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Written by: onewheeldave
My focus is on the fact that Israeli revenge attacks that kill/maim innocents, are-
1. wrong
2. don't stop future violence
3. breeds terrorists, terrorist support and guarantees future violence and an escalation of that violence.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Written by: Patriarch917
We have tried being nice to the Palestinians, giving them their own country, an opportunity to govern themselves, and international aid.
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
Written by: jeff(fake)
I'm sure there's an ideal solution out there somewhere...
Written by: jeff(fake)
I'm sure there's an ideal solution out there somewhere...
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
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If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
Written by: Stone
Lightning, what I said was Israel is not committed to peace because it fails to accept any responsibility for the conflict, and continues kill people.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
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Written by: Stone
Lightning, perhaps you could build another wall to fight over. Isn’t this conflict really a fight over that other wall, the Western Wall and Temple Mount?
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Written by: FireTom
Israel has at least provided the palestinians with their own nation - hey, this is not much, but has anything changed in return? Yellfire, sorry but I cannot follow up on your comparison between convicts and palestinians, or the situation in the movie "escape from new york" with the current situation.
Written by: Yell fire!
Israel has not provided the Palestinians with a 'nation'. All it has done is move out of areas with majority Palestinian populations, which were simply not manageable in the long run and created high security prisons. That is why I compared the situation to the movie. A walled in enclave in which you have no control over your air, land or sea borders, over what / who goes in, who goes out, is NOT a nation / country. It's a prison.
"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."
Written by: andrealee
Isreal is attacking the wrong people. I could understand attacking the terrorists that bombed you with a huge amount of force, and maybe even approve of such action.If you knew you could effectively do so. But to bomb so indiscriminately a whole nation, is inexcuseable.
To say that they have trouble finding the leaders of the terrorist groups, and that the terrorists hide amongst civilians, may be true, but in no way justifies just killing a bunch of innocents that just happen to be nearby and may or may not have any influence at all over the situation. You cant get your attacker, so you take out their neighbor> What?! Ridiculous.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."
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If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
Written by: Stone
Lightning, you missed the point. It is and always has been a religious war. When Ariel Sharon's visited Temple Mount controversial September 28, 2000, he started the Second Intifada.
If Hezbollah is playing the "pity" game and you are all falling for it, hook, line, and sinker, what game are you playing???.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)
Owner of Dragosani's left half
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
Written by: Stone
You keep denying this, like you keep denying Israel has anything to do with this conflict.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."
:admires giant wooden aeroplane: Its about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing their like jerks!!!
Homer rocks!!!!
Written by: doc lightning
Here is the actual situation. The guerillas/terrorists HIDE IN CIVILIAN HOMES. This is a very cowardly and underhanded tactic because it gives the enemy a choice between hitting civilian targets or not fighting at all and letting the guerillas/terrorists continue to attack.Written by: andrealee
To present only two options, hitting civilian targets because they are sometimes used to hide terrorists- or doing nothing at all and allowing terrorist attacks to continue , offers a falsely simplistic choice , one used to justify an inhumane action. There are other possibilities.Yes, they would just be a lot more difficult and less immediately satisfying. Fight the terrorists. But find a means to do it that actually targets them. If they are hiding, find them, then kill them.
Written by: Stone
Birgit, given the background of the middle-east, the abduction of two soldiers was little more than an excuse Israel gave to start this war, and to pull out of peace negotiations with Hamas.
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Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
Written by: sagetree
doc, do you have a response to this? killing civilians is NOT the only way to fight terrorism. it's actually a way to join the ranks of a terrorist and to continue the cycle that leads to more terrorism in the future.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Written by: NYC
Who watches the watchmen?
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
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