Not arguing the israel thing again. You may not be religious, but if all of the "non religious jews" in israel are as sided as you are, then you're right - it sounds pretty equal over there.
Explain to you what it has to do with oil? Sure, but you can't attack my reading comprehension skills just for having an opinion afterwards. That doesn't seem fair :) US gives money to Arabs for oil. A LOT of it. US gives weapons to Israel. A LOT of it. Because the Arabs are in conflict with Israel, they spend that money on weapons to keep up with Israel's arsenal. If Israel and the Arabs were at peace with each other, setting their small issues aside and becoming one people - Israel wouldn't need that many weapons to defend itself, and there wouldn't be such a need for the arabs to purchase so many weapons. That money would instead be spent on things like - oh I don't know - maybe living in things other than shacks? Eventually their people would liberate and be able to catch up with modern science/medicine/industry/and everything else that makes us all so rich. They might even have a use for all that oil they send us. Oh wait, we don't want to have to beg them for that, and we want to put them into a position where they have to sell it to us for cheap. Better keep that conflict going. I know this is a very simplistic, high level view of it, and that people would rather focus on it from a micro scale - (suitcase bombs, retaliating with missiles, etc), but it's impossible to look at it from that level forever. Adam. > -----Original Message----- > From: BethF [mailto:dawg@;alaska.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:39 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Robotic assassinations. > > > > And Mike, to bring up Israel, and then use this as > justification for > what > > they do is wrong. Your words were something along the > lines of "All > right - > > Israel has been doing this all along. Now don't you see > we are right?" > > > > This bears repeating since you keep bringing up Israel: > > There is no difference between Israelis and Palestinians > other than > their > > religion - this is why the world doesn't really do > anything about it, > and > > just sits back in disgust. > > I will repeat to you again, the same thing I said last time > you made this > ignorant statement. The majority of Israelis are NOT ANY > RELIGION. I posted > all kinds of references to show you that they aren't any > religion. I cannot > understand your insistance that they are a religion, when > they say they > aren't a religion. I AM NOT ANY RELIGION. I am a jew by > birth. And the > palestinians still hate me. > > > The fact that they're still at war over something > > that most people stopped fighting for hundreds of years > ago is in fact > > disgusting. To continue on and try to make up other > reasons is silly and > > ignorant. If nobody was blatantly religious, nobody would > know who to > kill. > > I begin to wonder if you have reading comprehension problems. > The jews in > israel are definitely NOT BLATANTLY religious. They eat pork > on yom kippur. > > > > The hardline religion stops, the violence stops. The fact > that you're > > willing to die just because you're so attached to your > religious beliefs > is > > your choice, and somewhat respectable, but don't expect > the rest of the > > world to support that. Shooting people with rockets is > TEMPORARY; in the > > long term it's just more fuel to the fire. Lightening up > your religious > > beliefs, and not discriminating against the people who > have conflicting > > religious beliefs will fix it. Since that won't happen > with either the > Jew's > > or the Muslim's, then you'll just have to keep killing > each other. Just > > because one side uses sophisticated technology doesn't > make it right. I > know > > you'll say it's the Arabs who are instigating and that you're just > trying to > > live in peace, but they're saying the same thing about you. > > > > You should also know that the US is taking advantage of > the situation > over > > there - how you still don't see this is beyond me. > Confilct in that > region > > is what keeps the US in control of the precious oil. > Without conflict, > that > > region might *gasp* prosper, and actually establish itself. > > > Explain to me exactly how conflict keeps the US in control of > oil in the > middle east? What exactly does the war between the > palestinians and the > israelis have to do with oil? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
