Reply #11: That's why it called a "memory hole"... [View All]

[newyorican]

it didn't just happen yesterday. You place no time frame or reference on your statements. Miss Cleo, I'm not.

However, this whole time frame thingie is very interesting. For the purposes of this debate, going back 11 years is excessive"!?" On the other hand, for other debates, going back 2000 years is almost reflex. I find that both revealing and fascinating.

Since 11 years is "too long ago" for your standards in this sub-debate (which is about the honoring of terrorists), how about this:

Israel honors Egyptian spies 50 years after fiasco Wed., March 30, 2005
By Reuters
After half a century of reticence and recrimination, Israel on Wednesday honored nine Egyptian Jews recruited as agents-provocateur in what became one of the worst intelligence bungles in the country’s history. Israel was at war with Egypt when it hatched a plan in 1954 to ruin its rapprochement with the United States and Britain by firebombing sites frequented by foreigners in Cairo and Alexandria.

But Israeli hoped the attacks, which caused no casualties, would be blamed on local insurgents collapsed when the young Zionist bombers were caught and confessed at public trials. Two were hanged. The rest served jail terms and emigrated to Israel.

Embarrassed before the West, the fledgling Jewish state long denied involvement. It kept mum even after its 1979 peace deal with Egypt, fearing memories of the debacle could sour ties.

I believe this "honoring" is within your 11 year statute of limitations.

I don't mean to jump all over you, but this is my usual reaction to anyone trying to say, "look how horrible they are, we don't act like that..." This matter is somewhat like pregnancy. You can't be a little or very pregnant, either you is or you ain't.