Well to be fair, usually everything is worked out ahead of time and the "conference" is just so everyone can get their pictures taken.

The Stealth Hippopotamus: it's like union negotiations without the strippers.

You actually expect me to believe that? There's no such thing as a union negotiation without strippers.

wait...

that's NOT a peace conference?

Trance750: Hide your underwear

Brian Peppers' cousin?

vernonFL: Israel has universal healthcare that pays for abortions. Did you know that?

By subsidizing Israel, the US taxpayer is paying for Israeli abortions.

Pro-Israel = Pro-abortion.

Damn Jew-eradicating Zionist conspiracy.

Sooo... this conference was as effective as all the others?

vernonFL: Israel has universal healthcare that pays for abortions. Did you know that?

By subsidizing Israel, the US taxpayer is paying for Israeli abortions.

Pro-Israel = Pro-abortion.

Is that supposed to get the christian fundies in an uproar? Cause somehow I think they're probably ok with Jew abortions.

/just sayin'

What I hate the most about that entire situation is how both sides are trying to straddle the line: Israel overreacts by throwing banned munitions at civilians and claiming land gained through war as its own, but won't simply push its neighbors out completely; meanwhile, the PA keeps poking its bigger, better equipped, and better funded roommate with a sharp stick and screaming bloody murder when it gets smacked.

Israel: either go full-tilt and wipe the bastards out or quit talking tough, man up to your mistakes, and work through this. You're supposed to be the civilized party here; either act like it or don't... you can't have both.

PA: stop pissing Israel off. They're bigger than you, and your Arab-world buddies won't stop them from wiping you off the map if they choose to do so. Play the part of the persecuted but civilized government or stick with launching bottle rockets at a country armed with nukes... you can't have both.

Both of you: shut the fark up already. We're tired of your constant squabbling, and the entire world would be happier if you wiped each other out.

006andahalf: Trance750: Hide your underwear

Brian Peppers' cousin?

That's not his cousin, that's his sister.

Should they have had discussions with Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman?

Listen...
The current Israeli government is controlled by racist extremists.
Might as well bring Al-qaeda to the table.

/and that wasn't a "peace conference" sub-tard

We're blaming the Jews, right?

wmoonfox: What I hate the most about that entire situation is how both sides are trying to straddle the line: Israel overreacts by throwing banned munitions at civilians and claiming land gained through war as its own, but won't simply push its neighbors out completely; meanwhile, the PA keeps poking its bigger, better equipped, and better funded roommate with a sharp stick and screaming bloody murder when it gets smacked.

Israel: either go full-tilt and wipe the bastards out or quit talking tough, man up to your mistakes, and work through this. You're supposed to be the civilized party here; either act like it or don't... you can't have both.

PA: stop pissing Israel off. They're bigger than you, and your Arab-world buddies won't stop them from wiping you off the map if they choose to do so. Play the part of the persecuted but civilized government or stick with launching bottle rockets at a country armed with nukes... you can't have both.

Both of you: shut the fark up already. We're tired of your constant squabbling, and the entire world would be happier if you wiped each other out.

This is possibly the sanest thing I've ever read in a FARK comment thread. Cheers to you, mate!

/How much is a subscription to your newsletter?

wmoonfox: entire world would be happier if you wiped each other out.

not the people in the crystallography community!

Tenorman's Tears: racist extremists.

plenty of non-whites here in israel.

palelizard: Sooo... this conference was as effective as all the others?

Rather moreso, since this time all parties actually agreed on a few things.

ultraholland: We're blaming the Jews, right?



Hasn't the Juice been blamed for enough by now?

blazemongr: ultraholland: We're blaming the Jews, right?



Hasn't the Juice been blamed for enough by now?

He shouldn't have gotten all stabby, if he didn't want to be law enforcement's main focus

whistleridge: Actually, some are less effective than others, like:

The Peace Conference of 1861

The Paris Peace Conference of 1919

and

The Munich Agreement

all of which failed even more spectacularly than normal.

I mean just Israel-Palestian conferences, but your assessment of peace conferences in general is quite astute.

blazemongr: Rather moreso, since this time all parties actually agreed on a few things.

Pieces in our time, then! Cheers!

Pay the Man: He shouldn't have allegedly gotten all stabby, if he didn't want to be law enforcement's main focus

fixed
/Please don't slander the man. He is a good guy and even better husband

What self=respecting Jew wants to vacation at Club Achmed?

Everyone knows you assign all the action items to the person who missed the meeting.

vernonFL: Israel has universal healthcare that pays for abortions. Did you know that?

By subsidizing Israel, the US taxpayer is paying for Israeli abortions.

Pro-Israel = Pro-abortion.

US taxpayers subsidizing the self-eradication of the jew.

whistleridge
The day the PA decides to embrace non-violent resistance, they win, plain and simple.

Did you know that last week 50,000 Palestinians peacefully demonstrated against Egypt's participation in the siege of Gaza?
Did you know that several cities in the West Bank have weekly protests against the wall being built through their communities, and they are routinely shot at and arrested by Israeli soldiers?
What they do doesn't matter if no one hears about it.

whistleridge: All they need to do is sit down in the streets of Gaza, hold hands, sing "We Shall Overcome" or its Arabic equivalent, and refuse to eat until the Israeli army opens the borders.

But that's not nearly bomb-y or outrage-y enough for radicalized muslims. Won't work. One needs to have constant, shouting, exploding crazy to get anything done over there. Like this:

That's because Palestinians don't want peace.

There are two camps:

Try and destroy Israel now: Hamas

Wait, breed like rabbits and destroy Israel latter: Everybody else.

Isn't that what Camp David is for?

Swampthing in Korea
That's because Palestinians don't want peace.

So according to you, what's the source of that social pathology which is apparently unique to Palestinians? Is it genetic, perhaps? Or are you simply dismissive of the idea that people who have been under occupation for 40 years might be a little upset? Are you racist, or an idiot of some other kind?

vernonFL: Israel has universal healthcare that pays for abortions. Did you know that?

By subsidizing Israel, the US taxpayer is paying for Israeli abortions.

Pro-Israel = Pro-abortion.

-2 Not enough Floam.

RanDomino: Swampthing in Korea
That's because Palestinians don't want peace.

So according to you, what's the source of that social pathology which is apparently unique to Palestinians? Is it genetic, perhaps? Or are you simply dismissive of the idea that people who have been under occupation for 40 years might be a little upset? Are you racist, or an idiot of some other kind?

Heh. You pulled the racist card.

According to Sharpton's Law, I can now ignore you.

GOOD DAY SIR!

Swampthing in Korea
Heh. You pulled the racist card.

Yeah, you're ascribing a unique behavior to a people en bloc apparently based on their race, while ignoring the much more likely possibility that they're upset at a continuing occupation, mass land theft, and economic deterioration directly caused by a siege and occupation.

every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness, every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out: "Dear God, what is that thing?" will echo in your perfect ears.

sparrow794: vernonFL: Israel has universal healthcare that pays for abortions. Did you know that?

By subsidizing Israel, the US taxpayer is paying for Israeli abortions.

Pro-Israel = Pro-abortion.

Is that supposed to get the christian fundies in an uproar? Cause somehow I think they're probably ok with Jew abortions.

/just sayin'

The same way they're okay with non-white people abortions.

The more people I know of the more I like my dog. I know that doesn't help anything but I'm not sure what to do or think about this region.

wmoonfox: What I hate the most about that entire situation is how both sides are trying to straddle the line: Israel overreacts by throwing banned munitions at civilians and claiming land gained through war as its own, but won't simply push its neighbors out completely; meanwhile, the PA keeps poking its bigger, better equipped, and better funded roommate with a sharp stick and screaming bloody murder when it gets smacked.

Israel: either go full-tilt and wipe the bastards out or quit talking tough, man up to your mistakes, and work through this. You're supposed to be the civilized party here; either act like it or don't... you can't have both.

PA: stop pissing Israel off. They're bigger than you, and your Arab-world buddies won't stop them from wiping you off the map if they choose to do so. Play the part of the persecuted but civilized government or stick with launching bottle rockets at a country armed with nukes... you can't have both.

Both of you: shut the fark up already. We're tired of your constant squabbling, and the entire world would be happier if you wiped each other out.


So, you have managed to spend your entire education in a drug-induced coma, or are you really as F*CKING stupid as you appear??!!!

wmoonfox: What I hate the most about that entire situation is how both sides are trying to straddle the line: Israel overreacts by throwing banned munitions at civilians and claiming land gained through war as its own


Not wanting to address the whole post, just this caught my eye.

Isn't that how it generally works and how MOST changes to any country's borders throughout history have occurred? Islamic marketing and propaganda aside, it's not like it was some unprecedented act of aggression or something... Doubly so since they gained that land during a war where they were attacked and invaded by the surrounding countries, I'd say...

proteus_b:
Tenorman's Tears: racist extremists.

plenty of non-whites here in israel.

Teh Stoopid hurts

Are there only two races that exist? White and non-white?
The people in power in Israel think that one race (Hebrew) is superior to another (Arab).

Regardless of their ridiculous theology, they are racist. They use their theology, however, to justify their racism. "Chosen people" and all that.