Will this increase or decrease the likelihood of terrorist actions in America, Europe and the rest of the world?

If you were a member of a family murdered in this conflict, would you be seeking revenge?

Should Tzipi Livni and Ehud Olmert, be tried for war crimes if or when this conflict comes to an end?

What will the price of oil be in 4 weeks time?

Figures released today: -

The projected number of Palestinians in the world at the end of 2010 is 11 million.

The distribution of the Palestinians according to the report is as follows: 4.1 million Palestinians were in the 1967-occupied Palestinian territory (of which 2.5 million were in the West Bank and 1.6 million in Gaza), 1.4 million Palestinians in 1948-occupied Palestine, 5 million in Arab countries and 600 thousand in other countries.

The report also stated that 44% of Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are refugees (18% in the West Bank and 26% in the Gaza Strip).

Don't you think it would be a good idea to close this thread next year ?

one doesn't have to post, and in normal times, i have rarely bothered to do so .... leave it to the ranting one

Should that be the ranting one's ....... In the land of , being the other.

I don't mind my posts being chactarised as rnats, especially as they don't qualify as such.

Today

A group of Israeli settlers in the northern West Bank district of Toubas confiscated vast areas of Palestinian-owned land around the Rotim settlement.

Palestinian eyewitnesses said on Thursday that dozens of settlers raided on Wednesday night lands adjacent to the Rotim and confiscated about 30 dunums (1 dunum= 100sq meters), one of the settlers even started ploughing the land.

Aref Daragmeh, local head of Bedouin council said that the confiscated land belonged to four Palestinian citizens, two of them from the same family.

He called on human rights organisations to help Palestinians protect their land.

Baldick,

What is offending you about this thread.

Why are you so touchy.

To me, the thread has been and is informative about the M/E and those who post on it!

I don't buy newspapers, or books, which I think are likely to contain rubbish and similarly I pick and chose which TV programmes I watch, but I certainly don't want to suppress them or censor them.

Allow adults to make their own choices.

I just wonder, what brings you back to this thread and repeatedly advocate its demise,

Are you sure of your motivation?

Fred - it would have made a much more interesting thread had it not been full of verbose and boringly repetitive c+p .... whether or not these items are factual - always a debatable issue, as it depends on who wrote them - is pretty much irrelevant ..... one would have hoped that the inhabitants of this BB had brains of their own with which to make concise, trenchant or even entertaining comment

The arguments of necessity cannot be brief or concise and are hardly likely to be entertaining.

Cynic,

I am trying to reduce the number of expletives I use.

That tends to increase the lengths of replies.

8-)

I thought it would be a good idea to close this thread as the debate is getting nowhere. The post's are getting like Fred's ,with reply's being twisted , silly , off topic and question's being answered with another question.

"question's being answered with another question. "


Let me introduce you to real life.

Anyway, I wish all (including the Squelched" a happy, or at least a contented New year.

Blwyddyn newydd dda i chi

Q: Why do jews always answer a question with another question?
A: I should know?

Doublespeak (sometimes called doubletalk) is language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs), making the truth less unpleasant, without denying its nature. It may also be deployed as intentional ambiguity, or reversal of meaning (for example, naming a state of war "peace"). In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the truth, producing a communication bypass.


Fred , Next year why don't you try to get out more, there's more to life then posting on here.

Ald,

Your obvious irritation, pleases me to much.

Palestinian History, A Chronology

http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story564.html#B.C.

Fahel,

Thank you for posting.

V. Interesting.

you're right that the history part is very interesting, but to my mind, the whole thing is devalued by its blatant partisan subtext ...... i'm afraid that both sides are afflicted with hardcore zealots who make the difficult course to a peaceful solution 50x harder .... of course it was little different in ireland too

That historical account is pretty good. It is almost all a statement of facts and very little opinion. I have read quite a few similar accounts that tend to distort the history.

This is well worth reading as well.

http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story448.html

as i said, the historical part is fine .... it's the "groan, groan - not more of this biased polemic stuff!" that forms the editorial links that i find so predictable and boring