The Guardian: "Israeli officer: I was right to shoot 13-year-old child" Jesus Tapdancing Christ, I really, really wish my tax money wasn't being used for this bullshit.
I don't buy your proposition whatsoever. Moreover, you're not nearly as cleaver as you think when you try to limit my rersponse to one word. It's like me asking you if you've stopped beating your mom -- YES or NO???
Maybe we can focus on the reality of the situation nd stop discussing what and should and in how in '48. Now for some updates on the ground. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232100161716&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull Mashaal: We won't accept Israeli conditions for cease-fire He said Hamas is defending Palestinian people - what a joke, unless he means defending as in hiding among women and children who are defending Hamas. In other related news: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231950868927&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull Fatah cracks down on Hamas in W. Bank So the plan is to end Hamas - maybe that will bring some change for once. and of course Iran: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056131.html
Assuming an investigation finds this officer guilty (I take anything the Guardian says with a big block of salt, given their deep-seated anti-Israeli bias), he should receive the same sentence any other murderer receives. Having said that, I don't hold the entire IDF culpable for the actions of an individual (or individuals, if it is found that others either aided him or were iinvolved in a coverup). Similarly, as upset as I am as are many others in the shooting of an unarmed man in Oakland, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090114/ap_on_re_us/train_station_shooting I don't hold the entire Oakland police force responsible.
US and Israel agree to prevent arms-smuggling: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056173.html Not sure still how it works.
Sounds great in theory, but it's probably as effective as interdicting drug shipments. You get some, but miss a whole lot more. Having said that, some effort (anything, really) in cutting off arms shipments is better than doing nothing.
I don't want to know what happens in your house. It seems you can't comprehend the events that is going on in PALESTINE.
Stop trolling with your dumbass questions and dumbass bold font already. Nobody is going to respond to you.
Man, if we could only get our taxes to go towards the tings we believed in. Of course, you're "tax" share of this is probably less than a buck
Actually, you asked me about my house. If you want to answer the question about whether you've stopped beating your mother -- YES or NO -- I will respond to you. Otherwise, stop asking stupid questions and you won't get the same in return.
I asked you about your house. NOT YOUR MOTHER! So you reply my question first because i asked you first and you declined to answer it. And then i'll answer your question very gladly.
Wait, this all this boils down to is who is first in line? Well then logically you must agree that the Jews with a 3,500 year claim to the land have a stronger claim than a group of people that didn't even have an identity until about 80 odd years ago. Right?
Sir Gerald Kaufman MP in the UK Parliament on the Israeli action in Gaza: [youtube]qMGuYjt6CP8[/youtube]
weren't their people living there before the Israelites? Canaanites, Amorites, etc. I thought those people were mentioned in the Torah/Old Testament, which is why I think going back 3500 years is pointless. Have to face the situation as it stands from a modern perspective and go with what is already there.
Oh, so he was friends with Golda Meir and Yasser Arafat. I wonder what Golda Meir would have said about that if she was still alive. Sad to see another Jew speak that way, really sad, especially seeing as how his parents were murdered in the Holocaust.
He's one of the reasons why so many think how they do about Jewish people. He's an embarassment to his parents and those who died so Israel can be re-born again.
That's part of my point Dan. People will choose the point in time that's most convenient for them. If someone wants to holler about 1918, I'll respond that we should talk about life 3,500 years ago. Unless people can get past whose land it should have been, we'll never get around to figuring a solution.
I may deplore you for minimizing the holocaust, but I have to give credit where credit is due...your cutting and pasting of youtube clips is amazing.
Just to be clear, what identity is that? Even if these people didn't have an identity before, doesn't mean Israel can kick them out of the land they own.
Palestinian. There really was no concept of a Palestinian identity until after WWI. The demand for a homeland first occurred in 1921. The Jewish claim to the land goes back 3,500 years. See, maybe if you stopped trying to trick people with stupid questions you might learn something.
You stupid stupid boy. It was a demand for the Israeli occupiers to get out of the land of the Palestinians. Palestine is not a new word. It has been used for centuries. I'll go with these two to illustrate my point. In 638 CE, Caliph Omar Ibn al-Khattab and Safforonius, the Byzantine governor of Jerusalem, signed Al-Uhda al-'Omariyya (The Umariyya Covenant), an agreement that stipulated the rights and obligations of all non-Muslims in Palestine. Umayyad rule (661–750 CE):- Under Umayyad rule, the Byzantine province of Palaestina Prima became the administrative and military sub-province (jund) of Filastin - the Arabic name for Palestine from that point forward. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine#Roman_rule_.2863_BCE.29 Okay i won this debate. What's your next move?