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    Thanks for this Frank.  Regarding the longevity of a Conservative-DUP agreement, I would say that for all the overlap between…
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    • for all we've done for them since the second world war". No, they really don't. When we, or any other…
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    • Yes, the first thing I thought of was that Neocon phrase from 2003, The road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad.…
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    • Yes, I think you've hit the nail on the head here. We saw the secular regime in Iraq overthrown, leaving…
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    • I don't visit Daily Kos so I hadn't seen that diary, but it is really impressive. I can't imagine how…
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    • Thanks, I didn't know that was online. I could have saved myself a lot of frustration this morning when I…
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    • The attempted alliance with Mussolini is from Wikipedia's entry on the Lehi; the offer to fight for Nazi Germany is…
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    • 1. Future Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir (second left), spent WW2 in Palestine as a leader of the Zionist militant…
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    • In spite of their bitterness at the brutality of the British suppression of their rebellion [the Arab Revolt, 1936-39], about…
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    • I don't know if they were Zionist either, that's why I couched my second sentence as a question. But it…
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    • I'm not sure this shows you becoming aware of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Doesn't it show you becoming aware of a…
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    • I think the comparison of Palestinians under Israeli rule with the French under Nazi rule is flawed from the beginning.…
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    • The difference between the West Bank and Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California is that the population in those areas…
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    • I think the material difference is under Jordanian rule Palestinians didn't have self determination as Palestinians, but they did have…
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    • Have you ever read Hanan Ashrawi's autobiography? She was a small child when Jordan occupied then annexed the West Bank,…
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    • Well, no. This is what apartheid is: According to the 1998 Rome Statute, the "crime of apartheid" is defined as…
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    • Exactly. Palestinians could no more recognize Israel as a "Jewish State" than Jewish-Americans could accept America as a "Christian State".…
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    • Presumably that's how Saudis think of themselves, but we don't recognize Saudi Arabia as an Islamic state.  We recognize the…
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    • Well, if it's called Holy Friday in French, Spanish, and Orthodoxy, and Mournful Friday in German, doesn't that suggest that…
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    • We don't recognize things just because they exist. If we did that, then any nation in the world with enough…
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