"It's a reference to Israel erasing Palestine from the map."

Palestine was never on the map. There has never been a Republic of Palestine, or an Emirate of Palestine, a Kingdom of Palestine...whatever. And that's not likely to change until the Palestinians take a greater interest in creating their own state than destorying the Jewish one.

"Rumor has it Iraq kinda has a secular government, and even a sort of democracy, at the moment."

Iraq has always had a secular government.

#3

Why do you think AfD became so popular?

They used to be the anti-immigration party. Now all the German parties, left and right, have adopted a hard line on immigrants.

I actually went to the LISEP website. It was interesting to find out that, based on their methodology, my 20-year-old daughter at the University of Arizona would need to be receiving $44,737 per year to meet minimum quality of life.

"I highly recommend Democracy Now! as a source of non-bias data."

Or One American News Network. Also super un-biased.

"Israelis seems to believe there can be no Jewish state unless "Amalek",is Annihilated."

Cute, champ. Israel seems to have a plan to de-nazify and rebuild Gaza, once the Islamic Resistance has been defeated. Like the Marshall Plan in Europe post-WWII.

And what if I was a Jew? Would it matter? I would hope not, although I get the feeling that Muslims and Arabs both fall in line behind Hamas, regardless of what Hamas does.

"Go peddle your Genocide BS somewhere else."

You do understand that genocide is Hamas's desired end-state, right?

Would you speak out if it was Arabs or Muslims killing Israelis? I'm guessing not, since that happened and it doesn't seem to concern you.

"Political Violence is brought out by people feeling TOTALLY UNREPRESENTED....Voiceless and Unheard... LEFT"

Yeah?

That's why the National Socialist German Workers' Party did it? Because they were "TOTALLY UNREPRESENTED?"

Poor Cadets.

Four years of suck topped off with this.

"If the trade balance is not restored, we will literally lose our country. Foreigners will own our country."

What is Trump looking to finance? $4T, $5T, something like that? So that USans don't have to pay taxes?

The trade balance is immaterial. In fact, if you're a fan of Trump's populist "poor people pay nothing" tax plan, it's an imperative that you like the trade imbalance. That's how it's being financed.

Furthermore, the absolute collapse of the US dollar will lead to far more foreign ownership. Why? Because if 1 EUR = $2 USD, US property is half the cost to Europeans as what it would have been two months ago. And why would the dollar decline in value? Tariffs. There is no need to trade in USD if you're not buying anything from the US. I don't ever recall any of my econ professors talking about how a country can tariff its way to prosperity.

No ----, I don't understand how some of you support this garbage. Trump is literally adopting an economic platform that rivals anything Bernie could have come up with. And it's Trumpers supporting it-and progressives claiming they disagree with it.

"More WINNING and another boost for the economy."

More winning?

Less losing at best. But that's not a win.

"If they don't want to make peace, then I guess the Palestinians can keep murdering and getting killed for it."

It's very simple. The Palestinians care more about eliminating the Israeli state than they do about establishing their own state. That's been true since 1948.

In their minds, they can only have a state once the Jews are gone.

"Israel is annexing Gaza as I type this. With plans to exile the refugees they created in 1948 to Africa."

It sounds to me like Israel is going to have a Marshall plan for Gaza. They just need to make sure they floow through with the denazification of the region.

It worked fantastically in Germany.

"Israel has occupied what was supposed to be the Palestinian state since 1967."

Refresh our memories. How did we get to that point?

"Throwing in "Iran-backed" is another distraction; Bloomberg News just can't help itself. 25% of UN members do not recognize the State of Palestine, but 75% do."

Sheeit. I don't think Hamas recognizes the state of Palestine, do they?

Thank Gawd!

I've never understood the US obsession with limiting the availability of suppressors. In Germany, they practically give them away.

I don't enjoy shooting unless the gun has a suppressor.

"Still no national healthcare."

You don't get your medicaid?

The good countries have options so you don't have to rely on the national healthcare systems.

#96

If you had to choose, on which side would you live?

There is only one side that is more devoted to killing the other side than they are saving their own.

"At least Trump is trying to create some potential long term benefits to equalize our massive growing trade deficit and transfer of jobs that both parties have spent decades doing nothing to correct or reverse."

Can you do me a fave and explain why it is my best interest to pay more for something? And why I should care about a trade deficit?

#106

I read a report today where Israel has a plan for a post-Islamist Gaza. It appears to be modelled on the Marshall Plan from WWII.

It worked out very well for Germany. There is no reason it would not work in Gaza.

#105

So, let's do this within this community of interest. At the same time the UK created the conditions for the establishment of a Jewish state and a Palestinian state in the Levant, they also established the Muslim states of Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Was that wrong as well?

"Why is it Palestine's duty to accommodate Jews?"

Now it's my turn to correct you. There was no Palestine. Never has been a Palestine.

There has been a Judea, so the question might as easily be phrased, why is it Israel's duty to accommodate Palestinians? Especially when it seems like the vast majority of Palestinians want to eliminate the Jews.

#79

You say you were military...I would have reported in a hot minute.

Nidal Hasan. You're one of them.

Dudes who get gushy for Islam.

But...I'm sure you can pick up a job with Hamas. Maybe even get a virgin or two out of the deal.

Like ya bois in ISIS did.

"Much like the South, by choosing to exist, chose war against the Union."

Yeah. remind me the last time Mississippi launched a Katusha rocket barrage on northern aggressors.

"Jews claim the land as theirs."

I don't have a claim. The people who owned the land gave it to them.

They also gave land to the people who call themselves Palestinians. But the Palestinians took umbrage with the notion of sharing. With the notion of having to accommodate Jews.

"Defending themselves from a foreign invasion is still what Palestinians are trying to do."

Foreign invaders fighting off foreign invaders?

"This is the choice Israel made when she chose to be born of war in 1948."

You really need a history lesson. You're basically saying that, by choosing to exist, Israel chose war. Never mind that the owners of the land divided it as they saw fit, or that Israel had a historic claim to the land, or that the Arabs are the descendants of the people who moved into the area hundreds of years after the fall of Judea during the Islamic conquest.

The people who refer to themselves as Palestinians have little claim to the land. They lost the vast majority of it as a function of wars they started. Or do you want to honor the Vatican if they every point out that the Levant was once part of the Roman Empire.