*The activities that have been exposed illustrate Iranian involvement in the encouragement of terror against Israel and exposes the arms that are sent by Iran to different countries around the world for the sake of promoting hostile activities against Israel,” the statement read.
The announcement came shortly after the Israeli military said Islamic Jihad was believed responsible for firing Iranian-made mortars at Israel from the Gaza Strip last* week.
And the birth of a new one, without the baggage, no?
If you’re pretty confident that these are *not *the End Times (barring some clown with short fingers pushing a button), then taking any goodies you’re given by the believers is entirely understandable.
Before East Pakistan became Bangladesh after a bloody struggle would you have referred to either East or West Pakistan as a bantustan? Is Kaliningrad a bantustan? I’m going to help you here since you probably haven’t heard of Kaliningrad, see The Forgotten Russian Enclave of Kaliningrad. Is Singapore a bantustan? Hint, Malaysia kicked them out of the country in 1964 because of its Christian identity. Is Alaska a bantustan?
I am liberal in the sense that I think that “budget cuts” or “tax cuts” aimed squarely at the poor are bad policy. As is a climate treaty aimed at the poor of the United States. how telling, the phrase, but it is without doubt there is the coming apologia for the bantustans policies developing.
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Before East Pakistan became Bangladesh after a bloody struggle would you have referred to either East or West Pakistan as a bantustan? Is Kaliningrad a bantustan? I’m going to help you here since you probably haven’t heard of Kaliningrad, see The Forgotten Russian Enclave of Kaliningrad. Is Singapore a bantustan? Hint, Malaysia kicked them out of the country in 1964 because of its Christian identity. Is Alaska a bantustan?
I am liberal in the sense that I think that “budget cuts” or “tax cuts” aimed squarely at the poor are bad policy. As is a climate treaty aimed at the poor of the United States.[/FONT]
What are you talking about? Singapore does not have a “Christian identity”. Today, it is 18.8% Christian. Back in 1980, it was 9.9%.
What the fuck are you on about?
I’m sorry, I forgot the Buddhists. But everyone else plays nicely.
Grammar? You’re trying to say something. Try again.
This is like a squid shooting out a cloud of ink to hide itself while it swims away madly.
It wasn’t a religious issue at all.
I’m not sure you understand what a Bantustan is.
While Singapore was part of Malaysia, it held 15 seats in the Malaysian Parliament.
Alaska is equal to the other states, and enjoys proportional representation in the House of Representatives, and equal representation in the Senate.
Kaliningrad is an oblast of Russia, equal to the other oblasts, and sends representatives to the Duma.
Tell me, do the Palestinians hold any seats in the Knesset?
The key to the Bantustans was limiting the locations people could live based on their race. It was a less-violent form of ethnic cleansing.
Malaysia never forced Chinese people to move to Singapore, nor did West Pakistan force Bengali Muslims to move to Bangladesh. Kaliningrad was one of many regions of Europe where ethnic Germans were expelled after the war, but Stalin never made anyone move *to *it other than Russians.
If your point is that Israel is doing nothing that Stalin didn’t do, then you really might want to reconsider your support for it.
So the illogical flailing respones continues
Bizarre.
There is not even any logical comparison or any connection in the concept…
It is the random flailing around I guess.
Since the Soviets annexed the city from the old Prussian territory as a deliberate action and completely ethnically cleansed it of the majority native German population - resettling with the Soviet and preferably Russian population it is not even logically comparable (except to make the opposite point you incompetently try to make).
What a total failure of an attempt at a distraction.
This is very funny coming from someone who has no idea at all about the European history and made such a fool out of himself in his attempt at talking about Berlin.
Hint… No in fact there is no “Christian identity” for Singapore, this is a pure fiction you likely are repeating from the bizarre extreme right sources you read.
Of course there is no relationship
??? My god what a complete disconnected…
You appear by this list of complete failures of analogical examples to have no idea what the Bantustan policy was by the South African white supramacist government, any more than you had any idea at all what the history of the DDR and the BRD and the reunification and Berlin history really was.
This is the politest interpretation of your bizarre resposne.
The remainder of the pretending as the agitation-propaganda attempt I have no interest in.
Yes.
Less violent? The slower motion maybe
At least the Slavics Soviet citizens… not the doubtful ethnicities of the era to be certain.
So actually it is the opposite of the point he thought he was making.
Double standard! Did you criticize Stalin???@@!!!.. ha.
Arent we getting more than a little offtrack?
What track is there?
The random news stories?
Or the OP’s pretensions about the political color and the incoherent non historical assertions he makes?
Neither of those are the one-state solutions that Trump and friends were apparently envisioning/fantasizing. Courtesy of a report in NY Magazine today centered around Steve Bannon:
Do not personalize arguments in this fashion. If you feel you must, the BBQ Pit is right around the corner.
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Do not resort to nae calling in this discussion.
Challenge the facts and ideas.
Do not ridicule the poster.
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I honestly don’t understand what you’re trying to say here and I don’t think I’m alone. Could you possibly rephrase this portion of your post.
To my mind creating a bantustan is splitting what should be a country up into a patchwork of real estate dependent on the surrounding country. Am I wrong?
Yes. Bantustans were territories within apartheid-era South Africa where blacks were supposedly given autonomy. “Look! See? We’re letting the blacks rule themselves.” Which, of course, was anything but the case.
I don’t recall using the word “repudiated” Why do you feel the need to put words in my mouth to try and make yourself right?
Are you saying that no Hamas leaders have “backed away from the worst of the statements in the charter” (this is what I actually said, do you see how this is different from saying that Hamas leaders have “repupdiated” their charter)?
I shouldn’t have said Quran. But the hadiths are religious texts, right? You may not have intended to quote a hadith when you quoted the Hamas Charter but the Hamas charter was quoting a hadith in your selected quote of the Hamas charter.
As I was googling this, I discovered (as you probably knew) that Hamas is rewriting their charter to at least tacitly recognize a two state solution by saying that they would be OK with a Palestine along 1967 borders.
I don’t know if this is enough for peace but it seems like progress. Maybe in another 70 years we will have more progress.