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Very well said. I did not realize how deep anti-semitism ran until i became a member here.
It would seem the vast majority is the readership is convinced of some unproven "zionist conspiracy" to rule or destroy the world, but hey, i guess thats the nature of the game on a conspiracy website.
I feel for the plight of the jews, i really do. Easily the most maligned people in the history of mankind, and still persecuted. They are surrounded by Arab countries who want nothing more than to drive them into the ocean, and everytime the defend themselves, someone cries foul. They do what any nation has a right to do to defend themselves.
Im sure if half of the readership here had their way they would fire up the ovens again.
Originally posted by christina-66
Ach in the UK the military recruiters set up ourside the unemployment offices. They have recruited young people who knew nothing of the world but who had to grow up pretty darned fast. You can't really say heading into the army was choice when it's the best career choice available.
God love these young men and women. They'll be living with these experiences for the rest of their lives.
I know a chap who works with ex soldiers from Iraq/Afghanistan...he tells me they are presenting the same emotional devastation as those who fought in Vietnam.
It is the government not the people that we should be directing our anger at. They have abused everyone.edit on 11-2-2011 by christina-66 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by nightbringr
Very well said. I did not realize how deep anti-semitism ran until i became a member here.
It would seem the vast majority is the readership is convinced of some unproven "zionist conspiracy" to rule or destroy the world, but hey, i guess thats the nature of the game on a conspiracy website.
I feel for the plight of the jews, i really do. Easily the most maligned people in the history of mankind, and still persecuted. They are surrounded by Arab countries who want nothing more than to drive them into the ocean, and everytime the defend themselves, someone cries foul. They do what any nation has a right to do to defend themselves.
Im sure if half of the readership here had their way they would fire up the ovens again.
Originally posted by mydarkpassenger
This is about the total disregard the leadership has for people in uniform, and the horrific effects that it has on them and others.
Originally posted by ImaginaryReality1984
However they are an invading force, they are killing people who didn't want them there and therefore they are terrorists.
Originally posted by jerico65
Originally posted by mydarkpassenger
This is about the total disregard the leadership has for people in uniform, and the horrific effects that it has on them and others.
And this is some shocking newsflash for everyone? The government has NEVER given a crap over the military. We are nothing more than Kevlar that can mow the lawn.
Always been that way, always will be. Doesn't make it right, tho.
The Arab League has instructed its members to deny citizenship to Palestinian Arab refugees (or their descendants) "to avoid dissolution of their identity and protect their right to return to their homeland".[44]
Tashbih Sayyed, a fellow of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, criticized Arab nations of making the children and grandchildren of Palestinian refugees second class citizens in Lebanon, Syria, or the Gulf States, and said that the refugees "cling to the illusion that defeating the Jews will restore their dignity".[45]
"I've been called both an Anti-Semite and an Islamaphobe, sometimes in the same threads and more often than not by the same person"
Originally posted by mydarkpassenger
reply to post by nenothtu
You nailed that. This is far bigger than some dumbassed fantasy. This is about the total disregard the leadership has for people in uniform, and the horrific effects that it has on them and others.
The simple fact is the politicians go home night after night to a fantastic dinner and a cozy bed, and probably some cozy companionship; meanwhile Marines sleep in dirt and are lucky if they have MREs, and oh yeah they get shot at and mortared and hit with RPGs.
Thank God I was in the Navy; I was never more than a few hours away from three hots and a cot, and if death showed up it would be real damned quick.
Everyone in Congress and the Presidency should have to go through a extensive basic training before they can assume office; they might be more reluctant to send us overseas and start wars.
Originally posted by backinblack
reply to post by nightbringr
Mandate?? Were they FORCED to go there?
And WHO chose the spot really??
Originally posted by mydarkpassenger
The simple fact is the politicians go home night after night to a fantastic dinner and a cozy bed, and probably some cozy companionship; meanwhile Marines sleep in dirt and are lucky if they have MREs, and oh yeah they get shot at and mortared and hit with RPGs.
Originally posted by nenothtu
Originally posted by mydarkpassenger
reply to post by nenothtu
My dear old dad, who was a "sleepin' in the mud" grunt too, stressed over and over to my bloodbrother (not to be confused with my actual brother by blood) when he was between services and hell bent on going back in to go into the Navy instead of the Army where he had been, Pap's rationale? I quote "If yer hell bent on getting hell blown out of you any how, might as well have a warm cot and a belly full of beans when it happens."
Christ on a side car. That sounded just like my dad! LOL.edit on 11-2-2011 by mydarkpassenger because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by backinblack
reply to post by nightbringr
Mandate?? Were they FORCED to go there?
And WHO chose the spot really??
The British, French and Saudi Arabia.
Could it be that in the restoring of the Jews to that same land, also through wars and some dispossession, the LORD God is doing precisely the same thing today? This writer believes the answer is a resounding "yes!"
Every day politicians and pundits talk of another chance at Middle East peace missed, delayed or subverted. The focus is always on Palestinians and Israelis as the keystone to a global settlement with the West and across the region. But in the original peace arrangement between the Jews, Arabs and the Western powers, it was not settlements and Jerusalem that were at the heart of the problem. In fact, the Arabs originally agreed to a Jewish state complete with massive Jewish immigration. For Arabs, the prize was not Palestine, it was Syria.
Zionist Organization...
This is the story of how the original Middle East peace plan crafted among all sides in the aftermath of World War I was subverted - not by Jews or Zionists, but by the French.
It begins at the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919, in a flag-bedecked, battle-scarred but victorious Paris. There, the great top-hatted Allied men of vision and illusion gathered to remake the world and invent the post-Ottoman Middle East. At those fateful meetings, the Arabs and Jews formally agreed to mutually endorse both their national aspirations and live in peace.
In 1916, Britain and France concluded the Sykes–Picot Agreement, which proposed to divide the Middle East between them into spheres of influence, with "Palestine" as an international enclave. (Pappé 1994, p. 3)
The British made two potentially conflicting promises regarding the territory it was expecting to acquire.[7] Britain had promised Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, through T. E. Lawrence, independence for an Arab country covering most of the Arab Middle East in exchange for his support, while also promising to create and foster a Jewish national home in Palestine in the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in return for Jewish support.
Map showing boundaries of the proposed Jewish state, as outlined by the Zionist representatives at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, superimposed on modern boundaries
Originally posted by backinblack
reply to post by nightbringr
Mandate?? Were they FORCED to go there?
And WHO chose the spot really??
You seem to make the treatment of the Palistinians sound a lot like the treatment of the Jews in the past..
Therefore wouldn't you expect the Jews to sympathise with their plight instead of fencing them in and bombing them?