jakelafort

@ Jake and Robert

These are Jews, too:

@ Robert

We get it. Islam sucks. The solution is to kill them all? The good with the bad, if they are in the way?

Jake has a point that anti-Semitism was utterly rife at the time in Europe. But Jake, Autumn said “fulled by”, not “emerged from”. All of Europe saw strong anti-Semitism. It came to its ugliest via Nazi Germany. Full scale insanity was, in part, fuelled by Germany being put under the same kind of pressures that Palestine is. That doesn’t justify…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Unseen, if i want you i will rattle your cage. Your thinking is so ridiculous i will do with it what Hume said should be done with Catholicism. Leave it out there and let it die of its idiocy. He was wrong about that but wtf. You’ve lost all credibility with me.

What is your problem with my views? You never present real r…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen,

I’m sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians. Hamas, at least, has found a way for the Palestinians to vent their frustration and outrage, to get the world to take a closer look at the injustices inflicted on the Palestinian people. Condemning Hamas, thus, is equivalent to telling the Palestinians to just g…

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@ Jake

Antisemitism isn’t “timeless.” What a crock. It is ancient and probably began with the notion that “the Jews killed Christ.”

What is probably timeless is bigotry against the other, the “they’re not like us,” the strange/different looking ones, the ones we don’t or can’t understand.

In this regard, there’s no difference between…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
We all know about Raif Badawi who wrote “1000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think”. I also recall Asia Bibi, a non-muslim woman who attempted to drink water from the same utensil from which muslims drink. Beaten, jailed for 10 years for blasphemy (blah, blah, blah)…

Nobody here is for this sort of hate. Nobody here is for hate [Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Maybe the Wokester Progressive types would be less sympathetic to Hamas…

I’m sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians. Hamas, at least, has found a way for the Palestinians to vent their frustration and outrage, to get the world to take a closer look at the injustices inflicted on the Palestinian people. Condemning…[Read more]

Maybe the Wokester Progressive types would be less sympathetic to Hamas if it were revealed that the Hamas underground tunnels had miniature halal chicken ranches…vhere zee animals are to be BRED UND SLAUGHTERED!!!

Nope. Nice try Enco. Another one of your standard strawmen. No one here is sympathetic to Hamas. No one condones what they have don…[Read more]

Nothing in your reply signals anything other than justification for a dehumanising view of Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims. Yes, anti-semitism is rife, timeless and a serious problem. Totally agree with you. Disappointed by your own bigotry Jake.

You know Canadians would be aghast and support the apprehension and elimination of such a hypothetical group.

A couple decades change people very fast. Russians are very sympathetic to the barbaric behaviour of Russian troops. Being a mostly white western people doesn’t make them inherently “civilised”. We could easily transpose ourselves to…[Read more]

Judged through the lens of history and in relation to other wars yes.

No. The only way you can arrive at the unjustifiable is through dehumanising others. Admit it.

Nah Jake. You’re just parroting dehumanising drivel. Canada would act differently [because they are more civilised white people]. Palestinians are collectively responsible (including babies) for Hamas. War is hell. Of course it is. That is no excuse for reprehensible behaviour anymore than say, the fact that you are operating in the business world…[Read more]

Hamas is a child of Israel/Netanyahu. (Video should start at about 1:40. If not, then move the slider there and start.)

Everywhere you look, news sources summarize the history of Palestine from a Western Judeo-Christian perspective. How about a view from a Muslim source. Al Jazeera, despite being funded/operated by Qatar, is generally regarded as a well-balanced slightly left-leaning news source. What it takes pains to do is to take issue with the commonly-heard…[Read more]

Two retired military men with interesting views on the situation.

Col. Douglas Macgregor, retired, is a highly respected and accomplished military commander and author. He was the main strategist of the Battle of 23 Easting, one of if not the most important tank-on-tank battle of the Iraq War.

He says unless we save Israel from itself, it will…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Again, go join all of your terrorist apologists in the bocce ball fire-ant field!

Once again, it’s if you’re open-minded enough to look at the apartheid state of Israel and the concentration camp* it operates, you must be cheering Hamas on. We can’t talk to each other with that sort of black/white either/or falsely…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Canada would help apprehend the few dozen guerillas. Palestinians sacrifice their lives for the guerillas. Palestinians elected the leaders of the attack and according to reports not verified participated in the attack and taking & secreting of hostages. Palestinians and peoples of surrounding nations have from the outset…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
To answer your question above, the Israeli Defense Force would avoid civilian casualties anywhere if Hamas got the fuck out from behind human shield civilians and fought like real warriors. How’s that for “vulgar?”

It had a yes or no answer. I think we all know Netanyahu and his government would be far more delicate if th…[Read more]

@ Enco

Even more ad hominem in lieu of meaningful discourse. Expected, of course.

“Mass murder shill”? An apt description of Netanyahu