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In reply to the discussion: Well, many here were so excited about the Arab Spring(!) and so you have it... [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)19. Congratulations to you too.
Do you realize that Israel is not innocent here and law applies to her too?
As to the spring, actually democracies is the best hope for the region and Israel.
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Well, many here were so excited about the Arab Spring(!) and so you have it... [View all]
PCIntern
Dec 2012
OP
If I could summarize the OP in a few words (as if the avatar doesn't already):
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#11
um... you are aware that a shitload of Israelis ARE these brown people?
ProdigalJunkMail
Dec 2012
#14
Jesus H. Christ, 20% of Israel's population is Arab. I have never been there, but
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#20
No worries. I hope to visit Israel one day. Always wanted to try my hand at
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#26
It's almost a truism among Marxist-Leninist critiques of capitalism that the
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#47
Well then, neither do you, for the same reason, so you don't know what you are talking about. nt
bemildred
Dec 2012
#127
No, you're trying to attack it, but you don't know what you're talking about.
bemildred
Dec 2012
#130
The Problem Is It Took Us Over Two Hundred Years To Build A Republic And Many Still Don't Like It
DemocratSinceBirth
Dec 2012
#16
How many years was it after we declared ourselves independent with 'liberty for all' and
grantcart
Dec 2012
#25
And how many before that were needed to get the philosophical underpinnings in place?
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#73
You're right. Those people needed to shut the fuck up and put up with their shitty conditions no
Guy Whitey Corngood
Dec 2012
#32
There's a depressingly large pile of people here who believe just that. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#71
I was never too excited about the Arab spring, but I wish I could unrec your OP because it is bad.
JVS
Dec 2012
#40
Yes, I had noticed that a certain someone has gone conspicuously AWOL on this thread. Grr, that
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#48
Your failure to respond to pinboy3niner's substantive reply in post #6 ff. speaks
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#64
Well, it's not over yet. But it doesn't look promising. Then again, is it worse than before...
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#58
I think that would be interesting. Still don't know how Belgium jumped into this discussion.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#92
Yeah, this was a classic 'hit and run' OP, as William Pitt observed. But had the OP
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#96
The whole time I've mainly seen people desperately hoping for it to fall on its face. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#69
He's a hit and run poster, without either the courage to defend his thesis, respond to his critics,
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#119
"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing." ~ Albert Einstein
Zorra
Dec 2012
#110
You have conveniently forgotten what Israel did to one of its own dissidents, Mordechai
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#120