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In reply to the discussion: Mr. President, Don’t Forget The Nakba [View all]oberliner
(58,724 posts)153. Why is the second map of a "plan" that never actually happened?
Why is the the West Bank and Gaza labelled "Palestinian land" in the third map when those areas were actually occupied by Jordan and Egypt respectively at that time?
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Most of those making the decisions on the Zionist side in 1947 weren't Holocaust survivors
Ken Burch
Dec 2013
#407
No matter how the BM quotes are spun by the apologists and the cheerleaders you can't
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#285
Just go away, Shira. I have no intention of going a few round-e-rounds with you
R. Daneel Olivaw
Nov 2013
#330
people can say "you started it" "no you did" forever but who will end it?
Voice for Peace
Nov 2013
#353
They seem to be falling apart trying to defend the indefensible lately.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#185
oh word mince yummy what kind of sauce goes with that? is served with rice or pasta?
azurnoir
Mar 2013
#10
I understood the text vquite well maybe you hope if you keep this up long enough
azurnoir
Mar 2013
#23
Shira, just because you scream something is true does not make it so.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Nov 2013
#309
Yes, I remember it well, and the only thing I can impart is that every time
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#303
You can always put us on ignore, dave, if the truth is uncomfortable to you.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#216
When 800,000 Jews were kicked out of Arab lands, including Judea/Samaria, was that a Nakba?
shira
Oct 2013
#52
yes but there was no one place where the former Palestinians could go was there?
azurnoir
Oct 2013
#60
Tell that lie to the Palestinians that Israel refuses to allow back onto their own lands.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#66
Some choice quotes and real 'mature' debating technique from R. Daneel Olivaw on this thread alone .
King_David
Oct 2013
#108
interesting it seems you'd like to see the Palestinian people disappear via dispersal
azurnoir
Oct 2013
#75
The fact that you have to make up false motivations for me shows the bankruptcy of your argument.
aranthus
Oct 2013
#77
sorry but I am not suggesting that Palestinians be dispersed and absorbed by countries spanning
azurnoir
Oct 2013
#78
yeah how inconvenient the Arab states did not solve Israel's problem for them
azurnoir
Oct 2013
#113
yes lot's of people wanted to go home some were not allowed in the aftermath of WW2
azurnoir
Oct 2013
#115
thanks for the history lesson or at least your version of history and legal proclomations too
azurnoir
Oct 2013
#117
I believe honest historians including Morris have admitted most Palestinians fled in fear of their l
azurnoir
Oct 2013
#125
here is the part of resolution 194 in question and how it has been spun by Israel
azurnoir
Oct 2013
#130
citing an actual UN resolution is nothing but anti-Jewish propaganda and victimization?
azurnoir
Oct 2013
#158
You're conversing w/ someone who blames Israel for Lebanese apartheid vs. Palestinians
shira
Oct 2013
#118
And again Shira wants to conflate what Israel does and what other nations do...
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#62
No. Shira is merely pointing out the blatant double standard on your side. n/t
aranthus
Oct 2013
#65
Shira is entering into a false equivalency, and you are carrying the water for her.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#67
Well excuse me all over the place that my answer doen't fit into your self righteous outrage.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#91
They don't want to discuss the Nakba either. They hate having their views challenged. n/t
shira
Oct 2013
#119
You still haven't answered a simple question. It's obvious u don't give a shit about the 800K....
shira
Oct 2013
#96
IOW, you guys don't like when your views are challenged & exposed as hypocritical or vile.
shira
Oct 2013
#99
"I'm for the original refugees right of return." What a convenient joke.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#103
Only the originals are refugees. In no other situation worldwide are offspring considered refugees.
shira
Oct 2013
#104
Another convenient untruth from Shira. Let's look at UN Resolution 3236. C. 1974.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#105
UNGAR 194 isn't International Law and it doesn't mention offspring of refugees....
shira
Oct 2013
#131
Wow, nice rant. There's still no law on the books where descendants of refugees are refugees....
shira
Oct 2013
#132
"There's no historical precedent for it, ever." ...except for the creation of Israel...
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#134
Oh really? Jews inherit refugee status going back to the Babylonian/Roman expulsions?
shira
Oct 2013
#140
You claim children of refugees are legit refugees themselves. There is no IHL stating such a thing.
shira
Oct 2013
#143
Descendants of Palestinian refugees somehow retain their refugee status even if....
shira
Oct 2013
#145
Who do u think expelled Jews out of the W.Bank and Gaza if not Palestinians? Come on.
shira
Nov 2013
#322
Thank you, shria, for dancing from distraction to untruth to distraction in order to
R. Daneel Olivaw
Nov 2013
#323
Bless your soul, shira. I guess that nobody ever told you that two wrongs don't make a right.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Nov 2013
#325
The most important thing that Duers can take away from your post, Shira, is that
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#171
You really need to learn how to read what people post instead of what you want to read into them.
aranthus
Oct 2013
#178
The Mufti Haj Amin al Husseini made it clear that genocide of the Jews was his goal.
shira
Oct 2013
#184
There were other Palestinians who didn't like al-Husseini for various reasons....
shira
Oct 2013
#198
You seem disappointed coming to grips with the Palestinians' Nazi leadership of that day....
shira
Oct 2013
#204
If you can't condemn real naziism, and you just can't relate to the Jews of 1948...
shira
Nov 2013
#316
You're in denial? The Mufti and his hired minions weren't Nazis? That wasn't the threat....
shira
Oct 2013
#209
You've now used two epithets to describe the 700,000 Palestinians that the
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#211
Right, we all know the Zionists were the nazis. And Hasbarados today act like nazis too. n/t
shira
Oct 2013
#214
Well, shira, you definately Godwin a lot, but some times you mght just be on to something.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#217
So it's racist to call 1947-48 Palestinians under al-Husseini Nazis, but perfectly fine....
shira
Oct 2013
#218
You're lying. All the lies and propaganda from you are just adding up. Not good....
shira
Oct 2013
#222
You've already been exposed, Shira. I hope many DUers read your nonsense...especially
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#224
"You're lying. All the lies and propaganda from you are just adding up."
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#233
You lied about Morris. You quoted him out-of-context. You can't even suggest a better....
shira
Oct 2013
#237
Out-of-context cherrypicking, which is exactly what u accuse your opponents of doing.
shira
Oct 2013
#247
No, shira, you are just clutching at your pearls again. I hope that DUers pay close attention how
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#267
Quite rich, coming from someone who always makes false cries of APARTHEID, APARTHEID, APARTHEID....
shira
Oct 2013
#230
By definition? What definition? Here's Kenneth Meshoe of S.Africa calling bullshit on you...
shira
Oct 2013
#239
I'm using your own definition. If Israel is apartheid, then America, Canada, and Australia...
shira
Oct 2013
#249
Israel didn't require ethnic cleansing. They agreed to the 1947 Partition which required...
shira
Oct 2013
#250
You're deflecting. The UN document shows that in 1947-48, the Jews were definitely...
shira
Oct 2013
#261
you claimed it was a UN document and it wasn't then you post an old clipping in Arabic
azurnoir
Oct 2013
#277
No one's disputing the Arabic. Not even Tom Segev who responded to the quote. n/t
shira
Oct 2013
#282
what you posted was an old newspaper clipping in Arabic nothing more nothing from Tom Segev
azurnoir
Oct 2013
#283
How are women, gays, and christians treated under Hamas, the PA, or any other dictatorship...
shira
Oct 2013
#291
Had Jews lost 1948, there wouldn't be much in the way of rights for gays, women, jews, christians...
shira
Oct 2013
#293
Okay then, what do u think would have happened to the Jews had they lost 1948? n/t
shira
Oct 2013
#295
One state, right? How will it work? Who will enforce this guarantee of a Utopian society? n/t
shira
Oct 2013
#299
Practically no one wants one secular democracy for all, so how will this come about?
shira
Oct 2013
#302
There's a reason neither Hamas or the PA grants equal rights to women,gays,christians,blacks,jews...
shira
Nov 2013
#307
You conveniently disappeared. No one in that area wants your idea of an egalitarian society...
shira
Nov 2013
#304
First of all, the vast majority of Palestinians left on their own accord & were not forced out....
shira
Oct 2013
#213
You cherry-picked hypocritically. You accuse others constantly of doing just that. n/t
shira
Oct 2013
#246
Thanks. No matter what is posted about the plight of the Palestinians
R. Daneel Olivaw
Nov 2013
#310
is that not a good summary? No. It is a rotten summary. I expected no les from you, though.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Dec 2013
#364
Let me make this very simple so even a pro-occupation idiot living in Israel can understand it.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Dec 2013
#366
And all your cires lead to continued land theft and apartheid for some self-righteous securty.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Dec 2013
#372
No, Pelsar, I really wish that you would stop telling me what I support when I have already told you
R. Daneel Olivaw
Dec 2013
#385
I have been reading the same skipping record from said poster for a while now
R. Daneel Olivaw
Dec 2013
#390
We can safely assume you're right about our progressive anti-Israel friends here...
shira
Dec 2013
#394
Most of what you just wrote is your usual gibberish, but you did at least admit occupation.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Dec 2013
#396
"They will support the West funding these dictatorships and also arming them."
R. Daneel Olivaw
Dec 2013
#423
its because you believe a belief and intent are real & actual consequences r less important
pelsar
Dec 2013
#397
The drive for Democracy is messy, Pelsar, and it won't happen overnight.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Dec 2013
#404
No, silly. Spin is spin. You wrongly took my words out of context. Curious that you would try that.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Dec 2013
#418
There's no deflection in pointing out your hypocrisy, pelsar. It's really easy to do.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Dec 2013
#422
Why do you continually distract from the OP even when asked repeatedly?
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2014
#427
The only hypocrisy I see is where you want to divert from the original OP.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2014
#429
It is neither too difficult nor complex to point out the dreary hasbarist;
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2014
#431
These delusions you exhibit for imaginary "controllers" of mine is troubling.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2014
#438
And yet after all the naysayers, screamers and hasbarists have pissed on this thread it still stands
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2014
#481
What's worse, American billionaire shamelessly want a continuation of the Nakba.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2014
#485