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« on: December 31, 2014, 10:08:26 PM »

Palestine to join the International Criminal Court. This could be huge.
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« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2014, 10:48:22 PM »

The fact that the USA and Israel are threatening "crippling sanctions" in response to this is very telling. Is there was any real interest in establishing a two-state solution this would not be the case.

But in the minds of the Neo-Zionist Israeli right there is not two state concept, only God's Master Race expanding their Living-Space to the East and expelling the Undesirables.
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« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2014, 10:54:56 PM »

I don't think much happens with this... Bibi rages against the Palestinian machine Lieberman pivots back to the right after his failed move to the center, Abbas maybe gets some street credibility.

Now if he presses charges, then all hell may break loose...
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« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2014, 11:49:58 PM »

He has nothing to lose. The European countries he wants to capture Israeli soldiers and politicians for him, though...they have a lot to lose. And they're not going to be willing to play along with his grandstanding.
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« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2015, 03:20:39 AM »

Dear god...
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« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2015, 10:31:16 AM »

This may not the best way to get peace... but with Israel's current leader, it might be the only way at present.
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« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2015, 02:21:00 PM »

This may not the best way to get peace... but with Israel's current leader, it might be the only way at present.

Yeah hard to blame the Palestinians that they try their best using all the diplomatic tools, they can find, when the other side don't want peace (at least not a peace which include Palestina as anything other than a Bantustan... if the Palestinians are lucky).
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« Reply #7 on: January 01, 2015, 05:25:35 PM »

Excited to see the leaders of the Palestinian Authority convicted.
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« Reply #8 on: January 01, 2015, 05:37:30 PM »

Excited to see the leaders of the Palestinian Authority convicted.

Please, we all know this is a rigged game.
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« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2015, 05:38:00 PM »

Excited to see the leaders of the Palestinian Authority convicted.

Of what? General incompetence and a proclivity to keep one hand in the cookie jar at all times? Pretty sure that doesn't make one a war criminal in the way that a government-sanctioned military barbequing children to a crisp by the hundreds does.
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« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2015, 10:44:21 PM »

Excited to see the leaders of the Palestinian Authority convicted.

Of what? General incompetence and a proclivity to keep one hand in the cookie jar at all times? Pretty sure that doesn't make one a war criminal in the way that a government-sanctioned military barbequing children to a crisp by the hundreds does.
Don't feed the trolls.
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« Reply #11 on: January 02, 2015, 08:01:12 AM »

Personally the lot of them on both sides need to grow up.
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« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2015, 03:08:50 PM »

Waiting on equivocation from Vosem et al about the Israeli settlers who attacked US consulate employees in the West Bank.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/01/02/u_s_diplomats_attacked_by_rock_throwing_jewish_settlers_in_the_west_bank.html

Thank goodness they didn't have anything more dangerous than rocks or we'd have Benghazi II. (The rock throwing suggests they've been living in the West Bank too long and are starting to turn into Palestinians. Better go back to Israel before the men start wearing kafiyahs and the women trade in their wigs for hijabs.)
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« Reply #13 on: January 02, 2015, 06:00:21 PM »

Rocks can be pretty dangerous... just ask Goliath.
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« Reply #14 on: January 03, 2015, 08:18:52 PM »

Personally the lot of them on both sides need to grow up.

One side shoots dead multiple unarmed children per month, props up illegal settlements on foreign land while bulldozing away residential areas, established a naval blockade in response to an election, has citizens who have picnics while watching civilian centers getting bombed, and treats Christians and Muslims in the country as effective second-class citizens.

The other side launches a few bottle rockets into the country every couple of years, which are either shot down by a missile defense shield funded by American taxpayers, or land in uninhabited desert.

Clearly both sides are just naughty kids on the playground.
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« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2015, 11:20:24 AM »

Some bottles.

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« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2015, 11:40:28 AM »


Well yes, I used a bit of hyperbole. But regardless, the war last summer may as well have been a war between slingshots and cannons.
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« Reply #17 on: January 07, 2015, 08:46:53 AM »

If your enemy has cannons, it's pretty stupid to go after their kids with slingshots.
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« Reply #18 on: January 07, 2015, 05:30:48 PM »

If your enemy has cannons, it's pretty stupid to go after their kids with slingshots.

And even dumber to lie down and let them blast you away anyway.
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« Reply #19 on: January 08, 2015, 10:05:53 AM »

Well let's just say if I was in the shoes of the Palestinians, I would do things differently.
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