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Pieter, you think “expansionist Israel” is just a throw-away line that can be ignored in the context of your “greater article”.

Well, “throw-away lines” matter.

If you wrote a long piece on global warming and threw in a line about “global warming deniers are all in the pay of oil companies”, your entire piece would be suspect, no matter what else you put in it.

Your choice of wording — “expansionist Israel” — says that your brain works in a certain way that is alien to most of us here. None of us would ever make the “mistake” of saying “expansionist Israel”. It could only be said by someone who either believes it or is for some reason comfortable repeating it. Where’d you pick it up? Cocktail parties with liberals?

Your choice of wording — “expansionist Israel”

I did not say those words, the article did.

Those are two words out of the entire article.

I just posted a good bashing of the author of this article, which I would recommend for your reading.

When a FReeper posts an article it does not necessarily mean they support the article 100%. Sometimes articles are posted to put "bad news" in front of us so we are aware of it.

It will help if you focus on the article instead of me.

If you want to pick apart the article and debate it of course that's what we do here.

I will agree with you on the point of Israel not being an expansionist nation. I'm not against any country, if you look at my current posting patterns, I'm anti-globalism/new world order.

Most people who immediately dismiss everything you say after you say "new world order" have not done any serious research on the topic, so it's difficult to convince them of anything because they are missing literally centuries of background information. So I mostly just put what some may feel is disturbing reporting, or various facts and statistics some may feel uncomfortable with, since they upset their current worldview that new world order is a "myth". I personally find a lot of news "disturbing"; I continue to try to find facts and then piece together what is actually going on.

Many people take the facts they can "resolve" and they then start reading about them to understand more. There are a number of FReepers who have pieced some "ugly" pieces of the new world order puzzle together and now post some very interesting threads regularly.