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chimpymustgo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 02:00 PM Original message |
Palestinians Consider Shift in Strategy on Statehood |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
1. Makes sense. Israel wasn't recognized as a sovereign nation until the U.N. declared it so. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. "a Palestinian effort to secure a state without having to make the difficult decisions on the |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
3. this may be the only alternative way lef t if the so called |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 05:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. and let's suppose a Palestinian state is declared and Israel withdraws from everywhere except... |
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whosinpower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 05:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. There is another possibility |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 06:04 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Yes |
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chimpymustgo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 10:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
24. Israel has shown it does not want a 2 state solution. The only way is to impose one. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 06:18 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. That possibility is just as bad. Look at Lebanon with its UN peacekeepers there doing nothing... |
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whosinpower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 07:24 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. First of all |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 07:41 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. UNIFIL has been in Lebanon since 1978 and has been completely ineffective.... |
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whosinpower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 12:25 AM Response to Reply #9 |
28. Israel had two choices |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 03:20 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Once again, do you really think UNIFIL knew nothing about Hezbollah's buildup in S.Lebanon? |
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shaayecanaan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 08:01 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. So you are an opponent of the peace talks? |
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oberliner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 08:03 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Hamas would fold up once there is a peace agreement, right? |
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shaayecanaan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 08:19 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Again, I thought we were in agreement? |
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oberliner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 08:25 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. I was disagreeing with the other claim |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 08:27 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. The UN recognizing a Palestinian state without a peace deal is not the same as the Geneva Initiative |
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shaayecanaan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 08:43 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. The UN recognised an Israeli state without a peace deal... |
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oberliner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 09:42 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. No they didn't |
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shaayecanaan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 10:53 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. That doesn't get you anywhere... |
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oberliner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 04:15 AM Response to Reply #23 |
30. In 1948, Israel applied for membership in the UN and was rejected |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 08:14 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. No, see #15 below. n/t |
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shaayecanaan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 07:49 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Isnt that the goal? |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 07:59 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. There's no contradiction...I remain a supporter of the Geneva Initiative but I can't deny reality |
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shaayecanaan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 08:09 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Then we are in perfect agreement. |
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shira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 08:11 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. That's surprising, I thought you were an anti-Zionist. |
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shaayecanaan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 08:23 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. I define a Zionist as a Jewish nationalist... |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 11:15 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. there are 2 problems with Geneva IMO |
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shaayecanaan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 11:21 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. I think the second problem will fall by the wayside... |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-21-10 12:14 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Japan had a military 7 years after it's surrender |
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