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MPAA and FBI Help To Train Swedish Police
Several readers let us know about a program in which a US FBI agent and employees of the MPAA led a seminar for Swedish police officers in methods of finding and stopping illegal downloading from the Internet. The writer at zeropaid.com says, "I bet the Swedish people are going to love to find out that the US government and a US lobbying group now have a hand in training their police personnel. So much for the notion of national sovereignty." Reader Oxygen provided a bit of translation from an article in Swedish on IDG.se: "According to Bertil Ramsell, responsible for the course, the purpose of the visit was to give the invited speakers a chance to explain to the students what their organization's purpose was. But in a report from the IIPA, the purpose was to educate students in anti-piracy."
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Ah, yes... the old Zionist conspiracy.
Something happens that makes the Muslims look bad. It's the Zionist conspiracy.
Something happens that makes the Muslims look good. It's the Zionist conspiracy.
A company does something you don't like. Zionist conspiracy.
Your Eggos were burnt this morning. Zionist conspiracy.
We need a new moderation descriptor. -1 - Complete nutter
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
I'm not saying that Israel would never attack anybody, just that they wouldn't do it with nukes unless they were facing imminent destruction, or perhaps if they had been nuked themselves
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I understood that, I disagree though. I think the Zionists in the Israeli security forces would always want to retaliate one step beyond whatever was done to them. So it is not hard to invisage a situation where they open up with nuclear weapons just because they were attacked with conventional weapons. I don't think that attack would have to threaten the entire state of Israel either.
Every action they have taken since the inception of the country has involved trying to inflict revenge on anyone who wrongs them rather than making peace. This is interesting because it is the same attitude we (I am British) took at the end of the first world war.
We tried to punish the entire of Germany for starting that war with Treaty of Versailles (http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW1/versailles.ht
This is why when WW2 ended there was no attempt to punish Germany further. We had by that point levelled a great many of their cities by firebombing, the people has suffered enough. Instead the allies forgave and started to try and rebuild the country. There was a huge amount of US investment in this process (in Japan as well after they caught a couple of Nukes).
This rebuilding was the best course of action to make sure another war on that same scale didn't happen, either against Germany or Japan. The people of all the countries had to forgive or the cycle would continue.
This has to happen in the middle east now, or there will be no peace. But the only time the people of Israel elected a leader who might have allowed this to happen, the Zionists killed him. The reason this is important for America now is that without US support the Israeli state could not survive (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-I
If Isreal ever attacks another country with them, the retaliation may also be directed at the US people, probably in the form of the terrorist attack you describe. The only way to avoid this is for both sides to forgive. I am certainly not suggesting that the terrorists are any better. They also need to forgive, and concentrate on more productives. The rest of the Arab world needs to recognise Israels right to exist (Some countries like Egypt already have atrted down this path - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel-Egypt_Peace_T
Sorry for this being a long offtopic rant, but hopefully nobody is reading such an old article apart from us
And sorry for any typos or grammar errors, but I have to do some work.
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Well, I agree with most of what you said. A massive conventional attack by a sovereign country (Iran, or whoever) could provoke a nuclear response from Israel. That would probably kick off WW3 as I suspect the USA would back Israel in such a situation. That is a whole other discussion though.
I am not certain that Israel's history of an overly aggressive response is unjustified though. They are surrounded by hundreds of millions of people who hate them, most of whom do not understand the difference between forgiveness and weakness; and weakness is NOT something Israel can afford to portray.
And I agree that both sides need to "forgive", but that is never going to happen. It isn't like the problems between Great Briton and Germany in the past. These people have been raised since birth to hate each other, and there is an inordinate amount of misinformation, on both sides I suspect.
Peace in the middle east isn't going to occur in my lifetime. The only way I can see it happening is if, first, people are educated (and not by religious leaders) to clear up all the misinformation and such. And second, the people there need to become wealthy enough that they become too lazy to fight (like most people in the USA). If this works, I expect a noble peace prize!