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In reply to the discussion: WATCH: Palestinian teens attack Orthodox Jews with snowballs in Jerusalem [View all]TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)61. So when will you be campaigning to give the Romany...
...a homeland?
Who do you propose to displace to provide it?
Sadly both groups were/are badly discriminated against because they're both both perceived to practice isolationism/exclusivity from within the larger communities they inhabit.
BTW. Israel came into being, because no one wanted to host large communities of refugee Jews in their own countries and none of the countries they were displaced from were willing to take them back en-mass.
Israel came into being because of discrimination, not despite it.
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WATCH: Palestinian teens attack Orthodox Jews with snowballs in Jerusalem [View all]
shira
Jan 2013
OP
Sorry to offend, but the video demonstrates legit resistance to occupation, right? n/t
shira
Jan 2013
#12
One can only hope that every resistance movement would use such lethal weapons as snowballs.
Jefferson23
Jan 2013
#13
My gang and I used to lay down a barrage of snowballs on cop cars and sometimes waited till they
Dick Dastardly
Jan 2013
#22
"there is no such thing as 'not being responsible' for your actions."
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2013
#101
My argument is with the Palestinian people obtaining a homeland: a state.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2013
#106
Shira, you seem to be purposefully maligning and misrepresenting what I have stated.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2013
#121
The freedom from either external or internal forces that prevent them
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2013
#125
Well, now you know you favor a totalitarian, theocratic, regressive rogue regime....
shira
Jan 2013
#113
I favour human rights for all. It is a tough road sometimes, but I am for it.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2013
#117
Shira, I have never supported the Ayatollahs or the Shah. Both former and present
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2013
#123
Okay. That DOES heat up, so I'm concerned about everyone's ability to handle it without
patrice
Jan 2013
#52
That is less than anecdotal. Its is a charge, without link or corroboration from a news source.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2013
#85
Shira, Shira, you show a twitter link to an IDF Captain with an unsubstantiated photo.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2013
#98
Yeah, yr 100% spot on about how it works when the boot's on the other foot...
Violet_Crumble
Jan 2013
#93
Don't worry - the teens will be shot and killed in retaliation for throwing snowballs. n/t
Lil Missy
Jan 2013
#76