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Mid-East Roadmap, Is it working?

 
 
Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Sun 24 Aug, 2003 07:15 pm
au1929 wrote:
Frank
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Once again you are equating the existence of the state of Israel in the Middle East -- with the continued existence of Jews in the world.


It is you who are equating the existence of Israel with the continued existence of Jews in the world.



No, that is not correct. You are the one making statements that seem to indicate that you consider the continuance of the state of Israel to be equivalent to the continuance of the Jewish people.

The state of Israel could disappear - and the Jewish people would go on. But more importantly, the state of Israel could continue in existence - but not in the Middle East in the midst of absolutely implacable enemies.

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Both of which you would like to see disappear.


That is so goddam stupid, I really regret dignifying it with a response, but I will. I do not want to see Israel disappear. I would love to see it stay exactly where it is today - and to be surrounded with loving, friendly neighbors.

BUT THAT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN.

Personally, I think the state of Israel could be set up some place else - preferably, in my opinion, here in the United States some way.

Barring that, I think the only solution that works is to have the state of Israel cease to exist - and have the United Nations take the entire area in dispute and set up a protectorate with no states there - open to residency by all Jews and Arabs. I would have no trouble with a proposition that, if the state of Israel did go out of existence, would grant immediate American citizenship to every Jew who decided not to live in the Middle East because of the changes.

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How many times have you said I am not an anti-Semite even though no one said you were. "Frank Thou dost protest too much".


Horseshit! If I mention I am not an anti-Semite, it is because of the structure of what is being discussed. Go back and read the stuff that went on before I mentioned that I am not an anti-Semite in this thread. The entire reason for the mention was that I am doing some of the things you consider anti-Semitic - and I am telling you that you are a jerk for thinking that some of these things indicate anti-Semitism.

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Regarding whether IMO you are or are not an Anti-Semite I will keep that to my self …


Jesus Christ, au, read what you write, will you. Look at what you wrote earlier in this paragraph - and then look at this last sentence. I am sure everyone but you got a huge laugh at of this nonsense.

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...and let your words speak for you.


I am totally willing to do that.

Anyone who thinks I am an anti-Semite based on what I am writing here, please speak up!

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The subject is the State of Israel and it's existence period. Nothing more noting less and whether the road map is or is not working.
As for what the Israeli's would or would not do if they were faced with another Holocaust I do not know. However if were an Israeli I know darn well what I would do and it would not to march like a sheep to the gas chamber.


You are doing that again. You are equating the existence of Israel - with the existence of Jews. Jews lived without Israel - and they will live even if Israel eventually falls. I hope it doesn't happen. I hope Israel continues to exist. BUT IF IT DOES - IT MUST DO SO WITH THE FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THERE WHO HATE THE IDEA OF A STATE OF ISRAEL IN THEIR MIDST - AND WILL NEVER BE PEACEFUL TOWARD IT.


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As for whether there can be peaceful coexistence between Israel and it's neighbors actually in time I believe there will be.


Yeah, sure you do! And, pray tell, what exactly are you basing that "belief" on?

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If by that you meant that you think Israel will take the whole Middle East with it if it is destroyed -- or if you meant that Israel will take the entire planet down with them if it comes to that -- then I agree with you.

I think they will do that.


I knew you would agree with that. The perfidious Jews are capable of anything. Who the hell are they to want to defend themselves.


You are the one who mentioned that…
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…before Israel goes down and there is another holocaust the entire region will. Never again means never again. However, it will never come to that.


If you think that statement was an ugly one, you should not have mentioned it. To castigate me for agreeing with you is absurd.

And the sarcasm of "..who the hell are they to want to defend themselves" is so damn corny and inappropriate, I amazed you can use it without blushing.
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Sofia
 
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Reply Sun 24 Aug, 2003 10:38 pm
US Troops in...Israel? Murmurings heard.
Congress Starting to talk About US Troops in Israel...

An excerpt.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who serves on the Armed Services Committee and is part of a congressional delegation to the region, said peace won't be a reality until the Palestinian security forces are united under Abbas.
''He has got to win a political power struggle with Yasser Arafat because he's holding onto the old way of dealing with Israel,'' Graham said on ''Fox News Sunday.'' ''He doesn't really want a two-state solution; Abbas does. And Abbas has got to make the decision to declare war, politically and militarily, against Hamas and Islamic Jihad.''
Rep. Harold Ford, D-Tenn., who recently returned from the region, said the United States must do more to support Abbas and his cabinet, ''to provide them with adequate resources, whether it's to build their own force or expanding the power of their own force and strength of their own force, or to figure out ways in which to undermine Arafat and to remove him as a symbol or instrument of power there with Hamas and other Palestinians.''
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War.
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hobitbob
 
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Reply Sun 24 Aug, 2003 10:39 pm
Like I said, I have a feeling the evangelicals are going to get their river'o'blood. Sad
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Sun 24 Aug, 2003 10:47 pm
US troops to the mid east is something I fully support. Earlier in this thread someone said that the Palestinian willingness to accept US military intervention is indicative of the fear Palestinians have of Isreal's retaliation but Palestinians have long welcomed outside intervention.

They can't control their militants and an uninvolved party that is not going to use terrorism as a pretext for territorial expantion is prefferable to them.

Up to this point it has been the Israelis who reject that option, and vehemently.
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Sofia
 
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Reply Sun 24 Aug, 2003 11:15 pm
Open season on Hamas.

Excerpt.

Israeli helicopters fire missiles in Gaza City as crisis looms over control of Palestinian security
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Sun 24 Aug, 2003 11:22 pm
I think it will go far enough to pospone the roadmap but not far enough to piss off the US.

Kinda like what was happining in 2001.
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CodeBorg
 
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 12:45 am
Wwwhhhhoooooo..... what a thread!
Israel and Palestine.
A friend of mine went there and remarked
"It's who they are. They will never get along.
They will always be against each other."

What do you do? Build a very high fence and leave it at that?
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InfraBlue
 
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 02:05 am
Was the Zionist arrogation of Palestine worth it all?
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 07:13 am
Craven de Kere wrote:
US troops to the mid east is something I fully support. Earlier in this thread someone said that the Palestinian willingness to accept US military intervention is indicative of the fear Palestinians have of Isreal's retaliation but Palestinians have long welcomed outside intervention.

They can't control their militants and an uninvolved party that is not going to use terrorism as a pretext for territorial expantion is prefferable to them.

Up to this point it has been the Israelis who reject that option, and vehemently.


Whoa! Do you think that is a possibility, Craven? If Israel does not support it? Would the US populace support it, do you think? I gather Bush's popularity is falling - in the latest polling - and it is speculated that it is partly a result of fear of a protracted stay in Iraq. What about a multi-national force under the UN banner? Such as remains of it.....
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 08:49 am
GWBush is capable of doing anything stupid if past performance is any indication. Oh, well......
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 09:22 am
dlowan wrote:
Whoa! Do you think that is a possibility, Craven? If Israel does not support it? Would the US populace support it, do you think? I gather Bush's popularity is falling - in the latest polling - and it is speculated that it is partly a result of fear of a protracted stay in Iraq. What about a multi-national force under the UN banner? Such as remains of it.....


Israel can be bent by the US. As to the US population I do not think they'd accept it right now. Had we not invaded Iraq they would.
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au1929
 
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 09:26 am
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au1929 wrote:
Frank
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Once again you are equating the existence of the state of Israel in the Middle East -- with the continued existence of Jews in the world.

au
It is you who are equating the existence of Israel with the continued existence of Jews in the world.


Frank
No, that is not correct. You are the one making statements that seem to indicate that you consider the continuance of the state of Israel to be equivalent to the continuance of the Jewish people.


Not so the existence of the state of Israel in my opinion is a fortress for the Jewish people however, never did I say the Jewish people would not survive without it. However, consider if there had been a Jewish State and the Jews of Europe had some where to flee to. Would there have been a holocaust?

Frank
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Personally, I think the state of Israel could be set up some place else – preferably, in my opinion, here in the United States some way.


Can't even hope to respond to that it is beyond ridiculous. Shall we pick up an entire nation and place them in the middle of the US or possibly the Artic wastes?
Frank
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Barring that, I think the only solution that works is to have the state of Israel cease to exist

Sure sounds to me that you are for the existence of Israel???
AU
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How many times have you said I am not an anti-Semite even though no one said you were. "Frank Thou dost protest too much".

Frank
Horseshit! If I mention I am not an anti-Semite, it is because of the structure of what is being discussed. Go back and read the stuff that went on before I mentioned that I am not an anti-Semite in this thread. The entire reason for the mention was that I am doing some of the things you consider anti-Semitic – and I am telling you that you are a jerk for thinking that some of these things indicate anti-Semitism.


In all our previous encounters of this type I had never brought up anti-Semitism or for that matter even gave it a thought. You on the other hand on many occasions did. Again I say "Thou dost protest too much."
As for my equating your statements with Anti-Semitism that was in your mind not mine. I fully understand that people can be against the state of Israel and not be anti-Semitic. The two do not necessarily go together.
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AU
The subject is the state of Israel and it's existence period. Nothing more noting less and whether the road map is or is not working.
As for what the Israeli's would or would not do if they were faced with another Holocaust I do not know. However if were an Israeli I know darn well what I would do and it would not to march like a sheep to the gas chamber.

Frank
You are doing that again. You are equating the existence of Israel – with the existence of Jews.


That's your interpretation not mine. Jews have lived through Massacres, Inquisitions, progoms, expulsions, and Holocausts through the centuries and have survived tattered and torn but they have survived. Consider what a difference there would have been with the existence of a homeland.

AU
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As for whether there can be peaceful coexistence between Israel and it's neighbors actually in time I believe there will be.

Frank
Yeah, sure you do! And, pray tell, what exactly are you basing that "belief" on?


Hope since after hope there is only despair.
frank
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You are the one who mentioned that…Quote:
…before Israel goes down and there is another holocaust the entire region will. Never again means never again. However, it will never come to that

au
If you think that statement was an ugly one, you should not have mentioned it. To castigate me for agreeing with you is absurd.


That was obviously my opinion with you seemed to agree with and without hesitation said "I think they will do that."
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And the sarcasm of ". Who the hell are they to want to defend themselves" is so damn corny and inappropriate, I amazed you can use it without blushing.


Not corny or sarcastic. Remember, a sizable portion of the population of the state of Israel is made up of servivors of the holocaust and there descendants as well as others who have been oppressed simply because of their faith. Who have fought off there enemies several times since 48 inorder to survive and have turned nothing into a vibrant nation.
Finis. As far as I am concerned all that can be said has been.
Note; Because of the quote on quote are intermingled . However, I am sure they are clear enough.
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au1929
 
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 09:43 am
Craven
Regarding foreign intervention. As I remember the Israeli's were not against US intervention {personnel} they were against having those from the UN because of what they believe would be a biased response.
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Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 09:59 am
Au

I responded to your last post -- but apparently it has been deleted by the monitors.

I'll not bother to re-write and post another response -- I think telling you that my response was deleted should do the job.
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au1929
 
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 01:39 pm
Frank
You must have been a bad boy.
I guess when all else fails it's get nasty time. . Shame on you!
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 01:49 pm
anti-semitism and the question of whether Israel has a right to exist are questions of such a type that the most heated exchange here does not compare with what passes for normal.

At least we don't blow each other up.

BTW au, I distinctly remember Israel rejecting any outside military intervention. Including that of the US.

The UN is biased excuse does not explain why they'd not accept trrops. If international peacekeepers went to the region what would they do? Get shot in a biased way?
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 02:05 pm
Dov Weissglas, the chief of staff of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, also called for US intervention (heard him yesterday in a radio interview), but only to put pressure on the PA to disarm groups like Hamas.
He explicit said that Israel didn't want any US military within its borders. (interview broadcasted by West German Radio, 2nd program [WDR2])
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 02:08 pm
I think the reason Israel doesn't want US military in Israel is that their targeted assassinations might mistake a US trooper as the enemy. That'll go over big in the US.
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Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 02:09 pm
au1929 wrote:
Frank
You must have been a bad boy.
I guess when all else fails it's get nasty time. . Shame on you!



Most of the post was right on target -- and was not nasty at all.

But the last line suggested an anatomically complex procedure I thought you might try -- and that must have upset the monitor for some reason.
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au1929
 
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 02:15 pm
Craven
You may be right but I seem to remember it differently.
In any event I can't believe in light of the present situation that the US would commit troops to that duty.

In fact as I remember the Pal's wanted the UN troops not Americans for the same reasons that Israel did not want UN troops. Bias.
The latest however, is that the Pal's are asking for US intervention.
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