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I'm sorry, how is Israel a terrorist regime? Aren't they the only democratic nation in the mideast right now? Shouldn't they be the standard for what we want the middle east to become? Because I've got an idea for you how to stop those countries.
Zionists blow up Palestinian houses at the rate of at least one per day. They are comitting an illegal occupation and genocide in Palestine. They are building a wall of appartheid to help them theive Palestinian lands. They force barbaric war on a people who can scarcely defend themselves and must often sacrifice their own lives just to fight back. They blockade the west bank and Gaza strip and thus about half of all Palestinian children suffer from malnourishment. They posess horrible weapons of mass destruction. They bomb large urban areas leaving nothing but craters and shattered lives. They steal land from their neighbors. They imprison people from their own country and others without trial. They currently hold over 7000 Palestinian citizens with no rights or way to freedom. They routinely torture their prisoners. They fire on crowds of unarmed Palestinian patriots. They use helicopter gunships, and fighter jets against an enemy with no air force. They use tanks and armored personnel carriers against an enemy who has none. All Israeli citizens upon reaching the age of eighteen are required to participate in the horrendous murder of Palestinians. Failure to join the zionist forces means indeterminate imprisonment.
That sounds like a hell of a terrorist regime.
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Instead of invading Iraq, we put soldiers around every single oil reserve. If the natives come along, we say, "Sorry, these are ours now. You want money? You want food? You want to live? Do what Israel did. Use science, use irrigation, start farming, start turning the land from brown to green, start living off yourself. Then that makes us and them less dependent on all, and they have a much better chance of starting a civilized nation. They say the borders of Israel are clear on the earth and not just on the map. Israel ends when the green stops. So make the rest of the area green, and maybe they'll be like Israel, and that would be a helluva blow to terrorists.
So you're suggesting that rather than invading Iraq we storm into every other middle east nation, steal their natural resources and impose a system of government on them? Are you a member of George Bush's cabinet? Do you have any idea how immoral that is? Do you realize that no man would stand for that to happen to his country? If we did that every soldier we sent over there would find his post to be his tomb and I would not shed one tear for it. I'd call that justice.
Are you calling muslims uncivilized? Come on that's ignorant. They're just as civilized as you or I. Sure there are crazy muslims who think women should be covered in blankets at all times but we have chauvinists here too. Sure there are muslims who think the US should be a smoking crater but there are just as many Americans who think the rest of the fugging world should be a smoking crater. Muslims are not uncivilized and the two most un-democratic governments in the Islamic world (egypt and Saudi arabia, whose injustices spawns the Al Qaeda movement) are the 3rd and 2nd biggest receivers of US military aid after Israel. I have a great deal of trouble trying to say that Israel ahs the right to exist as a nation after all the horrible crimes they've committed but I think if their government would forgo racism and genocide and start acting civilized that they'd be making a step in the right direction. Until that day comes though I will hope every night that the valiant struggle for Palestinian sovereignty is continued.