Recent content by Arctish

Thousands of years of recorded history tells us that wars end. Your belief that this particular one can't end in anything but genocide and ethnic cleansing is a product of your mindset, not an inevitable conclusion given the history of the region or the world.

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He's also a bestselling author: crazyfingers, if you haven't seen Army of Darkness, you're missing out on some classic comedy.

I know. I'm a Boomer. And a Bruce Campbell fan.

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What makes you say that? There's a war going on because of the atrocities Hamas committed. It's been front page news for years. Tens of thousands of people are dead, hundreds of thousands have been wounded and maimed, millions are facing starvation. Nations sympathetic to Israel have upped the...

It is also possible to blame Hamas, accept the necessity of bombing Hamas command, communication, and weapons sites so that Hamas will be defeated and replaced, even knowing civilian deaths are likely to occur, without accepting reckless endangerment of civilians much less a policy of blowing up...

Which specific incidents are you talking about? Don't be vague. Also, while you have a point that murder is a horror than cannot be completely prevented, that doesn't mean we should give up on trying to minimize the number of murders or stop trying to identify and prosecute the murderers.

And this means what, exactly? That Herodotus failed to use Google Maps correctly, therefore his use of the word "Palestine" as a name for the region he was describing can be ignored and your silly quibbling has merit? The land of Israel isn't the homeland of Germans, Russians, Hungarians...

I mean what I was talking about here, and every other time I have linked to a report on the ruling of Israel's Supreme Court that denied the petition of citizens of Israel who wanted to be identified as Israeli on their national ID cards. He hasn't denied the connection. He doesn't think the...

I think Jimmy Higgins is sleeping, so.... what movie is this:

BTW, the name Palestine as a place name for the region goes all the way back to the 5th century BCE when Heredotus recorded that name in his work Histories. There are older inscriptions that reference very similar sounding names for the same place. Also, before the 7th century CE, the most...