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Thu Jul 12, 2012, 09:36 AM

shira (18,021 posts)

5. Honesty! I can appreciate that. n/t

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(Electronic Intifada) How obsession with "nonviolence" harms the Palestinian cause [View all]	shira	Jul 2012	OP
Lyn Julius responds to Electronic Intifada over Refugees and the “Right of Return”	shira	Jul 2012	#1
Why attack the refugees, though?	Ken Burch	Jul 2012	#41
good piece	Alamuti Lotus	Jul 2012	#2
Honesty! I can appreciate that. n/t	shira	Jul 2012	#5
well I guess we can use EI as a source for threads here now that's nice to know n/t	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#10
Like how people who post Arutz Sheva article	oberliner	Jul 2012	#37
most postings from Arutz Sheva are used to prove the posters POV	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#38
I don't know about that	oberliner	Jul 2012	#54
Ugh. All right-wingers are alike: violence is justified if it's in THEIR cause, and the nonviolent	LeftishBrit	Jul 2012	#3
All hateful right-wingers and their stalinist left-wing allies are alike. n/t	shira	Jul 2012	#4
Few of the latter nowadays, however.	LeftishBrit	Jul 2012	#6
Even assuming there are fewer, they're FAR too influential. n/t	shira	Jul 2012	#7
Did you actually read the article?	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#9
Did you miss this part?	Mosby	Jul 2012	#11
that part is a about forming one state something that apparently the Israeli court supports too	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#12
you didn't answer the question	Mosby	Jul 2012	#13
yes I did and in the title line too	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#14
actually its quite simple..	pelsar	Jul 2012	#15
so in your opinion Jim Crow laws and apartheid are indicative of a working democracy	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#16
its always easiest to make up your own arguments.....you get to "win" every time	pelsar	Jul 2012	#27
according to you Lebanon already is a working democracy so there is one albeit rather unstable	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#30
so now you can put to rest your previous statement about...	pelsar	Jul 2012	#32
Jim Crow did not only exist in the South	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#36
yep..i am a keen believer in the superiority of western democratic values.	pelsar	Jul 2012	#46
you advocate for the destruction of countries that do not meet your defination of Western Democracy?	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#61
not the destruction of existing countries....	pelsar	Jul 2012	#64
oh so its just a Palestian state at least for right now ?	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#76
I have been reading Barbara Tuchman''s book on the 14th century	JDPriestly	Jul 2012	#26
"We've seen the arab worlds culture with regards to democracy and its not a positive stance"	Ken Burch	Jul 2012	#42
I "tipped my hand"....oooops...	pelsar	Jul 2012	#45
support for popular-based reform is not the same as paternalism	Ken Burch	Jul 2012	#49
Ken, you & the neo-cons were wrong about democracy "sprouting" in Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan...	shira	Jul 2012	#51
Yes, it requires a cultural revolution	Ken Burch	Jul 2012	#52
So how's that cultural revolution from "within" working throughout the mideast?	shira	Jul 2012	#71
first step...	pelsar	Jul 2012	#55
I favor democracy over dictatorship...who's being democratic and who's being dictatorial	Ken Burch	Jul 2012	#63
so you are stating that western democracy is the better govt i.e. superior form of govt.	pelsar	Jul 2012	#66
I said that they'd be at risk of being called collaborators WHILE THE OCCUPATION GOES ON.	Ken Burch	Jul 2012	#69
oh gosh...they would be "at risk"......so BFD	pelsar	Jul 2012	#70
The article should be read it is a good piece and the way it is presented by the OP is not	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#8
This is some sick stuff	oberliner	Jul 2012	#17
yes the point of the article seems to be that the Palestinian cause has been taken over to a large	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#18
Malcom X?	oberliner	Jul 2012	#19
yes Malcolm X	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#20
Yes, he did later change his stance	oberliner	Jul 2012	#22
should Obama change his stance too?	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#39
Ali Abumimah didn't write this article	oberliner	Jul 2012	#53
lol just noticed that did you? however has Obama removed the military option from the 'table'?	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#58
No - I was just responding to what you wrote	oberliner	Jul 2012	#68
thats not obvious?	pelsar	Jul 2012	#28
IOW, it's a sick & disgusting article and you agree with it...	shira	Jul 2012	#73
what is sick is your constant false accusations and lies	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#74
Really? What false accusations and lies? Be clear please. You have nothing to hide, right? n/t	shira	Jul 2012	#77
So much for our humanitarian friends, keeping that terror option on the table. n/t	shira	Jul 2012	#23
It seems a double standard	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#24
both the jews of Palestine and the intifada i resistance were similar....	pelsar	Jul 2012	#29
I would disagree because the British withdrew completely and Israel has not	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#31
that is precisely the point.....that was known as well to the jews	pelsar	Jul 2012	#43
Az, you don't get to present yourself as pro-human rights when you won't condemn...	shira	Jul 2012	#34
you do not get to tell me or anyone else what we "get to present" ourselves as or what we are	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#35
You know, I think this is the dumbest thread I've bothered to read here in a while.	bemildred	Jul 2012	#57
well it is I/P after all and there has been a 'deepening' of polariztion in the past year or so	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#59
Could be either one, or both.	bemildred	Jul 2012	#60
I was being nice in a "Mandy*" way	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#62
Do you agree with the posted article? n/t	shira	Jul 2012	#72
Do I agree that the Palestinian rank and file (regular folks) should have more say and control	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#75
I was asking Bemildred, not you. And that's not all the article was about...	shira	Jul 2012	#78
Please see post #21. nt	bemildred	Jul 2012	#79
Interesting, thanks.	bemildred	Jul 2012	#21
an interesting application of his philosiphy n/t	azurnoir	Jul 2012	#25
A natural one I thought.	bemildred	Jul 2012	#33
Palestinians killing Israelis(which is morally equivalent to Israelis killing Palestinians)is not	Ken Burch	Jul 2012	#40
are you serious?.....this must be a parody....	pelsar	Jul 2012	#44
I've agreed it was possible in the past...but ONLY in the past	Ken Burch	Jul 2012	#47
so you can read the future?	pelsar	Jul 2012	#48
There was a democratic political culture in place there that made what the British did irrelevant.	Ken Burch	Jul 2012	#50
if you would stop arguing with yourself...you might open your eyes....	pelsar	Jul 2012	#56
I have always supported the right of Israel to defend itself.	Ken Burch	Jul 2012	#65
history is your friend.....learn it	pelsar	Jul 2012	#67

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