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Otoozoki wrote Where is israeel before 1945?

osesame

osesame

Egypt

Otoozoki wrote

i ve a quiz….

This map is dated 1945….what country does it show?

can u spot a country called Israel?

by the way, otoozoki is not arab at all and don't belong to Hamas alsoSurprised...least an intllegant man come and say she belongs to Hamas:)

i hope her effort clear the equation…

08:23 PM Jan 09 2009 |

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fabs1

fabs1

United Kingdom

"I think there is another war – the war for sympathy and solidarity and support….you could say a public relations war…..

I think Israel is losing ….for example ….I have a youtube video…..there have been 22 comments – only 2 commentators on the side of Israel!!!

 

Need I even point out the stupidity of that point?

Conflicts and information campaigns aren't decided by comments on a random video on the internet.

11:30 PM Jan 10 2009 |

fabs1

fabs1

United Kingdom

So basically…

you're another 'free-thinking' college Marxist that thinks that the side that you're defending respects the values of human rights and equality more than the West?

 

I know it sounds cynical, but that's the impression I'm getting.

11:41 PM Jan 10 2009 |

The Secret

The Secret

Brazil

loooool

see he wrote 3 replies

he is not ok

12:12 AM Jan 11 2009 |

fabs1

fabs1

United Kingdom

1 reply is often not enough for some of the nonsense I read on here.

12:14 AM Jan 11 2009 |

otooziki

otooziki

United Kingdom

You don't get it fabs….I'm not defending any side … I'm saying attacking Gaza is this manner is an inhumane and counter-productive way to achieve a peaceful and normal life for the people of Israel.

I'm criticising immature rude arrogant tautologous biased yobs like you who say you know more about history than any of us, but in the same forums you say it is irrelevant and a waste of time, I'm criticising sickening disgraceful comments made by you that if drinking a coke meant you were helping fund these barbaric attacks which are killing innocents then you would enjoy that next coke so much more as you think of it….none of this is out of context and everyone here has read your foul-mouthed and big-headed remarks on these forums all too often….

Your impression of me … is that so! My impression of you is that you are an imperialist colonialist zionist little boy with a big ego with nothing to back it up….

If you're such a history fanatic, if you know so much, then why not answer my questions properly?

I respect other people's views…you do not. Just remember I gave you a lot of respect at the beginning, you probably did not even notice! But you lost my respect a while back. No my youtube video comments are just one small part of a big world wide web – and anyone can see on there that I respect everyone's views even if I don't agree – I'm a modest person, I don't expect anyone to agree with anything I say, I don't normally tell anyone what to think 

but I tell you this fabs, you can choose to listen or not….

If you want people to respect you, you respect them.

If you want to speak, you must also listen.

If you want to teach someone, be ready to learn from them too.

If you can't answer a question, be honest about it.

Don't tell people who are older than you, with much more life experience than you, to grow up!

Don't tell someone from Iran you know more about their country's education or media or politics than they do.

Don't tell someone who studies nationalism that Palestine is not a nation.

Don't tell a Palestinian that Palestine does not exist!

That will do for now….anyone else want to add?

 

12:23 AM Jan 11 2009 |

fabs1

fabs1

United Kingdom

I'll take this on:

War is always inhumane. Unfortunately, it doesn't get stressed enough that this was a last resort by Israel. They tried everything. If Hamas clearly doesn't want to continue a ceasefire and continues firing rockets at your civlians, what recourse do you have? Please tell me, what you'd suggest.

 

No. That's not what I was saying. At that point in the argument, bringing up 60 year old history when we're discussing the current situation in Gaza and who was behind it, I thought would steer the conversation away into different territory, away from the original topic. Both sides have grievances, this conflict alone isn't going to ease them. It's simply, another phase of bloodletting in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The comment about the coke was my way of ridiculing the absurd idea that Coca Cola is 'Zionist controlled'. You may take it seriously, honestly, I can either get burning mad about it, or make fun of such prejudice. I chose the latter.

 

12:33 AM Jan 11 2009 |

fabs1

fabs1

United Kingdom

I'm willing to answer your questions. If I missed one out, I'm sorry to say that there are a dozen other infuriating comments I'm forced to answer as well every time we engage on one of the threads.

Views that start off with premises like 'all Jews are evil', 'Israel is committing genocide' I do NOT respect, because they're nonsense and often prejudicial nonsense. Especially when a lot of these people expect respect for their religion or race. 

'Grow up': A stupid sily, childish insult is grounds for me to tell the person to 'grow up', as in to stop acting like a kid.

No, I merely atated the obvious, that people that live in a country where there is not free press, have no moral ground to stand on when saying that we in the West, have no freedom.

Palestine is a 'nation'  (now at least). but it isn't a country and never has been. Read what I wrote carefully please.

 

 

12:40 AM Jan 11 2009 |

fabs1

fabs1

United Kingdom

Israel is its own solid country. Its not going anywhere.

Obviously people from the Arab world haven't learned anything in the last 60 years and choose to 'hope'.

10:52 AM Jan 11 2009 |

otooziki

otooziki

United Kingdom

 MESSAGE TO FABS – not really on topic so bit boring maybe!

Thanks fabs, for your explanation, and the tone of your new posts is much better imo. I am sorry that I was rude to you, if we start arguing over who started the insults first, it's like asking who started the aggression first – Israel or Palestine! You and I at least can start again with a clean slate regarding our behaviour and attitude.

Also I am sorry if I misquoted you.

I agree with you that comments like 'jews are evil' are not helpful to this discussion and are probably offensive to you.

I am happy to respect the fact that you may be biased towards the Israeli side, because you are Jewish, (but not all jews are supporting this war) and a Muslim may be biased toward the Palestinian side as they are muslims, maybe Arab too. I do not have any ethnic, national or religious ties to either side, so I think it is probably easier for me to be objective, based on what I hear, but that does not mean my opinions are somehow better than any of yours. No-one has said that, but I want you to know I don't think I'm better than anyone. My age does not matter either, but maturity does.

I realise I might seem like an annoying do-gooder, a leftie, a traitor to my culture even? And I'm not a marxist, not even a proper socialist – don't agree with it all. Academically a critical theorist, sometimes post-modernist, politically yes I am left wing!

Anyway I've gone on a bit….I will answer your questions later on today, sorry ran out of time now….

 

11:42 AM Jan 11 2009 |

javamanju

javamanju

India

@fabs

Going by Otooziki's previous posts, she is unbiased, She would have reacted in a same way if Israeli's or some other people were at the receiving end.(Unlike other Hippocrates here.)

 

One more Important thing to mention is here, most people outside are supporting Palestine,  because of the human factor and not Hamas factor. Don;t confuse her/their pro-Palestinian stance to pro-hamas stance. People are equally against Hamas. 

She equally hates Hamas as she hates IDF actions


12:47 PM Jan 11 2009 |