Naughty Naughty Americans

[JimC]

You are weak sauce, Coito. You don't stand a chance against me in a debate:

UN investigator: Israel engaged in ethnic cleansing with settlement expansion

Israel's expansion of settlements in East Jerusalem and eviction of Palestinians from their homes there is a form of ethnic cleansing, a United Nations investigator said on Monday.

United States academic Richard Falk was speaking to the UN Human Rights Council as it prepared to pass resolutions condemning settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The "continued pattern of settlement expansion in East Jerusalem combined with the forcible eviction of long-residing Palestinians are creating an intolerable situation" in the part of the city previously controlled by Jordan, he said.

This situation "can only be described in its cumulative impact as a form of ethnic cleansing," Falk declared........

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... n-1.350938

The settlement program is plainly and simply wrong, and an obstacle to any possibility of a future peace deal. Whether it can be reasonably compared to more dramatic and violent forms of ethic cleansing in other places doesn't change the fact that it is both morally wrong and wilfully stupid.

[egbert]

Embassies are full of spies? The Russian Govt is crooked?? Say it ain't so!

AND, inappropriate behaviour by a member of the British royal family? NOOOOOO!

[egbert]

Easy to paint America is the big bad evil man until you realise you shot down the only 'international bully' left who actually practiced democracy in its own borders. Who's leaders, and thus policies, could be changed by its own people not through force of arms but through ballot.

Funny thing, the USA is always at war.

How else is Raytheon going to make money?

[Coito ergo sum]

You are weak sauce, Coito. You don't stand a chance against me in a debate:

I'll take your challenge.

Start a thread - add a poll to it so people can vote on whether you or I win the debate. Choose an issue to debate, and take a position on it. I'll debate you, and we'll see who wins.

[sandinista]

You are weak sauce, Coito. You don't stand a chance against me in a debate:

I'll take your challenge.

Start a thread - add a poll to it so people can vote on whether you or I win the debate. Choose an issue to debate, and take a position on it. I'll debate you, and we'll see who wins.

my vote would be neither.