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• • 04 Sep 06
  • 1:34 pm

  5:1 is the ratio of Jews to Palestinians in Israel.... ....which ratio most securely grounds Israel's right to exist (admittedly the ratio might have been more like 5:3 if not for the heavy hand of the returning Diaspora). 10:1 is the ratio of Palestinians to Jews in what these days gets identified as the occupied territories: which ratio if anything more surely seals the Palestinian people's claim to (exclusive) domain over what the 1949 world left to them of their original homeland (especially given the 1 arrived illegally). The post-war powers conceded that the holocaust entitled one race to push another …

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• • 04 Sep 06
  • 2:05 pm

  The only way to get a two-state solution is for the US to get firmly behind its little brother and push it hard in that direction. That will only happen after the US media does the South Africa thing on the occupation -- day in and day out -- until it sticks. A couple of new angles for our media to consider: Our press treats terrorism in Israel the way it would treat the same in France if Algerians were suicide bombing French train stations and restaurants long after France exited Algeria -- for motives of racial hatred, or some kind …

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• • 07 Sep 06
  • 11:41 am

  Mitch, The PLO and Hamas calling for the elimination of Israel is like the Apaches calling for the elimination of the American nation. Nice deal if there is anyway they can get it. You convict yourself by your own words (aha!) that the other Arabs (for whatever reason) don't care much about the Palestinians and they are helpless to accomplish it themselves (just joshing you). The Palestinians would surely accept back the 22% of their nation the world said they could keep. They even seemed ready to sign Oslo II which assigns them only 60% of the West Bank in noncontiguous …

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• • 08 Sep 06
  • 10:34 am

  Mitch, I don't know the history but you tell me: did the terror bombings begin in earnest before or after the 1967 occupation of Arab land? -- did they begin before or after the settlements began to take a large land toll? Even if Palestinians were raised to love Israelis above all other ethnic groups -- once they begin moving in on _sovereign_ Palestinian territory, brutally bulldozing them aside and making life hard for them whenever they can in the hope that there will always be less of them -- they are going to hate you and resist with whatever moral …

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• • 08 Sep 06
  • 4:42 pm

  Latest spin (headline?) on the Gaza-Lebanon invasions: ISRAEL BLOWS AWAY TWO COUNTRIES OVER A PARKING SPACE! IOW, over nothing anybody normal would fight over -- this is going to look especially undeniable once Israel gets its precious three POWs back.

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