Higgly
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You're getting the hang of it Topaz. You know what they say...practice makes perfect.
So ...?
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A thread to tell Barak Obama what he needs to hear from us...
The Northwest Passage is ours. No discussion. It starts and it ends right here.
NAFTA. Where were you when this was all put down?
Border security. Who loves you?
Who's your best friend? We need you to tell us where you stand. Who do you love?
How about it man?
Represent.
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I'd suggest that the memo is somewhat unilateral...or there'd be no problem.
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A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
---Jane Fonda
I guess you missed the part that relates to TOP SECRET IDF DATABASES.
Otherwise, there'd be no problem...
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Perhaps the complaints against Hamas are proportionate to the level of actual damage their rockets do to Israel but you're right nonetheless. Speaking for myself I'll try to better to address this disproportionality in the future.
I'd like to extend a challenge to people to try and be as neutral as they can about this issue. Its a lot harder than it looks.
I'd like to suggest that it's not hard at all. Turn your attention to the Geneva Conventions, to which Israel is a signatory. What is hard about that?
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As well you might...as this is what it would amount to if Israel's position on the subject of settlements is ignored. Wars were fought. Land was lost. Land was given back. Land is still in question.
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It's a Daisy.
Not any more. Read the memo.
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It does not matter when the treaties were signed. What matters is that the land registrations pre-date the occupation. Treaties only pertain to the cessation of hostilities. The land registry pre-dates even the invasion.
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Hamas is basically an organization very much like the Hagganah and the Hadassah - two of the foundations of Zionism in Palestine that preceded the declaration of the state of Israel. This is why they wre so successful in the last Palestinian elections.
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What? No mention as to how Israel arrived on this "occupied" land?
Re: stopping settlements. My response was: "The settlement shouldn't be removed if they've been there a LONG time with proper permits. This is about Israel's apparent continued expansion rather than ethnicly cleaning the West Bank of Jews...right?"
Or, is it about the ethnic cleaning of an area? In which case I'm against removing these long term settlements. However, it is my understanding that numerous newer settlements have been contructed without the Israeli government's okie-dokie. They should be removed.
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If you can play on the fiddle---How's about a British jig and reel?
Speaking King's English in quotation---As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust water froze
In the generation---Clear as winter ice
This is your paradise...
Ethnic cleansing the West Bank of Jews. I love it.
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The settlement shouldn't be removed if they've been there a LONG time with proper permits.
I love the "proper permits" part
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hey dancer
what do you think of the settlements?
Heh heh...
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The Wikipedia entry on Rush Limbaugh.
To quote his mother... "he flunked everything, even a modern ballroom dancing class."
Rush Limbaugh is the Fonebone of modern American politics. Right up there with Scooter Libby, for whom even George W. Bush could not choke down a pardon.
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...talking to yourself?
Not if you are listening, LOL...
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The beginning of what? We already have the usual suspects in place, from ranchers to lumber interests. Then there is the ever present intellectual property battle from Hollywood, CRTC "protectionism", and NAFTA itself, which can be abbrogated with only six months notice (I recall this "threat" often being used by the Grits come election time).
Not necessarily....more Americans realize that the global economy chooses winners and losers depending on the product, commodity, or service. Who do you think hires all the Canadian, Mexican, Chinese, Guatemalan, etc. illegals?
Isn't it bad enough already?
I channel-stumbled across a sermon by the American Fundamentalist cleric (i.e. Mullah) Joel Osteen on the eve of the Iraq invasion. Osteen was preaching that we should all submit to authority. And it wasn't even 1984...
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the settlements.
the big nasty bear in the room that israeli apologists refuse to acknowledge as one of the major problems in this conflict.
Exactamundo.
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I was at a Wal-Mart a while back and noticed a young man wearing a black t-shirt with a huge white question mark on the front. At first I thought he might be a proud agnostic, but when I got closer I noticed the fine print on the t-shirt indicated that he was a Wal-Mart employee who would be happy to answer my questions. I asked him if there was a god, and he said he didn't know, so perhaps he was an agnostic after all. He was, however, able to direct me to the electronics department.
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An atheist is someone who does not believe in god. An agnostic is someone who doesn't believe in religion. A geek, on the other hand...
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Is Stupidity an influence ?
Apparently
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I discovered an interesting initialism on another forum: PUI : Posting Under the Influence.
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If you are going to mangle posts, a least attempt to be coherent
Sure. Why don't we all go back to "they". You're losing your touch, Dancer.
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That is a non sequitor.
The palestinians have neither.
Naturally, you're referring to your context violation...
Having the right is one thing, having the brains and ability is quite another.And having American funded weapons programs is yet another. But of course, we all have to bow down to Israel's record in Lebanon LOL...
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Really? Says who? You? How do you know this? Guteral insight? ESP?
Honour killings are not common in Canada. There are all kinds of people who kill. They all have different reasons. This is just something the press seizes on because it is constantly on the hunt for themes in society. Muslim Society has been thrust into the spotlight after 9/11.
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Let's be clear here. We're talking about a planetary population of over 6 billion, a billion of those are Muslims, and another billion belonging to various Indian religions where honor killing is known to happen, and I will find it other cultures besides, so let's peg this at over a third of the world's population live in cultures where one could conceivably imagine honor killings being some part of the cultural motif, and out of all those, just 5,000 such murders actually take place. In other words, such events are exceedingly uncommon.
Indian killings have less to do with honour than they do with dowries. An Indian bride, by custom, brings with her a dowry. If the dowry is not considered adequate, the bride is killed - usually by dousing her with kerosene and lighting her afire. These killings were referred to in the New Delhi press for decades as "kitchen accidents". The killing was most often carried out by the husband's mother - typically newly married couples will live with the family of the groom. Brings a whole new level of horror to mother-in-law stories. Alfred Hitchcock would have loved this sort of stuff. There has been a movement afoot for some time to ban dowries, and it appears to be having some success, but Indian society is extraordinarily complex and dense (it can change virtually from village to village), so change is slow to come.
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It is a genuine pleasure to read such a learned discussion.
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Very sorry to see that Obama has opened this pandora's box. One of the major causes of the 1930s depression is thought by many to be a retreat into protectionism by the US, which triggered an international trade war.
As for NAFTA and the WTO, the softwood lumber battle pretty much showed what that is worth to the US Porkbarrel - oops, Congress.
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Well...I hate to sound pithy, but if you watch the news, the conflict in that part of the world is a pretty hot-button issue right now, and people tend to be very, very polarized with their opinions on who's "right" and who's "wrong". Being as this is a political message board populated by a lot of smart people who all have something to say on the issue, it's kind of unsurprising to find a lot of threads on this topic. Though I wasn't a member here eight years ago, I'll bet there were a lot of common-topic threads after 9/11 too.
Exactly. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict has been daily front page news since 1948. Why not ask the press "Why so many stories about Israel?"
Why so Many Israel Threads?
in The Rest of the World
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Sure it is. That's why it builds shtettlements to house Jewish immigrants from any bloody place on the map (hey, I'm a Jew from Mars, give me an apartment!), while it illegally confiscates land from legal title holders.