Latter Days Guy

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  1. How does this effect the gay marriage debate? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/17/d-todd-christofferson-gay-marriage_n_6887730.html
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Widow_%28Natalia_Romanova%29
  3. As the little animation I posted earlier states, you only create more problems when you give one group of refugees the land of another people which then makes them refugees. I believe that now the Palestinians want only peace and the right to live in a state of their own. With so much tragedy through the past 60 plus years they are willing to compromise and give up most of the claims on the land and accept the best offer they are going to get is a state based upon the West bank and Gaza. I firmly believe that if that became a reality, then the Arab League would honour its statement of offering a peace treaty and normalisation of relations between its member states and recognition to the state of Israel and its right to exist. The only problem being that I don't think Israel wants peace and gains more from being in conflict with its neighbours and the Palestinians. My prayers and hopes are with both sides seeing sense, and soon.
  4. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that is exactly what the majority if Israelis believe about the land of Israel. And there are far worse things said about Muslims in the press in the UK, on social media and the net and not much is done about it, not even a hint of prosecution. As for the video, one event hardly means its open season on Jews in Britain and the Rabbi has said it wasn't an anti-Semitic attack, but then there attacks on Masjid's in the UK are a regular occurrence. Both are wrong.
  5. Even the Israeli media are saying that Israel doesn't want peace: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-peace-conference/1.601112
  6. Yes, that would be correct. And the Rockets were not fired from PA controlled territory, they were fired from Hamas controlled territory in response to the Israeli aggression towards Gaza.
  7. That is very true, there are those on both sides who no doubt hate each other and celebrate when the other side suffers. But that doesn't mean that all Israelis and Palestinians hold these feelings and it would be wrong to label them so.
  8. The ultimate goal of the PA is to get a real settlement for the Palestinians. That the land that they have asked for has slowely shrunk until its current 22% shows that they are willing to give up more than Israel is to get peace. The PA has given up the armed struggle for the negotiation table, in return they have been stalled and ignored for over 20 years.
  9. When you address the reasons why they are throwing stones, then maybe those kids wouldn't be throwing stones in the first place. But then I don't believe that locking kids up in military prison and subjecting them to the things mentioned in the report for throwing stones is in any way justifiable in the first place.
  10. Yes Israel is a small nation, a small nation with a massive war machine! One thing we do see is that Israel doesn't give in to pressure from any direction, even from the US. Those adolescent soldiers you comment on are armed with stones and slings and more often than not are taken into custody in the middle of the night from their beds, or on the streets playing football. Yes we can find images of kids from Palestinian villages holding AK47's, just like we can find pictures of kids in the US holding M16's. Doesn't mean they are out shooting up people with them, propaganda comes in many forms. Yes nobody wants to see teens locked away, and they cannot be classed as enemy combatants as that would contravene the Geneva convention. Who made them that way? Israel with the harsh and degrading treatment of the Palestinians for 60 plus years. Is Israel committing genocide?: http://www.juancole.com/2014/08/committing-genocide-palestinians.html Israel has had many opportunites to come to the peace table, the terms are far more favourable to the Israeli's than to the Palestinians but it would seem the Palestinians are willing to give up more to end the conflict and the Israelis just want their cake and eat it.
  11. Was that the new one with Nicholas Cage or the original one? Liked the original better, just don't get how they could make a movie from what was essentially the first couple of chapters of the first Left Behind book when what it covered could have been done in about 15 minutes.
  12. This looks like she's saying "Meow!" :)
  13. Really? The majority of European countries are very much pro Israel, they are even included in the Eurovision Song Contest and they aren't even in Europe. The EU is very much pro Israel and falls over itself to defend any and all things Israeli. Israel is without doubt the military superpower of the region, having the 4th largest military in the world, a nuclear power that could annihilate every other neighbour with a flick of a switch. Hardly the small powerless nation you seem to be implying in your David vs Goliath analogy. That you condone the way Israel treats child detainees speaks volumes about the moral decay prevalent in US society today, that children should be subjected to the abuse they receive in Israeli prisons should cause outrage against Israel not support for it.
  14. Interesting video, with some glaring inaccuracies, this article seems very balanced and historically accurate: http://www.palestineinformation.org/history.htm
  15. The Independent is a highly regarded and respected newspaper that has no political affiliation, hence the name of the newspaper. This is what UNICEF has to say about child detainees http://www.unicef.org/oPt/UNICEF_oPt_Children_in_Israeli_Military_Detention_Observations_and_Recommendations_-_6_March_2013.pdf A short video explaining the Isreal/Palestine situation
  16. The UK media on the whole are very pro Israel, even with the BBC you will be hard pressed to find many who are openly pro Palestinian. I used to be very pro Israel, now I am pro peace. I honestly believe that Israel has a right to exist but also that same right should be made for a Palestinian state. The evidence clearly shows that Israel or rather the certain sections of Israel want nothing but the utter destruction of all things Palestinian. They want a pure Jewish State in what they call greater Israel. As for my views being warped, I could say the same for you, that your views are warped by the US political climate in which you live.
  17. If my best friend was gay and was getting married, he/she would know what my understanding of marriage is, he/she would not put me in such a compromising situation where I would have to choose to be part of something I do not support. I would personally attend as he/she is my best friend but I would not take an active part in any ceremony, which being the best man would do.
  18. Would that be the Fox news that had some idiot saying Birmingham is a totally moozlum (why do they pronounce Muslim like that?) city?.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11338985/Fox-News-terror-expert-says-everyone-in-Birmingham-is-a-Muslim.html
  19. Saw this the other night and quite liked it! I like how the actual monsters are the backdrop to the human story, just like the first one.
  20. Whom are these Marxist/Communist/Socialist states you evidently have nightmares about? I hadn't realised that the US had gone back to to the good ole days of McCarthyism and the reds under the bed mentality! The US is hardly a bastion of freedom and liberty though is it and the only nation that has ever been founded by God was ancient Israel and that hasn't existed as an independent nation since the times of the Maccabees.
  21. Yes Israel has a right to defend itself, but that right has to be proportional to the threat. A threat which is almost negligible when you consider the actual launch to hit ratio of the rockets fired at them. There's nothing wrong with detaining people who are suspected of being terrorists but then the majority of those detained by Israel are children I suspect a far more nefarious purpose. As for Israelis being arrested by the PA, cannot find any evidence of such happening, though I did find substantial evidence of the PA arresting and detaining suspected Palestinian terrorists, which doesn't seem to happen with regards to the atrocities carried out by those in the illegal settlements built on Palestinian land. Since the military coup overthrew the legitimately and democratically elected Egyptian government its gone back to the bad old days of Mubarak style rule, that is supported by American dollars and military aid which is given in return for the Egyptian support to the oppression of the Palestinians on its borders in Gaza. The peace deal was real and was being honoured by the Palestinian Unity government that Israel has set its heart on destroying. Hamas and the PA already acknowelge Israel's right to exist within the context of the borders that existed before the 1967 war. Israel needs to submit to international law and withdraw from the occupied territories, its needs to dismantle the illegal settlements and remove the illegal settlers back within Israel. I guess you've been watching fox news with your with Iran turning Syria and Lebanon into puppet states, and Arab governments all over the middle east caving to ISIS" comment. Which Arab governments are caving into ISIS? None. The only people in Syria being supported by Iran is Assad and he's not doing too well in that fight, and Hezbollah isn't being the lapdog to Iran that it was in the past either. As for Egypt joining Iran, that would never happen, the vast majority of Egyptians are Sunni and want nothing to do with Shia Iranians. So its ok for Jews to have a free reign on anyone and their dog to return to Israel but not ok for Palestinians to return to their native land? Why is that? And who says that all of them have been taught to hate Jews? The Palestinians I know certainly don't hate jews, they do however hate how they have been treated as a people over the years of their exile. Funny how you raised the holocaust, as from what I've seen that is exactly what is happening to Palestinians now, they are getting walled into their own ghetto's, treated as second class citizens, denied basic human rights by an occupying force. The Israeli's are doing to the Palestinians what the Nazi's did to the Jews in the 1930's and 1940's, and like then the world is standing idly by watching from the sidelines as history repeats itself.