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Originally Posted by TheNasty
So they really wanted peace, they just talked a big game and carried out bombings to keep up their street cred?
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The island of Ireland is not one nation. The IRA have and are laying down their arms. The armed conflict is over. Your mini-narrative is ridiculous.
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Originally Posted by TheNasty
What would that sane political party look like? One that ignores attacks from Palestine for as long as it takes? Or do you think Hamas just talks a big game and would stop attacking Israel tomorrow if they would remove blockades and wholesale leave the Palestinian territory, including Israeli civilians/citizens?
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Color-and-shade-blindness much?
There aren't just 2 options. Either you set out on a policy of massacre or you ignore the rockets fired at you... Can't you think of any other potential lines of progress from here?
The big stick doesn't work... the more Israel uses the iron fist, the more money will flow to the extremists, which they won't be using for flower arranging classes and pilates sessions.
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--
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