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Originally posted by golemina
reply to post by Jinni
Don't take this personally Jinni, but I probably won't be answering you... till you say something deserving of a response.
You take care.
Originally posted by golemina
reply to post by Mynaeris
>'Your questions are more like interrogation than discussion, but yes Israel has the right to exist. Do you think Palestine has the right to exist?'
Interrogation?
(gulp) Akward moment...
Sorry?
Palestine? Exist?
Absolutely!
Don't worry about the questions...
I mean... It's NOT like you really ever answer anyway.
Originally posted by Blaine91555
I think people need to drop this attempt at comparison completely because it just makes no sense. It is so intellectually dishonest it labels its author automatically as having a bigotry against Jews.
Originally posted by golemina
You won't find ANYONE here that is more into LET the people talk than me.
But... There ARE limits.
It has been just claimed that Israel HAS USED NUCLEAR weapons.
Moderators, please extinguish this FLAGRANT HATE thread.
Thanks guys!
(There isn't enough reward to be a moderator! How do you guys do it?)
Depleted uranium is a heavy metal used in the production of armaments. DU is a rather benign-sounding name for uranium 238, the trace elements left behind when the fissionable material is extracted from uranium-235 for use in nuclear reactors and weapons.
For decades, this refuse was a radioactive nuisance, piling up at plutonium processing plants. By the late 1980's there was nearly a billion tons of this material – called tailing – left over in U.S. dumps. Then Pentagon weapons' designers camp up with a use for the tailings: they could be molded into bullets and bombs. DU is 1.7 times denser than lead, and this means that it can form the core of a shell that will easily penetrate the steel armor of tanks and other military vehicles. It was a triumph of military technology. At high speed, it slices through tanks like a hot knife through butter.
Is Israel using Depleted Uranium against the Palestinian People?
A 1995 report from the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute asserts that Israel is one of the countries with DU in its arsenal. Given Israel's own nuclear program and well-developed military industry, the International Action Center (IAC) believes Israel is quite likely a manufacturer of its own DU ammunition as the firm Rafael of Israel is named in numerous reports as being such a manufacturer. But even if this were not the case, Israel has been able to import DU weapons from the United States. These U.S. weapons include the M1 Abrams tank – which fires DU shells and is armored with DU-reinforced metal. In addition, the "Apache" and the "Cobra" helicopter gun ships – both used by the Israeli armed forces - are also equipped to fire DU shells.
Originally posted by Vault-D
Regarding the OPs title, I think this response says it best:
Originally posted by Blaine91555
I think people need to drop this attempt at comparison completely because it just makes no sense. It is so intellectually dishonest it labels its author automatically as having a bigotry against Jews.
I agree that there doesn't seem to be much in terms of reasonable, intellectual comparisons to be made. The comparison is more likely designed -- if not for bigotry -- then for propaganda.
Also, this post by Jinni is mostly plagiarized. In the spirit of intellectualism, you should use quotation marks and site things you cut and paste.
(Or maybe that doesn't matter on the internet, in which case pay me no attention. Intellectual discussions on teh intranet is srs bizness!).
Originally posted by Mynaeris
reply to post by Jinni
Golemina is purely trying to annoy us so we will go away and not speak about Israel's atrocities anymore. It's one of those childish tactics they use.