ChicagoExpat

No, I'm not. I'm objecting to exactly what I said I was objecting to. Nothing more, nothing less.

If true, yes, it's bad.

Depends on what the person himself described as fighting age. Again, could have been 16. Do the Taliban routinely have 16 year olds fighting for them? What if he was 16 and looked younger. Point is, neither of us knows, and neither did he.

I did. And when you yourself create a false moral equivalency with a line like "Certainly they both seem to have been indiscriminate in their murder of innocent civilians." turns out I responded not only correctly but at the right speed (you seem to think I responded too quickly).

You're adding the age. Could have been 8, could have been 16. If it happened as the article says it did, it would be a crime.

The false moral equivalency. But you knew that.

Yes. You use a translator. YOUR OWN TRANSLATOR, not one provided by your opponent. You really are a child, Frank.

30 days isn't long enough to "rearm and retrench", and even if it were, Russia could be doing the same. And a ceasefire is pretty much ALWAYS a prelude to negotiations. Suprised you don't know that... but then, you do support Russia, and you'll only be fed what Russia wants to slurp down.

Guess you're forgetting the ACTUAL formal, written, ratified agreement Russia made with Ukraine to never violate its territorial sovereignty in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nukes. IF ONLY Ukraine still had them, none of Russia's 3 invasions would have occurred... wishful thinking.

The reality is alleged war crimes seldom get prosecuted by anyone. That said, if you actually do care about following the rules of war, you're far more likely to see that with the West, as opposed to the Eastern nations you would seem to support. Edit -- just saw in another thread that you are indeed a Putin supporter. That was easy.

That's a disgusting statement.

Wow, it's crazy, isn't it, that some people do bad things? Keep using the "bored drinking coffee" emoji -- it's so powerful. Wow, NATO killed A MILLION people? That's remarkable. Bad, bad NATO!

He can't be bought, true. But he can be rented, leased, borrowed, or bribed.

Weird hard right turn into anti-semitism, there.

Referring to your outrage over being told to run along -- that was a pretty gentle response to someone who trivializes Naziism and the Holocaust with your sh!tty little "lebensraum" comment. If you want to be treated like a serious person, and an adult, act like it. At least you got a cookie out of it. Want to know why Israeli is still carrying out military operations? A reminder that the side you support has said they would do October 7 again, and again, and again, and again, and again. What would you do, if you were Israel?

First, "Poobah" is one word, not two. Sorry, I don't go chasing down links in comment posts. That said, it appears most of what you posted is post-October 7. OF COURSE you're going to get demagogues like Smotrich getting a hearing after a massacre like that. And -- I don't support the settlers. Or Smotrich. I'm against the settlements in the West Bank. You keep flailing and failing, because you assume what I believe. But you're wrong. Here's (some of) my thesis, rage against this: 1) The Palestinians are their own worst enemies. They CONSTANTLY support brutal violence against the Jews even when it will result in a horrific reprisal... ESPECIALLY when it will result in a horrific reprisal. Polling in Gaza shows consistent, long-term support for terror. They and their leaders have rejected peace again and again. As famously said about them, "Palestinians have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity." 2) I don't support Israeli encroachment into the West Bank. I think the only fair and REALISTIC future is for Palestine to someday become an ACTUAL country... but to do that they have to forgo their death cult version of Islam and Palestinian identity. They also have to recognize that Israel isn't going anywhere and wishing for the violent deaths of Israel's Jewish population is self-defeating.

The topic is how Arabs view Palestinians. Do you need another cookie to stay on topic? Because if you're going to bring in extraneous topics you'll lose -- the Palestinian/Iranian/Muslim side of things will ALWAYS be 10,000 times worse than anything Israel has done (or pre-Israel, in this case). The difference is I haven't set up one side as a group of saints as you seem to have done, and I have no interest in defending anything bad Irgun etc did. If you want to start a new thread on those groups, go for it.

Well, it wasn't for the same reasons as the Palestinians, which was murder, terror, and sedition. And while i don't think you're coming at this honestly looking for knowledge, I'm also willing to take the bait and give you an honest reply -- in my opinion it was 1) bad theology "the Jews killed Jesus"; 2) some of it was the fact they were forbidden from most forms of work and economic activity -- so some of them lent money -- strange how convenient it is that you don't have to pay back a loan to someone you just killed or drove from your country; 3) envy of their success; 4) conspiracy theories, such as the blood libel and the Elders of the Protocols of Zion nonsense; 5) separateness often breeds resentment and hatred, though Jews are still targeted when they totally assimilate into Gentile society.

A really crucial difference being that Jews were expelled for being Jews, while Palestinians were expelled for literally trying to overthrow the governments that welcomed them and for using those host countries as bases for worldwide terrorism. Really, the two circumstances aren't comparable at all.

Fair enough. I think a better way of pointing out how Palestinians are viewed in Arab countries (note: Turkey is not an Arab country) is how no one wants to take in Palestinian "refugees", they have been expelled en masse in the past for the violence and instability they bring to the countries that welcomed them, and when these sort of protests go on, they're more anti-Israel than pro-Palestinian. Because other than on American college campuses, nobody cares about Palestinians otherwise. It would be wonderful if all of these same people put their efforts into encouraging regular Palestinians to stop supporting, and to stand up to, Hamas. But we know what happens when they do.

Don't forget Black September, another unnecessary orgy of bloodshed brought to you by... Palestinians!

Yeah, it's weird. Especially because the UK has benefited so enormously from the U.S. in the past 100 years. Oh well, Thailand attracts a lot of bitter, angry old men who like to blame their lack of success in life on others (and most of them are on AseanNow 😁). I'm not saying Malcolm is one of these guys, but I'm not saying he's not, either.

And this coming from the country that got its ass kicked out of country after country, and today has a military smaller than the Rhode Island National Guard.

Makes me sad we took in British kids during WW2. Especially if one of them was Malcolm's parent.

Whatever MalcolmB posts, if he can give vent to his hatred of Americans, he will.