That is an amazing generalisation across goodness knows how many countries. Do you have any justification for that, besides the Holocaust?
Huh? Amazing you call it? You mean historical anti-semitism of Europe never existed? How about expelling Jews from Spain in 1492? Ghettos in medieval Italy? Limitations in Russia in 17-19 centuries. Dreifuss affair in France?
The point is, the hatred toward Jews has been imprinted into heads of generations of Europeans and it obviously cannot disappear all of a sudden.
... the Holocaust was just a climax of those centuries-long practices. Europeans (most of them, not all of them, fortunately) were just to happy to assist to Hitler.
What happens today -- deligitimatization of the Jewish state, denial of Jews the right to defence themselves against brutal terror -- is just continuation of Holocaust. And a cynic one, I have to add, while modern anti-semites disguise themselves as "just" anti-Zionists, they have chutzpa to Israelis to Nazis.3.asp
Or another way to look at it might be that the Arabs are annoyed with Israel setting themselves up on their land and now trying to grab more land. The problem with complicated conflicts like this is that it is almost impossible to have a neutral standpoint.
Well Arabs may be annoyed all right. But Israel is on Israeli land, thank you. And Arab aggression against Israel made them to loose some tiny portions of land which would be their should they have accepted UN partition plan of 1947. So what? They're not the last nation in the world to loose x sqare miles. Take a look at Germany, Japan, Yugoslavia, to name just few.
So how many Japans are blowing up cafes in Moscow? Or Germans in Czech Republic? Huh?
Your claim that "Israel <...> now trying to grab more land" is a propaganda cliche, free of any sense, sorry.
So yeah, I think it's because when people see a computer crash they also see Microsoft (even if it's a dodgy realtek driver that actually crashed), result: Microsoft cops shit
well... I would say, that a really robust operating system wouldn't crash even if it got a dodgy driver loaded. It should just have the corresponding device/cerviec disabled while the rest of the system should go on working as if nothing happened.
it is ISRAEL, not ISREAL, for God's sake!!!
As a side note, we're all much safe after Israel's Mossad eliminated the possibility of Saddam to have that weapon system (if indeed it was Mossad -- no proof, no quilt). And don't forget that it was Israel who bombed Iraq's nuclear reactor.
I believe Arabs should stop whining and putting all the time the blame upon colonialism. All of Arab countries have been independent since quite long ago. How many of them are democratic? Zilsh, zero, nada. How many of them are dictatorships? All of them.
So for Allah's sake, stop finding the source of all of your problems outside yourselves. Start fighting poverty, lack of civil rights and low level of education in your own countries. There's nobody to blame for poor situation in your countries but yourselves. And, ah, if you need money, ask you Saudian and Persian Gulf brothers to share some with you (instead of pouring billions to Al-Qaeda).
The problem is, these aren't occupied territories. They would be occupied if they were taken away from sovereign countries. However, Jordan and Egypt who controlled the Judea, Samaria and the Gaza strip prior to the 1967 war didn't posess sovereignty over those territories. The Great Britain lost her sovereignty over them in 1947. Therefore those aren't occupied, but disputed territories.
The term "occupied" is used solely on the purpose of villifying and demonizing Israel as well as it serves very well to Arab propaganda. The word sounds really bad, gives proper impressions in mass media, and purports Arab as innocent victims. So does the bullshit re. "mass punishment".
Now some reading for your pleasure:
A Palestinian Authority organ called the 'Supreme National Committee for the Protection of the Right of Return' determined that Palestinians living in refugee camps should not have the right to vote in local elections. The PA daily paper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida explained why:
The committee justified its objection as protecting the unique status of the refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank, considering them testimony to the crime that the occupation state made against our nation for 56 years. The committee warned of the dangers of integrating the refugee camps into the urban housing units. [via PMW]
That is, the PA plans to deny democratic voting rights to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, so that this impoverished population can continue to be used by the Arab ruling class as a weapon to fight against Israel, as 'testimony to a crime.'
It's not "SuffErage", it's SUFFRAGE; it's has nothing to do with the word "suffer":
"suffrage." Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002. http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com (7 Jul. 2004):
from Latin suffragium: vote
meaning (among others):
the right or privilege of voting in political matters or the exercise of such right; especially : the right or power to participate in electing public officials and adopting or rejecting legislation in a representative form of government
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To which of these two categories you belong, my anonymous friend?
Huh? Amazing you call it? You mean historical anti-semitism of Europe never existed? How about expelling Jews from Spain in 1492? Ghettos in medieval Italy? Limitations in Russia in 17-19 centuries. Dreifuss affair in France?
The point is, the hatred toward Jews has been imprinted into heads of generations of Europeans and it obviously cannot disappear all of a sudden.
What happens today -- deligitimatization of the Jewish state, denial of Jews the right to defence themselves against brutal terror -- is just continuation of Holocaust. And a cynic one, I have to add, while modern anti-semites disguise themselves as "just" anti-Zionists, they have chutzpa to Israelis to Nazis.3.asp
Well Arabs may be annoyed all right. But Israel is on Israeli land, thank you. And Arab aggression against Israel made them to loose some tiny portions of land which would be their should they have accepted UN partition plan of 1947. So what? They're not the last nation in the world to loose x sqare miles. Take a look at Germany, Japan, Yugoslavia, to name just few. So how many Japans are blowing up cafes in Moscow? Or Germans in Czech Republic? Huh?
Your claim that "Israel <...> now trying to grab more land" is a propaganda cliche, free of any sense, sorry.
it is ISRAEL, not ISREAL, for God's sake!!! As a side note, we're all much safe after Israel's Mossad eliminated the possibility of Saddam to have that weapon system (if indeed it was Mossad -- no proof, no quilt). And don't forget that it was Israel who bombed Iraq's nuclear reactor.
So for Allah's sake, stop finding the source of all of your problems outside yourselves. Start fighting poverty, lack of civil rights and low level of education in your own countries. There's nobody to blame for poor situation in your countries but yourselves. And, ah, if you need money, ask you Saudian and Persian Gulf brothers to share some with you (instead of pouring billions to Al-Qaeda).
Salam Aleykum!
The term "occupied" is used solely on the purpose of villifying and demonizing Israel as well as it serves very well to Arab propaganda. The word sounds really bad, gives proper impressions in mass media, and purports Arab as innocent victims. So does the bullshit re. "mass punishment".
Now some reading for your pleasure:
It's not "SuffErage", it's SUFFRAGE; it's has nothing to do with the word "suffer":
"suffrage." Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002. http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com (7 Jul. 2004): from Latin suffragium: vote meaning (among others): the right or privilege of voting in political matters or the exercise of such right; especially : the right or power to participate in electing public officials and adopting or rejecting legislation in a representative form of government