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Bomb Isreal Not Iraq
Isreal has a long history of illegal military actions, massacres, genocide and its own apartheid system that makes 50's south africa look positively liberal.
Its a kafka-esque nightmare where palestinians are detained without charge, or trial and with no evidence.
The isreali mentallity is so out of touch that they accuse belgium of being anti-semetics just for allowing Ariel Sharon to be tried for genocide - apparently its ok for Isreal to do the same to foreigners for crimes against jews (and execute them) but not okay for jews to be tried for known atrocities. How can the US forgive and forget the US ship that isreali fighters straffed and bombed, killing the entire crew to cover up intercepted radio transmissions about the massacre of palestinian civillians by the isreali armed forces.
Or is it a BUG?"
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Source ? (Score:1)
Ignoring the blatent trolling for a moment, what's your source for the last paragraph ?
Re:Sources? plenty! (Score:1)
google for USS Liberty.
This isn't a troll. I am serious when I say that Isreal is a far bigger danger in the middle east than Iraq.
Iraq is only a danger to Isreal and possibly Kuwait - neither has a better Human Rights or Denmocracy record than Iraq - They just happen to be US Allies.
Desteroying Isreals military infrastructure and weapons of mass destruction would bring peace far quicker than bombing iraq - so bombing isreal makes more sense than bombing
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Re:Sources? plenty! (Score:1)
Interesting. I hadn't heard about that.
As a matter of accuracy however, since this page will end up getting indexed somewhere, I feel obliged to point out that (a) the entire crew was not killed as some crew members are quoted extensively in the article; and (b) the US covered it up themselves as there was an election coming so it's hardly in their interest to make much of a fuss about it now.
BTW - It's not that I disagree with you on the need to deal with Israel's breach of UN resolutions. Oh and we coul
Time and Place (Score:1)
Firstly there is the matter of YAPC::Isreal and the isreali perl monger groups. How would we deal with other pariah nations that are involved in perl like North Korea, Zimbabwe or Iraq?
Then there is the matter of Isreal being a big-hitter in the IT industry - the IT industry and the perl community is part of that - cannot just ignore the actions of Isreal when.
Look at how academia is dealing with isreals actions - boycotts and brushing under
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As you wish (Score:1)
Best just to get rid of perl all together then !
If you're a USian of a certain viewpoint, you want YAPC::Europe canned [perl.org].
Some might boycott YAPC::NA for the American handling of military aid to Columbia [monbiot.com].
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter etc etc.
Perl is above all this. Since I've been involved with perl I've met so many interesting people from all over the world with many different views and cultures. As individuals we all have our part to play in the world, but perl is independent of it
Re:As you wish (Score:1)
The people on use.perl are on the whole intelligent - if we don't agree on which templating system to use there is no reason to agree on politics.
Intelligent disscussion is better than boycotts or heads in the sand. I don't see a problem with pointing out that the gains from bombing isreal rather than iraq would be greater.
I don't support bombing of any nation, regardless of its regime or people. I was against the bombing of kosovo and I;m against the bombing of iraq.
I believe we nee
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Re:Sources? plenty! (Score:2)
I was going to correct this but I see you already did. I thought I'd mention that we had one of the surviving crew members speak at a military function when I was stationed at Fort Meade. Now *there* was a man who hated Israel.
In case anyone is wondering *why* they attacked our ship, it was an attempt to draw us into the Yom Kippur War. Israel was rather pissed that we weren't
Re:Sources? plenty! (Score:1)
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Re:Sources? plenty! (Score:2)
Oh, and wacking prisoners is hardly something that's unique to Israel. Happens in almost every war on every side.
Re:Sources? plenty! (Score:1)
I seem to recall Iraq starting a war with Iran and using chemical weapons in that war. So, Iraq is a danger to more than Kuwait and Israel.
Saudi Arabia was quite concerned when Iraq swept into Kuwait that they would keep going and occupy their country as well. It was only quick military build up by the Americans and European allies that prevented thi
Re:Sources? plenty! (Score:1)
Saudi arabia had more than enough military might to handle Iraq. It buys more than the entire iraqi army every couple of years for gods sake. That and the oil are why America pretends not to notice the absence of democracy or human rights.
As for human rights - Kuwait is no democracy and has many human rights issues - do you americans no
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Pet Peeve (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:Pet Peeve (Score:2)
Middle Eastern Affairs (Score:3, Interesting)
First, s/isreal/israel/ig;. Please. It's a pet peeve of mine too.
A statement like this shows you have absolutely no understanding of the last hundred years of history in the Middle East region. The problem isn't presence of a few Jews in the third holiest shrine in Islam. It isn't the unfair oppression of some arabs without a homeland. It's that there are western infidels making a home in the region. If it wasn't the "Zionists in Israel", someone else would be the great satan. If it wasn't the atrocities committed against the Palestinians, it would be the attrocities commited against someone else, somewhere else. Oh, and bombing and gasing an already oppressed Kurdish minority is somehow morally justifiable? Have you ever met a Kurd? If that's the basis of your rationale for bombing Israel, why doesn't someone just declare war on the greater part of South America, Africa, and Asia?The rights promised by the US Constitution are by no means universal. Canada does not have a right to free speech. Should the enlightened nations of the world embargo Canada's trade until they see the light?
If this is a kafka-esque nightmare to you, then you must be living in some alternate reality where the US has annexed the entire world, and guaranteed a basic right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to every person on this planet. Protest all you want, but there is no reason why Israel, Iraq or Tahiti needs to provide a swift, speedy and fair trial by jury so the accused can face his accusers.
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Re:Middle Eastern Affairs (Score:1)
There are plenty of extremists and terrorists around the world that are not linked to the middle east - the ETA of basque, the Loyalist and Republican Terror Groups in Ireland, Nazi's and Fascists in the US, UK and Europe as well as the terror groups involve
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Re:Middle Eastern Affairs (Score:2)
Your point is neither obvious, nor clear, nor well thought out. It is certainly not justified nor is it well argued.
You provide no justification for this stance. You also fail to prove that bombing Israel would do anything to further the cause of world peace. If anything, it
Re:Middle Eastern Affairs (Score:1)
The point is obvious - Iraq is just another dictatorship along with N Korea, Burma, China, etc. Isreal is a real danger to peace in the middle east and world wide.
If we are going to bomb a country for being a despotic regime we should bomb china, Zimbabwe, Burma and many other equally appalling
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Re:Middle Eastern Affairs (Score:2)
Hey, ziggy, you might want to try that line when the US stops detaining people without charge or trial and with no evidence...
Re:Middle Eastern Affairs (Score:2)
Touche, but I still stand by my point. Moral outrage that some nation or locale does not uphold the US Constitution is not a reason to start lobbing bombs in their general direction. It's irrelevant whether that regime is the Israeli government, the Iraqi government, the Detroit Police department, the US government or the kingdom of Outer Foobaristan.
War is serious business.