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@Adam Zimmer

The only person spreading lies is you.  I stated a number of facts about how Israel has made territorial concessions.  You have said nothing to address that, save for restating your original, unsupported assertions. 

Subjecting readers to such 'hawkish nonsense'?  All I have done is provide a series of facts -- all of which contradict your wholly prejudicial and unjustified worldview -- and because you have no rational argument in response, you spout naive, simplistic slogans in a vain attempt to lend credibility to your otherwise meaningless ideas.

Again, you say Palestine is being wiped off the map and, yet, it is abundantly clear that it is not.  Gaza and the West Bank are Palestine. They are right there on the map.  And Palestinians live there.  How exactly are they being wiped off the map?  How exactly are they  being subjected to genocide?

You, sir, are a liar.  You intentionally misappropriate inflammatory rhetoric to characterize the conflict in qualitatively false terms and to demonize Israel in general.   Because your basic premise, regardless of actual facts, is that Israel should not be allowed to exist. 

Perhaps you are unable to even realize your rational failures.  But perhaps you are simply unwilling to look at arguments on their own merits.

And I don't really follow you with the 'cut and paste' comment.  Perhaps the idea that someone could actually form a thorough, cogent argument is something you find impossible -- thus, I must have copied it from somewhere else. 

That wouldn't surprise me, considering your entire persona is cut and pasted.

@Jesse Wood 

(I apologize to the Photo of the day viewers for i enabled a tribune to such hawkish nonsense).

You're not fooling anyone. At least not anymore.

Whatever you copy/paste can not twist the fact a glimpse at a map from 1948 versus now reveals, unless you're blind or blinded by some obscure ideology.

In modern times, no country is allowed to gain territory by force.

What Israel is doing: illegal colonization.

Thus it is Palestine which is being slowly but surely wiped off the Earth surface and Palestinians scattered if not cleansed in the name of holy war against terrorism.

Some extremists from a divides unrecognized state bark they dream of destroying a powerful recognized state? really? so what, when the powerful recognized state is actually doing it without saying it out loud plus a peace sign...

So maybe it's time to remodel your "knowledge of the truth. Looks like it's not working so well when more cities organize their Week against israeli apartheid, and more and more people dare to publish material that goes against the image of Palestinians being the ultimate bad guy unworthy of being treated as human beings.

@Adam Zimmer
Take a look at the thread above.  Who ever said this picture should be censored or people should be fired?   I objected to the blatant politicization of an otherwise apolitical photograph.  And I stand by that.

Unfortunately, the reality here is that you, and many of your ideological brethren,  see and hear only what you want.  You project your lies and falsehoods onto others because you are ill-informed and naive.

Let's look at Israel's 'moving borders', shall we?

For example, look at Israel's borders in the late 70s.  Clearly they were larger than they are today, having fully incorporated the WB, Gaza, and The Sinai desert into the state post 1967 -- territory it gained in a defensive war after enduring twenty years of hostility from its neighbors. 

But what happened then?  In exchange for a peace deal, Israel returned The Sinai to Egypt -- and it removed all settlements. 

Well, that sure doesn't sound like territorial expansion, does it?  It sounds like they were forced to insulate their population from the constant threat of annihilation -- which occurred daily.  However, in exchange for the promise of peaceful coexistence with this former enemy, they willingly returned it. 

So tell me again about your notion of moving borders.

And with the Olso Accords in the 90s, Israel again willingly ceded land -- in the form of control over Gaza and the WB -- to the PA. Meaning, yet again, Israel returned land in exchange for the promise of peaceful coexistence.  And in Gaza, they completely removed all settlements before pulling out. 

Well, that sure doesn't sound like territorial expansion either, now does it?  So, again, tell me about your notion of moving borders.

Of course, this gesture towards peace-building was met with constant rocket attacks from Gaza -- the result of a belligerent population electing a government who espouse only the most hateful and racist rhetoric, who (as stated in their very charter) seek to eradicate an entire people from the face of the Earth.  

See, ultimately, people like you are unwilling to acknowledge the simple fact that Palestinians, by and large, do not support a two state solution, because they view the entire conflict as a zero-sum game.  Many would rather sacrifice Palestine to see Israel destroyed.  It is the very notion of peaceful coexistence with Jews that they find so very offensive.

Tell me: What exactly this 'resistance' is resisting?  Because, even though your programming will not allow you to understand this conflict in anything other than naive, axiomatic terms...

the only thing they are resisting is peace.

 @Jesse Wood  

no one is "eradicating the Jews" nor "destroying Israel".  

No propaganda needed to verify the facts i am just recalling: just look at the map since Israel creation, just look at its moving borders, and who lives as refugees.

Implying that this picture must be censored or that people should be fired, i think this is kind of extreme. 

@a m @Jesse Wood @Adam Zimmer 

I hope...

@Jesse Wood @Adam Zimmer Israeli occupation of Palestine will end one day. Nothing last forever. Everything has a beginning, peak, and fall. Israel is not an exception. This is a historical fact.

@Shailesh Sharma @Cedar Waxwing I'm sorry, I just wasn't sure. My bad. This has been a rough month for N.G. There have been a few exceptions. Just my opinion.