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Israel/Palestine

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)

9. sometimes ya just really don't want to be correct about stuff

Reply to bemildred (Reply #7)

Sun Oct 28, 2012, 04:57 PM

Oct 2012

and it seems like that's when you are at least that's how it seems to work for me anyway

this breakdown of what could loosely be called order has been coming you're right and I fear the more crumbling the further to the Right things will move, nothing like fear to motivate that

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Long-range rockets fired from Gaza strike Beersheba, closing schools [View all] bemildred Oct 2012 OP

well this part at least is 'good' news azurnoir Oct 2012 #1

What an intolerable situation King_David Oct 2012 #2

you mean Israel has done nothing so far? No retaliatory strikes nothing? azurnoir Oct 2012 #3

Obviously, whatever Israel's doing isn't enough... shira Oct 2012 #4

so you claim that the west including the US is supporting Hamas and its rockets? azurnoir Oct 2012 #8

No, the UN and Hamas' western supporters (NGO's, academics, FreeGaza, etc.) shira Oct 2012 #10

thats nice and all but NGO's don't make laws or have much political influence with things like azurnoir Oct 2012 #11

Hamas uses their support as incentive to keep the rockets going. n/t shira Oct 2012 #12

oh NGO's are supplying rockets to Hamas? n/t azurnoir Oct 2012 #13

No, just saying many NGO's, academics, FreeGaza, EI, Mondoweiss.... shira Oct 2012 #14

so it is Hamas that is being supported I see okay then azurnoir Oct 2012 #15

Just edited to show Galloway & Finkelstein support of Hamas & Hezbollah shira Oct 2012 #16

well you've named two but initially it seemed more a sweeping statement naming untold numbers azurnoir Oct 2012 #17

It's far more than two. It describes FreeGaza, the ISM, BDS... shira Oct 2012 #21

I think they care, I think it's going to get worse. bemildred Oct 2012 #5

This latest round of back and forth between Gaza and Israel has been going on azurnoir Oct 2012 #6

The problem is it's not just Gaza. bemildred Oct 2012 #7

sometimes ya just really don't want to be correct about stuff azurnoir Oct 2012 #9

What this gets me thinking of aranthus Oct 2012 #18

are you a painter? I ask because you seem to wield a pretty large brush azurnoir Oct 2012 #19

That was the Arab League proposal. bemildred Oct 2012 #20