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I think part of the reason we get so worked up about it is that our media keep telling us about it and we think, something should be done, then we realise as individual humans we are impotent and we look to those who claim to lead us and we see that they are also impotent but again and again our media tell us bad things are happening yet no one seems to do anything about it.

In the meantime there is slaughter in Dafur and the media for some reason hardly mention this too far away perhaps, people there not worthy perhaps, not newswothy perhaps, truth is we would feel the same way about that as we do Israel Palestine, impotent as individuals and our so called leaders also impotent.

Perhaps we should just stop watching the news, people are always slaughtering each other somewhere in the world, cynically perhaps if they do not have oil we will not do anything, apart from watch idly.
 
We don't find posters defending the Sudanese government, and our own doesn't support the Sudanese murders as it does the zionists. We CAN do something about the US colonialism in Palestine by constantly contradicting the liars here and everywhere.
 
rhys gethin said:
We don't find posters defending the Sudanese government, and our own doesn't support the Sudanese murders as it does the zionists. We CAN do something about the US colonialism in Palestine by constantly contradicting the liars here and everywhere.

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plus it's currently the fault line between the crusaders and jihadists, so kinda relevant to the survival of the globe, don't you think?
 
rhys gethin said:
If it were non-religious - or (better) anti-religious - and non-racist (as most zionists allege 'Israel' to be) where's the problem?

that's a bit voluntarist of you. we'd probably agree that the 'religious' bit is just window dressing - european and us Jewish people in Israel get real advantages from hijacking the state and the law in their own interest (housing, voting, jobs etc)

it would be perfectly possible for them to continue that apartheid system within even a secular unified state.

i'm a long-term supporter of the one-state solution as the only practical one, but interested in teasing out the problems
 
marksl said:
if nations like iran get the nuke bomb one day they arm the palestines with one then it be a equal playing field but probably 5 minutes after that happens, israel and plaestine nuke each other if they don't calm down.

if iran get close , say within a year of completing the uranium enrichment, i would think isreal,usa,uk would destroy it, isreal destroyed it before.
This time its different in the sense that its in different areas of the country and in deep bunkers whereas before it was in one place and quite easy to locate.

The reason i mentioned three countries is because i don;t think isreal could do it by themself on the ground.
 
weltweit said:
I think part of the reason we get so worked up about it is that our media keep telling us about it and we think, something should be done, then we realise as individual humans we are impotent and we look to those who claim to lead us and we see that they are also impotent but again and again our media tell us bad things are happening yet no one seems to do anything about it.

its also known as putting fear in the public minds, its no different to nazi progragandha in many respects apart from the fact that terrorism is not bogus.
The goverment has vastly underestimated iraq and afghanstan........
 
rhys gethin said:
We don't find posters defending the Sudanese government, and our own doesn't support the Sudanese murders as it does the zionists. We CAN do something about the US colonialism in Palestine by constantly contradicting the liars here and everywhere.

IMO taking sides does not help.

If we put ourselves in the shoes of an Israeli leader and consider the pressures on them, there are a lot of things that they are doing which we would do.

Likewise if we put ourselves in the shoes of a Palestinian we can also empathise and would do a lot of what those people are doing.

Taking sides will not stop the conflict. The many diplomats on the ground there already have failed to find a solution that could bring lasting peace. Indeed it seems locals have given up looking for a peaceful solution.

Who then could provide such an unbaiased peace seeking initiative?
 
i thought about your post and concluded

weltweit said:
If we put ourselves in the shoes of an Israeli leader and consider the pressures on them, there are a lot of things that they are doing which we would do.

nope.

weltweit said:
Likewise if we put ourselves in the shoes of a Palestinian we can also empathise and would do a lot of what those people are doing.

yep.

ditto former support for black africans and the ANC.

some things aren't just 'equal'. that's the point. that's what needs to end.
 
So you are suggesting if you were an Israeli leader you could find better solutions to stopping Palestinian suicide bombers and rockets fired from outside your borders than they are trying at the moment.

Ok, what are better solutions?

Genuine question.
 
weltweit said:
So you are suggesting if you were an Israeli leader you could find better solutions to stopping Palestinian suicide bombers and rockets fired from outside your borders than they are trying at the moment.

Ok, what are better solutions?

Genuine question.

even the way you frame your question implies that the rocket attacks / suicide bomers came first then the so-called IDF is forced to retaliate.

I was thinking of things like collective punishment, state murder / assasination, bulldozing houses, low-flying sonic bombs, cluster bombs, proxy murder squads, illegal occupation and the rest.

no i wouldn't order any of these things - both cos they're wrong in themselves (human rights / geneva convention etc etc) and because they're counter-productive and likely to lead to rocket and suicide attacks in retaliation... d'oh.

:eek:







here's a question for you - i was brought to tears by the news that the palestinians have developed a defence against targetted assasination. that the whole community goes and stands in the way of the Israeli rocket attacks.

a) isn't that stunningly brave?
b) isn't that stunningly desperate?
c) isn't it repulsive that it should have come to this?
d) doesn't Israel deserve 100% of the blame and condemnation for these attacks?

genuine question - could you imagine being part of a community that felt it had to take such appallingly dangerous defence tactics? can you imagine standing there wondering whether or not it had succeeded in detering the attack?
 
bruise said:
that's a bit voluntarist of you. we'd probably agree that the 'religious' bit is just window dressing - european and us Jewish people in Israel get real advantages from hijacking the state and the law in their own interest (housing, voting, jobs etc)

it would be perfectly possible for them to continue that apartheid system within even a secular unified state.

i'm a long-term supporter of the one-state solution as the only practical one, but interested in teasing out the problems

Yes, I agree - but unless they are using Hitlerite definitions (would they dare?) the mark of entry to the settler class is, as far as I can see, at least officially religion - though having once been/been born into a family stemming from religious Jewry seems enough. This is so appalingly archaic that it can have little appeal - when examined - even in the US. Remove that and the divisions in the Single State of Younameit are going to occur along different lines, I think.
 
bruise said:
even the way you frame your question implies that the rocket attacks / suicide bomers came first then the so-called IDF is forced to retaliate.

Well it was not intended to imply anything except to ask what you thought you would do if you were in the shoes of an elected Israeli leader.

imo both sides react to the last thing that happenned, afaikt they operate on the eye for an eye principle and until they both turn the other cheek this madness will not stop.

You cannot deny that Israeli citizens are killed and injured by suicide bombers and rockets etc, thats why I asked what you WOULD DO if you were their leader. You answered what you would not do, but what would you do?

bruise said:
I was thinking of things like collective punishment, state murder / assasination, bulldozing houses, low-flying sonic bombs, cluster bombs, proxy murder squads, illegal occupation and the rest.

I agree these sorts of things are bad and it would be better if the leaders of both sides were in a dialogue working together to find peace.

At the moment Israeli leaders will not it seems even talk to Hamas despite that they have been elected by the Palestinian people, applaud elections but then refuse to recognise the winners because you do not approve of the choice of the people. Israel have to talk to Hamas imho, they have no choice.

bruise said:
no i wouldn't order any of these things - both cos they're wrong in themselves (human rights / geneva convention etc etc) and because they're counter-productive and likely to lead to rocket and suicide attacks in retaliation... d'oh.

I understand that but how will you try to prevent suicide bombers and rocket attacks?

bruise said:
here's a question for you - i was brought to tears by the news that the palestinians have developed a defence against targetted assasination. that the whole community goes and stands in the way of the Israeli rocket attacks.

a) isn't that stunningly brave?
b) isn't that stunningly desperate?
c) isn't it repulsive that it should have come to this?
d) doesn't Israel deserve 100% of the blame and condemnation for these attacks?

genuine question - could you imagine being part of a community that felt it had to take such appallingly dangerous defence tactics? can you imagine standing there wondering whether or not it had succeeded in detering the attack?

I can imagine being part of such a community and taking the same actions yes. Desperate people do desperate things.

In its last analysis human shield = skin cell, the only question is whose skin cells, unarmed women and children make a good human shield.
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Gmarthews said:
In our framing of the campaign for a single state, ...
..who is "we"? What's the campaing called? Or are you talking in theory?

Must admit I never thought of this option - your arguments for it make a lot of sense. It's all academic of course - the solution will be what the US wants it to be, and when it wants it:
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=166128&highlight=israel

The isrealis and palestinians will have to live with whatever the US pushes for... if it ever decides to try and resolve the issue one way or another - maybe a long way of yet...
 
GMarthews: No Jew EVER invaded the lands now alternatively called "Israel" and "Palestine." Jews are the indigenous inhabitants of said lands. By the first time an Arab ever appeared outside of Arabia, it was 400 odd years before the Common Era! Jews already had a good 2,000 years on that land!


Did "Palestinians" ever have a nation? What is their national cuisine? National music? Dance? Literature predating the 20th Century? A unique religion? Cultural trait?

"Hudni." There is no such word. The word you search foris "hudna." A far better word for your point though is another Arabic word, "waqf." A "waqf" signifies a place that has been ruled by Muslims for as alittle as a minute. One ruled by a Muslim it is forevermore Islamic land. Ergo, Israel will always be Muslim land and cannot exist otherwise.

"A 2 State Solution will prove far too complicated because the 2 People are so entwined." What? You make no sense. Israel has almost a million Arabs who CHOOSE to call themselves Israeli. They willingly opt for this citizenship. It is not forced upon them.Besides the fact that Israel has many other sizable minorities who all enjpy com-plete freedom, just like any Jewish Israeli; Druse, Circassians, Ethiopian [non-Jewish], Sudanese, Armenian, Copts, Greeks, and others too numerous to list. Israel is a liberal democracy in the truest sense and in this it works splendidly.

A multi-cultural "Palestine" though is a bit far fetched. Are you familiar with the word "dhimmi?" There is no such thing ass true equality under any Islamic system sad to say. Their best hope, if they are a minority, is to be unassuming and obedient in everyway.


The true solution is VERY simple, the Arabs must stop bombing and committing other acts of terror, Israel will leave them alone. Problem solved. Israel has alreadt given them Gaza and is about to give them most of the "West Bank" [96%] offset with 4% of Israel Proper for a full fledged state. LEt us see what they can do with it. And let us see if it is half as multiu cultural as Israel is.
 
Moono: "Then the Zionists shelled a beach and killed a 'Palestinian' family." You mean the family that chose to take a dip as Qassam teams launched 100 meters away as magentic seborne mines floated around them...just before they inadvertantly detonated an old Israeli shell from a prior conflict with HAMAS...Whhy not tell it like it really happened. It is no crime if it does not match your propaganda spin.


GMarthews [again]: "It neither destroys the Jewish nature of the nation with the 1 State Solution." See, besides none of us natives wanting it, it was tired under the Turks and failed miserably. Try looking up the 500 years of Ottoman control. Think that was paradise?

"Your views on Apartheid." I suggest you get a bit more current. WE left Gaza more than a year ago abd are leaving the "West Bank" in about a year. You agaibn make no sense.


DavidDissadent: No, genocide does not figure into our national strategy as a min objective but it is soemthing ever present in our psyches. It is that being a minority negates the concept of Zionism and that is exactly what our struggle has been about all these long years.
 
The true solution is to have compromise on BOTH sides, not just for everyone to kow-tow to the Israelis side.

Those who are born there deserve to live there.

Palestine did exist of course, as well you know.

Peace will only come with compromise on BOTH sides, d'oh!

Equality of opportunity is the only solution, along with freedom for all.

The one state solution is obviously the only solution, otherwise the Palestinians will continue to fight.

The Israelis will continue to fight to have the land to themselves despite the fact that there are, and were, other people there.

Considering what the Israelis get up to, it is not surprising that the Palestinians fight, so would YOU.

What impresses me with you is your complete inability to acknowledge that anyone else can have a different point of view which might be valid. You give absolutists a bad name!!

You need to go back 2400 years to justify the invasion. And seem unable to recognise that recent residents have more validity by definition!!

This period of abuse by the Israelis will go down as a terrible episode in Jewish history. To abuse a people because their beliefs are different to the ruling force is something i would have expected the Israelis, of all people, not to do.
 
rachamim18 said:
The true solution is VERY simple, the Arabs must stop bombing and committing other acts of terror, Israel will leave them alone. Problem solved. Israel has alreadt given them Gaza and is about to give them most of the "West Bank" [96%] offset with 4% of Israel Proper for a full fledged state. LEt us see what they can do with it. And let us see if it is half as multiu cultural as Israel is.

rachamim18 why do they have to stop first?

Why does Israel not stop itself?

At the moment both of you are doing "an eye for an eye" and neither side will stop.

When will it get to the both of you doing "turn the other cheek" because that is what is required for peace.

Why do they have to stop? why do you just not stop?
 
Fruitand Nut: Brillant explanation as to the Arab claim on the land. I could not have said it better myself.


GMarthews: In fact, the US has given larger tracts back to Native Americans and in other cases granted them very lucrative gambling, fireworks, and tobbacco concessions that have nmade many tribes richer than their wildest dreams.The US DID steal their land, as well as the land of the Spaniards [who in turn did an even worse job on the Natives] but none of those situations even remotely resemble what has happened in the Middle East.


"The Israelis are now on the path of a Single State due to their reluctance to negotiate earlier." I do not know if you sare posting here as a joke, or what but you seriously so8und deluded. The Zionists have accepted EVERY single offer on the table since 1919. IT IS THE ARABS WHO HAVE REFUSEED. Please check your facts IF you are in fact serious.


Moono: America is already curtailing its economic aid to Israel. Luckily for us though, we are totally self sufficient.

WeltWeit: "The 'Palestinian' need a contigious state." First off, a contigious state was never envisioned OR offered to either side. Israel only obtained theirs via the 49 Armistice after Arabs attacked them. Luckily for the "Palestinians" though, Gaza and the so called "West Bank" can be easily cpnnected either by tunnel or elevated hiway. Take your pick. No problem.


Lobster: "The country must be devided down the middle." Why should it? In the 1919 Partition the Arabs were offered almost 70% ofthe total land! Why should they now benefit for almost a century of bloodshed. Nope. They sahould count their blessings that they are able to get anything close to the 49 Armistice lines.
 
rahamin - who does this stuff? Palestinians (or "palestinians" as you like to call them) or the Israeli state?

bruise said:
I was thinking of things like collective punishment, state murder / assasination, bulldozing houses, low-flying sonic bombs, cluster bombs, proxy murder squads, illegal occupation and the rest.

btw, has the mass murderor died yet? is there a queue to spit on his corpse?
 
RhyGethin: "That the Zionists would be willing to give up something." You mean like Gaza? Or how about the "West Bank?"

"The unfortunate Arafat who got nothing by it." Except the 1 billion US allowance for his wife Suha paid for by International AID to this very day while she never once lived there. Or maybe you mean the concreter monopolyhe held, theone that provided almost all of the concrete for the Barrier? Or do you mean his 17 Security Forces who ALL paid kickbacks back to him? Should "I go on or sahould you reasearch it a bit more?


"Concetrationa Camp guards." Please do eleborate because I do not see you making any sense at all with that one.


"Give the 'Palestinian' back their country, and the Jews their 'Greater Israel." Um, you do know do you, that this is a totally contradictory statement, right? It makes no sense at all.


Yes, I see where you acknowledge the nonsenseical tone of your proposition but then why waste time posting it?


Lobster: "At the moment the 'Palestinians' do not have weapons that can cause much destruction." Please do tell that to the two Israeli killed over thelast week by Qasams. And by the way, ever see a belt filled with Semtex and bqall bearings go 'poof?'
 
UdoErasmus:Joan Peter's book was not discredited EXCEPT by such noble souls as David Irving. Are these the type of people on whom you rely to form your opinions? Israel Shamir? A made up name by a man who is not even a Jew?

Norman Finkelstein? Now that is a man who has been seriously discredited. His whole selling point is,"Look I am a Jew, ergo I have more innate knowledge on this subject and should be taken more seriously." Yep, sure got me convinced.


Rhys: Again, you neglect one tiny fact: "Palestinians" have NEVER had a state. They did NOT even eixist as a separate people until 1948!


"Analogy with the Irish." See, the problem there is that the Irish were/are indigenous and the British weere/are foregin colonisers. In the middle East, it is the Jews who are the indigienous and the Arabs who are the colonisers!!!


Weltweit: Dafur does not get as much facetime because there alot of Jews in the EU and America, as opposed to Dafurians. Demographics rules the roost.
 
rachamim18 said:
Lobster: "At the moment the 'Palestinians' do not have weapons that can cause much destruction." Please do tell that to the two Israeli killed over thelast week by Qasams. And by the way, ever see a belt filled with Semtex and bqall bearings go 'poof?'


Do the Palestinians have F-16 Fighting Falcon's ?
Do the Palestinians have Merkava battle tanks ?
Do the Palestinians have Jericho III medium-range ballistic missiles ?
Do the Palestinians have Gil/Spike or Shifon - anti-tank guided missiles
Do the Palestinians have the Shavit?
Do the Palestinians have a Rafael Python 5 ?
Do the Palestinians have a Machbet ?

If you can answer yes to any of the following, then the Palestinians have weapons that can cause alot of damage.

And you very well know i have only mentioned a few items......
 
Lobster: You are arguing apples and oranges. They have plenty of weapons that kill. They have takenout tanks. They have shot down planes and copters. So what exactly is your point? Your post is kind of silly because I for one, can tell you with great certainty that a bomb belt can do as much individual damage as any of the things you posted.
 
rachamim18 said:
Lobster: You are arguing apples and oranges. They have plenty of weapons that kill. They have takenout tanks. They have shot down planes and copters. So what exactly is your point? Your post is kind of silly because I for one, can tell you with great certainty that a bomb belt can do as much individual damage as any of the things you posted.

A bomb belt is a home made device, with practise anybody could create one.
Now tell me that anyone can make the weapons i mentioned before.
I am not disputing that bomb belts can kill people, but Israel are known internationally as having the most advanced military considering the size of Israel. That in turn means comparing the Palestinian army to the Israeli is totally out of sync with reality.
 
Lobster: Making something and its ability to kill are jnot related. The Oklahoma bomb killed how many? Where was it made and what was it made out of? Case in point.

As for comparing armies. The 1st Generartion Afghan mujahadin fired flintlocks and even slingshots yet they vanquished the USSR. I can go on and on.
 
Well Rach, you won't listen to me, and probably won't listen to anybody, but tell me, have you read this book?

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi
 
Gmarthews said:
He certainly seems to be informed and has studied the subject significantly. :)

"studied" would imply that you look at all the evidence, and use some kind of impartial judgement to arrive at an objective truth

that's not a good description of what Rach does. he's a fairly rabid zionist whose "research" goes as far as finding ever newer and more flowery ways to prove that Israel is

a) a functioning democracy and is non-racist (yeh, I know :rolleyes: )
b) the problem is all with the Palestinians (sorry, "Palestinians" :rolleyes: )
c) Israel has never ever done anything bad
d) you are all obsessed by Israel/Palestine cos you are anti-semetic
e) Israel has always been Jewish :rolleyes:
f) Palestinians should roll over and die.

he's interested in pro-Zionist arguments and ways to counter anti-Zionist ones. thats the beginning and end of his studies. sad really.

useful, though, as an indicator of the head-space of the nuttier end of Zionism.
 
rachamim18 said:
No Jew EVER invaded the lands now alternatively called "Israel" and "Palestine." Jews are the indigenous inhabitants of said lands. By the first time an Arab ever appeared outside of Arabia, it was 400 odd years before the Common Era! Jews already had a good 2,000 years on that land!

RhyGethin: "That the Zionists would be willing to give up something." You mean like Gaza? Or how about the "West Bank?"

"The unfortunate Arafat who got nothing by it." Except the 1 billion US allowance for his wife Suha paid for by International AID to this very day while she never once lived there. Or maybe you mean the concreter monopolyhe held, theone that provided almost all of the concrete for the Barrier? Or do you mean his 17 Security Forces who ALL paid kickbacks back to him? Should "I go on or sahould you reasearch it a bit more?


"Concetrationa Camp guards." Please do eleborate because I do not see you making any sense at all with that one.


"Give the 'Palestinian' back their country, and the Jews their 'Greater Israel." Um, you do know do you, that this is a totally contradictory statement, right? It makes no sense at all.

If you bother to read the Bible, you will see that one of the earlies historical events we hear about is the invasion of Palestine by Jews. This project, as you perfectly well know, was revived by the Nineteenth Century zionists, though obviously some religious Jews had retired to Jerusalem to die in the intervening period,, as had pious Christians and Muslims, if they could. None of these persons had necesarily any 'genetic' connection with the territory, as you know. Many Jews were converts derived from other parts of the Roman Empire or from the Khazar Empire, which converted to Judaism en masse. As everywhere else, the bulk of the population, doubtless, were descended from the earliest population, and still are - having been willing - like so many Spanish Jews - to change religion to be allowed to stay. From these, as you know, the Palestinians are descended.

As you know, Mr Arafat was, in effect, murdered by the zionists as part of their attempt to stop a settlement. I do not give a twopenny whatsit for your Goebbels-drivel about his wife. What has that got to do with anything?

As you very well know, the settlers have shown, again and again, that they will never give up ANYTHING - they will just go on stealing more and more from their victims, until they are stopped. They 'gave up' Gaza for fear that the native population should come to outnumber the Master Race, and have been attempting to starve them and murder their children ever since, in an attempt to force them to pretend to accept the Occupation. As you know.

As you also know, the zionist regime, like the Nazis, will, if possible pay a little to get others to do their murders for them. Any 'government' set up in the Bantustan has to agree to all the zionist positions - including suppressing 'terrorism' (i.e. resistance to the murderous occupation) or be treated as Mr Arafat was treated. They can have 'democracy' just as long as they vote for what the occupiers demand and only that. You know this but, as a propagandist, you have to pretend otherwise - so what, really, is the point of sensible people's talking to you, man? Like Hitler in 1943, you'd better enjoy your mean little triumph while you can!

As is obvious, a single state will, like South Africa, include both settlers and natives, living together in such harmony as they can, while the real nazis either keep quiet or go to the States. But the neo-nazis who stay will be able to say 'our State includes all the biblical Land', while the natives will be able to live where they choose in their own country.
 
I don't agree that Israel 'gave up' Gaza. They just re-configured it as the largest prison on earth.

(two lines of borders, no independent foreign policy, no geographical contact with Egypt, air space continually policed and used for sonic bombs, control of identity, attempted control of PA through extreme financial measures, re-invasion as and when needed)
 
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