Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

8/11 Middle East Live Thread
Middle East Live Thread ^ | 8.11.06 | BurbankKarl

Posted on 08/10/2006 8:58:48 PM PDT by BurbankKarl

Love is a Battlefield

IDF soldier received heart shaped cookie somewhere near the Lebanon border...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Israel
KEYWORDS: 2006israelwar; israel; middleeast; unres1701; waronmilitantislam
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 2,621-2,6402,641-2,6602,661-2,680 ... 2,721-2,735 next last
To: hegemony

I think that Israel pretty much got screwed...and I don't know where it is going...

I think there is a good chance that if fighting does stop for some reason..it may start up again over the release of those kidnapped soldiers.

Otherwise...why couldn't they have been part of THIS resolution??


2,641 posted on 08/11/2006 9:41:01 PM PDT by Txsleuth ((((((((ISRAEL)))))))))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2551 | View Replies]

To: del4hope

Refusing to call Islam a religion is like refusing to call Buddhism a religion...or Shinto, or Hinduism, or Sikhism or Jainism or all the other things people do. There are ideological underpinnings in Islamofacism, but it's still done for the glory of God as they perceive it, and it's a whole lot more theistic than say Zen is. and they BELIEVE in ways a lot in the west just do not understand.

Not the first time in history that politics and religion have been conflated this way, either. One only needs to study the history of the English Civil War for another good example of how people, in their zeal, got hardheaded and demanding that people fall in line, and fought against what they thought was a threat or a misuse of religion. Once upon a time, people in Massachusetts hung quakers and baptists who were trying to teach their faith.

Something to think about.


2,642 posted on 08/11/2006 9:42:17 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2543 | View Replies]

To: hegemony
This is a little more relevant today than when we laughed at how ridiculous it was back in February:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5074243333008673242

2,643 posted on 08/11/2006 9:42:36 PM PDT by CedarDave
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2625 | View Replies]

To: Teufelhunde

Re:2555

Other than for questionable use N.America
is it possible that these phones are being repackaged and shipped out to wind up in Iraq or Gaza etc. or would phones in those locations be of ample supply?


2,644 posted on 08/11/2006 9:42:57 PM PDT by 99Floyd
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2555 | View Replies]

To: Txsleuth

Ya got me. But if they're not alive, if they've been beaten and tortured, it ain't gonna be pretty.


2,645 posted on 08/11/2006 9:43:03 PM PDT by hegemony
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2641 | View Replies]

To: casino66

So, it's just a "suggestion"? A "robust" suggestion....Condis' new fave word.


2,646 posted on 08/11/2006 9:43:08 PM PDT by Jrabbit (Scuse me??)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2634 | View Replies]

To: mware

Nobody once thought people would fly planes into skyscrapers on purpose either.

Some judges need to have a brain transfusion. They are obviously running two quarts low.


2,647 posted on 08/11/2006 9:43:29 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2544 | View Replies]

To: CedarDave
Great Toon!

We used to get anaphylactic shock after we were stung. Now we get it when we hear the buzz?!?!

2,648 posted on 08/11/2006 9:43:32 PM PDT by Theophilus (Abortion = Child Sacrifice = Future Sacrifice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2620 | View Replies]

To: Lizarde

Just one day at a time...seriously..don't TRY to picture your life without them...sure defeat.

Just tell yourself you just need to get through today..and then we will see what happens tomorrow...then the same message tomorrow.


2,649 posted on 08/11/2006 9:43:34 PM PDT by Txsleuth ((((((((ISRAEL)))))))))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2573 | View Replies]

To: jeffers
I can make a list of targets bigger than FR servers can hold, all of which would have actually put a damper on western military or political capability, and all, therefore, way more beneficial than old hat plane bombings.

Our might is nothing without our will...they are after our will.

2,650 posted on 08/11/2006 9:43:56 PM PDT by Dolphy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2617 | View Replies]

To: Theophilus

Take a look at the video in #2,643


2,651 posted on 08/11/2006 9:44:43 PM PDT by CedarDave
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2648 | View Replies]

To: varmintxer


God help us.

_______

I'm very much counting on his help.


2,652 posted on 08/11/2006 9:44:55 PM PDT by conservativepoet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2637 | View Replies]

To: del4hope

IFs is is...I just hope other posters know what we are talking about.


2,653 posted on 08/11/2006 9:45:10 PM PDT by Txsleuth ((((((((ISRAEL)))))))))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2582 | View Replies]

To: conservativepoet

07:37 U.S. federal court upholds random bag checks on NY subway to prevent terrorism (AP)
07:14 Lebanese sources: Several people killed in IAF strike on south Lebanon (Reuters)
06:42 Israeli warplanes attack targets in north and south Lebanon (AP)
06:29 Lebanese media: Israeli warplanes attacked targets in northern Lebanon (AP)


2,654 posted on 08/11/2006 9:45:51 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2652 | View Replies]

To: 4butnomorethan30characters

Karl's out tonight and tomorrow, he asked if I'd get the new threads up. I'll have the new one up 12:00 CDT. Just a heads up.

____________


Can you be trusted with such Freeper power? I think we need a UN resolution on this. LOL!!!


2,655 posted on 08/11/2006 9:46:40 PM PDT by conservativepoet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2640 | View Replies]

To: jeffers

i'm glad those people cannot see inside all of our collective minds,,,guns and bombs are , after all, only tools,,,the weapons of war are in the minds of men .
that is a scary place indeed .


2,656 posted on 08/11/2006 9:47:39 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2617 | View Replies]

Comment #2,657 Removed by Moderator

To: conservativepoet

GOOD..I PRAY that Lebanon has doubts about the resolution...do you know why??'

Because that resolution was pretty one-sided on their side..and if they are having doubts...they will show that the don't really WANT a deal..and so Israel can just take its sweet time getting out of south Lebanon.


2,658 posted on 08/11/2006 9:48:11 PM PDT by Txsleuth ((((((((ISRAEL)))))))))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2596 | View Replies]

To: Knitting A Conundrum

Once upon a time, people in Massachusetts hung quakers and baptists who were trying to teach their faith.



There were Quaker trials but not to a great extent. Most went up to New Hampshire or Nantucket.

also many of the Quakers had a flip side to them.


2,659 posted on 08/11/2006 9:48:21 PM PDT by SoCalPol (We Need A Border Fence Now)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2642 | View Replies]

To: jeffers

I understand the wow factor of bringing a plane down but I've never really understood why the terrorists here don't concentrate more on soft targets...malls, churches, schools, etc. A backpack, diaper bag, shopping bag containing whatever can be slipped under a pew, hidden in a clothing rack or under the bleachers and with these phones as remote detonators, you don't even need to have a suicidal maniac at the helm. Two or three hundred or even two or three thousand of these set off wouldn't have a significant military impact but would have a big economic/psychological impact. Just a thought.


2,660 posted on 08/11/2006 9:48:51 PM PDT by AggieMom x 3
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2617 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 2,621-2,6402,641-2,6602,661-2,680 ... 2,721-2,735 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson