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Wise to be allied with Israel ?

Surenderer said:
Who ever said that?....I was talking about Jews fleeing persecution to Muslim lands (lands with a majority Muslim population)

Judaism is older than Christianity, which developed 2000 years ago in Judea (so named because, believe it or not, the place was populated by Jews), which is now known as Israel. Islam came centuries later, out of Mecca - in case you don't know, that's in Saudi Arabia.

So which religion's followers were in Israel first? Hmm... I wonder... :lol:
 
Connecticutter said:
Yes, but a lot of land was given up. Plus, the entire Gaza strip is now a jew-free zone. Just the way they want it.

Also how do you define land as being occupied? There are about 400000 Israelis living in the West Bank now. Do you think that they all must leave? There was never a palestinian state so why do they automatically get land with Israelis living on it?

Wrong, there was a Palestinian state from the end of WW1. Palestine was part of the Ottaman Empire, however it broke up when WW1 ended and Britain took part of her land as composation for the war, this included Palestine.

By UN law and funnily enough Israeli law, the settlements of the West Bank and the Gaza strip are illegal.

Imagine the town/city were you live and another country builds a wall around it and forbides you to leave, your basically a prisoner in your own town/city. Thats how some Palestinians live their lives.

Also one settlement in the Gaza strip divided it into two, North and South Gaza where they divided towns and familes.
Families were reunited when the settlers left for the first time since 1967! How is that not oppressive?

Can you link to a news article or is this just a rumor? [/QUOTE]

I heard it on Channel 4 news in the UK. This is closest link I could find.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4180050.stm
 
vergiss said:
Judaism is older than Christianity, which developed 2000 years ago in Judea (so named because, believe it or not, the place was populated by Jews), which is now known as Israel. Islam came centuries later, out of Mecca - in case you don't know, that's in Saudi Arabia.

So which religion's followers were in Israel first? Hmm... I wonder... :lol:



Dont know what you are implying but I was talking about a little more recent history.....not Biblical days..Such as During the Ottoman Empire (15th century until World War I) the Ottomans developed the millet system giving Christians and Jews freedom of action. In Christian lands, Jews were often persecuted and condemned as "the killers of Christ". The Holocaust took place in a nation that called itself Christian. It is also true that after the Jews were forbidden to live in Jerusalem by the Romans it was an Arab Muslim ruler, Salah ad-Din, who, in 1187, specifically invited the Jews to once again live in the Holy City.
 
Lets recap the question of this topic... Wise to be allied with Israel ?

If you take sides in a dispute you can expect 5hit from the other side.
So answer = No it's not wise for USA to be allied with Israel... period, fin, end !

That is unless of course you didn't value the Twin Towers very highly !
 
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GarzaUK said:
Wrong, there was a Palestinian state from the end of WW1. Palestine was part of the Ottaman Empire, however it broke up when WW1 ended and Britain took part of her land as composation for the war, this included Palestine.

So I was a British Mandate, not a state. Both future Israelis and future Palestinians lived there.

GarzaUK said:
Also one settlement in the Gaza strip divided it into two, North and South Gaza where they divided towns and familes.
Families were reunited when the settlers left for the first time since 1967! How is that not oppressive?

Yassir Arafat could have put a stop to this in 2000 by accepting Ehud Barak's plan. Unfortunately, he decided to start the intefada instead, forcing Israel to go into war-more and set up road blocks for security. Now that Arafat is our of the way, Gaza is whole again. I was just making the point that the PA will not allow Jews as citizen, whereas Israel will allow anyone.

GarzaUK said:
I heard it on Channel 4 news in the UK. This is closest link I could find.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4180050.stm

This article is talking about the wall being built by Israel. What other choice does it have? This is really the only peaceful solution.
 
Surenderer said:
Oh by the way sorry it took me so long to respond to you before....anyways....
Surenderer if you can’t respond in a timely manner it is fine by me, I am too wordy and often accused of being hard to understand anyway, and I have already been waiting since before 911 to get some answers.

Surenderer you said: “I dont know of Hamas purposely killing any Americans....I am not overly fammiliar with them although I have studied the Israel-Palestine situation....if they have indeed declared War on America then they deserve to be ‘greased‘ but I dont think that has happened”

“The Islamic Resistance Movement is Composed of Soldiers:
Article Thirty-Six:
While paving its way, the Islamic Resistance Movement, emphasizes time and again to all the sons of our people, to the Arab and Islamic nations, that it does not seek personal fame, material gain, or social prominence. It does not aim to compete against any one from among our people, or take his place. Nothing of the sort at all. It will not act against any of the sons of Moslems or those who are peaceful towards it from among non-Moslems, be they here or anywhere else. It will only serve as a support for all groupings and organizations operating against the Zionist enemy and its lackeys.”

The last sentence of the Hamas charter in my opinion allies them with Al Quacka and Saddam types, obviously “lackeys” is vaguely dangerous. The sentence prior to that says we must be peaceful toward them (their “terrorism” and goals), that could not be expected from the United States either then or now. In my opinion “they deserve to be ‘greased,‘” simply for their method of warfare that has killed Americans (as if it matters). What do you think?

Hamas also clearly chose sides against the United States:

http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=iraq&ID=SP47903

This is important because the PLO existence prior to 1967 did not help to create a Palestinian state at those borders. The tragedy that has befallen the Palestinians is one of their own making. If Muslims really want peace, Hamas and their ilk must get stuffed into a trash can NOW! The ball is in the Islamic court right now. If the Islamic world can’t control their terrorist groups in one tiny little strip of land the so-called Palestinians may lose any right to the city King David was born in, and rightly so, and the tragedy will continue to the detriment of us all. I like Swiss cheese, but I do not think a country should look like it.

Surenderer you said to one of my wildly off on a tangent questions: “Who ever said that?....I was talking about Jews fleeing persecution to Muslim lands (lands with a majority Muslim population)”

A battle in the past is not important unless we are going to learn from history what possibly can be repeated! This is extremely important and we really need to know what applies TODAY. We need something to allay our fears. We need to see and understand what verses in the “Holy Book” make us safe today from a “tax in acknowledgment of superiority” that could put us into “a state of subjection.“ Who struck the first blows so long ago for the subjection and humiliation of [9.29] is truly academic, but considering all the times we have been called crusaders, before we have even begun to crusade, gives me reason to believe it was the Muslims that started it with all of their fighting words.

Prior to 911 we saw what the Taliban thought of the two women they claimed were teaching Christianity with their scary mouths and pamphlets, and I know what I think I read in the Koran about a Muslim converting to another religion. Things that I was seeing fit with what I was reading at the time.

On another message board I asked a Muslim some questions back in September 2001, just days before 911. I have forgotten many of the questions I had back then. That Muslim talked a lot about peace, and had come on the board to defend the Taliban. They said they would be back to answer my questions, but I never got those answers. That Muslim’s interpretation of the verse: “[2.256] There is no compulsion in religion; truly the right way has become clearly distinct from error; therefore, whoever disbelieves in the Shaitan and believes in Allah he indeed has laid hold on the firmest handle, which shall not break off, and Allah is Hearing, Knowing,” was chilling and fit perfectly well with making it easy to kill unbelievers. So I do appreciate you taking the time to explain some things, like what is your interpretation of that no compulsion in religion verse?

I could have voted for a Kucinich or a Bush, it was my choice, there was no compulsion, for I am not a slave, and I think that anyone that would claim that Bush killed her son would probably be as inclined as an ancient from Mecca to bow down to idols like those of Saddam and his ilk. The containment was evil, but blame the usurping idolater that had his statues on every street corner. The Muslim world today is rife with idolatry and hypocrisy. If the believer “has laid hold on the firmest handle, which shall not break off,” why are so many so-called “believers” afraid of their own people voting for their own legislators and laws? Why are they so afraid of a Christian mouth?

Surenderer you responded to my question “…are we justified in killing an enemy wearing the Bin Laden t-shirt insignia?“ by asking the questions:

“Ya I saw that guy but because he wears an Osama tee-shirt he deserves to be killed? Who did that guy kill?”

I do not know that he killed anybody, but I do know that the surveillance photos of the 911 attackers did not show them wearing so much of an insignia before they killed anybody. Do you want us to be at such a disadvantage?

Hypothetically, using your interpretations, in a preferred kind of Muslim State, would we have to suffer the Palm Readers, Tarot Card Readers, or ever have to see John Edward talk to the dead?
 
robin said:
Lets recap the question of this topic... Wise to be allied with Israel ?

If you take sides in a dispute you can expect 5hit from the other side.
So answer = No it's not wise for USA to be allied with Israel... period, fin, end !

That is unless of course you didn't value the Twin Towers very highly !

I do not like threats.
 
Surenderer said:
Dont know what you are implying but I was talking about a little more recent history.....not Biblical days..Such as During the Ottoman Empire (15th century until World War I) the Ottomans developed the millet system giving Christians and Jews freedom of action. In Christian lands, Jews were often persecuted and condemned as "the killers of Christ". The Holocaust took place in a nation that called itself Christian. It is also true that after the Jews were forbidden to live in Jerusalem by the Romans it was an Arab Muslim ruler, Salah ad-Din, who, in 1187, specifically invited the Jews to once again live in the Holy City.

Oh, so the full history is irrelevent? It only counts if it's convenient to you? :roll:

How very generous of him to un-ban them from where they'd originated. You know... I don't think I'll be grovelling any time today.
 
Hmm, I got banned from the last website when I said something about Israel.
So with that in mind I will say Israel is just like another country. I don’t care what is said about it in the bible. They will do what they feel is right for them, that also includes doing some nasty things to the US. Yes I said the USA.


Hmm……..Now you might be thinking I’m anti-Jewish. I’m not I have nothing against the Jewish people. I have had a few bad experiences with the Israeli military.


I would not support them.
Until they wised up.
 
It's good to be allied to the one nation in the Middle East which is a certain democracy, is friendly with you, and has nuclear weapons.

We are your friends, we are your allies.
 
Thers nothing democratic about a Racists theocrocy. They are by no means a llittle america though the two grow closer with the continued assult on the Constitution in America.

You are freinds with a a guy in a viloent neighborhood. They all fight and kill in the neighborhood the only thing that everybody in the neighborhood agrees on is they hate your freind. And peple wonder why they dont like you.

Amazing.
 
nefarious_plot said:
Thers nothing democratic about a Racists theocrocy.

Now that statement is just ignorant.

A racist state will attempt make disinctions in law to different ethinc groups. Israel has plenty of Arab, Christian, and Black citizens, and they are equal to anyone else under the law. Maybe there are a few distinctions, like an arab or a very religious Jew not being required to serve in the Israeli army. These do not warrant Israel being called a racist state.

A theocracy suggests that Israel forces everyone to live by a religion. There are simply no such laws. In fact, Connecticut is more a theocracy than Israel. Why the heck can't I buy booze on a Sunday? It's because some Puritans in the 1600s wanted people to go the church instead, and we never repealed the law.
 
They are bigoted against others then Jews and even jews that are not talmudic are not getting treated well. The term democracy is used to describe something that isreal just is not. It has more then just voting.
 
I must be living in a different country than. Your description does not fit what Israel is, we have Druze, Arab, Athiest, Christian, and Bedouan citizens. I'm not very religous and I'm not talmadic, I'm not discriminated against. True we have problams that need to be dealt with in discrimination with out Arab population, but that can hardly be called out as making us racist and un-democratic.

Your view on my country is warped.
 
Israel has a right to exist, But Israel should not settle the West bank. Sure there are Islamic nut bag anti-semites out there. But Israels millitary and colonising actions in the West Bank and Gaza, have pissed off many Palistinians. Which then plays into the hands of Hamas and PLO.

Solution. The U.S needs to twist Israels arm, to get a pull out of the West Bank. If Israel stays within its soverign borders it makes it very hard for the racist elements in the Arab and Muslim world to critise Israel.

Finally if America gets Israel to act on the issue of the West Bank, any further threats or violance against Israel would expose the Islamofacists for what they really are. Because until Israel pulls out of the West Bank, the Islamofacists and Islamoapologists can try to justify violance against Israel, by saying it is resistance against illegal occupation. Which is in part correct, BUT NOT THE FULL PICTURE OF WHAT MOTIVATES THE TERROROISTS.

I want Israel to be peacfull and proseper, becasue that way it will finally show the Arab-Muslim, world that only democracies will prosper.
 
Australianlibertarian said:
Israel has a right to exist, But Israel should not settle the West bank. Sure there are Islamic nut bag anti-semites out there. But Israels millitary and colonising actions in the West Bank and Gaza, have pissed off many Palistinians. Which then plays into the hands of Hamas and PLO.

Solution. The U.S needs to twist Israels arm, to get a pull out of the West Bank. If Israel stays within its soverign borders it makes it very hard for the racist elements in the Arab and Muslim world to critise Israel.
Finally if America gets Israel to act on the issue of the West Bank, any further threats or violance against Israel would expose the Islamofacists for what they really are. Because until Israel pulls out of the West Bank, the Islamofacists and Islamoapologists can try to justify violance against Israel, by saying it is resistance against illegal occupation. Which is in part correct, BUT NOT THE FULL PICTURE OF WHAT MOTIVATES THE TERROROISTS.

I want Israel to be peacfull and proseper, becasue that way it will finally show the Arab-Muslim, world that only democracies will prosper.

Two points...

You're suggesting going back to the 1967 borders assigned by the UN ...

1) That takes every defense vantage point away from Israel...Imagine giving your enemies ALL of the higher ground, and forces you to live at the bottom of the hill...That will turn into a "General Custard" scenario in about 20 minutes...Going back to those borders is the EXACT same thing as giving Israel their death sentence...

2)Israel has been attacked and has had hatred thrown their way well before the 1967 borders...Do you honestly think going back to those borders will change anything?...The Gaza withdrawl should give you a clue...

Even though Sharon and the Knesset has done this UNILATERALLY, the Palistinian street has claimed this as some sort of victory...This incites their belief that if Israel will retreat because of suicide bombers and terroristic threats...then MORE terroristic threats and suicide bombers will make Israel retreat even further.

Write this down...Gaza will turn into a terrorist haven...within the next five years, attacks will increase...Hamas & Hezbollah will be voted in as the leadership of Gaza...One small strip of land unsupervised and containing people that do not respect life....what a concept.
 
The Israeli Army is years ahead of the Syrian, Egyptian, Lebanese, and Jordanian Armies. Therefore there is no need for Israel to justify the holding on to 'high ground'.

Giving back the 1967 borders would not be a death sentence for Israel. Anything but, the Israeli Army can easily defend its borders, it has the most advanced army in the region.

Hamas may claim victory in Gaza, but Hamas and the Al-Aksa brigade gain advantage as long as Israel stays in the West bank. This feeds discontentment, and allows the murderous bastards to recruit more disillusioned Palistinians.

All I am trying to say is that at times Israel's policies can be counter productive.
 
superskippy said:
It's good to be allied to the one nation in the Middle East which is a certain democracy, is friendly with you, and has nuclear weapons.
We are your friends, we are your allies.
No you become friends with whoever can benefit you. The price of that rather childish phrase 'being friends' = twin towers.. London bombings etc.
As regards democracy. That family of the peace activist shot in cold blood had a hell of a job getting that Israeli soldier put on trial instead of the usual system where the soldiers buddies simply write a report on the incident.
Even then he's got an eight year sentence for murder but they are pretty sure he'll be let out the back door soon early.
 
superskippy said:
I must be living in a different country than. Your description does not fit what Israel is, we have Druze, Arab, Athiest, Christian, and Bedouan citizens. I'm not very religous and I'm not talmadic, I'm not discriminated against. True we have problams that need to be dealt with in discrimination with out Arab population, but that can hardly be called out as making us racist and un-democratic.

Your view on my country is warped.

You have to remember that many Arabs are not going to forgive you for being the only country in the Middle East where Arab women are equal to men in every respect.

And of course, your western "friends" expect you to turn the other cheek in spite of being sorrounded by 900 million people who want to exterminate you.
It's all for the sake of the hypothetical "Palestinian people" (British invention) who dance and rejoice every time there is a massacre in Israel.

It doesn't matter that 80% of that British invention called Palestine....is in Jordan.
 
Australianlibertarian said:
The Israeli Army is years ahead of the Syrian, Egyptian, Lebanese, and Jordanian Armies. Therefore there is no need for Israel to justify the holding on to 'high ground'.

Giving back the 1967 borders would not be a death sentence for Israel. Anything but, the Israeli Army can easily defend its borders, it has the most advanced army in the region.

Hamas may claim victory in Gaza, but Hamas and the Al-Aksa brigade gain advantage as long as Israel stays in the West bank. This feeds discontentment, and allows the murderous bastards to recruit more disillusioned Palistinians.

All I am trying to say is that at times Israel's policies can be counter productive.


We are not years ahead of the Arab armies, true we are more advanced but when your nation is so small that you can drive from one end to the other in less than a day having several hundred thousand enemies is not a good thing.

We lost over 2,500 people in the 1973 war against the Egyptians and Syrians, we arguably had better equipment but they have millions of people to draw soldiers from.

We can not step back and give them an advantage. It is my firm beleif that the reason we have yet to lose a war is because we cannot lose. To lose means annhilation. It is not as simple as you think, you have the luxury to think in terms of strength and military orbat, we have to think in miles and minutes. To give the Arabs every advantage they had in 1967 will only incite them to try to destroy us again. Better the frontline be in the West Bank and the new border around Gaza, then for the Palestinians to be happy and hav ethe frontline shift from year to year around Eliat, Jerusalem, Tel'Aviv, and Haifa.

The Arab's have Jet Aircraft, Tanks, Assault Rifles, Missles, Helicopters, and Soldiers. We have better than they do, but their are a few million Israeli citizens, and hundreds of millions of Arabs. It is not as simple as you think.


No you become friends with whoever can benefit you. The price of that rather childish phrase 'being friends' = twin towers.. London bombings etc.
As regards democracy. That family of the peace activist shot in cold blood had a hell of a job getting that Israeli soldier put on trial instead of the usual system where the soldiers buddies simply write a report on the incident.
Even then he's got an eight year sentence for murder but they are pretty sure he'll be let out the back door soon early.



Are you accusing Israel of having a role in the 9/11 attacks and the London Bombings?

The cirumcstances behind the incident are more complicated than you make it out to be, he shot the briton by accident from what I have seen, he fired the warning shot near the mans head as he approached the watch tower, the man's head jerked in the wrong direction/or he misfired and the man was shot. The circumstances dont make it seem intentional and I think he is a scapegoat to quell the angry family and murmered government support.
 
superskippy said:
Are you accusing Israel of having a role in the 9/11 attacks and the London Bombings?
Yes of course in as much as they are a major provocature of 911. A festering carbunckle in the M East & source of so so so much trouble. Why couldn't you integrate wherever you were instead of the stupid tribalism... 'Polish Jew', 'Russian Jew'. Just be Polish or Russian instead & integrate where you were instead of harking back 2,000 years then pinching back land from that far back !
Christ I think the N American Indians have a lot more right to get USA back than you have to take back Palestinian land !

superskippy said:
The cirumcstances behind the incident are more complicated than you make it out to be, he shot the briton by accident from what I have seen, he fired the warning shot near the mans head as he approached the watch tower, the man's head jerked in the wrong direction/or he misfired and the man was shot. The circumstances dont make it seem intentional and I think he is a scapegoat to quell the angry family and murmered government support.
Bullshit !
 
As I said before ....
if you aren't a tribe what are you ?
The Jewish tribe that just follow another load of religious gobbldy gook. Religion = a virus of the mind.
Jewish this, Jewish that, Jewishness, Jewery, ... why don't you try to think outside the Jewish mindset & get out more to places that are non Jewish & meet more people that are non Jewish learn about non Jewish ideas & eat non Jewish food & read non Jewish books & learn about non Jewish philosophies. Just inside you there might just be a whole load of non Jewishiness... the real you, trying to get out. After all you weren't born spouting Jewish religion & Jewish nationalism. You were born innocent & pure... a blank sheet. You were brainwashed & branded a Jew by the by people around you. Jewishness is an affectation like all religions. You are genetically the same as Palestinians.
 
As I said before ....
if you aren't a tribe what are you ?
The Jewish tribe that just follow another load of religious gobbldy gook. Religion = a virus of the mind.
Jewish this, Jewish that, Jewishness, Jewery, ... why don't you try to think outside the Jewish mindset & get out more to places that are non Jewish & meet more people that are non Jewish learn about non Jewish ideas & eat non Jewish food & read non Jewish books & learn about non Jewish philosophies. Just inside you there might just be a whole load of non Jewishiness... the real you, trying to get out. After all you weren't born spouting Jewish religion & Jewish nationalism. You were born innocent & pure... a blank sheet. You were brainwashed & branded a Jew by the by people around you. Jewishness is an affectation like all religions. You are genetically the same as Palestinians.
Today 09:09 PM


Done you rant? I was amused.


Bullshit !

Great rebut.
 
superskippy said:
Are you accusing Israel of having a role in the 9/11 attacks and the London Bombings?
robin said:
Yes of course in as much as they are a major provocature of 911.
Israel was a major provocateur of 9/11? Really robin, your always insipid and simplistic analysis of geopolitics and historicity has once again degenerated deep into the realm of the absurd. Once again you grasp at fringe straws and anti-Semitic remarks (rant above) to defend your intended thesis.

Israel is the lone Westernized democracy in the Middle East... the core basis of the US/Israeli political and military alignment. The terrorists of 9/11 were not Israelis robin. If fact, the majority were Saudis. Perhaps a more fair question would concern the American wisdom (or lack therof) of embracing the Kingdom in its war against Arab/Islamic inspired terrorism.

You also conveniently neglect to mention the numerous Hamas and Hizb'allah attacks against American personel and interests in the Middle East which have been politically and materially supported by past and current Palestinian officialdom.

You're a Brit anyway... what business is it of yours who the US alignes itself with? Perhaps the recent lessons of London are somehow lost on you. You seem to put great stock in the cliché adage that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I have another apt cliché for you robin... Stupid is as stupid does.


 
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