tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post2538781087904707685..comments2024-03-18T16:10:41.673-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: ISIS: “move quickly to pressure its entire ‘nervous system’, break it up, and destroy its pieces.”Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69623429022173705662014-08-22T22:44:02.665-04:002014-08-22T22:44:02.665-04:00___ http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/18801/hama...___ http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/18801/hamas-gets-rich-people-gaza-starve/#aGsDoC0Q2DPdFi4A.97<br />Hamas Gets Rich as People of Gaza Starve<br /><br />___ http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/talking/62_Blockade.html<br />Fact Sheets:<br />Israel's "Blockade" of Gaza<br />(Updated August 2014)<br /><br />“Since the establishment of Hamas in the early 1990's, they have been known to Israel as violent antisemitic terrorists and have been classified by 7 countries as a terrorist organization. After Hamas won the election Israel and "The Quartet on the Middle East" (US, Russia, UN, EU) imposed economic sanctions on Gaza, including the cessation of foreign aid to the Palestinian government, and restrictions on movement, imposed by Israel. In order to lift these economic sanctions and movement restrictions, Hamas must: renounce violence against Israel, recognize Israel, and honor all previous agreeemnts between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Following the Battle of Gaza in June 2007 in which Hamas militarilly defeated Fatah, both Israel and Egypt heavily tightened their respective border crossings, creating a "blockade". This blockade includes a naval blockade. So far Hamas has not conceeded to these stipulations, and the blockade is still in place.”<br /><br /><br />___ http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-to-send-aid-to-gaza-via-egypt/<br />Iran to send aid to Gaza via Egypt<br /><br />“The source said a first Iranian Red Crescent shipment of 100 tons of medicine and food would be flown “soon” to Cairo. ‘The package weighs 100 tonnes and consists of food and medication,’ IRNA quoted the source as saying.”<br /><br />If 80 tons of contraband is not discovered hidden in baby formula (rocket propellant and explosives) and if the canned goods do not have a diameter identical to rockets, all should go well. Of course, the amount stolen by Hamas operatives or taxed by the Hamas government is outside the control of both Egypt and Israel.<br />allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83512374641910876132014-08-22T16:21:04.765-04:002014-08-22T16:21:04.765-04:00.
Someday -- Mark Knopfler
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Someday
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Eric Clapton put out a pretty good album with v....<br /><br />Eric Clapton put out a pretty good album with various artists singing J.J. Cole songs but when I started listening to them it quickly became obvious that there is nothing like the original.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA4xWonmMD0" rel="nofollow">Lean on Me</a><br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-66511773118483807962014-08-22T16:02:45.132-04:002014-08-22T16:02:45.132-04:00.
Magnolia
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Well, gee whiz, Ash.
I didn't think you no....<br /><br />Well, gee whiz, Ash.<br /><br />I didn't think you noticed.<br /><br />:o)<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57693001047639115452014-08-22T15:43:10.558-04:002014-08-22T15:43:10.558-04:00.
Sorry us jews just didn't allow hitler to k....<br /><br /><i>Sorry us jews just didn't allow hitler to kill all of us for your pleasure.</i><br /><br />Once again, you raise your stupid straw man.<br /><br />The article painted a realistic portrait of the situation on the ground in Israel/Palestine, IMO. History backs it up. I agree totally with the premise of the article. I have been saying the same things here for a long time. The article was objective and didn't take sides. Merely stated the facts.<br /><br />Your straw man is the typical reactions of a partisan. The exact opposite is what I would expect from a Palestinian or from one of the proponents of their cause.<br /><br />I read the following this morning,<br /><br />http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/08/21/like-isis-and-al-qaeda-hamas-is-fair-game/<br /><br />It's an article out of <i>Commentary</i> that justifies the assassinations of the 3 Hamas leaders. It spells out the arguments you post here every day. I would imagine that the author speaks for the majority of the Israeli people and especially so for the leadership.<br /><br />Now, the killings may provide a boost for Israeli morale. They may be perfectly justified. Similar ones will no doubt continue. In the short, run they may be a significant step forward for the Israelis. However, as noted in the article and a point I agree with, in the long run it will make very little difference. Tomorrow, these guys will be replaced. If Israel takes out the entire Hamas organization, it will be replaced by IJ or some other group and the bloody ritual will continue.<br /><br />It's like that Star Trek episode were the two guys, one white on the left side and black on the right, fights continuously throughout eternity with his chromatic opposite.<br /><br />No picking of sides in the observation just merely stating my opinion.<br /><br />Any arguments you try to make are diminished by your use of straw men. That too is my opinion.<br /><br />. <br /><br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75509424702409171992014-08-22T15:42:03.763-04:002014-08-22T15:42:03.763-04:00let’s play some musiclet’s play some musicDeuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48244662104150054582014-08-22T15:38:17.797-04:002014-08-22T15:38:17.797-04:00...and you believe with all your Judaic fervor th......and you believe with all your Judaic fervor that your team will make the Palestinians disappear? Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51786874820056133842014-08-22T15:21:06.122-04:002014-08-22T15:21:06.122-04:00Quirk,
I was going to preface the post with somet...Quirk,<br /><br />I was going to preface the post with something like "A homage to Quirk" or "Quirk's doppelganger" but I didn't want you to get a swelled head.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12565356629179774422014-08-22T15:03:29.104-04:002014-08-22T15:03:29.104-04:00No country has ever succeeded in maintaining an ex...No country has ever succeeded in maintaining an exclusive military technological advantage. Israel will not be the first.<br /><br /> Israel has distinguished herself as being utterly diplomatically inept. Tone deaf, arrogant and an incomprehensible ability to deny what is obvious to most of the World; Its brand of God given entitlement at the price of denying basic human rights and dignity to the majority that surrounds it guarantees a shelf life ending before expected expiration date.<br /><br />Good luck with that.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19291872443411924152014-08-22T14:48:28.301-04:002014-08-22T14:48:28.301-04:00Ethiopian Jews, Indian Jews and the remaining Jews...Ethiopian Jews, Indian Jews and the remaining Jews of the Arab occupied middle east are not Ashkenazi.<br /><br />You just don't know real history…<br /><br />But you are squatting on native bottom acres in AZ…<br /><br />You fucking looter...What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34499267930256902762014-08-22T14:46:55.121-04:002014-08-22T14:46:55.121-04:00No, it's not, it's a fact in your "Gu...No, it's not, it's a fact in your "Guide to Jew hating in the 21st Century" but not a fact to anyone else.What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85058298142815887502014-08-22T14:45:50.919-04:002014-08-22T14:45:50.919-04:00Sorry us jews just didn't allow hitler to kill...Sorry us jews just didn't allow hitler to kill all of us for your pleasure.What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81185019471264975722014-08-22T14:45:03.968-04:002014-08-22T14:45:03.968-04:00Not to worry Deuce at the rate of ever expanding d...Not to worry Deuce at the rate of ever expanding death and destruction of and by the arabs and islamists to each other?<br /><br />The Palestinians injured, harmed or made to suffer will mean nothing.<br /><br />2000 dead, 1/2 being terrorists, another 400 at the hands of Hamas.. 600 civilian dead, mostly human shields forced to die by hamas will not mean anything at a time when tens of MILLIONS of arabs and moslems will be true and real refugees.<br /><br />The numbers of refugees and dead from the numerous moslem and arab wars are staggering..<br /><br />So pardon me while i don't give a shit about gaza and the rocket shooting islamic nazis that live there and off their own faster than an abortion clinic for the blacks in philadephia..<br /><br />A new day is dawning and it's call the arab winter…<br /><br />right now there are almost 13 MILLION arabs homeless and we aint talking about the fake refugees of "palestine", put into that mix the islamic card, from nigeria to pakistan and what you are about to see is akin to a real holocaust.<br /><br />Israel just has to punt.. The self destruction of the Palestinian people is happening as we speak…<br /><br />How long will the people of palestine put up with mass execution, stolen aid, vice police and more?<br /><br />Newsflash, the "palestinians" are as native to Palestine as you are to Phila.What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-4330078778171013262014-08-22T14:44:35.207-04:002014-08-22T14:44:35.207-04:00.
As noted, it has been 66 years and there has be....<br /><br />As noted, it has been 66 years and there has been nothing to suggest anything will change and with the advances in technology there is every indication that things will only get worse rather than better.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-24783575644712537372014-08-22T14:41:01.973-04:002014-08-22T14:41:01.973-04:00.
Ditto
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Ditto
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Ditto
..<br /><br />Ditto<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82725998710223421502014-08-22T14:21:53.757-04:002014-08-22T14:21:53.757-04:00We know, by international law, that Israel is ille...We know, by international law, that Israel is illegally occupying both Gaza and the West Bank. We know that no Israeli government has ever stopped allowing Palestinian land to be appropriated for Israeli settlements. We know many settlers would fight rather than have their turf returned to the Palestinians to whom it rightly belongs. We know that Israel dominates much of the daily life, including the economy, of the two territories.<br /><br />We know Palestinians resent Israeli control. What Israeli doesn’t understand this? Who can doubt that Palestinians feel humiliated by Israel’s harsh and relentless domination. Palestinians can hardly be expected to accept an offer of enduring peace that doesn’t include the surrender of Israel’s occupation, its authority, its domination. But Israelis will never accede to such demands which, they are convinced, constitute an existential threat to Israel’s very existence. And indeed it’s no stretch for Israelis to find evidence of Palestinians and other Arabs who wish to see Israel disappear entirely. But Israel will never disappear.<br /><br />To repeat, unending conflict has been the consequence of the decision by the United Nations to create Israel. The war against Israel launched at the time by a coalition of Arab states was a taste of the battles that now seem inevitable, just as Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Arabs – the catastrophe known to all Palestinians as the Nakba – was a forerunner of Israeli determination to make the entire area their own.<br /><br />It was equally predictable that over time Israeli-Palestinian attitudes towards each other would steadily harden. Instead of making good neighbours, virtually all circumstances conspired to turn the two peoples into irreconcilable enemies. Some time back, renowned Israeli Holocaust scholar Yehuda Bauer told me that he believed about 25 per cent of each people held genocidal attitudes towards the other. It seems a safe guess that these shocking figures are now considerably higher on both sides. When you dehumanize the other, the potential for evil knows few boundaries.<br /><br />Since these two viscerally antagonistic peoples cannot trust each other on even the most trivial matters – a brief ceasefire, for example – what chance is there they can resolve the truly intractable ones they must actually deal with?<br /><br />The consequences are clear. For thriving Israelis, filled with hate, it means waiting for the inevitable day when their enemies finally get weapons that can’t be thwarted so easily. For wretched Palestinians, filled with hate, it means continuing oppression and humiliation, and in Gaza, more death and suffering for the innocent. This is the future and it cannot be otherwise.<br /><br />http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/no-matter-what-leaders-do-there-wont-be-peace-in-the-middle-east/article20083459/#dashboard/follows/<br /><br />Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2771645848948003202014-08-22T14:21:44.903-04:002014-08-22T14:21:44.903-04:00"No matter what leaders do, there won’t be pe..."No matter what leaders do, there won’t be peace in the Middle East <br />Gerald Caplan <br />Special to The Globe and Mail<br /><br />People around the world twist themselves into knots figuring out where they stand and what they might say openly on the latest Israeli-Hamas clash. Yet none of it makes the slightest difference to the future of Israel and Palestine. Regardless of what I think, or what Canadian political leaders think, or even what Barack Obama thinks, the profound divisions between Israelis and Palestinians will not be resolved in our lifetime, and quite possibly not ever. The present confrontation, seen in proper perspective, is just another in the endless violent conflicts between Israelis and Arabs that began when Israel was first created as a nation 66 years ago and has never stopped: 1947-49, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, 1991, 2006, 2008-9, 2012, 2014. Why should they stop now – or ever?<br /><br />There’s not much point in arguing about who will be most responsible for this perpetuation of a miserable status quo. We are trapped in a classical tragedy where characters cannot escape their nature, regardless of the harm they cause. Whatever outsiders think, in practical terms none of the Middle East disputants are in a position to offer the others anything like an acceptable peace deal. Or, to put it the other way, no one is likely to buy a deal the other offers. If Israel offers a certain set of proposals, both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, not to mention even more radical Palestinian groups, are certain to find it too pro-Israel. And from their perspective they’d be right. For given the politics of Israel, no Israeli government, now or ever, would consider offering anything that wasn’t in the best interests of Israel.<br /><br />In the present circumstances, for example, Hamas’s demands for stopping its shelling of Israel seem quite reasonable to many observers. How could they demand less than an end to Israel’s blockade on everything that comes in and out of Gaza, including its own people? But Hamas’s antagonism to all things Israeli, while no doubt sensible from a Palestinian point of view, make it a treacherous and untrustworthy enemy to Israel.<br /><br />Realistically, it’s been many years since the possibility of a two-nation solution has had any real chance of success, though it’s still promoted by those who feel there must be some kind of resolution to the present impasse. But it’s wishful thinking. The truth is, Israel is never going to give up its control of both the West Bank and Gaza, and Palestinians are never going to be reconciled to being controlled by Israel.<br /><br />Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39616388203796005692014-08-22T13:38:44.834-04:002014-08-22T13:38:44.834-04:00The Socialists are flocking to "Occupied Pale...The Socialists are flocking to "Occupied Palestine", from all around the world ... right ....<br /><br />It is true that the Ashkenazi Crusade is well underway.<br />The ultimate finish, though, will be the same as with the other Crusades.<br /><br />The Crusaders will flee, be killed or be absorbed into the local population.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08535706417999980276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80780547999634904802014-08-22T13:34:50.950-04:002014-08-22T13:34:50.950-04:00The Israeli government has, to a large extent, con...The Israeli government has, to a large extent, continued the Ottoman legal system in regard to land ownership. <br /><br />Thus, today the vast proportion of land within the State of Israel (roughly 93%) is owned and managed either by the Israel Lands Administration (ILA) or the JNF. This figure includes much of such extensive regions as the Negev and the Judean Wilderness (near the Dead Sea), which are sparsely populated. <br /><br /> Jewish settlements in the State of Israel usually are located on lands that are owned by the ILA or the JNF and that have been consigned to each settlement through long-term leases. <br /><br /><b> Less than 7% of the land in the State of Israel is privately owned.</b><br /><br />http://elearning.la.psu.edu/jst060/lesson_2/land-ownership<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08535706417999980276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-22241985404144895282014-08-22T13:32:47.288-04:002014-08-22T13:32:47.288-04:00Aren't you the lucky oneAren't you the lucky oneAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08535706417999980276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1793716176043551052014-08-22T13:32:45.807-04:002014-08-22T13:32:45.807-04:00What is "Occupation"Fri Aug 22, 11:56:00...<i>What is "Occupation"Fri Aug 22, 11:56:00 AM EDT<br />GENEVA (AP) — The death toll from three years of Syria's civil war has risen to more than 191,000 people, the United Nations reported Friday.<br /><br />But the Palestinians in Gaza have it worse…<br /><br />LOL<br /><br />ReplyDelete</i><br /><br />What is the cutoff? Would it be quibbling if the number was “3” ?Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.com