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In reply to the discussion: Israeli forces manhandle EU diplomats, seize West Bank aid [View all]Mosby
(16,319 posts)6. That "diplomat" threw a punch at the officer in charge
Last edited Mon Sep 23, 2013, 09:50 PM - Edit history (1)
In the US she would have been tazed or shot or both.
and the so called "humanitarian aid" was building supplies.
That diplomat is in serious trouble.
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Your ISM friends were looking for a confrontation, not to give humanitarian supplies.
shira
Oct 2013
#179
Thanks from that it appears she pointed her fist at the IDF guy after she was yanked from the truck
azurnoir
Sep 2013
#19
That was political opinion, not scholarship. Read Fizzik's comments below the article....
shira
Sep 2013
#56
You guys are the ones who have problems with Zionism, a Jewish state, Jewish apartheid vs. Arabs....
shira
Sep 2013
#125
Oh, your issue is with Israelis - not Jews? Then which Arab Israelis do you have....
shira
Oct 2013
#136
now this is what the real environment looks like...for those who are interested...
pelsar
Sep 2013
#48
the soldiers hand isnt even near the trigger-hes holding the weapon via the magazine...duh
pelsar
Sep 2013
#71
So there's apartheid in virtually every nation, right? Canada, Australia, USA...
shira
Oct 2013
#163
Nope, just exposing a poser and her BS compassion abuse. Jimmy Carter stated....
shira
Oct 2013
#167
yes, yes, I know that the IDF enjoys using "overwhelming force" in the occupied territories.
delrem
Sep 2013
#102
Israeli and I have PMed. That's what PMing is *for*, it's part of DU. Deal with it, pelsar.
delrem
Sep 2013
#127
PM all you want....it was you who wrote about 'subjects that are not talked about"
pelsar
Oct 2013
#130
I'm not "tolerant" of the KKK, or whatever "X-supremacist" so-called "culture" you name.
delrem
Oct 2013
#135
it's not about distracting from not being allowed to give tents to recently homeless Palestinians
azurnoir
Sep 2013
#72
The issues with your version of events was obvious as soon as vireo became available
eyl
Sep 2013
#91
so you too posit that the French were simply tooling about the West Bank for no reason
azurnoir
Sep 2013
#92
There's seemingly an abundance of "accidents" when the IDF is around.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#205
eyl has been posting in IP way way way longer than you or most other people you see here now.
King_David
Sep 2013
#88
It goes against the Israeli doctrine of "Destroy the Palestinian people."
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#171
It all boils down to brute-force colonialism at the expense of human rights and dignity.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#174
Dig in those heels as fast as you possibly can, Ober. Everything is rosy in your myopic world.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#178
Are you suggesting that the horrors of the Holocaust are currently being repeated by Israel?
oberliner
Oct 2013
#187
I'm saying that the term "never again" only seems to apply to a few while they blindly abuse others.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#188
And here comes the 3 ton straw dog, DUers, pushed out by pelsar to block out what Israel
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#191
Let me be clear, the Israelis aren't the victims in what they are doing in Palestine.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#194
"It all boils down to brute-force colonialism at the expense of human rights and dignity."
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#196
Oh, so Israelis (not Jews) of all people...should have learned from the Holocaust?
shira
Oct 2013
#203
I guess you have to be a Pat Buchanan or David Duke clone (or is that clown) to understand....
shira
Oct 2013
#180
Well I wouldn't know. They're more in line with repressive Israeli politics so perhaps
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#184