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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 09:19 PM Original message |
It’s time to stop demonizing Israel |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 09:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. The plethora of smilies is a nice touch |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
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Fozzledick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 09:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Demonizers gonna demonize |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 04:56 AM Response to Reply #5 |
21. It's apparently okay by faux liberals to mischaracterize, misrepresent, distort, slander, lie |
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subsuelo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 10:32 AM Response to Reply #21 |
33. It's not 'bigotry' to oppose executing peace activists. n/t |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 10:53 AM Response to Reply #33 |
36. sure seems like it when knife wielding, stun grenade tossing jerks beating people... |
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subsuelo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 11:31 AM Response to Reply #36 |
44. The deliberate misrepresentation is by the villainous IDF |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 12:11 PM Response to Reply #44 |
49. Disgusting. If they're peace activists, I'd hate to see warmongers. |
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ColesCountyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 01:59 PM Response to Reply #49 |
54. Notice how it's always 'peace activists' and not 'blockade runners'? |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 05:20 PM Response to Reply #54 |
66. They must be peace activists. Otherwise Israel cannot be portrayed as evil incarnate. |
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BanTheGOP (596 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
4. Without the American GOP, Israel disappears |
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LakeSamish706 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 10:16 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Actually it's as much the Democrats as Repugs. that are the problem in making |
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RZM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 10:23 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. Pure bullshit |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 10:35 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. What about all the foreign military aid we give Israel? |
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RZM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 10:43 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. No doubt the aid is welcome there |
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liberaltrucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
6. When Israelis dump NimrodYahoo we will think about it |
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burnsei sensei (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
7. Excuse me, |
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EgyptianGirl (27 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
8. Please Shira |
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corpseratemedia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 10:10 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. well they were kicked out remember? |
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EgyptianGirl (27 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 11:27 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. who? |
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Yeahyeah (741 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 10:01 PM Response to Original message |
9. You're right.Israel should stop being demonic. |
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OrderedChaos (43 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
11. I thought |
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 10:26 PM Response to Original message |
14. They do it to themselves. Please! Make them stop demonizing themselves. |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
17. more fail |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 03:19 AM Response to Original message |
19. Why? Are they going to stop oppressing their neighbors and arab citizens? |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 04:49 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Because it's evil to deliberately exaggerate, distort, and misrepresent reality? |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 08:44 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. You mean like the fake audio transmissions? |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 11:16 AM Response to Reply #22 |
42. How does condensing 6 minutes of mostly dead airtime into 30 seconds make it fake? |
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ColesCountyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
23. Like it or not, folks, lobbing rockets into a country is a casus belli, and a blockade .... |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 09:36 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. wow you've learned 2 new words and in latin yet |
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ColesCountyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 09:43 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. It's 'nonetheless', all one word... |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 10:04 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. I think that has already been discussed |
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ColesCountyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 10:12 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. The blockade was in 1962, and it included everybody. |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 10:15 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. but still it was covered in the article I posted |
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ColesCountyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 10:24 AM Response to Reply #28 |
31. It's an interesting article, but it's dispositive of nothing to do with THIS blockade. n/t |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 11:03 AM Response to Reply #31 |
37. LOL when its Israel its always different |
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ColesCountyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 11:59 AM Response to Reply #37 |
47. My original point remains quite healthy, thank you. |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 10:17 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. is that the same law school where you learnt legal definitions that don't exist? |
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ColesCountyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 10:23 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. No, it's the one where I learned to expose specious arguments by cross-examining people. |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 10:44 AM Response to Reply #30 |
34. LOL! Yeah, how DID that cross examination work out for you?? |
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ColesCountyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 10:48 AM Response to Reply #34 |
35. It worked out fine, since it exposed your 'talking-out-of-your-ass' argument |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 11:03 AM Response to Reply #35 |
38. Unfortunately for you, people read what others post around here. |
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ColesCountyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 11:12 AM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Really? |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 01:47 PM Response to Reply #40 |
52. My proof. You said I was 'ignorant' of the definition, then claimed there was none. |
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ColesCountyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 02:02 PM Response to Reply #52 |
55. It's a perfectly acceptable courtroom technique. |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 02:13 PM Response to Reply #55 |
57. As a 'lawyer',dishonesty might be your mealticket |
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ColesCountyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 02:19 PM Response to Reply #57 |
58. Sorry you didn't like it, but that doesn't make it illegitimate. |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 02:30 PM Response to Reply #58 |
59. This is an open forum. You call somebody ignorant and can't back it up, just admit it and don't make |
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ColesCountyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 02:33 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. It was a trap, and you fell for it. |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 03:47 PM Response to Reply #60 |
64. How did I fall for it. I wasn't the one making bullshit claims that I couldn't back up. |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 11:09 AM Response to Reply #35 |
39. actually it was I who baited you |
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ColesCountyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 11:15 AM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Once again, nothing you posted is dispositive of the issue of 'collective punishment' as regards.... |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 11:28 AM Response to Reply #41 |
43. Perhaps you need to learm better reading skills |
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ColesCountyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 11:48 AM Response to Reply #43 |
45. My reading skills are just fine. |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 11:50 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Lol n/t |
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ColesCountyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 12:00 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. I'm pleased you're amused. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 12:13 PM Response to Reply #48 |
50. Only WRT Israel is a legal blockade defacto collective punishment. |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 12:32 PM Response to Reply #48 |
51. lol same goes for you as I said you've been baited n/t |
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ColesCountyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 02:04 PM Response to Reply #51 |
56. You can SAY I have, but you can't prove it. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 10:28 AM Response to Reply #23 |
32. The Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories disagrees with you. |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 03:08 PM Response to Reply #23 |
63. What came first? The oppression of Palestinians or the lobbing of bombs... |
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aranthus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 03:54 PM Response to Reply #63 |
65. The lobbing of bombs came first. n/t |
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aranthus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
53. There is a part of me, |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 03:01 PM Response to Reply #53 |
61. Agreed |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
62. If it walks like a duck... eom |
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