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Originally posted by Not Bob
Translation: Ty posted something about the mideast, and no one posted anything here for more than 24 hours after that post. "Therefore," says Ty, "my brilliant bit of insight was so powerful that the tubes and wires of the Internets were singed, causing the LawTalkers Politics Board to crash for a day. Until I came back to say something else."

How very un-NotBob like. You don't generally make with the snide and snarky. What's wrong, NB, Wanda forget to sweeten your tea?

Spanky: Breaking the board is simply an observation that the last post was some time ago and the poster is wondering if everybody went someplace cooler to play.

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Originally posted by taxwonk
How very un-NotBob like. You don't generally make with the snide and snarky. What's wrong, NB, Wanda forget to sweeten your tea?

Spanky: Breaking the board is simply an observation that the last post was some time ago and the poster is wondering if everybody went someplace cooler to play.

No, no -- I was channeling Ty being self-deprecating. Apologies for being Not Clear.

Besides, I tend to agree with him mostly (though on the mideast stuff, I am with spanky in throwing up my hands). I tend to be snarky to those I disagree with.

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Originally posted by Not Bob
No, no -- I was channeling Ty being self-deprecating. Apologies for being Not Clear.

Besides, I tend to agree with him mostly (though on the mideast stuff, I am with spanky in throwing up my hands). I tend to be snarky to those I disagree with.

No apologies needed. Especially if you were trying to channel Ty. That's harder than trying to channel Hank sober or Penske sane.

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Originally posted by taxwonk
No apologies needed. Especially if you were trying to channel Ty. That's harder than trying to channel Hank sober or Penske sane.

That's not nice. I thought we had rapprochement?

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
That's not nice. I thought we had rapprochement?

he has been on a diet, at least on the internet, since yesterday. he's obviously just hungry-mean. let it roll off you man. Remember when we had a tubby president instead of a fit one- back then a guy could get fat and not feel inferior:(

A Decent Interlude

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
That's not nice. I thought we had rapprochement?

Off the Politics board, for sure. Here, well, I've taken you off my ignore list. That's a start.

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
That's not nice. I thought we had rapprochement?

Maybe he thought your socks were lobbing the occasional missile at him.

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
he has been on a diet, at least on the internet, since yesterday. he's obviously just hungry-mean. let it roll off you man. Remember when we had a tubby president instead of a fit one- back then a guy could get fat and not feel inferior:(

I'm neither hungry nor mean. But that could change.

Compassionate humanistic insight of yore

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Originally posted by creamy_ass_face
I am myopic.

I am irrational.

I am a fool on a lonely hill of debunked ideology.

All true, I'm afraid. At least you are better lovers, though.

Proud Republicans are running for office with ads that forget to mention that they're Republicans. C'mon, fellas! Chest out, chin high! Walk with pride!

A Decent Interlude

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Originally posted by taxwonk
Off the Politics board, for sure. Here, well, I've taken you off my ignore list. That's a start.

I am unwavering FoI, no matter how ruthless they are. If that helps.

I am always the original FoP, although I am not sure that has any currency on this Board.

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Maybe he thought your socks were lobbing the occasional missile at him.

I quit socking so I am not sure what you mean.

Compassionate humanistic insight of yore

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Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
All true, I'm afraid. At least you are better lovers, though.

When I was political, back in the day, people frequently noted that while I espoused conservative doctrine, my lifestyle was more that of a democrat.

FWIW.

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Originally posted by Gattigap
Proud Republicans are running for office with ads that forget to mention that they're Republicans. C'mon, fellas! Chest out, chin high! Walk with pride!

Kennedy? Obviously a Democrat in disguise. Or the white sheep of the family. No offence.

1. Nice fences do not stop missiles, rockets, and mortars.

2. Complete removal of Israeli forces and Jewish settlers from an area does not achieve anything positive, but merely signals Israeli weakness, inviting escalated terror and aggression from Israel’s enemies.

3. Hezbollah and Hamas cannot be defeated with air strikes. There is no effective alternative to ground invasion and ongoing control of the ground.

4. Unless the Israeli military controls the ground on the other side of fences, those fences achieve nothing.

5. Goodwill gestures by Israel tend to increase terror and invite further demands.

6. Goodwill gestures by Israel never produce moderation of Arab goals and demands, but rather produce the opposite.

7. Terror is not caused by settlements, but rather fueled by the removal of settlements.

8. Terror is not caused by Israeli military occupation, but rather allowed to flourish with the removal of Israeli military occupation.

9. It is impossible for there to be two sovereign entities between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean.

10. No matter how many concessions Israel makes, the world will always justify Arab terrorism, because there is always one more capitulation that Israel has failed to make (e.g., giving up the “Shebaa Farm” on the Golan Heights).

11. No matter how nice Israel is to Israeli Arabs, no matter how many affirmative-action programs it implements, it will always be accused of being an “apartheid regime.”

12. Much of the Israeli far Left is essentially an anti-Semitic movement that seeks Israel’s destruction and automatically endorses the enemies of Israel in all things.

13. The Israeli Labor party and its Kadima cousin may be more effective at fighting terror, once they decide to do so, than Likud. The reason is that if Likud were fighting terror, the Israeli Left would take to the streets in mass demonstrations against Israeli imperialism and aggression, and the leftist Israeli media would declare that 400,000 protesters turned out.

14. The Israeli Left will oppose every conceivable act of Israeli self-defense, other than total capitulation.

15. Jewish far-leftism is a very real enemy of Israel.

16. Some international observers don’t mind seeing Jewish civilians murdered by terrorists, and will applaud and justify all such murders as comeuppances for the Jews’ being so insensitive.

17. Israeli niceness and flexibility often encourage and embolden anti-Semites.

18. Israel-bashing is often driven by anti-Semitism, and many Israel-bashers are increasingly open about their delight at seeing Jewish civilians murdered.

19. Israeli pursuit of the “peace process” has triggered a worldwide storm of anti-Semitism.

20. Terrorists cannot be appeased.

21. Arab terrorists do not morph into statesmen.

22. Looking for Palestinian moderates in politics is a fruitless endeavor.

23. Many Israel-bashers do not care about dead Arab civilians, other than as a useful bludgeon with which to de-legitimize Israel.

24. Much of the Western Left would celebrate the destruction of Israel.

25. The vast majority of Israeli Arabs want to see Israel destroyed and the Jews thrown into the sea.

26. There are hundreds of Jewish professors in Israel who serve as an academic fifth column for terrorism and will do almost anything to collaborate with the enemies of their country.

27. The Arabs will not accept an independent Israel in any set of borders, no matter how small. Thus nothing can be achieved by reducing Israel’s territory, other than signalling weakness and vulnerability.

28. Much of the Western media believes that there are no problems on earth that could not be greatly ameliorated by destroying Israel.

29. Most of the governments of Europe seem not to believe Jews should be allowed to defend themselves from aggression.

30. The only country on earth that is expected to respond to the mass murder of its civilians by turning the other cheek is Israel. The only country on earth that has spent many years trying to defeat terrorism by turning the other cheek is Israel.

31. Whenever Israel responds firmly to aggression and terrorism, it will always be criticized for a “disproportionate” response.

32. Most of those who claim that anti-Zionism is different from anti-Semitism are anti-Semites.

33. The only people on earth whom the Left believes should be denied the right to self-determination and self-defense are the Jews.

34. “Palestinians” are not a people and never were. They are simply Arabs who happened to migrate into historic Western Palestine. They have no right to statehood.

35. The Golan Heights are not “Syrian” and never were.

36. Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein are anti-Semites, and so are many of their supporters.

37. Israeli politicians are among the stupidest on earth.

38. Israeli leftists never learn from the failures of their policies and “ideas.” Every failure is explained away by the fact that their policies were not applied thoroughly enough.

39. The moral and legal responsibility for every single Arab civilian death or injury in the Middle East conflict rests squarely upon the shoulders of the aggressive Arab fascists and terrorists who have provoked Israel.

40. There is no moral or legal reason for Israel to refrain from attacking terrorists and murderers when they hide among civilians.

41. Many of the “anarchists” and others who protest against Israel’s security wall want the wall removed because they want terrorists to murder Jewish civilians.

42. Palestinians are the Sudeten Germans of the Middle East.

43. Israel has no obligation to share its water resources with the “Palestinians” or anyone else.

44. There are no non-military solutions to the problem of terrorism.

45. Talk of “peace” is revealing, because it is only necessary to consider making peace when you are faced with an enemy. Israel is faced with a host of committed enemies, and it is they who will not accept a fair peace settlement.

46. There are no significant differences between the agenda of the PLO and the agenda of Hamas and Hezbollah.

47. The Middle East conflict is not a marital spat. Going through the pretense of holding hands and holding talks does not calm tensions and achieves nothing.

48. One cannot make peace by pretending that war does not exist.

49. One cannot buy off anti-Semites and Islamofascists with trade concessions and subsidies.

50. The only way to stop terrorism is to kill terrorists.

—Steven Plaut is a professor at the University of Haifa.