I can't agree that the aggression was unjustified. Generally speaking, wouldn't you agree that appropriating other people's land without their consent is wrong? And that's what happened when Israel was formed via the UNSCOP. The seeds of future conflict were planted when the Balfour agreement was si...

I don't know if I'd say bad guys all the way down. There's a really good candidate in the cabinet, we just need to get rid of 4 more people after Trump and Pence.

Being the party of "No" isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Everyone's favorite Dane has a kid now. He's a cutey-pie.

There are all sorts of problems with establishing land ownership in this situation; the main point I'm trying to make is that Jews had rightful claims to own and control land in this area. I don't know why anyone would deny that. From the limited amount I know about it, many of the people there did...

Honetly, I'm hopping that Pence is is implicated and impeaced. Then I hope Ryan chokes on his own tongue, Orrin Hatch is run over by a bus, Rex Tillerson's asshole prolapses and kills him, then Steven Mcunin dies.

That'll be perfect.

While we are on the Subject of the Bedouin, there is one good observation of the growth of the Wahhabi sect. The Wahhabis, as fundamentalists, strongly curtailed the raiding of Caravans, which may have made travel and trade in the middle-east much safer. On the other hand, they replaced this with th...

Lady, can you not read? The sections of Palestine that are "desert" are found in the Negev, and the Jordan valley mountainshadow. And these were the areas with the least ownership by Jews? In fact, the majority of land ownership was in the regions along the coastal ranges, the lands that w...

The geographical region known as Palestine has been recognized, historically, for almost 2000 years. But even if we DIDN'T want to use what could be a debatable point, there's a much simpler place to start. Mandatory Palestine. Mandatory Palestine itself was formed from several ottoman territories, ...

Clinging as I do to the hope that two pussybows worn to two debates, plus more events later, cannot possibly be a coincidence, I wonder if all this stuff coming out in the media now is why Melania has kept such a distance. I seem to be the only one of my friends who has much respect for her decisio...

Again, the Jews in 46 owned less than 10% of the total land in palestine. UNSCOP granted them closer to 55%. Hence the inherent rejection of it: Taking away land from Arabs who had lived in that land for decades, even centuries, to give it to europeans who had only recently arrived, is an act of agg...

Trump's ties to russia are distracting you from the truth. The truth? Our political process is deeply, perhaps fatally, flawed and corrupt. After the most expensive political campaign in our history, we were faced with choices between two horrible candidates, as evidenced by their approval ratings. ...

What is a moral good though? And what level of happiness is accepted? Generally, I find it best to err on the side of non coercion. If your actions do not trouble me, if they do not inflict financial harm, or provable mental or physical harm, then I have no right to constrain your actions. While sim...

If I could, sure. I am in no position to do that, however.

Again, the "jewish presence throughout the millenia" was around 3% of the population in the region in dispute. It was the mass immigration of Ashkhanazi jews during the Mandate, combined with their zionist ideal of establishing a jewish state. And they could have done that in numerous plac...

But "denying people food and water" is a mischaracterization of what is happening, unless you're blaming LOTS of people for this situation, including the Palestinian leadership! You blame only Israel. You cherry pick the most extreme and false examples, and fallaciously assume they point ...

IF you deny food and water to people, you are killing them. Simple as that. I can't believe you don't understand that.

And you STILL keep trying to make me a supporter of the Apostates. Which i am not. Sorry.

Also, what exactly is Israel's claim to the land? Why do they have the right to drive the people who lived there(Jaffa?) out, and move in?

Why exactly is this a "defensive war", when they invaded? Hmmm?

Hey, what about those Yemeni children, again?