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ilmaestro said:
animefreak17 said:
I don't believe a single word of it
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lmao
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:lol: I don't care how long he's been here, I'm back to the original assertion that animefreak is a troll. Probably one of the greatest of our times.

I'm not a bigot, far from it......I just hate everyone equally, humans in General.
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This is such a rubbish excuse. Some guy once called my friend a nigger and said the exact same thing afterwards.

Anyway, you need some Norman Finkelstein in your life.

 
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To be fair, I could have been a little more specific in my question. :lol:

But in all seriousness, this new turn of events in the ongoing Israel versus Palestine Rumble in the Hot and somewhat Arid Jungle will lead to nothing new. It's happened before - it's happening now - it'll happen again. I don't pretend to know all the intricacies of the conflict, but one side explicitly has the backing of the most powerful military on Earth - and that can't be ignored.

I've always been partial to the idea of opening our borders to those not wanting to participate in pointless land squabbles and encasing the area from the Sinai Peninsula to Syria in a metal shroud - a Thunderdome, if you will - and seeing what happens. I see two potential outcomes: We enter Thunderdome a decade later and find 1) A horrific wasteland not even George Miller could imagine, or 2) A utopia that would make Gene Roddenberry raise from the dead (it is the Promised Land, after all). Either way, Tina Turner will sing.
 
But in all seriousness, this new turn of events in the ongoing Israel versus Palestine Rumble in the Hot and somewhat Arid Jungle will lead to nothing new.
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I don't know, Israel is ever increasingly becoming at odds with the rest of the world's public opinion. There's surely only so long they can keep up their ridiculously disproportionate retaliations, and quite frankly what seems to be a game plan of eradicating the Palestinians, before the Israeli government becomes a true international pariah much like what happened to South Africa. One would hope anyway.
 
vashdaman said:
But in all seriousness, this new turn of events in the ongoing Israel versus Palestine Rumble in the Hot and somewhat Arid Jungle will lead to nothing new.
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I don't know, Israel is ever increasingly becoming at odds with the rest of the world's public opinion. There's surely only so long they can keep up their ridiculously disproportionate retaliations, and quite frankly what seems to be a game plan of eradicating the Palestinians, before the Israeli government becomes a true international pariah much like what happened to South Africa. One would hope anyway.
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Indeed, Israel being at odds with the prevailing opinion might be the case, but why should that stop them? On a geopolitical level, opinions matter not one iota - heck, even sanctions (which probably wouldn't even pass with the US having a permanent seat on the UN Security Council; indeed, I do believe a precedent has already been set, confirming this) can be lacking in tooth, just take a look at North Korea's nuclear programme.

The issue with discussing Israel's response to Hamas rocket attacks is that I don't know what proportionality is when it comes to armed conflict. One thing that gets a lot of attention in situations such as this is civilian casualties, and it appears the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been responsible for a great many of them on the Palestinian side. That many civilians are, indeed, being killed/injured isn't necessarily evidence that Israel's response is needlessly disproportionate, but it does suggest the IDF are needlessly careless. Unfortunately, collateral damage is always going to be a thing - particularly in this instance of asymmetrical warfare - but I would only put it down to disproportionate violence if the IDF deliberately went out of their way to inflict civilian casualties.*

*Writing this there was a little of head scratching. My thoughts could be complete twaddle, but I'm not comfortable with the idea that Israel is deliberately attempting some form of slow burning genocide of the Palestinians.
 
So, you're up for innocent civilians being killed but you'd go out with someone who you weren't attracted to, just so you didn't hurt their feelings?

You really do baffle me.
 
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GolGotha said:
So, you're up for innocent civilians being killed but you'd go out with someone who you weren't attracted to, just so you didn't hurt their feelings?

You really do baffle me.
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Humans are terrible things..............No one is completely innocent.

Different species of animal's go extinct BECAUSE of humans
We Pollute the environment
We kill each other over stupid ****.
The rich look down on the poor.
We outcast each other over -

Our looks
Our beliefs
Where we come from


Wars have started because of humans ideals thinking they are right and there enemies are wrong and visa versa.

Let them fight each other and let them feel what true pain is.
 
I'm not entirely sure what's going on anymore.

Actually going back to something that was discussed way earlier in the thread, Cameron's porn filter, this BBC story is a little bit satisfying.
 
Cameron doesn't have a clue when it comes to the internet. Some of the ideas floated around re. the porn filter and the whole 'right to be forgotten' thing are clearly coming from people who don't even understand the nature of the way the internet works.
 
GolGotha said:
So, you're up for innocent civilians being killed but you'd go out with someone who you weren't attracted to, just so you didn't hurt their feelings?

You really do baffle me.
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I try to keep things interesting
 
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