Possible truce between Palestine & Israel

[wil]

Originally Posted by Faithfulservant

and Im guessing that secretly you dont believe the holocaust happened and oh yeah the US gov't orchestrated 9-11

Interesting. I've always thought most conspiracy theorists were religious zealots. And right wing, most that I've come across fit that category. But topic for another thread maybe the demographics of your average conspiracy theorist.

[Alex P]

So... Tao, what do you think?

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by Alex P

So... Tao, what do you think?

Heil Alex!

Vell if ze thread eez started perhaps zee big commandant in zee sky vil compel me to make zee post.

Herr Tao

[Faithfulservant]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

I suggest you dont step up on to your soap box with that kind of talk unless you are prepared to get knocked right back off it. What you guess secretly I shudder to think.

Tao

lol I thought it was you on the soapbox this thread... to think that the Israeli government would want this political unrest proves you know nothing of what goes on over there every single day. So my suggestion is that you get off your little soapbox and take a trip yourself... because that type of opinion just shows a lack of common sense. and furthermore... You dont scare me... lol

[Faithfulservant]

Originally Posted by wil

Interesting. I've always thought most conspiracy theorists were religious zealots. And right wing, most that I've come across fit that category. But topic for another thread maybe the demographics of your average conspiracy theorist.

Well its a good thing that I showed you the error of your ways...

I never thought you were one for stereotyping.

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by Faithfulservant

lol I thought it was you on the soapbox this thread... to think that the Israeli government would want this political unrest proves you know nothing of what goes on over there every single day. So my suggestion is that you get off your little soapbox and take a trip yourself... because that type of opinion just shows a lack of common sense. and furthermore... You dont scare me... lol

First off I do not want to scare you nor anyone else but I wont have you speaking to me in the way that you have. You do not have a crystal ball that allows you to think my thoughts and nothing rots the brain quite like crystal meth so I doubt your powers of deduction are sufficiently acute to form any valid comment on me.
If you think the US incapable of funding and maintaining a war situation to benefit itself then not only are you blinkered but you have never bothered to read any recent history. Common sense is no substitute for facts.
So, sticking to the facts, you clearly do not like me and the feeling is more than mutually reciprocated. So why dont you just ignore me and I will do the same.

Tao

[Faithfulservant]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

First off I do not want to scare you nor anyone else but I wont have you speaking to me in the way that you have. You do not have a crystal ball that allows you to think my thoughts and nothing rots the brain quite like crystal meth so I doubt your powers of deduction are sufficiently acute to form any valid comment on me.
If you think the US incapable of funding and maintaining a war situation to benefit itself then not only are you blinkered but you have never bothered to read any recent history. Common sense is no substitute for facts.
So, sticking to the facts, you clearly do not like me and the feeling is more than mutually reciprocated. So why dont you just ignore me and I will do the same.

Tao

Grow up ... seriously

[Muslimwoman]

Well I live in this region of the world and I have no doubt that the US has no intention of allowing peace here any time soon.

The US will not even attend the Dublin talks on cluster bombs and any country that states "if we cease using cluster bombs then our humanitarian efforts will be hampered" clearly has a very unpleasant agenda for the world.

Oh and I know that the holocaust happened and have no doubt it was so called Muslims that hijacked the planes on 9/11 (although I do have some serious questions about 9/11 and the US governements involvement with the bin Laden family).

However, back to the topic.

What do you think will happen if Olmert is forced out of the Presidency? Who is likely to take his place and what does it mean for any peace process?

[Faithfulservant]

maybe if they quit using IED's.... give a little - get a little...

I believe that there will be peace and it will be false and it will last for 3 1/2 years. Who the president will be? I dont know.

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by Faithfulservant

maybe if they quit using IED's.... give a little - get a little...

I believe that there will be peace and it will be false and it will last for 3 1/2 years. Who the president will be? I dont know.

Ohhh yeh, improvised explosive devices. Like they really cause the instability and not the billions of dollars of American supplied warmongery. If you want Armageddon so bad why dont you go do some volunteer work in Iraq.

[China Cat Sunflower]

Originally Posted by Muslimwoman

What do you think will happen if Olmert is forced out of the Presidency? Who is likely to take his place and what does it mean for any peace process?

Netanyahu. Then he slowly peels back his mask to reveal...William Kristol! Who knew?!!!

Chris

[Faithfulservant]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

Ohhh yeh, improvised explosive devices. Like they really cause the instability and not the billions of dollars of American supplied warmongery. If you want Armageddon so bad why dont you go do some volunteer work in Iraq.

I will if you will...

[bob x]

Nothing actually came of the "truce" declarations, and there were some rocket firings afterwards, but: it seems now that, without any statement to that effect from either side, a truce-in-fact has settled in, just out of sheer weariness on both sides. Keep our fingers crossed, maybe it will hold until this weak unstable Israeli government falls, and maybe there will be serious soul-searching during the election about the price paid for those "settlements" and so on. A few Palestinian rockets could screw it all up and give Netanyahu a lock, but I don't see that as an inevitable outcome if the general state of peace-through-exhaustion holds for a while.

[bob x]

Spoke too soon I guess.
2 die in tit-for-tat clash between Israel, Hamas - Yahoo! News
Palestinians launch a rocket, kill a guy and mangle some others, for no particular reason; Israelis shoot back, naturally miss the militants and kill a little girl playing in the street. Everybody expresses aimless anger.

[wil]

If one were to create a chart in which rows were labeled Israili and Palestinian and columns were labeled military deaths, civilian deaths, acres of building destroyed, number or people made homeless....

What would the totals look like... who would appear to have the upper hand?