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In reply to the discussion: Arabs Believe Israel Just Attacked Egypt [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)14. OK...let me ask you this...
If Israel did take the Sinai back, wouldn't Egypt have every right to fight to regain it? Wouldn't they have the same rights on that as would any other country that had its territory invaded by any other country?
You can't seriously argue that Israel would have more right to take the Sinai from Egypt than would any other country to take any other country's territory.
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Well, yeah, a lot of antisemites(in fact, pretty much all of them) ARE idiots.
Ken Burch
Aug 2012
#20
For the record, I myself have been SAID to "look Jewish", whatever that means.
Ken Burch
Aug 2012
#25
OK, so they have familes and friends who are in the fight...so do Palestinian leaders...
Ken Burch
Aug 2012
#33
If they cared about the lives of the troops, they wouldn't choose inflexible and hardline policies.
Ken Burch
Aug 2012
#39
I don't need to admit to an inverse relationship between settlement expansion and risk
Ken Burch
Aug 2012
#53
Are you responding to the wrong person? I didn't mention Israel taking Sinai back...
shira
Aug 2012
#43
You opposed democracy in Egypt long before the brotherhood were elected...
shaayecanaan
Aug 2012
#46
So you're in favor of Brotherhood rule? Egypt is getting more hopelessly rightwing....
shira
Aug 2012
#45
It's not as if the only choices are being pro-MB or saying Mubarak should have been kept in power.
Ken Burch
Aug 2012
#49
I never labeled the MB as progressive...but the uprising wasn't run by the MB or synonymous with it.
Ken Burch
Aug 2012
#62