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2017-05-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Stabbing attack in Jerusalem; police officer moderately wounded, terrorist killed

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Posted by trailing wife 2017-05-14 00:07|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Jordan holds Israel responsible for killing Jordanian terrorist

IMO, the second* biggest mistake in Israel's history was saving the Hashemite regime from Palestinians in 1970. If we just stood aside, Jordan would be a "Palestinian" state today.

*The first was not ethnically cleansing Arabs in 1948 and repeating in 1967 - cause the concept of ethnical cleansing didn't exist then (just ask Sudetendeutsche).

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-14 03:56|| 2017-05-14 03:56|| Front Page Top

#2 I most certainly don't agree with that ethnically cleansing bit Grom. We've seen it. It is beyond horror. Islam, and the Paleos, don't really HAVE any set ethnicity to cleanse anyway even if you were inclined.

Now, taking off the kids gloves and leveling towns/cities against the combatant's/Scum I could get behind. Until we're ready to accept hundreds of thousands of dead Civilians caught in the crossfire, I don't think we'll ever get rid of the rot.

Posted by Charles 2017-05-14 05:12|| 2017-05-14 05:12|| Front Page Top

#3 I most certainly don't agree with that ethnically cleansing bit Grom.

I repeat. The notion of "ethnic cleansing" is a modern invention used (solely) as a stick to beat their opponents* by Tranzi elites. In 1948, nobody would say a word.
For that matter, doesn't the Tranzi's beloved program for "Israeli-Palestinian Peace" implicitly includes ethnic cleansing of Jews from Judea & Samaria?

We've seen it. It is beyond horror.

We see it every day - just pay attention to newspapers. I don't notice particular horror - except when it done by people "we" don't like anyway.

* Ask all the Serbs who used to live in Kosovo. Or, Christians who used to live in Iraq. Or Russians who used to live in 'stans.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-14 05:59|| 2017-05-14 05:59|| Front Page Top

#4 In those days there was no Palestinian identity, Charles, but there definitely was an Arab one, Muslim and Christian alike. And given that the Jews were ethnically cleansed from the Muslim world, including as far away as Pakistan, in the 1950s, it would have been fair to insist on a fuller exchange of populations, as happened in India/Pakistan. As it was, an unknown number of Jews were killed in the process, some 600,000-800,000 made it to Israel, and the rest scattered, mostly to Europe and North America. We had a nice little population of Persian Jews in Buffalo, NY when I was a girl, who'd moved there after finding Montreal (they all spoke French, too) entirely too cold.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-05-14 06:07|| 2017-05-14 06:07|| Front Page Top

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