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The puerile comments here about Jimmy Carter, whose only motivation is peace & security for the benefit of BOTH sides, sum up pretty well the sophistication of the arguments in favour of the current situation - i.e.there is no justification for it at all. All of the people pouring scorn upon him are really just apologists for the killers of innocents, whether they be suicide bombers in Israel or the bullets or rockets of the Israeli Army in Gaza.
Posted in: Hamas rejects Carter's call to halt rocket fire on Israel for 1 month
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...to not use condoms? ...to regard him as the hotline to god on earth? ...to remember that they will go to hell if they do bad things
What a screwed up, evil religion he represents
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What a shame that this board is so filled with members of the blinkered Israel-can-do-no-wrong fan club. Both sides are guilty of using force, this is what Jimmy Carter - to his credit - has been trying to solve.
Zaphod - it is a verifiable fact that Palestinians are suffering far more casualties than the Israelis. It's disgraceful to imply that this is a fair fight, or to suggest that the average Israeli is at equal risk in his everyday life than Palestinians are. It doesn't help your credibility to simply tell lies.
Helter - I am not talking about what Hamas want. When innocent people get mown down by Israeli bullets, don' t you think that what the Palestinians themselves think might matter? Not to you, perhaps, but to most of us decent people, it does matter. Unless, of course, you regard the entire population of Palestine, women and kids included, as 'terrorists', in which case, your bringing the Nazis into it is probably quite apt
Posted in: Hamas rejects Carter's call to halt rocket fire on Israel for 1 month
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here's an idea, Rudd - resign
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The longer Mugabe delays his inevitable political demise, the angrier the mobs are going to get. No statue is to big not to fall.
skipthesong - the irony is that it's the vast majority of the population - the black working class - that are by far suffering the most, not a few white people. The land grab was handled stupidly and was done simply to reward Mugabe's supporters, hence the almost total collapse of commercial agriculture in what was not long ago the 'Bread Basket of Africa'. Had it been a sensible and just reform process with compensation paid, no-one would have had too much reason to complain. Instead it was a crude political stunt, which did far more harm than good. The same applies to the banning of foreign investment. You are in the midst of a huge economic crisis and you ban foreign investment ? That's straight out of the Pol Pot school economic wisdom...
Mugabe's socialism seems to be creating equality by making everyone equally destitute
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You keep living in your fantasy world where cutting off your nose to spite your face is deemed a good idea, and where you expect Palestinians not to resist or object when their innocent civilians are getting shot dead or blown up on a daily basis. The real world is one where disputes are resolved peacefully - unless genocide is what you are advocating?
Posted in: Hamas rejects Carter's call to halt rocket fire on Israel for 1 month
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Yeah, Helter Skelter - it's so much better just to keep fighting, as long as the "enemy" is losing more women and children than your side is. They're only muslims, anyway, eh?
Thank goodness there are people like Carter in the world as well as people with your level of 'enlightenment'
Posted in: Hamas rejects Carter's call to halt rocket fire on Israel for 1 month
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Gyudon - do you also think that declining oil production is a hoax? presumably not
Posted in: As airlines gobble each other up, passengers could be hit with fewer flights, more crowding
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Gyudon: Global warming is sadly no less inevitable than crowded aircraft - ironically, one is the cause of the other. The difference is that not enough people - including you - take it seriously enough
Posted in: As airlines gobble each other up, passengers could be hit with fewer flights, more crowding
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Das Boot - great film. The first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan (not the rest) would rate very highly too
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evil robot - isn't it rather difficult to tell whether an aspiring TV weather presenter is "talentless" just by looking at a still photograph?
OK, I doubt she's a Tokyo University phD in climate science, but she could well be a capable presenter.
The point being - you simply don't know
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usaexpat - do you think your guests would be able to appreciate their failings, however? I doubt it... Stalin and Mao arguably caused a lot more suffering than Mussolini and Tojo, I'd say
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Why is this under "Headline News"?
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American airlines are the worst in the world for service - so by putting 2 bad airlines together, you simply get one enormous great big bad airline instead.
Unless there's a complete change in service culture I will NEVER choose an American airline to fly with.
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greenteaonsens:
That is absolutely UNTRUE, and an insult towards the numerous British troops who have died defending Basra. The intelligent approach of the British Army has been far better received in Iraq than the Americans with their shoot-first-ask-questions-later attitudes.
With allies like you, who needs enemies? Your attitude justifies the decisions of all those European countries who wisely decided not to get involved in Bush's massive policy failure
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If they want to get it on which freshmen, surely all they have to do is pull rank on them. "I am your sempai" will often work in this country whether we are talking about telling your juniors to go and jump off a cliff or getting them into bed
Bushlover - if you cannot find sex-starved older women in Japan you must be living in a monastery...
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Just proves there are stupid people everywhere, especially where pachinko's concerned. What a pity something as tragic as this has to happen (and it isn't the first time) to remind people to look after their kids properly.
greenteaonsens - this has nothing to do with nationality at all. No-one is going to make excuses for such a neglectful parent on the basis of which country they come from
Posted in: 1-year-old boy dies after being left in car by pachinko-playing mother in Kagoshima
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redacted - you are repeating yourself. It is starting to sound like some sort of chant
Posted in: Top UK law-and-order official warns terror threat is getting worse
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redacted - stop playing devil's advocate. We know you love the mother country, really. Racism? About as well-known in 'England' (the UK, you mean) as most other parts of Europe and the U.S. In fact, probably the opposite - Britain's long liberal tradition, and historic links to Pakistan, are the reason that we have a few home-grown nutters, a bit like Tim McVeigh but less deadly, if you like.
Britain's tolerant and liberal society has its price, but to most Britons - whatever their colour or religion - vigilance against terrorists is a price worth paying for it.
Posted in: Top UK law-and-order official warns terror threat is getting worse
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I'm certain it beat going to Vietnam - and was a more legitimate excuse than the current President's desertion from the safety of the Air Guard.
Moderator: Back on topic please. References to Bush are of course irrelevant.
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