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Evacuation if we go to war with Iran......

Old Jan 3rd 2011, 11:19 am
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Originally Posted by Sue
He's a troll. Just ignore him. He's gone for now.
Bring him back! We need the sport, let him loose and release the hounds

OK, hound ...
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Old Jan 3rd 2011, 12:09 pm
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Originally Posted by Jim Smith
But no plan is any good really if your employer holds your passport?
That's still surprisingly common in the UAE. People should be reporting it more to the international press to shame the nasty backwards companies that allow such idiocy to continue.

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Old Jan 3rd 2011, 12:14 pm
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Originally Posted by A Free Man
Iran has not exhibited any act of war against its neighbors, in fact Iran has never invaded any country and it's wars have been always to merely defend itself so I believe they should be allowed to have the technology to defend itself against Zionist aggressors.

We have already paid a high price for our nation’s commitment to Israel. We will pay an ever higher price – not just in dollars or international prestige, but in the lives of young men squandered for the interests of a foreign state.

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Zionist aggressors? Israel and Iran have never had a war...and Iran funds and equips, via it's proxy, Syria, several very nasty terrorist groups who enjoy randomly launching rockets into Israel's territory until Israel eventually responds and is of course, internationally criticised for it.

What's really ironic is that until Iran was invaded by Muslim Armies around 1000 years ago the Iranians were good friends of Israel with Persian kings helping them to rebuild their temple (which the Romans destroyed and the Muslims built a big mosque over some time afterwards).

Iran's leadership is using Israel as an excuse for it's own huge failings...and it seems you're buying into that like so many post modern self hating wimps we have in the west these days.

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Old Jan 3rd 2011, 12:22 pm
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Originally Posted by A Free Man
And while were at it we really should attack Rome for the atrocities that occurred during the Roman Empire.
After we re-take the third of Christendom that was annexed by the Muslims three centuries before the first Crusade even took place. Rome, by the way was sacked by Muslim armies in 846 with untold millions in treasure being looted by Arabs...

Just in case you don't know the first crusade was launched in 1095 and was against lands previously held by Christian Romans.

I look forward to a holiday in Constantinople...will they be speaking Greek or Latin I wonder?

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Originally Posted by Norm_uk
...and it seems you're buying into that like so many post modern self hating wimps we have in the west these days.

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Old Jan 4th 2011, 9:42 am
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Originally Posted by Tommy All Call
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But you are.
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But you are.
Israel is a terrorist state. Thats not trolling, thats not just an opinion, thats a fact and my best friend and business partner is a jew. I just got off the phone with him. I'm not antisemitic.
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Old Jan 4th 2011, 5:32 pm
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Originally Posted by Tommy All Call
Israel is a terrorist state. Thats not trolling, thats not just an opinion, thats a fact and my best friend and business partner is a jew. I just got off the phone with him. I'm not antisemitic.
Maybe not but you are most definitely a troll. Get the message you are not wanted here, and we will continue to ban you no matter how many times you join. GO AWAY!!!!!!!!
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Old Jan 5th 2011, 5:43 am
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Originally Posted by Tommy All Call
Israel is a terrorist state. Thats not trolling, thats not just an opinion, thats a fact and my best friend and business partner is a jew. I just got off the phone with him. I'm not antisemitic.
How do you define a 'terrorist' state? Israel has more freedoms and human rights than most of it's neighbours - it has non-Jews in government and in senior military positions. Is it a 'terrorist' state because it seeks to preserve it's Jewish identity or does it, like Iran & Syria, fund and equip internationally recognised terrorist organisations like Hizbollah and Hamas?

Stating you're not anti-semitic and rushing to mention a friend who is Jewish tells me you probably are...why else would someone oppose the only Jewish state on the planet if not because they don't like Jews, except as some "protected" minority living in other people's countries perpetually since 132 AD when the Romans ejected most of the Jews for rebelling - subject to the odd pogrom and massacre, who aren't allowed to have their ancestral homeland because it was annexed repeatedly.

Israel is around 22,000 square kilometers - the Arab world is around 14 million square kilometers - I seriously doubt this issue is about land...

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Default Re: Evacuation if we go to war with Iran......

Originally Posted by Norm_uk
How do you define a 'terrorist' state? Israel has more freedoms and human rights than most of it's neighbours - it has non-Jews in government and in senior military positions. Is it a 'terrorist' state because it seeks to preserve it's Jewish identity or does it, like Iran & Syria, fund and equip internationally recognised terrorist organisations like Hizbollah and Hamas?

Stating you're not anti-semitic and rushing to mention a friend who is Jewish tells me you probably are...why else would someone oppose the only Jewish state on the planet if not because they don't like Jews, except as some "protected" minority living in other people's countries perpetually since 132 AD when the Romans ejected most of the Jews for rebelling - subject to the odd pogrom and massacre, who aren't allowed to have their ancestral homeland because it was annexed repeatedly.

Israel is around 22,000 square kilometers - the Arab world is around 14 million square kilometers - I seriously doubt this issue is about land...

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And to complicate things........... this is taken from a letter in yesterday's Torygraph:

"There will never be peace in this area until the world recognises that a Palestinian state is unworkable, until the West Bank is annexed to Jordan from which it should never have been separated, and until the Gaza Strip is annexed to Egypt, which would know how to deal with Hamas better than anyone else."

Wonder which bits of that Israel would agree to?
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Originally Posted by Norm_uk
except as some "protected" minority living in other people's countries perpetually since 132 AD when the Romans ejected most of the Jews for rebelling - subject to the odd pogrom and massacre, who aren't allowed to have their ancestral homeland because it was annexed repeatedly.

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technically the original homeland of the jews is in modern day iraq, they only went to the levant after being hounded out of what is now iraq via what is now saudi. an interesting aside is that there is a reasonable degree of evidence that some of the old testament sites are in saudi a fact the saudis are non to keen on
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Originally Posted by The Dean
And to complicate things........... this is taken from a letter in yesterday's Torygraph:

"There will never be peace in this area until the world recognises that a Palestinian state is unworkable, until the West Bank is annexed to Jordan from which it should never have been separated, and until the Gaza Strip is annexed to Egypt, which would know how to deal with Hamas better than anyone else."

Wonder which bits of that Israel would agree to?
I agree complete with the above....unless the of course the 800,000 Jews ejected from Arab states in the late 1940s, some of whom had lived there since before Islam existed were allowed to return in peace and harmony and get their property and assets back.

The fact is there has never been a Palestinian State or a Palestinian people...even the name Palestine comes from Phillistine - the name of a people who came from the Aegean - ie, Greeks. The region was named Palestine by Alexander's men when they conquered it - more Greeks. It went back to Judeah/Israel after the Greeks until the Romans, who used Palestine to remove the rebellious Jewish natives.

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Old Jan 7th 2011, 4:31 am
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Originally Posted by shiva
technically the original homeland of the jews is in modern day iraq, they only went to the levant after being hounded out of what is now iraq via what is now saudi. an interesting aside is that there is a reasonable degree of evidence that some of the old testament sites are in saudi a fact the saudis are non to keen on
That is only correct if you believe in stories of Abraham for which zero contemporary exists (same with Jesus, Mohammad and Moses - zero evidence from the time). The evidence points to them being a mix of mostly Canaanite stock who gradually unified the Canaanite city states becoming a socio-political entity called Israel sometime before 1200BC...some seven centuries before the Arabs are even mentioned as a people....far away from the Levant.

And if we use the who was there first the Arabs need to retreat to Saudi and the GCC...leaving all the annexed land of North Africa, Egypt, Syria and Iraq to the native peoples - except that can't happen as they all are now Arab thanks to the efforts of the Arabian cultural imperialism wrapped up into a rather large monotheistic religion

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Default Re: Evacuation if we go to war with Iran......

In the fact, Iran is not a bad country... every one is looking for his interest.
USA wants to protect Israel and protect it's hands in the Middel east so they are fighting Iran.
the main problem for USA is China, they want to destroy Russia to be able at last to destroy China and be the police of the world.

the first stage to destroy Iran, Russia & China is Syria, now you can see what happened in Syria because of CIA and Mussad.

anyway guys, I hope we can make the peace worldwide and be happy together in out life, because we will live only one time not twice....
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Originally Posted by The Dean
It's about time they did something and planned this properly.

To be honest if Iran attacked the UAE for any reason it would earn them the utterly condemnation of most of the Sunni World & Western World. It would also provide cassus belli for pretty much half the planet to put down the Islamic Republic of Iran for good. It would be a disaster for Iran and it's people...I can't believe their leaders are that stupid and apocalyptic.

We're more likely to be evacuated because one of their reactors goes bad than because they attack...

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