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Life in Jerusalem

Can you help me here...some people seem to be claiming Rome is ruled by the Papacy?

Last time I looked Rome was the Capital of the Italian State....has it changed?
 
I won't talk much about the rest but this one :

"On the Israeli side, I never heard one negative generalization about Palestinians or Arabs."

Is such an obvious lie that really, I won't bothrer reading the rest.
 
"I ask again: doesn't it bother you that your views about Israel, Chomsky, etc. so often coincide with those of holocaust deniers and lunatic conspiracy theorists? "

That is actually a logical falacy. Because the view of bad people A coincide with the view of other people B does not make automatically B "bad" by association.

To give you an example, I am pretty sure my view on gravity coincide with the view on gravity from hitler (things fall). That does not make me a Nazi (hello Godwin!).

You would have *first* to prove that the view are bad in itself.

To boot, It is quite clear for a few poster here which have nothing agaisnt Israel existence, but terribly dislike the policy intern and foreign of Israel, that a lot of ultra-fanatic pro "israel" seem to very often conflate the critic of Israel policy with a critic of the country existence or a critic of Israeli themselves. Which remind a lot of conflating critic of USA foreign policy with "hating America".

I hope sometimes you will have a more nuanced news , skeptic. Maybe not now, maybe never, but I can hope.
 
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The Fool said:
Can you help me here...some people seem to be claiming Rome is ruled by the Papacy?

Last time I looked Rome was the Capital of the Italian State....has it changed?
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A case could be argued that the Vatican certainly have an unduly high influence on the Italian intern policy, see for example the italian comic being attacked for making a joke on the pope.
 
JJM 777 said:
Many of the greatest problems and political disasters in the world are based on the fact that power is given to a leader and then the leader alone decides. Politics would be more stable if all biggest decisions were made by referendum.
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And as we all know nobody knew Hamas was a genocidal terrorist group before they were elected...
 
JJM 777 said:
Exactly so.

Americans are not morally responsible for dropping two A-bombs in Japan, their President is.

Iraqis are not responsible for a bloody war against Iran, Kuwait etc., their leader Saddam was.

Many of the greatest problems and political disasters in the world are based on the fact that power is given to a leader and then the leader alone decides. Politics would be more stable if all biggest decisions were made by referendum.
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Are you sure about this?
 
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