Re: Jewish Settlers getting booted....

QuiGon <QuiGon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

: We'll have to agree to disagree. If I make a prediction that the sun will
: rise tomorrow in the east, I don't think that can be questioned by any
: rational person (even though it's a prediction). Similarly, my prediction
: that the Palestinians* will eventually use violenece in anattempt to gain
: additional land is even more likely than the prediction the sun will rise
: tomorrow in the east, so it too should not be subject to being questioned.

everything's subject to being questioned. we can question whether the sun
will rise tomorrow, even though it does seem pretty likely. someday,
there will come a day when it doesn't.

although i guess technically that day won't actually come, will it.

: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him
: last." - Winston Churchill

for real. the american indians tried appeasing the europeans for a while,
and look at them now. mexicans.

: > : Secondly, I stated there has never been a soverign nation of
: > : "Palestine". I had chosen to make that statement which is historically
: > : true yet few people seem to actually realize, foolishly thinking that
: > : no one would challenge a historical fact.
: >
: > you're not giving me your pocket history. just the last 200 years would
: > probably do it, actually.

: I am not going to give a history report on demand. If you are legitimtely
: interested in the history of the region, there are plenty of resources at
: your disposal. You can even research the subject from different websites
: representing both sides of the conflict. If, as I suspect, you are
: interested in what I know about the region, then we go back to my "I just
: ain't going to get into this discussion again" response.

look, honestly, you're kind of being a weasel here. if you don't want to
talk about israel-palestine, you shouldn't post flamebait factoids to an
israel-palestine thread.

i'm not trying to "test" your "knowledge" of "history" and then "flunk"
you so i can "gloat", if that's what you're worried about. in fact, i
think you know very well what i'm getting at - i'm just curious how you
can look at a snapshot of the region in 1850 and a snapshot today and
conclude that the problem is a land grab by... the arabs.

: I don't mean to be rude... On the contrary; I am trying to withdraw
: from this thread before anyone (including especially myself) gets nasty
: :-)

i just barfed. you make me sick!

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will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu
vines that wrap the Sears Tower, and when you look down, you'll see tiny
figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool
lane of some abandoned superhighway.'
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