Obama Admin Ends Efforts to Stop israel's Expanding Settlements

[bankside]

Primarily because Palestinians are nomads. The Ottoman Empire didn't care about them and following that the British didn't care about them and they continued to have fun with their sand and goats. They didn't need or want a nation.

Everyone used to be nomads. I hope I'm not expected to take up sheep herding just because someone did that in my family 8 generations ago, or 18, or whatever. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go prepare for the Feast of Saint Lucy, and then Saturnalia's coming up right away too! Ugh. The holidays!

 

[Kulindahr]

Let's break it down real simply for you.

If I force you off your property with a weapon, how long do I have to wait until it's legitimately mine according to you?

A year? Two years? 100 years? 1000? Do your descendants get to claim it? Do mine?

Then the Palestinians claim they're the descendants of the Philistines....


Maybe that's why in the Old Testament God told them to wipe everyone out -- He was looking forward at twentieth and twenty-first century geopolitics....

 

[Serenx55]

IIRC, Jerusalem isn't even mentioned in the Q'uran, so there can't be any such requirement.

Not that such a lack would mean anything to the fanatics.

You do realize that the prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven on temple mount. Which is why you have the Dome of the rock on top of it. Which is the source of all the conflict in the region.

 

[Kulindahr]

But that has, in my judgement, very little to do with who found what shard under what rock from thousands of years ago. And it offers scant cover for twisting a state established to enshrine the freedoms of some people, into a tool for depriving the rights of others.

If the people having their rights deprived would police their own ranks, the situation could be much improved.

Everyone used to be nomads. I hope I'm not expected to take up sheep herding just because someone did that in my family 8 generations ago, or 18, or whatever. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go prepare for the Feast of Saint Lucy, and then Saturnalia's coming up right away too! Ugh. The holidays!

I don't get frantic until February -- two saints that start with V.....

 

[Kulindahr]

You do realize that the prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven on temple mount. Which is why you have the Dome of the rock on top of it. Which is the source of all the conflict in the region.

Why is why on occasion I pray for a one-meter asteroid to hit just outside the Dome of the Rock, toward the Wailing Wall.

let's see them all get excited over a crater.

 

[Serenx55]

Why is why on occasion I pray for a one-meter asteroid to hit just outside the Dome of the Rock, toward the Wailing Wall.

let's see them all get excited over a crater.

I'd prefer to see some divine force pissing thunder and writing " Fuck all of you stupid shit's" across the Mount. Then I can spend the rest of my life smiling.

 

[Kulindahr]

I'd prefer to see some divine force pissing thunder and writing " Fuck all of you stupid shit's" across the Mount. Then I can spend the rest of my life smiling.

The God of the Bible and Qu'ran doesn't work that way (assuming, which is dubious, that He's the same). THough in Old Testament flavor, He might send someone to wander the streets of Jerusalem yelling something like, "Yet seven days, and it is overthrown! A sign cometh!" (Changing the figure with the countdown, of course.)

Then NASA sees the asteroid with just hours to spare.....

Muhammad died in Medina of natural causes in 632.

The Isra and Miraj legend doesn't even mention Jerusalem.

Oh, don't mess up a good story with facts.


Speaking of facts, who else would it be who allegedly stepped off to heaven from Jerusalem?