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By: The Truth

The Truth — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:19:54 +0000

Just wonder..
What occupation you talking about!?

As far as I know the history, in 1920 the British Gov’ have decided to give the land of what today is Israel & Jordan to the Jews to establish a nation.

So as far as I can tell the group of people who call them selves “Palestinians”
Are the invaders, intruders and occupants!

The Palestinians are the Muslim’s conspiracy against Israel!

By: Flipper

Flipper — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:14:02 +0000

Mouser, I fear you miss the point here. This is not about Gaza. This is about free exchange of ideas and artists trying to censor voices of other artists, even when the artists being muted are some of the most critical voices. This has nothing to do with Zionism.

There is the 20th Annual Festival of Films from Iran starting tomorrow at the Siskel center in Chicago. Iran is a country that just a few months ago murdered its own citizens in the streets, beat and imprisoned hundreds, if not thousands, rigged an election and has committed untoled atrocities against it’s own people but I don’t see any of the people who protested Toronto showing up to protest this festival. Why?

Apathy. Hypocrisy.

If you want to protest TIFF then you should be outraged at every event which celebrates artists who live in countries which have committed brutal and oppressive acts. This is not the statement of a “Zionist sympathizer”; this is the statement of an artist who believes in artistic expression as a path to a peaceful future. When people don’t talk they fight so we should be supporting every opportunity for people to talk.

My question to you – why don’t you want to engage?

By: Mouser

Mouser — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:42:43 +0000

During the “war” of Gaza Dec’08/Jan’09 the Palestinians lost about 1500 people (mostly civilians – women and children).
Guess how many Israel lost – 7 (seven).
That is not a war, that is a genocide.
A genocide that included contraband whitephisphorous against defenseless civilians.
How can any of you Zionist sympathizers utter a word against the positive action of a boycott in order to try to bring what Israel is doing to the Palestinians into the mass media consciousness?

By: Flipper

Flipper — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:26:24 +0000

Truth: racism is unbecoming. Go back and read his note. He didn’t ask what Jews have brought to the world, he asked what Israel has. It’s people like you, with statements like that, that keep the future of the Palestinian people in hock to your own petty hatred. Your blinded by rage and bigotry and this in capable of having a productive conversation.

By: TruthTeller

TruthTeller — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:26:10 +0000

Flipper you missed out that Jews invented the Debt Slavery Fractional Reserve Banking System off your list.

By: Flipper

Flipper — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:08:14 +0000

Since you’re 16 I’ll assume you didn’t bother to do any research before the statement that Israel hasn’t contributed anything to the world. Here are six things that they have contributed which I bet you have used. You are so consumed with your anger that you failed to see what this thread was about though. It was about opening dialogue between cultures to bring about the end of the conflict. The rage I see in you and others here is exactly part of the problem. That both sides continue to hold onto to so much anger and mistrust. It has to end and to end people have to talk. That being said, I’m willing to bet you’ve used several of these things in the last 24 hours:

1. The cell phone was developed in Israel by Israelis working in the Israeli branch of Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.

2. Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by Microsoft-Israel.

3. The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel. Both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and the Centrino processor were entirely designed, developed, and produced in Israel.

4. The Pentium microprocessor in your computer was most likely made in Israel.

5. Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.

6. The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:56:12 +0000

Well, I for one think it is great, all this crap with Israel is just insane, they are in a land that doesn’t belong to them, was given to them by people/countries that didn’t own it and now they turn around and commit the same atrocities against Palestine that they themselves received just 60 years earlier wtf. At the same time all you hear is “we just want to get along and live in peace with our neighbors” ,, cough cough gag, L I E S, and crap propaganda like this (Rabbi Marvin Hier was critical of those who signed the letter and was reported by TMZ as saying that “Whoever would sign on to a campaign like this would support the complete destruction of Israel.” ) is how they scare everyone into not being critical of these terrorists. hell I’m 16 and i know i could care less if the country dissolved, show me what GOOD that country has done for anyone else in the world that didn’t better themselves in one fashion or another. easy to be the tough guy when your the 4th largest nuclear weapons holder lol and no i don’t hate/dislike Jewish people, i dislike Israelis and their messed up ideologies

By: Flipper

Flipper — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:33:52 +0000

I don’t think it’s fair to say that I instigated that at all. I simply invited Mr. Smith to say what he clearly was trying to say. His views are abhorrent, and shared by a number of people on this forum, and I think we all knew what he (and they) were talking about. I just gave him the room he needed to come out say it. You guys need to be careful – your threads seem to be home to a lot of hateful speech and a lot of people advocating truly dreadful actions.

By: The Editors

The Editors — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:41:51 +0000

@Flipper – please do not instigate. All – let’s focus on the issue and not on attacking each other.