Fear splits Israel's ranks

Guardian Unlimited ^ | Sunday March 10, 2002 | Graham Usher

[Travis McGee]

I pray that those who need them get back on their meds.

[M1911A1]

That is the funniest damn thing I have read all week.

[crystalk]

haven't you emigrated to the Muslim world YET? Get going!

[boltfromblue]

It is because Europe and the world felt guilty not coming to the aid of Germany's Jews, that Israel exists. Would it not have been fairer to carve out a section of Germany for the Jews with a Berlin-type wall, for the time needed, rather than prey on a defenseless people not given statehood, turning THEIR lands over to the Jews to allow them to wreak their hostilities on a people weaker than the Germans? Wars do not necessitate taking over people's land, either. May God let justice prevail. Perhaps you need a psychedelic drug to open up your psyche, as you seem to be unable to do it by yourself.

[neutrino]

Yes, Israel's leaders SHOULD react for the benefit of the ordinary people of Israel. But not in the way you imply.

Iodine-131...for those stubborn infections!

[boltfromblue]

People who refuse to see more than one (their) side of the coin are intellectually depriving themselves of half their brain. No loss for me, and I see the Bush administration sees the true character of the Israeli leadership. No peace, we just are greedy for land (never really ours, of course).

[boltfromblue]

Genocide is hardly a substitute for a peaceful heart.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Genocide is hardly a substitute for a peaceful heart.

Tell that to the Canaanites and the Philistines. Israel needs to do with the Palestinians as it did with these earlier nations.

[boltfromblue]

A martial solution, as your namesake would choose, is NOT the way to a better world. In this case, the Palestinians alone are fighting for what is theirs and thus the only side fighting justifiably.

[neutrino]

Genocide is hardly a substitute for a peaceful heart.

Ahh, but life is conflict. Indeed, the very nature of life and of nature is unending battle. So peace may be an ideal - albeit an unachievable one - but cannot exist while breath remains within us.

Don't think of it as genocide. Think of it as introducing the palies to a truly lasting peace.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

A martial solution, as your namesake would choose, is NOT the way to a better world.

Worked pretty well against the Palestinians' Nazi allies though. Besides, my namesake was known for massacring unarmed civilians, more like a Palestinian, in fact.

In this case, the Palestinians alone are fighting for what is theirs and thus the only side fighting justifiably.

Sorry Mr. Bin Laden, go sell crazy somewhere else, we aren't going to drink your cool aid anymore. In any case, there will be no Palestinians alive between the Jordan and the Mediterranean before the end of the decade.

[MissAmericanPie]

ROFL

[MissAmericanPie]

Ya iggit, there was no body there but Jews. No Arabs, no Arabs that call themselves Palestinian, it was a waste land. Go read some history books, they are out there waiting for you.

[boltfromblue]

There always comes this denigration of these people. They were nomads, much like some American Indian tribes. They allowed all their Arab brethren to roam or live freely there, Syrians, Jordanians, any, but it is THEIR land of the Philistines from the beginning. Because the land was not crowded with people building monuments to themselves, does not mean it was not appreciated and used. Rather it shows that they appreciated this handiwork of nature as God-given and had no intention of paving it over.

[iav2]

The Guardian hates Israel, and the US too. Spreads disinformation about both. I remember you from another thread accusing Daniel Pearl of being a spy or Mossad agent some weird stuff like that.

[TopQuark]

Ya iggit, there was no body there but Jews. No Arabs, no Arabs that call themselves Palestinian, it was a waste land. Go read some history books, they are out there waiting for you. It looks like boltfromblue joined FR to avail us of fine Arab propaganda.

[TopQuark]

They were nomads, much like some American Indian tribes. They allowed all their Arab brethren to roam or live freely there, Syrians, Jordanians, any, but it is THEIR land of the Philistines from the beginning. Oot of the Blue, our dearest member Bolt invented a new ancient people -- Jordanians.

You see, if you get Arabic education, you don't really need to know anything -- just repeat the sheick's words.

You are doing well, Bolt. But I am afraid, however, that I am talking to a Nut.

[boltfromblue]

And what do you know about the "weird" notion that Pearl did not spy for the Mossad? Israel likely has the largest spy network of any nation, including of course its spies here.