reply to post by Dark Ghost
Now a question for you. If you truly believe that the citizens of Israel are involved in a systematic, concealed effort to eradicate Palestinians, why
has the number of Palestinians increased over the last 60 years? (Read PEOPLE, not settlements.)
I know the amount of their land holdings has radically decreased over the past 60 years.
As far as the census data on the numbers of actual Palestinians I wouldn’t know which source if any could reflect those numbers accurately.
At the risk of assumption most humans breed like bunny rabbits!
This though is a conspiracy perpetuated by Cuban cigar manufacturers and not any other group!
That is your opinion. Invariably everybody bases their opinions on emotional reactions from time to time. I have no vested interest in trying to
strengthen the reputation of Israel or Jews in general. I just get angered when I see people express opinions that are based off of exaggerated lies.
Then other people who join them trying to make it seem more believable. Then seeing these same people label anyone who does not share their opinion as
a part of the conspiracy or disinfo agents.
As I pointed out to my original post in this thread I wouldn’t commit my nation’s military to something a bunch of rowdy drunken under 26 years of
age males whose frontal lobes are still misfiring have to say!
I don’t wish to be contrary but obviously you do have a vested interest as you are investing your time to that proposition.
I too sometimes get confused as to whether I want to wear sandals or tennis shoes!
Secondly, real Judaic commandments are based off of the written old testament. These are seen as the direct words from God and contain no opinions
from those other than the word of God himself. Nothing in the talmud is considered official because it is not from the mouth of God. So yes, extremist
Zionist rabbis who advocate Talmudic teachings as "God's will" are liars and a thorn in the spine of Judaism. They are the ones who cause trouble
for Jews and non-Jews.
George Burns and John Denver are both dead! I have no idea where anyone ever thinks they have the direct words from G-d.
It is highly circumspect when you say things like thorn in the spine of Judaism, is the thread about the politics of Israel or religion?
Personally I think it works better when Church and State are separate, Israel itself claims to be a secular country and government but clearly it’s
not by anyone’s stretch of the imagination who isn’t saying foolish things just to see if there are fools in the audience!
Actually I have. At my high school, I was forced to do a "religious" based subject in my final years. I had to choose 2 additional religions to
learn about, and one of them was Judaism. The Talmud is basically commentary of various rabbis (spiritual readers) on the nature of oral law. The
English translation of the texts has been purposely mistranslated by a number of anti-Jewish groups, who use this as a means to attack Judaism and the
plausibility of its teachings.
This is interesting, a group of revered and esteemed Rabbis spend a couple centuries debating and formalizing what G-d really meant, since they are
presumed intelligent enough to understand that the Old Testament like the New Testament is written as vaguely and confusingly as possible to be used
as a political versus a religious tool, and once they translate it, it’s lost in translation!
You are having trouble seeing where some people might see you as a disinformation agent? Do you actually read Hebrew? Or just the English that loads
your pens and lips to make such poorly substantiated accusatory statements aimed at minimizing the true extent of the perversions and arrogance that
flow out of the Talmud and the Jewish Encyclopedias.
There is a huge difference by the way between the ‘American’ person who says ‘oh yeah I am Jewish, I never really go to the synagogue or read
the books or observe the festivals’ and the Zionists who might in fact be Christian as often or not as Jewish and in the case of the founding
Zionists who inserted the Israeli State in to the region, agnostics and atheists.
Hebrew Law is very real my friend, and even here in America there are Jewish Courts to deal with discrepancies and accusations amongst Jews when it
comes to business and personal affairs.
Can you think of any other class of American Citizen that has a separate Court System just for it, beyond the First Nation’s peoples? (Indigenous
American Indians)
Are your above comments about Israeli millionaires based off of hard researched numbers? Have you been to Israel and conducted surveys confirming that
most Israeli's loathe Palestinians and wish to exterminate them?
As I tried to mention yours is not a scientific study but personal opinion therefore by extension mine is not scientific either.
I did not use the word millionaires but financially successful.
Why would I have any need to go to Israel when all Jewish roads lead not to Rome but Miami Beach where I live? Isn’t it great when the mountain
comes to you?
Yes, I have been unfortunate to meet similar individuals myself. However, now you are interchanging "Israeli" with "Jew" which is an ignorant
assumption. There will always be bad people in all religions/cultures/ethnicities - this is not exclusive to Jews.
Actually no I am not; this is something you are doing though in exchanging them.
My ancestors are from England, Ireland and Poland; I hold no allegiances to those nations and do not consider them a cultural, spiritual or ethnic
homeland.
I will state no matter how controversially if a person is a Zionist, regardless of their ethnicity or religion then they need to get their butts over
there, stay there, and deal with being a nation just the same way someone like Pol Pot of Cambodia has to when everyone the world over says “Hey
it’s embarrassing how many people you are killing, time to kill you, we don’t care about the history of the Cambodians, we care about the morality
of what you are doing”.
I would be careful going down this road my friend. If you want to start asking me to prove with scientific evidence every claim I make, I might return
the favour. I make my opinions judged on the people I meet and their responses and ideas about these issues. I am not an enlightened individual who
knows everything and everyone.
Then how do you know whether advancing your opinions so authoritatively is a service or a disservice to others?
Were you a big fan and supporter of the Khmer Rouge too?
Many of my childhood and teenagehood friends happened to be Jewish. My family were and still are quite friendly with a few Jewish families. They have
no desire to murder Palestinians and wish there was peace for both Israel and Palestine in the area. Through these friends, I have also met several
Israeli jewish citizens who are all friendly, helpful individuals. They have their negative qualities, but this is comparable to other cultures and
people.
I have had Jewish and Israeli friends and lovers. Most of them though did have a real confusion at the very least on how to view Palestinians whether
they were American Jews or Israelis. A fair percentage were simply fluxed as to why they disliked them and considered them a true aggressor and
belligerent, some of them though made no bones in spewing racially motivated garbage and crass and self-serving and vile dismissive assumptions.
For the record there are lots of Americans who don’t agree with killing Iraqis or Afghanis but they aren’t loosing any sleep or taking any time
off of work to stop it. Does this make them innocent to the carnage while their tax dollars pay for the killing?
Many of these people have also expressed concern at the responses of the Israeli army in recent years (both in Lebanon and Gaza earlier this year).
In almost every one that I meet, they always mention the safety and happiness of their family as their greatest wishes and desires. Emphasis of the
family and family friends is strong.
Yes, a few people hold extreme views, but isn't this common in all peoples of the world? And by extreme I don't necessarily mean hateful.
When a recent poll claims 51% of Israelis favor attacking Iran, a country that has not aggressively attacked another nation in centuries, I do have to
say the number ‘few’ is a bit…well…BS!
Have I met every single Jew in the world? No I have not. The same as I have not met every single Buddhist or Shinto follower. I base my opinions on
the sample of the populous that I have met and exchanged thoughts and ideas with.
Back in the day when I sold cars for a living it was people like you I prayed would walk into the showroom!
Visit CIA.org and go to their online library and peruse the documents released under the freedom of information act starting with 1946.
Not only is Israel a very real threat to the sovereignty of the United States of America which separates Church and State when the Christians and
Zionists aren’t busy crying ‘no we don’t and weren’t supposed to despite what the constitution, supreme court and treaties with other nations
say’, and you will see there is something truly rotten in Denmark!
Hey isn’t that where the House of Rothchild is from? If I was a Rothchild da-da-de-da-da-dum.
[edit on 7/6/09 by ProtoplasmicTraveler]