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Israel/Palestine

denverbill

(11,489 posts)

10. Israel has a history of 'proactive self defense'.

Reply to leveymg (Reply #8)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 01:05 PM

Feb 2012

The 1967 war where they annexed the West Bank and Gaza, Lebanon x 2?, Iraq's and Syria's alleged nuclear sites. Now Iran.

If Iran had done any one of those things to any of its neighbors, we'd be at war with them in 2 seconds.

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'Strike on Iran legally justified' [View all] Scurrilous Feb 2012 OP

Wow. polly7 Feb 2012 #1

no no no eyewall Feb 2012 #2

Inspections began a couple weeks ago. eyewall Feb 2012 #5

'Iran to ban IAEA inspectors if they lie' oberliner Feb 2012 #9

oh well, so much for diplomatic solutions. eyewall Feb 2012 #12

Must be hanging out with John Yoo. tk2kewl Feb 2012 #3

Can you justify murder that way? denverbill Feb 2012 #4

Alan Dershowitz must have forgotten how that last proactive war thingy worked out think Feb 2012 #6

What a moron AnOhioan Feb 2012 #7

"proactive self-defense" is the basis on which Japan bombed Pearl Harbor leveymg Feb 2012 #8

Israel has a history of 'proactive self defense'. denverbill Feb 2012 #10

Those aren't great examples. Shaktimaan Feb 2012 #17

Well, we will never know what Egypt 'would' have done had Israel not launched a preemptive attack. denverbill Feb 2012 #18

Of course we'll never know. Shaktimaan Feb 2012 #19

no its not jsutified bowens43 Feb 2012 #11

Two new videos take on The Dersh and introduce his toughest client yet – Claus Von Bibi! Scurrilous Feb 2012 #13

That doesn't make it smart. nt bemildred Feb 2012 #14

Dershowitz is the world's foremost legal expert on international law...since when? Jefferson23 Feb 2012 #15

Oh jeeze - not the Bush doctrine in another form. tabatha Feb 2012 #16