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Thread #147734 Message #3439919
Posted By: MGM·Lion
21-Nov-12 - 12:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: Vilnai: inflict a 'shoah' on Gaza
Subject: RE: BS: Vilnai: inflict a 'shoah' on Gaza
Jim: I am honestly not 'solidly batting' for them; merely trying to get the history of what happened before and just after the Independence of 1948 accurately fixed in the minds of some who really are misrepresenting it, confusing the cause & effect of the refugee situation, &c; and also trying to get a see-both-sides perspective on the Gaza situation which is by no means as cut'n'dried in either direction as some are urging. I yield to no-one, as I have said many times above on this thread and many others [see the 'arseholes' thread too], in my disappointment at the betrayal that has taken place over the last couple of decades of all that we hoped for, & my hatred of the present entity that has resulted thence. I will continue to 'bat' for the just memory of Ben Gurion & Golda Meir ~~ why shouldn't I? ~ but I leave the wicket and refuse to bat on for Begin, Netanyahu, & all that vile lot, who have come along and ploughed up the pitch to make it impossible for me to go on batting. Belief that the establishment of Israel in 1948 promised at the time to be beneficial to the world is not incompatible with the recognition that, alas, that was not the way it turned out. Nor does that latter realisation conflict with the recognition that most of the other states in the region are no great shakes either, and some [try the blasphemer-beheading·thieves-hand-amputating·adultress-publicly-barebottom-caning Saudi for size], a whole bloody lot worse.
~M~