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Victor Davis Hanson: Just Imagine... Trying to believe in the make-believe world of the present age.
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| 02/13/2004
| Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 02/13/2004 6:00:14 AM PST by Tolik
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posted on
02/13/2004 6:00:16 AM PST
by
Tolik
To: seamole; Lando Lincoln; .cnI redruM; yonif; SJackson; dennisw; monkeyshine; Alouette; absalom01; ...
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posted on
02/13/2004 6:02:27 AM PST
by
Tolik
To: Tolik; Molly Pitcher
Thanks!
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posted on
02/13/2004 6:08:09 AM PST
by
Dog
To: Tolik
And so we get fantasy in place of reality.Summation bump.
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posted on
02/13/2004 6:21:21 AM PST
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: Tolik
Thanks for posting this lucid contrast to the lies and propaganda we are subjected to on a daily basis.
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posted on
02/13/2004 6:23:42 AM PST
by
RottiBiz
To: Tolik
ping for later
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posted on
02/13/2004 6:35:15 AM PST
by
schu
To: Tolik; Vigilantcitizen; RobFromGa; Guillermo; doodad
Oh, my! THAT'S going to leave a mark.
Bump.
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posted on
02/13/2004 6:47:16 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
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To: Tolik; Vigilantcitizen; RobFromGa; Guillermo; doodad
Oh, my! THAT'S going to leave a mark.
Bump.
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posted on
02/13/2004 6:47:20 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
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Oops, sry for the double.
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posted on
02/13/2004 6:47:47 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
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To: FreedomPoster
Double BUMP and apology BUMP plus my it's OK response BUMP makes it 4 BUMPs for the price of one BUMP. :))
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posted on
02/13/2004 7:26:38 AM PST
by
Tolik
To: Tolik
Victor hits another one out of the park.
As an aside. Say the "road map" actually happens(Gee toto I don't think we're in Kansas anymore). What happens to the Gaza?
Is it divided from the westbank by Israel? Physically divided nations don't work.
Does it become a seperate nation?
Does Israel keep control?
Do Israel and Egypt divide it between them?
Does Israel give up land to provide a corridor between Gaza and the west Bank?(YA like THAT'S gonna happen)
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posted on
02/13/2004 7:30:29 AM PST
by
Valin
(Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.)
To: Valin
Give it to Egypt and call it a day. Isn't worth anything, anyway.
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posted on
02/13/2004 7:44:40 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
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To: FreedomPoster
The problem is The Gaza Strip is a stake pointing right into the heart of Israel. In the 6 day war there never was any debate about taking Gaza, there was about the West Bank.
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posted on
02/13/2004 8:01:48 AM PST
by
Valin
(Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.)
To: Valin
I don't know if this question was raised at all during Camp-David agreements with Egypt. Playing with IF theory: Egypt was motivated enough to make that agreement and get to the US tit, Israel should have insisted that Gaza population would relocate to Sinai settlements (Sharon himself was clearing Jews out of there and destroying the homes), vacate the Gaza and become Egypt citizens. Population exchange with big land win for Arabs (Sinai). Too bad it did not happen.
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posted on
02/13/2004 8:21:41 AM PST
by
Tolik
To: Tolik
Tks for the post.
A voice of sanity in a World gone mad.
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posted on
02/13/2004 8:26:23 AM PST
by
crazycat
To: Tolik
Hey. I don't have the answers I'm just asking questions.
The underlying problem is on one side you have people who want peace and are willing to bite the bullet to get it, and on the other you don't. And until one side decides that murder and terrorism and not the answer there won't be peace. And it's going require one side to completly overthrow their political leadership in order for this to happen.
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posted on
02/13/2004 8:43:03 AM PST
by
Valin
(Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.)
To: FreedomPoster
Oh, my! THAT'S going to leave a mark.
They should put some fantasy ice on it.
Of course this succinct piece will sail right over the heads of those who are the object of it.
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posted on
02/13/2004 9:02:14 AM PST
by
tet68
To: Tolik
Gaza was discussed during Camp David. Under Arab pressure to not make a separate peace, Sadat kept trying to group Palestinian agreements into the deal. Begin would have none of it. Most focus was on the West Bank, but Gaza was also mentioned. In the end, Carter presumed (correctly) that Sadat cared little for the Palestinians, the rest is history.
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posted on
02/13/2004 10:54:03 AM PST
by
Akira
(The people have spoken.....the bastards.)
To: Tolik
It is curious. His point is that they cannot possibly actually believe this drivel, but are simply flailing around for any stick to beat their political opponents with. Of some of them I don't doubt that it is true. But how do the various lines work, if nobody falls for any given one of them?
It seems to me they intended targets of this sort of propaganda never bother to collect enough thoughts to have this unified a view of it. Each line is meant to dismiss the whole matter, to put it in a box and be done with it, in a way that reassures the believer and banishes opposing arguments.
As fantasy it is fragmented, in other words. Sustained thought about any of it is not involved. Past the first sentence of any one of the imaginary positions, there is only emotion, not further thought. They are not living in the real world - that is true. But that they don't believe it themselves, that is not really true.
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posted on
02/13/2004 12:27:31 PM PST
by
JasonC
To: Akira; Valin
Thanks.
I still don't know what Israel really gained in Camp-David. Yes, there is no hot war with Egypt and Israelis can visit tourist sites. But, there is no principal difference between cold peace now and no war condition otherwise. Official Egypt propaganda against Israel is bad as ever. Sinai was an excellent buffer, so the border hostilities would be far removed. Egypt would not have $2bln US money to buy weapons, and Israel would not get into too much of dependence with it's $3bln. That also would force them into economic reforms away from too much government socialism in their economy.
Anti-Israel rhetoric in Europe and Arab world is bad now regardless of any concessions Israel did or ready to do. So, what was the point?
I agree with Valin of course, that all talk is pointless until there are two sides ready to compromise. One is not enough.
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posted on
02/13/2004 12:31:00 PM PST
by
Tolik
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