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Originally posted by orgyofthedead
Originally posted by VinceP1974
How dare the Czech president not defend the bigoted and genocidal HAMAS!
Look, im not saying were pro Hamas or anti Jewish, get that right. Both sides are a pair of tits.
Just that a new EU president doesnt speak for the whole of Europe and as soon as he said that the UK and France were angry they dont agree with what he said. Calling it a defensive action is plain wrong its offensive. And the guy doesnt even like the EU if you look into his past hes very anti EU (wont even fly the flag) so that is why hes a bigot. OK mate.
Originally posted by Chrysalis
reply to post by theindependentjournal
Since you seem well versed in statistics, maybe you can help confirm an info i saw on tv.
It seems it took only 5 days for the IDF to do more kills than Hamas/rockets did in about 20 years.
Originally posted by Chrysalis
reply to post by theindependentjournal
Since you seem well versed in statistics, maybe you can help confirm an info i saw on tv.
It seems it took only 5 days for the IDF to do more kills than Hamas/rockets did in about 20 years.
Originally posted by Chrysalis
reply to post by VinceP1974
Law of war ??? Who are you trying to kid with that ?
Law of war, between two sovereign nations, maybe, but that is far from the case.
You're trying to figure out who in europe supports that action and who doesn't. It seems so pointless when i see what kind of arguments are beeing thrown in here.
With israeli elections coming in six weeks, the government in place beeing a coalition for lack of better terms, I fail to see where you can put any legitimacy at all in all this.
If a fake interim government is allowed to put its country at war like this then there's no hope at all.
This has got nothing to do with the rockets, it's purely political, so is the blabber in europe and elsewhere.
Once again, logic fails.
Originally posted by Alpha_Magnum
1917 marks the year that GBR "gave" the nation of Palestine to Jews who over time over ran the place.
Originally posted by Alpha_Magnum
This is also similar to what the English did to the American colonists except that in the end the New Worlders defended themselves well enough for the British to give up.
Originally posted by Alpha_Magnum
1917 marks the year that GBR "gave" the nation of Palestine to Jews who over time over ran the place. Now it is known as Israel and the indigenous population has been herded into to small killing fields. This is similar to what the Europeans did to the Native Americans (had their own names and titles). This is also similar to what Hitler did to the Jews, Pols, etc. This is also similar to what the English did to the American colonists except that in the end the New Worlders defended themselves well enough for the British to give up.
The bleak bottom line, as far as historian Benny Morris is concerned, is that it's us or them.
The bleak emphasis, underlined in the concluding chapter of his new book, 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, is that we should have realized this all along, but are only now, after 60 years, internalizing it.
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"Remember another thing," he went on at the time. "The Arab people gained a large slice of the planet. Not thanks to its skills or its great virtues, but because it conquered and murdered and forced those it conquered to convert during many generations. But in the end the Arabs have 22 states. The Jewish people did not have even one state. There was no reason in the world why it should not have one state. Therefore, from my point of view, the need to establish this state in this place overcame the injustice that was done to the Palestinians by uprooting them."
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Many, if not most, in the Arab world, he writes, viewed the war against Israel's establishment as a holy war.
He recalls, for instance, the Muslim Brotherhood declaring in 1938 that "To fight for Palestine was the 'inescapable obligation on every Muslim.'"
He quotes King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia telling US president Franklin Roosevelt, in a letter five years later, that Palestine "has been an Arab country since the dawn of history and... was never inhabited by Jews for more than a period of time, during which their history in the land was full of murder and cruelty... [There is] religious hostility... between the Muslims and the Jews from the beginning of Islam... which arose from the treacherous conduct of the Jews towards Islam and the Muslims and their prophet."
He notes that the mufti of Egypt in 1948 "issued a fatwa positing jihad in Palestine as the duty of all Muslims."
In short, he insists, "The jihadi impulse underscored both popular and governmental responses in the Arab world" to the UN's partition resolution and was "central to the mobilization of the 'street' and the [Arab] governments for the successive onslaughts of November-December 1947 and May-June 1948."
As for the Palestinians, from the start, "the clash with the Zionists was a zero-sum game. The Palestinian national movement's leader during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Haj Amin al-Husseini, consistently rejected territorial compromise and espoused a solution to the Palestine problem that posited all of Palestine as an Arab state and allowed for a Jewish minority composed only of those who had lived in the country before 1914."
With the front-line in Palestine crippled by the work of Feisal and Lawrence, General Allenby's force of British, Australian and Indian troops pushed their way out of Egypt and headed north past Gaza.
Originally posted by stumasonIn fact, the British were subject to terrorist attacks by the Jews for another 30 years before we'd had enough and the UN created Israel in 1947.
Originally posted by Alpha_Magnum
Correct 1917 marks the year that Britain "gave" or "allowed" the mass immigration of Jews to the occupied (by the British) land of Palestine. From there the Jewish settlers over ran the country. The Jews were quick to herd the indigenous population into ever decreasing areas. It is not that Palestine became Israel in 1917 it in name didn't. Jewish people moved in mass (thousands at a time). Later on the Jews decided that they were in charge and did exactly what the American Colonists did to the indigenous population in the USA.
Didn't any of you ever even watch Lawrence of Arabia?
With the front-line in Palestine crippled by the work of Feisal and Lawrence, General Allenby's force of British, Australian and Indian troops pushed their way out of Egypt and headed north past Gaza.
Essentially, Britain's global domination lay at the root of everything and that is all there is to it! Those of you that believe that WW1 was about the Arch Duke Ferdinand have no clue. Mesopotamia was then the contest and 100's of thousands of British troops were sent there. Why? The Germans and British were converting their navies to OIL from COAL. Vast oil reserves were discovered in Mesopotamia and both sides wanted it. Surely someone here realizes that the British Empire lay at the root of just about EVERYTHING.
[edit on 4-1-2009 by Alpha_Magnum]