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Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Thu 14 Sep 2006, 23:27:28

You are very convinced of your worldview. From time to time you tell us how you aren't sold on black and white simplistic views of the world, but you always come back to them anyway. Israel & America = Bad, Palestinians Good. You point to the bad guys using lethal force and ignore your sympaticos' use of coerced frightened suicide bombers. Young Palestinian girls who had sexual indiscretions used to convince them their life was over anyway in their male-dominated society, so they could redeem themselves by killing Israeli roadside diners with strapped-on bombs. You defend the indefensible. We have been trying to say that the time is at hand to let it go, let peace have a chance, but you persist in thinking that only blood will cure this situation. How else can we interpret this? Israel isn't going anywhere. You know that too. Accommodation and peace is the only answer. You say let the Palestinians return knowing full well they would vote Israel out of existence. You are so full of contradictions, yet you persist in your self-righteous claim to moral virtue. I say nonsense, you have no more claim to moral virtue than anyone else. You are no less brainwashed than any of us. And furthermore, your claims that we are brainwashed are obnoxious and disgusting. Who are you to say what is the truth?
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Re: Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 00:07:29

BTW, how many of you knew that Atilla The Hun was a dwarf? Bet you didn't know that.
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Re: Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby Jack » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 00:37:06

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'A')ccommodation and peace is the only answer.


Not true. Other answers include:
    Mutual annihilation
    Elimination of one side
    Capitulation of one side
    Perpetual war


There are historical precedents for each. I would point out the elimination of one side assures a long-term peace.

Of course, I have my favorites. 8)
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Re: Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby rwwff » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 00:38:06

Perpetual annoyance is what I think we have right now...
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Re: Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby Eli » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 00:48:33

Wait I thought she was supposed to get a Congressional Medal of Honor?


What set you off Pen just asking?
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Re: Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 00:58:33

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', 'W')ait I thought she was supposed to get a Congressional Medal of Honor?


What set you off Pen just asking?
smug self-righteousness pisses me off.
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Re: Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby smallpoxgirl » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 05:58:28

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 's')mug self-righteousness pisses me off.

You know what they say PMS. The traits that annoy us most about others are usually traits that we don't like about ourselves. :razz:
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Re: Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby bobcousins » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 07:09:34

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', 'W')ait I thought she was supposed to get a Congressional Medal of Honor?

What set you off Pen just asking?
smug self-righteousness pisses me off.


A lot of things seem to piss you off :roll:
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Re: Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby Eli » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 08:55:48

I think she makes a shining example of the duplicitous logic at work in the ME.

She says I am all for peace, Israel should be forced to make peace, but then in the next breath will fly into a rant when someone says that right of return will never happen.

I really can't stand the way she is so dismissive about all the bat shit crazy things Ahmadinejad and Nasrallah say.
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Re: Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby Atlantean_Relic » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 09:39:54

Cue Miki rebuttal with example of U.S. and Israeli duplicity in 5,4,3,2,1
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Re: Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby rwwff » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 10:18:09

America & Israel != good
America & Israel != bad
America & Israel == perfect allies

Palestine and the Islamic Empire != good
Palestine and the Islamic Empire != bad
Palestine and the Islamic Empire == allies

(America & Israel) && (Palestine and the Islamic Empire) == eternal enemies.

Thats the deck of cards that has been dealt. No amount of whining, money, treaties, or governments will change that.

The question becomes do we wish to be blood enemies that have come to a grudging tolerance of each others existence; or do we eventually decide to engage in a war that will settle the matter forever.

So far, it looks like we're warming up for the latter at the expense of the former.
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Re: Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby Eli » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 11:09:52

Here is the difference Atlantic Relic.

I and many others here will freely admit when the US and Israel are talking out of both sides of their mouths. Israel and the US have obviously done some very shitty things over the years.

Miki on the other hand will never admit that Hezebollah and Hamas have never taken actions that were not justified. Her continuing position that suicide bombing innocent people is justified is passive support for it.

It is the same thing as saying murder is wrong but then on the other hand saying that murder is justified. And when people are murdered left and right sit their on your ass saying tsk tsk tsk that is so wrong but I guess it is justified.

She likes to play pretend all the time. She likes to pretend that Nasarallah and Armdinejad are just kidding when they say things like "If [the Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide” or "Israel should be wiped off the map".

If she would just come out and admit that millions upon millions of muslim (and non muslim) Arabs would love to see Israel burned to a crisp it would be a start.
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Re: Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby kabu » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 11:55:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', '"')Israel should be wiped off the map".

I myself don't know what was said, exactly, but what would you say to the charge of that translation being controversial, as asserted by this:

"The most infamous quote, "Israel must be wiped off the map", is the most glaringly wrong. In his October 2005 speech, Mr. Ahmadinejad never used the word "map" or the term "wiped off". According to Farsi-language experts like Juan Cole and even right-wing services like MEMRI, what he actually said was "this regime that is occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.""

http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf ... e14733.htm
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Re: Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby rwwff » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 12:00:28

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kabu', '"')this regime that is occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.""


I think we call that going from the frying pan and into the fire.

You're translation is more vicious than the one the media ran with.
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Re: Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby Eli » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 12:03:27

Thanks for the more accurate translation

That only confirms that really nothing was lost.

"vanish from the page of time" just sounds much more poetic.
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Re: Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby kabu » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 12:14:34

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', 'T')hanks for the more accurate translation

That only confirms that really nothing was lost.

"vanish from the page of time" just sounds much more poetic.

The difference that you two are not talking about is between "regime" and "Israel".

re‧gime:
1. a mode or system of rule or government: a dictatorial regime.
2. a ruling or prevailing system.
3. a government in power.
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Re: Open Letter To Miki

Unread postby Miki » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 13:20:28

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'Y')ou are very convinced of your worldview. From time to time you tell us how you aren't sold on black and white simplistic views of the world, but you always come back to them anyway. Israel & America = Bad, Palestinians Good.


1-I've acknowledged many times that Palestinians use terrorism in order to achieve political means, and that this approach is morally wrong. Thus, I have not portrayed them as "all good", as you claim.

2-The fact that I favor the Palestinian side of the story in my posts here is based on 3 principles:

a-Someone needs to show Americans the other side. The American media does enough to defend America's and Israel's righteousness. What's the use of me rergurgitating that here?

b-America and Israel started the atacks against the Muslim nations. This applies to Palestine, Lebanon, and Irak. This war did not start in 9/11, as most Americans seem to believe. While two wrongs don't make one right, it is worth to mention who atacked first, if only to take things in perspective when it comes to the "right to self-defense" rhetoric that Israel and America always use to justify their actions.

c-America and Israel perpetrate terrorism and label it "self defense", but when Palestinians and Arabs react to that terrorism with similar means (terrorism), self-defense is never mentioned. I am fed up of these double standards. And I'm doing my best to show them. The use of terrorism by the Palestinians and Arabs is a known fact all over the world. I am here to show the more unknown part of the story: the terrorism of the other side that is rarely acknowledged or even known by Americans.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou point to the bad guys using lethal force and ignore your sympaticos' use of coerced frightened suicide bombers.


False. I've pointed out many times that suicide bombing is a fact and it's morally wrong. It is a no brainer that it's a form of terrorism. I would be quite stupid to deny that---and I never have.
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')Young Palestinian girls who had sexual indiscretions used to convince them their life was over anyway in their male-dominated society, so they could redeem themselves by killing Israeli roadside diners with strapped-on bombs.


This is pure BS. For one, female suicide bombers are rare. Second, they always say they do it for political means. Please show me evidence corroborating the fact that most female suicide bombers do it because they feel their life is over due to sexual shame. Spare me the anecdotical evidence, cause it counts for nothing.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou defend the indefensible. We have been trying to say that the time is at hand to let it go, let peace have a chance, but you persist in thinking that only blood will cure this situation. How else can we interpret this?


1-It seems that you can defend the killing of 70 000 civilians in your putrid "war on terror" that is not even a war against terrorism but a war for oil and hegemony. But I can't say that by doing that you're giving the terrorists a reason to atack you. If I say that you call me a "terrorist apologist", a defensor of terrorism.

Please! You Americans are getting too used to thinking that anyone that challenges your "war on terror" is a traitor or a terrorist apologist. You want to slaughter my people at your whim, and you want me to applaud, to shut up, or to thank you for bringing democracy and civiliation to my land.

Are you aware of the fact that 2/3 of the world (including Europeans) agree with me? Are you aware that they all think the "war on terror" is an excse that your government is using to control oil and have hegemony in the ME? Are you aware that most people in the world believe your government is an arrogant bully? Are you aware that 75% of Brits believe that stopping to support American policies in the ME is the best defense against terrorism? Are 2/3 of the world terrorist apologists too?

2-Let peace have a chance? Is that what you did in Lebanon last month, or in Palestine the last 40 years and counting, or in Irak? Is this your way of making peace with the Arab people? Is this what you do to motivate them to make peace with you?

3-You either have grossly misinterpreted my posts or you just refuse to acknowledge what I'm saying. I've been explaining to
you that it is American policy that has created and strengtened terrorism. I never said bloodshed is the solution. I said that bloodshed was the cause, and needed to be addressed for a solution to be reached. I said that you can't expect to kill Arab civilians and then expect that Arabs won't retaliate. I said that you are still killing Arab civilians, and that is only strengthening terrorism in the world.

I never said only blood will cure this. I've been repeating til my face got green that the US needs to change American's foreign policy in the ME for this to change. That is the only thing that can have a significant effect on this. You can kill all the terrorists in the world, but if you don't address the root cause more terrorist will be born everyday. Your policies are raising hatred, and that hatred will sooner or later reach you.

3-I also said that you are giving Arabs legitimate reasons to justify terrorism. Aren't you justifying the death of hundreds of Arab civilians as a response to Islamic terrorism? So why do you expect Arabs not to justify the deaths of your civilians in response to your atacks? We are all human here. The life of an American or an Israeli is not worth more than the life of an Arab.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')srael isn't going anywhere. You know that too. Accommodation and peace is the only answer. You say let the Palestinians return knowing full well they would vote Israel out of existence. You are so full of contradictions

1-I never said that I did not agree to a 2 state solution.

2-The Palestinian right to return is an internationally recognized human right. It was declared by a UN resolution that Israel accepted.

3-If the Palestinians vote to generate a regime chage in Israel, that is called DEMOCRACY.

Apparently, when it comes to Israel, Americans don't think that democracy, UN resolutions, and human rights matter anymore.

4-Even if we left the right to return out of the deal, Israel is illegally occupying Palestinian land and enforcing that illegal occupation through military means. That is state-sponsored terrorism by any standards. If the Palestinians retaliate, that is their right. When you occupy someone's land, they have the right to retaliate and defend their land and their posessions and their nation. When did you acknowledge that PMS? When did you acknowledge that Palestinians have every right to atack the Israelis if the Israelis are occupying their land illegally and colonizing it by sending more and more illegal Jew settlers every day?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'y')et you persist in your self-righteous claim to moral virtue. I say nonsense, you have no more claim to moral virtue than anyone else.

Please tell me where I contradicted myself, because I'm still not seeing it. Just because I take sides and defend the main victms in all this, that doesn't mean that I'm claiming morality over eveyone else. There are decent and non-decent people everywhere. But governments are a different matter. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that your government has systematically used military force to force Third World nations to align with American interests. It just takes an objective look to the history of your foreign policy in the world.

Your government has trained terrorists in LatinAmerica and Afghanistan. You create the terrorists, you strengthen them, you fund them, you even train them, and then you blame it on the warmongering religion of Islam???

Your government has suported dictators that oppressed and killed the Arab people. Your government has vetoed UN resolutions that defended the human rights of the Arab people. Your government sends more money to Israel to slaughter Arabs, than it sends to the poorest nations of the world where people die of hunger every day. Your government has not been a promoter of democracy and human rights in the ME. All the opposite. All your government wants from the ME is oil, and it will slaughter and destroy as much as necessary to get that oil. If you are incapable of acknowledging this, you will never underastand Islamic terrorism, and you will never have an objective view of the relations between your government and the Arab people.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou are no less brainwashed than any of us. And furthermore, your claims that we are brainwashed are obnoxious and disgusting. Who are you to say what is the truth?

1-I watch BBC and see the apalling differences between the American and the British reporting. If your press is not providing you with the facts from both sides in a neutral tone, it is fair to say that they are brainwashing you to lead you to believe what they want you to believe.

Here: take a good look at the exact mechanisms that your media uses to brainwash you. Then come argue with me on whether you're brainwashed or not.

2-I don't understand formal Arabic or read it, so all the Arab channels are not accessible to me. Instead, I watch CNN and read the news and commentaries from news resources from all over the world. I do give priority to the independent media (eg, The Independent, Asia Times, etc). While no media is 100% objective, I feel I'm exposing myself to more than one side of the issue, which renders me less likely to be brainwashed.

3-I never said I owned the truth. I said expose yourself to the other side of the story before making up your mind. You've said more than once that you don't know much about the history of Israel and Palestine. You've also said that you have a special affection for Israel. You've also said that you need to put yourself more on the Palestinian shoes. Considering all this, don't you think that you need to expose yourself to the other side before making up your mind?

I'm here to help you with that, but it seems it's too unconfortable for you to acknowledge that the US government is not the righteous defensor of democracy and human rights that it claims to be. It is much easier to atack me because I'm challenging your views and taking you out of your confort zone.

In sum,

1-I have acknowledged that Palestinians use terrorism as a method of war. You have yet to acknowledge that Israel does the same with the support of your government and the tax dollars of your people.

2-I have acknowledged that what Al Qaeda does is morally wrong. You have yet to condemn your government for its moral faults. When I pointed out that the US supported Al Qaeda, you said "well, back then it was justified to neutralize the soviets". So creating terrorists was justified back then, but today its the fault of Islam because it's a warmongering religion?

3-I have said that suicide bombing is wrong and it kills innocent people that have nothing to do with the war; I have said that 9/11 was a terrorist act because it killed 3000 innocent civilians; I even sent my condolences to a few of you that I PMed on that day. You have never acknowledged that your government has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent Arab civilians in order to advance its political agendas. You just say "Miki, you're an idealist, that is what war looks like".

4-I have acknowledged that Israeli civilians have the right to peace and security. When did you acknowledge any right of the Palestinian people? You find an ecuse for every single violation of the human rights of the Palestinians. According to you, an illegal military occupation enforced through terrorism that has lasted 40 years is OK, just because it's Israel. Just because whatever Israel does can be justified in the name of self-defense. If they nuked all Palestine tomorrow, I bet you'd say "it was not a proportionate measure, but it was done because of self-defense; let's move on".
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