Your problem is that a "settlement freeze" doesn't impress anyone at all.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 18/03/2010 07:16:55 PM
Hence blowing a lot of hot air into the incident.
The fact is, Netanyahu has been working overtime to meet with Obama's demands, and has met them.
Obama OTOH has said he will provide confidence building gestures from the Gulf countries and hasn't delivered.
Now, the more his imbecilic diplomacy tries to push Israel into a corner the more Palestinian demands will grow. Do you realise the magnitude of the settlment freeze ?? Now they will freeze building in Jerusalem too ? And without even negotiating ?
It will end in another war.
The fact is, Netanyahu has been working overtime to meet with Obama's demands, and has met them.
Obama OTOH has said he will provide confidence building gestures from the Gulf countries and hasn't delivered.
Now, the more his imbecilic diplomacy tries to push Israel into a corner the more Palestinian demands will grow. Do you realise the magnitude of the settlment freeze ?? Now they will freeze building in Jerusalem too ? And without even negotiating ?
It will end in another war.
Now if you start talking "settlement demolition", it might be something else. But "settlement freeze"? As in, "okay, we'll temporarily stop our efforts to make peace impossible"? Sorry, not going to impress anyone, or convince anyone that you're at all interested in peace.
As for complaining that Obama hasn't delivered anything from the Gulf, how the hell is he supposed to do that when Israel makes announcements like that, even regardless of the timing?
Turkey threatens to expel 100,000 Armenians
- 17/03/2010 05:10:26 PM
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Why not let sleeping dogs lie?
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Erdogan is the Middle East's Chavez. *NM*
- 17/03/2010 06:38:00 PM
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I think Lieberman has the better claim there. *NM*
- 18/03/2010 03:39:29 AM
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Hardly. Lieberman makes sense
- 18/03/2010 05:34:43 PM
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I've read some articles saying otherwise.
- 18/03/2010 05:49:52 PM
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Torpedoing Biden's mission ? What a sad joke.
- 18/03/2010 06:22:37 PM
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Would you like to call it something else?
- 18/03/2010 06:26:34 PM
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Because Obama was looking for a way to get offended
- 18/03/2010 06:54:55 PM
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Your problem is that a "settlement freeze" doesn't impress anyone at all.
- 18/03/2010 07:16:55 PM
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Maybe we should just ask the Palestinians if we can keep Tel Aviv ?
- 18/03/2010 07:44:07 PM
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If you want anyone to be impressed, yes.
- 18/03/2010 09:03:11 PM
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How is it too much when there is a freeze ?
- 18/03/2010 09:22:03 PM
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You call this a freeze?
- 18/03/2010 09:43:52 PM
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Not your sourness silly. Obama's
- 18/03/2010 10:15:56 PM
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How long are supposed to stop building for?
- 18/03/2010 09:32:58 PM
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How about permanently? 
- 18/03/2010 09:50:46 PM
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- 18/03/2010 09:50:46 PM
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I don't think i agree that the condidtions for peace or that well known
- 19/03/2010 04:32:37 AM
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Major conditions
- 19/03/2010 09:59:37 AM
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Re: Major conditions
- 19/03/2010 01:26:54 PM
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Seriously, what conflict are you looking at?
- 19/03/2010 01:56:24 PM
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Re: Seriously, what conflict are you looking at?
- 19/03/2010 04:47:07 PM
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Ah, good point there... I was kinda thinking of the West.
- 19/03/2010 08:31:11 PM
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- 19/03/2010 08:31:11 PM
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well I wasn't talking about how anyone treated but who was making the decisions
- 19/03/2010 09:24:47 PM
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That really isn't a very useful observation at this point, though.
- 19/03/2010 09:32:30 PM
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Man, your analysis is weird
- 20/03/2010 11:24:40 AM
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I'm a bit confused what you're saying exactly...
- 20/03/2010 04:10:14 PM
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How so ?
- 20/03/2010 11:04:30 PM
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They don't exactly have much that they *can* give up.
- 19/03/2010 10:46:35 AM
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I don't want them to give up anything more then the violience
- 19/03/2010 01:55:51 PM
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That's simple enough: Israel is a first world state.
- 19/03/2010 02:13:17 PM
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It is pretty crude
- 17/03/2010 11:15:28 PM
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Why is recognizing a 100-year-old evil in his country's past "backing him into a corner"????
- 18/03/2010 11:41:05 AM
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The guy who has managed to face down one military coup from a sector that doesn't want it admitted?
- 18/03/2010 12:39:46 PM
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Why is it so hard for you people to see that the AKP are the "good guys" in Turkey?
- 18/03/2010 01:44:13 PM
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There are no "good guys" in Turkey, at least not in the government.
- 18/03/2010 01:57:44 PM
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Equating the two is ridiculous.
- 18/03/2010 02:13:37 PM
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My issues are not with a lack of democracy and I don't equate the AKP and the military
- 18/03/2010 02:35:00 PM
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So they respond to claims of genocide with threats of ethnic cleansing? Terrible. Just terrible.
- 18/03/2010 11:39:31 AM
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I agree. What they are doing now only makes things worse for them
- 18/03/2010 08:48:25 PM
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