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12 Jun 2014, 1:05 am

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- Israel is the only Middle-Eastern country that allows homosexuals to adopt
- Israel was the first Middle-Eastern country to abolish the death penalty
- No Middle-Eastern country has more women in the parliament than Israel
- Israel was the first country in the Middle-East to decriminalize homosexuality
- Israel is the country in the Middle-East with the cleanest human rights records
- Israel has less discrimination than any other country in the Middle-East


Just with this alone you've really kicked Thomas81's position on the Israeli vs. Palestinian question in the ass. The rest are just nails in the coffin. I always find it disturbingly strange how so called liberals blindly condone the killing of gays, whipping of women, and a rich tradition of antisemitism and general terrorism as long as the perpetrators are against Israel. Honestly, I dont see what's so liberal about what passes for liberalism.


No he didn't. You're just repeating his points that i already debunked, and doing it even less eloquently.

We (progressives) oppose Israel not because of pro-Islam sentiments, sexism or homophobia but because we aren't blind to the historical context in which Israel was established.
And that's weak.

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Opposing imperialism =/= condoning the killing of gays or beating of women.
There is no such thing as so called 'left wing' anti-semitism, and this is backed up by the two articles i already posted.

Articles arent facts, they are just articles.
Really, how much longer are you going to continue to dig your own grave here?


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12 Jun 2014, 1:09 am

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And that's weak.


Why?

Cus' you said so, nyah nyah nyah?

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Articles arent facts, they are just articles.
Really, how much longer are you going to continue to dig your own grave here?

Circular argument. You could offer precisely the same retort against any possible response i could offer. Likewise I could do the same, regardless of any historical sources therein.

OH, OPINIONS AREN'T FACTS, THEY'RE JUST OPINIONS!

I just won the thread.


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12 Jun 2014, 1:12 am

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Honestly, the disgusting levels of hackism for Israel and blind zionism revisionist of history on his forum makes me want to throw up.

PPR is like the political gutter of the online autistic community.


Seriously dude, look at Israel's neighbors and tell me honestly that you'd rather live adjacent to Israel rather than within Israel. The difference would be more noticeable for a woman than a man, but even still, Israel is a beautiful diamond in a sea of scorching sand. Israel is far closer to the liberal ideals that progressives in the west would want for their own nations, and yet it is constantly under attack by liberals in the west. Why? And the nations around Israel often are quite the opposite, and yet they are defended by liberals in the west. What the french toast is up with that?


Its not the point. The west, and its interests should have no imperialist connections to the middle east, and that includes our dealing with Israel. Israels dirty history of brutality, anti arab racism and land grabbing belies the so called progressive oasis in the desert of barbarism you so champion it as.

If i was a Jew seeking safe sanctuary, then Israel is the last place i want to go.

The idea that Israel was ever a majority idea among Jews is a filthy lie propogated by European anti semites to further their solution to the Jewish question.


You said something about historical revisionism earlier? ....



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12 Jun 2014, 1:13 am

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Honestly, the disgusting levels of hackism for Israel and blind zionism revisionist of history on his forum makes me want to throw up.

PPR is like the political gutter of the online autistic community.


Seriously dude, look at Israel's neighbors and tell me honestly that you'd rather live adjacent to Israel rather than within Israel. The difference would be more noticeable for a woman than a man, but even still, Israel is a beautiful diamond in a sea of scorching sand. Israel is far closer to the liberal ideals that progressives in the west would want for their own nations, and yet it is constantly under attack by liberals in the west. Why? And the nations around Israel often are quite the opposite, and yet they are defended by liberals in the west. What the french toast is up with that?


Its not the point. The west, and its interests should have no imperialist connections to the middle east, and that includes our dealing with Israel. Israels dirty history of brutality, anti arab racism and land grabbing belies the so called progressive oasis in the desert of barbarism you so champion it as.

If i was a Jew seeking safe sanctuary, then Israel is the last place i want to go.

The idea that Israel was ever a majority idea among Jews is a filthy lie propogated by European anti semites to further their solution to the Jewish question.


You said something about historical revisionism earlier? ....


This is exactly what i was talking about when i referred to circular arguments.

Only the most hawkish and biased of historians ever try to suggest that Palestine was a barren unpopulated desert when the Zionists arrived.


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12 Jun 2014, 1:19 am

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Honestly, the disgusting levels of hackism for Israel and blind zionism revisionist of history on his forum makes me want to throw up.

PPR is like the political gutter of the online autistic community.


Seriously dude, look at Israel's neighbors and tell me honestly that you'd rather live adjacent to Israel rather than within Israel. The difference would be more noticeable for a woman than a man, but even still, Israel is a beautiful diamond in a sea of scorching sand. Israel is far closer to the liberal ideals that progressives in the west would want for their own nations, and yet it is constantly under attack by liberals in the west. Why? And the nations around Israel often are quite the opposite, and yet they are defended by liberals in the west. What the french toast is up with that?


Its not the point. The west, and its interests should have no imperialist connections to the middle east, and that includes our dealing with Israel. Israels dirty history of brutality, anti arab racism and land grabbing belies the so called progressive oasis in the desert of barbarism you so champion it as.

If i was a Jew seeking safe sanctuary, then Israel is the last place i want to go.

The idea that Israel was ever a majority idea among Jews is a filthy lie propogated by European anti semites to further their solution to the Jewish question.


You said something about historical revisionism earlier? ....


This is exactly what i was talking about when i referred to circular arguments.

Only the most hawkish and biased of historians ever try to Suggest that Palestine was a barren unpopulated desert when the Zionists arrived.


Everyone with their own political or agenda otherwise emphasizes what works with their intended goal and ignores or marginalizes whatever data doesn't fit - we're talking dogma fighting dogma here. You see what you've been taught to believe, and so does everyone else - it's as Julius Caesar said, people most willingly believe that which they already do. (Or something like that, from De Bello Gallico I believe.)



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12 Jun 2014, 1:22 am

As for the subject of anti semitism in the muslim world, I call BS on that.

Proud Iranian Jews that are not only are proud to call themselves Iranian, they REJECT financial incentives by Israel to encourage them to migrate to Israel.

One of only 4 Jewish charity hospitals in the world is in Tehran.

I thought Jews were persecuted in Iran?

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12 Jun 2014, 1:30 am

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As for the subject of anti semitism in the muslim world, I call BS on that.

Proud Iranian Jews that are not only are proud to call themselves Iranian, they REJECT financial incentives by Israel to encourage them to migrate to Israel.

I thought Jews were persecuted in Iran?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA7yz2vciGk[/youtube]


Yep, this is called "drawing a line, and then plotting the points". During the Holocaust, Jewish people were required to write letters saying about how great everything was and one group had to put on a play for inspectors prior to them being gassed next week and having their ashes used to make soap. I call BS upon your calling of BS, because while you may find better places within any given set, you also have more religiously fundamentalist groups who read the passages that are anti-Jewish and anti-Christian and teach their flock of sheeple to follow them. You can find whatever you look for - seek and you will find - but you're only looking for stuff to support what you already believe. Try searching for the opposite and get past the cognitive dissonance and you'll see the other side of the coin.



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12 Jun 2014, 1:34 am

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This notion that Israel's critics are all liberals is not true, anymore than that all of Israel's friends are all conservatives. It must be remembered, the arch conservative Jesse Helms had been a vicious enemy of Israel and an Antisemite, till Pro-Israeli supporters realized he couldn't realistically be voted out of office, so they bought his support. Also, a whole lot of conservative Christians only support Israel today because they believe God will show them mercy for it when Christ comes back in a fiery apocalypse, and institutes his thousand year Reich.


Conservatives don't dote on civil rights like liberals do, either. At least not the same civil rights, anyway. So that still leaves us with the question of how liberals, all pro-gay and pro-women's rights, etc, can be anti-Israel and pro-Islamic in such significant numbers.


My point is, not every liberal is Anti-Israel. Remember, Israel's first supporters in America were liberals, such as President Harry Truman, who was the first to recognize the Jewish state.
And just because liberals are critical of Israeli policies and human rights abuses hardly means they are advocating the totalitarian Islamic countries surrounding Israel; rather it's only because as a westernized country, Israel ought to know better and act accordingly. And yes, liberals are always speaking out against Islamic homophobic violence, and religious persecution - the charge by conservatives that American liberals - which includes plenty of Jewish Americans - overlook those things is a lie. I can't speak for European liberals and their attitudes toward Israel, as I admittedly know little about them.


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12 Jun 2014, 1:38 am

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Yep, this is called "drawing a line, and then plotting the points". During the Holocaust, Jewish people were required to write letters saying about how great everything was and one group had to put on a play for inspectors prior to them being gassed next week and having their ashes used to make soap. I call BS upon your calling of BS, because while you may find better places within any given set, you also have more religiously fundamentalist groups who read the passages that are anti-Jewish and anti-Christian and teach their flock of sheeple to follow them. You can find whatever you look for - seek and you will find - but you're only looking for stuff to support what you already believe. Try searching for the opposite and get past the cognitive dissonance and you'll see the other side of the coin.


Now that IS weak.

The difference being, with the nazi whitewashing, Rabbis werent permitted to speak to cameras to voice their views and they werent being offered copious amounts of cash by another country to get away.

So pray tell, if things are so bad for Jews in Iran why aren't they snapping up these generous cash sums to leave their persecutors? If Jews are so unwelcome in Iran as you think, its not like anyone is keeping them there.

In conclusion, I call BS on your calling my call of BS, BS.


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12 Jun 2014, 1:41 am

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Yep, this is called "drawing a line, and then plotting the points". During the Holocaust, Jewish people were required to write letters saying about how great everything was and one group had to put on a play for inspectors prior to them being gassed next week and having their ashes used to make soap. I call BS upon your calling of BS, because while you may find better places within any given set, you also have more religiously fundamentalist groups who read the passages that are anti-Jewish and anti-Christian and teach their flock of sheeple to follow them. You can find whatever you look for - seek and you will find - but you're only looking for stuff to support what you already believe. Try searching for the opposite and get past the cognitive dissonance and you'll see the other side of the coin.


Now that IS weak.

The difference being, with the nazi whitewashing, Rabbis werent permitted to speak to cameras to voice their views and they werent being offered copious amounts of cash by another country to get away.

So pray tell, if things are so bad for Jews in Iran why aren't they snapping up these generous cash sums to leave their persecutors? If Jews are so unwelcome in Iran as you think, its not like anyone is keeping them there.


You can listen to what I said, that you're picking that data points that you want to hear, or not. I'm not going to care enough about this to let your anger bother me.



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12 Jun 2014, 1:42 am

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You can listen to what I said, that you're picking that data points that you want to hear, or not. I'm not going to care enough about this to let your anger bother me.


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12 Jun 2014, 6:00 am

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If they were not legitimately attempting to acquire nuclear weapons,

I don't believe that Iran has the means to acquire nuclear weapons. Moreover, as long as Israel has 100's of nuclear weapons, I DON'T CARE if Iran is trying to acquire them. Israel as the only nuclear power in the region is the biggest threat to peace in that region.


I guess you are not aware of the fact that since the advent of the nuclear weapon the number of deaths from war dropped dramatically. Sorry but you are uneducated and dead wrong. It is a known fact that the nuclear weapons area deterrent to war and are in fact responsible for preventing it. Them having nukes has prevented war. Get your facts strait, they are not the threat, the they the peace keepers. You are just loath to admit it because it diminishes what you want to believe.

Have you ever actually watched the History Channel? If the US had not nuked Japan we would have had to have invaded Japan with a ground force many times larger than the D Day invasion and it would have cost millions of more souls to end the war. It would have been catastrophic compared to what ended up happening and thus ending the war. Saying that you dont care if Iran gets nukes just shows that you harbor the kind of reckless stupidity that leads to things like nuclear war, it is stupid and inexcusable.



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12 Jun 2014, 9:25 am

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Jews were second rate citizens and subject to several genocides under both the Arabs and the Romans, and at times, they numbered only a handful due to persecution. There never was a Palestinian state; the European socialists like to pretend there was, but this is nothing more than a passion play to stir up the people against the jews. The Brits regarded the area as a part of Southern Syria.


There never was a Jewish state prior to 1946, does that legitimise the nazi pogroms against the Jews?


Yes, there was. Israel existed back in the bronze ages. You're denying historical evidence to spread propaganda.


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12 Jun 2014, 9:40 am

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For goodness sake. This takes Godwin's law to ridiculous new depths.


It can be justified in this case. Europe in the 1920s and Europe today sees the jews the same way. It all started with boycott of jewish merchants, while ignoring the flaws of "everyone else". Furthermore, if you compare the nazis to Stalin, to antisemites in denial or anything that actually resembles the nazis, it does not fall under Godwin's law.

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Israel behaves more nazi-like than anyone else in that territory.


Remember what the nazis did to ethnic minorities and homosexuals? Hamas and their supporters do the exact same thing. Where have we seen this salute before?

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-seal people off in walled enclosures


It isn't the Israelis who send suicide bombers. The barrier has saved more than 1,000 individuals, so the ends justify the means.

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-limit the movements of peoples


These limits will fall the day Hamas respects the ceasefire(s)

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-conduct regular military harassment with foot patrols of the local indigenous people.


Most of it's no more harassment than that of regular police patrols

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-limit the access to utilities


Electricity, healthcare, and food are typically given free of charge by Israel.

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-seal the roads to prevent civilian travel even in emergency circumstances


Palestinians can get free treatment at Israeli hospitals in emergency circumstances.

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-prevents the right of return of the indigenous arabs


Did you pull that one out of your ass? 100,000 arabs were forcefully removed in 1947. All were offered full compensation in 1949.

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-use disproportionate force against the percieved threat


It became disproportionate the day Hamas started using women, children, and entire schools and hospitals as human shields.

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-use internment imprisonment strategies and prolonged imprisonment without charge against POWs.
-used disproportionate and indiscriminate airstrikes against civillian centres.


The Israeli forces only target Hamas military. The Hamas suicide bombers, or the 10,000+++ missiles they've sent, almost always target civilians.

The charter of Hamas: "Israel will rise and will remain erect until Islam eliminates it as it had eliminated its predecessors."

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Israel is a hyper developed miniature military-industrial complex because it recieves enormous financial, military and political backing from the USA and UK. Therefore the fact that it has acheived these development milestones should not be surprising (albeit for the piss poor attention of human right afforded to Palestinian muslim arabs), nor do they give Israel a carte blanche to behave how they want in the occupied territories.


Only 2.3% of the Israeli GDP is financial aid from other countries. Get your facts checked. A much larger percentage of the Gaza GDP is foreign aid. Israel built an infrastructure, Hamas bought luxury cars for the oligarchs, and left nothing but breadcrumbs for the people.


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Complete and utter horses**t. Palestine isn't some new invention that was arbitrarily made in 1946 for the sake of it. That is closer to Israel you are thinking of. It had been there for centuries and had all of the essential elements of a country including culture, language and industry. The fact that there was no de facto Palestinian government at the time does nothing to belittle that fact. There are any number of documents in circulation from that time, including cash, passports etc that pay testament to the fact that a territory called Palestine existed.


Israel was a country long before most other countries in the Middle East. Palestine was a territory in Syria; the people spoke Arabic, and embraced the Syrian culture, with a local subculture. It wasn't a country any more than Roskilde is. Palestinian nationalism was invented in 1967.


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12 Jun 2014, 1:32 pm

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And that's weak.


Why?

Cus' you said so, nyah nyah nyah?

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Articles arent facts, they are just articles.
Really, how much longer are you going to continue to dig your own grave here?

Circular argument. You could offer precisely the same retort against any possible response i could offer. Likewise I could do the same, regardless of any historical sources therein.

OH, OPINIONS AREN'T FACTS, THEY'RE JUST OPINIONS!

I just won the thread.


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12 Jun 2014, 1:39 pm

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This notion that Israel's critics are all liberals is not true, anymore than that all of Israel's friends are all conservatives. It must be remembered, the arch conservative Jesse Helms had been a vicious enemy of Israel and an Antisemite, till Pro-Israeli supporters realized he couldn't realistically be voted out of office, so they bought his support. Also, a whole lot of conservative Christians only support Israel today because they believe God will show them mercy for it when Christ comes back in a fiery apocalypse, and institutes his thousand year Reich.


Conservatives don't dote on civil rights like liberals do, either. At least not the same civil rights, anyway. So that still leaves us with the question of how liberals, all pro-gay and pro-women's rights, etc, can be anti-Israel and pro-Islamic in such significant numbers.


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My point is, not every liberal is Anti-Israel. Remember, Israel's first supporters in America were liberals, such as President Harry Truman, who was the first to recognize the Jewish state.
I'd hardly call Truman a liberal by todays standards.

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And just because liberals are critical of Israeli policies and human rights abuses hardly means they are advocating the totalitarian Islamic countries surrounding Israel; rather it's only because as a westernized country, Israel ought to know better and act accordingly. And yes, liberals are always speaking out against Islamic homophobic violence, and religious persecution - the charge by conservatives that American liberals - which includes plenty of Jewish Americans - overlook those things is a lie. I can't speak for European liberals and their attitudes toward Israel, as I admittedly know little about them.

Any human rights violations Israel is guilty of, both real and imagined, are a drop in the bucket compared to their enemies that the left insists on siding with.


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