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Jingthing

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  1. Horrible. Nothing to do with the current war. Clearly never an IDF policy. But I get it. Obsessive excessive hatred of "Zionism" fogs the brain.
  2. I'm sure that they do sometimes and that is obviously very wrong. The question is what is the policy. It's very hard to believe that it's the policy of the IDF to not take surrendering prisoners.
  3. The same old platitudes leading to nothing.
  4. I suppose some of them think they are above the law (and often they are).
  5. When you have infinite money, it makes sense to do everything you can to improve longevity and invest in security measures against even remote threats. Normal schlubs worry about running out of money in old age. Big difference.
  6. Well everything is connected and you're right if you effectively stop hyper inflation there will be a large cost for that one way or another. But hyper inflation is what most Argentinians demand be fixed. So a politician that tries to fix it, high cost or not, makes sense at this time. Of course naturally he didn't run highlighting the high cost, no politician worth his salt would have. Predicting dark things is easy and likely correct. Once the high price becomes real for masses of the people there, they are going to protest big time, and their protest will be repressed with fascist measures. If there was a pie in the sky easy fix, that would be great, but like most such things, there are a bunch of bad choices, and attempts to pick the least bad one.
  7. This is kind of silly because Argentina was ALREADY one of the cheapest decent places to visit with hard currency. You take your dollars and get the black market rate which is available everywhere. As far as sex tourism in Argentina, I'm not an expert. I have been there during one of their many financial crises where the dollar exchange rate was absurd and I didn't notice it being anything like Thailand as far as sex tourism is concerned. It's not their culture. Of course every country has prostitutes but not every "poor" country has a sex tourism type of culture. I think Brazilian culture is much more like that than Argentina.
  8. It was part of the British Mandate and before that the Turkish Ottomam empire. There was a Jewish kingdom there in ancient times. There never has been a Palestinian nation state. Jewish people are indiginous to Israel. Arabs/Muslims are the Mo' come lately colonialists in the region. If you're talking about the UN partition the Arabs (they weren't called Palestinians back then) had a large chunk of land. But they attacked instead. Starting wars when you lose has consequences mate.
  9. Your "school" seems designed to make people dumber.
  10. The American dream was never anything more than a myth anyway, but putting trump back into power will definitely mean the death of American democracy.
  11. Sure thing mate. Palestinian Authority passport - Wikipedia The Palestinian Authority Passport (Arabic: جواز سفر السلطة الفلسطينية) is a passport/travel document issued since April 1995 by the Palestinian Authority to Palestinian residents of the Palestinian territories for the purpose of international travel.
  12. Exactly what I was thinking.
  13. I'm not up on that level of detail. I would have assumed that the Palestinian Authority issues those. I wouldn't be shocked if Israel screens for terrorists though.
  14. Of course NOT! What kind of silly game are you playing? It's just stupid.
  15. I did?!? News to me! In case you are still confused, Gazans are not Israeli citizens. Israelis can't live there. Talk about ethnic cleansing. Arabs are pros at that.
  16. Bizarre statement.
  17. The conflict is about what exactly?
  18. That's called being called out for not having a valid argument.
  19. On what planet did you get that idea?
  20. You mean a Palestinian passport?
  21. De halvt dolda (Those Half Hidden) Search with De halvt dolda 4 part tv series from Sweden. Dark themes -- withnessing traumatic death effect on a young child, the damage cause by Christian religious extremism, Nazi skinhead youth, bullying of gay youth, online catfishing, alcoholism, child abuse, closeted clergy, neglect of the elderly by children, women putting up with abusive husbands. The author is fascinating. Royal prize winner. He has been Sweden's greatest stand up comic of all things. His brother is a leading Christian intellectual. Gay of course. I had watched this years ago and randomly started watching it again without realizing that. I'm glad I did. I'm not usually big on rewatching stuff, but it's been so long that it was BOTH a fresh experience and somehow richer for the repeat. Highly recommended. Don't be scared off by some gay story lines in it. It is not a gay tv series per se. Those Half Hidden (TV Mini Series 2009) - Plot - IMDb The story of "The Half Hidden" is like a tapestry, in which the threads run obliquely between four different families in two different decades. Weaving recurrent patterns, the story unfolds upon the loom of our vulnerability in lives that are as brittle as the morning ice. This is the story of those who survived, and this is the story of those who did not survive. The half-hidden, Jonas Gardell engaging depiction of a number of people in the two eras. The script, brilliant acting and strong efforts directed by Simon Kaijser da Silva quickly made the half-hidden to a cult series - one of the most unpredictable, most poignant and breathtakingly exciting ever shown on Swedish television.
  22. You just dragged that number out of your ass. Not enough dead Jews for your taste? No shame,
  23. I view Drag Queen Story Hours as form of lower end live theater. I think live theater is a wonderful thing and that children should be exposed to it from an early age. I was very lucky to have liberal parents who frequently took me to quite out there live theater and I am forever grateful to them for caring about my intellectual development in that way. Of course in one sense I agree with you. Parents should have a say.
  24. Stop acting so dumb. You know perfectly well that West Bank Arabs are not citizens of Israel.
  25. There is discrimination but within Israel nothing like apartheid.
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