What do you care? We're going to Mars! (Reply #41)

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Tue Aug 28, 2012, 12:49 AM

McGee from Muskogee (12 posts)

41. What do you care? We're going to Mars!

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95 replies	Author	Time	Post
Gaza 'will not be liveable by 2020' - UN report [View all]	dipsydoodle	Aug 2012	OP
Who needs death camps?	penndragon69	Aug 2012	#1
it's not all the Israelis' fault - how about birth control?	wordpix	Aug 2012	#2
That will teach the Palestinians for being born to the wrong religion!	cpwm17	Aug 2012	#3
of course Palestinians' overpopulation is the Jews' fault	wordpix	Aug 2012	#5
Please pay attention to what I wrote	cpwm17	Aug 2012	#11
What unmitigated crap	leftynyc	Aug 2012	#12
They're not as good	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#17
+1 nt	JudyM	Aug 2012	#82
So why not have some Arab country take them in?	Archae	Aug 2012	#4
Um, because we're talking about Palestinians, not Jordanians.	closeupready	Aug 2012	#6
The US is made up of people we "took in."	JDPriestly	Aug 2012	#7
Exactly.	Archae	Aug 2012	#13
These are reasonable points. n/t	Psephos	Aug 2012	#40
I don't get your point.	closeupready	Aug 2012	#14
My point is that Palestinians need to accept that they never had a country	JDPriestly	Aug 2012	#38
Technically speaking, no one has ever had a country.	ZombieHorde	Aug 2012	#47
There are 2.7 million Palestinians in Jordan and 400,000 Palestinians in Lebanon	azurnoir	Aug 2012	#15
True. If all Americans who are descended from immigrants had to return to the countries of their	JDPriestly	Aug 2012	#27
You are essentially advocating ethnic cleansing	cpwm17	Aug 2012	#16
Tense matters.	Igel	Aug 2012	#24
Thank you, Igel.	JDPriestly	Aug 2012	#34
And most of the Israelis went to Israel because they were expelled from Europe.	JDPriestly	Aug 2012	#33
Oh, okay - so SOME forms of ethnic cleansing are valid.	closeupready	Aug 2012	#44
Palestinians would have more of my sympathy if they showed a willingness to respect and	JDPriestly	Aug 2012	#61
What % of Israel's population is Arab vs what % of Gaza's is Jewish?	Nuclear Unicorn	Aug 2012	#66
That has absolutely nothing to do with civil rights.	closeupready	Aug 2012	#69
"did DU get hijacked by the reich wing"	Nuclear Unicorn	Aug 2012	#70
done with you.	closeupready	Aug 2012	#71
No, wait, please don't go away! Tell me more about pro-Israel Nazis.	Nuclear Unicorn	Aug 2012	#72
sick	fascisthunter	Aug 2012	#86
You can't trust the Palestinians.	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#18
Oh here we go, how about Israel find it's fresh water somewhere else	snooper2	Aug 2012	#20
The logistics of finding a home for 4 million people is easier said than done	Ash_F	Aug 2012	#28
I can't believe I'm seeing what amounts to advocacy of ethnic cleansing on this board.	Comrade Grumpy	Aug 2012	#8
Yes, it is very strange.	mbperrin	Aug 2012	#9
The rising population certainly doesn't help.	hoboken123	Aug 2012	#21
Rising population IS a problem	progressoid	Aug 2012	#22
Welcome to DU today.	Ash_F	Aug 2012	#29
Since you dislike it so much why continue?	former9thward	Aug 2012	#78
Wasn't really directed at you but since you chimed in...	Ash_F	Aug 2012	#79
it isn't not so much ethnic cleansing as it is ethnic condensing	azurnoir	Aug 2012	#30
+1000. nt.	polly7	Aug 2012	#81
Unfortunately, I think that's the plan. nt	Viva_La_Revolution	Aug 2012	#10
It was their land	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#19
But the Palestinians were not persecuted for being Jewish. The Jews were -- for centuries.	JDPriestly	Aug 2012	#35
Criticizing Israel is considered "hate"?	Hugabear	Aug 2012	#42
I didn't know that one of the winners of WWII	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#49
The modern state of Israel is the creation of the winners of WWII and is a vital part of the	JDPriestly	Aug 2012	#59
Hitler used the Jews	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#65
I lived in Austria in a town that had been home to many Jews before the war.	JDPriestly	Aug 2012	#73
what you say is true, JD, thanks for your posts	wordpix	Aug 2012	#83
And now that the Jews	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#85
it's sick.... it's pure bigotry	fascisthunter	Aug 2012	#87
What is?	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#89
the reasoning that Israel somehow has the right to take land from Palestinians.	fascisthunter	Aug 2012	#90
Your brevity confused me.	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#91
No it wasn't	oberliner	Aug 2012	#52
Of course it was.	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#56
They forfeited that when they supported those who tried to destroy Israel	Freddie Stubbs	Aug 2012	#67
That's like saying an indigenous people	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#74
There was plenty of room for everyone in 1948, but the Palestinians and their Arab allies refused	Freddie Stubbs	Aug 2012	#80
Your argument	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#84
There was a partition plan created by the UN for both the Jews and the Arabs to have	Freddie Stubbs	Sep 2012	#92
What right did the UN	sulphurdunn	Sep 2012	#93
Foreigners? There were 800,000 Jews living there in 1948	Freddie Stubbs	Sep 2012	#94
In 1941 there were 400 thousand	sulphurdunn	Sep 2012	#95
We ally with Israel in large part due to our common interest in human rights	CreekDog	Aug 2012	#23
Two words	nanabugg	Aug 2012	#31
But Israel cannot do that until the Palestinians agree to also end the violence.	JDPriestly	Aug 2012	#37
Very odd - your chosen icon is the US Constitution's Preamble; yet,	closeupready	Aug 2012	#48
When the Palestinians decide to respect the human, civil and national rights of Israelis,	JDPriestly	Aug 2012	#60
This message was self-deleted by its author	closeupready	Aug 2012	#62
We have been too one sided in favor of Israel	Joey Liberal	Aug 2012	#25
Poland's ghetto in WW2	Did I Just Type This	Aug 2012	#26
it's not the same thing---Jews could not leave the ghetto or they'd be shot	wordpix	Aug 2012	#32
Why should they leave?	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#50
I didn't say they should leave - I said they CAN leave	wordpix	Aug 2012	#77
The US will not be liveable if Mittfalca wins. nt	valerief	Aug 2012	#36
That's the whole point. Israel is engaging in Ethnic Cleasing..	Odin2005	Aug 2012	#39
What do you care? We're going to Mars!	McGee from Muskogee	Aug 2012	#41
Palestinian population explosion = Ethnic Cleansing? OK. nt	hack89	Aug 2012	#45
+10000 It's so ethnically cleansed of Palestinians that their numbers are exploding	wordpix	Aug 2012	#46
The Israelis know	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#53
So that explains the mass exodus of Palestinians .... oh wait. nt	hack89	Aug 2012	#55
About half the world's Palestinians	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#57
So two wars started by the Arabs, the last nearly 50 years ago, were the major cause	hack89	Aug 2012	#58
It sure is.	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#63
Don't you think continuous rocket attacks from Gaza contribute to the problem? nt	hack89	Aug 2012	#64
Endless acts of violence	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#68
In Gaza?	oberliner	Aug 2012	#51
It's more like ethnic degredation	sulphurdunn	Aug 2012	#75
But how can Israel do that in Gaza?	oberliner	Aug 2012	#76
Isn't that the goal?	JNelson6563	Aug 2012	#43
Hamas? Israel?	oberliner	Aug 2012	#54
and the pro-Israel bigots now can say, "See... those filthy Palestinians should leave."	fascisthunter	Aug 2012	#88

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