Re: Can someone please explain Chechen Conflict to me?

"Ty" <tbeardSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Unknown Usenet Poster" <yryryryr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Ty" <tbeardSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > Britain didn't "give it away". The League of Nations mandated that
> Britain
>> > manage it and create a Jewish homeland. They disobeyed the mandate
and
>> > divided it between Arabs (who got most of the land) and Jews. As the
> legal
>> > predecessor to the United Nations, the League of Nations had as much
> right
>> > as anyone to determine the status of the land. I suppose Britain
should
> be
>> > complimented for letting the League of Nations determine the fate of 
>> > the
>> > area. Britain could have simply asserted that it was British
territory
> by
>> > right of conquest.
>> >
>> > I've always found it amusing that pro-Palestinian folks wail about
>> > Israel's
>> > pur****ted violation of UN resolutions, yet never mention Britain's
>> > violation
>> > of the League of Nations mandates. Why is that?
>
> Non-answer noted.
>
>> > I note that you failed to dispute any of the historical facts that I
>> > related. In particular, you failed to comment on the observation that
> the
>> > notion of a "Palestinian state" is a recent creation of cynical Arabs
>> > after
>> > their humiliating defeat in 1967 (to be distinguished from their
>> > humiliating
>> > defeats in 1948, 1956, 1973, 1982, 1991 and 2003...). I wonder why?
>
>> Maybe it had something to do with not reading your post? After your
first
>> phoney fact about Jews in Palestine, you lost all credibility and I
lost
>> interest.
>
> Non-answer noted.
>
> Hmmn. When confronted with inconvenient facts, you put your hands on
your
> ears and say "lalalala I'm not listening".
>
> Is that really the best you can do?
>
>> > And why do you not direct any of your self-righteous outrage at the 
>> > Arab
>> > nations who continue to exploit the Palestinians as cheap labor and 
>> > keep
>> > many of them locked up in concentration camps? Indeed, why are you
not
>> > criticizing the motley assortment of Arab strongmen, crackpot mullahs
> and
>> > murderous despots who have made the Arab world into a cesspool of
human
>> > misery?
>> >
>>
>> It was John F. Kennedy who convinced the Saudis to discontinue human
>> slavery. It was the US that deposed Saddam. It was the US that helped
put
> an
>> end to the Taliban in Afghanistan. It was the US that freed Kuwait from
>> Saddam.
>>
>> It is quite clear that moderate Arab leaders provide better lives for
> their
>> people than the dictators...Syria versus Jordan.
>
> Heh -- "moderate Arab leaders" seems like a contradiction in terms. Like
> "dry water" or "militarily competent Arabs".
>
>> I've criticized the people you've mentioned long before you stumbled
into
>> this NG.
>
> I don't recall seeing them. A google search turned up nothing. Can you
> provide a link?
>
> Oh, and non-answer noted.
>
>> > <Non-answers predicted>
>
> Prediction comes true, of course.
>
> It is always fun to demonstrate the utter hypocrisy of folks like you.
You
> wail piteously about the poor Palestinians, but seem strangely reluctant

> to
> criticize their Arab "brothers" who cynically use them for political
> purposes, keep most of them locked up in concentration camps, and 
> encourage
> lunatic militants in their midst.
>
> This reluctance implies that you really couldn't care less for the
> Palestinians. You seem remarkably unconcerned that the Palestinians are
> being brutalized and abused by their Arab brothers. I wonder why?
>
> <Non-answers predicted>
>
> --Ty
>
>

Standard Israeli answers...it's always somebody else's fault...and so the 
conflict continues.