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General Israel/Palestine discussion thread

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canada does not...
-routinely kill its minorities.

Neither does Israel. That is something the PA, however, and most of the Arab world DOES routinely do -- how do you think the Christian and Jewish minorities in most of the Arab world magically "disappeared" over the last 50 years?

- steal land from its citizens (any more).

Neither does Israel. But, be that as it may, you ARE giving your own home back to the native Inuits/Indians, right? Would be kind of hypocritical to enjoy the fruits of plunder and then complain that others are like that.

- blockade millions of muslims in a prison camp.

Funny how Israel LEAVING Gaza, to the last Jew, is somehow evil because it is now blockading Gaza. Which means not letting Hamas smuggle more weapons than it does. Apparently the tons of food and medical supply passed to Gaza through Israel don't count... and funny how you don't mention Egypt's now-ended blockade of the same Muslims... whether someone really blockades Gaza or not, apparently, is based on whether the person guarding the border is Jewish or not.

This shows what will happen if there is a Palestinian state. Israel defending a border with that state will be declared a "blockade" and the Palestinian state a "prison camp", and Israel will just be asked to give more by the "peace" camp. Even if the new Palestine is completely Jew-free, as per the "moderate" PLO's demand.
 
canada does not...
-routinely kill its minorities.
- steal land from its citizens (any more).
- blockade millions of muslims in a prison camp.

however, israel does all of these things.

Not only are all these false, only the last one could be termed apartheid, according to the ICC. But let's not forget what your definition of apartheid is:

if israeli muslims are treated differently than israeli jews, apartheid exists.
This definition means apartheid also exists in Canada ("If Canadian Muslims are treated differently than Canadian Catholics, apartheid exists"). Unless your definition only applies to Israel.

As for me, I'll side with the ICC definition of apartheid, which clearly does not define Israel (or Canada) as an apartheid state.
 
Neither does Israel. But, be that as it may, you ARE giving your own home back to the native Inuits/Indians, right? Would be kind of hypocritical to enjoy the fruits of plunder and then complain that others are like that.

actually, i openly acknowledge that our farm is on beaver indian land.
i work with the elders the local beaver indian band on land claims issues, count them as my friends and live here with their blessing.
 
actually, i openly acknowledge that our farm is on beaver indian land.
i work with the elders the local beaver indian band on land claims issues, count them as my friends and live here with their blessing.
Ah, so you're not moving.

If only Arabs were as accepting as having Jewish neighbors who bought land and not represented as dhimmis.

Few things I'm curious about though. Canada had (and still has) the concept of Crown lands, did it not? Had several periods spanning over two centuries of forced assimilation, did it not? Forced relocation of the indigenous population whilst moving in settlers in their stead, did it not?

And it only took Canada, what, until 1990 to have a Native American in the Canadian government? It took Israel one year after its independence.

Out of sheer curiosity, can you explain this excerpt?:
First Nation
Issues

First Nations peoples face a number of problems to a greater degree than Canadians overall. They have higher unemployment, rates of crime and incarceration, substance abuse, health problems, fetal alcohol syndrome, lower levels of education and higher levels of poverty. Suicide rates are more than twice the sex-specific rate and also three times the age-specific rates of non-Aboriginal Canadians.

Life expectancy at birth is significantly lower for First Nations babies than for babies in the Canadian population as a whole. As of 2001, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada estimates First Nations life expectancy to be 8.1 years shorter for males and 5.5 years shorter for females.

Gangs consisting of Aboriginals are becoming an increasing problem, across Canada, due to the poor living conditions. Most are found in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Offhand, several of these reasons have been used in the past for the arguments supporting the apartheid allegation against Israel and its treatment of even Israeli Arabs, let alone Arabs residing in PA controlled areas. But yet, after centuries of what could be deemed as an occupation, much of the issues stated above have already been solved or nearly solved (ie little disparity between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs) within Israel and not in Canada.

Again, a couple centuries difference...

This is of course, a superficial comparison between Israel and Canada, devoid of several extensive wars where one tried and failed to annihilate the other (not the passive 'ethnocide' attempted by the British and the non-indigenous people that make up Canada at present against the indigenous population), the state of flux of the different people emigrating of the ME region, the connection to the land of many Jews presently residing in this ME region, and more importantly, the existence of actual treaties formally accepting eachother as neighbors that exist in Canada, that don't exist between the Israelis and Palestinians (not that they haven't been attempts).

Additional 'subtle' differences would be the over-abundance of land and resources, but apparently to some, this is irrelevant, between Canada and Israel. Being able to fit Israel and the disputed territories into Canada almost 360 times with a population just above a 1/3 of Canada (includes Israel and the territories), can obviously not be factored into this epic comparison. :rolleyes:

So to skim past the drivel of somehow people accepting your existence on actual occupied land rather than the allegation of sitting behind some twice voided armistice line, would you be willing to take this comparison any further or are you comfortable sitting where you are now?

EDIT: There are substantially more things to delve into this comparison (ie population differences, as in the indigenous population not posing a threat by imposing a 'right of return' of a significant amount), but I think this would be a good starting point...
 
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i checked your source....'american thinker'.....wow.

So, in other words, you can't actually challenge the point they made. You can only attack the source. :rolleyes:

And, by the way, Obama does have connections to communists (lots of them as I've proven on this forum repeatedly). :D

Also, two can play your game ... or at least we *could*, if you ever did provide sources for anything you claimed. And, of course, assuming that my posts showing how unreliable mainstream sources, like the Washington Post, are don't get moved to AAH soon after I post them. ;)
 
Bikerdruid has often posted articles from sites that contain antisemitism, conspiracy and Truther material. So um, irony much?
 
seeing as "skeptic" is not able to say what level of arabs in Israel would destroy israel is anyone else able to make an estimate???
 
my guess would be a whole lot more than are there.
just thought it would be nice to know as he constantly cries out that there is a demographic war going on that will destroy Israel but so far he is unable to tell anyone what is the level of arabs that would destroy israel or any hint of what measures he would be prepared to take to defend israel from demographic destruction. I suspect I know but he may not be willing to reveal his views.
 
One step would be to not let in the millions of Arabs who are demanding the Right of Return, based on their grandparents starting a war and running away.
 
One step would be to not let in the millions of Arabs who are demanding the Right of Return, based on their grandparents starting a war and running away.
perhaps if israel stopped all immigration until this is settled, it would be sensible.
that way, they don't need to continue squeezing palestinians off their land to make way for new settlers.
 
just thought it would be nice to know as he constantly cries out that there is a demographic war going on that will destroy Israel but so far he is unable to tell anyone what is the level of arabs that would destroy israel or any hint of what measures he would be prepared to take to defend israel from demographic destruction. I suspect I know but he may not be willing to reveal his views.
Are you still claiming that Israel might nuke itself it the Arab population got too high?
 
One step would be to not let in the millions of Arabs who are demanding the Right of Return, based on their grandparents starting a war and running away.

ok...whatever..... but that doesn't address the issue of what the level of arabs actually is that destroys israel, the current arab population is around 20% and rising......if destruction is 21% then the war is nearly lost. What measures could be taken to prevent Israels "destruction" if thats the figure?
 
Are you still claiming that Israel might nuke itself it the Arab population got too high?
LOL...you are a funny guy. Of course not and you know it. I was just trying to pry an answer out of "skeptic" about what he considers as israels "destruction". someone was talking about nukes in the same thread so obviously you have seen a slim outside chance to misinterpret something and grabbed at it.

I'm assuming the question of what level of arab citizens destroys israel is beyond you too....so feel free to just continue to contribute at your current level :)


are you planning to use your fancifull claim about nukes as the smokescreen for skeptics inability to answer a question?
 
perhaps if israel stopped all immigration until this is settled, it would be sensible.
that way, they don't need to continue squeezing palestinians off their land to make way for new settlers.
Why would there be a requirement to stop Israel from allowing immigration to continue until the Arabs cease with their maximalist demands after losing extensive wars?

Would be more sensible just to continue as is as there's no right of return for the Palestinian Arabs that would be allowed to settle in Israel proper. One of the requirements for Israel absorbing Jews from Arab countries for the wars the Arab league instigated.

And how about you respond to the above post of mine, or is it too difficult? Sweep it under the carpet and opt for more superificial rhetoric? Or more of the generic hypocrisy?
 
Voices of peace from the Nabka demonstrations:

“Allah willing, “you will bury (Israel), and massacre the Jews with your own hands. Allah willing, you will massacre them like we massacred them in Hebron. We, the people of Hebron, massacred the Jews. My father massacred them.”



Challenge of the day: Outline a plan for long-term peace with people who think like that. Go.
 
Do you really think making childish rhetoric is going to pass as an argument?

I used the correct description of the situation.

Originally Posted by Matt Giwer View Post
Do you really think the world is going to let Israel continue with its tyrannical dictatorship over the Palestinians forever?

If you have a factual problem with this factual statement you are free to take issue with it. Please do so. I love dealing with the izziehuggers. They are such easy targets.

The US understands Israel needs to defend itself and will support that.

That has nothing to do with the jewish tyranny over the Palestinians.

If the case were that Israel was attacking Palestinians and not the other way around, they might not support Israel. But until then, no one can deny that Israel has a right to defend itself and people making rhetoric arguments like that does not change the actual facts of the issue. You can call them anything you want, but the facts are the facts. You can call Santa Claus a tyrannical dictator if you want as well. It has no meaning to the actual facts at hand.

The facts are the Jews are maintaining a dictatorship over the Palestinians. They are totally subject to the jewish military that rules them. That jewish, military dictatorship does not recognize the Palestinians as having any human or civil rights.

If you have evidence to the contrary no one is stopping you from posting it.

The US will always veto the unfair rulings of the UN. The UN is as corrupt as it gets and when member nations call for unfair sanctions, the US will not support them and will continue to point out the double standards being used by many of the member nations. Nations who use standards like yours. Essentially if they are jewish or Israeli, they are wrong. If they are arab, they are right. Like you, they will use weak arguments that appeal to nothing more than name calling.

Your dislike of the UN is your business but were it not for the UN Israel would not be a member nor recognized by it as a lawful sovereign state.

But as all educated people know sanctions can only be imposed by the Security Council. As the US vetoes SC measures against Israel there is never anything to overrule. As you know that is the case why do you post nonsense?

********. Israel is the only one willing to make concessions. The entire issue would be a non-issue if Palestinians would simply stop attacking Israel. Most of the border decisions are to protect from attacks. If the attacks weren't happening, then the borders would hardly be an issue. You'd be down to a silly religious dispute over Jerusalem.

Can you name any concessions Israel has made which come within a country mile of the PA recognizing Israel in 78% of Palestine?

As to stopping attacks that happened years ago. Israel and the US have recognized they have stopped. It is unclear what you are talking about. Please explain with examples that I cannot address by citing Jewish attacks upon Palestinians. No one is stopping you. Please post your examples.

Border decisions were made back in 1948 when the UN recognized Israel AT ITS REQUEST within those boundaries. Borders are not a unilateral option.

Declaring borders to be armistice lines is simply stupid. If they are armistice lines then they are the same as the armistice lines of WWI and are not borders. As you know about WWI then you know Germany had to retreat from the armistice lines.

Armistice lines are not borders. You cannot have it both ways.

Funny though how you have no problem with all the rejections from Palestine which have gone since the beginning. But when the Jews dare not budge on their issues, it's then their fault. Talk about being a hypocrite.

That is a principle that developed during WWII. The occupying power can do no right. The occupied can do no wrong. The occupied are even encouraged to kill the occupiers. That is lawful by international law. The Palestinians have no power but refusal of the demands of the occupying power.

In this case the occupying is criminal was Hague V and Geneva IV require the occupying power to administer the land to the benefit of the occupied with the sole exception of military necessity. Israel recognized this until the peace treaty was signed with Jordan. After that Israel stopped saying putting civilians in harm's way was a military necessity. After that is created a different set of lies.

No, Israel is better than Jordan.

It is sort of amusing to see how deep down in the barrel izziehuggers have to go to find a country Israel is better than. When Israel gets half way to the standards of Sweden you Izziehuggers should get back to me. In fact if you ever get up to the standards of Turkey get back to me.

And better than Israel. How funny it is how people like you use bogus claims about tyrannical dictatorships but don't seem to have any complaints about the countries who took that land to begin with and actually DO slaughter civilians.

I use the terms tyranny and dictatorship within the standard dictionary meanings of the words. I can only recommend you consult a dictionary although I find it incredible that a person of your intelligence does not know the meanings of the words.

And again, why the 1948 borders? Why not the 1917 borders?

If Israel does not want the borders granted to it by the UN it need only say so. It is an unfair institution after all.

Maybe, just maybe, those people should have thought about that before they participated in the "drive the Jews into the sea" campaign?

Jews stole the land starting in 1949. The owners want it back. The Palestinians were not involved in the 1948 war. They were driven from Palestine by Jews as many jewish and israeli researchers have shown using Israeli records.

And please stop whining. Jews chose it. That is the way they wanted it.

And as mentioned, no one is stopping them from starting their own state. They could have done that at any time but have chosen not to. They didn't do it before 1948 either did they? Yet somehow it's the fault of the Jews...

As the Jews started attacking them in 1922 with bombs in markets which indiscriminately murdered women and children it seems to me we know who started it all. But izziehuggers pretend ignorance when their knowledge of the subject is so much greater than they pretend.
 
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