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stonebeard
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 27 2005 Location: NE Indiana Status: Offline Points: 28057 |
Posted: February 11 2015 at 20:15 | |||
Israel will always have to defend itself against that "faction" (I think that term implies it's not common practice to put mortars on school rooftops and in apartment complexes--civilian areas--which is the standard for Palastine) until Israel doesn't exist. The Palestinians play their game of war in a grotesque way, and I don't know why they get so much sympathy from Europe. They show time and time again that they're not serious about diplomacy, least of all in electing a group with a tenant of no Israel to power. Now I do not agree with the claiming of land by Israel, but when it comes to war and provocation, I will have a minimum of sympathy for Palestine until it elects moderates. |
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: February 13 2015 at 16:38 | |||
Yeah, he hasn't really done much at all to infringe on liberties/rights...just continued what was already going on. One can debate if that makes him "worse" than wubya or simply continuing the trend, perhaps once set in motion it can't even really be stopped? More I think about it, that's probably the case. |
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frippism
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 27 2010 Location: Tel Aviv Status: Offline Points: 4160 |
Posted: February 13 2015 at 17:31 | |||
While I don't think Netanyahu has done anything to deserve any support from anyone (a selfish, power hungry megalomaniac with a psycho for a wife), the summer's operation only really started when 13 Hamas militants sprang out of a tunnel right next to a kibbutz. It was later unveiled that there are tens of these underground tunnels passing through the border onto Israeli territory. No sane country wants to have the possibility of a massive wide scale terrorist attack which could leave hundreds dead. If going in was the only way to destroy these tunnels, then there was no other choice. I can honestly say that Israel has zero interest in killing civilians. Therefore it does everything in its power to abstain from killing these civilians. Hamas fires their rockets from civilian homes and forces the families to stay in the house. Now there is a very harsh and messed up dilemma- either you kill Palestinian civilians or risk having your civilians killed from the almost 2,000 rockets fired at Israel's territory. Usually the Israeli government decided to strike these houses, even if the civilians did not get out. That's the inconvenient truth, but you can see that this isn't just a sick hunt after Palestinian lives, it drives me nuts to see people regard it that way. That month of the operation was one of the most difficult months in my life. The constant rocket barrages, the nights without sleep in some sort of duty or other, and ultimately losing a childhood friend who was killed inside Gaza. I have no problem if people disagree with Israel's policy. I consider myself fairly left-wing at the end of the day, and strongly support ending the military occupation and getting the living hell out of the West Bank (out of Israel's interests more than Palestinian interest honestly). With that people must acknowledge that this is one of the most outright complicated conflicts in modern history. I wish that both sides would be interested in a sovereign Palestinian state, but neither are (obviously the Palestinian people want an end to the military occupation, but the Palestinian Authority shows very little interest in establishing a state- a state which will probably collapse quickly from lack of funds and financial aid from Israel and other Islamic nations). Also, right across the border, hundred of thousands of people are dying from the single most brutal civil war in the 21st century, Lebanon has a terrorist organization running all of the Southern part of the country, Egypt is run but what is basically a dictator, and Turkey is killing thousands of Kurds fighting for their independence (the Kurds also being the worlds biggest minority)- weirdly this subjects don't seem to be as hot as the "war crimes" Israel commits against a terrorist-run Gaza. Denounce Israel as much as you want, but disregarding the heinous war crimes happening around us daily is pure hypocrisy.
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rogerthat
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2006 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 9869 |
Posted: February 14 2015 at 21:26 | |||
Obama's middle east policy shows some good intent perhaps even though the emergence of ISIS could blow up what political capital he acquired there. But from an Indian perspective Dubya was the best US president we dealt with. Not only the most open to forging a fruitful relationship with India but also in terms of balancing the conflicting interests of India and Pakistan (US' traditional ally). It's an open secret that the Indian business community desperately wished for a Republican president to succeed Dubya in 2008 because they rightly apprehended that Obama would pull Pak back in the game. It in fact took a combination of short term and long term developments for Obama to press reset on India: China's importance acquiring threatening proportions, terrorism running out of control even within Pak and India electing Modi with a majority in the lower house to replace the by then politically hampered Manmohan Singh. I hate Dubya for Iraq and Afghanistan but the fact is there was no India - US relationship before his time. Only Kennedy tried and Nehru was too senile by then to reciprocate.
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micky
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46828 |
Posted: February 15 2015 at 08:23 | |||
excellent post. |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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frippism
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 27 2010 Location: Tel Aviv Status: Offline Points: 4160 |
Posted: February 15 2015 at 09:06 | |||
Thanks :-)
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CPicard
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Là, sui monti. Status: Offline Points: 10837 |
Posted: February 15 2015 at 12:19 | |||
I will agree with Frippism' post, but I must confess that I tend to react in a nearly agressive way when I hear/read Americans giving their two cents about this everlasting conflict.
In fact, I'm somewhat puzzled and irritated to see people ready to scream about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, but keeping strangely mute when it comes to the situation in Tibet and in Ouigouristan - not to talk about the shameful absence of support towards the Kurds. I can't understand that. |
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timothy leary
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 29 2005 Location: Lilliwaup, Wa. Status: Offline Points: 5319 |
Posted: February 15 2015 at 12:57 | |||
What is your country doing to support the Kurds?^
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The Dark Elf
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: February 01 2011 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 12708 |
Posted: February 15 2015 at 13:16 | |||
His country prefers to bitch about Americans not doing enough, then bitch equally strenuously as to who we support. You see, it is quite difficult to accomplish any work with one's hands while spending an inordinate time in finger-pointing. |
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timothy leary
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 29 2005 Location: Lilliwaup, Wa. Status: Offline Points: 5319 |
Posted: February 15 2015 at 13:18 | |||
Amen^
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CPicard
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Là, sui monti. Status: Offline Points: 10837 |
Posted: February 15 2015 at 13:58 | |||
Do you really think I was talking only about the USA? Like it was the center of the world or like there was no European Union! Do you think I agree with my own country's reddition to Chinese government? Do you think I enjoy the news of France doing business with China while Chinese workers are exploited, Tibet get colonized, Hong Kong is losing its democratic institutions and Taïwan fears for its independance? Do you think I don't complain about France doing nothing for the Kurds? Do you think I'm expecting for an American military intervention in Kurdistan? Well, I don't. Frankly, I HOPE that Americans won't get into Middle East, but that Europeans will do, for once! |
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The Dark Elf
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: February 01 2011 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 12708 |
Posted: February 15 2015 at 15:46 | |||
Amusingly enough, I've always thought that the term "European Union" was used strictly in an oxymoronic sense, like saying "jumbo shrimp" or "military intelligence" (and I thank George Carlin for the paraphrase).
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Svetonio
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 20 2010 Location: Serbia Status: Offline Points: 10213 |
Posted: April 04 2015 at 04:18 | |||
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/02/barack-obama-historic-agreement-iran-core-objectives
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CPicard
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Là, sui monti. Status: Offline Points: 10837 |
Posted: April 04 2015 at 06:09 | |||
Yesterday, I saw some footages showing Iranian people celebrating these news in the streets. I guess some people never heard about Tchernobyl or Fukushima...
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Blacksword
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: April 10 2015 at 04:37 | |||
I don't think Netanyahu likes this deal. He is hell bent on attacking Iran, and Obama to his credit is not sucking up to Israel like many of his predecessors did. Remember Slick Willy proclaiming "I love Israel. I would take a bullet for Israel"
I've nothing against the people of Israel, but this particular PM needs his wings clipping imo, and the US is the only country that can do that. |
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Svetonio
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 20 2010 Location: Serbia Status: Offline Points: 10213 |
Posted: August 24 2015 at 23:42 | |||
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/iran-victory-within-obamas-reach/ar-BBm4aIN?ocid=U219DHP
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