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[jpx7]

Today 30% of responders, meaning they can at least read, believe it's a big deal that Obama put his feet up for a few seconds on an old table.

I saw that story and just ...

 

[jpx7]

I mean you argue that you don't want the US involved in directly killing innocent civilians with bombing, but at the same time are we not indirectly allowing thousands of innocent people to die while we wait on the sidelines.

By that logic and in that context, the US should have intervened – militarily or otherwise – a long time ago in Palestine.

 

[Runnin]

5. We have large constituencies that have ethnic/religious concerns that are tied directly to Israel.

6. Without US financial support Israel could not exist, and without an Israeli state Biblical prophecy starts to fall apart.

Does that sound right, Bedell?

 

[CK86]

I wish there was a way we could support the civilian population in Syria with humanitarian aid but let that be the extent of our involvement in the conflict.

 

[zitothebrave]

The Daily Show's take on the Middle East is funny but true

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-4-2013/sir-archibald-mapsalot-iii

 

[BedellBrave]

6. Without US financial support Israel could not exist, and without an Israeli state Biblical prophecy starts to fall apart.

Does that sound right, Bedell?

Except that Biblical prophecy doesn't fall apart in that scenario, even though plenty think it does (wrongly, imho). That's why I'm not wedded at the hip to a secular Jewish state.

 

[BedellBrave]

Not disagreeing, just curious what makes you suspect that?

Because virtually every spy novel known to man tells me this?

 

[weso1]

By that logic and in that context, the US should have intervened – militarily or otherwise – a long time ago in Palestine.

Bomb them all. The Isrealis and the Palestinians. You are a heartless bastard if you disagree.

 

[goldfly]

what i have learned from this fishing expedition of a thread

is that everything is black or white

 

[weso1]

what i have learned from this fishing expedition of a thread

is that everything is black or white

I don't think you really learned that.

 

[goldfly]

I don't think you really learned that.

i heart you

 

[jpx7]

Bomb them all. The Isrealis and the Palestinians. You are a heartless bastard if you disagree.

I'd settle for the US not hypocritically protecting Israeli interests – such as their (de facto) "right" to bomb, shoot, gas, torture, jail, and "resettle" an autochthonous people – leaving the bombs out of it.

 

[Runnin]

Because virtually every spy novel known to man tells me this?

The First Victim of Sept. 11
He was likely the first person killed, but his influence was felt that entire terrible day—online.

"Just before 8 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 took off from Boston’s Logan Airport. Bound non-stop for Los Angeles, the flight was just one of more than 40,000 scheduled to crisscross the country that day. The plane was partially full—81 passengers, nine crewmembers, and two pilots. Many of its passengers were traveling for work on the daily scheduled flight, including 31-year-old Internet entrepreneur Danny Lewin. ....."