a_person, how many Israeli troops have been fighting in Iraq? How many of them died? Just trying to determine how brave your forces are.
Fair enough. Perhaps I confused you with one of those uber-leftist anti-American, Anti-Israel and usually anti-semitic idiots of the George Galloway variety in the UK who have entered into an alliance with the Islamo-nazis (cause they have more to give, I guess), don't believe that Israel has the right to defend itself (or exist for that matter) and find a way to blame Israel if someone sneezes in Australia. I am sure you know what kind of people I am talking about and if you're not one of them I sincerely apologize.
Oh and on a separate note: Don't you think that it's a tad too arrogant and presumptuous to call a state "small" and "impoverished" if its population is 50% bigger than yours and its median household income is similar to what it is in your country: Median Household Income (PPP) Israel $37,000 Scotland $34,000 Lest we forget that an Israeli soccer club just beat your best team two days ago
I have not called Israel poor but rather resource impoverished there is something of a difference between the two. Scotland has historically been a low wage area as are many other areas of Northern Britain, Israel is a nation state Scotland however is a region of the United Kingdom. No pissing contest here, Scotland would struggle if cut loose at this moment in time from the rest of the UK and Israel would also be in for some very austere times if the US withdrew loan guarantees and military aid. You can muster all the chutzpah in the world but Israel is no more relevant as a nation than say the Republic of Ireland. Last time I checked Rangers were at the top of SPL rather than Celtic not that I pay that much attention to football.
Europe is turning away from Israel and they have recently given our President the middle finger on settlements. They offer us nothing but more aggravation from the middle east. We are in two bloody wars and they just cant stop the war crimes. Time to join the Europeans and ditch them.
What's wrong? Quote frm Bernie: ''I don't converse with untermenschen''. He is a Jewish nationalist, racist and Nazi follower (he uses the term ''untermenschen'' that was deployed by Hitler to describe other than Aryan races). Bernie is a mixture of what is the worst in humanity, that I find such a great pleasure to fight with
I don't know tmarket? Maybe you have a serious medical condition with hearing the truth. I suggest you put me on your ignore list as I will you so you don't see my posts and suffer further heavy cerebral and auditory damage. My posts are not meant for untermenschen like yourself. They are meant for the human beings on this board. They are guaranteed to cause serious damage to Islamo-Nazis, neo-Nazis, leftist loonies, white / black supremacists, conspiracy theorists, and other assorted lowlifes such as yourself that pollute the ET boards. If you are an untermensch and you foolishly decide to read or listen and watch them then I seriously suggest that you keep the suicide hotline and poison prevention numbers right in front of you.
Scotland would struggle if cut loose at this moment in time from the rest of the UK and Israel would also be in for some very austere times if the US withdrew loan guarantees and military aid. I don't know about Scotland but I doubt Israel would struggle. The entire aid package including loan guarantees is 2.5billion dollars which is not that much to begin with. Moreover it comes with so many strings attached that I don't think Israel would actually lose financially. Israel would undoubtedly lose politically if the US cut it loose. So would the US which would lose its influence and negotiating leverage in the Middle East. But financially the fact that Israel must buy US weaponry, can't sell to China and many other countries, can't develop competing weapona etc by and large cancels out the financial benefits of the aid it gets. You can muster all the chutzpah in the world but Israel is no more relevant as a nation than say the Republic of Ireland. I don't know if you can seriously compare a nuclear power in the middle of the most oil rich and most explosive region in the world with the Republic of Ireland (or the United Kindom for that matter). I actually wish Israel was not relevant and be left alone to deal with its internal and primarily external problems. But the absurdly high number of articles about Israel in british newspapers, the non-stop stink about israel emanating from primarily european ultra-liberal left and the UN's obsession with israel et the expense of real crises and real attrocities elsewhere in the world demonstrate quite convincingly that unfortunately Israel is still very very relevant. Last time I checked Rangers were at the top of SPL rather than Celtic not that I pay that much attention to football. Well, Celtic is just one point behind so I should have said one of your two best teams .
Europe is turning away from Israel Europe is quickly turning into Eurabia. they have recently given our President the middle finger on settlements. Everyone has recently given our President the middle finger on absolutely every issue. The last person to do it was Abbas yesterday. We are in two bloody wars and they just cant stop the war crimes. We've killed more civilians in these two wars than Israel has during 60 years of its existence. The good thing is American, European and Israeli troops are doing their best to avoid killing civilians. The bad thing is the Islamo-nazis are doing their best to kill as many civilians as they can. Time to join the Europeans and ditch them. Well, I would not put it past this president. Backstabbing friends (Poland and Czeck republic yesterday), bowing to the Saudi King, appeasing Iran and apologizing to the world seems to be his preferred approach to foreign affairs.