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demoleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 05:28 AM Original message |
"Who's really under siege?" - fine analysis of israel hopeless isolation, in the haaretz |
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LARED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 05:43 AM Response to Original message |
1. a "commando raid " |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 05:49 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. "paint ball guns"? |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 06:19 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Yep, here's an article from ABC. Israeli "intelligence" obviously didn't expect an ambush. |
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Vinnie From Indy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 06:32 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. After reading many of your posts |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 06:37 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Hmmm, that's not what I believe at all. Here's a question for you, however. |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 12:54 PM Response to Reply #6 |
42. no No NO that's not the way of Hasbara |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 06:04 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Paintball guns? |
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Vinnie From Indy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 06:23 AM Response to Original message |
5. The column is dead on and hopefully the Israeli people |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 08:24 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. So you believe 'peace' will result from lifting the blockade, which will empower Hamas... |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 06:54 AM Response to Original message |
8. Good article |
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enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 07:02 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. +1 (nt) |
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demoleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 07:58 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. "15:28 Hundreds demonstrate in solidarity with Flotilla activists near Highway 443 (Army Radio)" |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 07:02 AM Response to Original message |
9. An excellent article |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 08:19 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Since you're for lifting the blockade.... |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 08:46 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. My issue with the blockade is the economic aspect |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 09:00 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. So can I take it you're not really worried about the other things mentioned in my last post to you? |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 09:02 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Every aid organisation on the planet says there is a crisis in Gaza |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 09:12 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Answer my questions first. Take your time. (nt) |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 09:17 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. so theres no humanitarian crisis? |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 09:26 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. FAIL. This isn't an inquisition. Answer me and I'll answer you. (nt) |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 09:37 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Post one question you want me to answer, then you can answer me. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 10:30 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Please answer the title of post #15 |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 10:34 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Thats not asking me one question. Ask me one question if you want an answer. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 06:39 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. okay, here's your one question. Once Hamas is recognized as the rulers of Gaza... |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 10:09 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Thats not a question |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 07:37 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Okay, a different question before I answer you.... |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 08:12 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. There is no evidence that they attempting to do anything other than repel the act of piracy |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 08:38 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. FAIL. It's disgusting that you refuse to condemn openly hostile antisemites. |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 11:24 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. When you plant 2 debatable points in a single sentence |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 11:59 AM Response to Reply #33 |
34. OMG it was a simple question. Those invoking death to Jews, peace activists or raging Jew haters? |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 12:00 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Those chanting in videos, same people from clip repelling IDF? |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 12:06 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Just the people in the video on Al Jazeera. Here's MEMRI with the Arabic subtitles, etc.. |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 01:20 PM Response to Reply #36 |
52. So you are claiming it was the same people chanting who attacked the IDF? |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 01:55 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. That's besides the point. Answer the question. |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 03:55 PM Response to Reply #53 |
54. No its not, its exactly the point |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 04:30 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. LOL...I'm asking you one simple question, you refuse to answer it, and you call me desperate? |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 09:29 PM Response to Reply #55 |
57. Can you reframe the question please so it doesn't contain disputable phrases. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 11:38 AM Response to Reply #57 |
58. Unbelievable. The people singing songs invoking death to Jews.... |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 08:17 AM Response to Reply #58 |
59. Where are they chanting or invoking 'death to jews'? |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 03:01 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. Khaibar was the last Jewish town, not far from Mecca, destroyed by Muhammad in the 7th century |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 03:18 PM Response to Reply #60 |
61. Where are they chanting "death to Jews"? |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 03:20 PM Response to Reply #61 |
62. Oh, and I love this.... |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 04:38 PM Response to Reply #62 |
63. One of Israel's leading leftist pro-Palestinians just wrote this week no humanitarian crisis |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 07:31 PM Response to Reply #63 |
65. All everybody here needs to know shira |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 08:02 PM Response to Reply #65 |
67. Deleted message |
shaayecanaan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 06:26 PM Response to Reply #60 |
64. How perverse... |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-07-10 08:00 PM Response to Reply #64 |
66. I agree there's no defense for that, but it's not a humanitarian crisis. |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 08:45 AM Response to Reply #66 |
68. A comment from a famous jewish person on whether or not there is a crisis |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 11:01 AM Response to Reply #68 |
69. It's your right to trust a Jewish comedian over a leftist Jewish Israeli pro-peace activist |
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Tripmann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-08-10 02:22 PM Response to Reply #69 |
70. But wait a second shira |
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B Whale (500 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 05:41 PM Response to Reply #36 |
56. i've just watched that video twice and i can't |
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parkia00 (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 09:15 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Try this for a change.... |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 09:31 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Now you're talking.... |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-04-10 06:45 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. Does Hamas have the right to defend itself? |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 07:39 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Hamas isn't defending themselves. No more than the Taliban does whatever they do. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 10:18 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. I didn't ask "is Hamas acting in self-defense?" |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 12:35 PM Response to Reply #32 |
37. They don't defend themselves. They're an Islamist supremacist movement. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 12:39 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Again, I didn't ask "Is Hamas defending itself?" |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 12:45 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Is Hamas defending itself when.......it fires off rockets, kidnaps soldiers, sends suicide bombers? |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 12:46 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. I did not ask, "Is Hamas acting in self-defense?" |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 12:48 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. I pick "I'm not sure". Now what's your point? |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 12:55 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. I wasn't leading anywhere with that question |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 12:57 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. What's one example of an operation from Hamas that's been defensive? |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 01:05 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Well, shooting back at the IDF during OCL, for instance |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 01:12 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. Shooting back during OCL, a war they started called "Operation Oil Stain" is self-defense? |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 01:15 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Yes, absolutely |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 01:18 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. It's a war they started! How is that self-defense? |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 01:19 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. Self-defense is a tactical, not strategic question |
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Madam Mossfern (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 01:01 PM Response to Reply #40 |
45. Everyone has a right to defend themselves |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-05-10 01:08 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. Wouldn't that be nice? |
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