en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/620263 Comments by Popsiq http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/06/27/pro-israeli-falsehoods-on-the-flotilla-settlements-and-statehood/#IDComment167583069 Historically-speaking Israel is what may be called a 'latest case scenario'. Historically, the Israelites were not the original possessors of the area we now call 'palestine'. If it is to be taken as a 'historic book', the Torah is indicative that Abram was from present day Iraq and emigrated to Palestine, where the inhabitabts allowed him to settle. That his descendants would later grow in number to dipossess them, is the story of the 'chosen people'. That those chosen people were dipossessed themselves, on numerous occasions, including an exile to their 'natural' homeland and eventual Roman-induced 'diaspora' away from Palestine, is also the stuff of history. Historically speaking, then, the present-day 'arabs' have as much claim to Palestine, by virtue of what remains of Canaanite 'blood' in them, as do modern day jews who carry probably not much more residual genetic material from the original 'Abrahamites'. If 'posession is nine tenths of the law', which seems to be the real rationale for Zionist claims, then we have the stuff of all disagreements, and the potential for an equitable resolution, or on-going struggle - with the constant potential of history being re-written, again. History, in this case, is on nobody's side. Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:25:05 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/06/27/pro-israeli-falsehoods-on-the-flotilla-settlements-and-statehood/#IDComment167583069 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/24/basra-council-bars-us-troops-from-province/#IDComment166675918 If that doesn't make you want to sent a battalion of the Screamin' 423rd in there on a weekend furlough, I don't know what could. Sun, 26 Jun 2011 01:52:17 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/24/basra-council-bars-us-troops-from-province/#IDComment166675918 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/24/state-dept-threatens-prison-for-us-participants-in-gaza-aid-flotilla/#IDComment166675640 If they were running guns into central america, they'd be considered entrepreneurs and would probably qualify for a government grant. But food and hospital supplies into Gaza will get them a "stiff sentence"? Whatever Israel's got, America's being infected. Sun, 26 Jun 2011 01:50:41 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/24/state-dept-threatens-prison-for-us-participants-in-gaza-aid-flotilla/#IDComment166675640 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/24/us-vows-to-arm-philippines-to-fight-china/#IDComment166669525 Sounds ominous, considering the US has been arming (and advising and mentoring, etc) the Philippines to fight a communist/Moslem rebellion for the last 15 years. What are they going to need to fight China? A fleet of B1's and another 30 divisions? Or perhaps it has something to do with cozying-up to the Vietnamese in the hope they'll want to take a poke at China for us. That would be quite the revenge. Sun, 26 Jun 2011 01:19:21 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/24/us-vows-to-arm-philippines-to-fight-china/#IDComment166669525 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/24/20-slain-as-mass-protests-again-reported-across-syria/#IDComment166668895 CNN had a gal reporting live from downtown Damascus on Friday waiting for something to happen when the Mosques emptied. Obviously she was in the wrong place because correspondents miles away in Lebanon knew and reported 10's of people shot down in the street while government sources were reporting the shootings of numerous police and security men by armed gangs. Sometimes gunfire doesn't carry very far, but with Syria in the state we're being told it is, you'd think that somebody would have been telling her there were other places to go. Sun, 26 Jun 2011 01:16:00 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/24/20-slain-as-mass-protests-again-reported-across-syria/#IDComment166668895 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/24/white-house-claims-vindication-as-house-refuses-to-authorize-libya-war/#IDComment166666420 Like smashing your car into the garage door, what happens next can seem very important and worth doing. But it's always better to avoid costly accidents, if possible. Deliberately driving into the grarage door is the act of an idiot, or a very precise demolition expert. In light of what's happened in Libya over the past two months, it looks a lot like the latter. America isn't setting much of an example in its drive to world hegemony. It might be better to tackle a real biggie in the kind of war the US Armed forces were designed for. And soon, before these tea pot tempests bust the war machine. Sun, 26 Jun 2011 01:02:25 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/24/white-house-claims-vindication-as-house-refuses-to-authorize-libya-war/#IDComment166666420 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/15/czech-republic-pulls-out-of-us-missile-shield/#IDComment163234525 Did the Czechs find out that the US had Prague and Bratislava targetted for the 'nukuler' treatment back in the 'bad old days' and come to the realization that having a 'nuclear shield' only extended the number of US targets, rather than actually protecting anything? Good for them. Now the Poles need to wise up, too. The Rumanians and Bulgarians are in love with their new 'freedumb.' Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:35:57 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/15/czech-republic-pulls-out-of-us-missile-shield/#IDComment163234525 http://www.lineofdeparture.com/2011/06/12/yon-is-wrong/#IDComment163199522 Mike Yon is as much a creative writer as an eyewitness. He writes from one perspective as well. Since a meeting with GWB a couple of years back, the military 'bloggers' Yon included, have been co-opted to 'toe the company line' to tell the soldiers' story. They've done a pretty good job of preparing their readership for a victory, very slow in coming, and/or developing the faith to be patient and persevere blowing billions on the 'cause' that sees the greatest professional military business on earth repeatedly 'deked' by sneaker-clad volunteers who seem to 'get by' with a goat and a handful of knock-off AK rounds. Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:24:46 +0000 http://www.lineofdeparture.com/2011/06/12/yon-is-wrong/#IDComment163199522 http://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2011/06/12/netanyahu-stupid-like-a-fox/#IDComment162296008 Netanyahu is doing no more than other Israeli leaders of past times. He's applying the first principle of all schoolyard fights, hit them harder, first, and they'll leave you alone. If you aren't a bully. For the schoolyard bully, however, there is always somebody who thinks they're tougher and the challenge is always developing. Or there is always a victim who will fight back. Such has it been with the 'gallant' little state of Israel, having fought off the other bullies, the schoolyard belongs to it. But like all bullies, it only has to lose one fight, and everything changes. I'm inclined to think that the 'hopefulness' of Jews is largely bragadoccio and that the 'Masada Moment' - another national suicide is never far from consciousness. That's what an Israeli loss will look like: Arabs kaput and, hopefully, enough time for another contamination-generated diaspora. Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:20:56 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2011/06/12/netanyahu-stupid-like-a-fox/#IDComment162296008 http://antiwar.com/radio/2011/06/12/anand-gopal-6/#IDComment162293785 As the Fuhrer said, any society that isn't purified in the fire of war becomes effeminate and unworthy of existence. Gimme a Sieg? Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:10:35 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/2011/06/12/anand-gopal-6/#IDComment162293785 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/06/researcher-without-military-occupation-iran-to-have-nuke-in-two-months/#IDComment160308165 In the words of a former world leader, "So what?" If the Iranians were to appear ,yesterday, with an atomic arsenal that rivalled that of the former USSR, it would only be another 'targetting exercise' for the armada of mirved ICBM's and other nuclear weapons with which the USA 'safeguards our freedom'. Having a nuclear arsenal and being adventurous enough to consider actually using it, are also good topics for mathematical modelling. So far the ONLY atomic power on earth that has shown that peculiarity isn't Iran, or the USSR for that matter. And that's concerning, in light of who's doing this 'study' and where they'd like it to go. Tue, 7 Jun 2011 12:08:47 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/06/researcher-without-military-occupation-iran-to-have-nuke-in-two-months/#IDComment160308165 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/01/nato-extends-libya-war-another-90-days/#IDComment158514764 Another thee months? Hopefully more successful than the first three. Whatever happened to "a matter days, rather than weeks"? Another famous instance of almost total uncomprehension and hubristic 'optimism'. Let's see if they're voting on another three month extension come August. Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:34:22 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/01/nato-extends-libya-war-another-90-days/#IDComment158514764 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/01/british-pm-denies-ground-troops-in-misrata/#IDComment158513674 Mercs and 'private contractors' aren't cnsidered 'boots' on the ground, until one gets killed. Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:29:59 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/01/british-pm-denies-ground-troops-in-misrata/#IDComment158513674 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_18139038#IDComment157259282 Netanyahu's position is predicated on the notion that eventually there will be no Palestinian territory left to negotiate about: that time, and settlements, are Israel's only way of presenting 'a new reality on the ground' to the world. Stealing a cow is one thing, eating itr to remove the evidence, is something else. Altered reality is, suddenly, a 'game changer'. At that point it will be for the world ie the UN to decide if it was right to stipulate that Israel 'give it all back' after the 1967 war, or to negotiate a Palestinian state in its West Bank 'conquest'. Threatening sanctions may push Israel to the peace table, probably not, it's more likely they'll kick the snot out of Gaza or bomb Iran as 'payback'. But supporting Israel's 'no peace with terror' position is a no hoper. Sun, 29 May 2011 11:36:21 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_18139038#IDComment157259282 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/05/27/us-accuses-iran-of-aiding-syria-crackdown/#IDComment156981715 Probably just as much as the US 'aided' the crackdown in Bahrain, or more lately the one in Georgia. Sat, 28 May 2011 12:17:02 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/05/27/us-accuses-iran-of-aiding-syria-crackdown/#IDComment156981715 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/05/26/taliban-no-intentions-of-attacking-pakistans-nuclear-arsenal/#IDComment156980924 That's short sighted. Don't they realize the US has plans for targeting those weapons? They won't let them fall into the hands of the Taliban, or anyone else they don't trust. The Pakistanis are the ones who need to be most concerned. A denuclearized Pakistan, facing a nuclear power in India means bye-bye Kashmir, and, possibly, the end of Pakistan too. Sat, 28 May 2011 12:14:14 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/05/26/taliban-no-intentions-of-attacking-pakistans-nuclear-arsenal/#IDComment156980924 http://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2011/05/25/bibi-and-the-yo-yos/#IDComment156395944 It was interesting to note that some legislators remained seated. That was an act of courage. Reported on Press TV, the Iranian internet source that, while the defenders of liberty were being regaled by Mr. Netanyahu about what it means to be free, some members of AIPAC in the vuewers gallery took it into mind to exercise their freedom to 'rough up' that solitary protestor from Code Pink. She was taken to hospital. That 'show' was much akin to the 'street celebrations' ascribed to the enemies of freedom, or Der Fuhrer addressing a gathering of the Old Comrades.. Thu, 26 May 2011 15:58:03 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2011/05/25/bibi-and-the-yo-yos/#IDComment156395944 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/05/22/obama-clarifies-1967-borders-didnt-really-mean-1967-borders/#IDComment155484682 Pusillanimous codswallop. What a weasel! Tue, 24 May 2011 03:59:01 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/05/22/obama-clarifies-1967-borders-didnt-really-mean-1967-borders/#IDComment155484682 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/05/13/posthumous-moore-award-winner-mark-twain/#IDComment152494583 A minor incident in a process of not too selective extermination, as America civilized thePhillipines with the Krag-Jorgensen rifle. It was there the Marines started earning the soubriquet about best friends and worst enemies - but their proclivities had more to do with whether they were on, or off duty. The whole Philippine insurrection reads like a series of 'commanders' using methods developed by the British to pacify the Irish. That it weas effective is attested by the large number of Philippinos who to-day think that America's time, was their best time, ever. Mon, 16 May 2011 02:37:12 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/05/13/posthumous-moore-award-winner-mark-twain/#IDComment152494583 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/05/15/reports-20-nakba-protesters-killed-as-israeli-troops-attack/#IDComment152492086 Generally shooting into another country is considered an act of war. Even Israel holds that view. But it all depends on who's shooting, and into whose country. Mon, 16 May 2011 02:26:48 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/05/15/reports-20-nakba-protesters-killed-as-israeli-troops-attack/#IDComment152492086