Israel: "in the Habit of Stealing Land From Neighboring Countries"
This is such a shameless misuse of the Urban Legend.
The Author's statement is clearly and demonstrably false.
History, Maps and the facts show the exact opposite.
Israel is the one who's land has been stolen.
Repeatedly.
Bulldozing a terrorist's home and kicking them out of the
country does not constitute stealing anything.
A good online overview of the facts on this topic are here:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths2/mftoc.html
This covers the timeline from 1897, when the idea of
a modern day Israel first really gelled...
To the Mandatory period, covering the critical years of
1917, 1918 and 1922.
Then to the partition and War of Independence, leading
up to 1948.
Etc.
At no time did Israel 'steal' anything.
In fact, Israel lost over 90% of her internationally
recognized land between 1917 and 1948, and
got nothing, nothing at all in return.
linnabary51 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bob conveniently neglects to mention that Switzerland is not in the
habit of stealing land from neighboring countries on a daily basis.
Israel, OTOH, doesn't even recognize the people from whom they are stealing.
Hence, war is "imposed" upon them.
Israel refuses to recognize the humanity of the residents of Samaria or Judea,
except those of a certain folk religion.
Simply granting the right to vote (in a so-called democracy) to the residents
of these two areas would undoubtedly go a long way toward making them "advanced
and civilized people".
PEACE
Steve
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>From: Bob Giramma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Jun 9, 2008 1:27 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Libertarian] Stop the War FOR Terror
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>I read elsewhere the US loses many points for its quasi-police state policies
>associated with the wars. That's typical of all nations at war, as they
>tighten up security in response to threats -- both real and perceived. For
>example, Israel would be ranked far higher if they didn't have war imposed on
>them every day of their existence. Switzerland is fortunate to be surrounded
>by advanced and civilized people these days, making freedom a lot easier.
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>From: Peter
>Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 6:36 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Libertarian] Stop the War FOR Terror
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>And if you look at the Indiividual Freedom rank, US is down at 19.... and
>several are tied at higher levels, so its 19th rank, not even 19th country.
>Not very imporessive!
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Bob Giramma
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:57 PM
>Subject: Re: [Libertarian] Stop the War FOR Terror
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>It looks like the US does quite well in the liberty rankings:
>http://www.stateofworldliberty.org/report/rankings.html
>http://www.freetheworld.com/ef_map.html
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>The Middle East Muslim nations, not so well.
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>Switzerland has conscription military service.
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>From: Peter
>Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:13 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Libertarian] Stop the War FOR Terror
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Bob Giramma
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 9:42 PM
>Subject: Re: [Libertarian] Stop the War FOR Terror
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>Yeah, Patriot act... Not to mention how foreigners are treated. Guantanamo
>Bay? Waterboarding? Need I go on? You are looking through some very heavily
>fogged glasses here. Look at freedom rankings etc. The US not only is not at
>the top, but is going down the list in recent years. You should be looking at
>Switzerland and others instead.
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