ok then.. who's going to give The Café forumites a heads-up on what this is all about?
Didn't a certain Mr Bliar leave British politics to go sort out the Middle East?
or is that why there is a problem there now?
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If the Cafe forumites are concerned about this issue, I'm sure they can read about it on a news website and make up their own minds.
Why do we need someone to give us a 'heads up'?
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If the Cafe forumites are concerned about this issue, I'm sure they can read about it on a news website and make up their own minds.
Why do we need someone to give us a 'heads up'?
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If the Cafe forumites are concerned about this issue, I'm sure they can read about it on a news website and make up their own minds.
Why do we need someone to give us a 'heads up'?
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If the Cafe forumites are concerned about this issue, I'm sure they can read about it on a news website and make up their own minds.
Why do we need someone to give us a 'heads up'?
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ok then.. who's going to give The Café forumites a heads-up on what this is all about?
Didn't a certain Mr Bliar leave British politics to go sort out the Middle East?
or is that why there is a problem there now?
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If the Cafe forumites are concerned about this issue, I'm sure they can read about it on a news website and make up their own minds.
Why do we need someone to give us a 'heads up'?
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The Middle East is a problem that will never go away. It goes quite for a while then kicks up again. There are no winners only losers. Israel have the might and the power, and the Palestinians have the rights.
The only winner will be Iran, who with the Middle East problems getting worse, will have the attention pulled away from their nuclear programme.
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Does anyone have a view on the fact that as the Americans are leaderless (as good as) at the moment as GWB is using up all his mental resources packing his toothbrush that the Israeli's have taken advantage of the timing?
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If the Cafe forumites are concerned about this issue, I'm sure they can read about it on a news website and make up their own minds.
Why do we need someone to give us a 'heads up'?
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Hamas deliberatly fire rockets from crowded civilian areas, areas where Israel will not normally fire back into. Hamas know that, which to my mind makes them cowards.
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Hamas deliberatly fire rockets from crowded civilian areas, areas where Israel will not normally fire back into. Hamas know that, which to my mind makes them cowards.
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I answered the quoted bit on "cowards" and why these people launch from civilian living areas. I quoted it and explained my thinking. What you have asked is something completely different and nothing that I have commented on as yet. My thoughts on what could happen is below. If you are quoting me then give me a chance and keep it to what I have posted
I look at this area and equate it to Northern Ireland. There was going to be only two ways for NI to finish. One way was explained by an old man who spoke of the troubles. He said that NI was part of a democatic society and one day the Catholics would outnumber the Protestants and they would vote in unification. The second would be that all the terrorist groups ceasefire, the army pull out and politics would come to the fore. History shows that the second way has succeeded. This is similar to this region and peace has to be given a chance. To retaliate and bomb and kill innocents will never stop the problem. It will just breed more who would want to kill. The only way that war solves a problem is when Gengis Kahn just wiped out everybody and brought new people in to inhabit the area. Then you have no problem with upset originals. However, when there are two sets of people then they have to sort it out politically.
Dave_Notts
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I was just asking a question which you have answered.
You asked a question that had nothing to do with my post
So what IF a peace soloution can never be found, which I think it cannot...what then?
If they can not then nothing will happen but carry on as it is.............or genocide occurs. One of the two really
Jews hate Arabs, and Arabs hate the Jews, that will never ever change.
Some Jews hate Arabs and some Arabs hate Jews but not all. There are moderate parties across the political spectrum in that region, and they have tried damn hard to sort this out and they will for the foreseeable future
I can never see a politcal solution to this.
That is very negative. But there again some people did not see a solution to Japan, Germany, Bosnia, Serbia, Northern Ireland or South Africa........but luckily for mankind we have people that can see through the troubles
Israel sees the only way is not to use kid gloves, but come down hard on their enemies.
Then they will sow what they reap. Just don't cry about it afterwards
Not a solution but a need which they want to excersise.
It is no solution, you are right on that.......and one they will have to live and die with
From what I know an option which under immense provocation, they are entitled to do.
Any country is entitled to defend itself. It is how they "protect" themselves is how history will judge them.
We are all allowed to protect ourselves.
With reasonable force :wink:
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This subject is a long and drawn out one which i don't believe there is anyone on this site qualified enough to give an educated answer.
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This subject is a long and drawn out one which i don't believe there is anyone on this site qualified enough to give an educated answer.
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This subject is a long and drawn out one which i don't believe there is anyone on this site qualified enough to give an educated answer. From what i've read in the comments the reply's are mainly based on opinions and new's reports and not fact.
I did start to type a response going into a lot of detail and facts as i had to cover this topic to get my promotion, however, it was going to be a 10 page essay, lol, so i decided not to.
To sum up:
-It's iran's inalienable right to research nuclear power as a member of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
-Iran complied with UN weapon's inspectors who reported back there was no evidance of such a program.
-Only recently (2003) did Iran restart their enrichment program against UN dirction. Only because the USA PRESSURED certain country's to insist on another inspection (Russia and China (basicaly got blackmailed which came from statements from an ex USA official)).
-Israel only recently joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty and still will not confirm how many nuclear weapons they have and it is still believed they are still aquiring them (allthough this is not fact as far as i know).
-Palastine was split into 2 nations in 1947 by the UN. (Im sure the americans would be happy if the UN renamed Texas and stated it would now be a muslim state as i doubt any other country would)
-I very much doubt that Israel would carry out a full invasion of Palastine as one thread put, as this would create outrage amongst ALL muslim states and muslim's. This would no doubt call for UN intervention. No doubt causing WW3 as most country's are allied in some way or another! (Not an exageration)
-Yes the indiscriminate rocket attacks by Palastine is not accepatble, however, Israel has carried out attacks just as devastating.
Like one thread said each side believes their right so how can it ever be resolved?
That was just a couple of the points i started covering and each one would take pages to cover.
I now need a wee so that'll do for now
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This subject is a long and drawn out one which i don't believe there is anyone on this site qualified enough to give an educated answer. From what i've read in the comments the reply's are mainly based on opinions and new's reports and not fact.
I did start to type a response going into a lot of detail and facts as i had to cover this topic to get my promotion, however, it was going to be a 10 page essay, lol, so i decided not to.
To sum up:
-It's iran's inalienable right to research nuclear power as a member of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
-Iran complied with UN weapon's inspectors who reported back there was no evidance of such a program.
-Only recently (2003) did Iran restart their enrichment program against UN dirction. Only because the USA PRESSURED certain country's to insist on another inspection (Russia and China (basicaly got blackmailed which came from statements from an ex USA official)).
-Israel only recently joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty and still will not confirm how many nuclear weapons they have and it is still believed they are still aquiring them (allthough this is not fact as far as i know).
-Palastine was split into 2 nations in 1947 by the UN. (Im sure the americans would be happy if the UN renamed Texas and stated it would now be a muslim state as i doubt any other country would)
-I very much doubt that Israel would carry out a full invasion of Palastine as one thread put, as this would create outrage amongst ALL muslim states and muslim's. This would no doubt call for UN intervention. No doubt causing WW3 as most country's are allied in some way or another! (Not an exageration)
-Yes the indiscriminate rocket attacks by Palastine is not accepatble, however, Israel has carried out attacks just as devastating.
Like one thread said each side believes their right so how can it ever be resolved?
That was just a couple of the points i started covering and each one would take pages to cover.
I now need a wee so that'll do for now