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11-20-2012, 08:30 AM | #16 |
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I believe there is an election coming up soon in Israel.
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11-20-2012, 09:40 AM | #18 |
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Am I the only one for crushing Hamas and driving tem into the sea?? Note, I am referencing Hamas and not the Palestinian civilians
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If Israel were white as the driven snow in their relationships with their neighbors, your idea might have value. But since the days of Jimmy Carter's presidency, it's not been anything less than an ultraconservative, militaristic tyrannt. The US has routinely pledged (ultimate) support for Israel, so their real danger is much less than their politics can warrant. The damages inflicted on Israel are minuscule, both in numbers of military, or civilians killed or wounded and in physical damage to structures, etc. compared with what Israel has done to it's neighbors. Maybe military types get their jollies out of this, but I don't. This latest escalation was driven by Israli's actions shown here... Quote:
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11-20-2012, 10:44 AM | #21 |
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I just don't get it. How can anyone favor Hamas, an Iranian tied terrorist group whose core tenets are based upon genocide?
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11-20-2012, 10:53 AM | #22 |
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Because the fucking world is not black and white.
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11-20-2012, 10:55 AM | #23 | ||
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11-20-2012, 11:01 AM | #24 | ||
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11-20-2012, 11:03 AM | #25 |
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Can you imagine what would happen if a neighboring nation fired rockets onto our soil?
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11-20-2012, 11:09 AM | #26 |
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How are you going to do that without harming the civilians? Or how will you make them understand the ones who died are Necessary Losses?
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11-20-2012, 11:16 AM | #27 |
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It's kind of like a foreign country trying to kill all the Republicans in the US.
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11-20-2012, 11:51 AM | #28 |
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I know it isn't. Hamas calls for genocide. I thought most of us were opposed to ethnic cleansing. If your next door neighbor tells you he is going to kill your family and then shoots at your house, would you just sit back? Even if other neighbors said it was none of their business, would you say "Oh, well"?
Perhaps another perspective would be: If you heard the KKK say they were going to kill all of the African - Americans, would you let them? Would you sit back if a group of white males were throwing stones at a black male, would you tell the B/M that he shouldn't defend himself? I don't understand why you would endorse a group whose mission is to destroy others based upon religion or race.
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11-20-2012, 12:18 PM | #29 |
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Has anyone here endorsed Hamas?
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11-20-2012, 12:32 PM | #30 | |
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The point is that extremists exist in both Hamas and Israel that actually do want to wipe out the other side. However, these people are not the majority (it seems) and the views of these larger organizations (Hamas and Israel) can not be lumped in with those extremist views. This is a situation where side A "reacts" violently to an action by side B. This "reaction" causes extremists in side B to gain power and then they will "react" to the initial "reaction", attacking side A. This reinforces the power of the extremists on side A, creating a self-perpetuating downward spiral. As long as this back and forth keeps going, neither side is willing or able to compromise. That is why this situation is extremely difficult to solve.
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