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uh..polar: if you remember, i was putting up information about the israeli settlements in the west bank almost from the outset in this thread. i explained why i was doing it, why i thought it important. it just happened that i saw the article i posted in the times after i posted what i expected to be my last in the sequence, which was the post above.
to be clear: willravel and i are separate people.
i don't find the same things interesting as he does.
in this case, my main contention is that the iran "threat" functions to frame israel as a potential victim---i see this as a bit of symbolic politicking. i also contend that the central issue concerning israel is the settlement program and by extension the treatment of palestine. i've already explained why this is the case.
this is the line i am pursuing here.
it just seems to have turned out that i was right in suspecting a linkage between the stories about iran and the politics surrounding the settlements--which follows given the far-right coalition that netanyahu has had to enter into in order to govern. he's paying the piper.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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