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stay classy Israel -- (link)

Posted by Guy (aka lostatlimbo) Oct 15 '10, 10:05

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Defying U.S. and international calls to restrain home-building on disputed land, Israel said Friday it would construct another 238 homes in Jerusalem neighborhoods that sit atop territory seized during the 1967 Middle East War. (www.latimes.com)

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well, so much for this round of peace talks. -- nm - znufrii Oct 15, 10:36
Yeah, still have a hard time finding any sympathy here, you start a war with Israel, you lose and get your asses handed to you and lose land... - Stephen Oct 15, 10:20 29
- do you really not know the history here? - Guy Oct 15, 10:41 1
  - Yes, I do know the history here guy. - Stephen Oct 15, 10:45
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  - You mean their neighbors have been waging war against them... - Stephen Oct 15, 10:31 1
    - Yeah, in that last big dustup with Lebanon, Israel did a lot of indiscriminate bombing, including several towns and villages predominately Christian. - Trish Oct 15, 10:52
  - you can say that about pretty much any nation throughout history. -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 10:24 22
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      - you brought it up like they invented war or something. -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 10:27 19
        
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        How the hell is it false? From its very inception Israel has been the target of its neighbors. - Stephen Oct 15, 10:34 17
        
        That tends to happen when you create a new country and set it down where people are already living - znufrii Oct 15, 10:42 4
        
        blame the UN (or was it the League of Nations at that time?) -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 10:43 3
        
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        blaming the UN doesn't really solve the problem that all those people are STILL being forced out of a place to live -- nm - Guy Oct 15, 10:45
        
        It was the UN, but you'd think they would've learned the dangers of ethnocentric nationalism after WW2. -- nm - znufrii Oct 15, 10:44
        
        That's a little like saying "From the moment of its inception in 1776, the United States was targeted by Indian tribes" - Roger More Oct 15, 10:37 5
        
        The point being that the land that is now disputed was captured after Israel's great neighbors decided to once again try and destroy it. - Stephen Oct 15, 10:41 3
        
        It's countries that fight wars, and people get caught in the middle. - Roger More Oct 15, 10:54
        
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        dude, we gave it back...eventually...no harm, no foul, right? -- nm - Israel Oct 15, 10:46
        
        and before that the native American tribes fought with each other constantly, they weren't peaceful by any means before then -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 10:39
        
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        In '56? Israel invaded Egypt, after Egypt blocked the Straits of Tiran. - Stephen Oct 15, 10:39
        
        France and England using Israel as a dupe from what I have read -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 10:38 3
        
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        yep. we did a bang up job there. -- nm - Guy Oct 15, 10:44
        
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    - so then why can't Palestine try and take it back? -- nm - Reagen Oct 15, 10:25
- this has always been my feeling too -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 10:22
they should lob rockets into neighbourhoods instead. -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 10:10 7
- that'd be silly. housing developments are much more damaging - they last longer. - Guy Oct 15, 10:12 6
  - "rockets just explode" you forgot "and kill people". I haven't seen a house kill someone since the House movies with the guys from Cheers. -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 10:14 5
    - PS - that was the first 'horror' movie I ever saw. I didn't know there were sequels. -- nm - Guy Oct 15, 10:20
    - the wouldn't have this problem if they just forced the Palestinians out of there completely - Guy Oct 15, 10:18 2
      - the aliens in District 13? -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 10:19 1
        
        9 rather -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 10:20
    - Also starring The Greatest American Hero! - Stephen Oct 15, 10:16

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