Why, the Israelites, of course. Their Holy Book, which they wrote, says so. And if you read their Holy Book, you'd know that every word of it is true, because that's what it says.
I thought we were all gods chosen people.. I can't even say that with a straight face (I mean type that)
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Knife wrote:And the 'slow war' continues. At the risk of sounding evil, let the fuckers go at it. Then after they actualy have a war, then they can negociate a peace.
if they see what total war is. maybe it will scare some sense into them, but i doubt it....they are fighting for god after all...
Both sides right now cling to hope of winning so why negocitate a truce? Let them go at it, not this bull shit slow burning guerilla war we have had for decades, and sooner or later one side will win. Then and only then will one of them be willing to capitulate and make a truce.
They say, "the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." I suppose it never occurred to them that they are the tyrants, not the patriots. Those weapons are not being used to fight some kind of tyranny; they are bringing them to an event where people are getting together to talk. -Mike Wong
But as far as board culture in general, I do think that young male overaggression is a contributing factor to the general atmosphere of hostility. It's not SOS and the Mess throwing hand grenades all over the forum- Red
Wicked Pilot wrote:IT'S A WORTHLESS PEICE OF FUCKING DESERT!!!
Err, you haven't by any chance been to Haifa, have you?
Col. Crackpot wrote:If the Palistinians were to lay down their arms, there would be no more conflict. If the Israeli's layed down their arms, there would be no more Israelis.
Great quote.
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Crazy_Vasey wrote:Uhh, didn't Hamas say only a few days or weeks ago that they had no intention of following the roadmap anyway? I'm not seeing why Israel should leave Hamas alone when they blatantly have no intention of leaving Israel alone.
Exactly.
Music can name the un-nameable and communicate with the unknowable.
-Leonard Bernstein
second, its true acording to the bible, however the pact with abrahams went thru more revisions then ANY peace treaty, I am learning about this right now in school (goddam HATE those lessons).
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Col. Crackpot wrote:If the Palistinians were to lay down their arms, there would be no more conflict. If the Israeli's layed down their arms, there would be no more Israelis.
Great quote.
i can't take credit for it though. a radio host out of Boston coined that phrase i think..... Jay Severin.
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does this mean it will be another six day war, or just a few houses being hit?
we've been watching the second for a while.
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I still like my solution.
Take all the money and equipment we give to Israel annually and give it to Palestine. Then let the Israelis turn into the unreasonable terrorists when they have no massive support coming out from the West. Then, five years later, take the equipment back from the Palestinians and give it to the Israelis again for another five years and let the Palestinians go back to being unreasonable terrorists. Continue this cycle until one side wins. At least this way it will be a more even match that can expose both sides for what they are: unreasonable fundamentalists.
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The fastest solution and the only one likely to work is for one side to obliterate the other. Attempts to restrain either side simply slow that down and prolong the conflict.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Apparently anyone affiliated with Hamas is now a legitimate military target.
Well shit, how about they just nuke the entire Middle East?
About damn time. My idea for middle east peace - wait until Hamas has
a big meeting, and then send in the mossad to machine gun anyone
in that meeting room deader than shit
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"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Durandal wrote:I still like my solution.
At least this way it will be a more even match that can expose both sides for what they are: unreasonable fundamentalists.
How about this?
We give israel our latest research in low-fallout neutron bombs, and let
them have a go at the Palestinians
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
I believe this all can be resolved with a brutal desisive COMPLETE victory.
Incomplete conflicts always lead to prolonged low level hostilities.
Violence does solve many problems, but only if you use enough of it.
Had the arabs detroyed Isreal, this would not be happening.
Had Isreal destroyed the "Palestinians", this wouldn't be happening either.
The only chances Isreal has, are:
Surrender, and death.(Not fucking likely)
Complete subjegation of the "occupied" territories. 100%TOTAL controle of ALL aspsects of government.(Not enough manpower, needs complete military victory FIRST)
Explulsion, ethnic cleansing, whatever you want to call it. (Not poltiticaly feasable?)
Extermination.(See above?)
Complete subgegation, with search and destroy of all weapons caches, and death squad/imprisonment of all Hammasholes, IJihads, Hezbulshits.
Status quo. (NEVER worked in history, political suicide for proponents)
There are NO good options for Isreal.
They are damned if they do, damned if they don't. So fuck the world they will do what they want.
As I type, the tanks are rolling, and the planes/helicopters are flying.
I think an other "massacre at Jenin" will now unfold in Gaza.
Sharon didn't want to spend this much blood, but he will.
Gaza is one HUGE fortified deathtrap. Claymore sewer systems, and ready to collapse prewired buildings.
Prediction.
More LIES about IDF "killing thousands" of "innocent civillions."
Just like Jenin. (70 or so dead, mosly active combatants, with a few predictable civvie deaths, when buildings collapse due to fighting, or get caught in the crossfire.) Pal fighters will barracade inside hospitals, mosces, and schools, shooting at IDF, and scream, "See! See, They are targetics civvies!" when fire is RETURED.
Anyone here remember Jenin? The PLO bastards that took a CHURCH and it's innocent clerics and worshipers as a fighting position? Complete with hostages.
Yet everthing Islamic is "sacred."
Having worn the egg on their face for the "massacre at Jenin," even though it wasn't, they may just decide to say, with action,
"You call me a monster, and you scorn, harass, hinder, scold, and boycott. Well then, so be it. Being then a monster, it behooves me then to act MONSROUSLY! If I shall pay the price, I shall then claim the prize. UNFETTERED ACTION!"
Hmmmmmm.
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The truly sad part about all this is you can trace this back to Arafat. He had everything he wanted with Barak, but he still didn't budge. IDIOT. Putting him down might not be a bad idea, although you need some neutral party to do it. How about some suicide bombers from Thailand (nice and fairly neutral... ha ha ha ha).
As for Hamas, Shep, you don't need them to get together in some secret meeting, just drop submunitions on the next Hamas rally. Everyone knows that the only reason the Israelis have restrained themselves is because the government is a democracy, and it will likely not sanction anything that bloody.
The Israelis are probably more likely to negotiate, because unlike the Palestinians, most of the Israelis realize that they have more to lose. There seems to be a belief in the Palestinian population that Israel has to go, and there can't be peace until the state of Israel is wiped out. It's sad, but as I said before, until the parties involved (more the Palestinians from my point of view than the Israelis) realize that negotiations is preferable to the current state of low intensity warfare, this will keep going on. The only way, people will realize that peace is better than war, is if the war takes a real toll. A majority of Europeans finally got that message during the last century. May be, the middle east needs to get the same message.
0.1 wrote:The truly sad part about all this is you can trace this back to Arafat.
To be fair, you can trace this thing back to the Israelis, back in the '40's, when they were the worlds best terrorists. Hell, they started the airplane highjacking fad too.
Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
Just heard on the radio that the brave warrior leaders of Hamas have now all gone into guarded hiding inside palestinian areas since word broke that the IDF has orders to hunt them down and dispose of them like the fecal rubbish they are.
What brave warriors they are. They have no trouble sending others to blow up unarmed civilians but run and hide when its time to face other WARRIORS.
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Durandal wrote:I still like my solution.
Take all the money and equipment we give to Israel annually and give it to Palestine. Then let the Israelis turn into the unreasonable terrorists when they have no massive support coming out from the West. Then, five years later, take the equipment back from the Palestinians and give it to the Israelis again for another five years and let the Palestinians go back to being unreasonable terrorists. Continue this cycle until one side wins. At least this way it will be a more even match that can expose both sides for what they are: unreasonable fundamentalists.
Well, I must say, it is a reasonable solution. Fuck, it isnt as if we havent done similar things in the Mid East.
The issue is whether or not Israel is going to differentiate between Hamas and the rest of the Palistinian population.
I would hazard a guess...No.
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kojikun wrote:are we still working on neutron bombs? i thought the whole chemical-explosion-induced fusion thing was a pipedream?
You have no idea in hell what a neutron bomb is do you?
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Well, Ted, I can't disagree with you there. But in terms of recent histroy, Arafat had a golden opportunity, but he couldn't compromise and everything went to hell.
What!?!?! I can't believe the brave Hamas warriors would cower behind the skirts of women. More lies from the imperialists and their infidel lackeys, God willing, they will be all struck down.
0.1 wrote:The truly sad part about all this is you can trace this back to Arafat.
To be fair, you can trace this thing back to the Israelis, back in the '40's, when they were the worlds best terrorists. Hell, they started the airplane highjacking fad too.
And have been subjugating the Palistinians, and expanding their territory since the 1940's
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Alyrium Denryle wrote:
And have been subjugating the Palistinians, and expanding their territory since the 1940's
You mean 1947 when every boarding nation launched an invasion against a nation with no military about 18 hours after it came into existence?
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956