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What Canada was doing in the 1930's before WW II, before 1947 is beside the point. You claimed Palestine was the only safe place in the world for Jews in 1947, not the 1930's. After WW II Canada changed its immigration laws and allowed Jewish refugees to immigrate freely to Canada. In 1947, Canada was a safe and welcoming destination for Jews. So was the US and most of the rest of the world.

2000 years of being murdered, run out of countries, confiscation and followed by the World's
1st and only Genocide.
Now who the fuk would you trust. People like yourself.
 

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After WW II Canada changed its immigration laws and allowed Jewish refugees to immigrate freely to Canada.
Do you frequently return to places that turned you away when you were dire straights?

In 1947, Canada was a safe and welcoming destination for Jews. So was the US and most of the rest of the world.
Do you have proof of that?
 

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2000 years of being murdered, run out of countries, confiscation and followed by the World's
1st and only Genocide.
Now who the fuk would you trust. People like yourself.

Jews are not the only people to suffer genocide and knowing human nature, I expect they won't be the last.

People who hid Jews in their homes and helped Jews escape had the ability to see right through lies told to them by the state controlled media. Jews have nothing to fear from people who believe in peace and tolerance that can see right through demonizing propaganda about them or anyone else. Any Jew who believes that people who currently irrationally fear and hate Muslims are their long term friends would be mistaken. The same demonizing propaganda techniques used against Muslims, can also be used against Jews. Their Islamaphobic "friends" would turn against them if their idiot box started demonizing Jews. The manipulated masses only needed about 2 days to go from ardent Saddam Hussein supporters willing to overlook his cruelty and war crimes, to calling for his head.

Regarding my re-discovered Jewishness, apparently my ancestors knew personally what it was like to be discriminated against and run out of countries. My uncle believes his mother, (my Grandmother on my mother`s side) was 100% Jewish. Everyone including her, thought she was Polish Catholic. When my uncle tried to locate our Polish relatives by our legal family name, he encountered a dead end. Finally he realized our legal family name was invented. Eventually he discovered our original family name was "Sklar" and he made contact with our relatives in Poland. They knew my Great Grandfather and Great Grandmother by their invented Canadian legal name and their original family name. They had letters from them after came from Canada using the new Canadian name and pictures of my Great Grandfather and Great Grandmother before he came to Canada. These letters and photos confirm confirm that Sklar is our original family name. They also knew much about why they came to Poland from Russia and why the family changed their name. According to them, the Sklar family originates from Russia. My Jewish ancestors fled to Poland and changed their name to escape the anti-Jewish pogroms which were common before/during the Russian revolution. When the Sklar's came to Poland, they changed their name to a non-Jewish Polish sounding name and pretended to Catholic, so they would not be harassed by anti-Semitic Poles. Some continued to practice Judaism covertly even during the time of the Nazi occupation. Some of my relatives who remained in Poland and continued to be Jewish now openly practice Judaism. Others are devout Catholics. Most of my Polish/Russian/Jewish relatives are secular/agnostic just like me.

My uncle lives a far distance from me, so I have not seen his proof first hand. But the evidence sounds conclusive and my uncle genuinely believes that my Grandmother on my Mom's side comes from a Jewish family. If I tested my mitochondrial DNA, I would expect to confirm that I descended from Jews on my mother's side. I have a sister and a number of female cousins who also share the same mitochondrial DNA. Their children would also be genetically Jewish like me.

I can appreciate the irony of being classified by you idiots as a Joo-hater, when it turns out, I am actually genetically Jewish. I guess according to your narrow warped perspective, you should now classify me as a self hating Jew. BTW, I am proud of my family heritage and being part Jewish.

FYI: I am still against war criminals and people who commit crimes against humanity. I still support freedom and justice. I can still see right through demonizing propaganda. That would make me someone who would support Jews in their time of need, rather than a fair weather Islamaphobic friend, who knows little more than what their idiot box tells them.

BTW Goober, you never answered my question. Every time you get snarky, I'm going to remind you about it, until you give me an answer. Here is the question:
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/members-lounge/101737-more-forum-intrigue-4.html#post1473177

I just want to know which of your contradictory statements was a lie, since they both can't be true.
 
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Jews are not the only people to suffer genocide and knowing human nature, I expect they won't be the last.

http://forums.canadiancontent.net/members-lounge/101737-more-forum-intrigue-4.html#post1473177

I just want to know which of your contradictory statements was a lie, since they both can't be true.

The only Genocide has been the Jews - Not the Armenians, Not the Tutsi, Not the Bosnians, - The Jews.
I answered your question but you keep twisting it. If you do not like the answer fine. deal with it, Buckey, Deal with it.

Now why did you include CB in your poll. What did he do to deserve a thing like that from you. Oh yes, he spanks you.
 

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Ha ha ha- have to say i love the map and diagram of israel, where all the jews were given a generous portion of... desert. Seriously, that's like offering refugees a nice portion of the sahara. Also, I can imagine it was rather difficult to navigate- it being competely disconnected. But the jews accepted it- which shows what kind of people they are...

Hmmmmmmm you look familiar. Have we met?
 

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European Jews were not successfully eliminated. Many survived and my family background proves that European Jews still exist. I count myself among them.

In order for genocide to be successful, the people would have to have been eliminated, like these people:
Beothuk people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You are so consumed by hate, that you have little regard for the suffering of others including those who were rounded up for extermination by Nazis at the same time as the Jews. The only people you count are the estimated 6 million Jews who died during the Holocaust. You don't count the 4-6 million non-Jews who also went to the Nazi extermination camps at the same time and suffered the same fate. Israeli apologists seldom like yourself seldom recognize the suffering of non-Jews.

You are provably wrong if you believe Jews have a monopoly on genocide and suffering. Its a fact that at different times, different groups of people were targeted for mass extermination. Genocide is a sad, but re-occurring theme throughout human history.

Regarding your evasive answers about your lies. No you didn't answer which of your statements was a lie and you still didn't. You claimed one contradictory statement was the truth and then tried to spin the other contradictory statement as the truth too, like you were trying to perform a Jedi mind control trick. While I admit taking some pleasure watching you squirm between blaming a moderator for your forum rule violating actions and then claiming they didn't advise you in direct contradiction of a previous statement, I would still like you to admit outright which statement was a lie, rather than which one is the truth. Your answer indicated both answers were the truth, which is logically impossible.

I suspect that proving you are a liar by using your own words against you, didn't come as a surprise to many people here on the forum.
 

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European Jews were not successfully eliminated. Many survived and my family background proves that European Jews still exist. I count myself among them.

In order for genocide to be successful, the people would have to have been eliminated, like these people:
Beothuk people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You are so consumed by hate, that you have little regard for the suffering of others including those who were rounded up for extermination by Nazis at the same time as the Jews. The only people you count are the estimated 6 million Jews who died during the Holocaust. You don't count the 4-6 million non-Jews who also went to the Nazi extermination camps at the same time and suffered the same fate. Israeli apologists seldom like yourself seldom recognize the suffering of non-Jews.

I suspect that proving you are a liar by using your own words against you, didn't come as a surprise to many people here on the forum.

What past acts constituted genocide is a very heated debate – Many like myself consider the Holocaust as it was performed on an industrial scale, never before seen by humanity. Massive diversions of soldiers and equipment by the Nazis for killing Jews when they were needed to fight battles proved that point early in the War.
My words do not prove a lie – They expanded on the answer Buckey.
No Jedi Mind tricks for you – It would be a waste of useful energy – I prefer crazy glue for your mouth.

Oh yes, why was CB included in the Poll – Now that proves hateful Bias of yours did show – It also proved the point of what a doucebag you are.
 

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I already answered that question here.
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/members-lounge/101737-more-forum-intrigue.html#post1473060

CB was included for completeness and try to cover all people involved.

Back to your own words:

Statement 1:
Think what you want - Your opinion on this is in my mind not correct.This bothered me for a time - Believe it or not - i even discussed this issue with Mods -

Statement #2
No Mods advised me - Can you understand that and as to what bugs your ass - The real answer is you come on these threads and get your ass reamed deep and hard all the time. Guess you like that. Does it excite you, do you get a chubby from that, then yell Mommy?

In order for one statement to be true, the other must be a lie. You claim both statements are true, when obviously that's a logical impossibility.

So far your response to being caught in a lie has been to lie about your lies, claim both lies were the truth and diversions.
 

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I already answered that question here.
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/members-lounge/101737-more-forum-intrigue.html#post1473060

CB was included for completeness and try to cover all people involved.

Back to your own words:

Statement 1:
Think what you want - Your opinion on this is in my mind not correct.This bothered me for a time - Believe it or not - i even discussed this issue with Mods -

Statement #2


In order for one statement to be true, the other must be a lie. You claim both statements are true, when obviously that's a logical impossibility.

So far your response to being caught in a lie has been to lie about your lies, claim both lies were the truth and diversions.

Have you ever discussed an issue without going into detail? Well have you.
Again you try to spin words to your fancy Fifi.

CB was included for completeness and try to cover all people involved.
You included people that had fuk all to do with it
I love that – CB had nothing to do with it outside of spanking your ass Fifi.
And your poll. Well like yourself it leaves a lot to be desired.
So I consider this over and done with. Cyeah
Poll Options
Who acted unethically and broke forum rules
eao broke forum rules
eao acted unethically
CB broke forum rules
CB acted unethically
Goober broke forum rules
Goober acted unethically
One of the moderators broke forum rules
One of the moderators acted unethically
Both of the moderators broke forum rules
Both of the moderators acted unethically
 

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More diversions Goober. You still haven't answered the question. Which one of your contradictory statements was a lie?

Also, your perception of attempted genocide as being the same as genocide, is no more accurate than claiming attempted homicide is the same as homicide. European Jews were not exterminated completely. Many escaped. While it is true that the Nazis attempted to exterminate all European Jews by industrial means, they also attempted to exterminate all European Roma too. Unlike Jews, these people never got a homeland and they still face discrimination in Europe. The Nazis rounded up many other races and religions and only the Jews got someone else's homeland as a result. BTW, I am against compensating the victims of a crime against humanity, by committing another crime against humanity.

Back on subject. Palestinians are the new Jews. These people are as reviled today by the MSM and the manipulated masses as Jews were back in the 1930's. Palestinians lost their citizenship so that European Jewish refugees who fled to Palestine could take their homes and property. Its been 60+ years of negotiations to right this wrong and so far they have gone nowhere. The status quo allows Israeli criminals to take Palestinian homes and property, while attacking and killing with impunity those who resist. The status quo allows Israel to continue their ethnic cleansing policies in violation international laws and treaties which supposedly recognize everyone's fundamental human rights. This week the international community will be asked if fundamental human rights including citizenship apply to everyone, or if Palestinians aren't human enough to have citizenship and the protection of universal human rights.

Sadly Canada appears ready to side with Israel, the US and a few other countries against the overwhelming majority of the international community and vote in favor of Israel continuing to treat Palestinians as non-humans without citizenship and other fundamental human rights. You can expect to hear a lot of Orwellian double speak from Israel, the US and Canada, which explains how allowing Israel to continue cleansing Palestine of non-Jewish Palestinians protects Palestinian rights and freedoms. Anyone with a brain will see through it.
 
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Sadly Canada appears ready to side with Israel, the US and a few other countries against the overwhelming majority of the international community and vote in favor of Israel continuing to treat Palestinians as non-humans without citizenship and other fundamental human rights. You can expect to hear a lot of Orwellian double speak from Israel, the US and Canada, which explains how allowing Israel to continue cleansing Palestine of non-Jewish Palestinians protects Palestinian rights and freedoms. Anyone with a brain will see through it.

What will your reaction be when those few countries that pay the bills revoke or leesen aid provided. If you have not heard monies from the Arab world promised are still not there yet. Late again.
Will State 194 leesen or increase the tension in the Mid East.
 

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The upcoming UN vote will change nothing for the Palestinians, but it will clearly expose who supports universal human rights and who doesn't.

The US gives little money to Palestinians. Most "US aid" goes straight to their puppet dictator Abbas and its sole purpose is to keep him well armed so he can remain in power by force. Most Palestinians would be better off without Abbas and "US aid".

Israel collects taxes from Palestinians. Whether or not Dictator Abbas sees that money depends on how willing he is to look the other way as Israelis continue to annex more Palestinian land and property. Since he has been complaining about it lately, Israel gives Abbas just enough of the tax money they collect from Palestinians to prevent his popular overthrow by the Palestinian people and pocket the rest.

Gazans are dependent on international aid which Israel limits and whatever they can smuggle through the tunnels from Egypt. Now that Egyptians have overthrown their US/Israel puppet dictator, Gazans have nearly free trade with Egypt. Occasionally Israel tries to shut down the tunnels by bombing the the Gaza/Egypt border area, but within a few hours, the tunnels resume at full capacity. Exposing Israel's humanitarian aid blockade and embarrassing the Israelis regarding their cruelty is the only effective way to increase Gaza's official meager rations. If Gazans had to live off the level of international aid allowed into Gaza by Israel without any help from the smugglers, most Gazans would be starving.

The Palestinian papers prove that Abbas was willing to sell out the Palestinians in exchange for slightly more power and money.
http://english.aljazeera.net/palestinepapers/2011/01/201112214310263628.html
These documents indicate that Israel had more than a willing partner in peace in Abbas. The Palestinian Papers show Abbas is more of a Israeli collaborator when it comes to Israeli oppression and injustice towards Palestinians. Despite Abbas's willingness to sell out his own people for a small price, Israel and the US refused to increase his bribe. Eventually Abbas realized that the Israelis and Americans were just jerking his chain and even he stopped trying to sell out his own people.

The Israelis never had any intention to stop their rolling annexation of Palestine. Israel never had any intention to grant Palestinians freedom or justice, which was never part of their negotiations with Abbas anyway. Israelis are willing only to negotiate the size and comfort level of Palestinian concentration camps.

The Harper government unshakably supports Israeli policies which oppress Palestinians and deny them justice. Very soon, Harper will direct his UN representatives to embarrass Canada by voting against most of the rest of the world in support of denying Palestinians citizenship and other fundamental human rights.
 
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Jews are not the only people to suffer genocide and knowing human nature, I expect they won't be the last.

People who hid Jews in their homes and helped Jews escape had the ability to see right through lies told to them by the state controlled media. Jews have nothing to fear from people who believe in peace and tolerance that can see right through demonizing propaganda about them or anyone else. Any Jew who believes that people who currently irrationally fear and hate Muslims are their long term friends would be mistaken. The same demonizing propaganda techniques used against Muslims, can also be used against Jews. Their Islamaphobic "friends" would turn against them if their idiot box started demonizing Jews. The manipulated masses only needed about 2 days to go from ardent Saddam Hussein supporters willing to overlook his cruelty and war crimes, to calling for his head.

Bull****.

First of all, the people willing to risk their lives for Jews were a TINY fraction of one percent....perhaps one in a thousand. The vast, vast majority of people are sheep, which means in a climate of Jew hatred, perhaps one in a thousand will actually risk their safety to help.

I read an article some time ago that studied the people that helped Jews. It put forth the thesis that the people that helped came from two very distinct societal types, and were almost evenly divided between the two:

First were real Christians, people steeped in the Christian religion that fully refused to go along with the Nazi evil, and that vetted their own Christianity by risking all to save individual Jews.

The second group were criminals.....quite literally people from the underbelly of society, people that habitually spat in the face of authority when the spirit seized them.........some of whom took up the Jewish cause with gusto, simply as an act of rebellion.......and compassion.

the rest of society at best turned its back on the Jews.

As for trying to compare Jew hatred and the non-existent "Islamophobia", your claims are laughable. Watch the vid, if you can stomach the idiotic arrogance of that silver-spoon socialist dummy Avi Lewis (love Hirsi Ali, the look of polite contempt is priceless!)

She knows what she is talking about.

On The Map with Avi Lewis: Ayaan Hirsi Ali & Islamophobia - YouTube

Oh, BTW, the Jewish religion does not call for world domination, the wholesale murder of Muslims, never-ending warfare, nor the submission or slaughter of all non-Jews.

Islam does call for never-ending Jihad, world domination, the submission or slaughter of non-Muslims, and the murder of all Jews before the end days..

BIG difference.

The upcoming UN vote will change nothing for the Palestinians, but it will clearly expose who supports universal human rights and who doesn't.

The US gives little money to Palestinians. Most "US aid" goes straight to their puppet dictator Abbas and its sole purpose is to keep him well armed so he can remain in power by force. Most Palestinians would be better off without Abbas and "US aid".

Israel collects taxes from Palestinians. Whether or not Dictator Abbas sees that money depends on how willing he is to look the other way as Israelis continue to annex more Palestinian land and property. Since he has been complaining about it lately, Israel gives Abbas just enough of the tax money they collect from Palestinians to prevent his popular overthrow by the Palestinian people and pocket the rest.

Gazans are dependent on international aid which Israel limits and whatever they can smuggle through the tunnels from Egypt. Now that Egyptians have overthrown their US/Israel puppet dictator, Gazans have nearly free trade with Egypt. Occasionally Israel tries to shut down the tunnels by bombing the the Gaza/Egypt border area, but within a few hours, the tunnels resume at full capacity. Exposing Israel's humanitarian aid blockade and embarrassing the Israelis regarding their cruelty is the only effective way to increase Gaza's official meager rations. If Gazans had to live off the level of international aid allowed into Gaza by Israel without any help from the smugglers, most Gazans would be starving.

The Palestinian papers prove that Abbas was willing to sell out the Palestinians in exchange for slightly more power and money.
Introducing The Palestine Papers - The Palestine Papers - Al Jazeera English
These documents indicate that Israel had more than a willing partner in peace in Abbas. The Palestinian Papers show Abbas is more of a Israeli collaborator when it comes to Israeli oppression and injustice towards Palestinians. Despite Abbas's willingness to sell out his own people for a small price, Israel and the US refused to increase his bribe. Eventually Abbas realized that the Israelis and Americans were just jerking his chain and even he stopped trying to sell out his own people.

The Israelis never had any intention to stop their rolling annexation of Palestine. Israel never had any intention to grant Palestinians freedom or justice, which was never part of their negotiations with Abbas anyway. Israelis are willing only to negotiate the size and comfort level of Palestinian concentration camps.

The Harper government unshakably supports Israeli policies which oppress Palestinians and deny them justice. Very soon, Harper will direct his UN representatives to embarrass Canada by voting against most of the rest of the world in support of denying Palestinians citizenship and other fundamental human rights.

Oh, I see....PALESTINE recognizes human rights.....but Israel doesn't.

Uh huh.

How many Jews live under the Palestinian Authority and vote in Palestinian elections????

20% of the population??

If not, STFU, you're making a fool of yourself.

Again.

More diversions Goober. You still haven't answered the question. Which one of your contradictory statements was a lie?

Also, your perception of attempted genocide as being the same as genocide, is no more accurate than claiming attempted homicide is the same as homicide. European Jews were not exterminated completely. Many escaped. While it is true that the Nazis attempted to exterminate all European Jews by industrial means, they also attempted to exterminate all European Roma too. Unlike Jews, these people never got a homeland and they still face discrimination in Europe. The Nazis rounded up many other races and religions and only the Jews got someone else's homeland as a result. BTW, I am against compensating the victims of a crime against humanity, by committing another crime against humanity.

Back on subject. Palestinians are the new Jews. These people are as reviled today by the MSM and the manipulated masses as Jews were back in the 1930's. Palestinians lost their citizenship so that European Jewish refugees who fled to Palestine could take their homes and property. Its been 60+ years of negotiations to right this wrong and so far they have gone nowhere. The status quo allows Israeli criminals to take Palestinian homes and property, while attacking and killing with impunity those who resist. The status quo allows Israel to continue their ethnic cleansing policies in violation international laws and treaties which supposedly recognize everyone's fundamental human rights. This week the international community will be asked if fundamental human rights including citizenship apply to everyone, or if Palestinians aren't human enough to have citizenship and the protection of universal human rights.

Sadly Canada appears ready to side with Israel, the US and a few other countries against the overwhelming majority of the international community and vote in favor of Israel continuing to treat Palestinians as non-humans without citizenship and other fundamental human rights. You can expect to hear a lot of Orwellian double speak from Israel, the US and Canada, which explains how allowing Israel to continue cleansing Palestine of non-Jewish Palestinians protects Palestinian rights and freedoms. Anyone with a brain will see through it.


LOL!!!

A guy could break his fingers countering your idiotic posts!!!

Best guess is the Germans killed about 225,000 Roma.......compared to 5.8 million Jews.

About 22 percent of the European Roma population, compared to 33 percent of the WORLD Jewish population.

And yes, the Roma do still face persecution.

Oh, and the Jews got an area less than one third the size of New Brunswick.........and the Arabs have 125 TIMES that area in the Arabian Peninsula alone.

And the Jews emigrated, and are the majority population in Israel.....you do believe in self-determination, don't you???? lol

Arabs (Palestinians) have MANY nations. NONE of which has built a just society like that in Israel. Israel is superior, politically, economically. ethically.....any way you wish to cut it.

If Palestinians (Arabs) wish to form yet another state on the Peninsula, they have to make peace with Israel first. And recognize her right to exist.
 

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Wow I never knew so many Chinese people were Christians:
Between 1933 and 1941, the Chinese city of Shanghai accepted unconditionally over 30,000 Jewish refugees escaping the Holocaust in Europe, a number greater than those taken in by Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the British India combined during World War II. Japanese government ensured Jewish safety in China, Japan and Manchuria.[25] Japanese Army received Jewish refugees, General Hideki Tōjō received Jewish refugees in accordance with Japanese national policy and rejected German protest.[26] After 1941, the occupying Nazi-aligned Japanese ghettoised the Jewish refugees in Shanghai into an area known as the Shanghai ghetto. Many of the Jewish refugees in Shanghai migrated to the United States and Israel after 1948 due to the Chinese Civil War (1946–1950).
List of individuals and groups assisting Jews during the Holocaust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I recommend you read the list of people and organizations who took in Jews and/or helped them escape Nazi Germany. A few people were motivated by Christian ethnics, but the common thread which binds all those who voluntarily helped Jews during this time was a strong sense of empathy despite demonizing propaganda which portrayed Jews as evil and a willingness to oppose their governments.

The fact is Jews had many safe havens in 1947 and Canada is one of those safe havens. So was the US. Attempts to portray the US or Canada as risky places for Jews are ridiculous and every Canadian here knows it.

Jew hatred was the result demonizing propaganda. People who couldn't see through that propaganda were about as likely to help Jews as you would be to help Muslims.

No doubt victims of ethnic cleansing, state based oppression and injustice harbor strong feelings towards the people they consider responsible. Not many Afrikaners chose to live in the various Bantustans they created during the South African apartheid era either. Does that prove black South Africans are subhuman like Palestinians?

The upcoming UN vote is about the right of everyone to citizenship. Palestinians have no citizenship after 60+ years of negotiation. By the end of the week, it will be clear to the world that Israel and the US are the main obstacles to Palestinian freedom and justice.

Until Palestinians have freedom and justice, Israelis won't have peace. That's a statement about human nature, not about Israelis or Palestinians.
 

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Sep. 20, 2011 10:44PM EDT

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has admonished Palestinians to give up campaigning at the UN and return to peace talks if they want a sovereign state – while his foreign minister worked feverishly behind the scenes to stop the issue from coming to a vote. The Prime Minister went to the United Nations on Tuesday for a high-level summit on Libya, but the endgame there is being overshadowed in New York by a Palestinian delegation’s push to get UN recognition for a Palestinian state.

And although Mr. Harper will return to Ottawa on Wednesday without addressing the UN General Assembly, he waded into the issue forcefully on Tuesday, appearing to place the onus on the Palestinians to re-launch peace talks with Israel.

“I think there’s no likelihood of this initiative by the Palestinian Authority doing anything to further the peace process. I think it’s possible that it could be counter-productive,” Mr. Harper told reporters outside the UN meeting on Libya. “But I would say, if the Palestinian Authority is serious about establishing a sovereign state, the method to do that is not a declaration here at the United Nations. It’s to get back at the negotiating table and negotiate peace with Israel.”
Harper to Palestinians: Talk to Israel, not UN, about sovereignty - The Globe and Mail
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Harper is embarrassing.


By LINDA HEARD
Palestinian bid will divide wheat from chaff
...So what’s the big deal, you may think? It’s not going to happen even if four out of the five permanent UNSC member countries and all ten nonpermanent members vote in favor. The game may be lost even before the kick-off but this doesn’t mean the attempt doesn’t have great value.

In the first place, Abbas will discover which states are sympathetic to the Palestinian struggle and which are prepared to put their money where their mouth is whether the Obama administration likes it or not.

Secondly, this is his opportunity to show his people that he’s no longer taking his marching orders from the White House as he has done to one degree or another throughout his presidency receiving absolutely nothing in return...

...Thirdly, in the event America’s Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice is the lone naysayer — as she was earlier this year to block a UNSC Resolution condemning Israel’s settlement building ironically echoing the sentiments of her own administration — the US will be placed under an embarrassing spotlight.

More importantly, the fading superpower will likely lose friends in the Arab world...
Reality:
...if the Palestinian bid for statehood fails at the Security Council, Abbas still has the option of going to the General Assembly where no country has a veto. The General Assembly will almost certainly give Abbas what it can. That is non-voting observer status, but not full statehood. Still, that would be enough for the Palestinians to ask international bodies to formally consider questions such as whether the Israeli occupation of the West Bank is legal...
Israeli PM flies to New York over Palestinian UN bid

The US can't delay or veto a UN General Assembly vote.

...Here’s John Bolton from last night’s Greta offering some strong medicine instead: Tell the Security Council that if they grant the Palestinians statehood, we’ll defund the UN. Not sure how that would solve the baseline problem of preserving what little goodwill/influence the U.S. has in the region, but it’s a pleasing thought regardless. Exit question: If the Palestinians force Obama to veto and Congress retaliates with a bill that would cut aid to the Palestinian Authority, would O dare veto that?...
Report: Palestinians within two votes on UN Security Council of forcing Obama veto « Hot Air

The Saudis and other Arab states will have to chart an independent course from the Americans or face (further) riots in their streets, potentially triggering civil war(s).

Recent gains by Turkey and Iran for influence throughout the middle east at the expense of the US and Israel will accelerate. Turkey's Navy will escort an aid flotilla to Gaza. Israel would be unwise to attempt to stop it.

Egypt's leaders will face tremendous pressure to allow direct aid to Gaza and turn a blind eye to smuggling.

I give this region less than 2 months to erupt in flames.
 
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Harper is embarrassing.

Harper is right! Israel is willing to negotiate with:

a people who have said no to multiple generous offers in the past, all because anything short of a "purely Palestinian" state is unacceptable to them

a people who target innocent civilians with violence, which is a war crime by any definition

a people who are in actuality a false nationality; there was never a nation called "Palestine", a "Palestinian culture" or a "Palestinian history"

All common sense screams that they should get NOTHING, yet unlike any nation in the history of world, Israel is pressured to give up her actual land for peace and security! That's insanity! If I were a "Palestinian" I would be playing Mr. Nice with Israel, but instead they're going to the UN in an attempt to get an illegitimate nation recognized. To perpetuate the lie of "Palestine" because they refuse to face the fact that Israel has a right to exist.

...

In anticipation of Friday's vote, I went down to my flagshop and bought the flag of Israel; and I plan to fly it outside my front window all week.
Stand with Israel.
 
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Wow I never knew so many Chinese people were Christians:
List of individuals and groups assisting Jews during the Holocaust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I recommend you read the list of people and organizations who took in Jews and/or helped them escape Nazi Germany. A few people were motivated by Christian ethnics, but the common thread which binds all those who voluntarily helped Jews during this time was a strong sense of empathy despite demonizing propaganda which portrayed Jews as evil and a willingness to oppose their governments.

The fact is Jews had many safe havens in 1947 and Canada is one of those safe havens. So was the US. Attempts to portray the US or Canada as risky places for Jews are ridiculous and every Canadian here knows it.

Jew hatred was the result demonizing propaganda. People who couldn't see through that propaganda were about as likely to help Jews as you would be to help Muslims.

No doubt victims of ethnic cleansing, state based oppression and injustice harbor strong feelings towards the people they consider responsible. Not many Afrikaners chose to live in the various Bantustans they created during the South African apartheid era either. Does that prove black South Africans are subhuman like Palestinians?

The upcoming UN vote is about the right of everyone to citizenship. Palestinians have no citizenship after 60+ years of negotiation. By the end of the week, it will be clear to the world that Israel and the US are the main obstacles to Palestinian freedom and justice.

Until Palestinians have freedom and justice, Israelis won't have peace. That's a statement about human nature, not about Israelis or Palestinians.


I recommend you avoid arguing history with me.

You sometimes have to delve a little deeper than wikipedia. I went to that site, and started to read your link........the first three Jewish "helpers" listed in your article:

Oscar Schindler: fraudster, shyster, liar, petty criminal. Just ask his wife. Oh, also great man.

Miep Gies: personal friend of the Franks, religion listed as Catholic, but her motivation simply friendship for those sole individuals.

Corrie ten Bloom: aided Jews out of her sympathy and veneration for God's "chosen people"

Shall I go on????

Now, go read a little about the fascist movement in Quebec and Quebecois anti-Semitism. Add to that the absolute refusal of Canada to accept Jewish refugees while they were being murdered en masse, then read about Willy King's attitude towards Hitler and the Jews.............after you educate yourself, come back and talk to me.


Damn.....just read some Mordecai Richler... :) And he is not guilty of ostentatious victimhood.

Yeah, Canada.....a haven for Jews......in 1947. Right.

Let's just say the Jews that came here were more trusting than I would have been.............especially after living in Montreal for awhile in the early seventies and witnessing passive Jew hatred even among the bunch of hIppies I lived with......

NewsFlash!
Sep. 20, 2011 10:44PM EDT

Harper to Palestinians: Talk to Israel, not UN, about sovereignty - The Globe and Mail
>>>


Harper is embarrassing.


By LINDA HEARD
Palestinian bid will divide wheat from chaff
Reality:
Israeli PM flies to New York over Palestinian UN bid

The US can't delay or veto a UN General Assembly vote.

Report: Palestinians within two votes on UN Security Council of forcing Obama veto « Hot Air

The Saudis and other Arab states will have to chart an independent course from the Americans or face (further) riots in their streets, potentially triggering civil war(s).

Recent gains by Turkey and Iran for influence throughout the middle east at the expense of the US and Israel will accelerate. Turkey's Navy will escort an aid flotilla to Gaza. Israel would be unwise to attempt to stop it.

Egypt's leaders will face tremendous pressure to allow direct aid to Gaza and turn a blind eye to smuggling.

I give this region less than 2 months to erupt in flames.

Harper's Omnibus Crime Bill is embarassing......his foreign policy makes me proud to be Canadian.

As for in flames, yep, getting time Israel will once again have to kick arse.

Not very bright, these people, are they???
 
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No doubt some people who helped Jews were Christian. But many weren't. In order to prove Christianity as the prime motivator for helping Jews, you'd have to show that Christians helped Jews at a greater rate than non-Christians. I see no indication that Christians helped Jews at a greater rate than people without any strong religious belief or people who belonged to other religions.

Since the biggest recipient of Jewish refugees was China and few Chinese are Christian, I'm willing to bet these people had other motivations besides Christianity. It would be more accurate to claim that helping Jews was a Chinese thing to do, more than a Christian thing to do.

The people who hid Anne Franks were Christians, but their stated motivation was friendship. I'll assume part of being someone's friend includes feeling empathy.

But if helping Jews was the "Christian" thing to do as you believe, then why did only 0.1% of Europe's Christians help Jews. That would make these few Christians exceptions. If you were to make a generalization about Christians and their behavior regarding Jews during this time, it would be more accurate to say the "Christian" thing that most Christians did, was nothing. In fact, far more Christians helped authorities round up and exterminate Jews, then helped Jews. Jews would have been better off if those Christians did nothing.

If our government went crazy and decided to round up and exterminate Muslims, I bet most Canadians would do nothing. More likely many Canadians including Christians would help authorities round up and exterminate Muslims. Very few Canadians would help Muslims and I doubt number of Christians willing to risk their lives and that of their families would be higher than the non-Christians. Given your irrational hate and fear of Muslims, I doubt you would risk your life and that of your family to help a Muslim family.

BTW, I'm not judging you. I'm uncertain that I would have to balls to risk the lives of people I loved to help strangers either. I'd like to think that I'd have the guts to do it, but no one can know how they will react in this situation until they are in that situation. But I think I have an idea of what people risked to help Jews. These people proved themselves moral when it counted and that includes Oscar Schindler who initially exploited the situation for personal gain, but ended up making real personal sacrifices and taking risks to help Jews.