Israel

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I wish that when people comment on the current situation regarding Israel and the Palestinians that they would actually comment on the current situation rather than a garbled version of the situation sixty years ago.

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Anyway, Bavaria was not the traditional home of the Jewish people (in Europe, that was Poland).

Well, Fürth sort-of was on a small scale.

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Otherwise, if we continue in this way, Xahar said it, we could see apocalypse.

Hmm...? things aren't great, but they're better than a few years ago, surely?

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This board isn't part of my little empire, so I can't have deleted it.

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One of the curious things about this issue is the way it seems to cause otherwise reasonable people (or at least people who normally appear to be capable of being reasonable) to think and say things that they would, probably, find disgusting in just about any other context.

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See how the troll works. Unusually impressive for Straha, though this is probably an easier subject than most to get people to take leave of their senses.

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What? Is it trolling to note that despite the fact that they committed the holocaust, Germany didn't see any of it's land carved out for a jewish state while the arabs in Palestine lost their homeland to accomodate the fleeing jews?

Amusing that silly things like that can pass off as arguments on the internets.

(btw, you blew whatever cover for your trolling on this thread that you might have had with "it was one of the smaller genocides of the 20th century". And the playing of the racism card was a little too blatant).

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Olmert needs successes at the moment. Failing that he needs things that look like they might be.

Here's a list of reasons why...

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Bump.  If no coalition is formed, when will the next elections be held?

Early next year, probably. But the chances of a new coalition are pretty small now.

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It's also obviously "narrow" in practice when you have more than, say, two partners in the coalition bed...

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That map is extremely dishonest as there was no "Palestinian land" (a term that's a little too emotionally loaded for my tastes, but it's the one used) in the period 1949-1967; the Gaza strip was occupied by Egypt, while the West Bank and East Jerusalem was occupied by Jordan. And the first map is misleading as well; it's either land-ownership or estimates of the largest group, not formal boundaries.

But, of course, the point is not to enlighten, the point is propaganda.