Just give both sides a few nukes and get it over with already. The world could use some glass-covered self-lighting parking lots in that neck of the woods anyways.
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Israel already has nukes!
I know Im the king of cut and paste but here it is in a nut shell.
TIMELINE: Milestones in six decades of Middle East conflict
Sat Dec 27, 2008 9:14am EST Dec 27 - The following timeline presents some of the main events in 60 years of conflict between Israel, the Palestinians and Arab countries since the founding of the Jewish state.
* State of Israel declared in May 1948. British troops leave and fighting breaks out with Arab neighbors. Some 700,000 Palestinians, half the Arab population of British-ruled Palestine, fled or were driven from their homes. Arab troops intervened but lost some of the land the United Nations had assigned to Palestinians. Armistice pacts halted the fighting a year later but there was no formal peace.
* In 1956 Israel invaded the Gaza Strip and Sinai in conjunction with the Suez Canal campaign launched by Britain and France against Egypt. Israel withdrew six months later.
* In 1965 the Palestinian guerrilla movement Fatah carried out its first military operation inside Israel.
* In 1967 Israeli strikes against Egypt and Syria launched the Six Day War. Israel has occupied the West Bank, Arab East Jerusalem, and Syria's Golan Heights ever since.
* Palestinian guerrillas killed 11 Israelis at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
* In 1973, Egypt and Syria attacked Israeli positions along the Suez Canal and Golan Heights, beginning the Yom Kippur War. Israel pushed both armies back within three weeks.
* Religious Zionists in 1974 founded Gush Emunim to promote Jewish settlement expansion in the occupied territories.
* In 1976, Israeli commandos at Entebbe, Uganda, rescued over 100 mostly Jewish hostages held by Palestinian hijackers.
* Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, after a landmark visit to Israel ending 30 years of hostility, joined Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and U.S. President Jimmy Carter at the White House in 1979 to sign Israel's first peace accord with an Arab state.
* Two years later, Israeli planes destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor site, thwarting Saddam Hussein's atom bomb plans.
* Israel handed back Sinai to Egypt in 1982.
* That same year, Israel invaded Lebanon to drive out Palestinian guerrillas. Hundreds of Palestinian civilians were massacred at Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by Lebanese Christian militiamen allowed in by Israeli troops.
* In December 1987 the first Palestinian Intifada, or uprising, broke out in occupied territories. About 400 Israelis and 1,500 Palestinians were killed over the ensuing 6 years.
* In 1988, the Palestine Liberation Organization under Yasser Arafat offered a Palestinian state living in peace with Israel but Israel dismissed the PLO's proposals.
* Massive immigration of Jews from the Soviet Union began in 1991. Some 700,000 arrived in Israel as Communism collapsed.
* A Middle East peace conference convened in Madrid that year. In 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Arafat shook hands on the Oslo Accords on limited Palestinian autonomy.
* Israel signed a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994.
* Jewish ultranationalist Yigal Amir assassinated Rabin on November 4, 1995.
* Talks on returning the Golan Heights to Syria collapsed in 2000. Israeli troops quit south Lebanon and the Camp David peace summit with Arafat and Israeli premier Ehud Barak failed.
* The second Intifada began that same year.
* In 2003 the Quartet –– the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia –– made public a "road map" to peace talks. Arafat died the following year and Fatah's Mahmoud Abbas took over as president of the Palestinian Authority.
* In 2005 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Abbas declared a ceasefire and Israel pulled its troops and settlers out of the Gaza Strip after 38 years of occupation. Sharon was later hit by a stroke and succeeded by Ehud Olmert.
* The Islamist group Hamas, steadily rising in power, won the Palestinian parliamentary election in January 2006.
* War erupted in Lebanon after Hezbollah militants captured two Israeli soldiers and Israel responded with its full military might. At least 1,100 people in Lebanon and 157 Israelis were killed in 34 days of fighting.
* Hamas forces routed Abbas loyalists in a week of fighting in Gaza in June 2007. Fatah lost all power in the strip. In the West Bank, Abbas dismissed a Hamas-led unity government.
* In November 2007, a conference hosted by President George W. Bush at Annapolis, Maryland relaunched peace talks, aiming for a deal on a Palestinian state by end-2008.
* The Annapolis process stalled and Olmert was forced to quit in September 2008 over a corruption inquiry. Speaking as caretaker, he said Israel must give up nearly all occupied land.
* Hamas tightened its grip on the Gaza Strip and agreed on a ceasefire with Israel in June 2008. But a relatively calm summer gave way to renewed clashes as the truce reached the six-month mark, and the Israeli blockade of Gaza bit deeper.
* Hamas declared the truce over on December 19 and Gaza militants stepped up rocket attacks on Israel, causing few casualties but sowing fear among Israelis living in rocket range. Both sides signaled they did not want any escalation. But Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he would not hesitate to use Israeli might to crush Hamas if the rockets did not stop.
* A day after opening Gaza border crossings to allow deliveries of fuel and food aid, and following top-level talks in Egypt between President Hosni Mubarak and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Israeli forces struck with fighter planes and helicopters, killing over 155 people in Gaza, at least 100 of them Hamas policemen.Last edited by Vedubin01; 12-27-2008, 05:57 PM.Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs!
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if we just nuke the shit out of the middle east and wipe it flat then in about 10 years we can go recolonize the area a without the fear of terrorists firing rockets constantly.Greg
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try more like 10,000 years, that land would be useless as well as the residual radioactive contamination would be deadly for a very very long time, the half life for Plutonium is 24,000 years, so yeah it would be awhile before people could live there with out wearing a 2 ton tungsten suit.The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -Alexis de TocquevilleOriginally posted by Fusion
The Desire to Save Humanity is Always a False Front for the Urge to Rule it- H. L. Mencken
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants.
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Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs!
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I never said anywhere where Hamas was good or anything like it.
But it's plainly obvious you drink the US Medias koolaid idea of what Israel has "been through". Knowing this about you know I know exactly what you think of the whole scene over there...Poor Israel...all they want is peace and the bad guys are Hamas. Typical stupid American think.
Palistine has committed some serious shitty crimes against Israel and so have their other neighbors....but let's not forget what Israel has done.
Oh wait, you don't know what they've done. They're the good guys in all this.
I know you're an asshole and that's fine, but at least be a smart asshole if you're going to be one.
Israel has done shit nothing to make peace with their neighbors. In fact they have done the exact opposite.Your signature picture has been removed since it contained the Photobucket "upgrade your account" image.
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the [federal] government." ~ James Madison
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hey you ignorant piece of shit. We are talking about retaliation for what happened this week. If it makes you feel like less of a dumbass to bring up the last 100 years then im ok with that but just remember its only you who thinks youre less stupid. We all know better. Now sit there and think about what youll regurgitate nexti never said anywhere where hamas was good or anything like it.
But it's plainly obvious you drink the us medias koolaid idea of what israel has "been through". Knowing this about you know i know exactly what you think of the whole scene over there...poor israel...all they want is peace and the bad guys are hamas. Typical stupid american think.
Palistine has committed some serious shitty crimes against israel and so have their other neighbors....but let's not forget what israel has done.
Oh wait, you don't know what they've done. They're the good guys in all this.
I know you're an asshole and that's fine, but at least be a smart asshole if you're going to be one.
Israel has done shit nothing to make peace with their neighbors. In fact they have done the exact opposite.Comment
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Semantics.....
Oh Blunt, you need a history lesson. What's happening in Israel has everything to do with the past 60 (no not 100 years) years.
But it doesn't really matter because you have proven yourself to be the average ignorant American who thinks Israel is the poor effect of the big bad Palistinian machine. This subject is obviously far to big for you. But if you want to read and learn the truth, it's there for you...in your own good time of course.
Maybe you should stick with being Blunt instead of ignorant.Your signature picture has been removed since it contained the Photobucket "upgrade your account" image.
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the [federal] government." ~ James Madison
"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen" Barack ObamaComment
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Well just for the record, it was the United Nations not the United States that divided the land up and gave Israel its sovereignty......Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs!
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Your signature picture has been removed since it contained the Photobucket "upgrade your account" image.
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the [federal] government." ~ James Madison
"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen" Barack ObamaComment
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ahh yes this is true foregot about thatThe American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -Alexis de TocquevilleOriginally posted by Fusion
The Desire to Save Humanity is Always a False Front for the Urge to Rule it- H. L. Mencken
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants.
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no not semantics dumbass. go back and show me where i said anything other than hamas is a terrorist organization and israel was retaliating for the present attack. youre like arguing with a stupid bitch in high school. you flap your jibs just to make noise. and as far as taking any lessons from you.... the only thing you could teach me is how to deepthroat a cock and im not into that kind of thing. i am, however glad you are as its a nice release for me after a long day of verbally humiliating idiots like youComment
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How about Israel lets the Palestinians build a couple of casinos and call it even?:pOriginally posted by StereoInstaller1Comment
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