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AlanfromBigEasy on December 12, 2006 - 9:09pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Quote from Olmert article:

"Israel doesn't threaten any country with anything -- never did," Olmert told SAT 1. "The most that we tried to get for ourselves is to be able to live without terror. But we never threatened any nation with annihilation.

OTOH, the one woman play "Golda" has an interesting scene where Golda Mier orders that nukes be placed on planes, and the planes placed on alert with pilots on-board (targets Cairo & Damascus, bombs enscribed Never Again) before even one tank enters Israeli soil.  Israel was facing a tactical defeat on lands it had recently conquered, but far from a strategic defeat that would endanger national survival.

Not conclusive, but it was clear that the Israeli playwright knew her well (she spent lots of time at the underground Dimona nuclear research station in the Negev, one balcony was named after her supposedly).

Given the Iranian history during the war with Iraq (a variety of poison gases were used on Iranians, but they never retaliated in kind) and the Israeli history noted above (assuming it is true), an objective neutral observer would see Isreali nukes as the greater threat.

Add to this the rumored "Samson Option" to destroy all civilization in the Middle East if Jersuleum were to fall.

Best Hopes for Rationality,

Alan

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AngryChimp on December 12, 2006 - 9:14pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Be careful Alan Israel doesn't like criticism;

Jimmy Carter's Kampf
by Jack Engelhard
Dec 08, '06 / 17 Kislev 5767
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=6757

That was Borat, not Jimmy Carter, who urged a crowd of lounge lizards in Tucson to join him in singing, "Throw the Jew Down the Well."

Carter has the same message, but (without the spoof) his narrative comes in a book that's just being released and is titled Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.

Apparently the written word is not enough, so Carter has taken his grudge against Israel on tour. There he is with his brotherhood on National Public Radio, NPR, where Israel-bashing is always welcome; and here he is on C-Span; and he keeps on going and won't stop until he's got us all signing up for Holocaust Part 2.

==AC

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jkissing on December 15, 2006 - 9:37pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Allowing the palestinians to have the land that was taken away from them following the 67 war is not holocaust 2. And, while ISrael was attacked, it was not by the palestinians but other arab states.

Those british who fought british troops in our revolutionary war are our heroes.  Palestinians that fight against US tanks and planes for the return of their land are terrorists.  Israelis that bomb homes, with US planes and bombs, known to be occupied by families are the new heroes.  Israelis who leave behind bomblets that will subsequently blow off childrens hands or feet are apparently civilized and certainly enjoy our full support.

It is not true that the palestinians are undergoing a holocaust.  It is true that Israelis treat palestinians exactly as minority white south africa once treated the majority blacks. It is also true that Mandela was at one time called a terrorist and was jailed in solitary confinement for life.

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