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I think this is exactly right.
"Israel has a lot more to contribute to its relationship with the US than oil and terrorism, which are the main exports of the Arab world right now."
Typical hoppy. Typical Zio. Typical anti-Arab bigot.
"Israel is the Jewish homeland"
Nope. It's just occupied Palestine and will be free one day.
Denis,
What was the focal length? Was the photo cropped and how? Why are those things important?
"Woody, it doesn’t require a PhD in forensic science to see that the still photo at the top of this post is staged."
Actually, yes it does. (Training, at least, if not a doctorate). That's why they can make a lot of money doing what they do: because it's not something that anyone can do in his spare time.
Was the photo cropped? What was the focal length used?
If you can't answer those questions then you cannot reach the conclusions you reached about that photo. Do you know? Do you even know why they are important?
A forensic investigation of video and still footage by someone who, like you, demonstrates not even the most elementary knowledge of the subject, should be simply disregarded.
Good for the Nation. Let's hope it starts the conversation.
Free Palestine. That's the test. If the isrealis won't do that -- if they continue to hold half of the people under its control powerless, without recourse to the vote or the political or legal proceses while israel ships massive numbers of its people to steal the land out from under the Palestinians' feet -- then they deserve absolutely no support from liberals. Because no matter how progressive they are on other issues, it does not matter if they fail this one.
LMAO, Well, Fredo, I may be fringe for saying that Palestinians are entitled to human rights, but the fringe once said that slavery was wrong and that Jews had the right be treated like decedent Christian folks. So I'm okay with the fringe.
And if you think that the anti-Palestinian bigotry among zios is only on the fringe, you're a fool or deluding yourself. It's the fundamental tenet of your state's bigoted ideology.
"Mechabel is used to refer to Palestinian terrorists, not Palestinians in general."
And if you haven't heard pro-israeli people saying that all Palestinians are terrorists -- indeed many of you people say that all Arabs are terrorists -- then you haven't been paying attention, because it is one of the most common bigoted lies on your side. And if they're doing it in English, do you doubt their doing it in Hebrew?
So really, hoppy, excuse the rest of us if we fail to draw the fine distinctions you require between dictionary defintions, common usages, and idioms, when your fellow zionists are smearing millions (if not hundreds of millions) of people based on their ethnicity.
"That’s the most patently idiotic thing I have read all day. And my standards for that are low."
Oh, don't be too hard on ol' Fredo. He's got a tough assignment; defending every Jewish Israeli, regardless of the merits of the matter, is a tough gig. You should have seen him dancing when he was defending the organ-snatching ogre, Dr. Hiss...
LMAO. Yeah, sure, Fredo. I'm sure if some other state had a "shoot the IDF occupier" even you would be totally okay with that, because there's nothing wrong with shooting and IDF occupier or pretending to shoot an IDF occupier...
Yeah, because it's impossible that someone is opposed to zionism and the occupation and oppression of the Palestinians out of simple, progressive feelings. One must hate Jews qua Jews. Do I have your brand of paranoid lunacy right?
"But the remains of the building were dismantled by the Israel Antiquities Authority, which did not realize its importance"
I doubt that very much. I think they knew exactly what they were doing.
"If you are going to quote the Torah, then quote the part about the land being given to what is now the Jewish people."
Sure and then why not then base modern geo-politics on the "Wizard of Oz" or other fairy tales.
"Nice effort American, but you forget one major fact. None of the people you mentioned, besides the Jews, have the deed to the city which is the Torah."
I think I'm out of here for a while. When this type of religious lunacy -- unhistorical, fairy-tale gibberish, no better, really, than Holocaust denial -- is permitted to be posted, I will find better things to do.
King will probably do so and no one will care. Idiot America will Fox-News that until Justin Beiber has a new song or the Kardasians do whatever it is that they do (if anything) to be famous. The US is a moral, intellectual and cultural dung heap.
typo: "Weinberg's" should be "Weinberger's" of course.
"If the prosecutor didn’t know then the judge didn’t know. The judge knows what the prosecutor tells him."
The judge based the (much too lenient) sentence on Weinberg's memorandum, not on what the prosecutor told him.
"I don’t buy into the idea that he is a hero in Israel."
Yeah, because Jerusalem renames squares near the PM's residence after random people all the time.
Well, Fredo, when your country comes clean with the details of all of the documents Pollard gave it and what it did with those documents -- declassifies everything and makes it available to the world -- then we'll know how many of my countrymen were killed as a consequence of your country, all so that more Russians could come and terrorize and murder Palestinian men, women and children.
Pollard is the worst. His treachery on behalf of your apartheid state led to the death of my countrymen. But I guess what's a few American's lives to you... After all, there were russian jews yearning to oppress Palestinian children.
"Jewish tourists in a Bnei Akiva military 'experience' program."
Because today's diaspora Jews don't just want to see the criminal activity of the fellow Jews against the Palestinians, they want to pretend to do it themselves.
It's like a bunch of European whites taking a tour of the American South in the 1920s and pretending to be Klansmen, complete with genuine lynchin' ropes.
"More evidence that in the West Bank, at least, support for side by side coexistence is less than hoped for in the one state movement."
Yeah, because no one but you, apparently, would put it past the zios to send spies and saboteurs in, and the Palestinians have to keep their guard up. You should never trust an Israeli. Not about anything. Ever.
Your statement really smacks of getting down on poor people living under a bridge because rich folks have no problem following that law...
"If anyone wrote that about Jews, this person would scream “anti-Semitism”."
I agree. In my experience, people who write garbage like that which you just quoted think that anti-semitism is the worst thing imaginable, but excuse their own bigotry.
He's not a lesser evil on the crimes against the Palestinians. He's the same evil, and maybe worse. We expect reactionaries to take the side of the devil. There's no excuse for Democrats to do that, simply because they don't want to tell a part of their party to stop supporting evil.
This makes perfect sense, they have to know how many tear gas canisters they are going to fire at the heads of peaceful people and that takes some planning... Violations of human rights don't plan themselves, you know.
Best of luck to them. I hope they turn the NYPD into paupers.
Daniel,
Thanks for the link. I'll have to set aside some time to watch it.
“Woody accuses me of mouthing Stalinist propaganda.”
Well, yeah, because you are.
“I am quite aware of and willing to acknowledge many of Stalin’s crimes.”
Only “many”? Who in his right mind wouldn’t acknowledge all of them? It’s not like the paranoid psychopath didn’t leave a trail of bloody bodies behind him.
“The point I made is that the Soviets were not able to help the Warsaw uprising in August of 1944. That is a fact of military logistics.”
And the failure had nothing to do with logistics but had everything to do with the butchers of Katyn wanting to install a puppet traitorous government which would be loyal to the USSR and not to the Polish people. It was politics. There were many things that the Soviets could have done, even considering the military situation at the time, not the least of which was simply to let the Allies who were trying to help the Poles, use the Soviet air bases. It could have made a great difference, but the bastards didn’t even do that. I guess Stalin was still steamed over the Poles kicking his ass in 1921.
“Woody I find your comments quite offensive.”
BFD. I really don’t give a damn. I find your excuses for a beast like Stalin to be offensive.
“They are part of right wing complaints of the Soviet efforts in their war against the NAZIs.”
Oh, my complaints against those bastards date from well before their war against the Nazis, and include when those Red bastards helped their fellow reactionaries, the Nazis, in attacking and destroying Poland in 1939.
And the complaints that Stalin didn’t help the Poles is the plain truth. For some twisted reason, you seem to be an apologist for a regime that was, if not as bad as the Nazis, a very close second. That's twisted by any definition.
“Just because you hate Israel does not make you a progressive.”
LOL. No, I am a progressive because I believe in progressive ideas.
“Many of us are very worried that Israel’s current behavior has encouraged good old fashioned western fascist types to join the struggle for Palestinian liberation.”
Well, if you’re really interested in the liberation of any people, then you need to stop defending the bastards that enslaved half of Europe for fifty years and who, when the had the opportunity to actually help liberate Warsaw, let their old allies destroy it.
“I have been worried for some time where you are coming from.”
Well I guess you can always rat me out to the KGB... And if you think that I’m a fascist, well that just means that you are a moron.
"Obama’s statement about 'Polish death camps' was taken out of context."
No, it wasn't. It may have been a gaffe, and perhaps not intended as an insult (but I wouldn't put it past Obama) and it demonstrates the tin ear that this administration has for some aspects of foreign policy, but it was not "out of context" precisely because there is no "context" in which that expression is legitimate.
"You are repeating a common right wing lie."
BS. You, your mouthing BS Stalinist propaganda.
The plain fact is that during the 63 days of the uprising, the Soviets were 5 air minutes from the fighting and did nothing. And as a result, it just so happened that the only force in Poland capable of upsetting Stalin's plans for the Soviet domination in Poland was eliminated and his commie stooges could destroy the country for the next fifty years.
Because the single biggest fact that shows that the Stalinist propaganda you're pushing here is just that -- propaganda -- is the fact that the damned Soviets didn't let the Allies use the Soviet air bases, so they forced to fly from the UK and Italy. Warsaw was destroyed because of that Soviet trash.
"oh yeah, and your precious Obama"
??? Whose precious Obama?? My belief that Romney isn't going to win has nothing to do with any positive feelings I have for Obama. It's simply a political calculation. I'm voting for neither.
Romney's not going to get elected in November.
It doesn't surprise me when these zios are republicans, as there is a clear streak of reactionary thought in both ideologies. When I imagine what a parasite like Adelson -- someone who is essentially a crack dealer for people with gambling addiction, sucking the blood out of people and taking advantage of someone's weakness for his own gain -- would think about politics 1) complaining about fairness being "socialistic" and 2) supporting the judeo-fascist state are really obvious answers.
Sadly, this is yet another example in why religion should be destroyed. These people who are doing this to this child and supporting this alleged monster are mentally deranged.
As well he should have.
Everyone knows that you must keep the Aryan women away from Jewish men, otherwise how can you keep the Aryan blood pure??
Everyone knows that you must keep the white women away from black men, otherwise how can you keep the white race pure??
Everyone knows that you must keep the Jewish women away from Arab men, otherwise how can you keep the Jewish blood pure??
The song remains the same...
Fredo, I understand what Perfidy is, both as it relates to war and as an insult. My point still stands. Perfidy, as an insult, perfectly defines the people who make up the zionist entity: they claim to be civilized but act like blood-thirsty barbarians.
But, of course, I also understand that the bar in law has nothing to do with putting innocent people in danger (indeed, the zionist freakshow demonstrates that it cares not a whit about what happens to innocent people [unless they're Jews, of course, and then it doesn't care if they're innocent or guilty...]) and has everything to do with dominant powers delegitimizing strategies against which they have no counter.
And, of course, Israel commits this crime every single day as it has spread armed, non-uniformed troops throughout the West Bank portion of Palestine but pretends that they are civilians. Every one of them is a valid target that will, one day soon, be taken out.
"...obligations to avoid Perfidy."
If that's the case, then there's no act with the Jewish "state" has done that isn't a war crime. Perfidy is the definition of those people.
And I'm sure your mafia bosses will let him back into the family business as soon as the heat dies down...
I guess my point is that if the Liberty, Pollard, and the myriad of other ways that history has shown israeli's betrayal of the US and the US's willingness to welcome that betrayal, then what would it matter? Would this be the thing that finally makes the US people see the light? Not on your life. The zionist community will say that the US was wrong for putting the limitations in the thing in the first place. Fully half of the political public in the US is already on board for attacking Iran or not having the US hold Israel back if it wants to do it.
The fact is that the people weilding power in the US and the people who are doing so behind the scenes are all aboard with the program of linking the two states. Iran and the larger world should simply recognize that fact.
What does it matter? If I were Iran, I would say that it considers the US and Israel to be one enemy and of one ideology and therefore, if either were to take action against Iran, it would consider both to be responsible and take any action it believed was necessary in response to the Amerisraeli aggression. There are a lot of really, really, really soft targets in the US.
The racism (really bigotry which is the equivalent of racism) is that it posits benefits to one group and legal liabilities and detriments to another based on their ethno-religous background, in contravention to their rights as people.
It's the New York Times, zio-America's premier propaganda outlet... Besides, can it be considered a double standard if they have no real standards to begin with?
The worst part about Nadler's statement is the unspoken assumption that Nazi Germany was bad solely because of the genocide. Even if no Jew was killed, and all that happened was that they were wrenched from their homes and stuck in ghettos, that would still have made that state and evil, evil place.
"All of these give us the moral justification to return to this particular land and not to any other place in the world to build our own sovereign state."
No it doesn't. That is the evil that is at the heart of your ideology that you just don't see. Simply because some of your ancestors lived there thousands of years ago and simply because you like some fairy tales written about that land gives you no right to that land. None. You have no more a right to it than the Nazis had a right to your homeland of Russia.
In fact, the Nazis at least didn't pretend that what they were doing wasn't simply a pure exercise of power over people who they believed were inferior. It's the same thing that you and your fellow zios are doing. At least they had the character to admit what they were doing and didn't pretend that it was some homecoming.
The response I would suggest is to post a picture of Ernst Röhm and say, "...and the Nazis had their gays, too."
"Well this is infantry and artillery holding hands.
I wished them to stay forever in harmony."
Yuk yuk. So when you line up some Palestinian baby in your sites as an infantryman, you can call in the artillery on that spot and claim the murder wasn't "intentional."
"LOL. I knew someone would try to pull that one."
Because the comparison is clear and only someone self-deluded by the zionist mind-poison wouldn't see it.
"given the option"
Since you seem so keen on the UN giving away other people's land, then the simple solution is the "1948 plan" -- carve out a large swath of "Israel" and give it to the migrants, just like happened when the UN stole Palestine on behalf of Jews. Give the Jews the choice of living under a government controlled by the migrants. No problem.
But the supposed "choice" in 1948 was offered by people who had no right to do so, so it is wholly and completely illegitimate anyway, as are their offspring today. Because, no, none of this land is the Jews' country. The country is all Palestine and belongs to the Palestinians. If most of the Jews there were born in the zionist entity, that only confirms the fact that they were permitted "too long afterward."
Good point, seafoid. I stand corrected.
No, when you're engineering a final solution like this, the trains go East.
israelis being bigoted. Why am I not surprised?
"Perhaps it is not Apartheid. So should we call i: ADSISFAN, A Despicable System In Search For A Name?"
That particular form of apartheid is called "zionism." The UN had it right: zionism is racism.
"Please leave Mandela alone. We all respect him too much."
No you don't. You judeo-fascists spit on him every single day with your ethno-racist filth.
"Two books published in 2004 placed the blame for the failure of the summit on Arafat. They were My Life by President Clinton and The Missing Peace by Dennis Ross."
You're quoting Israel's lawyers?!? LOL. And I'm sure you believe every third-rate lawyer who says that his client, the rapist, didn't do it.
"Bibi’s minor injury is a big news story in Israel while the fate of Sarsak, who is considered a hero among many Palestinians, is ignored."
Because a large number of twisted, deranged people make the decisions in that state.
"I must say I was disappointed — but not surprised — by the absence of media coverage of the anniversary of the attack a couple of days ago."
I wasn't surprised either. Too many zionists in too many influential positions for a true airing of the cost of America's support of this cesspool.
You like them because they don't put the US first?
And did you ever ask your old man why he didn't join the US army instead of becoming an apartheid merc for the enemy?
Exactly. It is disgusting that this site allows such vile garbage as this. There is no excuse for permitting such a post.
"The question is why do the gentiles who marry Jews more often convert to Judaism and you rarely hear about the other way around?"
My guess is that those who do convert aren't really religious people to begin with and the religious label is meaningless to them, while there is a cultural and religious aspect to the Judaism, even those who aren't religious themselves.
"The story here for me is yet more proof of how utterly integrated Jews in America have become, which makes the panic of pogroms and the fearmongering for a need for an Israel ‘because we can’t know what will happen here’ even more ridicolous."
I think that's the case. It's viewed as just one of many religions in the US.
If it were up to me, anyone who served in a foreign army should lose his citizenship and be kicked out with only the clothes on his back. The same goes for "dual" citizens. If you're not in all the way for the USA, get the f out.
Dan,
This wasn't spoken, it was a column that Shmulo wrote in Huffington Post. So maybe it was just poorly written (having read a bunch of his work, that's very likely; he's not a very good writer [or thinker, for that matter]).
"People here are just not willing to believe that Boteach genuinely
sees American and Israeli interests as one and the same."
Of course he does. All the israel-first and israel-only people share that delusion.
That reading doesn't make sense. The daughter is training terrorists as part of the israeli stormtroopers, in the zionist entity. The son is supposed to go to West Point in the US, which in no way can be described as being an "embattled democracy." Further, Schmulo said that the son will "join" the daughter.
The US and the zionist enemy are two different states, so there is no way to describe these two states as "an embattled democracy" (which is unquestionably in the singular). That, and the statement that the one will "join" the other, seems to betray an opinion that they are the same.
Bizarre, but in keeping with the lunacy of the American zionists.
"this while having a grueling daily regimen of Torah study that begins at 7am, ends at 10pm,"
Are we supposed to be impressed that he is wasting his life studying fairy stories?
That someone like Kass could even get a job in the US defense establishment is a joke.
"Chana is joining the IDF, where she might train soldiers and Mendy is trying to get into West Point and, if he fails admission there, he might enlist in the IDF."
One would think if Mendy was loyal to the US, that if he did not get into the prestigious West Point, he would enlist in the US Army, rather than become a scum-sucking merc for a foreign power.
"Sooo much pathos ."
It's easy to criticize when you, Oleg, are responisble for the problems she is fighting. When you back to your own damn country and leave hers to her people, then maybe you can open your mouth. Comrade.
"Your reference to Rabbi Boteach as one who 'comes off unhinged and fanatical' strikes me, Annie, as a bit excessive and overly selective."
It struck me as being a bit understated. Mr. Boteach is a nut, plain and simple. Just listen to the content of what he says.
"There is no implication that someone who saved non-Jewish Poles is not a righteous person."
Yes, there most certainly is. In fact, the name of the "award" bestowed -- Righteous among the Nations -- absolutely reeks of it.
He's not "israel first" because that would imply a loyalty to the US, even if secondarily. He's "israel only."
"Your skin is not on the line here Philip i remind you."
Oleg, I'm sure if you asked, your homeland, the Rodina, would take you back. So your skin is not on the line, either, comrade.
Interesting that the usual zio-apologists have left this story alone. Cowards.
LMAO. There's nothing "center-left" about saying, as Foxman essentially did in reponse to the Park51 controversy, that it's okay if we strip from Muslims the freedom to practice their religion in the US as they wish, if bigots like Pam Geller make enough noise.
“The passage of this motion condemning the use of the term “Israeli Apartheid" at Pride has signaled to Toronto, and indeed the entire country, that hate and intolerance are not welcome at Canada’s largest Pride festival."
To hell with free speech, so long as fifth columnists and israel-Firsters are satisfied...
"Considering Azmi Bishara was accused of passing information... After that, it isn’t exactly shocking that Israel doesn’t trust members of his party."
So let me get this straight... You are actually defending the hours-long harassment of someone who, themselves, did nothing wrong, simply because someone who has similar political opinions is accused of doing something wrong.
Then given that Jonathan Pollard is a zionist, and given that he was not only accused of being a spy for a foreign power, but actually confessed to doing it (and, I might add, it is said that his treachery led to the deaths of Americans), then you would be okay if the American authorities took every zionist aside when they pass through customs and harass them for hours on end??
That's a very good list.
The inclusion of Hebrew in HP's instructions is interesting. Although Hebrew is just a minor, tribal language, if an inordinate number of HP customers spoke it, it would appropriate for the language to be included. If a similar minor language, such as Minangkabau, Turkmen, Batak, or Hiligaynon (all of which have more speakers than Hebrew) were to be disproportionately numerous among HP users, then I would expect HP to include instruction in those languages, as well.
Of course, none of this touches the main point that HP is providing the technology which makes the occupation and zionist oppression possible and, as such, are responsible for that oppression.
"Like whether they were firing at Israel from the vicinity of the kindergarten, whether the air raid was on a munitions manufacturing center, or storage facility, etc"
This is Fredo-logic in action: consider what racist story comports with his overarching goal of defending israel, presume it true, condemn the Palestinians on that presumption and move on. Oh, the wonder of zio-caine.
Sorry, Fredo, you're projecting again. Just because YOU will do or say anything to defend israel, regardless of the facts, you are projecting your pathology on others.
I, for one, have no problem condemning Saudi Arabia in this circumstance, nor do I feel any need to link israel to crimes for which it's not related. It's committed enough on its own.
So, sorry you're pathetic point failed.
"you cannot target a rare oasis of fun and normalcy for children born and raised during a conflict and under embargo.”"
Normal decent people wouldn't do that. These are israelis. They insist that no Palestinians, no matter how small and innocent, be free of the torture which is the israeli calling card.
"The threat is that they close the straits of Hormuz and threaten us with a nuke if we attack their ships."
Then don't provoke them into wanting to close the strait of Hormuz. This does not constitute a "direct threat to the US." It's no different than the US's relation with every nuclear armed state. Do you pee your panties because if the Chinese close the straight of Taiwan, they can threaten us with nukes if we attack their ships? Does this make China a "direct threat to the US?" No, it's a mundane fact of life.
"The threat is that they do what they have always done, not launch direct wars, but supply weapons and training to terrorists with us unable to retaliate because of their nukes."
In other words, they want to act exactly like the US and Israel have done for decades? Great. Then do what other people do when faced with the US and do exactly as we do when dealing with other nuclear-armed states: don't threaten them and give them any excuse to threaten us.
"The threat is that the next 9/11 attack comes from terrorists in Iran and we are unable to go after them because, hey, nuke."
Then don't threaten them to the point where they would send terrorists to the US. And why aren't you worried about the North Koreans sending the next 9/11 attack? Oh, I guess because they're not Muslims and Iranians are. So you'll just (like a racist does) blur the distinctions between Persian Shia and Arab Sunni, as well as the incredibly complex dynamics at work and just say, "Muslims did it. They're Muslims."
"The threat is that one of their Ayatollahs decides that Allah will protect Iran from retaliation and nukes an American city."
That's your undiagnosed pathological paranoia, coupled with your vile anti-Muslim bigotry and not a reaslistic assessment of reality. Unless you think "direct threat to US" means "imaginary future fantasies that makes me scared."
In what way, exactly, is Iran a "direct threat" to the US? It may be a threat to neo-con fantasies and imperial ambitions of some Americans, but that's not a threat to the US, let alone a "direct threat."
Just like an israeli, defending a crime against humanity by pointing to a couple of fire crackers.
"BTW, stop complaining about phosphorus if you are going to use it yourselves."
LOL. Yeah, right. There's NO WAY these were planted by the israelis in an empty field. The Gazans couldn't get music instruments and pasta, but you expect anyone to believe that Gaza is just teeming with white phosphorus mortor shells... (And not the ones the zios used to burn up Palestinian children...) Why not just say that you have conclusive proof that they have phasers like in Star Trek and they're NOT set to stun! It would be more believable.
"Hamas claim to be representing an oppressed people too. Why not support their preferred borders?"
Because I'm not a supporter of Hamas.
I support the rights of all people to rights (human, political, etc.) and the right to full equality. I personally don't care if it is done in 1 state, 2 states, 10 states or whatever; so long as it's done. But if we're talking about 2 states: if the PLO, representatives of the oppressed people, accept that line as a border, then that's fine by me. I have no reason to be more Catholic than the Pope.
Because the PLO has accepted the green line as the border.
link to plomission.us
"Beit El is not a settlement it’s already a town by Israeli size standarts."
It's over the green line, so it's a settlement.
"USS Liberty……let us not forget. June 8th, tomorrow is the anniversary of the Israeli attack."
Yes, on this day it is only appropriate to remember and mourn not only those Americans who were murdered by the israelis in cold blood, but to also remember the fact that it was the US's own politicians who covered up that crime and have been traitors to this foreign power for the last 4 decades.
Zionism must be destroyed, by any means necessary.
"(i.e. among people at war with Israel)"
False. They are people who are prey to israeli bigotry..
Sorry, hasbarist (and that's not calling you a name, that's labeling what you're doing: mindlessly repeating worn out hasbara), there is nothing that is hysterical, venomous, erroneous or ignorant in pointing out that the land in question (and various portions of it) have had many names in the past few centuries, none of which are more than arbitrary conventions. (For example, my personal favorite name applied to the city of al-Quds was "Colonia Aelia Capitolina" and, indeed, the people from that city must have been proud (or should have, anyway) that the great Roman Empire once lowered itself to notice the then-provincial backwater long enough to to name it after the great god, Jupiter Capitolinus.)
Further, there is nothing illogical or irrational in noting that "West Bank" is the modern, accepted label for that land in English, except among Judeo-supremacist fascists, who, like the Fascists in Italy in the 20th Century, use symbolism that is millenia out of date, in order to give a veneer of legitimacy to their crimes.
Sorry, hasbarist, the fact that a piece of land was once called by a name does not mean that it proper to still called by that name. For example, I note that you don't call the land "Canaan." So if you want to put any credit to long ago dead names, then call the land by it's ancient name, "Canaan" or go stick the zio-racist names of Judea and Sumaria.
So who gives a fig what some long-ago dead people called it. It's the West Bank, now, except to the Jewish equivalent of the Klan. And the opinion of those racist lunatics should be discarded.
Further, the name "Palestine" has been associated with that land basically for as long as there have been records. For you to suggest that it was something the Romans imposed is racist garbage. It was there before the pathetic Israelite polities of old, and will be there long after the current zionist monstrosity fades into history.
"Judea and Samaria"
No such places exist. These zio-supremacist terms are up there with German neo-Nazis labelling parts of Western Poland as "Prussia"; pathetic displays by fascists to deny reality.
"You may not be aware, Jews are more likely to be assaulted and murdered if they have wondered into arab areas?"
LMAO. Of course, the greatest percentage of jews in Arab areas are likely to be carrying weapons, wearing the uniform of the IDF stormtroopers and guity of war crimes against the native people. Retaliation against such I"D"F goons is a very, very good thing, indeed.
"Save the bull s*** boys"
Yes. I read this and I wonder, do they use this lame "we are always victims" crap because 1) it's worked in the past because of misplaced guilt, 2) they really are world-class wusses or 3) they think the rest of us are stupid? Or is it a combination of the three?
Henry,
Exactly right (and I, too, am of the same persuasion as you.) And what is interesting to me is that this predisposition in favor of montheism still seems to be accepted today, when we should know better. Another one that is amazing to me is when serious religious people express grave concerns over idol worship. The unexamined notion that this is somehow "bad" is really odd, to me.
Oh, how I yearn to turn back the clock and destroy the idea of monotheism and all of the books that imposed that on humanity. How nice it would have been if, in the last few thousand years ago, instead of the dogma drenched Abrahamic troubles, we had a universal and pluralistic polytheism.
"go around the horn"
N.B.: I used this term euphamistically, thinking of the baseball term. Upon reflection, I probably should not have, as the euphamism is a sailing reference and references sailing around Cape Horn, South America. That might cause confusion, as I meant it to indicate sailing around the southern tip of Africa.
" a blockade is an act of war."
And there was no blockade in 1967. There was a refusal to allow innocent passage through its territory to an enemy state.
When the israelis let the Palestinians free passage between the West Bank and Gaza, fully unimpeded in any way, then maybe we can reconsider whether the Egyptians had to let the enemy cross it's territory.