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Nov 18, 2010

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CommieGIR posted:

.....I'm sorry what?

It's an old argument, if [Oppressor] was bad then they would've killed all of the [oppressed] a long time ago.

You also sometimes see it with accusations of police brutality versus the black population in the US.

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Nov 18, 2010

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Baloogan posted:

Not firing rockets at kindergartners would be nice, and stop stabbin'.

Bottle Rockets can be dangerous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpqiHchsbE0

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Nov 18, 2010

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The actual long term solution is a One State plan but Israel would rather give away half its land than do that.

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Nov 18, 2010

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Cugel the Clever posted:

"Well, we can't yield even one inch—what if they were someday in a position to us what we are doing to them?!"

Freepers tend to have the same logic about Obama.

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Nov 18, 2010

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Cat Mattress posted:

If Obama was really concerned about the settlements, he'd suspend financial and military aid to Israel until said settlements are dismantled.

Because those are things that are not legislatively set, obviously.

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Nov 18, 2010

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team overhead smash posted:

Aren't they? I would expect at least some of it is done through the executive branch, like State/Defence Department's Foreign Military Sales program.

There are eligibility requirements (iirc if we determine there was a coup they're ineligible, for example) but it's not really clear that the executive branch can just deny service.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the funding acts as a carrot, not as a stick - There's not much reason why Israel couldn't just as easily align itself with Russia, be neutral to Iran, and start denouncing the Saudis as the global threat, for example.

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Nov 18, 2010

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I wonder how many people think only 6 million died in the Holocaust.

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