reabhloideach,
et al,
Well informed: having a sound and open-minded understanding of all the facts, or based on such an understanding.
perhaps you might explain yourself because it seems like such self assured superiority may be at the root of many of these conflicts.
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While it is possible that a UN Coalition would invade the State of Israel for the purpose of Regime Change, dissolving the Jewish State as it created in GA Res 181(II) and replacing it with a Arab/Palestinian State, it is highly unlikely.
sounds a bit racist to me, almost a remnant of the time when other human beings were enskaved and owned.
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Hummm, I didn't get that at all. An "enlightened nation" is a nation that is sound and open-minded, making decisions based on facts, logic and critical thinking. I don't understand how that can be considered "racist."
That is an unusual interpretation.
Most Respectfully,
R
you seem to link "enlightened" with support of israel and most of the support of osrael comes from european, and particularly western european, nations or those nations or those nations with european ancestry.
you also have been mentioning UNGA resolution 181.
perhaps racist was a poor choice of words and ethnocentric would have been better but when you say "enlightened" thast is a value word and i get the impression that it is being applied to first world countries.
i don't know. you tell me, but i think most people when they here that term, or terms like "advanced" or "progressive" they are generally applying it to or speaking of white nations and thaat is what springs to mind.
also wandering around in your statements is the UN, as though that somehow is connected to the quality of "enlightenment". the UN needs a massive restructuring to better democratically represent the world's peoples.
i could go on, but that will do for now. i think it was a very bad choice of a word on your part.
i remain unenlightened in solidarity with all the other peoples of the world who reject colonialism and its remnants.
here is the question that no one ever seems to answer. using israel as an model, make a rule that you would be willing to apply to all people and express it in general terms...how about...
practitioners of a religion should be allowed to carve out a sovereign state based upon that religion, displacing the inhabitants of the region currently living in that planned future state in order to maintain political control of that state.
hell, liberia made more sense.
ya know, people call me an anti-semite and all, but i actually look for a way to fit an israel into my mindset in such a way that the concept of such a state can be applied to all other peoples of the world and it just ain't happenin'. i am not going to make an exception for jews anymore than i will make an exception for mormons, muslims, satanists, or whatever (and we are talking about the creation of a new state) etc. the way i figure it, it is the people who treat a group of people as especial people based upon their ethnicity, religion, whatever who are the bigoted ones. why must i allow jewish people special privilege that i am unwilling to allow others.
i can see visions the independent republic of moldova dancing in some young goth's eye at this very moment.