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It is a specific and direct example of how the US WOULD respond to israel were israel were full of anything other than jews. Hell, we still recognized Germany as a sovereign nation while we were busy bombing the shit out of them in WW2 too. Your opinion fails on its face.
except we didn't recognize West Germany. We, the French, and British CREATED it.
Yea dude... we sure didn't put west germany on our maps in 1981.
Isn't it nice to live in a nation where you are no more or less equal in the eyes of the gov as whitey, Elvis? Gives you reasons to invest in our culture instead of rebuking and fighting against our gov, doesn't it?
Yea dude... we sure didn't put west germany on our maps in 1981.
Isn't it nice to live in a nation where you are no more or less equal in the eyes of the gov as whitey, Elvis? Gives you reasons to invest in our culture instead of rebuking and fighting against our gov, doesn't it?
so long, mental midgets. Keep up your "international law is meaningless, Israel has no right to exist, and Im not anti--Israel" pablam puke.
so long, mental midgets. Keep up your "international law is meaningless, Israel has no right to exist, and Im not anti--Israel" pablam puke.
pretty sure they were there in 1948.Yea dude... we sure didn't put west germany on our maps in 1981.
Isn't it nice to live in a nation where you are no more or less equal in the eyes of the gov as whitey, Elvis? Gives you reasons to invest in our culture instead of rebuking and fighting against our gov, doesn't it?
World Map, 1981:
World Map 1981 by National Geographic from Maps.com -- World's Largest Map Store.
West and East Germany are both there.
pretty sure they were there in 1948.
pretty sure they were there in 1948.
Well I mean they are clearly marked as both West and East Germany.
Some countries ignore some international laws. Most countries adhere to most international law. As for your question about Africa- it is philosophically due, at least in part, to the belief many share with you that they noone has a right to live.
And THIS is my damn point. If SOME countries are allowed to ignore international laws, then those laws become meaningless because they are not enforced.
That is true in a domestic context, not so in an international one.
You can not have two sets of laws/standards on the global scale. And you can go fuck yourself, I never said anyone doesn't have the right to live.
True. You said you have the right to take anyone's life.
Those genocides in Africa are breaking International Law, YET you see NOTHING being done about it.
how was it marked between 1945 and 1981?
how was it marked between 1945 and 1981?
Not sure, having a hard time trying to read some of these old maps up close. Especially when trying to recognize the small writing.
Its primarily a domestic issue, and its international implications are localized. You dont expect England to enforce our Immigration laws along the Texas/Mexico border, do you?
U.S. State Department: Israel is not a tolerant society - Haaretz - Israel News
Israel dismally fails the requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department.
Despite boasting religious freedom and protection of all holy sites, Israel falls short in tolerance toward minorities, equal treatment of ethnic groups, openness toward various streams within society, and respect for holy and other sites.
The comprehensive report, written by the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, says Israel discriminates against groups including Muslims, Jehova's Witnesses, Reform Jews, Christians, women and Bedouin.
The report says that the 1967 law on the protection of holy places refers to all religious groups in the country, including in Jerusalem, but "the government implements regulations only for Jewish sites. Non-Jewish holy sites do not enjoy legal protection under it because the government does not recognize them as official holy sites."
At the end of 2008, for example, all of the 137 officially recognized holy sites were Jewish. Moreover, Israel issued regulations for the identification, preservation and guarding of Jewish sites only. Many Christian and Muslim sites are said to be neglected, inaccessible or at risk of exploitation by real estate entrepreneurs and local authorities.
And the kicker:
The report makes it clear that practices that have become routine in Israel are considered unacceptable in enlightened countries and should be corrected.
Among other examples, the report notes that more than 300,000 immigrants who are not considered Jewish under rabbinical law are not allowed to marry and divorce in Israel or be buried in Jewish cemeteries.
You know, we have a word for this in the United States. Whoever can say the word I'm thinking of gets some rep.
Of course Israel fails tests of social tolerance. And yes, being surrounded by a shitton of hostile neighbors is primary driver of that.
It certainly does.I wonder if the fact that they are surrounded by enemies has anything to do with that.
It certainly does.I wonder if the fact that they are surrounded by enemies has anything to do with that.
Racism, even when motivated by survival, is an ugly facet of human behavior.
It is ugly because it gets out of hand. What begins as checkpoints for those most likely to be problems, morphs into harassment of everyone who does not fit in. That Israel is surrounded by Islamic states with even less tolerance of outsiders is not justification for their own behavior. Israel needs a line beyond which they refuse to step, but it is probably not a realistic expectation - their political leaders are as subject to short sighted voting pressures as those in the US and too many Israeli citizens have lost family members to Islamic terrorists for all those families to forgive the ethnic group from which their pain arose. Those citizens create pressure on politicians to "do something" and the politicians respond typically, which is to say with hasty ill conceived action.
Perhaps if the Palestinians were to stop the terrorists who make these attacks something could change, but until then Israel is unlikely to act unilaterally.
Of course Israel fails tests of social tolerance. And yes, being surrounded by a shitton of hostile neighbors is primary driver of that.
