civil life. That it was but one example is largely forgotten. The only clear way to assimilation was religious conversion. Every PM of Israel who visits the US gives some speech warning of the dangers of intermarriage with Christians which is an obvious example of religious bigotry.

Self defense was not raised either.

What was raised was, pardon my memory and grammar, Die Entlossung der Judentenfrage ist Territorialismus. That Zionist book was published in Berlin in 1917, The Final Solution of the Jewish Question is Territorialism, having a political entity. (It is also interesting to see the "nazi" terms were originally Zionist terms. Of course it might have meant the Zionists were advocating mass suicide.)

This was part of the invention of a jewish "people" by the Zionists. Before this there was only a jewish religion, the Mosaic Confession. No one had heard of a Jews outside of the religion.

It is not acceptable to invent ex post facto reasons which were not the ones which motivated the Zionists. As a matter of record the "survivors" of WWII were despised when they arrived in Israel for not having fought back. Israel essentially banned the use of Yiddish in particular while merely encouraging the use of the invented "Hebrew" in public venues.

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A_Nony_Mouse wrote:

Dragging the holy holocaust into the discussion to justify the mass murders and thefts by the Jews is destined to failure.

Why?  Please elaborate.  I think it was more than enough justification for the Jews to finally say, "Fuck this." and finally start defending themselves.  If you want to somehow invalidate the holocaust then we can start with why it should not be a factor.

The holy holocaust could be used to justify their being given Bavaria or any other part of Germany. It does not justify making the Palestinians suffer. They had nothing to do with it. By the way international law worked at the time the Palestinians were on the side of the Allies, like it or not.

But for the mythology of Judaism they insisted upon Palestine though the Palestinians had been there centuries before the predecessor of modern Jews appeared in history.

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And I have observed it is absurd to listen to the whining Jews when the Palestinians (not Arabs, dummy)

"Palestinian people or Palestinians also commonly rendered as Palestinian Arabs are terms commonly used to refer to the indigenous Arab population whose origins are in Palestine."

I am refering to what they are not what the Jews commonly call them. I can talk about Arab leaders and Jew leaders but the choice of terms is also from the NYT style manual. Arabs are clearly from Arabia. Palestinians appear in history before the predecessors of modern Jews appear in history. You should know that. Perhaps as a Texan you do not.

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So "dummy", lets now define what an arab is.  Great way to ignore the discussion and fall off on a tangent.  I guess you don't call Iranians arabs either do you?  No...they are "persians".  Looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...

Nor are the Moroccans or Egyptians Arabs yet their only connection is speaking a version of Arabic and long ago adopting Arabic culture when it was the most advanced in the west. It is the same with the Palestinians who we know were there at least 2500 years ago.

The issue is the use of "arabs" as a pejorative. An Arab is simply a person from the Arabian peninsula. One could stretch that to having strong historical ties to the Peninsula. Palestine and Syria have had Mediterranean connections as far back as the Phoenicians. Their other ties have been with Egypt and Mesoptamia going back some six thousand years. Any connection with Arabia began only 1400 years ago in the aftermath of a devastating war between Persia and Byzantium. There was never a physical replacement of the populations of those countries with Arabians.

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I'm not an American, I'm a Texan.  Whatever.

No one's perfect.

Watcher wrote:
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As the Dodo and the Jews are no different to you why do you take an interest?

What?  Try to keep up.  Humans, dodos, both animals.  Saying that one people have a right to a specific tract of land over another makes sense only within human institutions, which means not at all except within a society.  The jews and palestinians do not exist in the same society.

Not only do they exist in the same society but in the same political entity. It is currently called Israel. They also exist in the same society in the occupied territories. Agree they are third or fourth class even where they are citizens but they do exist in the same society.

While you make an anthropomorphic point with what exists only in a human context, this discussion occurs within a human context. The right of ownership and the right to kill to regain ownership do have meaning in this context.

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Therefore, fuck "rights".  The jews are just trying to find somewhere to be the majority for once for protection of their own lives.  When a person's people is fighting for survival you can take your lawyers and shove them right up your ass.

Of course I reject the anachronism of "protect their own lives" as that was not the foundation of Zionism. As for lawyers, I can think of no better place to put them. As for "just trying to find ..." that also only exists only in a human context and therefore has no special standing either. It doesn't rise above looking for better grazing land.

However the issue here, last time I looked, was the right in this human context to kill the thieves and the occupation forces. And of course they have a right to be killed for doing it.

But that gives no special pleading for any superior "right" to the foreign invaders.

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But they do.

Cool.  Shoot me a link to one of the children TV shows shown to the Jewish children about killing the palestinian arabs.

I did not get any link from you. Why should I do more? I can probably find those cute little Jewish girls writing love note to the Lebanese on artillery shells if you like. You find your link and I will find mine. I thought it was so cute and so Jewish that children were engaged in taunted those they would murder. Lets at least try to play fair. On one hand we have a TV show with an unknown audience share. On the other hand we have the bloodthirsty jewish girls in the act. Do you really want to run with this?

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Yet between those two you hold doing the same things you agree Jews did as justification for your frankly bigoted opinion of non-Jews.

haha.  I'm the bigot now?  Repeatedly using the word "Zionist" is only used by people bigoted against the jews and filled with dimentia about conspiracies of them.  I suppose you think the jews own all of the world banks too?  Cut loose.  Tell us all the crazy ideas circulating in your head.

The foundation of Zionism is murder and theft. If you disagree show me how its objectives could be achieved without murder and theft. As for conspiracies, the conspiracy to take over Palestine is very well documented and not hidden at all. The fact that we can talk about the plan and its execution to take over Palestine means we are both fully aware of that conspiracy. There is nothing in law which requires a conspiracy to be secret.

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What you have to ask yourself is why you pay attention when Jews whine about getting as good as they gave. You are certainly not dumb enough to fall for it are you?

Looks to me like the Jews are finally kicking ass and taking names for once.  If they are whining its because they are loosing one soldier for every 200 palestinians arabs they kill.  Go Israel.

Mass murderers always have their groupies. The groupies of the Jews are usually rednecks and being from Texas would explain your support. Probably an Aggie too.

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As an ATHEIST you should appreciate this as an example of the EVIL of religion

As an ATHEIST I will make up my own mind with whom to side with or not.  The people that would cheer and laugh as America and my family burn or those that would fight by my side.

Israel sells out to the highest bidder. They originally sided with Stalin. And then there is www.ussliberty.org Tel Aviv still deserves a good nuking over that. And I don't want to hear any whining over 20,000 to 1 or the fallout. It is just acting jewish.

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I'll stick with the Jews.

Oh wait.  You like to call them Zionists.

By survey 80% of Jew support Israel. What is the difference? Be a Nazi or support Nazis, I see no difference in practice. Aiding and abetting a crime is a crime in itself.

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 I really don't see why people have to pick sides here. Thier is so much "wrong" on both sides that there can't be a "good" side as so many people like to think. I really can't see how anyone can condone anything that either side does.

 

Just btw A_Nony_Mouse, if you had your way where do you think the Jews should go? The palistinions clearly don't want them on the land.

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Tapey wrote:A_Nony_Mouse

Tapey wrote:

A_Nony_Mouse wrote:

Tapey wrote:

I don't care if religion has anything to do with it neither side has any simpathy from me. They are both Idiots. If rational people were in charge a compramise would of been reached long ago. what is wrong with just living together? Can anyone really think one side is right here?

It is axiomatic that the victim has right on his side.

The Palestinians are the victims of the Jews.

The Palestinians are right.

Everyone who has looked at the facts including the facts of the israeli government as researched by researchers both jewish and israeli have presented the conclusion the Palestinians are the victims of the Jews.

As to getting involved, the US is involved on the side of the perpetraters not the victims. The US enables the perps, arms them, gives them diplomatic cover and financially keeps their tryanny afloat.

The US is involved on the side of religion. The US is filled with raving rednecks who support the perpetrators of these crimes.

 

I'm sorry when you fire rockets into civillian zones randomly you aren't right. Expessailly when you do it from anther civilian zone endangering your own people. They have lost any high ground they may of had. They are discusting. Answer me this why can't they just live in the same place as the jews?By the same token why can't the Jew's just live in the same placve as them? Make no mistake the Isralies are far from innocent themselves. But wtf is stopping them?

Let me try to explain this to you. The Geneva Conventions grant the inalienable right of occupied people to attack the occupying forces. They make no distinction between on or off duty, active or reserve military. Israel has universal military service and reserve duty following it until age 50 or some such. Any missile fired at any population center has about a 1 in 4 chance of hitting a member of the occupying military. Israel has justified attacks with a 1 in 17 chance as justified and the rest as collateral damage.

By Israel's own measure Hamas is more justified.

Do you understand that?

If you do not like it you can certainly petition the Geneva Conventions committee to organize and effort to modify the conventions. Rotsa Ruck.

This right also extends to any nightspot where young men congregate as they are all on or off duty, active or reserve military. A few years ago a bombing of the Dolphinarium was in the news. It took a week to come out that a squad on leave from the West Bank was the target. There are no "time outs" for occupation targets. They are all lawful targets any time and any place.

This is what happens when Israel hides its military among its civilian population.

Further all military assets are open to attack at any time regardless of any civilian casualties. Israel uses the civilian bus system to move troops to and from the West Bank. Civilian buses are a lawful target at all times. If civilians are stupid enough to use them they are putting their lives at risk by their own choice.

And if you missed it, all parties are bound to treat Gaza and the West Bank as a single entity.

I do not see your problem. Reserve military live among civilians. According to the Geneva Conventions they are lawful targets at any time without exception. When an occupying power allows its military into civilian areas the civilian area becomes a lawful target. The segregated town of Sderot was the excuse for the recent massacre. Are you going to tell me there were no reserve IDF people living there? Reasonably we expect 25% of the population was reserve military. But even if only one in seventeen were reserve military it is a lawful target as defined by Israel.

Please explain your problem.

 

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Tapey wrote:

 I really don't see why people have to pick sides here. Thier is so much "wrong" on both sides that there can't be a "good" side as so many people like to think. I really can't see how anyone can condone anything that either side does.

The United States has chosen a side. It costs the US some $5 billion a year in direct costs and a few billion more in tax reductions to send work to Israel that would otherwise be economically stupid. Israel's "high tech" image is pure mythology. It also costs the US little things like 9/11 and the idiot war on Iraq which was only supported by Israel, the Izziehuggers in the US and ignorant rednecks born-agains like Bush. Excuse me, also supported by the best English poodle and all the countries which could be bribed to say yes, like Poland.

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Just btw A_Nony_Mouse, if you had your way where do you think the Jews should go? The palistinions clearly don't want them on the land.

Most European countries have laws whereby grandchildren of emigrants can return no questions asked. That covers just about all jewish Israelis as 60% of them were not born there.

I suggest they go back where they came from. 60% can go back even without the grandfather laws.

The very few who do not fall under the grandfather rule can certainly find a family sponsor to take them in.

And if all else fails they can be dumped on Germany which is always willing to do a public mea culpa.

I do not see a problem.

But even if there were a problem whose fault is that but their own? People make lots of dumb decisions. They can curse themselves or their ancestors. This is not a perfect world. The few who have a problem do not justify the millions remaining as holders of stolen property.

If you have any other Zionist nonsense you want an answer to please post it. If I have missed providing an answer to one I want to and it to my website. I appreciate hearing new ones.

 

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 I really don't see why people have to pick sides here. Thier is so much "wrong" on both sides that there can't be a "good" side as so many people like to think. I really can't see how anyone can condone anything that either side does.

The United States has chosen a side. It costs the US some $5 billion a year in direct costs and a few billion more in tax reductions to send work to Israel that would otherwise be economically stupid. Israel's "high tech" image is pure mythology. It also costs the US little things like 9/11 and the idiot war on Iraq which was only supported by Israel, the Izziehuggers in the US and ignorant rednecks born-agains like Bush. Excuse me, also supported by the best English poodle and all the countries which could be bribed to say yes, like Poland.

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Just btw A_Nony_Mouse, if you had your way where do you think the Jews should go? The palistinions clearly don't want them on the land.

Most European countries have laws whereby grandchildren of emigrants can return no questions asked. That covers just about all jewish Israelis as 60% of them were not born there.

I suggest they go back where they came from. 60% can go back even without the grandfather laws.

The very few who do not fall under the grandfather rule can certainly find a family sponsor to take them in.

And if all else fails they can be dumped on Germany which is always willing to do a public mea culpa.

I do not see a problem.

But even if there were a problem whose fault is that but their own? People make lots of dumb decisions. They can curse themselves or their ancestors. This is not a perfect world. The few who have a problem do not justify the millions remaining as holders of stolen property.

If you have any other Zionist nonsense you want an answer to please post it. If I have missed providing an answer to one I want to and it to my website. I appreciate hearing new ones.

 

 

You really see no problem in uprooting an entire nation? It was formed what 60 years ago? So anyone born in there in the past 60 years really has no guilt in what you are saying. They diddn't steal any land They were born there. Incase you didn't notice you can't help where you were born. 

 

About that attacking civilians thing. Just because some treaty says it's ok doesn't mean it's ok. If you really belive that shooting at civilan targets is ok I really don't know what to call you, a collosal asshat comes to mind but I don't think that goes far enough. The thing is its not only that they are shooting civilian targets it's also where they are shooting from, endangering thier own people. Discusting. 

 

After all this NOTHING has been gained only a lot of lives lost, that in it's self is reason to stop and move on and realise nothing you can do to change the past the only thing you can do is move on live together in peace and prosparity as one nation. If they had limited the attacks to the millatary or goverment I would be more sympathetic to them but they were asshats and diddn't. Btw America may of chosen a side but I'm not American, Im South African

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A_Nony_Mouse wrote:Tapey

A_Nony_Mouse wrote:

Tapey wrote:

A_Nony_Mouse wrote:

Tapey wrote:

I don't care if religion has anything to do with it neither side has any simpathy from me. They are both Idiots. If rational people were in charge a compramise would of been reached long ago. what is wrong with just living together? Can anyone really think one side is right here?

It is axiomatic that the victim has right on his side.

The Palestinians are the victims of the Jews.

The Palestinians are right.

Everyone who has looked at the facts including the facts of the israeli government as researched by researchers both jewish and israeli have presented the conclusion the Palestinians are the victims of the Jews.

As to getting involved, the US is involved on the side of the perpetraters not the victims. The US enables the perps, arms them, gives them diplomatic cover and financially keeps their tryanny afloat.

The US is involved on the side of religion. The US is filled with raving rednecks who support the perpetrators of these crimes.

 

I'm sorry when you fire rockets into civillian zones randomly you aren't right. Expessailly when you do it from anther civilian zone endangering your own people. They have lost any high ground they may of had. They are discusting. Answer me this why can't they just live in the same place as the jews?By the same token why can't the Jew's just live in the same placve as them? Make no mistake the Isralies are far from innocent themselves. But wtf is stopping them?

Let me try to explain this to you. The Geneva Conventions grant the inalienable right of occupied people to attack the occupying forces. They make no distinction between on or off duty, active or reserve military. Israel has universal military service and reserve duty following it until age 50 or some such. Any missile fired at any population center has about a 1 in 4 chance of hitting a member of the occupying military. Israel has justified attacks with a 1 in 17 chance as justified and the rest as collateral damage.

By Israel's own measure Hamas is more justified.

Do you understand that?

If you do not like it you can certainly petition the Geneva Conventions committee to organize and effort to modify the conventions. Rotsa Ruck.

This right also extends to any nightspot where young men congregate as they are all on or off duty, active or reserve military. A few years ago a bombing of the Dolphinarium was in the news. It took a week to come out that a squad on leave from the West Bank was the target. There are no "time outs" for occupation targets. They are all lawful targets any time and any place.

This is what happens when Israel hides its military among its civilian population.

Further all military assets are open to attack at any time regardless of any civilian casualties. Israel uses the civilian bus system to move troops to and from the West Bank. Civilian buses are a lawful target at all times. If civilians are stupid enough to use them they are putting their lives at risk by their own choice.

And if you missed it, all parties are bound to treat Gaza and the West Bank as a single entity.

I do not see your problem. Reserve military live among civilians. According to the Geneva Conventions they are lawful targets at any time without exception. When an occupying power allows its military into civilian areas the civilian area becomes a lawful target. The segregated town of Sderot was the excuse for the recent massacre. Are you going to tell me there were no reserve IDF people living there? Reasonably we expect 25% of the population was reserve military. But even if only one in seventeen were reserve military it is a lawful target as defined by Israel.

Please explain your problem.

 

 

Just one small point I don't think they account as occupying. They are a legal nation, you are free it say how it came about is wrong and thus must be changed, but the fact still stands they are the legal ocupantes of that land. As recodnised by most of the world. You don't see my problem with innocent people getting killed? Are you even human? I can accept innocent people die in war. However I will NEVER accept firing at civilians is ok. No matter what chance you have hiting some off duty army dude. You fire at the millatary of goverment, not your average joe.

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I did not get any link from you. Why should I do more? I can probably find those cute little Jewish girls writing love note to the Lebanese on artillery shells if you like. You find your link and I will find mine. I thought it was so cute and so Jewish that children were engaged in taunted those they would murder. Lets at least try to play fair. On one hand we have a TV show with an unknown audience share. On the other hand we have the bloodthirsty jewish girls in the act. Do you really want to run with this?

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Mass murderers always have their groupies. The groupies of the Jews are usually rednecks and being from Texas would explain your support. Probably an Aggie too.

I'm a redneck because I'm from Texas, eh?  I can see how you simplify people into little boxes.  Must be easier for your little brain to try and make sense of the world.  Redneck is a term I throw around as an insult as well.  So I find this amusing.

And no, I'm not a former or current or future student of Texas A&M University.  Frankly I find their intense group mentality toward the University very unsettling and similar to the slavish devotion of a cult. 

I bet you have a picture of people with names like urhm...Hitler or Himmler on your wall.  amiright?

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Israel sells out to the highest bidder. They originally sided with Stalin. And then there is www.ussliberty.org Tel Aviv still deserves a good nuking over that. And I don't want to hear any whining over 20,000 to 1 or the fallout. It is just acting jewish.

America originally sided with Stalin as well.

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By survey 80% of Jew support Israel. What is the difference? Be a Nazi or support Nazis, I see no difference in practice. Aiding and abetting a crime is a crime in itself.

Yeah.  I bet you would like us to join your little Nazi fan club.

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As an ATHEIST you should appreciate this as an example of the EVIL of religion.

Nope, it's all secular interest. If religion/nationality is being used, it's primarily as a tool of real politique. If you want to further "atheist agenda", you would do well not to lie (intentionally or not) about who is responsible for what. Also, just the thought of using the suffering of those people to attack theism is petty and tasteless. And I'm an atheist. It makes me feel sad. Don't make me feel sad.

Other than that, I absolutely reckognize the genocide that is happening down there. I personally know a survivor of holocaust who is petrified of what Israel is doing in their name. My grandfather fought in the second world war with the hope that the attrocities of that sort would be something his children would not have to endure. This goes to show that we still have a fight ahead of us. And it's not against religion, but against our own governments and finally our own stupidity. Smart religious people might just be our best allies in that endavour.

So, if it's not religion, than it's not the Jews, buddy. It's the secular Israeli government and the interests that support it, which in no way represent all Jews. More likely the opposite - enemy #1 of Jews is the Israeli government and the interests that support it's actions. Yes, the Israeli government is secular; it certainly steals land like a materialist would. So stop ranting against a whole ethnic group. If you knew how many Jews were fighting against this genocide, you would feel ashamed of not doing something serious for the indian minority in the US. Actually, feel free to feel bad about that, 'cause the original inhabitants of your continent are in the worst shape of all minorities out there and it's steadyly getting worse. These guys might be a pretty good ally too, if you can get yourself to get over yourself and help them not become extinct.

I also know that it's a rare thing to run into an american who isn't completely f****d by the gargantuan effort of your main stream media to make this issue look like two sides quarreling. Don't let my telling you that you are a dick for making a post like this, offset the realisation that I think you are at least able to identify the victim and hint that you are on the right side of the issue. I am always on the side of the underdog by instinct I think, so I like that. Just use your head and get the priorities straight. Human first, atheist or whatever by accident.

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I don't care if religion has anything to do with it neither side has any simpathy from me. They are both Idiots. If rational people were in charge a compramise would of been reached long ago. what is wrong with just living together? Can anyone really think one side is right here?

 

 

Rational people are certainly in charge. The compromise has been reached - Israeli government will destabilise the area and act a military arm of western interest, while west will guarantee aid and support expansion. Palestinians in the area are not considered a party in negotiations, they hold no power over anything. The average age of a Palestinian in Gaza is 15. We are talking life expectancy of a concentration camp prisoner. A compromise with them is meaningless for any rational person, why would a guard negotiate with a hungry prisoner?

This thing about which side is "right" really does nothing for me. I like to identify victims and stop the aggressors.

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Just btw A_Nony_Mouse, if you had your way where do you think the Jews should go? The palistinions clearly don't want them on the land.

Most European countries have laws whereby grandchildren of emigrants can return no questions asked. That covers just about all jewish Israelis as 60% of them were not born there.

I suggest they go back where they came from. 60% can go back even without the grandfather laws.

The very few who do not fall under the grandfather rule can certainly find a family sponsor to take them in.

And if all else fails they can be dumped on Germany which is always willing to do a public mea culpa.

I do not see a problem.

That's another lie. According to the CIA 67.1% of Jews living in Israel were born there. You're off by about 27% Unlike you, I have a reputable source to back up my claim.

I think it would be great if Germany and Poland offered to take in the people who wanted to leave. Who the fuck would want to live in the desert anyway? The land is getting dryer, and the water is getting salty. But they shouldn't be forced to move, and Germany/Poland shouldn't be forced to take on the burden. You are talking about displacing 6 million people so that the rest can spread out to land that arguably belongs to them.

What it really boils down to is, do they have the right to live there? Rational people argue that it is a complicated problem that does not have an easy answer. You argue that they don't because they are Jews and you're an antisemitic asshole.

Does that about sum it up?

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Just one small point I don't think they account as occupying. They are a legal nation, you are free it say how it came about is wrong and thus must be changed, but the fact still stands they are the legal ocupantes of that land. As recodnised by most of the world. You don't see my problem with innocent people getting killed? Are you even human? I can accept innocent people die in war. However I will NEVER accept firing at civilians is ok. No matter what chance you have hiting some off duty army dude. You fire at the millatary of goverment, not your average joe.

Israel is the belligerant occupying power of Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and the Syrian/Golan Heights within the meaning of the Hague Treaty on land warfare. According to the Geneva Conventions annexing conquered territory consitutes a war crime with the precedent of Nuremberg and the Nazi annexation of Poland. In the same manner as Nazi Germany Israel has committed war crimes by annexing Jerusalem, the Syrian/Golan Heights and a part of the West Bank it declared to be East Jerusalem. Israel is a signatory to the Hague treaties and the Geneva conventions.

In maintaining control over Gaza it remains under belligerant occupation by Israel. I have collected two Israeli newspaper reports which show both its supreme court and its attorney general consider Gaza to be under belligerant occupation within the meaning of the Hague V, the treaty on land warfare. So there is no point in disagreeing with me on this subject as it is the unanimous legal opinion of the government of Israel.

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However I will NEVER accept firing at civilians is ok. No matter what chance you have hiting some off duty army dude. You fire at the millatary of goverment, not your average joe.

What you will or will not accept is clearly your pro-israeli peeve. On or off duty, active or reserve they ARE the military of the government. When the government allows its military to be among the civilian population that government makes its civilians into lawful targets. The government could keep them separated. There is nothing in the treaties or conventions that makes an exception for when it is impractical.

You are siding with Israel in that Israel just murdered over 1300 innocent people in Gaza who were not part of any military. Over the years Israel has averaged about a thousand murders a year in the occupied territories. About a third of those are children most of whom were obviously targeted for murder. Yet Israel uses the same excuse that you will 'never' accept. You have accepted it when used by Israel. Why do you side with religious fanatics?

Yet you accept that when it is done by the Israeli government without a word even though you say you are against it. But you take issue with a largely ineffective but lawful effort against Israelis as unacceptable.

Can you explain the why you view the occupying forces as innocent while the occupied people at fault for exercising lawful resistance.

 

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Tapey wrote:

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Tapey wrote:

 I really don't see why people have to pick sides here. Thier is so much "wrong" on both sides that there can't be a "good" side as so many people like to think. I really can't see how anyone can condone anything that either side does.

The United States has chosen a side. It costs the US some $5 billion a year in direct costs and a few billion more in tax reductions to send work to Israel that would otherwise be economically stupid. Israel's "high tech" image is pure mythology. It also costs the US little things like 9/11 and the idiot war on Iraq which was only supported by Israel, the Izziehuggers in the US and ignorant rednecks born-agains like Bush. Excuse me, also supported by the best English poodle and all the countries which could be bribed to say yes, like Poland.

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Just btw A_Nony_Mouse, if you had your way where do you think the Jews should go? The palistinions clearly don't want them on the land.

Most European countries have laws whereby grandchildren of emigrants can return no questions asked. That covers just about all jewish Israelis as 60% of them were not born there.

I suggest they go back where they came from. 60% can go back even without the grandfather laws.

The very few who do not fall under the grandfather rule can certainly find a family sponsor to take them in.

And if all else fails they can be dumped on Germany which is always willing to do a public mea culpa.

I do not see a problem.

But even if there were a problem whose fault is that but their own? People make lots of dumb decisions. They can curse themselves or their ancestors. This is not a perfect world. The few who have a problem do not justify the millions remaining as holders of stolen property.

If you have any other Zionist nonsense you want an answer to please post it. If I have missed providing an answer to one I want to and it to my website. I appreciate hearing new ones.

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You really see no problem in uprooting an entire nation? It was formed what 60 years ago? So anyone born in there in the past 60 years really has no guilt in what you are saying. They diddn't steal any land They were born there. Incase you didn't notice you can't help where you were born.

You asked where they could go. I told you. Now you want to plead difficulty. 1,000,000 Palestinians, which is all of them, were uprooted and 750,000 driven out of the country. They are doing fine. Why should Jews be treated any differently?

As for those who were born there, nothing is perfect. Perhaps they can be treated differently. However they are the holders of stolen property whether they stole it or not. The issue here is NOT sovereignty. The issue is with deeded, private ownership of land. Sovereignty and ownership are different subjects. I am talking about the rightful owners of the land.

Further I am talking about regaining possession of what is rightfully theirs under the same legal pleadings which Jews and their descendants have used to claim property lost during WWII. In that universe even forced sales are not considered lawful. In Israel we are talking about nearly 100% confiscation under laws quite similar to the Nazi era abandoned property laws which are NOT recognized by Jews in seeking compensation.

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About that attacking civilians thing. Just because some treaty says it's ok doesn't mean it's ok. If you really belive that shooting at civilan targets is ok I really don't know what to call you, a collosal asshat comes to mind but I don't think that goes far enough. The thing is its not only that they are shooting civilian targets it's also where they are shooting from, endangering thier own people. Discusting.

I did not say shooting at civilians. I said shooting at members of the military who are hiding among civilians. If the military stop hiding among civilians there is a case. As long as they do they deliberately make the civilians lawful targets. I am surprised at your opinion of a military that uses its own citizens as human shields.

As for endangering their own people that is a cost of striking back at the criminal aggressors. It is also their choice to make.

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After all this NOTHING has been gained only a lot of lives lost, that in it's self is reason to stop and move on and realise nothing you can do to change the past the only thing you can do is move on live together in peace and prosparity as one nation. If they had limited the attacks to the millatary or goverment I would be more sympathetic to them but they were asshats and diddn't. Btw America may of chosen a side but I'm not American, Im South African

One would expect a South African to appreciate the evils of apartheid and to recognize them when perpetrated by Israel. Of course I expect some racial superiority riff.

Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.

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What it really boils down to is, do they have the right to live there? Rational people argue that it is a complicated problem that does not have an easy answer.

Well, if that is the way you pose questions, yea, shit, we will never know an answer to ANYTHING. Rights are debatable out into the fuck.

I think we might want to learn from our pious friends here and go with a question like: are we going to stand idly by, when people are being hoarded, forbidden freedom of movement, expression, killed, maimed, living under threat of violence at all times with complicity of our own countries?

From you I would expect an argument like: "yea, but the rockets...". In short, let me reply to that:

1.5 million Palestinians with an average age of 15 and a life expectancy that matches, are living with little or no medical supplies, electricity, clean water and food. We are talking people watching their kids die for the lack of insulin or dialysis in the periods when border is closed during the worst assaults on the civilian population. If you are determined to stay and live on your land, or simply are unable to leave and have nowhere to go, you are living in something that closely resembles a concentration camp. Whoever introduces these circumstances, and in this case it is a nuclear superpower with an unmatched army in the middle east, can be sure to get resistance of some sort. In this case it's rockets.

Are the rockets justifiable? Absolutely NOT. Address the cause is one of the ways to stop them. Another way is to kill or displace everyone living in the West Bank or Gaza.

Are the rockets to be expected because of the circumstances? Yes, Israeli government could safely have expected those.

Are they a threat to Israeli government in any meaningful way? No. While Israeli people are put in jeopardy, Israeli government is doing just fine.

Are they a good PR rouse to excuse genocide? Yes. Only a handful of people have died and been injured due to rocket fire, so there is no huge movement within the Israeli population against a government that is unable to protect it's people. At the same time the scare is very potent, allowing for 1300 palestinians, of which 350+ are small children, to be killed within 20 days of the start of the last onslaught on Gaza and the West Bank.

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You argue that they don't because they are Jews and you're an antisemitic asshole.

Does that about sum it up?

So, because the guy that started the thread is arguably (you like that word, don't you?) an anti-Semitic asshole, there is nothing more to be said? The issue is extremely simple, if your priority is human life and well-being. If we do not speak and act meaningfully against the aggression, I don't think we "rational" people have anything to say to the theists, who just might have a better method of deciding moral and ethical principle than us.

 

 

For the numbers above I have solid sources. Pm me for them if interested, I don't like posting links.

I create my perspective by looking at the government as an agent apart from general population and with interests of it's own. There is massive literature to support this view, I recommend reading Bertrand Russell's Power: A New Social Analysis.

My focus on the empathic human approach to defining prolems is not just what I think we should do, but is goaded on by the objections from the theistic community regarding our lack of absolute moral and ethical principle and all the goodies of conditionality that come from that. Disregarding the objector's own track record and buttshit crazy God talk, I think there is an argument to be had there. In my opinion we atheists DO have something to prove. A great deal, in fact.

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Israel is the belligerant occupying power of Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and the Syrian/Golan Heights within the meaning of the Hague Treaty on land warfare. According to the Geneva Conventions annexing conquered territory consitutes a war crime with the precedent of Nuremberg and the Nazi annexation of Poland. In the same manner as Nazi Germany Israel has committed war crimes by annexing Jerusalem, the Syrian/Golan Heights and a part of the West Bank it declared to be East Jerusalem. Israel is a signatory to the Hague treaties and the Geneva conventions.

In maintaining control over Gaza it remains under belligerant occupation by Israel. I have collected two Israeli newspaper reports which show both its supreme court and its attorney general consider Gaza to be under belligerant occupation within the meaning of the Hague V, the treaty on land warfare. So there is no point in disagreeing with me on this subject as it is the unanimous legal opinion of the government of Israel.

 

I can see that thier is no point in arguing with you, you simpily love death. So no matter what people say it wont make a diferance.

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What you will or will not accept is clearly your pro-israeli peeve. On or off duty, active or reserve they ARE the military of the government. When the government allows its military to be among the civilian population that government makes its civilians into lawful targets. The government could keep them separated. There is nothing in the treaties or conventions that makes an exception for when it is impractical.

You are siding with Israel in that Israel just murdered over 1300 innocent people in Gaza who were not part of any military. Over the years Israel has averaged about a thousand murders a year in the occupied territories. About a third of those are children most of whom were obviously targeted for murder. Yet Israel uses the same excuse that you will 'never' accept. You have accepted it when used by Israel. Why do you side with religious fanatics?

Yet you accept that when it is done by the Israeli government without a word even though you say you are against it. But you take issue with a largely ineffective but lawful effort against Israelis as unacceptable.

Can you explain the why you view the occupying forces as innocent while the occupied people at fault for exercising lawful resistance.

 

 

How many times do I have to say Israel are also wrong? I'm not attacking them as you seem to be doing a good eniugh job there, however you seem to think the palistinions are little saints. They are not, in the process of trying to get back some land they have not made humane desions. Btw It's not hiding if the solgers are on leave. They are people, they live there. They have to buy food, they have  to do all the things we all have to do. That involves going into public areas. Although I highly suspect you think they should just starve to death. They can't stay in the camps as they are on leave (a example of idiocy by thier goverment) but that does not make it ok to fire rockets at public areas just because there may be some off duty army guy there. They are of no imediate theat to you the on duty people are, you attack them. Or the people who have the power to change the situation, the goverment.

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You asked where they could go. I told you. Now you want to plead difficulty. 1,000,000 Palestinians, which is all of them, were uprooted and 750,000 driven out of the country. They are doing fine. Why should Jews be treated any differently?

As for those who were born there, nothing is perfect. Perhaps they can be treated differently. However they are the holders of stolen property whether they stole it or not. The issue here is NOT sovereignty. The issue is with deeded, private ownership of land. Sovereignty and ownership are different subjects. I am talking about the rightful owners of the land.

Further I am talking about regaining possession of what is rightfully theirs under the same legal pleadings which Jews and their descendants have used to claim property lost during WWII. In that universe even forced sales are not considered lawful. In Israel we are talking about nearly 100% confiscation under laws quite similar to the Nazi era abandoned property laws which are NOT recognized by Jews in seeking compensation.

 

Basically you are arguing that two wrongs make a right? How many times has land changed hands through violence over the years, By your logic every one should gfo back to there people origanally came from by forcr no choice, All white south Africans should go back to europe, All white americans should go back to europe, all white astrailians should go back to europe. Then to follow the forced removal all the white people outside of europe. All the black people in south africa should move north as they stole the Koi-koi's land and I could go on and on. Thats where it goes if you follow your logic, It leads to world war 3. Why stop at this one piece of land? You know all those treaties the eruopeans used to get the land came from gifts and the threat and often the use of violence.

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I did not say shooting at civilians. I said shooting at members of the military who are hiding among civilians. If the military stop hiding among civilians there is a case. As long as they do they deliberately make the civilians lawful targets. I am surprised at your opinion of a military that uses its own citizens as human shields.

As for endangering their own people that is a cost of striking back at the criminal aggressors. It is also their choice to make.

Yes it was there choise to fire from purly residenstal neibourhoods. once again by your own logic its ok for Israel to bomb those areas as there are military personal there. But in reality is it? No. I don't see any other way they can strike back because do the palistinons solgers do hide amoungst the civilians. For good reason. But it is still endangering there peoples lives. They could just fire the rockets from empty land. Israel has military structures and cramps to be shot at. 

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One would expect a South African to appreciate the evils of apartheid and to recognize them when perpetrated by Israel. Of course I expect some racial superiority riff.

First off I do see the resembalance, not perfect resmbilance but close enough hence my view that Israel is also wrong. But the ANC (apartied resistance) concentrated on taking down the economy, detroying electric cables etc., anything they could do to disrupt the economy. Before that they spent 30 years of peaceful resistance. Yes there were cases of shoping centres being bombed, yet even the ANC heavyly disliked that sort of thing as it would make them no better than the apartied goverment. Some off the people who bombed the shoping centres are seen as heros but not for doing that. But for tier commitment to the cause. Even the ANC belives that it is wrong and regret the innocent lives lost. The major differance is they resisted for all south Africans, They welcomed the white south Africans into the new South Africa, whitch I am proud to be apart of. Would the palistinons welecome the Israelies into the new "Israel" (or what ever it would be called) South Africa is proof that people that once hated each other could live peacefully side by side (It would be silly to assume that all the black people hated all the white people and visa versa) It was only when chris Hani was assassinated that the shit really hit the fan and Yet the ANC president at the time (Nelson Mandela) Called for calm and explaned that it was infact a forgiener that killed Chris Hani. (with help from a member of the NP) He could of said no and the Apartied regime would of been finished in a few months tops. Instead a year later we had our first interracial elections. And everyone lived to tell the tale. That is why the apartied resistance is nothing like what is happening in Israel.  "We want peace, but we are not pacifists"- Nelson Mandela at Chris Hani's funeral. Do the palistinons truely  want peace? They don't act like it. 

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You asked where they could go. I told you. Now you want to plead difficulty. 1,000,000 Palestinians, which is all of them, were uprooted and 750,000 driven out of the country. They are doing fine. Why should Jews be treated any differently?

As for those who were born there, nothing is perfect. Perhaps they can be treated differently. However they are the holders of stolen property whether they stole it or not. The issue here is NOT sovereignty. The issue is with deeded, private ownership of land. Sovereignty and ownership are different subjects. I am talking about the rightful owners of the land.

Further I am talking about regaining possession of what is rightfully theirs under the same legal pleadings which Jews and their descendants have used to claim property lost during WWII. In that universe even forced sales are not considered lawful. In Israel we are talking about nearly 100% confiscation under laws quite similar to the Nazi era abandoned property laws which are NOT recognized by Jews in seeking compensation.

 

Basically you are arguing that two wrongs make a right? How many times has land changed hands through violence over the years, By your logic every one should gfo back to there people origanally came from by forcr no choice, All white south Africans should go back to europe, All white americans should go back to europe, all white astrailians should go back to europe. Then to follow the forced removal all the white people outside of europe. All the black people in south africa should move north as they stole the Koi-koi's land and I could go on and on. Thats where it goes if you follow your logic, It leads to world war 3. Why stop at this one piece of land? You know all those treaties the eruopeans used to get the land came from gifts and the threat and often the use of violence.

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I did not say shooting at civilians. I said shooting at members of the military who are hiding among civilians. If the military stop hiding among civilians there is a case. As long as they do they deliberately make the civilians lawful targets. I am surprised at your opinion of a military that uses its own citizens as human shields.

As for endangering their own people that is a cost of striking back at the criminal aggressors. It is also their choice to make.

Yes it was there choise to fire from purly residenstal neibourhoods. once again by your own logic its ok for Israel to bomb those areas as there are military personal there. But in reality is it? No. I don't see any other way they can strike back because do the palistinons solgers do hide amoungst the civilians. For good reason. But it is still endangering there peoples lives. They could just fire the rockets from empty land. Israel has military structures and cramps to be shot at. 

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One would expect a South African to appreciate the evils of apartheid and to recognize them when perpetrated by Israel. Of course I expect some racial superiority riff.

First off I do see the resembalance, not perfect resmbilance but close enough hence my view that Israel is also wrong. But the ANC (apartied resistance) concentrated on taking down the economy, detroying electric cables etc., anything they could do to disrupt the economy. Before that they spent 30 years of peaceful resistance. Yes there were cases of shoping centres being bombed, yet even the ANC heavyly disliked that sort of thing as it would make them no better than the apartied goverment. Some off the people who bombed the shoping centres are seen as heros but not for doing that. But for tier commitment to the cause. Even the ANC belives that it is wrong and regret the innocent lives lost. The major differance is they resisted for all south Africans, They welcomed the white south Africans into the new South Africa, whitch I am proud to be apart of. Would the palistinons welecome the Israelies into the new "Israel" (or what ever it would be called) South Africa is proof that people that once hated each other could live peacefully side by side (It would be silly to assume that all the black people hated all the white people and visa versa) It was only when chris Hani was assassinated that the shit really hit the fan and Yet the ANC president at the time (Nelson Mandela) Called for calm and explaned that it was infact a forgiener that killed Chris Hani. (with help from a member of the NP) He could of said no and the Apartied regime would of been finished in a few months tops. Instead a year later we had our first interracial elections. And everyone lived to tell the tale. That is why the apartied resistance is nothing like what is happening in Israel.  "We want peace, but we are not pacifists"- Nelson Mandela at Chris Hani's funeral. Do the palistinons truely  want peace? They don't act like it. 

P.S. if im off on the details here it's only because I haven't read up on it in a loooong time

 

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How many times do I have to say Israel are also wrong? I'm not attacking them as you seem to be doing a good eniugh job there, however you seem to think the palistinions are little saints. They are not, in the process of trying to get back some land they have not made humane desions. Btw It's not hiding if the solgers are on leave. They are people, they live there. They have to buy food, they have  to do all the things we all have to do. That involves going into public areas. Although I highly suspect you think they should just starve to death. They can't stay in the camps as they are on leave (a example of idiocy by thier goverment) but that does not make it ok to fire rockets at public areas just because there may be some off duty army guy there. They are of no imediate theat to you the on duty people are, you attack them. Or the people who have the power to change the situation, the goverment.

 

I will try to be really clear and to the point here, since clarity could be helpful.

Israel is not just one thing, since it is a home for some people, a business area where some other people make money, a society in which power struggle happens on a daily basis, a place where many ugly global interests converge and a million other things. When you say stuff like "Israel are also wrong", do you mean ALL of these people in israel? Or just some of them? Or one of them? And what are they doing that is wrong exactly? What about the Palestinians, who are they? How many are there? How do they live? Do they have medicine, food, clean water, and if not why not? What kind of military are the nice people on the TV talking about, when they tell you that Hamas fired some rockets somewhere? What is Hamas? What is their history? What about those rockets, how many people did those kill last 6 months? Last 10 months? Last 40 years? How many palestinians died in the last assault on Gaza and the West Bank area and how many Israeli died at the same time and who were they? Soldiers or civilians, how many on both sides? What about children? You talk about "little saints", so do you know how many children were killed in the last attack? Have you seen some pictures, footage or read some texts other than those from CNN and what your dad, who also never asked these questions, tells you? What kind of military does Israel have? What kind of control do they have over the area? And what about those rocket attacks, how do they influence the political situation in Israel, West Bank and Gaza? Is there someone who is actually gaining from them? What is the history of this area? What about UN resolutions during time? What were the issues and who voted for what? What about refugees, who are they and where are they? What about sattlements? How did the geographical situation look during the last century or so? What about the regional interests, who has an interest in this? What about the global interests? Who is sending money to whom? Who is sending military aid to whom? How much? With which interests? What do they say their interest is? Is there a pattern you have seen before about what people say and what they do? What is the political structure of those with interests? What is this thing they call democracy really? Are there some patterns you see repeating that would dispute the official story about the institutions of government? How do they really function? Can you compare it to something from your own life? And if not, why not? Are you maybe living on Mars so that you can't relate? What kind of Mars?

Once you find satisfactory answers to those questions, you need to ask yourself some personal questions: can I abstract from detail to big picture, without losing the point? Can you reconsile the facts you have learned with the official story? Or with the story your dad tells you? He sounds pretty crazy all of a sudden, doesn't he? Did that guy ZuS who posted after my meaningless uninformed rant feel about me the way I feel about dad right now? What is my role in this? Are people important to me? Am I going to discuss this with others? With what goal? Am I going to be honest, having my goal in mind?

 

During this time, a million other questions will come to you, about yourself, reality, atheism, god, philosophy, science, even strange things like trying to think like a child. Yea, we'll talk when you answer some of those questions. If you want material, pm me, I don't like posting links. But you might start with reading some Gore Vidal, start with Point to Point Navigation.

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As an ATHEIST you should appreciate this as an example of the EVIL of religion.

Nope, it's all secular interest. If religion/nationality is being used, it's primarily as a tool of real politique. If you want to further "atheist agenda", you would do well not to lie (intentionally or not) about who is responsible for what. Also, just the thought of using the suffering of those people to attack theism is petty and tasteless. And I'm an atheist. It makes me feel sad. Don't make me feel sad.

As I have said several times but the paranoids do not seem to notice, nations are required to do things which religions cannot, should not and should otherwise condemn. Yet Israel attempts to hide behind the religion when in fact it does nothing but degrade the religion. When the Pope ruled the Papal states Catholicism was pulled through the mud of political necessity. So it is with Judaism and Israel.

I grant Judaism has over the centuries attempted much in the way of ignoring the Torah and the Talmud to make itself an acceptable religion. It managed to almost completely be able to honestly reject the entire OT.

Then came Zionism and the religion was plunged back into Joshua and Judges with a vengence.

If the original condemnation of Zionism by the vast majority of Judaism had continued as it was in the beginning there would be no connection between Israel and the religion. But in the early 70s Zionism became mainstream in Judaism and today the majority of Judaism supports Israel and defines itself by the actions of Israel. I have read many surveys by jewish organizations showing that. At the present time there is no substantive difference between Judaism and Israel. As a religion it took a wrong turn. It is not up to those who point it out to include a pleading for the small minority of Jews who do not identify with Israel.

Do not judge a people by what they do when they are out of power. Judge a people by what they do when they are in power. Israel is what Jews are like when they are in power.

Israel is also a horrible example of why governments in Europe have come to abjure a religious foundation.

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Other than that, I absolutely reckognize the genocide that is happening down there. I personally know a survivor of holocaust who is petrified of what Israel is doing in their name. My grandfather fought in the second world war with the hope that the attrocities of that sort would be something his children would not have to endure. This goes to show that we still have a fight ahead of us. And it's not against religion, but against our own governments and finally our own stupidity. Smart religious people might just be our best allies in that endavour.

As for being allies, careful whom you count as friends. There are many groups, individuals and even political parties in Israel who consider themselves left wing and even extreme left wing. If their extreme left wing were in the US or Canada or England it would be considered right of center. Israel's "right of center" is the far right in the west.

Whatever these few Jews claim to be "petrified" or whatever about has to be put to a test commensurate to the claim. Is it "petrified" enough to say, go back where you came from? How about, give the land back to its rightful owners? How about, end all the occupation? How about, end all the occupation including Jerusalem?

Ask the questions and test the degree of petrification. You will likely find the degree is to the right of center. I have.

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So, if it's not religion, than it's not the Jews, buddy. It's the secular Israeli government and the interests that support it, which in no way represent all Jews.

There is the problem. Israel says it represents all Jews. Around 80% of Jews outside of Israel say it represents all Jews. Who are you to say it does not? On what grounds do you say it does not when the VAST majority of Jews say it does?

No one has the obligation to make an exception for such a small fraction of Jews whose degree of disagreement with Israel is not known. Certainly they may decry the massacres but does it go as far as returning the land to its rightful owners? Does it go as far as going back where they came from?

So in fact it does represent Jews. In common parlance the few who disagree with an unknown degree of disagreement are not worth mentioning and are not obligatory to mention regarding Jews or any other group. For example. Catholics are against abortion. It is not obligatory to qualify that by mention of the minority English speaking Catholics who favor abortion. It is the same with Jews.

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More likely the opposite - enemy #1 of Jews is the Israeli government and the interests that support it's actions. Yes, the Israeli government is secular; it certainly steals land like a materialist would. So stop ranting against a whole ethnic group. If you knew how many Jews were fighting against this genocide, you would feel ashamed of not doing something serious for the indian minority in the US. Actually, feel free to feel bad about that, 'cause the original inhabitants of your continent are in the worst shape of all minorities out there and it's steadyly getting worse. These guys might be a pretty good ally too, if you can get yourself to get over yourself and help them not become extinct.

It is not reasonable to tell me to stop ranting against an entire group when 80% of that group (which is NOT an ethnic group but a religious group) supports anything Israel does and the remaining 20% have only qualified disagreements. As to how many I know who are against it, several is close enough. But even if I knew all of them percentagewise they are trivial. There is no rational reason to make an exception for them than there is for the few "good nazis."

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I also know that it's a rare thing to run into an american who isn't completely f****d by the gargantuan effort of your main stream media to make this issue look like two sides quarreling. Don't let my telling you that you are a dick for making a post like this, offset the realisation that I think you are at least able to identify the victim and hint that you are on the right side of the issue. I am always on the side of the underdog by instinct I think, so I like that. Just use your head and get the priorities straight. Human first, atheist or whatever by accident.

I have no problem being a dick. Our last Vice President was a Dick. One of our cable TV shows had a regular section, You don't know Dick. It is also the only TV show which ever questioned the slaughter in Gaza.

That said you really do need to look into the religious backing for Israel. As Israel is 80% Jewish one assumes 80% support of what Israel does. I read their left and right wing newspapers during the Gaza massacre and they were both cheering it on while it was happening. ADL surveys show 80% of Jews outside of Israel supported Israel's massacre in Gaza.

You can juggle the math if you wish but that says over 80% of Jews worldwide support the worst actions of Israel.

When speaking of any group that is even only 80% committed it is not obligatory to say "not all" or even to acknowledge their existence.

Therefore there is no obligation in the matter of Israel to mention such a trivial fraction in disagreement.

Unless you can come up with a better rationale I see no reason to change anything based upon your post.

Please feel free to give me a better reason.

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Just btw A_Nony_Mouse, if you had your way where do you think the Jews should go? The palistinions clearly don't want them on the land.

Most European countries have laws whereby grandchildren of emigrants can return no questions asked. That covers just about all jewish Israelis as 60% of them were not born there.

I suggest they go back where they came from. 60% can go back even without the grandfather laws.

The very few who do not fall under the grandfather rule can certainly find a family sponsor to take them in.

And if all else fails they can be dumped on Germany which is always willing to do a public mea culpa.

I do not see a problem.

That's another lie. According to the CIA 67.1% of Jews living in Israel were born there. You're off by about 27% Unlike you, I have a reputable source to back up my claim.

First off, I don't care if it is a lie or not. The fact is AS YOU SAY 67.1% fall under the grandfather clauses of European countries. But see the third. It changes nothing.

Second, I got the 60% from an article on haaretz.com. I assume they know what they are talking about else it would go out of business.

Third, looking at the CIA/WFB number that appears to refer to all Jews not just the immigrant European Ashkenazim. The Ha'Aretz number refers to the foreigner European who are the only ones to which "where will they go" could possibly apply.

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I think it would be great if Germany and Poland offered to take in the people who wanted to leave. Who the fuck would want to live in the desert anyway? The land is getting dryer, and the water is getting salty. But they shouldn't be forced to move, and Germany/Poland shouldn't be forced to take on the burden. You are talking about displacing 6 million people so that the rest can spread out to land that arguably belongs to them.

Why should they not be forced when the Palestinians were forced to take in the thieving murderers?

I only invoke for Palestinians the same principles that Jews invoke for an even older claim against Germans and Poles. So when Jews claim a right to compensation for losses in Germany and Poland give it to them on condition they live on what they claimed.

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What it really boils down to is, do they have the right to live there? Rational people argue that it is a complicated problem that does not have an easy answer. You argue that they don't because they are Jews and you're an antisemitic asshole.

Does that about sum it up?

Excuse me but Jews are Judaism and therefore they are followers of a religion and therefore they are idiots as are the followers of any and all other religions. Anti-christian, anti-muslim and anti-jewish are all equally laudable and justified and intelligent positions.

You are an ex-Jew who pretends to be an atheist but who really believes in Judaism which is the only basis for believing a person can be born to be anything.

You are a fake atheist.

 

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Tapey wrote:A_Nony_Mouse

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Israel is the belligerant occupying power of Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and the Syrian/Golan Heights within the meaning of the Hague Treaty on land warfare. According to the Geneva Conventions annexing conquered territory consitutes a war crime with the precedent of Nuremberg and the Nazi annexation of Poland. In the same manner as Nazi Germany Israel has committed war crimes by annexing Jerusalem, the Syrian/Golan Heights and a part of the West Bank it declared to be East Jerusalem. Israel is a signatory to the Hague treaties and the Geneva conventions.

In maintaining control over Gaza it remains under belligerant occupation by Israel. I have collected two Israeli newspaper reports which show both its supreme court and its attorney general consider Gaza to be under belligerant occupation within the meaning of the Hague V, the treaty on land warfare. So there is no point in disagreeing with me on this subject as it is the unanimous legal opinion of the government of Israel.

I can see that thier is no point in arguing with you, you simpily love death. So no matter what people say it wont make a diferance.
There is nothing to argue. This is a matter of international law. Israel is a lawful target.

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A_Nony_Mouse wrote:

What you will or will not accept is clearly your pro-israeli peeve. On or off duty, active or reserve they ARE the military of the government. When the government allows its military to be among the civilian population that government makes its civilians into lawful targets. The government could keep them separated. There is nothing in the treaties or conventions that makes an exception for when it is impractical.

You are siding with Israel in that Israel just murdered over 1300 innocent people in Gaza who were not part of any military. Over the years Israel has averaged about a thousand murders a year in the occupied territories. About a third of those are children most of whom were obviously targeted for murder. Yet Israel uses the same excuse that you will 'never' accept. You have accepted it when used by Israel. Why do you side with religious fanatics?

Yet you accept that when it is done by the Israeli government without a word even though you say you are against it. But you take issue with a largely ineffective but lawful effort against Israelis as unacceptable.

Can you explain the why you view the occupying forces as innocent while the occupied people at fault for exercising lawful resistance.

How many times do I have to say Israel are also wrong? I'm not attacking them as you seem to be doing a good eniugh job there, however you seem to think the palistinions are little saints. They are not, in the process of trying to get back some land they have not made humane desions. Btw It's not hiding if the solgers are on leave. They are people, they live there. They have to buy food, they have  to do all the things we all have to do. That involves going into public areas. Although I highly suspect you think they should just starve to death. They can't stay in the camps as they are on leave (a example of idiocy by thier goverment) but that does not make it ok to fire rockets at public areas just because there may be some off duty army guy there. They are of no imediate theat to you the on duty people are, you attack them. Or the people who have the power to change the situation, the goverment.

I have no idea how many times you will feel it necessary to repeat one-sided criticism. All Israel has to do is END THE OCCUPATION and the Palestinians will stop resistance attacks. Israel REFUSES to end the occupation. But you refuse to address that refusal as the cause of the conflict. You want the occupied people to end the resistance while the occupation continues to get worse.

You are an izziehugger, the lowest of the low in human terms.

Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.

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I did not get any link from you. Why should I do more? I can probably find those cute little Jewish girls writing love note to the Lebanese on artillery shells if you like. You find your link and I will find mine. I thought it was so cute and so Jewish that children were engaged in taunted those they would murder. Lets at least try to play fair. On one hand we have a TV show with an unknown audience share. On the other hand we have the bloodthirsty jewish girls in the act. Do you really want to run with this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY0zE64thJ4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egg83STz22E

Ah, those! When I read about them in Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post they were being condemned for correctly portraying their lead characters as being murdered by the IDF. You are apparently complaining about the injunction to fight back to avoid being murdered or at least taking out one of the murderers. I do no see your problem. At least three times in the last ten years an IDF "accidental" discharge of a rifle has killed a female child while in school from over 100 meters away. One has to curse such bad luck. Of course the Israeli news sources could have been lying.

Why are IDF rifles so accident prone at such great distances against female children?

That was rhetorical.

Why do you find it objectionable for the TV shows to portray the reality of Jews murdering children? Why do you find it objectionable to educate children to the world they live in and how to live in it? Is it not the purpose of TV for children to give them an understanding of the world they will live in as adults?

Is it not even more important to tell them of the dangerous world they live in where Jews will murder them for sport? Or where Jews will blame the accidents on the foibles of their rifles?

May I ask why you bothered to raise those TV shows when you KNEW they were portraying the truth about the Jews murdering Muslim children.

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A_Nony_Mouse wrote:

Mass murderers always have their groupies. The groupies of the Jews are usually rednecks and being from Texas would explain your support. Probably an Aggie too.

I'm a redneck because I'm from Texas, eh?

When I see an avatar that is breast feeding I have no idea what to expect.

Got milk?

Watcher wrote:
I can see how you simplify people into little boxes.  Must be easier for your little brain to try and make sense of the world.  Redneck is a term I throw around as an insult as well.  So I find this amusing.

So you are an Aggie. The only thing lower than a redneck is ...

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And no, I'm not a former or current or future student of Texas A&M University.  Frankly I find their intense group mentality toward the University very unsettling and similar to the slavish devotion of a cult.

A&M community college? They all try to deny it.

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I bet you have a picture of people with names like urhm...Hitler or Himmler on your wall.  amiright?

Not even the Nazi Texan Bush.

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Israel sells out to the highest bidder. They originally sided with Stalin. And then there is www.ussliberty.org Tel Aviv still deserves a good nuking over that. And I don't want to hear any whining over 20,000 to 1 or the fallout. It is just acting jewish.

America originally sided with Stalin as well.

I rest my case.

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By survey 80% of Jew support Israel. What is the difference? Be a Nazi or support Nazis, I see no difference in practice. Aiding and abetting a crime is a crime in itself.

Yeah.  I bet you would like us to join your little Nazi fan club.

Izziehugger or Nazi I don't see the difference.

Israelis right now are discussing the ascendency of Fascism in the last election. The Israelis are not shy. They freely talk about their country turning fascist. And they do not condemn it. They only talk about how the outside world might react to it. They are all hoping to become stronger for being fascist. Not a one of them is condemning it internally save for repercussions on jewish Israelis. They are all covering their asses in case it does take over. Where do we find a good Jew in all of this? About as hard as it is to find a good Nazi.

Read their own newspapers. Learn what you are talking about for the first time.

 

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A_Nony_Mouse wrote:Tapey

A_Nony_Mouse wrote:

Tapey wrote:

A_Nony_Mouse wrote:
Israel is the belligerant occupying power of Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and the Syrian/Golan Heights within the meaning of the Hague Treaty on land warfare. According to the Geneva Conventions annexing conquered territory consitutes a war crime with the precedent of Nuremberg and the Nazi annexation of Poland. In the same manner as Nazi Germany Israel has committed war crimes by annexing Jerusalem, the Syrian/Golan Heights and a part of the West Bank it declared to be East Jerusalem. Israel is a signatory to the Hague treaties and the Geneva conventions.

In maintaining control over Gaza it remains under belligerant occupation by Israel. I have collected two Israeli newspaper reports which show both its supreme court and its attorney general consider Gaza to be under belligerant occupation within the meaning of the Hague V, the treaty on land warfare. So there is no point in disagreeing with me on this subject as it is the unanimous legal opinion of the government of Israel.

I can see that thier is no point in arguing with you, you simpily love death. So no matter what people say it wont make a diferance.
There is nothing to argue. This is a matter of international law. Israel is a lawful target.

Tapey wrote:
A_Nony_Mouse wrote:

What you will or will not accept is clearly your pro-israeli peeve. On or off duty, active or reserve they ARE the military of the government. When the government allows its military to be among the civilian population that government makes its civilians into lawful targets. The government could keep them separated. There is nothing in the treaties or conventions that makes an exception for when it is impractical.

You are siding with Israel in that Israel just murdered over 1300 innocent people in Gaza who were not part of any military. Over the years Israel has averaged about a thousand murders a year in the occupied territories. About a third of those are children most of whom were obviously targeted for murder. Yet Israel uses the same excuse that you will 'never' accept. You have accepted it when used by Israel. Why do you side with religious fanatics?

Yet you accept that when it is done by the Israeli government without a word even though you say you are against it. But you take issue with a largely ineffective but lawful effort against Israelis as unacceptable.

Can you explain the why you view the occupying forces as innocent while the occupied people at fault for exercising lawful resistance.

How many times do I have to say Israel are also wrong? I'm not attacking them as you seem to be doing a good eniugh job there, however you seem to think the palistinions are little saints. They are not, in the process of trying to get back some land they have not made humane desions. Btw It's not hiding if the solgers are on leave. They are people, they live there. They have to buy food, they have  to do all the things we all have to do. That involves going into public areas. Although I highly suspect you think they should just starve to death. They can't stay in the camps as they are on leave (a example of idiocy by thier goverment) but that does not make it ok to fire rockets at public areas just because there may be some off duty army guy there. They are of no imediate theat to you the on duty people are, you attack them. Or the people who have the power to change the situation, the goverment.

I have no idea how many times you will feel it necessary to repeat one-sided criticism. All Israel has to do is END THE OCCUPATION and the Palestinians will stop resistance attacks. Israel REFUSES to end the occupation. But you refuse to address that refusal as the cause of the conflict. You want the occupied people to end the resistance while the occupation continues to get worse.

You are an izziehugger, the lowest of the low in human terms.

do you read only what you want to read and just ignore the rest? You know what if you feel so strongly about this why don't you go join hama's? Maybe then you will understand what I am saying. Killing people is wrong. Plain and simple. If you don't agree with that statement then I lose all hope for you. You really have no ground to stand on if you think that hamas have done no wrong.

 

What you don't see is international laws don't mean crap. What happens if a country breaks them? Nothing unless it is some piss poor country that has some usefull natural reasource. You are not allowed to turture pristoners of war yet even America does it. And what has happend? nothing. There is no fair body to enforce punishment. The UN is one of the most lob sided organisations ever, it is  just there to benefit thosee on the security counsil.

 

You clearly want me to be pro israelie, but the truth is far off they have no excuse for the fucktard desions they have made. Does that make Hamas the perfect model of resistance? No, many of there desions are equally wrong.

Even if you don't agree with anything else I say, you really can't mean to say you think it is a good idea for them to be firing rockets from civillian areas? It is needlessly endangering there own people. Seriously please tell me you don't agree with this.

 

 

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Saveloy Sam wrote:Wow. Some

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Wow. Some spazzed out opinions on here. Here's the breakdown of the situation for those who clearly can not think.

This is gonna be good.

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1. Israel exists. Whether you agree it should have been allowed to exist or not is no longer the problem. I don't think it helps AT ALL to argue about whether Israel should have been allowed to exist in the first place. Israel exists, it is a democratic state, it is not going anywhere without a fight. They have a strong military. They are part of the world. This is a fact. This is the base from which we must think of the situation.

Agreed, except that you and I probably have different ideas about democracy. Also, Israeli government (not people, government) is a nuclear power and the strongest military force in the middle east. Anyone who would like to "wipe it off the map" would have to be crazy, and Israeli government knows that. The only real issue might be popular uprising due to inability to protect their own citizens. This means that, if someone wanted to stop Israeli government in what they are doing, efficient terrorism is really the best option. Most countries in the world are targeted by terrorism and most countries themselves commit terrorist activity, but Israel is just 1000 times as much likely to get hit than any. There must be a logical reason for this. The reason terrorism is such a threat, is the role Israeli military has adopted in the middle east, which is simply put being a strong arm for western and royal saudi interests in the area, a colonial outpost if you will. So yes, that is a security issue. Not because Israeli people would get killed, that is a secondary issue for the people playing the game, but because there would be a popular uprising if the Israeli government was unable to protect it's people and continue it's exploits in the region.

So you have this funny equilibrium - FIRST priority - stay in power. SECOND priority is acquisition of power in the region with an iron hand, Israeli military using terrorism against defenseless neighbours and destabilising not-so-defenseless ones. The claim that all they do is defend themselves is a residual goal, stuff they have to do to satisfy their first priority.

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2. Arabs hate jews. Not all, as most arabs have probably never seen a jew. But Arab anti-semitism is quite well understood and it is established it exists. They've hated them since well before Israel existed and clearly seem to hate them even more now. The reason for this is CLEARLY religion. It is clearly the greatest difference between Jews and Arabs. Islam is clearly not a religion of peace. Anyone with any degree of intellectual honesty can see this. Many muslims just want to live in peace but Islam is not in itself peaceful. Not all muslims are violent, just as not all Catholic priests are child molesters. But the rules of islam lead a lot of people to become violent, even suicidaly violent just as the rules a Catholic preist has to follow leads them to fuck kids because they have no healthy sexual outlet. Take away the stupid rules based on dickhead myths and perhaps these groups wouldnt be so violent/child rapisty. Much like in point number 1. above, this point establishes the existance of a large group of people in the area who CLEARLY hate jews because they're jews.

Obviously, you know nothing about the area and political circumstances. Religion is used by serious people to get other people to do serious things for them. Religion is completely irelevant as a goal, the people doing the planing are as rational as you and I. Well, as I anyway.

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3. There are two options for arabs  to take.

Who are you talking about? The middle east has been a mix of religions and etnicities for ages, you must be clearer on that point. Also, you still haven't established motives and goals for these "arabs", other than religious ones, which are completely absurd. An average ruler in that area would laugh at your claims. Privately, of course, he has to appear sincere about his piety, so that people like you can get the right wrong message.

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4. One option is to seek the total destruction of Israel meaning all the "jews" (or citizens of israel or whatever) die or are forced to flee. This can be achieved through all out confict which hasn't worked time and time again. Israel is too well organised and the arab countries who have attacked it in the past have always failed. The other option for the destruction of Israel is the sort of shit Hamas is pulling now. Rocket attacks, mortars, suicide bombings. Provoking Israel into conflict. What government wouldn't attack a group hell bent on destroying your country? Be realistic. Now, when the Jews fight back, they fight with proper military grade shit. They aren't messing about, they blow things up. This kills lots of people. Which sucks, because lots of them are kids (not as many as the media suggests, who get their numbers from HAMAS for fucks sake) but yes, kids die which is shitty.

Going off into laughable even for plain people like me now. No facts, all of it is just conjecture straight off CNN, worlds only 24 hour bullshit network. You sound like Pat Robertson explaining why teaching ID in schools is a moral imperative.

I will try to go around what you said real quick, and in the process limit my anger at your ignorance. You are saying, that some undefined "arabs" have a choice to try to destroy the regions largest nuclear superpower. This superpower has made deals with the players in the region through it's whole existance and it has the backing of practically the whole western interest in the area, making it about as destructable as the Internet, especially since you never really defined the "arabs". If you believe this, you should join some religion yourself, since you buy bullshit as fast as any of those guys.

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5. The other option is to seek peace. Not peace through destroying all the jews and then relaxing in some grand Arab utopia (which they haven't managed to produce anywhere else either), but peace through a two state system or something of the sort. Israel made some moves toward this we must admit. They pulled out of Gaza. And yes, they kept the blockade. But why on earth would you open up your borders to a group of people who openly state they want to destroy you and have produced  horrific suicide bombers?! Even though they pulled out, they had to keep security tight. If Canada produced hundreds of men ready to strap explosives to themselves and detonate in your cities you'd beef up border security a touch.  They could have kept the spoils of war when they were attacked by all their neighbours, and they did keep some and still retain them and this is indeed part of the argument, but handed back others in return for peace. They've seeked peace treaties with their neighbours because its plain bad economics to have to keep on the defensive constantly (this isn't an attempt to be funny with the stereotype of jews being all about money, any country would rather spend its budget on bettering everything else then sinking it into the military). In order for this solution to work, it is actually Hamas who must stop shooting first. This isn't taking sides, it's just being logical. If Hamas stops shooting, Israel can't get away with randomly attacking. Israel got raped by the media in this latest war and they had been taking rockets and mortars for years! If Hamas stops shooting, Israel can't atack. It's that simple. It really really is. Just think about it. If Hamas wants peace they would do MUCH better with peaceful protests, producing well educated people to state the case and seek ways to increase the peace. But they don't. They shoot rockets, they build tunnels to try to sneak suicide bombers in. So, the violence continues. It is just plain, simple, unbiased logic to conclude that if Hamas stops shooting rockets and mortars and trying to hit israel with suicide bombings, Israel won't be able to randomly kill palestinians and the violence stops. THEN they can work on the humanitarian problem (which is up to Hamas to build roads, educate kids, stop being fuck wits) The UN has failed here, money has been pumped into Palestine for decades, and the Palestinian population has INCREASED proving they are not starving. They have hospitals and cars and jobs and some petty industry and enough land to build some farms etc etc. The jews turned the desert into a thriving 1st world country. The palestinians are given aid to keep them alive. Their situation is indeed shitty and at times really quite dire. What is happening? Hamas shoots rockets. They are motivated by their sick religious bullshit which tells them to destroy all the jews, no matter how many of their own kids need to die. Let's not forget also that there are some nutty jews in israel who want to bring about some loopy crap promised to them in very very old books written by ignorant old wankers. This group doesn't hold anywhere as much power as the insane islamists but they're part of it. The parties of god unfortunately hold control of the situation.

That's it.  Yes there are other factors. The history of it etc etc. But its really not helpful to get upset about the history of it and argue that israel should never have existed or that palestinians should get this or that land back. The facts are, israel exists and has boarders, and the only way those boarders can change so that people might get some land back or people can come and go through them or openly trade through them is by Hamas putting down their guns and wearing down Israeli fears about arse clown kids blowing themselves up in nightclubs and on busses and hijacking planes and gunning down olympic teams etc. Once again, I don't think im being biased in stating that it's just the only possible path to a peaceful solution. Not that Hamas putting their guns down will automatically lead to peace. There is plenty of angry islam to take Hamas' place should they turn peaceful (HAHAHA). But isn't it clear that one side here will at least consider peace and the other doesn't want it at any cost?   

I'm not pro israel, but I stand with democratic states who at least try some of the time to work towards peace and have at least some citizens who want the same and have a voice and have a chance of working toward that peace through democratic means. Hamas doesn't even try. Of course the victims are the familes who lose their loved ones when bombs explode on their houses. Yes, israel blows up shit when they get pissed off. But do they wake up and decide to blow up 10 houses that day for something to do? Or does another rocket fall on someone's house and they protest to their governmetn to do something about it and eventually the situation comes to a head and the government needs to do SOMETHING and they blow some motherfuckers up? 

Fantasy world reaches it's full blown potential. By the end there I was expecting to hear you talk about unicorns. But what can you expect, when the points 1 to 4 were progressively off base with reality.

I really have no patience to tell you just the basic facts of the situation in the area, it is just a wast amount of detailed and conceptual knowledge I have gathered using research for the last 7 years. Sufice it to say that the people you are talking about are roughly 1.5 million in number with an average age of 15, living in utter powerty, no medicine, no help of any sort, and they are under siege from the toughest and hardest military in the area, being bombed daily. Recently 1300 of them were killed in bombing, 350+ children. They have the right to LEAVE the area, but not return. It's ethnic clensing 101. Hamas is an excuse to keep the heat on with as little protest from people like you as possible. You argue something like - "well, the indians in the north american continent had two choices - seek peace or try to destroy the white man", all the while the "white man" decimated the indian population by 98% using mostly terror tactics. They even gave whole indian nations blankets used by smallpox patients to wipe them off the map - and it worked. Terrorism, just like any other weapon, is the weapon of the strong. They can afford most of it.

 

I don't know, man. I understand you have it in for religious people, but you gotta realise that rational thinking runs this world. You know it yourself - religion was made to sway the masses. Nationalism, patriotism, you name it., it's been used for the same purpose. You and I, the rational people, are the ones capable of the greatest crime, not the religious lunatic. You and I can justify murder using cold calculated rationalism. You and I can argue that a democracy is good enough, even when it kills children in masses. A religious zealot at least has his ignorant zealotry as an excuse. That, and the fact that someone like you or me uses him as a puppet.

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You can juggle the math if you wish but that says over 80% of Jews worldwide support the worst actions of Israel.

When speaking of any group that is even only 80% committed it is not obligatory to say "not all" or even to acknowledge their existence.

Therefore there is no obligation in the matter of Israel to mention such a trivial fraction in disagreement.

Unless you can come up with a better rationale I see no reason to change anything based upon your post.

Please feel free to give me a better reason.

Yea, those stats might not be too far off base. The last election in Israel was pretty much what you said as well, ultra-right won the day. But you, as an atheist, could have expected this!

The number 1 tested atheistic knowledge about masses is that they can be swayed any which way, using any old crap-pot idea, and amongst those - religion. You see a religious movement, all you have to do is look at what it's doing to see the power and economic interest behind it. You think that the religious lobby in the US would have had a snowballs chance in hell, if Lockheed Martin just for a SECOND didn't think that politically organised religion went along with their interest? All the Pat Robertsons would be shut down in 0.5 seconds and new, more agreeable "religious spokespersons" would not only be doing the shut down, but carrying on in the great American spirit.

Same argument goes for Israeli government. If it did not do EXACTLY what was mandated by same power interests, their status as an expansionist military force in the region would end abruptly. Of course, this will never happen, since any Israeli leader will always be in line with the western and regional interest. Elimination of Palestinians is just a minor sidenote in the history books, which will write about them as some suicidal people who feasted on babies and puppies and just had to be killed. And the religion just plays the role of a populistic facilitator.

As for Israeli people all being "nazi", Read Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine. I am not a fan of her's, but that book should give you the idea of how power works along side ANY ideology, religion or what not and always comes out on top, right through complete societal disasters and breakdowns - precisely because it can do whatever it want's if the general population is scared shitless. Not all that she says is right on target, but the principle certainly does hold.

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That's another lie. According to the CIA 67.1% of Jews living in Israel were born there. You're off by about 27% Unlike you, I have a reputable source to back up my claim.

First off, I don't care if it is a lie or not. The fact is AS YOU SAY 67.1% fall under the grandfather clauses of European countries. But see the third. It changes nothing.

Second, I got the 60% from an article on haaretz.com. I assume they know what they are talking about else it would go out of business.

Apparently you have never watched FOX News.

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Third, looking at the CIA/WFB number that appears to refer to all Jews not just the immigrant European Ashkenazim. The Ha'Aretz number refers to the foreigner European who are the only ones to which "where will they go" could possibly apply.

Let me break this down for you so you can mentally digest it. 67.1% Were born in Israel. Meaning only 32.9% immigrated from elsewhere not 60%. So tell me what the 67% did wrong. They were born where they were born and they live there now, I don't see the evil in that. Claiming that the Israeli Jews are murderers and thieves based solely on their birth place is more than a little irrational. The Native Americans are not trying to kick out current US citizens, even though many of our ancestors, quite literally, stole the land from them by force. The Jews didn't even take the land, they were given the land by the UN. There would probably be a much smaller uprising if it were taken by military force. If you want to blame someone here is a list of countries you can blame.

 

Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Byelorussian SSR, Canada, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Iceland, Liberia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Sweden, South Africa, Ukrainian SSR, United States of America, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Uruguay, Venezuela.

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Why should they not be forced when the Palestinians were forced to take in the thieving murderers?

I only invoke for Palestinians the same principles that Jews invoke for an even older claim against Germans and Poles. So when Jews claim a right to compensation for losses in Germany and Poland give it to them on condition they live on what they claimed.

You are far too predictable. If you think the violence in Gaza (from either side) is bad, try imagining what would've happened if the Jews were forced to live on the border of a country that already tried to systematically wipe them off the face of the earth. Nobody is saying that Palestine was the best place for them. But they couldn't stay where they were and 33 out of the 46 voting countries decided Palestine was acceptable. Maybe it was a mistake, but shit happens and you have to roll with it. It's done and over and you can't hold the Jews that live there now accountable for a decision made 60 years ago by a delegation of non Jewish people. The Jews that were born there have just as much claim to the land as the Muslims who were born there.

Do you really think that if Israel pulled all of it's people out of the west bank and lifted all sanctions from Gaza that the attacks would stop? If you do you are living in a world of make believe. Are the sanctions just? Probably not. But what you want to do is punish the Israeli people for it's governments actions, which is precisely the thing you condemn the Israeli government for doing.

Neither side is completely in the right or in the wrong. It's not as simple as black and white and you would do well to remember that.

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What it really boils down to is, do they have the right to live there? Rational people argue that it is a complicated problem that does not have an easy answer. You argue that they don't because they are Jews and you're an antisemitic asshole.

Does that about sum it up?

Excuse me but Jews are Judaism and therefore they are followers of a religion and therefore they are idiots as are the followers of any and all other religions. Anti-christian, anti-muslim and anti-jewish are all equally laudable and justified and intelligent positions.

You are an ex-Jew who pretends to be an atheist but who really believes in Judaism which is the only basis for believing a person can be born to be anything.

You are a fake atheist.

I would say I expected better from you but I'd be lying. Jews are not all religious. Please refer to this list of famous Jewish Atheist before you further make an ass of yourself. I'm sure you'll recognize a few names. Next time fucking Google it...

On the subject of religious belief. I was raised by a Christian mother and Atheist step-father, so if anything I ought to ex-Christian. If I were a Christian, Jew, or Muslim would that mean I deserve to be persecuted? That seems to be what you have implied.

As far as my ethnicity goes I am a mix of Anglo Saxon, French, German, and Native American on my mother's side, I don't know a thing about my father's. That being said I very well could be a little Jewish (or Palestinian for that matter), who knows? Doesn't that just burn you up, that a possible Jew even has the balls to talk to you without cowering in fear?  

I'm done posting on the subject. I'd rather discuss it with rational people and you're sure to put your 1 cent in, as you have already created numerous post on the subject and try to turn any post into a discussion about Jews. Don't bother replying as I will not respond, I have come to the conclusion that you refuse to see more than one side of the issue. Just think about what I have said while you stew in your hatred. I hope you eventually realize that things can not be labeled as purely right or wrong. There is no such thing, there are only shades of morally gray.

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Israel is the belligerant occupying power of Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and the Syrian/Golan Heights within the meaning of the Hague Treaty on land warfare. According to the Geneva Conventions annexing conquered territory consitutes a war crime with the precedent of Nuremberg and the Nazi annexation of Poland. In the same manner as Nazi Germany Israel has committed war crimes by annexing Jerusalem, the Syrian/Golan Heights and a part of the West Bank it declared to be East Jerusalem. Israel is a signatory to the Hague treaties and the Geneva conventions.

In maintaining control over Gaza it remains under belligerant occupation by Israel. I have collected two Israeli newspaper reports which show both its supreme court and its attorney general consider Gaza to be under belligerant occupation within the meaning of the Hague V, the treaty on land warfare. So there is no point in disagreeing with me on this subject as it is the unanimous legal opinion of the government of Israel.

I can see that thier is no point in arguing with you, you simpily love death. So no matter what people say it wont make a diferance.
There is nothing to argue. This is a matter of international law. Israel is a lawful target.

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What you will or will not accept is clearly your pro-israeli peeve. On or off duty, active or reserve they ARE the military of the government. When the government allows its military to be among the civilian population that government makes its civilians into lawful targets. The government could keep them separated. There is nothing in the treaties or conventions that makes an exception for when it is impractical.

You are siding with Israel in that Israel just murdered over 1300 innocent people in Gaza who were not part of any military. Over the years Israel has averaged about a thousand murders a year in the occupied territories. About a third of those are children most of whom were obviously targeted for murder. Yet Israel uses the same excuse that you will 'never' accept. You have accepted it when used by Israel. Why do you side with religious fanatics?

Yet you accept that when it is done by the Israeli government without a word even though you say you are against it. But you take issue with a largely ineffective but lawful effort against Israelis as unacceptable.

Can you explain the why you view the occupying forces as innocent while the occupied people at fault for exercising lawful resistance.

How many times do I have to say Israel are also wrong? I'm not attacking them as you seem to be doing a good eniugh job there, however you seem to think the palistinions are little saints. They are not, in the process of trying to get back some land they have not made humane desions. Btw It's not hiding if the solgers are on leave. They are people, they live there. They have to buy food, they have  to do all the things we all have to do. That involves going into public areas. Although I highly suspect you think they should just starve to death. They can't stay in the camps as they are on leave (a example of idiocy by thier goverment) but that does not make it ok to fire rockets at public areas just because there may be some off duty army guy there. They are of no imediate theat to you the on duty people are, you attack them. Or the people who have the power to change the situation, the goverment.

I have no idea how many times you will feel it necessary to repeat one-sided criticism. All Israel has to do is END THE OCCUPATION and the Palestinians will stop resistance attacks. Israel REFUSES to end the occupation. But you refuse to address that refusal as the cause of the conflict. You want the occupied people to end the resistance while the occupation continues to get worse.

You are an izziehugger, the lowest of the low in human terms.

do you read only what you want to read and just ignore the rest? You know what if you feel so strongly about this why don't you go join hama's? Maybe then you will understand what I am saying. Killing people is wrong. Plain and simple. If you don't agree with that statement then I lose all hope for you. You really have no ground to stand on if you think that hamas have done no wrong.

What you don't see is international laws don't mean crap. What happens if a country breaks them? Nothing unless it is some piss poor country that has some usefull natural reasource. You are not allowed to turture pristoners of war yet even America does it. And what has happend? nothing. There is no fair body to enforce punishment. The UN is one of the most lob sided organisations ever, it is  just there to benefit thosee on the security counsil.

You clearly want me to be pro israelie, but the truth is far off they have no excuse for the fucktard desions they have made. Does that make Hamas the perfect model of resistance? No, many of there desions are equally wrong.

Even if you don't agree with anything else I say, you really can't mean to say you think it is a good idea for them to be firing rockets from civillian areas? It is needlessly endangering there own people. Seriously please tell me you don't agree with this.

It is never reasonable or rational to put a woman on the same moral level as her rapist. The woman has a right to kill the rapist. The rapist has no rights. The rapist has no expectation of fair treatment. The rapist needs be put down.

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ZuS wrote:A_Nony_Mouse

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You can juggle the math if you wish but that says over 80% of Jews worldwide support the worst actions of Israel.

When speaking of any group that is even only 80% committed it is not obligatory to say "not all" or even to acknowledge their existence.

Therefore there is no obligation in the matter of Israel to mention such a trivial fraction in disagreement.

Unless you can come up with a better rationale I see no reason to change anything based upon your post.

Please feel free to give me a better reason.

Yea, those stats might not be too far off base. The last election in Israel was pretty much what you said as well, ultra-right won the day. But you, as an atheist, could have expected this!

The number 1 tested atheistic knowledge about masses is that they can be swayed any which way, using any old crap-pot idea, and amongst those - religion. You see a religious movement, all you have to do is look at what it's doing to see the power and economic interest behind it. You think that the religious lobby in the US would have had a snowballs chance in hell, if Lockheed Martin just for a SECOND didn't think that politically organised religion went along with their interest? All the Pat Robertsons would be shut down in 0.5 seconds and new, more agreeable "religious spokespersons" would not only be doing the shut down, but carrying on in the great American spirit.

Same argument goes for Israeli government. If it did not do EXACTLY what was mandated by same power interests, their status as an expansionist military force in the region would end abruptly. Of course, this will never happen, since any Israeli leader will always be in line with the western and regional interest. Elimination of Palestinians is just a minor sidenote in the history books, which will write about them as some suicidal people who feasted on babies and puppies and just had to be killed. And the religion just plays the role of a populistic facilitator.

As for Israeli people all being "nazi", Read Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine. I am not a fan of her's, but that book should give you the idea of how power works along side ANY ideology, religion or what not and always comes out on top, right through complete societal disasters and breakdowns - precisely because it can do whatever it want's if the general population is scared shitless. Not all that she says is right on target, but the principle certainly does hold.

I have looked into Nazism and Fascism. One of the first things I learned was that the west has adopted their ideas of how to run a country. The current corruption of "free enterprise" to bring it into accord with the ruling political party was in fact 90% of those two isms. That is one of the reasons governments like to make a big thing out of the "racism" of one of them. It keeps people from seeing their governments are fascist. Elections now and then do not make much difference.

The so-called left wing in Israel is doing the same thing today. They point to the words of those elected while failing to note as left wingers they would be right of center in most any other country. Their concern is not what it will mean for their own non-Jewish citizens but what it will mean for them if the world reacts. The "left" ran the country for all of its wars and only the 1973 war was not started by Israel.

What I do not see in your position are these middle east alliances Israel supposedly has. The ones they have and had are well known. There was Iran under the Shah. There is currently Turkey which is falling apart. That is both of them.

The Saud family is still playing the deal offered it by FDR which is US support for their rule of the country. Egypt was attacked by Israel in 56 and 67 and is only in the non-enemy category because of US bribes. Israel has been working for the downfall of Lebanon since it began. (Noting that Lebanon became a democracy in 1943 one has to wonder how the "only" democracy nonsense ever got started for Israel.) Israel support the civil war that broke Lebanon and has invaded twice. Jordan has no reason to be friendly to Israel knowing it intends to occupy the east bank of the Jordan as soon as it is possible. Syria's claim on Palestine goes back at least 2500 years before there were any Jews in the world.

But since Nazi gets brought up so much to deflect correct descriptions of Israel lets do a comparison with Jews. It is commonly accepted that Nazi Germany was a dictatorship yet Germans not even born before the war ended are held responsible for that actions of the dictator. Are not the citizens of a democracy even more responsible for the actions of their government than citizens of a dictatorship? And if voters are not responsible for their government just who is? They can't wash their hands because their candidate did not win. That is like saying when you have a losing hand in poker it doesn't count.

The 80% support surveys are real. The ADL did one with 79% approval outside Israel. I have never seen "I wasn't a Nazi I just supported them" ever paying in Peoria. Aiding and abetting a crime is also a crime. Aiding and abetting also applies to the 60 million born again rednecks in the US who say they support Israel. If Jews are dumb enough to count atheists among their ranks that is not my problem. The only basis for claiming to be a Jew by birth comes from the bible.

So what does the US in particular and the West in general get from supporting the existance of Israel? Nothing good and 9/11 and 7/7 on the other side of the balance sheet as well as things like www.ussliberty.org directly from that shitty little country. BTW: When it objected to being called that, it objected to the little. It is proud of being shitty.

It has no strategic value to the US. The US has been in two wars with Iraq and Israel was a detriment to both of them. The US gets nothing from Israel but falsified INTEL and incitement to wars on its behalf like the 2nd Iraq war and the one they are stumping for against Iran.

There is no benefit to supporting Israel and such support is in fact a detriment in any realpolitik sense. This leaves only political influence in the US on behalf of a foreign country, sedition, or religion.

Do you have an alternative explanation.

 

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Bad analigy. It doesn't deal

Bad analigy. It doesn't deal with the issue at all. In this case the woman has gone to her friends house and invited a bunch of rapists and is shouting rape us. yes the rapist is still wrong for raping the woman but the woman has tempted fate causing not only herself to get raped but her friend aswel, witch was stupid. Hamas fires rockets from a civilion neibourhood is wrong as it gives israel a reason to bomb that area whitch is also wrong.

I really cannot see a good reason for doing this it only hurts there own people. Causing more of them to get killed than they kill. Both sides are wrong I really can't see how you can rationalisee otherwise.

 

Really Why don't thet fire the rockets from some empty patch of ground?

 

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How many times do I have to say Israel are also wrong? I'm not attacking them as you seem to be doing a good eniugh job there, however you seem to think the palistinions are little saints. They are not, in the process of trying to get back some land they have not made humane desions. Btw It's not hiding if the solgers are on leave. They are people, they live there. They have to buy food, they have  to do all the things we all have to do. That involves going into public areas. Although I highly suspect you think they should just starve to death. They can't stay in the camps as they are on leave (a example of idiocy by thier goverment) but that does not make it ok to fire rockets at public areas just because there may be some off duty army guy there. They are of no imediate theat to you the on duty people are, you attack them. Or the people who have the power to change the situation, the goverment.

 

I will try to be really clear and to the point here, since clarity could be helpful.

Israel is not just one thing, since it is a home for some people, a business area where some other people make money, a society in which power struggle happens on a daily basis, a place where many ugly global interests converge and a million other things. When you say stuff like "Israel are also wrong", do you mean ALL of these people in israel? Or just some of them? Or one of them? And what are they doing that is wrong exactly? What about the Palestinians, who are they? How many are there? How do they live? Do they have medicine, food, clean water, and if not why not? What kind of military are the nice people on the TV talking about, when they tell you that Hamas fired some rockets somewhere? What is Hamas? What is their history? What about those rockets, how many people did those kill last 6 months? Last 10 months? Last 40 years? How many palestinians died in the last assault on Gaza and the West Bank area and how many Israeli died at the same time and who were they? Soldiers or civilians, how many on both sides? What about children? You talk about "little saints", so do you know how many children were killed in the last attack? Have you seen some pictures, footage or read some texts other than those from CNN and what your dad, who also never asked these questions, tells you? What kind of military does Israel have? What kind of control do they have over the area? And what about those rocket attacks, how do they influence the political situation in Israel, West Bank and Gaza? Is there someone who is actually gaining from them? What is the history of this area? What about UN resolutions during time? What were the issues and who voted for what? What about refugees, who are they and where are they? What about sattlements? How did the geographical situation look during the last century or so? What about the regional interests, who has an interest in this? What about the global interests? Who is sending money to whom? Who is sending military aid to whom? How much? With which interests? What do they say their interest is? Is there a pattern you have seen before about what people say and what they do? What is the political structure of those with interests? What is this thing they call democracy really? Are there some patterns you see repeating that would dispute the official story about the institutions of government? How do they really function? Can you compare it to something from your own life? And if not, why not? Are you maybe living on Mars so that you can't relate? What kind of Mars?

Once you find satisfactory answers to those questions, you need to ask yourself some personal questions: can I abstract from detail to big picture, without losing the point? Can you reconsile the facts you have learned with the official story? Or with the story your dad tells you? He sounds pretty crazy all of a sudden, doesn't he? Did that guy ZuS who posted after my meaningless uninformed rant feel about me the way I feel about dad right now? What is my role in this? Are people important to me? Am I going to discuss this with others? With what goal? Am I going to be honest, having my goal in mind?

 

During this time, a million other questions will come to you, about yourself, reality, atheism, god, philosophy, science, even strange things like trying to think like a child. Yea, we'll talk when you answer some of those questions. If you want material, pm me, I don't like posting links. But you might start with reading some Gore Vidal, start with Point to Point Navigation.

 

Perhaps I should of been more clear with my labeling, I ment the goverment and milatary not your average joe, on both sides. I realise that there is a bigger picture but all I am saying is both sides have no respect from me. Have any side made any real attempt to defuse the situation? No they haven't, as far as I can tell they just keep bombing each other (correct me if im wrong, I remember something about Israel withdrawing from an area but that in no way is a real attempt at peace). Does anyone seriously think this will lead to anything good? And no i'm not the most knowledgeable person on this topic but from what I do know and from what others have posted I see no reason to think either side has any moral advantage.

 

Now why im not that interested in the legal side of it. A_nnoy_mouse correct me if i'm wrong your issue here is the privately owned land correct? It was 60 years ago who knows what belonged to who? I doubt there are any offitcal records. And most of the people who owned the land are most likely dead with no will for that piece of land. Does that make it right that they don't get any? no. But they would have no fair way to distrabute it to it's rightfull owners. It's not the best reasoning but I highly doubt the Israelies are just going to pick up and leave after 60 years.

 

What I would suggest is Israel simpily let anyone who wants to move there move there (should have no problem if it is just the land they want) and give them land and funds to start up bussnesses build homes or what ever else. I really cannot see a better road to peace. If it is really the land they are fighting for I really don't see a problem with this, maybe someone can point one out. I realise there is more at play than I know.

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Tapey wrote:Bad analigy. It

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Bad analigy. It doesn't deal with the issue at all. In this case the woman has gone to her friends house and invited a bunch of rapists and is shouting rape us. yes the rapist is still wrong for raping the woman but the woman has tempted fate causing not only herself to get raped but her friend aswel, witch was stupid. Hamas fires rockets from a civilion neibourhood is wrong as it gives israel a reason to bomb that area whitch is also wrong.

In this case the rapists came from Europe. They whine about their victims not being nice to them. They damn their victims for not loving them.

The CHOSE to live this way. They WANTED to live this way. They chose to be rapists. They wanted to be rapists. And they whine about their victims not rolling over and enjoying it.

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I really cannot see a good reason for doing this it only hurts there own people. Causing more of them to get killed than they kill. Both sides are wrong I really can't see how you can rationalisee otherwise. 

Really Why don't thet fire the rockets from some empty patch of ground?

Why does not Israel END THE OCCUPATION?

Why does Israel continue the rape?

Israel only has to end the occupation. That is trivial. Just stop it. Get their troops back inside Israel where they belong. End the blockade of Gaza. Look at all the money they will save.

But no. They want to continue the occupation, they want to continue the blockade and they want their victims to submit and enjoy it and stop fighting back.

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How many times do I have to say Israel are also wrong? I'm not attacking them as you seem to be doing a good eniugh job there, however you seem to think the palistinions are little saints. They are not, in the process of trying to get back some land they have not made humane desions. Btw It's not hiding if the solgers are on leave. They are people, they live there. They have to buy food, they have  to do all the things we all have to do. That involves going into public areas. Although I highly suspect you think they should just starve to death. They can't stay in the camps as they are on leave (a example of idiocy by thier goverment) but that does not make it ok to fire rockets at public areas just because there may be some off duty army guy there. They are of no imediate theat to you the on duty people are, you attack them. Or the people who have the power to change the situation, the goverment.

I will try to be really clear and to the point here, since clarity could be helpful.

Israel is not just one thing, since it is a home for some people, a business area where some other people make money, a society in which power struggle happens on a daily basis, a place where many ugly global interests converge and a million other things. When you say stuff like "Israel are also wrong", do you mean ALL of these people in israel? Or just some of them? Or one of them? And what are they doing that is wrong exactly? What about the Palestinians, who are they? How many are there? How do they live? Do they have medicine, food, clean water, and if not why not? What kind of military are the nice people on the TV talking about, when they tell you that Hamas fired some rockets somewhere? What is Hamas? What is their history? What about those rockets, how many people did those kill last 6 months? Last 10 months? Last 40 years? How many palestinians died in the last assault on Gaza and the West Bank area and how many Israeli died at the same time and who were they? Soldiers or civilians, how many on both sides? What about children? You talk about "little saints", so do you know how many children were killed in the last attack? Have you seen some pictures, footage or read some texts other than those from CNN and what your dad, who also never asked these questions, tells you? What kind of military does Israel have? What kind of control do they have over the area? And what about those rocket attacks, how do they influence the political situation in Israel, West Bank and Gaza? Is there someone who is actually gaining from them? What is the history of this area? What about UN resolutions during time? What were the issues and who voted for what? What about refugees, who are they and where are they? What about sattlements? How did the geographical situation look during the last century or so? What about the regional interests, who has an interest in this? What about the global interests? Who is sending money to whom? Who is sending military aid to whom? How much? With which interests? What do they say their interest is? Is there a pattern you have seen before about what people say and what they do? What is the political structure of those with interests? What is this thing they call democracy really? Are there some patterns you see repeating that would dispute the official story about the institutions of government? How do they really function? Can you compare it to something from your own life? And if not, why not? Are you maybe living on Mars so that you can't relate? What kind of Mars?

Once you find satisfactory answers to those questions, you need to ask yourself some personal questions: can I abstract from detail to big picture, without losing the point? Can you reconsile the facts you have learned with the official story? Or with the story your dad tells you? He sounds pretty crazy all of a sudden, doesn't he? Did that guy ZuS who posted after my meaningless uninformed rant feel about me the way I feel about dad right now? What is my role in this? Are people important to me? Am I going to discuss this with others? With what goal? Am I going to be honest, having my goal in mind?

During this time, a million other questions will come to you, about yourself, reality, atheism, god, philosophy, science, even strange things like trying to think like a child. Yea, we'll talk when you answer some of those questions. If you want material, pm me, I don't like posting links. But you might start with reading some Gore Vidal, start with Point to Point Navigation.

Perhaps I should of been more clear with my labeling, I ment the goverment and milatary not your average joe, on both sides. I realise that there is a bigger picture but all I am saying is both sides have no respect from me. Have any side made any real attempt to defuse the situation? No they haven't, as far as I can tell they just keep bombing each other (correct me if im wrong, I remember something about Israel withdrawing from an area but that in no way is a real attempt at peace). Does anyone seriously think this will lead to anything good? And no i'm not the most knowledgeable person on this topic but from what I do know and from what others have posted I see no reason to think either side has any moral advantage.

In fact Israel is in violation of some 50 UN Security Council resolutions and over 300 General Assemblly resolutions. The rapist has done nothing. The victim has refused to roll over and enjoy it. The rapist and the victim are NOT equal. The rapist has to stop first. It is not reasonable nor rational to say if the victim stops resisting the rapist will stop raping. The rapist and the victim are not morally equal.

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Now why im not that interested in the legal side of it. A_nnoy_mouse correct me if i'm wrong your issue here is the privately owned land correct? It was 60 years ago who knows what belonged to who? I doubt there are any offitcal records. And most of the people who owned the land are most likely dead with no will for that piece of land. Does that make it right that they don't get any? no. But they would have no fair way to distrabute it to it's rightfull owners. It's not the best reasoning but I highly doubt the Israelies are just going to pick up and leave after 60 years.

There are records. There are deeds. The claim of the rightful owners is the SAME as the claims of Jews to assets lost to the Nazis. The rightful owners pass their property to their children just as children of Jews who lost property lawfully claim their property. All that is required is Palestinians be given the same treatment as Jews demand for themselves from Europe. Notice how greed governs both situations.

No one expects the Jews to pick up and leave. No one expected the Nazis to pick up and leave either. No one expected Apartheid to end voluntarily.

The world, mainly the US, needs to end the financial support of Israel and make it a crime to send money to Israel as it is to Cuba. Jews will run away from Israel in droves if that is done. Israel is a financial basketcase without foreign charity. Jews will leave voluntarily as quickly as they can as soon as Israel has to pay its own way in the world. Without the billions in charity how will they afford socialized medicine? Their military expenses will stay the same. They will have to make peace to reduce those.

And that is before an oil embargo is put on Israel as was done to South Africa. The Afrikaaners eventually saw the light. Embargo Israel and the lights will go out in a week. The light they see will be a candle.

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What I would suggest is Israel simpily let anyone who wants to move there move there (should have no problem if it is just the land they want) and give them land and funds to start up bussnesses build homes or what ever else. I really cannot see a better road to peace. If it is really the land they are fighting for I really don't see a problem with this, maybe someone can point one out. I realise there is more at play than I know.

And that will lead to the return of some five million Palestinians to reclaim their property in downtown Tel Aviv and every place else in Israel. EVERY city and town in Israel is built on the ruins of a Palestinian city or town. One third of all the squatter towns in the occupied territories are built on existing private property where the owners are present. But since they are not Jews they cannot get justice. The war criminal squatters stay and steal more.

And that is why Israel will never permit it. But they make similar claims against Germany and Poland and Hungary. What is good enough for Jews is not good enough for non-Jews. They are the same petty, vindictive hypocrites that populate every religion.

Judge a people by what they do when in power not what they do when out of power.

Jews are to be judged by the actions of Israel.

And let us not play games. EVERY Jew who chose to go to Israel knew they were going to live on stolen property. And they knew the victims were going to kill to get it back. If they did not know it then they were not responsible adults. There is no way any of them can pretend to innocense save by mental impairment. They are all guilty.

 

Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.

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What I would suggest is Israel simpily let anyone who wants to move there move there (should have no problem if it is just the land they want) and give them land and funds to start up bussnesses build homes or what ever else. I really cannot see a better road to peace. If it is really the land they are fighting for I really don't see a problem with this, maybe someone can point one out. I realise there is more at play than I know.

And that will lead to the return of some five million Palestinians to reclaim their property in downtown Tel Aviv and every place else in Israel. EVERY city and town in Israel is built on the ruins of a Palestinian city or town. One third of all the squatter towns in the occupied territories are built on existing private property where the owners are present. But since they are not Jews they cannot get justice. The war criminal squatters stay and steal more.

And that is why Israel will never permit it. But they make similar claims against Germany and Poland and Hungary. What is good enough for Jews is not good enough for non-Jews. They are the same petty, vindictive hypocrites that populate every religion.

Judge a people by what they do when in power not what they do when out of power.

Jews are to be judged by the actions of Israel.

And let us not play games. EVERY Jew who chose to go to Israel knew they were going to live on stolen property. And they knew the victims were going to kill to get it back. If they did not know it then they were not responsible adults. There is no way any of them can pretend to innocense save by mental impairment. They are all guilty.

 

I love blanket statments. tbh i cba anymore going no where fast.

 

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Tapey wrote:A_Nony_Mouse

Tapey wrote:

A_Nony_Mouse wrote:

Tapey wrote:
What I would suggest is Israel simpily let anyone who wants to move there move there (should have no problem if it is just the land they want) and give them land and funds to start up bussnesses build homes or what ever else. I really cannot see a better road to peace. If it is really the land they are fighting for I really don't see a problem with this, maybe someone can point one out. I realise there is more at play than I know.

And that will lead to the return of some five million Palestinians to reclaim their property in downtown Tel Aviv and every place else in Israel. EVERY city and town in Israel is built on the ruins of a Palestinian city or town. One third of all the squatter towns in the occupied territories are built on existing private property where the owners are present. But since they are not Jews they cannot get justice. The war criminal squatters stay and steal more.

And that is why Israel will never permit it. But they make similar claims against Germany and Poland and Hungary. What is good enough for Jews is not good enough for non-Jews. They are the same petty, vindictive hypocrites that populate every religion.

Judge a people by what they do when in power not what they do when out of power.

Jews are to be judged by the actions of Israel.

And let us not play games. EVERY Jew who chose to go to Israel knew they were going to live on stolen property. And they knew the victims were going to kill to get it back. If they did not know it then they were not responsible adults. There is no way any of them can pretend to innocense save by mental impairment. They are all guilty.

 

I love blanket statments. tbh i cba anymore going no where fast.

 

Actually, that is pretty much on the spot regarding why Israeli government would never allow a single refugee to come back. There would be an instant outcry from the Israeli population and the government would instantly be in question, simply because Jewish sattlers everywhere in Israel HAD to remove existing population. The place was a prosperous region with nummerous population after the second world war. With a tradition, laws, rather high standard of education, the works. What they didn't have is an army. Any returnees are a problem.

Other than that, the aim is to toss Palestinians OUT of the region and wipe them out all together, not get them back in. They are to remain a sub-population in Jordan and a minority in Egypt, not a bloody potential political opposition in Israel, they are not crazy.

On the last note, letting people back in would be like you working for your boss to get money, and then giving some of that money back to him of your own free will for some reason. No way, they worked too hard on this genocide on all fronts - propaganda, military, diplomatic, they even had to spit their god in the face and disregard some of his more benign teaching to be able to execute a whole nation. The only reason to give in just for a second is a temporary deal with a regional power, PR and nothing else. And even then whatever they gave they must recover with hard labor the next day.

Letting Palestinians back in, from their perspective, just makes no sense. They would have to be forced to do so in any meaningful way.

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Tapey wrote:A_Nony_Mouse

Tapey wrote:

A_Nony_Mouse wrote:

Tapey wrote:
What I would suggest is Israel simpily let anyone who wants to move there move there (should have no problem if it is just the land they want) and give them land and funds to start up bussnesses build homes or what ever else. I really cannot see a better road to peace. If it is really the land they are fighting for I really don't see a problem with this, maybe someone can point one out. I realise there is more at play than I know.

And that will lead to the return of some five million Palestinians to reclaim their property in downtown Tel Aviv and every place else in Israel. EVERY city and town in Israel is built on the ruins of a Palestinian city or town. One third of all the squatter towns in the occupied territories are built on existing private property where the owners are present. But since they are not Jews they cannot get justice. The war criminal squatters stay and steal more.

And that is why Israel will never permit it. But they make similar claims against Germany and Poland and Hungary. What is good enough for Jews is not good enough for non-Jews. They are the same petty, vindictive hypocrites that populate every religion.

Judge a people by what they do when in power not what they do when out of power.

Jews are to be judged by the actions of Israel.

And let us not play games. EVERY Jew who chose to go to Israel knew they were going to live on stolen property. And they knew the victims were going to kill to get it back. If they did not know it then they were not responsible adults. There is no way any of them can pretend to innocense save by mental impairment. They are all guilty.

I love blanket statments. tbh i cba anymore going no where fast.

You have no place to go. This mess did not start yesterday or last year. It started in Switzerland in the late 19th c. The plan to steal the land and drive out the native population was in place almost from the beginning although it was not explictly stated until the early 1920s with Jabotinsky and his writings such as The Iron Wall.

There is no way to claim innocent intentions. A child might believe it could be peacefully done but anyone passed puberty knows better.

Palestine and Palestinians have been there for at least 2500 years as they are mentioned by Herodotus. Jews do not appear in history until 400 after that. The religion was invented some time between Herodotus and the Roman take over of the region. When they appeared in history they would not be recognized as Jews of today as they also worshiped Astarte. One of her temple's was in Jerusalem.

Back in the early 20th c when Florida started to develop a citrus industry the farmers traveled to Palestine to learn. Not only that but they hired Palestinians to come to Florida and supervise setting up the first citrus groves. The nationalist movement in Palestine began before WWI and the Palestinians supported England in that war on the promise of independence after the war.

I said, END THE OCCUPATION. This is nothing new. It was the subject of a UN Security Council resolution in 1967. That Israel ignored it for over 40 years does not mean they get a pass because it is now too hard. They knew they what they were doing. They knew they would have to end the occupation. They get no sympathy for it being difficult or expensive. They deliberately did it to themselves. Yes they will have internal political problems but they explicitly said they were growing the squattertowns to make it difficult. Tough shit. They wanted it hard, they get it hard.

Jews stole the land. The owners want it back. That is all anyone needs to know about Israel. That is all there is to know about Israel.

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A_Nony_Mouse wrote:You have

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You have no place to go. This mess did not start yesterday or last year. It started in Switzerland in the late 19th c. The plan to steal the land and drive out the native population was in place almost from the beginning although it was not explictly stated until the early 1920s with Jabotinsky and his writings such as The Iron Wall.

Yep. Late 20th century it has matured and become a part of the year 2020 plan (20/20 vision is often a euphamism for it). Like any good enterpreneureal venture, the enterpreneurs needed the right kind of market to sell their idea.

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There is no way to claim innocent intentions. A child might believe it could be peacefully done but anyone passed puberty knows better.

Palestine and Palestinians have been there for at least 2500 years as they are mentioned by Herodotus. Jews do not appear in history until 400 after that. The religion was invented some time between Herodotus and the Roman take over of the region. When they appeared in history they would not be recognized as Jews of today as they also worshiped Astarte. One of her temple's was in Jerusalem.

Back in the early 20th c when Florida started to develop a citrus industry the farmers traveled to Palestine to learn. Not only that but they hired Palestinians to come to Florida and supervise setting up the first citrus groves. The nationalist movement in Palestine began before WWI and the Palestinians supported England in that war on the promise of independence after the war.

To sell an enterpreneureal venture to serious investors, you have to know everything about it. So there was never any doubt on anyone's part that Palestinians would have to be drowned in blood from day 1 of creation of Israel. Let me just quote Abba Eban, the former Israeli Foreign Minister and UN Ambassador, as saying in 1981, in defense of systematically bombing civilian areas:

there was a rational prospect, ultimately fulfilled, that afflicted populations would exert pressure for the cessation of hostilities."

In an occupation, of course, 'cessation of hostilities' really means cessation of any resistance to the policies of the occupating force. And what do we know about these policies? I can quote a information minister for the Netanyahu government in 1996, answering to a question from a journalist about the scraps of Palestinian land Israeli military is surrounding, weather that could become a state:

"the Palestinians can have a state if they want, or they can call it fried chicken"

Meaning that the end result of the occupation will not be any more a palestinian state than fried chicken could be called a state.

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.