THE WAR IN GAZA

No matter what Israel does or doesn't do in defending itself, its enemies deem it to be guilty of something..

A senior legal official who secretly warned the government of Israel after the Six Day War of 1967 that it would be illegal to build Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories has said, for the first time, that he still believes that he was right.

The declaration by Theodor Meron, the Israeli Foreign Ministry's legal adviser at the time and today one of the world's leading international jurists, is a serious blow to Israel's persistent argument that the settlements do not violate international law, particularly as Israel prepares to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the war in June 1967.

Advocate wrote:

No matter what Israel does or doesn't do in defending itself, its enemies deem it to be guilty of something..

because its true

Steve, wow! A legal officer said it was illegal, so it must be so. Was he even a member of the bar?

Foofie wrote:

In the American National Anthem, I thought it is asked for God to bless America.

I thought the American National Anthem was mainly about rockets and "bombs bursting in air". I don't recall any part where someone asked for god to bless America.

You are American, right?

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Look carefully and you might discover that Jews are not a race.

I know they are not a race. Going back 1000 years I am related to them all myself.

Stirring stuff HS but as I was musing last night, its a pity we didnt hang onto the American colonies. What the world would be like with Britannia ruling land sea and air!

There now follows several verses of "Land of Hope and Glory..."

Foofie wrote:

In the American National Anthem, I thought it is asked for God to bless America.

I thought the American National Anthem was mainly about rockets and "bombs bursting in air". I don't recall any part where someone asked for god to bless America.

You are American, right?

This sounds to me as preposterous, since I have never heard of anyone knowing a thousand year old relative. What do you base your claim on?

old europe wrote:

Foofie wrote:

In the American National Anthem, I thought it is asked for God to bless America.

I thought the American National Anthem was mainly about rockets and "bombs bursting in air". I don't recall any part where someone asked for god to bless America.

You are American, right?

I got my songs mixed up.

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This sounds to me as preposterous, since I have never heard of anyone knowing a thousand year old relative. What do you base your claim on?

The same evidence that has me related to monkeys going back a few million years.

It is calculated that each of us has 10,000,000 direct ancestors who lived in 1000AD. Which makes 20,000,000 in 975 AD. I ought to have said "the vast majority" instead of "all" and 2,000 years instead of 1,000. I wasn't aware you are pedantic.

So you can see what silly soddery geneology is.

My ancestors of 2,000 years, and your's, were all over the place.

The gonads don't have nationality. Nationality is a social construct. You have 1,o12 ancestors back just 10 generations. 1750 AD say. 518,144 back in 1500AD. I'd bet you are related to Henry the Eighth. And Vlad the Impaler. And Pope Leo X. And all the prostitutes who attended the Council of Trent.

Steve 41oo wrote:

Stirring stuff HS but as I was musing last night, its a pity we didnt hang onto the American colonies. What the world would be like with Britannia ruling land sea and air!

There now follows several verses of "Land of Hope and Glory..."

Correction: "its a pity..." above is a contraction; therefore it needs a " ' " (it's).

One might be assuming that the Anglican Brits could have done what the American Protestant WASP's could have done. That might be a very false conclusion.

Foofie wrote:

Steve 41oo wrote:

Stirring stuff HS but as I was musing last night, its a pity we didnt hang onto the American colonies. What the world would be like with Britannia ruling land sea and air!

There now follows several verses of "Land of Hope and Glory..."

Correction: "its a pity..." above is a contraction; therefore it needs a " ' " (it's).

One might be assuming that the Anglican Brits could have done what the American Protestant WASP's could have done. That might be a very false conclusion.

there are two contractions. both deliberate. You only found one.

The lack of an apostrophe for "didnt" was just quick typing, I thought. However, the lack of an apostrophe for "its" sometimes reflects not knowing which version of the word requires an apostrophe (as a contraction, or denoting possession).