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    Hey, thanks for the PM. I couldn't answer because it said you were over your limit, but I...

    Hey, thanks for the PM. I couldn't answer because it said you were over your limit, but I appreciate the kind words.
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    Jewish Terrorism

    You stated that "for the first time in history, Arabs actually voted on the laws that would govern them." Either way, you're only proving my point here. What matters is not the fact that voting occurs, but whether it makes a difference. Again, I'm not avoiding anything. That refrain is...
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    Jewish Terrorism

    The Chinese do the same thing. Doesn't mean they have a democracy. That's a remarkably misguided and ethnocentric statement. Arabs vote all the time. Again, it doesn't necessarily mean they're living in real democracies. The economic issues have to do with the sanctions and the war. The...
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    Is Abbas Again Planning to Walk Away from Direct Negotiations?

    I believe what they offered was to let Israel to keep 50 percent of the settlement blocs: The book review quoted above gives a good picture of the significant flexibility Arafat brought to the negotiations. He did however reject Israel's offer of 50-60 percent of the territory. My mistake...
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    Is Abbas Again Planning to Walk Away from Direct Negotiations?

    Turning them away from the 1967 borders may have been part of the effect, but that's beside the point. He did it not by negotiating but by subverting negotiations. The Palestinians did offer to let Israel keep half the occupied territories in 2000. Rabbo's statement has particularly to do...
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    Is Judaism a Religion of Peace?

    I didn't think it was terribly subtle, but considering how many people failed to catch it, I may have been wrong.
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    Israeli General Accused of Obstructing Rachel Corrie Investigation

    It's not just that they're capable of it. They're the only ones who are capable of it. Everyone else is biased.
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    Israeli General Accused of Obstructing Rachel Corrie Investigation

    According to an affidavit on record in her family's lawsuit, Major-General Doron Almog intervened to stop testimony from eyewitnesses to American activist Rachel Corrie's death. Almog is a fugitive from war crimes charges in Britain for allegedly ordering the destruction of 50 civilian homes in...
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    Is Abbas Again Planning to Walk Away from Direct Negotiations?

    The 1967 boundaries are a red herring in this case. The fact that Netanyahu may have characterized the agreement as a "galloping toward" the old boundaries in no way gives him the right to sabotage what was actually agreed. Nor for that matter does the provisional nature of a boundary imply...
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    Jewish Terrorism

    Fair enough.
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    Is Abbas Again Planning to Walk Away from Direct Negotiations?

    I'm sure that's all indisputable, but I'm not sure it has anything to do with what I posted. Frankly, it sounds a lot like the kind of statement that government spokespersons often make when they're at pains to avoid saying anything at all. Of course Israel isn't obligated to do...
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    Is Abbas Again Planning to Walk Away from Direct Negotiations?

    Here is Netanyahu speaking in 2001: If anything, he was more uncompromising in private than he was in public. This would be an example of Israeli "pragmatism" during his previous tenure.
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    Jewish Terrorism

    We've always dealt with unsavory regimes. That doesn't mean we must actively favor them. We were by no means "forced" to deal with the authoritarian regime in Iran. We chose to establish it, and to turn back the clock on several decades of democratic progress, based on a Cold War rationale...
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    Jewish Terrorism

    You're the one who seems to have been ignoring events since the Cold War. We went into Iraq and established a supposedly democratic government, but we never allowed it to function as such. We interfered with it, sometimes violently, whenever it didn't go along with our agenda. And the...
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    Jewish Terrorism

    The American government does use terror, establish dictatorships, and steal resources. That's not "capitalism." It is plunder. Far from "spreading democracy," as you call it, we've suppressed democracy whenever it stood in the way of certain privileged business interests. I bring up the...
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