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RE: Israel - 10/3/2012 4:14:13 PM   
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Its interesting to see how you attack anyone who disagrees with you personally yet you are trolling me over criticising a prolific Israeli-basher on here trying to school an overt anti-Semite! Thats surprising even by your standards. You are lying over what Tweak said, its interesting how you support such an individual knowing full well what she has done.

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There are innumerable valid reasons to justify criticism of Israeli policy and behaviour in Occupied Palestine. Your post mentioned some of these reasons. Why not stick to those valid reasons? Bringing up the Holocaust, particularly in the loose, sloppy language your first post displayed, just plays into the hands of the Zionist lobby, who like nothing better than to (falsely) frame the discussion of Occupied Palestine in terms of anti-Semitism.
http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=4254825

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Trying to associate such rubbish with the Palestinian cause does a lot of harm to that cause and plays straight into the hands of the Zionists. I hope that you reconsider your position before you do any more damage.
http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=4254859

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In the end it's up to you of course. You need to decide which message you want to convey and then convey it clearly and precisely. The terms you currently use are misleading and counter-productive, if you don't mind my saying so.
http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=4254873

Yet again I point out that we are not talking about a blogger. This is a Muslim man openly talking about the hatred embedded within the British Islamic community. It is a similar phenomenon elsewhere http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1724/jewish_communities_under_threat_in_malmo_sweden_ in Europe as another Muslim writer points out. Its simply an analogue of the Islamic world http://blogs.jpost.com/content/reactions-toulouse-murderer-algeria as Muslim Algerian journalist of repute Omar Dakhane has pointed out.

BTW I don't object to the thread - you're the one trying to turn the heat up with personal comments - your modus operandi. T'Ozzy hasn't said anything she hasn't said a thousand times already, and no doubt will say a thousand times again.


Anax, you still havent shown anything to prove your first post, let alone discussed the topic at hand. You made the remark in your first post about "comedy" and then accuse me of personal attacks.

Incidentally Tweaks is 100% correct, denying the holocaust is abhorent, Ive said that many times to people who have done so. She is also right that using it in debate doesnt help the Palestinian cause.

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RE: Israel - 10/3/2012 5:10:59 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras
Its interesting to see how you attack anyone who disagrees with you personally yet you are trolling me over criticising a prolific Israeli-basher on here trying to school an overt anti-Semite! Thats surprising even by your standards. You are lying over what Tweak said, its interesting how you support such an individual knowing full well what she has done.

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There are innumerable valid reasons to justify criticism of Israeli policy and behaviour in Occupied Palestine. Your post mentioned some of these reasons. Why not stick to those valid reasons? Bringing up the Holocaust, particularly in the loose, sloppy language your first post displayed, just plays into the hands of the Zionist lobby, who like nothing better than to (falsely) frame the discussion of Occupied Palestine in terms of anti-Semitism.
http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=4254825

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Trying to associate such rubbish with the Palestinian cause does a lot of harm to that cause and plays straight into the hands of the Zionists. I hope that you reconsider your position before you do any more damage.
http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=4254859

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In the end it's up to you of course. You need to decide which message you want to convey and then convey it clearly and precisely. The terms you currently use are misleading and counter-productive, if you don't mind my saying so.
http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=4254873

Yet again I point out that we are not talking about a blogger. This is a Muslim man openly talking about the hatred embedded within the British Islamic community. It is a similar phenomenon elsewhere http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1724/jewish_communities_under_threat_in_malmo_sweden_ in Europe as another Muslim writer points out. Its simply an analogue of the Islamic world http://blogs.jpost.com/content/reactions-toulouse-murderer-algeria as Muslim Algerian journalist of repute Omar Dakhane has pointed out.

BTW I don't object to the thread - you're the one trying to turn the heat up with personal comments - your modus operandi. T'Ozzy hasn't said anything she hasn't said a thousand times already, and no doubt will say a thousand times again.

Anax, you still havent shown anything to prove your first post, let alone discussed the topic at hand. You made the remark in your first post about "comedy" and then accuse me of personal attacks.

Incidentally Tweaks is 100% correct, denying the holocaust is abhorent, Ive said that many times to people who have done so. She is also right that using it in debate doesnt help the Palestinian cause.

Indeed I have (A) discussed the topic at hand, and (B) shown what she was schooling a pro-Palestinian who is also an unabashed anti-Semite. After he waded in on Page 3 the quotes demonstrate she was far more concerned about remarks that would be embarassing to the Palestinian cause than the actual anti-Semitism he so clearly exuded. Do recall that police in Holland dress as Jews http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/7846704/Dutch-police-use-decoy-Jews-to-stop-anti-Semitic-attacks.html to weed out people that persistently target them. Little wonder there was a major pro-Palestinian march to the chant of "Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas" there a few years back.

I found it amusing hence the word "comedy" - its far weaker that you coming out with your usual "Nice to see you still have your head stuck up your arse" bullshit. Its rather ironic that those who claim to be more tolerant than thou are so intolerant of the opinions of others. Its clear this "discussion" is just going around in circles so do have fun Old Slice!

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 1:11:25 AM   
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The question might better be put as : On what basis can Israel live in peace and harmony with its neighbours? The Palestinians have recognised the existence of Israel since at least 1993 (the Oslo Accords). Even Hamas has been hinting strongly that it can live with a Palestinian State based on the 1967 borders.

As usual you are lying. The Palestinian National Covenant, the charter under which the PLO operates, remains unamended and still calls for the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews world wide. The Hamas charter remains the profoundly anti semitic document it has always been, calling for genocide of the Jewish people worldwide and subscribing to a wide range of of anti Jewish conspiracy theories.


As usual you are dead wrong.
"The Hamas movement is ready to recognize agreements signed with Israel, and in fact recognize Israel, but only within the '67 borders, senior Hamas member Khaled Suleiman said Wednesday.

According to Suleiman, the movement will be ready to accept a Palestinian state inside the '67 borders and will not operate to thwart diplomatic negotiations held by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3249568,00.html

That's just one report - there are many more reports confirming this position. And it comes from an Israeli source too.

I look forward to your apology for wrongly calling me a liar - more in hope than anticipation. But go on, do the right thing for once in your life and surprise me - apologise.


Hamas is still killing Jews and is still spreading the worst anti semitic hate imaginable, including but not limited to the Blood Libel and the Protocols. To claim otherwise is a lie.

My assertion was that:
"Even Hamas has been hinting strongly that it can live with a Palestinian State based on the 1967 borders"
You claimed that I was "lying".
I produced evidence to prove my assertion was correct, and asked you to apologise for falsely and maliciously calling me a liar.
You haven't produce any evidence to support your claims. You haven't apologised.
Stop trying to weasel your way out of your self-created hole and apologise if you have any decency.

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 1:29:46 AM   
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Anaxagoras
After he waded in on Page 3 the quotes demonstrate she was far more concerned about remarks that would be embarassing to the Palestinian cause than the actual anti-Semitism he so clearly exuded.


Which part of the following don't you understand?

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Well if you want to know, i still deny the Holocaust.


tweakabelle
I'm sad and sorry to hear that. That is where you and I part company.

I don't want anything to do with any one who engages in such crass anti-Semitism. I find it deplorable.


Apparently you are unable to understand that the above is a sweeping condemnation of anti-Semitism. I'll be very interested to understand your reasons for this apparent inability to understand simple English.

And while you are at it, you could also explain why defenders of the deplorable apartheid regime Israel operates in Occupied Palestine feel they have any moral basis to call critics of that racist-to-its-very-core apartheid regime 'racists'. Is it that they don't understand what apartheid is? Or what racism is? Is it that they are naive? Or ignorant? Or total hypocrites? Or all of the above?

Don't they have any idea of how ridiculous they sound? If this is what you meant by 'comedy', I'm happy that we have found something that we agree upon at last.

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 2:57:14 AM   
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Tweaks, he doesnt understand any of it. Not your points re the holocaust, not mine about the blogger, none of it. He will be hard pressed to find anything about Kasim Hafeez in the UK media, although he does get a mention on Stormfronts web site. I am afraid he will just continue his passive agressive attacks and hope no one notices his head is still firmly jammed where I said it was.


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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 4:22:12 AM   
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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

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The question might better be put as : On what basis can Israel live in peace and harmony with its neighbours? The Palestinians have recognised the existence of Israel since at least 1993 (the Oslo Accords). Even Hamas has been hinting strongly that it can live with a Palestinian State based on the 1967 borders.

As usual you are lying. The Palestinian National Covenant, the charter under which the PLO operates, remains unamended and still calls for the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews world wide. The Hamas charter remains the profoundly anti semitic document it has always been, calling for genocide of the Jewish people worldwide and subscribing to a wide range of of anti Jewish conspiracy theories.


As usual you are dead wrong.
"The Hamas movement is ready to recognize agreements signed with Israel, and in fact recognize Israel, but only within the '67 borders, senior Hamas member Khaled Suleiman said Wednesday.

According to Suleiman, the movement will be ready to accept a Palestinian state inside the '67 borders and will not operate to thwart diplomatic negotiations held by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3249568,00.html

That's just one report - there are many more reports confirming this position. And it comes from an Israeli source too.

I look forward to your apology for wrongly calling me a liar - more in hope than anticipation. But go on, do the right thing for once in your life and surprise me - apologise.


Hamas is still killing Jews and is still spreading the worst anti semitic hate imaginable, including but not limited to the Blood Libel and the Protocols. To claim otherwise is a lie.

My assertion was that:
"Even Hamas has been hinting strongly that it can live with a Palestinian State based on the 1967 borders"
You claimed that I was "lying".
I produced evidence to prove my assertion was correct, and asked you to apologise for falsely and maliciously calling me a liar.
You haven't produce any evidence to support your claims. You haven't apologised.
Stop trying to weasel your way out of your self-created hole and apologise if you have any decency.

You produced a statement that was immediately contradicted by the Hamas official spokesman.
You claim Hamas is ready to recpgnize Israel but they have done nothing of the kind. Therefore you lied.

You claimed the PLO recognize Israel but that is at best a very careful parsing of the facts. The PLO charter still calls for the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews. Arafat made repeated comparison between a passage in the Qu'ran where Mohammed deceitfully negotiated with the leaders of Mecca before conquering the city and Oslo when speaking to the Palestinian and Arab press. Since all this has been pointed out to you before in tedious detail, the only logical conclusion is you are being intentionall deceitful yourself i.e you lied.

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 4:26:06 AM   
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we all will die...

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 4:57:58 AM   
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Tweaks, he doesnt understand any of it. Not your points re the holocaust, not mine about the blogger, none of it. He will be hard pressed to find anything about Kasim Hafeez in the UK media, although he does get a mention on Stormfronts web site. I am afraid he will just continue his passive agressive attacks and hope no one notices his head is still firmly jammed where I said it was.



Sadly, I fear you are correct. There's a long history of his posting here to support your analysis.

The same is true of his colleague DomKen, who continues to make wild abusive claims about what I said despite being proved wrong in black and white. He seems unaware of normal civilised rules of discourse which oblige people to apologise when they are found to have made false, malicious personal attacks.

As the attitude they display is a true reflection of Israeli policy in Occupied Palestine, it's easy to understand why the ME conflict is so intractable isn't it? As it's pointless try to reason with such people, I'm going to leave them to stew in their own personalised hells, which is the only way I can describe the place where their heads are jammed.

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 6:21:53 AM   
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Tweaks, he doesnt understand any of it. Not your points re the holocaust, not mine about the blogger, none of it. He will be hard pressed to find anything about Kasim Hafeez in the UK media, although he does get a mention on Stormfronts web site. I am afraid he will just continue his passive agressive attacks and hope no one notices his head is still firmly jammed where I said it was.

I do indeed understand it. Tweaks, who BTW I don't respond to anymore because she derails threads on Israel with tons of crap, did not condemn his initial statement http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=4254376 which contained objectionably anti-Semitic content besides denial of the Holocaust (e.g. " the "Jews" in Israel aren't Jews but just filty Zionists"). After he clarified that he wasn't strictly denying that people had died, she rejoined with a far from condemnatory post http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=4254825 "I am glad you have clarified your statements on the Holocaust..." and proceeded to teach him how better to express himself in the cause of the pro-Palestinian movement. Only subsequently did she criticise him for "crass anti-Semitism" http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=4254859 before going back yet again to teaching him how better to conduct himself for the Palestinian cause here http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=4254873 Rather than ignore or blast him she chose to rage on about the dreaded Zionist Lobby gaining from it!

Thus it would seem she has little issue with anti-Semites who do not explicitly deny the Holocaust. In fact it could be argued that she considers them allies. One example that springs to mind is Termy who was posting about the Protocols a while back. I criticised him fairly harshly and then she attacked me!! At the end of the day if you refuse to measure a person by their conduct then I can't make you. Will a head-in-the-sand attitude be your defining feature?

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 6:25:16 AM   
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As the attitude they display is a true reflection of Israeli policy in Occupied Palestine, it's easy to understand why the ME conflict is so intractable isn't it? As it's pointless try to reason with such people, I'm going to leave them to stew in their own personalised hells, which is the only way I can describe the place where their heads are jammed.

Let me segue to this interesting article which points out the disarray among the Israeli pols due to the changes occurring amongst their neighbors. The crisis is within Israel itself because she cannot identify the changes and new threats that have arisen and because its military deterrant may not offer the security it did in the past. As a consequence Netanyahu is forced to focus upon the one "problem" that lends itself to military action ~ nuclear Iran. In the meanwhile the PA is reluctant to continue talks as it observes the spread of Arab insurgency in the area. A good read I think.
Published with permission of Stratfor

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 6:29:21 AM   
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I do indeed understand it. Tweaks, who BTW I don't respond to anymore because she derails threads on Israel with tons of crap, did not condemn his initial statement

Your ad hominem attacks are what derail this thread. The thread is about Israel, not about you.

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 6:35:56 AM   
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I do indeed understand it. Tweaks, who BTW I don't respond to anymore because she derails threads on Israel with tons of crap, did not condemn his initial statement

Your ad hominem attacks are what derail this thread. The thread is about Israel, not about you.

ROFL I have hardly mentioned myself. She was the one who started teaching a very overt anti-Semite how better to conduct himself. You clearly agree with her and praise her frequently. That's fine, your's is a choice based on your own personal views on Israel but don't expect others to be silent if they disagree.

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 7:58:02 AM   
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ROFL I have hardly mentioned myself. She was the one who started teaching a very overt anti-Semite how better to conduct himself. You clearly agree with her and praise her frequently. That's fine, your's is a choice based on your own personal views on Israel but don't expect others to be silent if they disagree.

I don't have such expectations. Feel free to disagree on point anytime. If you say Hamas wishes to destroy Israel and I say the Islamists see Israel as a usurper of their land so wtf do you expect, then we have the basis for a disagreement and disagreements are fine. But why all this he said/she said bullshit? Then this person and that person feel the need for self-justification and around it goes. It just gets in the way of the flow of ideas that pertain to the thread and is a waste of bandwidth, imo.

What do you think of the article I posted above? Looks like Israel is in a terrible pickle.

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 8:17:00 AM   
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As the attitude they display is a true reflection of Israeli policy in Occupied Palestine, it's easy to understand why the ME conflict is so intractable isn't it? As it's pointless try to reason with such people, I'm going to leave them to stew in their own personalised hells, which is the only way I can describe the place where their heads are jammed.

Let me segue to this interesting article which points out the disarray among the Israeli pols due to the changes occurring amongst their neighbors. The crisis is within Israel itself because she cannot identify the changes and new threats that have arisen and because its military deterrant may not offer the security it did in the past. As a consequence Netanyahu is forced to focus upon the one "problem" that lends itself to military action ~ nuclear Iran. In the meanwhile the PA is reluctant to continue talks as it observes the spread of Arab insurgency in the area. A good read I think.
Published with permission of Stratfor

Interesting analysis - thanks for the link VincentML.

If the thesis is valid (and I stress the 'If'), it's odd that the possibility of peace with the Palestinians is dismissed by the authors. While they explain their reasons for doing so, they omitted to consider the game-breaking possibilities offered by a just and lasting peace treaty. It would certainly be one way for Israel to regain the initiative and escape from the strategic torpor the author describes.

One such advantage would be that many of the strategic pitfalls the author describes would become irrelevant. The threat on the southern front by a resurgent Egypt would be eliminated. The problem of containing Gaza would go the same way. This would allow Israel to insulate itself from the dangers of a fracturing Syria, torn apart by its civil war, and the permanent instability of Lebanon on its northern front. It's impossible to calculate the full extent of a peace dividend but surely it would lead a general (and much needed) lessening of tensions in the region.

Another factor favouring a peace initiative is that the state of flux in its neighbours would allow Israel to negotiate from a position of strength unlikely to be the repeated in the future as political events in its neighbours settle and the the dangers alluded to by the author re-emerge, perhaps in a strengthened form, something that one assumes Israel would be anxious to avoid. Are Israel's current leadership so implicated in military solutions that they are unable to envisage peace in any other form than capitulation?

The region as whole is crying out for decent leadership, people with the vision to take the brave steps needed for permanent peace and the authority to carry his/her people down the road to peace. It's not just the Palestinians who are saddled with hopeless leaders. The entire region is badly let down by the Assads, the Netanyahus et al. While it's far too early to judge, perhaps Egypt's Morsi can emerge as such a figure. His deft sidelining of the military is one encouraging sign that he may in time emerge as such a figure.

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 10:29:29 AM   
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tweak lets suppose Israel was serious about peace. Any demand that had as a basis the return to the 1967 pre war boundaries would I believe kill the process before it started. In fact I will bet that demand now is the real sticking point in a peace process.

We are all familiar with the circumstances leading up to that war. Israel was being constantly attacked from the heights of Syria. And as today when they retaliated for these attacks the Arab nations ran to the UN accusing Israel of aggression and atrocities.

There was no doubt , and has been proven, that the Arab coalition, vastly outnumbering Israel, was massing to attack. Only a preemptive strike saved Israel from annihilation. A surprise attack of this kind will not work again and Israel knows this. If they give back the heights and allow Egypt to continue their incursions into the Sinai against the treaty they will again be at an untenable military disadvantage.

Bottom line Israel can not and will not agree to go back to those borders. So if there is to be peace that demand will need to be altered in some way.

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 11:00:33 AM   
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If the thesis is valid (and I stress the 'If'), it's odd that the possibility of peace with the Palestinians is dismissed by the authors. While they explain their reasons for doing so, they omitted to consider the game-breaking possibilities offered by a just and lasting peace treaty. It would certainly be one way for Israel to regain the initiative and escape from the strategic torpor the author describes.

Suppose Jordan falls to the Brotherhood, as suggested in the analysis, Mahmoud Abbas could find himself in a real squeeze with intractable settlements throughout the area and resurgent islamists on his East. What chance for a Palestinian State based on a treaty with Israel? Not much I think. Abbas could find himself before a peoples' revolutionary court. Sometimes the events of history do not allow for a just and lasting peace. Strike that. Make it "most times." Yeah, I am a skeptic and a pessimist.

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 11:14:52 AM   
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There was no doubt , and has been proven, that the Arab coalition, vastly outnumbering Israel, was massing to attack. Only a preemptive strike saved Israel from annihilation.

Yup. No doubt. A fascinating story, it was.

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Bottom line Israel can not and will not agree to go back to those borders. So if there is to be peace that demand will need to be altered in some way.

Maybe so but that is "last war" thinking, imo. The emergence of insurrectionist warfare as developed in Afghanistan, Somolia, and Iraq make borders meaningless as lines of defense. Again, imo.

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 11:22:59 AM   
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The emergence of insurrectionist warfare as developed in Afghanistan, Somolia, and Iraq make borders meaningless as lines of defense. Again, imo.


Vince I don’t believe an insurgency can operate inside Israel…that would be like saying an Arab insurgency could work in Missouri. Israel has seen this possibility for years and has isolated Arabs living in country.

If Israel is to be totally defeated it will come from conventional warfare…at least in my opinion.

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 11:41:11 AM   
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The emergence of insurrectionist warfare as developed in Afghanistan, Somolia, and Iraq make borders meaningless as lines of defense. Again, imo.


Vince I don’t believe an insurgency can operate inside Israel…that would be like saying an Arab insurgency could work in Missouri. Israel has seen this possibility for years and has isolated Arabs living in country.

If Israel is to be totally defeated it will come from conventional warfare…at least in my opinion.

Butch

You might have a valid point, Butch. I guess Israel will have to take the whole West Bank then. Oh wait, they have pretty much done that, haven't they?

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RE: Israel - 10/4/2012 11:45:56 AM   
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ROFL I have hardly mentioned myself. She was the one who started teaching a very overt anti-Semite how better to conduct himself. You clearly agree with her and praise her frequently. That's fine, your's is a choice based on your own personal views on Israel but don't expect others to be silent if they disagree.

I don't have such expectations. Feel free to disagree on point anytime. If you say Hamas wishes to destroy Israel and I say the Islamists see Israel as a usurper of their land so wtf do you expect, then we have the basis for a disagreement and disagreements are fine. But why all this he said/she said bullshit? Then this person and that person feel the need for self-justification and around it goes. It just gets in the way of the flow of ideas that pertain to the thread and is a waste of bandwidth, imo.

What do you think of the article I posted above? Looks like Israel is in a terrible pickle.

Sadly there isn't a flow of ideas - I doubt there has been on this subject since I started on here a few years back. Tweak took plenty of unprovoked shots at me but I haven't seen anyone complaining. lol I rarely reply these days but criticised her this time because her remarks to that dutch "character" were highly revealing since she’s always bashing Israel. I’m happy to leave that discussion at this stage.

Re. the article: I only skimmed through it due to time issues. Some is correct although I wouldn't agree on everything in it. I don't think Israel is going through an internal crisis on quite such a scale. Rather it is an external one precipitated by increasing radicalisation in the Islamic world, markedly worsened since the USSR-Afghan War and then the invasion of Iraq. Israel’s future looks grim indeed and a resolution to the Palestinian issue won’t remotely fix it. I think many Israeli’s know that too. Having near zero influence in the Middle East since its inception, there is little it can do about it other than intervene militarily on occasion when the threat gets very severe. Something may happen soon as Assad has threatened to attack Israel and also threatened to use chemical weapons if a foreign force attacks. NATO may eventually go in due to the attacks on Turkey continue. Then Assad will likely hit Israel as Saddam did in ’91 or at least pass much of his vast chemical arsenal to Hizbullah as may have begun already. If that happens the destruction will be on a vast scale.

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