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In reply to the discussion: Mr. President, Don’t Forget The Nakba [View all]Response to aranthus (Reply #148)
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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