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Originally posted by neformore
What exactly are you a "subject matter expert" in Nygdan?
I have to ask because judging by this post it seems to be in the areas of xenophobia and racial/religious hate, backed up by rhetoric and very little fact.
You have NO idea how many palestinians want to kill Israelis whatsoever.
I thought this board - and most importantly its moderators - was about denying ignorance, not promoting it.
souljah
There is a BIG Difference between Defending your Homeland, and Protecting the Occupational Army,
which is standing on ILLEGALLY confescated land.
But I guess you do not see this difference.
Palestinians are just terrorists who want to kill as many Jews as possible, right?
Well I guess the Truce is Over.
With Friends Like Israel - Who Needs Enemies?
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this video contains images of women and children killed by the Israeli state with U.S. weapons in Beit Hanoun, the Gaza Strip, in violation of the Arms Export Control Act
www.law.cornell.edu...
the President is authorized to control the import and the export of defense articles and defense services and to provide foreign policy guidance to persons of the United States involved in the export and import of such articles and services.
implosion
So there you have it. Terrorists happen to inhabit a land, so the women and children are fair game
The bodies, including seven children and four women, were each wrapped in a yellow flag, the symbol of the Fatah movement, and held aloft on stretchers among a vast crowd of tearful and angry mourners.
thepieman
Out of over a million people about a hundred or so have actually done this
For someone to take their own life like that , there must be a great desperation or hopelessness.
I went to Palestine and saw nothing but barren wasteland" , well if the Israelis could do it with other peoples help then so can the Palestinians with some help, and its an even smaller area of land so it should be even easier and faster to develop
They keep claiming they were so nice to leave Gaza and blah blah blah but they never left.
Palestinians should not need to flee their country. They belong in their homeland , not in Lebanon, Not Egypt, Not Jordan
I never understood this permant council, 5 nation garbage.
It should just go straight to vote by each and every nation and thats that.
rockpuck
Israelis as a whole (population) do not support the wars (most of the wars anyways) it is like our Republican and Democrats, there is a war opposition.
denythestatusquo
Israel cannot continue to do these kinds of operations with impunity from the rest of the world. It is simply not acceptable any longer.
There needs to be a new mentality from the Israeli leadership or else we will end up in WWIII.
donwhite
Worse, the United States vetoed any action the Security Council could take in regard to this latest IDF assault on humanity.
Originally posted by Nygdan
I can't imagine what that has to do with anything.
The palestinians are at war with israel, and they specifically target civilians, to cause large numbers of casualties, in that war. So whats 'infactual' there?
Irrelevant.
It would be ignorant to pretend that the palestinians aren't at war with the yehudis. Are you suggesting that the palestinians actually abhor the actions of the plo, hamas, etc????
Originally posted by ThePieMaN
Originally posted by Rockpuck
Hammas also does not follow the ban on importing weapons.
A qassam does not derive from my tax dollars and poses no dangers to me or my family. An attack chopper that was paid for with tax dollars and then is being given away under the auspices of military aid and resold so that they may make a profit , to protect drug dealers selling drugs to American children and their parents does concern me as it should concern you. Its like I went to your house, stole your gun and then sold it to a thief who then used it to mug you. You lose and I make 100% profit on your back and the mugger comes out with a profit too.
If you read the export act, the majority of things under that act are for DEFENSIVE purposes only and even you have admitted yourself there have been times where you felt it was not defensive. This law has been broken more times then once. Not to mention they tried to sell things to China under this very same act.
quote: rockpuck
Israelis as a whole (population) do not support the wars (most of the wars anyways) it is like our Republican and Democrats, there is a war opposition.
Irrelevant.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
Right. What the heck are you going on about? Quassom rockets DO pose a threat.. as people have been killed by them? That wouldnt be the weapons I am talking about any ways, I am talking about guns. AK47's, M16's, heavy assault rifles, pistols, RPG's and bomb making resources.
Why deny that they smuggle weapons? .. What is the point in denying it I just don't get it ... do you blame Palestine for anything at all? ... or... are they immune?
Originally posted by Nygdan
It doesn't matter if a government is acting to protect citizens within their own national borders, or its soldiers in occupation of a foreign land. THere is no requirement in difference of action.
There is no such thing as 'illegally confiscated land' on the international scale.
Go to war, occupy land, you own it.
Lets be realistic, not all palestinians are looking to exterminate the jews, or anything like that. But the fact is, the 'nation' of palestine is at war with the isrealis. I mean, the US invaded IRaq, not just a portion of the soldiers employed by the US Army.
Was there ever any doubt? The two groups have 'intractable differences'. The palestinians want israeli territory, the israelis won't give it to them. Both sides are willing to kill over it. How can there be truce when that is the situation?
Heck, why should their be truce? If they want to go to war, let them.
If these guys are the kind of scum that are going to target and murder american citizens, because we support the israelis, then its hardly Israel's fault. They're the ones making their own decisions. If they want to go to war with us, thats their responsibility.
U.S. Assistance and the Israel/Palestine Conflict
The Israeli government and military receive $15,139,178* from the U.S. every day; Palestinian NGO’s receive $232,290** from the U.S. each day.
“Generous as it is, what Israel actually got in U.S. aid is considerably less than what it has cost U.S. taxpayers to provide it. The principal difference is that so long as the U.S. runs an annual budget deficit, every dollar of aid the U.S. gives Israel has to be raised through U.S. government borrowing.”
Originally posted by neformore
It has a lot to do with it, because it says it on your avatar, and if the "subject matter" is Middle East politics then its erroneous
You are wrong. There was no declaration of war by the Palestinain government with regard to Israel.
Hezbollah are an independant group and not affiliated with the Palestinian Military.
You are making a sweeping statement about an entire nation, when its clear that not all Palestinians are involved in this.
Please, get some perspective. Imagine it was your family that had just been wiped out by an IDF "technical error" during a United Nations mandated ceasefire. Would you be so bloody cold and arrognat about it then?
Rock Puck
It was completely relevant to the discussion that was ongoing with another member of the board, mainly, not you
souljah
if for example the Chinese Goverment decides to "Liberate" USA, and ofcourse occupies foreign land in the process? You would defend them in that case also?
there are certain sets of International Laws and Conventions written since the end of WW2,
go to war, occpy land, you own it - you are saying that Saddam was LEGGALY occupying Kuwait, when he went to war there?
According to your logic, he did not do anything wrong - why the First Gulf War then?
The Nation of Palestine is at war with Israel ever since they lost their land in the '48 massive invasion/occupation/genocide
would you not fight back if the Chinese tomorrow landed with 31 million troops and occuupied YOUR homeland,
the Israelis WANT Palesitnian territory
So, who is attacking who here?
if you did not notice, America GIVES Israel a massive money and weapons support each and every year.
And you do not have a problem with that?
so they can perform their version of Genocide and Apartheid?
Originally posted by Nygdan
Genocide is what the nazis were doing to the jews. The jews aren't using their full force in order to inflict maximum civilian casualities, unlike the palestinians.
No, I wouldn't. But I certainly wouldn't actually expect the Chinese to not fight, or think that there is some legalistic restriction on them, forcing them to not fight 'because they're not operating within mainland china'.
Legally? Who cares. He took it, he held on to it, for a while. He doesn't own it now because the kuwaitis were able to get another army to come along and push them out. If they can take it, and prevent others from taking it back or taking it away, they own it.
Because hussein owning kuwait was against our interests. And apparently it was against the interests of the other members of that Coalition, since they were willing to fight over it.
Yes. I think its clear, israel and palestine are at war. Realistically, palestine lost the war, and what we see now is occupation and insurgency. They're still 'at war', but the palestinians have practically no chance of winning any of their "strategic objectives" through warfare (ie, ending the occupation, re-taking jerusalem, re-taking the annexed land, forming a sovereign government, having defenses capable of preventing yehudi attacks on their settlements, etc0.
Heck yeah I would, hell, we'd probably fight back with nukes and wipe out all of china in the process, even occupy it permanently. The palestinians have every right to try to do the same. Hell, if more of them actually fought back, they'd probably not be under occupation now. As it is, the bulk of their population wants war, but isn't individually willing to fight in the war, they want other people to fight it for them.
And one thing I wouldn't be doing is kidding myself into thinking that theres some sort of legalistic action that could be taken to get the occupying chinese out of the conquered US, the palestinians seem to think that they can get their freedom via the UN or legal fictions.
If the yehudis wanted the land under the occupation right now, they'd send in transport trucks, load them with palestinians, and drive them over to jordan or syria or lebanon, etc. They are occupying that territory, not because they want to annex it for its resources, their troops are there to find, attack, and destroy the organizations that are attacking them.
The palestinians are attacking the israelis. If the palestinians declared peace, and actually lived up to it, there'd be no need for the yehudis to send troops into the occupied territories.
Yes, and? So what, we give them weapons, they're not threatening to attack us. If the palestinians are so stupid as to think that they're going to be better off by attacking the US, then it'll be their own fault when they're obliterated.
Genocide is what the nazis were doing to the jews. The jews aren't using their full force in order to inflict maximum civilian casualities, unlike the palestinians. If the jews were trying to wipe out the palestinians, then it'd be over by now. They're not. They're occupying a population that is constantly attacking them. IF they didn't occupy them, there'd be more attacks, so of course they're going to occupy them, and no legal-political fiction is going to stop that.
GENOCIDE
Genocide is a term defined by Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
Genocide in The Middle East: The Palestinian Holocaust
The growth of Jewish settlements spells out another defeat in Palestinians eyes: "their land is disappearing the villagers say, and only the settlers have the army on their side," (Golden). As settlements grow, it is clear that this modern day Holocaust is different from past ones. This modern day Holocaust seeks to exterminate Palestinians by the gradual theft of their land, ultimately pushing them into refugee areas where nothing awaits them. This is a faith worse than outright mass murders. This is a slow death.