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lexsali
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oh please...
[Read the article: The real two-state solution]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does anyone else have deja vu?
It is a sick sort of fashion nowadays that every outgoing American president nobly takes up the cause of the Israel-Palestine issue and makes a much-heralded but truly half-hearted stab at Middle East peace. These misguided attempts only have the affect of screwing the situation up even more.
And so it continues with Bush, the least diplomatic, most war-mongering president ever, as he attempts to leave behind a 'legacy of peace'.
I'm sick of it. For all who hold Israel up as the shining paragon of a community that 'stopped complaining and did something about its problems', it's very convenient to forget the fact that Israel had more than a little help, including complete financial, military and diplomatic help from the US government.
And the Palestinians? Left to rot on the remains of their own lands, with a deliberately stifled economy courtesy of Israel, and human rights violations even decried by the UN, (again, courtesy of Israel).
Oh and don't forget the Western media's role in all this: Oppressed Palestinians fighting back are 'terrorists', while Israelis are the poor victims of these terrorists, and are merely protecting themselves from the Islamic savages. And which one of you little buggers was talking about the supposedly Arab mentality of victimisation? Israelis invented the myth of the Israeli victim.
Who the f@ck gave anyone the right to come onto a piece of land and create, out of thin air, the lines of a country? Completely ignoring the original inhabitants? What if I wrote my own religious text, called it the, oh i don't know, the LEXSALI, claimed the land of the United States was promised to me by my divine ancestors and that 80 million years ago my uncle had settled there, and invaded California as a starting point to reclaiming my promised land? What the f@ck?
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@ Laurel962
[Read the article: The real two-state solution]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First of all, it's Lexsali.
Secondly, what in the name of heaven is your point in bringing up the US? So, because the US wiped out the entire Native American nation 300 years ago, it's ok for the Israelis to do it? Or, at least, we should tolerate it because we did the same thing 300 years ago? So, according to your logic, we wouldn't be able to raise our voices against any injustice in the world from 1776 and beyond, because we made the same mistake 300 years ago? Darfur, South Africa, Serb-Croatian war, Iraq, Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, all humanitarian crises in the world should be ignored by the US because we have no right to point fingers at people who kill other people. Moving on...
We are about dead last in line to have to right to ask that Israeli's abandon THEIR homeland (however much you might object to the means by which they claim it).
Actually, I do object. That's exactly my point. I object to the means by which they claim that land as their homeland, meaning, I reject the claim that the land belongs to Israel because their uncles wandered onto the land and settled there thousands of years ago. Anyone claiming ownership of land because their uncles squatted there in the Ice Age is an idiot.
If the Israeli's have the backing and military supplies from the US, is it fair not to mention that the Palestinian cause is backed (or supposedly is backed if their brethren lived up to their words) by Arab oil money -- the greatest concentration of wealth IN THE WORLD?
Yeah, the Palestinians are just AWASH in Arab oil money. Really, they're hiding their Porsches underneath the remains of their homes.
And please, give ME a break. Do you know there are laws in this country against anti-Semitism? Have you heard of any laws that punish anyone who speaks out against Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism?
I have nothing against Jews personally, I've never said anything against a Jew in my life. But Israel is dead wrong on this issue, and labeling anyone who speaks out against the injustice being committed by Israel as anti-Semitic is the oldest and most pathetic trick in the book, and it's not working anymore.
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The ghost of Dorismond....
[Read the article: When Rudy met Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Excellent article. Guiliani's ridiculous. He's just as bad, if not worse, than all those profiteers who benefited from 9/11 with the FDNY and NYPD hats and t-shirts.
I've been an Obama supporter from the beginnning, but I have to say, Hillary Clinton is one impressive gal. She is relentless, and this article shows me why. She's learned that she is different from the other guys, and she's learned how to use that to her benefit.
America has been wondering for a long time what the affect on politics would be if a woman were to run for president. Some Americans' worst fears have come true: they've realized that women really do do things differently. Hillary, instead of fighting like a man, (what a lot of people were expecting her to do), is fighting like a woman. If she's got such a different brand of politics, imagine what she'll do once she gets into the White House.