ISRAEL - IRAN - SYRIA - HAMAS - HEZBOLLAH - WWWIII?

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Advocate wrote:

Hezbollah's incursion over the Blue Line, the first time in the 6 years since Israel made its pullback, into Israel neatly corresponded with the deadline given Iran regarding their nuclear program. It was Iran's way of telling the world that squeezing Iran will cause big trouble.
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Lebanon has a nerve complaining about Israel's violation of the UN resolution. The latter states that Hez will be disarmed and that Lebanese and international forces will take control over south Lebanon, which actions have not taken place.
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I don' t know where Advocate gets these weird ideas. I have never read anything that agrees with this or can find any evidence that it is true!!


This is a LIE! It is untrue. I defy Advocate to show evidence that it is completely accurate!!

BernardR wrote:

Really? I shall write to the Encyclopdia Brittanica forthwith! And when I mention that Setanta corrected them, they will shudder in fear and with foreboding and IMMEDIATELY CHANGE THEIR ARTICLE! LOL

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According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Necho began the construction of a canal from the Nile River to the Red Sea, probably in response to the growth of trade in the Egyptian Delta, but an oracle persuaded him to discontinue the project. A threat developed in Mesopotamia, where the Assyrian Empire was falling to the Babylonians. Necho ordered fleets to be built on the Mediterranean and Red seas, and with them he undertook a Syrian campaign in 608 BC to assist the battered Assyrian armies. When Josiah, king of Judah and an ally of the Neo-Babylonians, was slain in battle at Megiddo, Necho replaced Josiah's chosen successor with his own nominee and imposed tribute on Judah. In 606 the Egyptians routed the Neo-Babylonians, but at the great Battle of Carchemish (a Syrian city on the middle Euphrates River) in 605 the Neo-Babylonian crown prince, Nebuchadrezzar, soundly defeated Necho's troops and forced their withdrawal from Syria and Palestine. Egypt itself was threatened in 601, but Necho repelled the enemy and continued to promote anti-Babylonian coalitions in Syria and Palestine.

Herodotus also reports that Necho sent an expedition to circumnavigate Africa. His navigators apparently accomplished the feat, for they reported that, after a certain point in their voyage, the sun lay to their right (i.e., northward), as they sailed around southern Africa.

source: [size=26] Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. 21 Aug. 2006 http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9055147.[/size]

BernardR wrote:

l. The occupation of Palestine by the Isrealites( Hebrews) , to whom the area was know as Cannan, was probably completed by the end of the 13th Century BC

BernardR wrote:

Really? I shall write to the Encyclopdia Brittanica forthwith! And when I mention that Setanta corrected them, they will shudder in fear and with foreboding and IMMEDIATELY CHANGE THEIR ARTICLE! LOL

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The word Palestine derives from Philistia, the name given by Greek writers to the land of the Philistines, who in the 12th century BC occupied a small pocket of land on the southern coast, between modern Tel Aviv-Yafo and Gaza. The name was revived by the Romans in the 2nd century AD in "Syria Palaestina," designating the southern portion of the province of Syria, and made its way thence into Arabic, where it has been used to describe the region at least since the early Islamic era.
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The name Palestine has long been in popular use as a general term to denote a traditional region, but this usage does not imply precise boundaries. The perception of what constitutes Palestine's eastern boundary has been especially fluid, although the boundary frequently has been perceived as lying east of the Jordan River, extending at times to the edge of the Arabian Desert. In contemporary understanding, however, Palestine is generally defined as a region bounded on the east by the Jordan River, on the north by the border between modern Israel and Lebanon, on the west by the Mediterranean Sea (including the coast of Gaza), and on the south by the Negev, with its southernmost extension reaching the Gulf of Aqaba. [...]

source:[size=28] "Palestine." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. 21 Aug. 2006 http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9108522.[/size]

old europe wrote:

Possum wrote:

Really? I shall write to the Encyclopdia Brittanica forthwith!

We would be delighted if you could be so kind as to post a copy of your letter on this thread.

Thank you.

Just in case:

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VIDEO: Lebanese children victims of unexploded cluster bombs

David Edwards
Published: Tuesday August 22, 2006

CNN International's Jim Clancy, reporting from southern Lebanon, finds that unexploded munitions are taking a toll on Lebanese children.

A nurse describes the child casualties she sees as "the new phase of the war." Clancy reports that a 10% failure rate among the small bombs released from cluster bombs has left the unexploded--and extremely dangerous--munitions in Lebanon. The bombs dropped on Lebanon were reportedly old, with a much higher failure rate of about 40%.

In the wasteland of southern Lebanon, children gather up metal to sell. It's easy to mistake one of the small cluster bomb-lets for scrap. One child survivor recalls the bomb that put him in a hospital bed, "...my cousin picked up the bomb. It was shaped like a ball. It was an explosion. My insides fell out. I held them and started running and screaming."

Bomb search teams are scouring southern Lebanon but finding the "tens of thousands" of unexploded bombs will take time. Bombs that haven't already armed themselves can be easily destroyed but many others cannot even be touched. The bombs that are already armed can only be flagged and left for later.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/VIDEO_Lebanese_children_victims_of_unexploded_0822.html

If the bombs are UNEXPLODED,then nobody is being hurt by them.
Its when the bombs EXPLODE that people get hurt.

mysteryman wrote:

If the bombs are UNEXPLODED,then nobody is being hurt by them.
Its when the bombs EXPLODE that people get hurt.

mm, I'm quite sure you, of all people, understand that bombs don't always go off when expected - and cause problems when they are detonated later on.

what the heck

enjoy your game

did you get a response from them yet?

Walter Hinteler wrote:

old europe wrote:

Possum wrote:

Really? I shall write to the Encyclopdia Brittanica forthwith!

We would be delighted if you could be so kind as to post a copy of your letter on this thread.

Thank you.

Just in case:

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Possum, we all await, with glee, your response. otherwise we will have to go by your lack of response as meaning you finally quit inane postings and go back to shoveling out the pig sty that you call your mind.

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The bombs dropped on Lebanon were reportedly old, with a much higher failure rate of about 40%.

In the wasteland of southern Lebanon, children gather up metal to sell. It's easy to mistake one of the small cluster bomb-lets for scrap. One child survivor recalls the bomb that put him in a hospital bed, "...my cousin picked up the bomb. It was shaped like a ball. It was an explosion. My insides fell out.

mm, read the article, not the stupid title (and I mean stupid, literally)

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The bombs dropped on Lebanon were reportedly old, with a much higher failure rate of about 40%.

In the wasteland of southern Lebanon, children gather up metal to sell. It's easy to mistake one of the small cluster bomb-lets for scrap. One child survivor recalls the bomb that put him in a hospital bed, "...my cousin picked up the bomb. It was shaped like a ball. It was an explosion. My insides fell out.