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(...) It's not within the context of Larry's "argument". That's like saying "you think the KKK is far worse than the (...) I have no idea who the Black Panthers are. Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Put it this way, when was the last time you were personally threatened by the Lichtenstein Army? Now if Lichtenstein turns into a pocket dicatorship that kind of stinks for the Lichtensteiners but it won't last. Bill Gates could afford to do (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Alsalaam aleikum! Shalom! Regarding the link I gave you, perhaps you'll have to wait a little while and try back again. It's something worth reading. More bloodshed today, more Palestinians dead, more excuses from Israel. I'm glad that you at least (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's interesting! During last year's debates about Libertopia et al, I tried to envision the type of world that could support a free nation like Libertopia (remember when I oh-so-cleverly coined it Liberama? Ah, such wit!) I still don't know (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, yes and no. The world does not admit of us huddling behind our borders and assuming that distance keeps us safe, but nevertheless there is merit in not getting entangled in alliances quite as much as we seem to have gotten lately. No (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ::sigh:: I knew I should have left in my qualifier about the Nazis... In my last post I WAS going to include that the nations of the world should have spotted the threat the Nazis represented much earlier on and not have jumped into bed with (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Markhaban, Ahalan (wasahalan), hi, what's up :-) (My knowledge of Arabic consists of, umm, "Markhaban ya talamiz, Ana Mualima Ismi Salma", and, well, I forget the rest... since I left .il without taking high-school Arabic. If I had not had (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Alsalaam aleikum! Shalom! (...) Actually, the Zionists WERE doing it out of greed and hoodwinked the mass of Holocaust victims worrying about a homeland. No real Jew would ever have supported invading someone's land, murdering, crippling and running (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Couldn't have said it better myself! From what I've seen in my life so far, the sort of "peace" that Israel wants. Dan (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Just for my own clarity, Dan, what would you say to the Jews born in Israel in the last fifty years? While their births don't "entitle" the Jews as a people to usurp land from anyone, I don't understand why the native-born Israelis wouldn't (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Thank you for your input, Lindsay, and for presenting the "facts on the ground" point of view about the Israeli occupation. The Zionists would like nothing better than to hold up their children born in Israel as a further claim to the land they took (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm surprised they're not posthumously suing the dead guy for being so inconsiderate as to ruin their flight. I've heard that, somewhere semi-locally to my area, a woman was walking backwards in a grocery store parking lot, fell over the cart (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In replying both to Richard and Dan - I agree. We all want peace, and naturally everyone's peace will be on different terms. We cannot change the past, but we can try and deal with what's here. I agree that Israel as it was formed was not a good (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This is an oft-quoted snippet, and I have no doubt that it was fine foreign policy for an infant nation two centuries ago, but in an age when we can cross the globe in hours, I think its relevance is more metaphorical than actual. And while (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Um, you're missing the point. If everyone lays down their claim, that INCLUDES your Arabs. <cluephone, ring, ring> -- | Tom Stangl, iPlanet Web Server Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | iPlanet Support - (URL) A division of AOL (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Stanford 9. My brain fuzzed out. (...) Great place to drive through. Put the top down, the shades on, and give the Bridgestone RE-71s a workout. (...) That's the slackers in Riverside county. The 91 was awful 10 years ago, I'll note. Carbon (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Yes, some people will try ANYTHING to squeeze money out of a corporation when they don't deserve it. Stuff happens, DEAL with it. Though the airline could probably work some goodwill by providing counseling for the family (and of course the lawyers (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's ridiculous. That's like saying "you think the KKK is far worse than the Black Panthers, so you must support the Black Panthers", which is obviously NOT true (in my case, anyways). -- | Tom Stangl, iPlanet Web Server Technical Support (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well said! You, me and Jefferson: "Honest friendship with all who wish it, entangling alliances with none" (...) Although they got a nice piece of change by owning Foxwoods! THAT was shrewd working within the system. :-) (...) Maybe not but (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) First, no apologies are necessary. You obviously have some things you wish to express. (...) To be honest, I don't support much of anything outside of U.S. borders. I want to mind my own business in relation to my neighbors, and I want U.S. (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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