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In reply to the discussion: Likud official: Livni will be appointed as minister in charge of peace process [View all]shira
(30,109 posts)16. Using ugly, fale terms like colonization doesn't bring the 2 sides any closer to peace.
It fans hate.
It allows Palestinian extremists an excuse to avoid peace and remain at conflict against the 'colonizers'.
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oberliner
Feb 2013
OP
Using ugly, fale terms like colonization doesn't bring the 2 sides any closer to peace.
shira
Feb 2013
#16
Jews moving back to areas of historic Judea/Samaria, from which they were ethnically cleansed...
shira
Feb 2013
#21
Stick to one thing at a time. No games. The dictionary definition of colonialism...
shira
Feb 2013
#25
Colonize = Settle? That's it? Sigh.... I guess that's all I can come to expect from you.
shira
Feb 2013
#33
I'm calling you on yr 'colonialist' hate speech & won't allow you to change the subject.
shira
Feb 2013
#40
What you showed is that to settle = colonialism when to settle means other things too.
shira
Feb 2013
#47
I have in the past read she either lived in or supported the setlement building and
azurnoir
Feb 2013
#7
lol you seem to have been a supporter of Livni's for quite sometime now or are you denying that?
azurnoir
Feb 2013
#9
Livni also leaned on Mahmoud Abbas to not accept Olmert's napkin map offer...
shaayecanaan
Feb 2013
#20
"and the only way for the conflict with the Palestinians to end is for Israel to keep them."
R. Daneel Olivaw
Feb 2013
#19