Mid East Crisis

[Churchill]

"The gay capital of the Middle East"

A kind of Mecca, then?

I'm sorry, I don't pray that way!

cue for a song?

[Incognito]

Pish

Here he comes.

Note, I did not say 9/11 resolved the crisis, I said it brought peace. There is a big difference.

[amcdonald]

Here he comes.

Note, I did not say 9/11 resolved the crisis, I said it brought peace. There is a big difference.

Only because the yanks suddenly realised that funding terrorists wasn't a trendy activity for lefties anymore

Without the yanks funding the IRA, they had to fall back on money laundering, casinos, fuel theft etc to get by rather than pretend to be interested in politics back home

[Churchill]

Only because the yanks suddenly realised that funding terrorists wasn't a trendy activity for lefties anymore

Without the yanks funding the IRA, they had to fall back on money laundering, casinos, fuel theft etc to get by rather than pretend to be interested in politics back home

You left out the following...

Drugs
Prostitution
Protection Rackets

So much for "the cause", eh bhoys?

[minestrone]

Only because the yanks suddenly realised that funding terrorists wasn't a trendy activity for lefties anymore

Without the yanks funding the IRA, they had to fall back on money laundering, casinos, fuel theft etc to get by rather than pretend to be interested in politics back home

Gaddafi done more for the IRA ( who had already admitted the armed struggle was over long before 9/11 ) with a few boats loads of heavy weapons and semtex than Gene Kelly and his mates did passing the plate round on their cigars and Bushmills nights in New York.

[EC4N]

Very good, now answer this, what events were the precursor to the downsize in Palestinian territory in those pictures? So why between '47 and '49 did they lose territory and then again post '67 what happened then?...

What a ludicrous diversion. The Nakba didn't exactly happen on the moon did it? In the first instance, try and justify why the state of Israel was founded on terrorism by the Zionist terrorist gangs of the time (the Irgun Zvai Leumi, Stern Gang and Haganah ). The fact that Argentina was also an option for the creation of a Jewish state is contradictory to your assertion of an 'eretz Yisrael' some 800 b.c as justification for displacing millions of it's inhabitants.

[centurian]

9/11 brought peace to N.Ireland, that's all I'll say.

And Ireland's economy imploding is helping to keep the peace.

The Celtic Tiger is (was) a major reason why nationalism was hotting up again. Nothing to do with religion this time - just the belief that Dublin was paved in gold and NI was missing out.

[minestrone]

And Ireland's economy imploding is helping to keep the peace.

The Celtic Tiger is (was) a major reason why nationalism was hotting up again. Nothing to do with religion this time - just the belief that Dublin was paved in gold and NI was missing out.

It is quite the reverse, CIRA, RIRA, and Oglaigh na hEireann are making massive recruitment drives in the south and all currently active republican groups are making 'socialist' proclamations about bankers stealing wealth from the common Irish man which is going down great with the masses.

There is going to be a bombing campaign again in England in the next few years, that is beyond doubt.

[EC4N]

...So why between '47 and '49 did they lose territory and then again post '67 what happened then?

I'll give you a clue, one side didn't want to stick to the fairest proposal:

Just incase you missed my link, perhaps you should also consider some of the chain of events taking place prior to and between 47 and 49 and conclude how it's even remotely possible to accept a 'proposal' after being brutally repressed in your own country. And calling it 'fairest', well you really are taking the pithhh.

The attacks on the British were deliberate acts to change the status quo given that Britain was responsible for initiating the Balfour Declaration of 1917 specifically for the creation of a Jewish state. And all this, 50 years before the emergence of Al-Qaeda.


November 6, 1944. Zionist terrorists of the Stern Gang assassinated the British Minister Resident in the Middle East, Lord Moyne, in Cairo.

October 1, 1946. The British Embassy in Rome was badly damaged by bomb explosions, for which Irgun claimed responsibility.

June 1947. Letters sent to British Cabinet Ministers were found to contain bombs.

September 3, 1947. A postal bomb addressed to the British War Office exploded in the post office sorting room in London, injuring 2 persons. It was attributed to Irgun or Stern Gangs. (The Sunday Times, Sept. 24, 1972, p.8)

May 3, 1948. A book bomb addressed to a British Army officer, who had been stationed in Palestine exploded, killing his brother, Rex Farran.
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1947 -- 1948. Over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs were uprooted from their homes and land, and forced to live in refugee camps on Israel's borders. They have been denied the right to return to their homes. They have been refused compensation for their homes, orchards, farms and other property stolen from them by the Israeli government. After their expulsion, the "Israeli Forces" totally obliterated (usually by bulldozing) 385 Arab villages and towns, out of a total of 475. Commonly, Israeli villages were built on the remaining rubble.

[Incognito]

Gaddafi done more for the IRA ( who had already admitted the armed struggle was over long before 9/11 ) with a few boats loads of heavy weapons and semtex than Gene Kelly and his mates did passing the plate round on their cigars and Bushmills nights in New York.

Pish

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stylee rant

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you're Muslim.