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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-22-09 11:00 AM Original message |
Obama doesn’t get it |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-22-09 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
1. article cont'd |
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sui generis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-22-09 11:34 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. "Because these are holy issues." |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-22-09 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
3. When did Obama suggest that instant solutions exist? |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-22-09 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
4. What 'instant solutions'? |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-22-09 02:58 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. how about an instant 2-year deadline for peace to just 'break out' |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 05:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Then again, what YOU want is for Israel to stay IN the Occupiued Territories forever |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 06:41 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. no I don't.....you're misrepresenting me |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 12:53 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Your whole purpose here has been to try and silence any criticism of Israeli policy. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 04:16 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. can you answer my question now please? i feel dumber for having read all that drek. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 04:51 AM Response to Reply #19 |
24. You're question is built on a lie. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 04:58 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. i'm basing it on Intifada 2 (following camp David) and the Gaza pullout |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 05:07 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. I've just demonstrated that there's no basis in reality for your question |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 05:23 AM Response to Reply #28 |
38. no basis for reality? what are your thoughts on these vids? |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 05:14 AM Response to Reply #25 |
34. You can't compare the establishment of a real Palestinian state with the Gaza pullout. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 05:25 AM Response to Reply #34 |
39. huh? Where were you and those like you PRIOR to the Gaza pullout preaching about how it would do |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 04:41 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Ding, ding, ding! We got a winner! |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-22-09 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
6. This is drool. This guy is a tool. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 06:53 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. what on earth makes you believe the author of the OP is totally wrong? |
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Sezu (920 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 09:10 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. her omnipotence? n/t |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 09:49 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. more like, If I call people nasty names like "tool" and their work "drool", I don't have to read |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 07:50 PM Response to Reply #8 |
51. Her? nt |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 07:50 PM Response to Reply #7 |
50. Literacy? nt |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
10. Only in the I/P forum you can post rightwing propaganda and get away with |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 02:43 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. what makes the article "rightwing"? |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 04:36 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. The inferred support of comtinued occupation |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 06:43 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. i want the occupation to end ASAP....wish it could be done |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 01:19 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. That's an outright lie - you support the occupation becoming permanent. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 04:19 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. why didn't you answer the question about occupation ending, big war beginning? |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 04:48 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Yes it does. If the settlements are kept, the creation of a Palestinian state is impossible |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 05:00 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. so Clinton's Parameters wouldn't have worked with land swaps? |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 05:11 AM Response to Reply #26 |
31. You know perfectly well the Israeli government wouldn't give the Palestinians any good land |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 05:15 AM Response to Reply #31 |
36. the major settlement areas weren't "good land" until Israel made it into good land. |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 03:37 PM Response to Reply #36 |
42. And money. Don't forget the money. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 07:21 AM Response to Reply #42 |
44. as if the PA/PLO has not received billions in aid that's been squandered or used for arms? |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 04:50 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. The Occupation ending doesn't HAVE to lead to a genocidal war. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 05:02 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. all it has to lead to is the W.Bank turning into a Gazan launching pad |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 05:08 AM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Why can you not accept that Palestinians would let it go at getting a state? |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 05:12 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Palestinians or Palestinian leadership? Gaza 2005 and Intifada 2 aren't good examples? |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 05:15 AM Response to Reply #32 |
35. You're assuming that leadership would remain in place in an independent Palestine |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 05:20 AM Response to Reply #35 |
37. check out those videos and tell me you KNOW once occupation ends, the conflict is totally over |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 05:10 AM Response to Reply #27 |
30. They wouldn't still be fighting if they got a state. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 05:13 AM Response to Reply #30 |
33. they were offered it in 2000 and Intifada 2 was ordered in response |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 03:30 PM Response to Reply #33 |
40. Nonsense. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 07:20 AM Response to Reply #40 |
43. maps by Dennis Ross, used by Jimmy Carter, show Palestinians were NOT offered bantustans |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 08:17 AM Response to Reply #43 |
47. Because it was a start that wasn't leading anywhere. |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 03:33 PM Response to Reply #20 |
41. The settlements are part of the occupation. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 07:24 AM Response to Reply #41 |
45. settlements depend on the final borders, don't they? |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 08:15 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Ending the occupation in Gaza was like removing one of ten brain tumours. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-30-09 07:19 AM Response to Reply #46 |
54. so it could only be expected that terror INCREASED due to Israeli good-faith measures? |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-30-09 07:33 AM Response to Reply #54 |
55. They weren't "good faith measures". |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-30-09 08:56 AM Response to Reply #55 |
56. not good faith measures? |
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excess_3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
16. Obama only has eight years |
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Jefferson23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
48. LOL, what complete nonsense in this OP |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 04:29 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. nonsense? has the Arab League revised the Saudi Initiative regarding RoR yet? |
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Jefferson23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-29-09 08:28 PM Response to Reply #49 |
52. shira, the majority of the OP's you post are horseshit. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-30-09 07:06 AM Response to Reply #52 |
53. how about something substantive from you, like WHY this one is horseshit? |
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Jefferson23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-30-09 09:37 AM Response to Reply #53 |
57. You believe his perspective shira, I find his take on Obama absurd. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-30-09 10:57 AM Response to Reply #57 |
58. I believe Israelis and Pal'ns who know that RoR is a VERY big deal that can't just be dismissed so |
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Jefferson23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-30-09 11:06 AM Response to Reply #58 |
59. Obama is not dismissing anything, that is why your Op sucks. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-30-09 11:12 AM Response to Reply #59 |
60. wow...very substantive, how impressive |
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Jefferson23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-30-09 11:39 AM Response to Reply #60 |
61. If anyone doesn't give a shit, it is you shira. That rings clear in the OP's |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-30-09 11:54 AM Response to Reply #61 |
62. mocking and ad-hominem is all you have since there is no substance to your arguments. |
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Jefferson23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-30-09 11:59 AM Response to Reply #62 |
63. You and I will undoubtedly not ever agree on what is substantial |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-30-09 12:15 PM Response to Reply #63 |
64. so why mock and name-call when you cannot substantively refute your opponent's argument? |
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Jefferson23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-30-09 12:19 PM Response to Reply #64 |
65. Go back read my last response, take as much time with it as you need. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-30-09 12:27 PM Response to Reply #65 |
66. you mean you are incapable of rational, substantive debate and do not like your views challenged |
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Jefferson23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-30-09 12:36 PM Response to Reply #66 |
67. "just like many on your side." Interesting choice of words shira. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-30-09 12:42 PM Response to Reply #67 |
68. your side = Israel haters |
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