@F_alk:
@EmuGod:
Besides the Chinese land claim to Siberia and the Native Peoples’ claims of land in the Americas, I know of NO OTHER culture that has ties to a place.
If you don’t know more, than take a history book and a newspaper:
Aboriginies in Australia, exiled germans for Silesia (sp?), North Ireland and nearly everywhere where you have a civil war / conflict.
It’s easy for you to say as an Anti-Semite. You’re telling the Jews to assimilate and to lose our culture, but we refuse to do so and that’s why you and the other anti-semites hate us. Becuase we won’t leave our traditions. No other nation has a historical place as part of its culture, those who did have given it up such as the Orthodox Church in Constantinople.
You call every critic anti-semite, don’t you? Just like every criticism of the US would be treason for some USies here.
Assimilation can be understood of adding your culture to the others. Are the jews in the US assimilated? Do they accept US (and therefore heretic) laws? Or do they accept the US and try to add their culture into the whole of it?
There is nothing that can be done about the cycle. Israel has no choice but to retaliate because if she does not, the terrorists will grow more confident and conduct more attacks believing that they cannot and will not be stopped.
We call this a “milk-maiden’s calculation”. With your thinking, the freedom of India from the UK must be a wonder. With your thinking, south africa would never had a black president. With your thinking, US soldiers were sent into their death in Vietnam.
You cannot unilaterally withdraw from a place crawling with terrorists. Israel tried that when it pulled out of Lebanon and now the entire south of Lebanon is occupied by Hizballah. By unilaterally withdrawing from the West Bank and Gaza, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the other terrorist groups will take over those areas.
And why?
Because you go in, destroy every infrastructure, and leave a heap of rubble with a power vacuum…. no wonder who is quickest to fill it, surely not the more bureucratic government that your pulveriyed in your attack.
About your idea of criticizing everyone as an Anti-semite, I only criticize those with destructive criticism not ones with constructive criticism. When you start saying things like “Don’t do what you religion tells you to.” that’s pure anti-semitism. If the criticism is constructive, then it shows the person means well and means to show possible flaws. Constructive criticism builds things up and destructive (such as Yanny’s) tears them down.
Assimilation is alright to a certain extent, but due to the pressure of people such as Yanny who don’t believe in the rights of minorities and pressure them into giving up their religions more, manyt assiimilate to the point that they lose their religion. This is especially true in the “melting pot” of the United States, but even happens in the “salad bowl” of Canada.
Your idea of do not retaliate does not work. Countries run on pride and on their requirement to survive. When a country’s pride is damamged, it must do something about it. The United States had to fight Japan in World War 2, because it’s pride as a superpower was shattered due to the Pearl Harbor attack. According to your philosophy, America should have not declared war on Japan and let hte Japanese do whatever they wanted in the Pacific.
I’m not saying to always retaliate. Negotiate if possible but in situations like in Israel, where negotiation is not possible, the only way to save the country is to retaliate.
About Lebanon, Israel had actually eliminated most of the terrorists in Southern Lebanon. Do not forget the Syria controls the eastern part of Lebanon and that the Lebanese government is quite powerless, especially due to the fact that Syria is occupying Eastern Lebanon and that its government speaks for the Lebanese government. The Hizballah terrorists were from northern and eastern Lebanon, under Syrian control, and that’s from where they came to take over Southern Lebanon. The Lebanese government cannot stop this because the Syrian government supports Hizballah and funds them.
