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And there's a difference between Pre-Emptive strikes, and "being the aggressor and the one to strike first." as you put it.
They only attacked, when there was an immediate threat to their country, and not acting, would spell disaster.
When Israel was created, the neighboring Muslim nations immediately declared war on Israel.
Originally posted by SpectreDC
Originally posted by Logarock
Dude no offence but you are just making stuff up or you are to ingnorant to be commenting on this topic. Just all the way around.
But my favorite today is Turkey-moral-genocide. You got some nerve.
no offence
To ingnorant
offence
ingnorant
Ironic, don't you think?
Originally posted by airspoon
Originally posted by Logarock
Originally posted by airspoon
reply to post by heyJude
Mark my words, Israel will not let themselves be surprise attacked by cowards again.
I'm sorry, when exactly did Israel ever get "attacked"? In the history of Israel's wars, Israel has been the aggressor and the one to strike first.
--airspoon
Dude no offence but you are just making stuff up or you are to ignorant to be commenting on this topic. Just all the way around.
But my favorite today is Turkey-moral-genocide. You got some nerve.
Are you serious? Can you accurately answer the questioned posed? I sure didn't see it in your post.
As far as morality, it is definitely arguable that taking the side of aid workers being murdered in an incident that could be considered an act of war, is taking the moral high-ground.
Moving along to genocide, the very definition of the term according to Merriam-Webster: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
Source: www.merriam-webster.com...
Given that you now can not claim ignorance as to the definition of genocide, which part of Israel's policies towards the Palestinians could not be considered genocide or directly relating to genocide? Might you claim that Merriam-Webster is now an anti-semitic organization?
It appears from your post that ignorance can be found closer to home that you think. Of course those stung by the spell of ignorance, can't even realize it.
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.” --Confucius
--airspoon
Originally posted by Britguy
One day soon, Israel is going to make wrong move and they'll get hit hard from all sides before the US can step in to save their arses.
[edit on 18-6-2010 by Britguy]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan heavily criticized Israel's conduct in the Gaza war at the 2009 World Economic Forum conference in Davos.
On October 11, 2009, relations were strained even further when Israel was barred from Anatolian Eagle military exercise in Turkey. . .
. . . Turkey refused to allow Israel to attend. In response, the United States pulled out of the exercise . . .
. . . Another deterioration in October 2009 was noted following the TV debut of Ayrılık (Farewell), a prime-time serial on Turkish state-sponsored television channel TRT 1 featuring fictionalized scenes of Israeli soldiers shooting Palestinian children and mistreating elderly Arabs . . .
. . . January 2010 Israeli politicians and media outlets condemned an episode of the popular Turkish soap opera, "Valley of the Wolves: Ambush," on private Star television that depicted the Israeli intelligence service Mossad spying inside Turkey and kidnapping Turkish babies. The program also showed Mossad attacking the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv and taking the ambassador and his family hostage. On 11 January 2010 Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon summoned Turkish ambassador Ahmet Oguz Celikkol to a meeting, At the session, Celikkol was seated below Ayalon. With cameras rolling, Ayalon turned to his aide (without knowing the television crews were filming) and said, "The main thing is that you see that he is seated low and that we are high ... that there is one flag on the table (the Israeli flag) and that we are not smiling . . .
Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya filed a court request for the closure of the AKP, accusing it of "being a hotbed of anti-secular activities." The party won 47 percent of the votes in last year's general election.
In addition to the AKP's disbanding, the prosecutor demanded a five-year ban from involvement in politics for 71 senior AKP administrators, including Prime Minister Erdoğan and President Abdullah Gül . . .
The court rejected most of the demands of the prosecutor and did not ban the party; however, it halved its public funding as a penalty, and issued a "serious warning".
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that at a meeting between the two men, Biden angrily accused Israel's prime minister of jeopardising US soldiers by continuing to tighten the Jewish state's grip on Jerusalem.
"This is starting to get dangerous for us. What you're doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us and it endangers regional peace," Biden told Netanyahu.