Right, because we all know that the knee jerk reaction for any leader under investigation is to start a war. Right? This has nothing to do with you know who's windy, continuous threat of extracting Israel from all those maps.

But, but... Clinton!

/Or something

Wag the dog?

Damn that was a good movie.

Satan_Sunburn: Right, because we all know that the knee jerk reaction for any leader under investigation is to start a war. Right? This has nothing to do with you know who's windy, continuous threat of extracting Israel from all those maps.

The daily rocket attacks lobbed over from Gaza aren't a factor either, I'm sure...

Wag the kelev?

Cool. I was *just* running out of material for Chapter 5,482 of my new book- The Middle East: God's Thunderdome.

or that he just had a meeting with george w. bush, whose approval rating is in the toilet and whose party is going to get its ass whupped in november.

My GF has a Gaza strip and it's pretty sweet.

Taking a page from the GOP startegy are we? Smart guy!

nice headline subby!

BravadoGT: Satan_Sunburn: Right, because we all know that the knee jerk reaction for any leader under investigation is to start a war. Right? This has nothing to do with you know who's windy, continuous threat of extracting Israel from all those maps.

The daily rocket attacks lobbed over from Gaza aren't a factor either, I'm sure...

You mean the ones that they have a missile system designed to shoot down?

I think this smells a lot more of Bush pressure than kneejerks from the leader.

Any chance this thread could deviate from the topic?

Summon Tatsuma.

Satan_Sunburn: his has nothing to do with you know who's windy, continuous threat of extracting Israel from all those maps.

Obama?

olmert may have more israeli support and people wouldn't care about his bribery issues if he grew a pair and actually kicked some hezbollah/ hamas ass.

Did Tatsuma get banned around the same time as Czar or something? I haven't seen him around her for a couple of months, even in the Israel/Palestine threads.

/the times, they are a-changin'

Nice headline Antisemiteterroristjerkmitter. I predict great things for this thread

did you see where Netanyahu was looking to hire Rove for his campaign? ^{(^)}

//submitted this with a more oil based headline//

elvisbloom: Taking a page from the GOP startegy are we? Smart guy!

So what was Bush under investigation for when he decided to launch his attention-diverting invasion of Iraq?

Olmert's a sleazeball, but this is probably the right call. Tzipi Livni would do the same thing if she was in power (which she will be any week now).

In before the "Israel should kick those dirty Arabs out" comments.

/yes, yes, this is Fark

See this is what happens when you give a little. I say take Gaza back.

Why does a religion need a country?

Israel doing another collective punishment attack?

I'm so glad I don't live in Palestine.

I have a simple solution to the Gaza situation:

Gazans: Stop launching rockets at Israel.

Israelis: Open up some of the border crossings and let in some gasoline and electricity and stuff.

THX 1138: Did Tatsuma get banned around the same time as Czar or something? I haven't seen him around her for a couple of months, even in the Israel/Palestine threads.

/the times, they are a-changin'

This starts to raise the distinct possibility that they were one in the same(Na Just kidding, yet many farkers thought so)

EsteeFlwrPot: See this is what happens when you give a little. I say take Gaza back.

THIS.

THX 1138: I haven't seen him around her for a couple of months

He probably wont show up for another few months or at all. I'll be very surprised if he does.

/GO ISRAEL!

It's all a ploy to create publicity for the Zohan movie...

THX 1138: Did Tatsuma get banned around the same time as Czar or something? I haven't seen him around her for a couple of months, even in the Israel/Palestine threads.

/the times, they are a-changin'

First rule of ban club is you don't talk about ban club.

What a great idea! Military strikes have worked well so far.

boobsrgood: Why does a religion need a country?

I'm not sure if this counts as a Godwin, but do you think if Hitler had been allowed to fully implement the Final Solution that Israel would be this powerful? I mean, I acknowledge that it would have been a horrific tragedy, but at least we wouldn't have the Middle East problems we have right now.

/somebody had to say it

EsteeFlwrPot: THX 1138: I haven't seen him around her for a couple of months

He probably wont show up for another few months or at all. I'll be very surprised if he does.

/GO ISRAEL!

He was very cheesed at the state of affairs on Fark.

farkingatwork

There is no such system today. What they have is the "Color Red" warning system, which sometimes doesn't even go off in time. The rockets don't usually spend more then a minute or two in flight.

the rockets are the chinese water torture approach to war, i suppose.

Myself i think hamas wants gaza re-invaded by the israelis. They did pretty good as an islamist "resistance" but they can't govern shiat.

Satan_Sunburn: EsteeFlwrPot: See this is what happens when you give a little. I say take Gaza back.

THIS.

Morans.

emocomputerjock: He was very cheesed at the state of affairs on Fark.

Good, these threads are much more interesting now that he doesnt feel obligated to reply to ever farking post.

boobsrgood: Why does a religion need a country?

Same reason why a religion needs nuclear weapons.

dispatch:

How eloquent.

mister aj: I'm not sure if this counts as a Godwin, but do you think if Hitler had been allowed to fully implement the Final Solution that Israel would be this powerful? I mean, I acknowledge that it would have been a horrific tragedy, but at least we wouldn't have the Middle East problems we have right now.

/somebody had to say it

Must resist Troll....

Satan_Sunburn: This has nothing to do with you know who's windy, continuous threat of extracting Israel from all those maps.

BravadoGT: The daily rocket attacks lobbed over from Gaza aren't a factor either, I'm sure...

Which have nothing to do with the force-of-arms creation of Israel after World War II, and the displacement of those who had lived there beforehand.

It's a giant shiatfest, and there is no peaceful solution, since neither side is willing to cooperate with the other. Because the Israelis have been given a country they don't want to give up, and the Palestinians have been gravely wronged in the process.


Basically, say you had two young sons. One of them has a popsicle, the other a candy bar. A bully beats up one of your sons, and takes his candy bar. So you take the popsicle from the other, and give it to the one who lost the candy bar.

Popsicle-boy is justifiable pissed off, because he didn't do anything wrong and shouldn't have lost his popsicle. Candy-bar-boy, having lost his candy bar, isn't about to let the popsicle go. There is no peaceful solution, here, since they two of them are completely unwilling to share the popsicle, and even if we try and force them to, it'll just make them both resentful for the lack of the other half they each feel entitled to.

Also, Israel said today that it would attack Iran"if it doesn't abandon its nuclear program" (new window). And that any military strike against Iran "would have U.S. backing." God, I like the Middle-East.

emocomputerjock: He was very cheesed at the state of affairs on Fark.

It could be that or it could be my fault. Who knows.

/take Gaza back!!!
//yay Israel!

Wow it took 34 comments before someone godwined

vernonFL: I have a simple solution to the Gaza situation:

Gazans: Stop launching rockets at Israel.

Israelis: Open up some of the border crossings and let in some gasoline and electricity and stuff.

Gazans response: Hell no! Not until they give us some gasoline and electricity and stuff!

Israel's response: Hell no! Not until they stop launching rockets at us!

elvisbloom: Must resist Troll....

This one is going to get some mileage and it is going to be great.

Getting a beer and some popcorn.

Maybe he could just find a nice pharmaceutical factory to bomb. Especially if he's already perjured himself.

Israel-bashing threads are SO EXCITING!

I, too, wonder why Olmert hasn't been removed by Qadima in a vote of no-confidence or something. That being said, I don't think he's wagging the dog. Unless you think people launching rockets from Gaza into nearby Jewish towns is no big deal.

I'm sure some of you do. At any rate, a ground "incursion" ought to be a little more targeted than an air raid. Hopefully.

a person was killed by a mortar in southern israel. despite the fact that israel is a warzone, you can't expect the government to allow random mortar attacks on their land.