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In reply to the discussion: Letter from Gaza by a Norwegian doctor, "this,THIS cannot continue." [View all]pscot
(21,024 posts)35. That 's the problem with conquest
The losers aren't always willing to submit. Do you think the defeat of the Cherokee gives you a claim on reservation land in Oklahoma? Could you bulldoze an orchard and blow up a stock tank and drive a family from their home, as is happening today in the West Bank? The Jewish claims to Palestine are based on 2500 year old writings of dubious reliability, but Palestinians are supposed to forget all about what's happened to them in the last 60 years? That ain't happening either.
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Sorry, but you have lost the propaganda war, drowned in the rivers of blood of innocents.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2014
#9
Larger Context? Squeezed and starved and controlled. How does that fit in to your picture?
vanlassie
Jul 2014
#13
Math don't lie, and of course a nation can do all kinds of things that a militia in a prison can not
Fred Sanders
Jul 2014
#14
that is absolute bullshite -and Nazi Germany did actively support the Jewish settlement in Palestine
Douglas Carpenter
Jul 2014
#58
Actually, you're WRONG. Israel notified the people they were coming. The cops didnt.
7962
Jul 2014
#46
Just stop, PLEASE! This horror requires all decent people to stop trying to turn us away
sabrina 1
Jul 2014
#67
We aren't claiming certainty about who shot down flight 17 even with overwhelming evidence yet we
kelliekat44
Jul 2014
#16
When you target a heavily civilian populated area you are targeting civilians, period.
sabrina 1
Jul 2014
#70