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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
I've got to say, I think saying 'we' use unsavory tactics is, um, funny in a strange way in this case.
How can there be a solution? 'They' can't even enforce a cease fire!
Pete
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I guess I'm tired of being told that I should care deeply about Israel's plight (and that my concern has to be one-sided and equipped with blinders), so much so that the semantic turn of a phrase by the President (that deviates, slightly at most, from our postion of the past 20 years) causes so much harrumphing, hyperbole and indignation.
Without going all "chapter and verse" on ya, there are plenty of unsavory tactics on both sides of this conflict. Our media reports it like all the unsavory stuff is perpetrated solely by the Palestinians against their generous, gracious and unfailingly kind Israeli hosts. It simply ain't so.
FlaCalTenn - My "Zionist Ambitions" reference is to their ongoing settlement practices on the West Bank, actively establishing "facts on the ground" to the detriment of our foreign policy interests and in violation of numerous UN resolutions (FWIW) and international law (whatever that means).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli...t#Legal_status