Syrian Crises Spreads Into Lebanon

[georgephillip]

Why do you ask?
No intention of visiting the home of liberalism anytime soon.

Boston Marathon bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.911memorial.org/

On the same day as the Boston Marathon bombing, a series of explosions ripped through Iraq killing dozens of potential voters around polling stations, as I recall.

What if that is our future?

Support radicals and terrorists could well make the democratic process a danger. Terror will keep people locked in their homes.
Fear is our worst enemy. We let terrorists win when we change our lives to accommodate them.
Being careful and concerned about security but get on with life.
Israel lives with the threat of terror everyday. They take security seriously but special event and normal activities go on.
If you think we should or will have voting or other major events threatened by terrorist, get up and do something o speak against such groups.
Hamas is a terrorist group because of it's ties to the MB Egypt. Europeans engaged with groups that have hamas ties risk arrest.
Cut their pipeline and funding and these terror groups can't function.
Support open dialogue and peace talks. Support education that exposes extremism and fundimentalism. Support the disarmament of groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Before Hamas used gaza to launch their own war on Israel there was no blockade. When Gaza is quiet the crossing are open both to Israel and to Egypt.
Peace will bring prosperity to the region. War and hostility hurts everyone.
Teach peace, plurality and tolerance to this generation and prepare the way for the next.

Who created Hamas?

"Another often cited example is Israeli support of Islamic movements in the 1970s and 1980s intended to weaken the PLO, and leading to the creation of Hamas.[5][6][7]

"With its takeover of Gaza after the 1967 war with Egypt, Israel hunted down secular Palestinian Liberation Organization factions but dropped the previous Egyptian rulers' harsh restrictions against Islamic activists.[8]

"In fact, Israel for many years tolerated and at times encouraged Islamic activists and groups as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the PLO and its dominant faction, Fatah.[8][9]

"Among the activists benefited was Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza, who had also formed the Islamist group Mujama al-Islamiya in 1973, a charity recognized by Israel in 1979. Israel allowed the organization to build mosques, clubs, schools, and a library in Gaza."

Blowback (intelligence) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[aris2chat]

Without PLO violence there would have been no need to play differing groups against each other.
Violence and hate, misunderstanding and libels have brought on so many deaths.

 

[Roudy]

Problem is Egypt refuses to grant any right of return to their Palestinians. Same for all the other Arab countries surrounding Israel.
Golly gee why is that? Boy, that's a tough question, huh?

Hong Kong is just as densely populated if not more, and yet the population seems to be getting on. I wonder if you could show us picturers of all these refugee camps. In fact, if over a million people live in refugee camps, this should be an easy task for you to do. Meanwhile, I guess that Egyptian leader not too long back knew what he was talking about when he said for the Gazans to come home to Egypt. I am willing to bet that you will find an awful lot of the surnames in Gaza being the same as the surnames in Egypt.

Neither Egypt nor any other Arab state evicted 700,000 Palestinians from their homes, businesses, and bank accounts in 1948.

Israel did.

Remember?

Israel didn't, the Palestinians joined 5 Arab nations in attacking Israel and trying to destroy it and it didn't work out. Those that didn't, ended up being Israeli citizens with full rights, which comprise the current 2 million Arabs Muslims that are Israeli citizens.

The people that evicted and committed "ethnic cleansing" were the Arab countries, on their indigenous Jews who had been living in those countries for thousands of years. Look it up. Over a million Jews fled several Arab countries. Are you concerned for their rights or just the fake Palestinian IslamoNazis?

 

[MHunterB]

Problem is Egypt refuses to grant any right of return to their Palestinians. Same for all the other Arab countries surrounding Israel.
Golly gee why is that? Boy, that's a tough question, huh?

Hong Kong is just as densely populated if not more, and yet the population seems to be getting on. I wonder if you could show us picturers of all these refugee camps. In fact, if over a million people live in refugee camps, this should be an easy task for you to do. Meanwhile, I guess that Egyptian leader not too long back knew what he was talking about when he said for the Gazans to come home to Egypt. I am willing to bet that you will find an awful lot of the surnames in Gaza being the same as the surnames in Egypt.

Neither Egypt nor any other Arab state evicted 700,000 Palestinians from their homes, businesses, and bank accounts in 1948.

Israel did.

Remember?

Can't 'remember what never happened! There's reliable documentation (from Palestinian Arabs themselves) that over half the 'refugees' were NOT 'forced out by Israel' as Georgie likes to pretend.

We will likely never know how many were urged out by the AL "leaders", and how many were bullied into leaving by the "Palestinian fighters".

And in the meantime, Georgie continues to deny that any Arab nation illegally stripped its Jewish citizens of all their rights, property and land. That international conspiracy to commit ethnic cleansing beggared and ejected narly a million people from all over the Muslim ME.

And let's not forget the well-documented ethnic cleansing at gunpoint of the Jewish population of East Jerusalem after the Jordanians over-ran it. Where's Georgie's dismay over THAT episode?

Until Georgie acknowledges the ethnic cleansing by the AL cabal - there's no need to try to assess how many of the so-claimed Palestinian 'refugees' were actually 'Palestinian' and actually refugees.

NB: The above does not constitute a denial of possible Israeli wrong-doing vis-à-vis non-combatant Arab individuals. But let's note that the 25% or so of Israeli citizens who are Muslim or Christian haven't been leaving en masse, or seeking political asylum in other Arab nations, etc.

 

[georgephillip]

Without PLO violence there would have been no need to play differing groups against each other.
Violence and hate, misunderstanding and libels have brought on so many deaths.

Without the Zionist colonization of Palestine which allowed 650,000 Jews to inflict their nation upon 1.2 million non-Jews in 1948, the PLO and its violence would never have been necessary. Colonialism and Jewish apartheid are still the problems in Palestine.

 

[Hollie]

Without PLO violence there would have been no need to play differing groups against each other.
Violence and hate, misunderstanding and libels have brought on so many deaths.

Without the Zionist colonization of Palestine which allowed 650,000 Jews to inflict their nation upon 1.2 million non-Jews in 1948, the PLO and its violence would never have been necessary. Colonialism and Jewish apartheid are still the problems in Palestine.

That’s just nonsense.

You are apparently hoping to avoid addressing islam’s past history of conquest and rapine across Europe, for example. Islam’s history is one of littering dead bodies across the landscape in furtherance of its expansionist nature.

You are apparently hoping to avoid addressing the fact that Islamic terrorism is a product of state support and empowerment. Let’s not pretend that the spectacular acts of mass murder that we have witnessed in the recent past were not aided and abetted by islamist governments and islamist “charities”.

Let's take a look at the Koran, the hadith, and Muhammad's sacralized biography (Sirat Rasul Allah, by Ibn Ishaq) which were recorded more than a millennium before America and the modern state of Israel were formed:

• Allah's Apostle said, "I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror, and while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the world were brought to me and put in my hand." –Bukhari Vol 4, Bk 52, No 220

• A Book revealed unto thee,- So let thy heart be oppressed no more by any difficulty on that account,- that with it thou mightest warn the infidels and teach the Believers. Follow (O men!) the revelation given unto you from your Lord, and follow not, as friends or protectors, other than Him. Little it is ye remember of admonition. How many a township have We destroyed! As a raid by night, or while they slept at noon, Our terror came unto them. No plea had they, when Our terror came unto them, save that they said: Lo! We were wrong-doers. –Qur'an 7:2-5

 

[Hollie]

Are you planning to visit Boston or New York anytime in the future?

Why do you ask?
No intention of visiting the home of liberalism anytime soon.

Boston Marathon bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.911memorial.org/

On the same day as the Boston Marathon bombing, a series of explosions ripped through Iraq killing dozens of potential voters around polling stations, as I recall.

What if that is our future?

You do understand that people at the Boston marathon were not gathering to vote, right?

You're hoping to make some nonsensical connection that doesn't exist.

 

[aris2chat]

Lebanese Air Force fired on a Syrian helicopter that entered Lebanese air space.

"The anti-aircraft fire came a day after Lebanese President Michel Sleiman announced that Saudi Arabia had pledged $3 billion for the under-equipped army to buy French weapons.

"Saudi Arabia is a key supporter of the Syrian uprising.

"Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah militia, which controls much of the border region apart from the mainly Sunni Arsal district, is a leading ally of the Syrian regime."

Lebanon army fires on Syria aircraft for 'first time'

...and a sunni leader has been arrested in Lebanon
.......and a palestinians representative in Prague has been killed
..and life goes on
The US and France have also pledged to aircraft to Lebanon. Most of what the air force had prior to the civil war rusted. Air force was grounded during the civil war and but for a few helicopters and light training planes was non existent for the last four decades.
Lebanon does not want Syria. It already struggling with the refugees as it is. Even Hezbullah has lost support with in Lebanon.
The economy is still suffering and assassinations unfortunately still take place. Syria's war is not welcome and the army is trying to make that clear to all sides.

 

[georgephillip]

Without PLO violence there would have been no need to play differing groups against each other.
Violence and hate, misunderstanding and libels have brought on so many deaths.

Arab and Jew weren't engaging in violence and hate in Palestine a hundred years ago at nearly the same level they have been since 1948.

"Sir Ronald Storrs, the first Governor of Jerusalem, certainly had no illusions about what a 'Jewish homeland' in Palestine meant for the British Empire: 'It will form for England,' he said, 'a little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism.'”

"Storrs’ analogy was no accident. Ireland was where the English invented the tactic of divide and conquer, and where the devastating effectiveness of using foreign settlers to drive a wedge between the colonial rulers and the colonized made it a template for worldwide imperial rule."

Do you find it coincidental that Sir Ronald made this statement about the same time the Royal Navy was switching from coal to oil to power its imperial fleets?

Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules - FPIF

 

[georgephillip]

Why do you ask?
No intention of visiting the home of liberalism anytime soon.

Boston Marathon bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.911memorial.org/

On the same day as the Boston Marathon bombing, a series of explosions ripped through Iraq killing dozens of potential voters around polling stations, as I recall.

What if that is our future?

You do understand that people at the Boston marathon were not gathering to vote, right?

You're hoping to make some nonsensical connection that doesn't exist.

Where did I say the people in Boston were gathering to vote?
On the same day as the Boston bombings dozens of Iraqis were murdered by bombs timed to go off as eligible voters took part in the registration process. I said such a scenario is possible, if not likely, in this country if we continue facilitating the mass killing of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and Lebanon.

 

[georgephillip]

Problem is Egypt refuses to grant any right of return to their Palestinians. Same for all the other Arab countries surrounding Israel.
Golly gee why is that? Boy, that's a tough question, huh?

Neither Egypt nor any other Arab state evicted 700,000 Palestinians from their homes, businesses, and bank accounts in 1948.

Israel did.

Remember?

Israel didn't, the Palestinians joined 5 Arab nations in attacking Israel and trying to destroy it and it didn't work out. Those that didn't, ended up being Israeli citizens with full rights, which comprise the current 2 million Arabs Muslims that are Israeli citizens.

The people that evicted and committed "ethnic cleansing" were the Arab countries, on their indigenous Jews who had been living in those countries for thousands of years. Look it up. Over a million Jews fled several Arab countries. Are you concerned for their rights or just the fake Palestinian IslamoNazis?

"The history of the Palestinian exodus is closely tied to the events of the war in Palestine, which lasted from 1947 to 1949, and to the political events preceding it. In September 1949, the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine estimated 711,000 Palestinian refugees existed outside Israel,[25] with about one-quarter of the estimated 160,000 Palestinian Arabs remaining in Israel as 'internal refugees'.

"The Palestinians say they were evicted at bayonet-point and by panic deliberately incited by the Zionists.[26]

"Efraim Karsh believes that the Israeli government never took such a "simplistic, single-cause viewpoint".[27] Walid Khalidi[28][29] and Ilan Pappé say that the expulsion was based on a deliberate policy.[30]

"Based on the protocols of Israel's cabinet meetings, the Haganah Archive in Tel Aviv, and the IDF and Israel Defense Ministry Archive in Givatayim,[31] a number of historians have concluded that around half the Palestinians who became refugees were evicted by the Israeli army but this was not an organized policy.[10]:5–7:38–64:462–587[32]"

1948 Palestinian exodus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Sally]

Without PLO violence there would have been no need to play differing groups against each other.
Violence and hate, misunderstanding and libels have brought on so many deaths.

Arab and Jew weren't engaging in violence and hate in Palestine a hundred years ago at nearly the same level they have been since 1948.

"Sir Ronald Storrs, the first Governor of Jerusalem, certainly had no illusions about what a 'Jewish homeland' in Palestine meant for the British Empire: 'It will form for England,' he said, 'a little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism.'”

"Storrs’ analogy was no accident. Ireland was where the English invented the tactic of divide and conquer, and where the devastating effectiveness of using foreign settlers to drive a wedge between the colonial rulers and the colonized made it a template for worldwide imperial rule."

Do you find it coincidental that Sir Ronald made this statement about the same time the Royal Navy was switching from coal to oil to power its imperial fleets?

Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules - FPIF

Attention; Attention, New Readers. Mr. George has pulled this one thing up (of course with all his other things he has constantly pulled up) because he doesn't want to miss any new readers to this forum. He figures that some of the new readers reading his spammed sites will start hating the Jews and Israel as much as he does. However, if anyone wants to get an old, old tattered copy of one of his SPAMS from him, he will be happy to sign one for you in the 7/11 closest to his little apartment.

 

[georgephillip]

Without PLO violence there would have been no need to play differing groups against each other.
Violence and hate, misunderstanding and libels have brought on so many deaths.

Arab and Jew weren't engaging in violence and hate in Palestine a hundred years ago at nearly the same level they have been since 1948.

"Sir Ronald Storrs, the first Governor of Jerusalem, certainly had no illusions about what a 'Jewish homeland' in Palestine meant for the British Empire: 'It will form for England,' he said, 'a little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism.'”

"Storrs’ analogy was no accident. Ireland was where the English invented the tactic of divide and conquer, and where the devastating effectiveness of using foreign settlers to drive a wedge between the colonial rulers and the colonized made it a template for worldwide imperial rule."

Do you find it coincidental that Sir Ronald made this statement about the same time the Royal Navy was switching from coal to oil to power its imperial fleets?

Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules - FPIF

Attention; Attention, New Readers. Mr. George has pulled this one thing up (of course with all his other things he has constantly pulled up) because he doesn't want to miss any new readers to this forum. He figures that some of the new readers reading his spammed sites will start hating the Jews and Israel as much as he does. However, if anyone wants to get an old, old tattered copy of one of his SPAMS from him, he will be happy to sign one for you in the 7/11 closest to his little apartment.

"Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s recent revelations that the Israeli government is encouraging Kurdish separatism in Iraq, Iran, and Syria should ring a bell for anyone who has followed the long history of English imperial ambitions.

"It is no surprise that the Israelis should be using the tactic of 'divide and conquer,' the cornerstone policy of an empire that dominated virtually every continent on the globe save South America.

"The Jewish population of British-controlled Palestine was, after all, victim to exactly the same kind of ethnic manipulation that the Sharon government is presently attempting in Northern Iraq.

"Following the absorption of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the British set about shoring up their rule by the tried and true strategy of pitting ethnic group against ethnic group, tribe against tribe, and religion against religion.

"When British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour issued his famous 1917 Declaration guaranteeing a 'homeland' for the Jewish people in Palestine, he was less concerned with righting a two thousand year old wrong than creating divisions that would serve growing British interests in the Middle East.

"Sir Ronald Storrs, the first Governor of Jerusalem...

You know the rest.

Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules - FPIF

 

[Sally]

Arab and Jew weren't engaging in violence and hate in Palestine a hundred years ago at nearly the same level they have been since 1948.

"Sir Ronald Storrs, the first Governor of Jerusalem, certainly had no illusions about what a 'Jewish homeland' in Palestine meant for the British Empire: 'It will form for England,' he said, 'a little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism.'”

"Storrs’ analogy was no accident. Ireland was where the English invented the tactic of divide and conquer, and where the devastating effectiveness of using foreign settlers to drive a wedge between the colonial rulers and the colonized made it a template for worldwide imperial rule."

Do you find it coincidental that Sir Ronald made this statement about the same time the Royal Navy was switching from coal to oil to power its imperial fleets?

Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules - FPIF

Attention; Attention, New Readers. Mr. George has pulled this one thing up (of course with all his other things he has constantly pulled up) because he doesn't want to miss any new readers to this forum. He figures that some of the new readers reading his spammed sites will start hating the Jews and Israel as much as he does. However, if anyone wants to get an old, old tattered copy of one of his SPAMS from him, he will be happy to sign one for you in the 7/11 closest to his little apartment.

"Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s recent revelations that the Israeli government is encouraging Kurdish separatism in Iraq, Iran, and Syria should ring a bell for anyone who has followed the long history of English imperial ambitions.

"It is no surprise that the Israelis should be using the tactic of 'divide and conquer,' the cornerstone policy of an empire that dominated virtually every continent on the globe save South America.

"The Jewish population of British-controlled Palestine was, after all, victim to exactly the same kind of ethnic manipulation that the Sharon government is presently attempting in Northern Iraq.

"Following the absorption of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the British set about shoring up their rule by the tried and true strategy of pitting ethnic group against ethnic group, tribe against tribe, and religion against religion.

"When British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour issued his famous 1917 Declaration guaranteeing a 'homeland' for the Jewish people in Palestine, he was less concerned with righting a two thousand year old wrong than creating divisions that would serve growing British interests in the Middle East.

"Sir Ronald Storrs, the first Governor of Jerusalem...

You know the rest.

Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules - FPIF

Remember, folks, Mr. George will be awaiting those who want to receive a signed copy of one of the old stuff he has pulled up continuously. After all, with the Internet he can just pull these old sites up again. If it wasn't for the Internet and all the sites Mr. George runs to that he feels he has to post over and over to catch any new readers (he at least must have the brains to realize that the old readers who have seen his stuff over and over are not going to read anything but once), he really would be one unhappy fellow. He has never gotten as much attention in his life as he has gotten because of these forums.

 

[georgephillip]

Attention; Attention, New Readers. Mr. George has pulled this one thing up (of course with all his other things he has constantly pulled up) because he doesn't want to miss any new readers to this forum. He figures that some of the new readers reading his spammed sites will start hating the Jews and Israel as much as he does. However, if anyone wants to get an old, old tattered copy of one of his SPAMS from him, he will be happy to sign one for you in the 7/11 closest to his little apartment.

"Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s recent revelations that the Israeli government is encouraging Kurdish separatism in Iraq, Iran, and Syria should ring a bell for anyone who has followed the long history of English imperial ambitions.

"It is no surprise that the Israelis should be using the tactic of 'divide and conquer,' the cornerstone policy of an empire that dominated virtually every continent on the globe save South America.

"The Jewish population of British-controlled Palestine was, after all, victim to exactly the same kind of ethnic manipulation that the Sharon government is presently attempting in Northern Iraq.

"Following the absorption of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the British set about shoring up their rule by the tried and true strategy of pitting ethnic group against ethnic group, tribe against tribe, and religion against religion.

"When British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour issued his famous 1917 Declaration guaranteeing a 'homeland' for the Jewish people in Palestine, he was less concerned with righting a two thousand year old wrong than creating divisions that would serve growing British interests in the Middle East.

"Sir Ronald Storrs, the first Governor of Jerusalem...

You know the rest.

Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules - FPIF

Remember, folks, Mr. George will be awaiting those who want to receive a signed copy of one of the old stuff he has pulled up continuously. After all, with the Internet he can just pull these old sites up again. If it wasn't for the Internet and all the sites Mr. George runs to that he feels he has to post over and over to catch any new readers (he at least must have the brains to realize that the old readers who have seen his stuff over and over are not going to read anything but once), he really would be one unhappy fellow. He has never gotten as much attention in his life as he has gotten because of these forums.

"Ireland as Imperial Laboratory

"The parallels between Israel and Ireland are almost eerie, unless one remembers that the latter was the laboratory for British colonialism.

"As in Ulster, Israeli settlers in the Occupied Territories have special privileges that divide them from Palestinians (and other Israelis as well). As in Ireland, Israeli settlers rely on the military to protect them from the 'natives.'

"And as in Northern Ireland, there are political organizations, like the National Religious Party and the Moledet Party, which whip up sectarian hatred, and keep the population divided.

"The latter two parties both advocate the forcible transfer of all Arabs—Palestinians and Israelis alike—to Jordan and Egypt."

Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules - FPIF

 

[Desperado]

What if that is our future?[/B]

What if..... Sorry I don't play that game.?"

 

[Sally]

"Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s recent revelations that the Israeli government is encouraging Kurdish separatism in Iraq, Iran, and Syria should ring a bell for anyone who has followed the long history of English imperial ambitions.

"It is no surprise that the Israelis should be using the tactic of 'divide and conquer,' the cornerstone policy of an empire that dominated virtually every continent on the globe save South America.

"The Jewish population of British-controlled Palestine was, after all, victim to exactly the same kind of ethnic manipulation that the Sharon government is presently attempting in Northern Iraq.

"Following the absorption of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the British set about shoring up their rule by the tried and true strategy of pitting ethnic group against ethnic group, tribe against tribe, and religion against religion.

"When British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour issued his famous 1917 Declaration guaranteeing a 'homeland' for the Jewish people in Palestine, he was less concerned with righting a two thousand year old wrong than creating divisions that would serve growing British interests in the Middle East.

"Sir Ronald Storrs, the first Governor of Jerusalem...

You know the rest.

Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules - FPIF

Remember, folks, Mr. George will be awaiting those who want to receive a signed copy of one of the old stuff he has pulled up continuously. After all, with the Internet he can just pull these old sites up again. If it wasn't for the Internet and all the sites Mr. George runs to that he feels he has to post over and over to catch any new readers (he at least must have the brains to realize that the old readers who have seen his stuff over and over are not going to read anything but once), he really would be one unhappy fellow. He has never gotten as much attention in his life as he has gotten because of these forums.

"Ireland as Imperial Laboratory

"The parallels between Israel and Ireland are almost eerie, unless one remembers that the latter was the laboratory for British colonialism.

"As in Ulster, Israeli settlers in the Occupied Territories have special privileges that divide them from Palestinians (and other Israelis as well). As in Ireland, Israeli settlers rely on the military to protect them from the 'natives.'

"And as in Northern Ireland, there are political organizations, like the National Religious Party and the Moledet Party, which whip up sectarian hatred, and keep the population divided.

"The latter two parties both advocate the forcible transfer of all Arabs—Palestinians and Israelis alike—to Jordan and Egypt."

Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules - FPIF

Mr. George, would you please give the readers both old and new your reason for posting the same things over and over. You have to realize that the old readers have seen your sites numerous times since you can't seem to restrain yourself from pulling them up continuously. One time a poster on some forum did admit that he posted the same things over and over because he believe that many new people show up every day and he wanted them to see his stuff. Is that your reason for posting these sites umpteen times?

 

[Hossfly]

Arab and Jew weren't engaging in violence and hate in Palestine a hundred years ago at nearly the same level they have been since 1948.

"Sir Ronald Storrs, the first Governor of Jerusalem, certainly had no illusions about what a 'Jewish homeland' in Palestine meant for the British Empire: 'It will form for England,' he said, 'a little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism.'”

"Storrs’ analogy was no accident. Ireland was where the English invented the tactic of divide and conquer, and where the devastating effectiveness of using foreign settlers to drive a wedge between the colonial rulers and the colonized made it a template for worldwide imperial rule."

Do you find it coincidental that Sir Ronald made this statement about the same time the Royal Navy was switching from coal to oil to power its imperial fleets?

Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules - FPIF

Attention; Attention, New Readers. Mr. George has pulled this one thing up (of course with all his other things he has constantly pulled up) because he doesn't want to miss any new readers to this forum. He figures that some of the new readers reading his spammed sites will start hating the Jews and Israel as much as he does. However, if anyone wants to get an old, old tattered copy of one of his SPAMS from him, he will be happy to sign one for you in the 7/11 closest to his little apartment.

"Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s recent revelations that the Israeli government is encouraging Kurdish separatism in Iraq, Iran, and Syria should ring a bell for anyone who has followed the long history of English imperial ambitions.

"It is no surprise that the Israelis should be using the tactic of 'divide and conquer,' the cornerstone policy of an empire that dominated virtually every continent on the globe save South America.

"The Jewish population of British-controlled Palestine was, after all, victim to exactly the same kind of ethnic manipulation that the Sharon government is presently attempting in Northern Iraq.

"Following the absorption of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the British set about shoring up their rule by the tried and true strategy of pitting ethnic group against ethnic group, tribe against tribe, and religion against religion.

"When British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour issued his famous 1917 Declaration guaranteeing a 'homeland' for the Jewish people in Palestine, he was less concerned with righting a two thousand year old wrong than creating divisions that would serve growing British interests in the Middle East.

"Sir Ronald Storrs, the first Governor of Jerusalem...

You know the rest.

Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules - FPIF

I would rather read about the 1/3 who imposed their will on a 2/3 majority to take over a country. Must be some fascinating stories there. Course, we can do without the Balfours and the Rockefellers. Oh, and did the 1/3 have a bugle tooter to blow down some walls? That always amazed me about ol' Joshua, who must have had some set of lungs.

 

[georgephillip]

"It was 'divide and conquer' that made it possible for an insignificant island in the north of Europe to rule the world. Division and chaos, tribal, religious and ethnic hatred, were the secret to empire.

"Guns and artillery were always in the background in case things went awry, but in fact, it rarely came to that.

"It would appear the Israelis have paid close attention to English colonial policy because their policies in the Occupied Territories bear a distressing resemblance to Ireland under the Penal Laws

"The Israeli Knesset recently prevented Palestinians married to Arab Israelis from acquiring citizenship, a page lifted almost directly from the 1692 laws.

"Israeli human rights activist Yael Stein called the action 'racist,' and Knesset member Zeeva Galon said it denied 'the fundamental right of Arab Israelis to start families.'

"Even the U.S. is uncomfortable with the legislation. 'The new law,' said U.S. State Department spokesman Phillip Reeker, 'singles out one group for different treatment than others.'

"Which, of course, was the whole point."

Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules - FPIF

Of course.

 

[Sally]

"It was 'divide and conquer' that made it possible for an insignificant island in the north of Europe to rule the world. Division and chaos, tribal, religious and ethnic hatred, were the secret to empire.

"Guns and artillery were always in the background in case things went awry, but in fact, it rarely came to that.

"It would appear the Israelis have paid close attention to English colonial policy because their policies in the Occupied Territories bear a distressing resemblance to Ireland under the Penal Laws

"The Israeli Knesset recently prevented Palestinians married to Arab Israelis from acquiring citizenship, a page lifted almost directly from the 1692 laws.

"Israeli human rights activist Yael Stein called the action 'racist,' and Knesset member Zeeva Galon said it denied 'the fundamental right of Arab Israelis to start families.'

"Even the U.S. is uncomfortable with the legislation. 'The new law,' said U.S. State Department spokesman Phillip Reeker, 'singles out one group for different treatment than others.'

"Which, of course, was the whole point."

Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules - FPIF

Of course.

I wonder if Mr. George will ever own up as to why he is spamming this forum with the same old Cuts and Pastes. Cutting and pasting an article once should be enough. What would Mr. George do if he couldn't Cut and Paste his way through forums?