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ProgressiveMuslim
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Thu Apr-08-10 05:20 PM Original message |
Democracy, or the Two-State Solution? (non-Hamas critique of Fayyad) |
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Taverner
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Thu Apr-08-10 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
1. I used to be into the one state, peace and flowers plan |
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ProgressiveMuslim
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Thu Apr-08-10 05:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. What Palestinians killed what Gandhis? What are you talking about? |
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Taverner
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Thu Apr-08-10 05:58 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. When Rabin was in Peace Talks, Arafat had a purge of the PLO |
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ProgressiveMuslim
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Thu Apr-08-10 06:02 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I was living in Palestine then and don't recall this. Can you provide more information? |
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Taverner
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Thu Apr-08-10 06:06 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Trying to research this - I remember it happened at the time |
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shira
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Thu Apr-08-10 06:30 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. It happened as soon as Arafat came back to the territories and killed off the grassroots leadership |
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ProgressiveMuslim
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Thu Apr-08-10 08:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
17. Prior to Arafat's return, there was no freedom of any kind, thanks to Israel's violent military |
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Taverner
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Thu Apr-08-10 08:35 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Both sides have enough bloodthirsty madmen... |
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ProgressiveMuslim
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Thu Apr-08-10 09:11 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Neither of you has provided a shred of evidence to your claims. |
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Lithos
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Thu Apr-08-10 11:18 PM Response to Reply #5 |
20. you are talking about the clash between the Tunisian Mafia |
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Taverner
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Fri Apr-09-10 05:47 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. Have any links? I want to research this... |
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Lithos
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Fri Apr-09-10 10:53 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. My memory is from books |
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Taverner
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Sat Apr-10-10 05:55 PM Response to Reply #29 |
44. Yes - and I remember reading about that in CSM at the time |
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LeftishBrit
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Thu Apr-08-10 06:12 PM Response to Original message |
6. Firstly, I don't think that either party has a strong claim to legitimacy at present |
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ProgressiveMuslim
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Thu Apr-08-10 06:22 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I would agree with your choice of "e" and believe that BDS provides the pressure that is |
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aranthus
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Thu Apr-08-10 06:50 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. And what will change the Palestinian insistence on RoR? |
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shira
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Thu Apr-08-10 06:59 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. The argument is not all Palestinian refugees will choose to want to go to Israel |
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aranthus
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Thu Apr-08-10 07:08 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I know that's the argument, but it's specious. |
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shira
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Thu Apr-08-10 07:17 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Israel could pull back to the 1949 armistice lines or go farther and accept the 1947 Partition plan |
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ProgressiveMuslim
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Thu Apr-08-10 07:33 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Right of Return isn't the equivalent of Israel's violent military occupation. |
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shira
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Thu Apr-08-10 07:41 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Arab governments holding millions of refugees as pawns is the greatest crime of this conflict |
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ProgressiveMuslim
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Thu Apr-08-10 08:04 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I think the Kool Aid you're drinking has left a mustache. |
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aranthus
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Fri Apr-09-10 12:04 AM Response to Reply #14 |
21. That's not responsive to my question, and irrelevant. |
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ProgressiveMuslim
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Fri Apr-09-10 08:05 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. You don't have the right to decide unilaterally what demand can be met or not. |
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aranthus
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Fri Apr-09-10 09:40 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Of course Israel has the right to decide what demands it can meet. |
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ProgressiveMuslim
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Fri Apr-09-10 10:43 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Would Palestinians accept responsibility for their ethnic cleansing? |
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sabbat hunter
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Fri Apr-09-10 03:17 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. If RoR does not mean |
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ProgressiveMuslim
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Fri Apr-09-10 05:55 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. The refugee issue must be dealt with. As I said, my husband's family supports RoR |
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Violet_Crumble
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Fri Apr-09-10 05:10 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. The Palestinians have officially accepted Israel's legitimacy... |
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shira
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Sat Apr-10-10 05:47 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. You mean the PLO did, but not Fatah or Hamas |
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Violet_Crumble
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Sat Apr-10-10 06:34 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. The PLO as representatives of the Palestinian people did... |
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shira
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Sat Apr-10-10 06:50 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Hamas was elected as representatives of the Palestinian people, and Hamas does not recognize Israel |
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Violet_Crumble
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Sat Apr-10-10 06:58 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. But the PLO did. And the document is an official and legal one... |
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shira
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Sat Apr-10-10 04:52 PM Response to Reply #33 |
43. And that signed peace of paper by the PLO is worthless considering terror never stopped,..... |
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Violet_Crumble
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Sat Apr-10-10 06:16 PM Response to Reply #43 |
46. It's an official document and as legitimate as other official documents... |
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shira
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Sun Apr-11-10 07:01 AM Response to Reply #46 |
49. It means nothing when the PLO's leadership has no regard for it, inciting and indoctrinating... |
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Violet_Crumble
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Sun Apr-11-10 03:30 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. Stop ignoring everything that gets said to you... |
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shira
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Sun Apr-11-10 04:28 PM Response to Reply #49 |
51. You didn't read what Abbas said about that 'recognition', did you? |
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Violet_Crumble
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Sun Apr-11-10 04:30 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. Unlike you, I read posts I reply to n/t |
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shira
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Sun Apr-11-10 04:31 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. Well if you read it, you'd see it undercuts your argument |
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Violet_Crumble
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Sun Apr-11-10 04:37 PM Response to Reply #53 |
55. No, it didn't. You as usual have no clue what my 'argument' is... |
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shira
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Mon Apr-12-10 04:11 AM Response to Reply #55 |
58. Consider Abbas and Dahlan's statements on what 'recognition' means, Palestinian maps w/o Israel... |
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Violet_Crumble
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Mon Apr-12-10 04:43 AM Response to Reply #58 |
59. Yr still not bothering to read anything I say to you... |
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shira
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Mon Apr-12-10 05:36 AM Response to Reply #59 |
60. What kind of 'peace' are you looking forward to if the PLO proves it still doesn't recognize Israel |
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Violet_Crumble
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Mon Apr-12-10 06:10 AM Response to Reply #60 |
62. Yep, yr definately not reading anything I say to you... |
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shira
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Mon Apr-12-10 05:41 PM Response to Reply #62 |
66. I did read it and it looks like you believe that since the PLO signed a piece of paper, then the PLO |
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ProgressiveMuslim
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Sat Apr-10-10 07:04 AM Response to Reply #26 |
34. What is Israel's "legitimacy?" Has Israel accepted Palestine's "legitimacy?" |
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Violet_Crumble
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Sat Apr-10-10 07:07 AM Response to Reply #34 |
35. I read it as meaning recognising its right to exist... |
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ProgressiveMuslim
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Sat Apr-10-10 08:10 AM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Sorry VC.. .that wasn't really directed at you per se. I misplaced my post! |
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aranthus
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Mon Apr-12-10 06:42 PM Response to Reply #35 |
71. The de facto Jewish government recognized the Palestinian right to a state. |
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aranthus
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Sat Apr-10-10 12:58 PM Response to Reply #26 |
37. But they demand things that are inconsistent with that supposed recognition. |
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azurnoir
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Sat Apr-10-10 01:05 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. why is it so important that Israel be recognized |
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ProgressiveMuslim
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Sat Apr-10-10 01:06 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Will it change names? The Jewish semi-republic of Israel? |
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azurnoir
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Sat Apr-10-10 01:16 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Lol don't know however by Israel declaring itself |
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shira
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Sat Apr-10-10 06:05 PM Response to Reply #41 |
45. It's a nation for Jews just as Palestine would be a nation for Palestinians. |
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azurnoir
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Sun Apr-11-10 12:10 AM Response to Reply #45 |
48. why are you going on about religion? |
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shira
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Sun Apr-11-10 04:34 PM Response to Reply #48 |
54. Why are you bringing up strawman arguments? |
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azurnoir
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Mon Apr-12-10 12:10 AM Response to Reply #54 |
56. You edited the post Shira I read it well before I had tie to comment |
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shira
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Mon Apr-12-10 03:51 AM Response to Reply #56 |
57. LOL. Now this is funny. Which post did I edit now...which you read well? |
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azurnoir
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Mon Apr-12-10 06:09 AM Response to Reply #57 |
61. well that explains your nonsensical answer to my post |
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azurnoir
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Mon Apr-12-10 03:47 PM Response to Reply #57 |
63. you edited this part |
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shira
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Mon Apr-12-10 05:51 PM Response to Reply #63 |
67. So I edited my original post from 7:05 at 7:06. You then read it carefully 6 hours later... |
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azurnoir
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Mon Apr-12-10 06:36 PM Response to Reply #67 |
70. really I do not give a rip if you take me seriously or not |
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aranthus
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Mon Apr-12-10 04:11 PM Response to Reply #38 |
64. Because that's what the war is about. |
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azurnoir
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Mon Apr-12-10 05:18 PM Response to Reply #64 |
65. Is Israel demanding this from other nations or only Palestinians? |
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aranthus
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Mon Apr-12-10 06:19 PM Response to Reply #65 |
68. Think about that for a minute. |
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azurnoir
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Mon Apr-12-10 06:33 PM Response to Reply #68 |
69. So is this what you are going on about? |
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aranthus
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Mon Apr-12-10 06:48 PM Response to Reply #69 |
72. Bingo! |
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azurnoir
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Mon Apr-12-10 07:11 PM Response to Reply #72 |
73. that was not my standard Sir it was yours |
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aranthus
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Mon Apr-12-10 07:19 PM Response to Reply #73 |
74. Then you twisted what I wrote to support your argument. |
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azurnoir
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Mon Apr-12-10 09:14 PM Response to Reply #74 |
75. I think Israel would be Israel and Israeli's would be IsraelI's |
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aranthus
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Mon Apr-12-10 11:31 PM Response to Reply #75 |
76. You still don't get it. |
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azurnoir
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Mon Apr-12-10 11:46 PM Response to Reply #76 |
77. No I get it perfectly |
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ProgressiveMuslim
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Sat Apr-10-10 01:06 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. No one is required to recognize Israel's legitimacy as a "Jewish" state. Once that becomes |
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azurnoir
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Sat Apr-10-10 01:31 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. that already exists it may not be enshrined in law as such |
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Violet_Crumble
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Sat Apr-10-10 06:28 PM Response to Reply #39 |
47. Exactly... |
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aranthus
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Thu Apr-08-10 06:49 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. I agree with you. |
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