gmol - 2012-05-31
Generally not a fan of spoken word...but it was nice hearing in a different accent.
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baleen - 2012-05-31
In comparing the lies taught in both Israeli and Palestinian textbooks it's by no means off the cuff to ask either population why they are raised to hate. It's pretty characteristic of new nations to have racism sewn into the character of their nation's birth as a means of building national identity (Palestine was a backwater slave state until last century, after all), and I'd be the last to say the Jews are any different.
When Noam Chomsky insinuates that Israel is trying to "slouch toward a holocaust of the Palestinian people" it's not really helping, either. It's completely false. It's a sad intellectual game for their (Finkelstein, Chomsky, that attorney that conducted the circus in Malaysia finding Bush guilty of war crimes, and so many others) own glorification and amusement with little concern for the actual safety of either nation, and that's why I get so angry.
I get angry because I'm curious about why there is so much interest in "defending Palestine" when it is obviously so much more complicated and involves all the world's major powers. The Palestinian Authority has used a billion dollars to fatten up a corrupt autocracy controlled by foreign thugs, and to point this out is met with accusations that one has been conditioned by Fox News or ZOG or something. Palestinians themselves will argue against the excesses of the PLO/PA... but alas, the road to peace is blocked only by "Zionists," (a word itself steeped in complexity and a varied history) even though the vast majority of Israelis are against the kinds of horrible behavior that certain users on this website feel inclined to post as a matter of habit (or issue of the week or whatever the motivator is).
It's suspicious to me. That's all.
I promise I'll stop responding to it.
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memedumpster - 2012-05-31 You're not helping Israel.
http://www.logicalfallacies.info/
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HarrietTubmanPI - 2012-05-31 *correction, Israel will deny they do anything wrong.
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poorwill - 2012-06-01 baleen, it's like this: when somebody tells you that the democrats are corrupt and in the pockets of business, you can't help but agree, right? But then they tell you that that's why they're voting republican you go whaaaaaaaaaat??????? Because that's dumb. And that's how you are on Israel/Palestine.
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baleen - 2012-06-01 Poorwill, that's absolutely nothing like what I'm like on the issues of Israel/Palestine.
The only thing I am "like" is not really liking or respecting the way Gomorrah approaches important issues that I care about, whether it be Israel-Palestine or his views on American military service overseas, issues he supposedly cares about on this website. This is a vastly complex set of issues with no big bad guy. The story can be framed in a variety outcomes dependent upon what timelines you choose to frame the issue in and which historical figures you wish you highlight.
For the record, I met Rachel Corrie at school a few times and thought she was a passionate and sweet girl who did not deserve to be run over by lunatic Orthodox Jewish tractors. My great aunt was also a "Zionist" who saved a thousand Jews from the concentration camps while working for FDR, and it's difficult for me, both personally and in the vein of actual historical evidence, to consider her in the ways that so many of you seem all to willing to paint her and people like her without a shred of understanding, or at least not without a biased understanding, of all the many details involved in this stuff.
I also have little respect for Finkelstein as a lecturer, academic or a human being, and find he attracts an irritating contingent among leftists who's motivations for getting involved in the Palestine/Israel issue in the first place are suspicious to me and likely disingenuous or superficial at best. He attracts the worst attention from rightwing Jews while drumming up the tempers of the most vapid and hypocritical factions of the international socialist Left.
I also fucking hate spoken word and I five-starred this for evil.
The end.
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Oscar Wildcat - 2012-05-31
The PO-Estinians have responded to the Baleen Occupation with a volley of Scolding Liberal Guilt missiles!
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baleen - 2012-06-01 Drawing upon the Bal-four Declaration I must respectively decline. Any further attempts at "peace talks" between our vested parties must be preempted by the complete disarmament and withdrawal of the Gomorifitadan terrorists, who bring great shame to POE-istine and to the promise of mutual understanding and peace, and, ultimately, a unified and strong POE-istinian nation-state.
Until innocent Palestinians are no longer used as human shields to make a spoiled college student seem radical in a sexual kind of way the Concord will remain that all volleys from the hills of Gomorrah will likely be met in kind with heavy bombardments of Ninja Cop II ordinance.
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svraz - 2012-06-01 "Until innocent Palestinians are no longer used as human shields to make a spoiled college student seem radical in a sexual kind of way" This. This speaks volumes about you and your understanding of this subject.
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Fezren - 2012-06-01
What a shitty poem.
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Maru - 2012-06-01
spoken word.
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Riskbreaker - 2012-06-01
Can't these people just solve their problems with a pokemon duel, and call it a day?
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cognitivedissonance - 2012-06-01 Palestine would bring out a Pidgie and Israel would use a cheat code anyway.
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cognitivedissonance - 2012-06-01
I can say, with genuine honesty, that I have literally no opinion on Israel/Palestine whatsoever. It might as well be on the moon.
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HarrietTubmanPI - 2012-06-01 That area is the Balkan Powder Keg of our generation.
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Riskbreaker - 2012-06-01 Most of Israel looks like the moon already, nothing but rocks and more rocks.
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Maru - 2012-06-01 nothing but moon rocks
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Riskbreaker - 2012-06-02 No deal, McCutcheon, that moon money is mine!
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