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dissent7 months, 4 weeks ago
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divide and conquer.
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now the blockade effectively shuts gaza off from the rest of the world while illegal settlements continue to erode and fragment the west bank.
but don't worry about that.... let's talk about rockets [twiddles thumbs]-
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Thinker227 months, 3 weeks ago
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> now the blockade effectively shuts gaza off from the rest of the world...
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Have you seen the map of Gaza lately, Dissent? You would be amazed to discover that Gaza has a border with Egypt which iscontrolled by the Egyptians and makes your claim above an impossibility:
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dissent7 months, 3 weeks ago
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don't you worry about that tinker. the egyptian government is in our pocket, even if the people are not, so we've already got that covered. for egypt to keep the screws on gaza is much easier than trying to swat f16s gifted to israel by us. they're quite happy to have israel's little bullsh*t wars march across someone else's borders, not theirs
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but since israel already controls gaza's coastline, airspace and land routes it wouldn't take too much trouble and only a few hundred maybe a thousand more dead palestinians to sever gaza's border with egypt, create a new corridor from such a land grab and then plant a few more illegal settlements with some prickly zealots with a real bad attitude for good measure in between, right? -
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Edmar147 months, 3 weeks ago
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I find it amazing that you talk about illegal settlements. Do you know that the entire country of Jordan is illegal under the exact same standards that you claim the settlements are illegal. Britain did not have the authority to create Jordan when it did in 1922. Britain was a keeper of the League of Nations Mandate and as such was not acting in the interests of the League of Nations when it created Jordan. Nor did it have the authority to act in place of the League of Nations. The League of Nations had determined that Palestine would become a Jewish State, Lebanon a Christian state and Iran and Syria would become Muslim. Since Jordan resides on 2/3 of Palestine, Britain went behind the League of Nations' back when Churchill met in Cairo in 1921 with members of Arab delegations and secretly created Jordan. So, when Jordan is dismantled, there will be ample reason to dismantle the settlements as well. Until then, like it or not, the settlements are the Jordan of the West Bank.
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dissent7 months, 3 weeks ago
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"International bodies, including the United Nations Security Council, the International Court of Justice, the European Union, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch and some legal scholars have characterized the settlements as a violation of international law."
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