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Jul 12th, 2003 01:14 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
ziggytrix |
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Who has the right to say what country can exist where, and what ethnicities it should be comprised of? It's a sad affair. |
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Jul 10th, 2003 05:08 AM | ||||||||||||||||||
Abcdxxxx |
"Jews can make claim to that land, just not sole claim." If you're suggesting the majority of Jews do make sole claim to the land then you're backwards. The mosques are highly respected,. Aren't Palestinian Arabs the ones making a sole claim to holy sites, and requesting the actual removal of Jews from land? Haven't they been the ones digging under the Temple Mount encouraging it's collapse, and desecrating religious tombs? Prior to Israel the wailing wall was used as a toilet. Christian holy sites were inaccesible. There was no respect for archealogical history or the freedom of other cultures. The Palestinian movement makes sole claim and demands the removal of all Jews from Gaza and the West Bank. I've never heard of any mainstream movement to remove the Arabs of Haifa, or Tel Aviv. Certainly not one that's ever made it's way to the bargaining table. "If an Israeli breaks the law, steals a car, shoots a civilian, there is a code of law which to punish him/her by. The Palestinians don't have this, but they want this" Huh? Palestinians seceded from Israel and became an autonomous body with an interim self government, it's own CIA trained police force, and legal system. Hey it's a shitty one, but it's theirs. If they have the ability to offer a cease fire as a bargaining chip, they should have the ability to hold forth to it, dontcha think? Unlike Hamid Karzai, the PA pulls the purse strings for all these so called "militants", and all roads lead back to the government. The chaos is organized, and controlled. if they can string up those caught collaborating with Israel crucifiction style , they could in theory take the same hardline stance against "militants" right? From the CIA factbook: The Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (the DOP), signed in Washington on 13 September 1993, provided for a transitional period not exceeding five years of Palestinian interim self-government in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Under the DOP, Israel agreed to transfer certain powers and responsibilities to the Palestinian Authority, which includes the Palestinian Legislative Council elected in January 1996, as part of the interim self-governing arrangements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A transfer of powers and responsibilities for the Gaza Strip and Jericho took place pursuant to the Israel-PLO 4 May 1994 Cairo Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area and in additional areas of the West Bank pursuant to the Israel-PLO 28 September 1995 Interim Agreement, the Israel-PLO 15 January 1997 Protocol Concerning Redeployment in Hebron, the Israel-PLO 23 October 1998 Wye River Memorandum, and the 4 September 1999 Sharm el-Sheikh Agreement. "On your question of viability, I see ANYTHING as progress between these two factions. " Really? So how is the potential release of mass murderers going to further peace? Or continuance of violence after a declared cease fire? PEACE!!! A word meaning: harmonius relations, security and order, and the absence of war or other hostilities. Progress doesn't mean things aren't getting progressively worse. "What you want is fiction, and can only lead to further stagnation and conflict. You want war." My Perception of the continued violence as an act of war doesn't mean It's something I "want". It's already is a war, and one side has it's arms tied while the other keeps taking cheap shots. Feel free to justify your above statement somehow otherwise you're just pigeon holding anyone who fully supports Israel as war mongering, and that's just antisemetic. It's antisemetic because your talking about Jews with a double standard, along with a biased and unproven accusation of exclusionary behavior towards non-Jews that plays into old blood libels. I want coexistance. I've said this many times. I'm sure it's easier to debate me when you're telling me what I'm supposed to think but try reading my words and work from there instead. Coexistance. |
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Jul 5th, 2003 01:53 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
KevinTheOmnivore |
Under your logic Vince, an American who calls himself an "Israeli" because his mother happens to be Jewish has no more of a claim to that land than a Jordanian who now calls himself "Palestinian". Expand upon your argument Vince, because it has no validity. Is your citation the Old Testament, Vince? Certainly there were the Old Yishuv had lived there, and in my opinion Jews can make claim to that land, just not sole claim. |
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Jul 5th, 2003 01:32 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
VinceZeb | I hate to have to bring up history again, but the "Palestinians" have no legitmate claim to that land. Israel is being nice by letting them say they should have land. | |||||||||||||||||
Jul 5th, 2003 01:20 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
KevinTheOmnivore |
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On your question of viability, I see ANYTHING as progress between these two factions. If the cease fire fails, and the peace plan falls through, then it's back to the drawing board. It's the only option, to keep working, keep open dialogue, and to keep trying. What would you propose? Palestinians stop hating Jews? Palestinians stop wanting their land back? Palestinians stop not approving of check points and settlements? What you want is fiction, and can only lead to further stagnation and conflict. You want war. |
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Jul 2nd, 2003 06:03 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
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Eh ? Viable for who? I'd much rather respond to your OTHER nonesense post... but just quickly... for those who aren't keeping score...the only concession the Palestinians have offered is a figurative three month promise of a cease fire so filled with loopholes, it excludes several militant groups AND HAS BEEN BREACHED. How many promises of a cease fire have the Palestinians agreed to and breached? ALL OF THEM. It's meaningless. I want the kind of peace where a cease fire has meaning. Isn't that the kind of peace you want, Kevin? Am I wrong? When have the Palestinians ever met the requirements of their own cease fire decrees? |
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Jul 2nd, 2003 02:00 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
KevinTheOmnivore |
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Jul 1st, 2003 08:52 AM | ||||||||||||||||||
VinceZeb | ABCD, don't point that out EVER AGAIN! The Palestinians are a nice, cheery, hardworking folk that have never done anything wrong ever and were there for 10,000 years before the evil Jews came in and took their land and are slaughtering their people left and right! | |||||||||||||||||
Jul 1st, 2003 02:32 AM | ||||||||||||||||||
Abcdxxxx |
Haven't had time to respond... ... But MSNB informed it's viewers of this cheery news .... “The truce between Israel and the Palestinians seems to be holding, DESPITE TWO ATTACKS by militants today.” Last I heard saying "We won't kill your people if you give us what we want" was an unaccaptable form of blackmail. |
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Jun 27th, 2003 01:09 AM | ||||||||||||||||||
KevinTheOmnivore |
You're most certainly welcome, GAsux. I hear ya on the abundance of bullshit on this board lately. Here's an article on Hamas I thought might raise some debate points: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/...mas/index.html Hamas: A study in contrasts By Matthew Chance CNN Thursday, June 26, 2003 Posted: 12:51 PM EDT (1651 GMT) (CNN) -- For many, it is made up of terrorists bent on the destruction of Israel, the main obstacle on the so-called road map to peace. For many others in the occupied territories and across the Arab and Muslim world it is a legitimate organization that fights a brutal military occupation and extends a helping hand and social welfare to Palestinian people. Hamas fighters and suicide bombers strike terror in the heart of Israel and the occupied territories, killing Israeli soldiers and civilians alike. Ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory in the West Bank and Gaza is their aim, and one that is widely supported among Palestinians. Destroying Israel remains the official long-term goal of Hamas. Hamas leaders, though, such as paralyzed cleric Sheik Yassin, have long argued they are willing to consider a truce, or a "hudna," if Israel withdraws from Palestinian land. "Everyone wants to achieve a decisive victory, but is Israel ready to compromise and give Palestinians their rights and their independence?" Yassin says from his wheelchair. "They can decide if there is war or if there is peace". Hamas' attempts to match Israeli military might -- regularly firing makeshift Qassam missiles into Israel from the cover of orange and olive groves in Gaza -- have never been very effective. But its far more devastating suicide bombings, such as the one that left 17 Israelis dead in Jerusalem on June 11 and the many before that, define Hamas as one of the world's most ruthless militant groups. "First of all, let us say that is not good we have to do this," says Ismail Abu Shanad, a senior Hamas political spokesman in Gaza. "But war is war. Israelis are in a war against us and our people are in self-defense, so they react." Hamas violence is accompanied by an equally zealous commitment to charity. In Gaza's impoverished suburbs, those in need -- and there are many -- collect food from centers set up by Islamic charities. Much of Hamas' power stems from this social system that stands in contrast to the inefficiency and corruption that plagues the Palestinian Authority. "The government gives us nothing," says one woman struggling with her child and a sack of rice from a Hamas-backed charity. "We are lucky to have this place." In the classrooms of Islamic kindergartens in Gaza, the young are drilled in religious beliefs. Teachers, their faces covered by veils, say they don't preach hatred. But, they say, all the children here already know Israel as their enemy. Israel says Hamas schools lead the way in inciting hatred in Palestinian youngsters toward Israelis. "The way forward is for Palestinians to realize that suicide bombers and this whole approach of violence has harmed the Palestinian cause," says M.J. Gohel of the Asia-Pacific Institute in London. "The trouble is that there is too much support for the policy of violence not just among Palestinians but also within the wider Arab world." Palestinian security officials say they are physically unable and politically unwilling to crack down on Hamas. Israel says it will crush Hamas, if the Palestinian Authority does not. Israeli assassination strikes on Hamas leaders, say Israeli officials, are putting the group under intense pressure. Palestinian security officials say the killings are making it more unlikely a cease-fire agreement will be reached. Some Palestinians say tempting Hamas members to turn away from violence and toward a responsible role in government -- to co-opt them -- may be the best way to achieve lasting peace. "We need unity of decision and this cannot be realized except by getting all these political forces into one body that we call the national unity leadership, where issues can be discussed in detail and then resolutions can be adopted democratically, " says Dr. Haider Abdel Shafi, former chief Palestinian negotiator at the Madrid peace talks of 1991. "Then every party would be committed to one resolution, including Hamas." Whether Hamas will join such a government -- and honor a much debated truce that might give the U.S.-backed road map peace plan a chance -- is now the point of fierce debate within the group. Whether Hamas will even get a chance to join a unity government is another question. President Bush said on Wednesday "In order for there to be peace, Hamas must be dismantled." Hamas has long been on the U.S. government's list of terrorist organizations. Few are optimistic, but the coming weeks could decide the road Hamas, and Israeli-Palestinian peace, is to take. -30- |
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Jun 25th, 2003 11:16 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
GAsux |
Yeah I have nothing substantial or worthwhile to add here. I'm not nearly as informed as I'd like to be, particularly in the historical context. But I wanted to tell both ABCD and Kev that I appreciate your arguments. Aside from all the bullshit that goes on in this forum, this is one of the few threads that I look forward to reading because it's actually enlightening to me. So fight on! |
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Jun 25th, 2003 03:17 AM | ||||||||||||||||||
KevinTheOmnivore |
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You lump Arabs together like M&Ms in a candy jar. This is your problem, and it's one of your key contradictions. Quote:
Treat people like shit, and they will jump to their own conclusions. Actually, the quotes I want are ones that reinforce your claim further down that Israelis would be MORE than glad to live in one state with these Arabs who they aren't even sure truly exist. Quote:
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2. If the Jews have no option, why do so many Israeli citizens live abroad? If there are no other options, why has emmigration always been a problem there? Right, These mythical Palestinians have options, they can go live in places like Jordan or Saudi Arabia, and be looked down upon the way Mexicans are viewed here in America. Quote:
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The influx of Jews to the land, which they oipposed, created a sense of identity and commonality. A convenient "other" can do this, and it is clearly there. Quote:
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Jun 24th, 2003 02:56 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
Abcdxxxx |
kevin - "This is a completely sensationalized statement. This is why there will never EVER be peace, not while arguments like this are made. There can be no compromise. Every Palestinian is a rotten Arab terrorist, Israel is never in the wrong, EVER, and the only peace will be a full relocation of Palestinians into all of those other "Arab muslim countries." I mean, "they've" already got like 12 of them, right? " actually, they've got 21, and a whole mess of unused land. Secondly, it's not sensationalized when the Palestinian population majority and their community groups, along with it's governing officials have stated this as a goal. Would you like quotes? When Palestinians became a political movement it was always tied in to a dream for pushing all the Jews into the ocean. There has never been a period of time when the creation of a Palestinian state didn't come with a promise of a Jewish holocaust. I'm not saying Palestinians need to be reolocated for peace to occur....you're brain dead if that's what you're reading... I'm saying the relocation should have occured during 1948, or 1967, or at some point, and that Palestinian Arabs have had MANY oppurtunities to settle on land OTHER then Tel Aviv. I'm not calling for relocation, but I'm saying it's an option Jews do not have. Get it? What comprimise has anyone asked from the Palestinians? To stop killing? How is that a comprimise? Kevin - "You have NO IDEA how much I support Israel and her quest for peace and security, but whenever I talk to extremists like yourself, I quickly remember that peace can never be. You don't want a solution, you want the same thing Hamas wants-- complete annihilation." Pretty funny. You're a scary kid. As long as you convey that viewpoints like mine are that of an extremists, comparable to Hamas, you're doing more harm then good. Once again, you're real, real confused what an extremist viewpoint in Israel even is. Go ahead and quote something I've said that conveys my supposed Hamas like dream to "annihilate them all". How many times must I use the word coexistance before you actually read it? kevin - "NEWS FLASH: THEY WANT THEIR OWN STATE, AND THEY WANT IT TO BE WHERE THEY FEEL IS HOME, MUCH LIKE JEWS IN THE 1ST HALF OF THE CENTURY DIDN'T WANT TO LIVE OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF FUCKING AFRICA. " News flash - they never had a state, there was never a seperate Arab ruled state called Palestine EVER. There was never a seperate language, border or culture defining an Arab majority Palestine segregated of Jews and Christians... and whatever need there was for an Arab state carved into that land was meant to be served through the creation of Jordan. It's revitionist fiction to say otherwise. Palestinians left their land, or sold it, as a result of a war forced on Israel at it's infancy. At it's outset, Egypt and Jordan occupied the land that is now in dispute today. So fine, give them Gaza if they want it. Palestinian Arabs HAVE been mistreated, but they have also been given oppurtunities for autonomy, and coexistance and it's misguided to blame Jews or Israel for the entirety of their plight. Unless maybe you take the lazy and bigoted stance of saying "of course it's the fault of the Jews, without them we wouldn't have a problem!"....which would in fact make YOU an extremist. Oh and what can we say of someone who offers blind support for a movement CENTERING around institutionalized racism, and Holocaust denial, along with the premeditate violence against civilians based solely on their Jewishness? KEvin -"I'm certain that many don't want that, and that many want them to just "go away." You're certainty doesn't match the polls within Israel. The problem is there is no true definition of what a Palestinian is, so if some guy moved to Gaza last year from Egypt, and joined up with Hamas, then why should they be granted citizenship? Meanwhile, Israel HAS paid reparations, and offered a home to a large amount of Arabs. Since you claim to care for the security and livelyhood of an Israeli state, then I ask when will it be time to put a foot down and realize appeasement has never brought peace???? |
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Jun 24th, 2003 12:58 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
ranxer | vince kinda reminds me of dogshit on my shoe, no matter what you do, once you step in it yer gonna smell it. please just wipe it off outside, don't bring it in the house, don't pick it up and examine it.. don't .. blabla | |||||||||||||||||
Jun 24th, 2003 10:24 AM | ||||||||||||||||||
Zhukov |
Step right up! Step right up folks! For the amazing Vince boy! Thats right! He shows blatant disregard for the English language! Ethics? Morals? - Fuck 'em! Vince boy just doesn't seem to care! If you look closely you can see how he has lost the power of rational thought! His opinions are so bad he's practically giving them away! How about some Jew jokes for the missus? For only a penny you too can see the amazing Vince boy in his own environment! |
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Jun 24th, 2003 08:40 AM | ||||||||||||||||||
Carnivore | You've been given chance after chance to prove that it's not a complete waste of time to answer or debate you. You've squandered every chance you've been given. You're simply not worth serious consideration. You're a joke, a side show, an ignorant moron with the arguing skill of a four-year old. | |||||||||||||||||
Jun 24th, 2003 08:24 AM | ||||||||||||||||||
VinceZeb | Amazingly enough, you didn't answer or try to debate what I said. You just decided to be cute and insult me. Please, try again. If you don't, we will just have to put you back at the kid's table. | |||||||||||||||||
Jun 24th, 2003 01:14 AM | ||||||||||||||||||
KevinTheOmnivore |
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Jun 23rd, 2003 10:06 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
VinceZeb |
Don't tell Kevin those kinds of things! He just may have to face reality and realize that his "love all feel good" attitudes towards everything that is opposite of the dirty conservatives is what kills people. Appeasement killed the Jews the first time around, if you will remember. |
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Jun 23rd, 2003 08:29 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
Abcdxxxx |
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Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezzbolah, the PLFP, Fatah, the PLO, and the PA ARE ALL THE SAME ORGANIZATION, with the SAME road map, the same ideals, and the same goals. They were born from the same place. The Palestinians who do want to coexist, and do want true peace without a final solution death of all Jews are a SILENT and inaffective minority. They have oppurtunities to live in peace by becoming Israeli citizens, or citizens of 21 Arabic states. Israel is the only place a Jew can reside in that part of the world. This is not what extremist right wing Jews are telling you, it's what THEY, the Palestinian people are telling you... through actions, through words, and through documentation. |
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Jun 22nd, 2003 07:21 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
KevinTheOmnivore |
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2. Again, the very things you've stated above are exactly why these extremists, much like some of the extremists refusing to leave bogus settlements, are attempting to hold up or end this peace process. 3. There's nothing mandating that Palestinians like, or have to live with Jews. People are entitled to their own ignorant prejudices. This doesn't mean the Palestinians don't deserve their state. |
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Jun 22nd, 2003 06:41 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
Abcdxxxx |
Maybe if you believe in moral equality. The definition of the word "peace" itself needs to come into question. What does each side mean when they say they want peace? It's not hard to come across quotes from Palestinian leadership of all factions describing their ideal peace, one without Jews or an Israel. Maybe the typical pro-palestinian supporter rejects that stance, but I would challenege you to find a Palestinian website stating a desire for co-existance living amongst Jews, not to mention the complete acceptance of an Israeli State. If that's not a clear and recognized ideal of peace then where in the hell is this road map even going? |
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Jun 21st, 2003 07:45 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
KevinTheOmnivore |
[quote="Abcdxxxx"]Can you clarify your "what they want is what you want" statement? A stagnation of a peace process that you find to be insufficient. |
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Jun 20th, 2003 09:20 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
Abcdxxxx |
Can you clarify your "what they want is what you want" statement? As for the Christian population ... they've been uprooted from their homes by palestinian Arabs. I don't care how this is being used politically, it's still an unfortunate and inexcusable act for a movement that takes the righteous stance that murder is a just and moraly equivalent act of retribution for population changeovers. The reality is the pro-Palesitnian contigent ignore the issue entirely, and the Christians of the Middle East keep their mouths shut because they hate Jews and Israel just that much. If you think this is fiction, then explain another reason why the town of Bethlehem is no longer a Christian stronghold? |
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Jun 20th, 2003 02:05 PM | ||||||||||||||||||
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