Recent content by Wardw

sounds like a great way to get a marine haircut from the neck up. No... can't say I would like a blade whoop whooping just above the old grey matter.

NO, not destroy itself, I have never advocated that. If only they would go back to the pre 1967 borders, that would solve most of the problems overnight.

Yea, and I'm surprised that the hate mail has not started yet. I've said it before, there is a difference between being anti semitic and anti Israeli.

Too true Smurf, but I put that down to what I call "cultural intelligence". By that I mean that people at that time were far more naive as a culture than we are today.

No I meant 4 soldiers to protect every resident, hence the high cost

thank you for echoing my words Smurf. So I am not a mad voice in the wilderness after all :smile:

You know Arildno, I've thought a lot about this issue and it seems that a lot of otherwise good people got caught up in supporting something that they would normally not have done. I think that peer group pressure and the mob instinct both had a hand in it. I have come to the conclusion that...

Never a truer word spoken. However I don't think that they are "giving". Sharon himself said that this was to reduce military spending..I read that the ratio was 4 soldiers to one resident.

Who knows. I'm not Brasilian :smile:

No, most of it belongs to Israel now. I said that it belongED (past tense) to someone else at the time it was "settled". Something that you acknowledged in an earlier post

Tell that to the refugees in camps scattered around neighbouring countries that will never be allowed back into the land in which they were born.

And I did not say I viewed it as illegitimate to exist. It exists and will continue to do so. I said that I doubted that it should heve been allowed to come into existence.

So you are saying that all persecuted peoples over the course of history have a "god given" right to stake a claim wherever they wish. Where do I fill in the forms.

Well, if it was an empire, decaying or not, does that not mean that it belonged to someone else??

Ok let's throw this into the ring and see who bites. Firstly, I am not anti semetic, let's get that clear. But after following this issue since the late 70's, I have come to the conclusion that perhaps Israel should never have been allowed to come into existence. Truman was not a great...