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The Arabs know how to stroke Trump. Flattery and money.

Trump made a concession on Syria.

Another example of our often haphazard in the moment foreign policy.

We toppled the Iranian democracy movement and installed the brutal Shah. We were worried that the oil would be nationalized. That led to a revolution that led to the clerics taking over,
 
Trump is now ignoring Netanahyu. The US is going ahead with negotiations with Iran without Israel. The US has stopped bombing the Houthis who still attack Israeli vessels. We’ve agreed to drop sanctions against Syria.

Interesting developments. None of this is based on any strategic vision. Trump is also pissed at Putin. All his policies are based on petulance, and if Putin and Netanyahu piss him off enough he may end up helping Ukraine and Palestinians just out of spite.
One can only hope.
 
In the USA any politician or public figure who is seriously critical of Jews and Israel would face a media and cultural backlash. Past administrations have criticized Israeli colonization of the West Bank, but it has been weak and mute.
There are plenty of countries that are 100% on the Palestinian side. Others are mostly on Palestinian side.
Why is it deemed wrong by some that a country like the US is even partially pro-Israel?
Going back to the founding of Israel Jews seized Arab land.
Why do you call it "Arab Land"? Israel is not part of Arabia. Is Arab settlement and colonization good, but Jewish settlement bad?
We know plenty of Arabs who are now called "Palestinians" came to the area not long before Israeli independence. That's why UNRWA has a two year residency (1946-1948) to determine whose descendants are considered "Palestinian refugees" for all eternity.
When they defeated the Arab coalition in the first war Arabs were denied right of return to their land.
That was not their land. They should have settled and been integrated into the societies of surrounding Arab countries, just like Israel integrated Jews who were driven from areas Arabs ended up controlling were. There was no need for Arabs to keep their brethren in "refugees camps", much less to do it for decades.
For many decades Israel has condemned Palestinian land in the West Bank,
In 1948 so-called "West Bank" (really Judea and Samaria) was controlled by Jordan. Arabs waged another war against Israel in 1967, where they lost that territory. They waged another in 1973, where they failed to capture it back.
There was never a "Palestinian" sovereignty over any part of this piece of land until the Oslo Accords.
Palestinians in the West Bank have been systematically herded into smaller isolated areas, essentially ghettos.
That is unfortunate for them, but trying - and failing - to push your neighbor into the sea has consequences.
Reporting from Gaza backed by interviews with Israeli soldiers says Israeli troops are using Palestinians as human shields.
That's not right, but this Polandball cartoon is hilarious:
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We are still fighting Islamic extremists who want to establish a new Muslim caliphate, Israel gets a pass from us.
As well we should. I think political Islam is the major long term threat to Western civilization, both from outside and increasingly also from the inside due to misguided immigration policies.
And whine we debate here in comfort kids are starving and being bombed in Gaza.
It's funny that the claim is that Gazans are starving, and yet people in the video footage always look well-fed.
Example:

The guy at 1:16 for example. Does he look like he missed too many meals recently?

From reporting over here Trump is realizing neither Putin nor Netanyahu gives a shit what an American president says. Trump is way out of his league with Putin and Netnyahu8 who are exert manipulators.
Do not put these two in the same sentence!
Putin is a ruthless dictator who started a war of aggression against a neighboring country .
Netanyahu is a democratic prime minister whose limited room to maneuver is precisely because he must wrangle a coalition with very different views and a slim democratic majority. And he did not attack Gaza, but is responding to Gaza having invaded Israel, murdering ~1200 and kidnapping ~250.
 
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Trump is now ignoring Netanahyu. The US is going ahead with negotiations with Iran without Israel.
That's bad news. While Trump is wasting time talking, the Ayatollahs are busy enriching uranium. We need to take out Iranian nuclear facilities before they develop a nuclear weapon.
Trump made a good start when he took out arch-terrorist Soleimani. But Trump Always Chickens Out, even when his first instinct is right. We should go harder against the theocrats, not play nice with them while sidelining out allies.
The US has stopped bombing the Houthis who still attack Israeli vessels. We’ve agreed to drop sanctions against Syria.
The second part is right, since Asad is gone and we should give General Admiral Aladeen al-Jolani a chance.
The first part is a major fail, and yet another example of TACO. Houthis need to be hit harder.
 
The Arabs know how to stroke Trump.
Like so?
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We toppled the Iranian democracy movement and installed the brutal Shah.
No, we did not. Fist of all, Reza Pahlavi had already been the Shah since 1941. Second it was no "democracy movement", whatever that is supposed to mean, but the sitting prime minister, who wasn't even particularly democratic. He took dictatorial powers to pass any law without the parliament, and in the 1952 election he stopped the vote before districts unfavorable to him could be counted.
We were worried that the oil would be nationalized.
About the only thing you got correct in this screed. As a Soviet ally he wanted to expropriate US and UK oil firms that invested in developing Iranian oil fields.
That led to a revolution that led to the clerics taking over,
The Islamic Revolution happened 26 years later. To draw some sort of causal connection is tenuous at best.
What led to the Islamic Revolution is the West dipping the ball. For example, France allowed Khomeini to settle outside of Paris and plot his coup from there, as well as spread propaganda throughout Iran using cassette tapes.
The West should have recognized the threat instead of aiding and abetting it.
 
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Is Arab settlement and colonization good, but Jewish settlement bad?
What the hell is wrong with you?

Nothing is wrong with settlements, unless there's already people there and you're stealing their land from them. You do understand there's a difference, right?
 
Nothing is wrong with settlements, unless there's already people there and you're stealing their land from them. You do understand there's a difference, right?
Many Muslim Arabs settled in the land around the same time as Jewish settlement.

Yet, the allegedly not-at-all-antisemitic "anti-Zionists" will call the former "indigenous Arabs" and the latter "settler colonialists".
 
Derec has apparently not followed news on Israel and Netanyahu's long run.

He tried to eliminate judicial oversight of legation. Popular opposition sidetracked it. One reason for the iciontinued war is 8t diverts attention from Netanyahu's legal problem.

Netanyahu is an Israeli Trump. He is a Zionist who thinks Jews have a right to displace Palestinians.
Netanyahu is as much a monster on Gaza as Putin is in Ukraine. You can look up the estimates of the total tonnage of explosive ordnance expended on Gaza,. It is no less than geodetic and ethnic cleansing.

Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish nationalist for supporting peace. There is evidence that Netanyahu if not a part of the plot knew about it and did nothing.

Lie I said in the USA you can't seriously criticize a Jew even when it is warranted without faicng a backlash.

I knew Iranian immigrants and heard the stories of the brutality of the Shah. Before the Shah Iranians liked Americans. There was an American who died fighting to defend the democracy movent who became an Iranian hero. Howard Baskerville.



The Shah was installed because the west feared the government might nationalize the oil.

We tied to install puppets in Iraq and that failed.

After the revolution there was a power struggle between the democracy side and the clerics, clerics won and Iran became a theocracy.

A glaring example of our short sighted foreign policy. Short term gains and profitt over long term strategy. In contrast China thinks out 100 years.
 

Do you think that really happened?

Maybe Xitter is not the best source of international news. Just a thought.
Tom

Do you think it's AI?

There's lots of fake news out there that is not a product of AI.

"Christian women whipped & kicked in public by 1$raeli mob, mostly children, for speaking about Jesus.".
That's where I stopped bothering.

Seriously, "mostly children"?
Tom
 
Seriously, "mostly children"?
Do you think they were really midgets?
Seriously, you think I know that the people described as whipping and kicking other people might be midgets?

You described them as whipping and kicking. As part of an I$raeli mob. I'm calling bullshit on your story.
Tom
 
You said that I said those words. I said absolutely nothing in that post.
 
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