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johnlucas

(1,250 posts)
30. I'm guessing it's about the oil. Other than that no idea.
Sat Aug 2, 2014, 02:11 PM
Aug 2014

They use Israel as a camera inside the region where the oil fields lay.
I'm guessing anyway.

I never quite saw what was so special about a desert anyway.
Why is this land "Holy"?
You would think a rainforest would be considered more holy, wouldn't you?

The whole country was built by illegitimate means anyhow.
Just like what was done in Africa, Europeans just decided all on their own that this parcel of land is now a country & shoehorned people into a box that should never had been built.
Just like "Iraq" & "Iran". Meddling from outsiders not in the know.

What's even funnier is that the Israeli government are doing to the same thing to the displaced people of the land that Hitler did to the Jews in the first place.
And it didn't even take a half-century to do it!

Israel is propped up by European powers including the European descendants in the United States.
I believe HALF of our international problems will be over if we cut this albatross loose.
This fight is no longer about religion it's about "You killed my brother, you killed my mother, I'm gonna kill yours!"
Just for Tit for Tat shit, that's all.

Ain't gon' never be peace until somebody finally kills the other off.
I'm sure some of the citizens of Israel & Palestine caught in the middle would rather just figure out a way to coexist.
Regardless of how the box was put together, the box is there now so how do we live in this box without killing each other?
Can't do that when the Israeli government doesn't WANT co-existence & the angry displaced groups want payback.
It's ALSO a problem with the whole general region.
Neighbor governments are antagonizing the situation too by funding warlike groups.

USA wants that oil so they keep playing around in a region that has no direct relevance to themselves.
By funding Israel they TOO antagonize the situation.

I couldn't give a damn about Israel.
You don't see America doing all this crap for Liberia, do you?
That's a land artificially constructed to put displaced African slaves just like Israel was supposed to put displaced German Jews.
There are conflicts & wars all over the world but America is so focused on Israel.
Why?

I don't even think it's about the religious aspect. That's for the peanut gallery.
Whatever it is it's some money & control thing going on.
All I can see is oil but I bet there's lots more.

John Lucas
P.S.: Netanyahu wouldn't be so cocky if he knew USA wouldn't lapdog everything he says.

I haven't got a clue. It makes no sense. BillZBubb Aug 2014 #1
If there were, let's say 50 or so high ranking U.S. politicians in D.C. who were citizens of GoneFishin Aug 2014 #6
Link showing which 50 or so high ranking US COLGATE4 Aug 2014 #14
My example was the Congo. But anyone who thinks this might apply to Israel could use GoneFishin Aug 2014 #25
No. You made the claim. You back it up. COLGATE4 Aug 2014 #27
For the religious right wing it's because they want to be raptured.... PoliticAverse Aug 2014 #2
Post removed Post removed Aug 2014 #3
Seems like Lindsay Graham said that Israel needed money and we should give it. Thinkingabout Aug 2014 #4
I wonder that, myself. Aerows Aug 2014 #31
But only to Israel. Thinkingabout Aug 2014 #32
Because they 2naSalit Aug 2014 #5
Okay, I am 73 years old and I am going to try to piece together some of what I remember being jwirr Aug 2014 #7
Because the Left Behind series was a bestseller here. bravenak Aug 2014 #8
geopolitically whosinpower1 Aug 2014 #9
We already do though. Shaktimaan Aug 2014 #10
Do you remember the 1970's? whosinpower1 Aug 2014 #11
The embargo was because of Israel! Geez. BillZBubb Aug 2014 #12
Right. Shaktimaan Aug 2014 #17
Sure. Shaktimaan Aug 2014 #21
Israel has no US bases but it does have US weapons storage cache's azurnoir Aug 2014 #15
And? Shaktimaan Aug 2014 #18
I did not say whether it helped or not it was a point in fact azurnoir Aug 2014 #19
I said we have no bases there. Shaktimaan Aug 2014 #20
None you're sure about? azurnoir Aug 2014 #22
Good point. Shaktimaan Aug 2014 #23
embassies sabbat hunter Aug 2014 #24
Strong ally? What a joke. BillZBubb Aug 2014 #13
the US gets very little oil from the ME these days about 13% which could reduced azurnoir Aug 2014 #16
Allies mock Aerows Aug 2014 #33
It's important to Congress ebbie15644 Aug 2014 #26
because to Fundamentalist Christians.....the Jews in Jerusalem have to rebuild VanillaRhapsody Aug 2014 #28
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner... TheDebbieDee Aug 2014 #29
I'm guessing it's about the oil. Other than that no idea. johnlucas Aug 2014 #30
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