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Legislators Call On Twitter To Ban Hamas
An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from The Hill:
"The past week's violence in Gaza has rekindled calls for Twitter to shutter the accounts of U.S.-labeled terror groups such as Hamas. Seven House Republicans asked the FBI in September to demand that Twitter take down the accounts of U.S.-designated terrorist groups, such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Somalia's al Shabaab. The letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller was spearheaded by Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas), who said Wednesday that the recent events vindicated the request. 'Allowing foreign terrorist organizations like Hamas to operate on Twitter is enabling the enemy,' [Poe said] 'Failure to block access arms them with the ability to freely spread their violent propaganda and mobilize in their War on Israel.'"
most of the conflict is NOT about land. it never was. sorry you think it is, but its not.
its about deep seated race hatred that the moslem will NOT let go of.
simple as that.
'kill all jews' is not the same as 'we want some land back'.
land was offered. MANY TIMES. 100% of the time it was turned down and they wanted no peac with the 'dirty jews'.
get your fucking facts straight, moran!
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Why did the Jewish people choose to build their house where all their neighbors hate them?
you can't be serious. you can't be.
I can't even imagine how your mind works if you think the jewish people CHOSE to move to israel.
what other countries could they have stayed in, during the post-ww2 era? answer that.
you seem to think that the jews are welcomed everywhere (hint: they were NOT welcome even in the US back in ww2 days!) and that they simply have to 'move someplace' and things will be fine.
what you fail to understand (or you do understand, which is even worse) is that no country on earth (name one if you dare) wants the jewish people to live there, not in any numbers.
THEY HAD NO CHOICE. NO ONE WANTED THEM.
what are you going to do, let a whole culture of people die out when the war came so close to doing just that?
let me turn it around: why are the arabs still living where they are not wanted? egypt is big. jordan is big. other nearby countries have LOTS of land. what's wrong with THEIR BROTHERS helping them out?
they call them dogs. pals are called dogs by the other arabs.
but they use the pals as a slingshot against israel. as a device. not as a people but as a set of pawns to be moved.
if the arabs don't even respect or help their own people, you expect the israelis to? after being sent rockets on a nearly daily basis for so long?
the arabs have more land than they need. israel asks a tiny bit of land in the world. it simply wants security so it can continue to live. what the hell is so wrong with that?
the arabs don't want to live and let live. if you think so, you don't understand a single thing about them.
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stupid reply, hatta.
its because no other country would offer safety to a large grew of jews who would want to live there. they have a homeland so they can defend themselves. the constant wars from the nearby arabs prove they NEED a homeland just to stay alive.
THAT's why.
stupid hatta. grow the fuck up and stop with the in-vogue jew hatred, will ya? it reflects very poorly on you. it really does. its not 'cool' to band with thugs and violence-based cultures.
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No.
Visited that hell hole. Israelis are the most racist people as a whole I have ever encountered. When they were out murdering Palestinian babies the last go around (Cast Lead), they were wearing t-shirts with pictures of pregnant arab women with slogans "one bullet, two kills." 98% of Israelis (nearly 100% of Jewish Israelis supported that massacre.
Israelis have no moral high ground. They are the occupier, and if it wasn't so morally distasteful to the rest of the world, Israel would have no qualms, committing genocide against the native population of Palestine. As it is, they are engaged in a slow, steady, ethnic cleansing.
let them come here? in THIS atmosphere, where its in-vogue to be a modern jew hater?
and btw, it was the UK and a bunch of others that used the region of land today known as israel for a homeland for the world's jews.
other countries have homelands for their cultures. I'm not at all able to understand why people can deny this simple right to the jewish people. they want a safe area they can live and not have some majority impose their will on them or try to kill them, entirely.
the moslems control the vast majority of land in that area. are you really telling me that the jews have to march into the sea and give up that tiny bit of land they currently have? that area has to be 100% moslem for you to be happy, for some reason? I just don't get that. I don't.
we americans are not in any urgency to return the US lands that were *stolen* from the american indians. totally 100% stolen in unfair wars that one side had a huge tech advantage in.
where is the outrage in wanting to return all lands, worldwide, to some previous owner?
guys, this is not how the world works. stop falling for this false argument.
wars are fought all the time and land changes ownership.
DEAL WITH IT.
what is, now, is. there is no 'giving back all the land' to the moslems/arabs. that's *not* going to happen. and they know it, and they're pissed about it. but its not going to change.
when hamas and the others finally remove language such as:
Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).
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This Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), clarifies its picture, reveals its identity, outlines its stand, explains its aims, speaks about its hopes, and calls for its support, adoption and joining its ranks. Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts. It is a step that inevitably should be followed by other steps. The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah's victory is realised.
do you guys really support a group of people who not only think this but publicly state it as their CHARTER?
are you really aware of what these people stand for? could you be, and still support them?
here's a very telling excerpt that shows their view toward land ownership. if moslems ever win land in a war, they see it as theirs, forever. no shifting back, not even if one side clearly won.
This is the law governing the land of Palestine in the Islamic Sharia (law) and the same goes for any land the Muslims have conquered by force, because during the times of (Islamic) conquests, the Muslims consecrated these lands to Muslim generations till the Day of Judgement.
again, you can't have a meaningful peace process with people who don't even want to have a balanced world. its ALL about islam and its conquest of the whole world. if you don't see that, you are either not looking or intentionally ignoring it.
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All for a piece of dirt
no, you don't understand.
its not about the land. its about keeping the people alive in a world that, these days, seems happy (again!) to see them wiped out entirely.
no one but themselves can ensure their safety. they are very motivated (!) to stay alive. I'm at a loss to understand how anyone can blame them for this.
that's all its about. staying intact in the face of a world that could actually care less about them. so, they take care of themselves and ensure that their tiny bit of land in the world stays in their control. again, if the arabs in the ME gain control, there will be less safety for the israeli jews and less freedom in the area. it makes no sense to give 100% of the ME to the arabs. no sense at all. they have lots of land. let their brothers take them in, if they feel brotherly.
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your words tell about you; sorry if you don't like being called on your own harsh and uncaring views.
yes, ww2 DOES very much matter. you are ignorant and probably very young. or you are heartless and simply refuse to allow for alternate views. have you never met anyone who was directly touched by what went on, back then? I guess not. to you, its too abstract. THAT is the problem. its sad to see the lessons the world paid dearly for, are now being so quickly forgotton.
there is no way a modern, thinking person can prefer the arab viewpoint, which is to say the full extermination of jews. NOT israelis, but jews. read the fucking charter! I don't make this up; I wish I did!
hamas speaks in words what the rest of the arabs think.
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And France, and Belgium, and Germany and the US and pretty much any country that did in fact or tried to create an Empire.
Remarkably, when you look at that way you see that humans have been screwing over other humans (and the rest of the planet) for their own perceived benefit for thousands of years.
Sucks to be us, I suppose.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
You mean when the feckless Arab armies attacked Isreal over the borders partitioned out in 1948? The Arabs are now trying to claim land set a side for a Palestinian state by a treaty they categorically rejected. The only peace on the planet has been maintained by pure unrelenting force. The Arabs tried playing the game and lost multiple times and expect the world to give them "a do over". When Turkey withdraws from Cypress, China withdraws from Tibet, Turkey and Iraq give the Kurds their ancestral lands back, England leaves the Falklands, and the US returns Texas, Arizona, and California back to Mexico the palestinians might have a case. Until then the Israelis should use up their old stockpiles of unguided munitions and discriminately pound Gaza or the West Bank next time a missile is aimed their way. The last conflict has shown their are a lot of people who have no problem with this type of warfare so Isreal can save the expensive munitions for certain well deserving individuals.
Erm, sorry, that's just bullshit: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2103.html
Even the Gaza Strip has a 92% literacy rate. Not even close to non-existant.
In the light of the fact that the average Arab reads something like four pages per year, I find your statement kind of inconsequential. If "literate" is defined as "at least knows individual letter of the alphabet", then the term is sort of worthless. And I won't even venture into the topic of functional illiteracy in First World countries. It would surprise me if in Gaza, of all places, the situation were better.
Ezekiel 23:20