why there is what i call to be double standard in visiolazing democracyin palestineIraq fromUSA regardingHamas
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I think my answer to your choppy english is that Hamas is a terror organization.  Yeah, democracy back fired, and there isn't much anyone can do about it.  What we can do is stop all aid and assistance until Hamas recognizes Isreal.  We have to be supporters of Isreal (USA).  If we turn our backs on Isreal, then God will turn his back on us.  If the people of Palestine suffer, so be it.  But they won't.  Iran and other rogue nations will chip in and take up the financial burden.  Hope that helped.
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That's called double standards.
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The Jewish Entity "Known as the State of Israel" is not a Democracy, it's an Aparthied state because it is based on pre-determined preferences and settings and is constructed on occupied Palestinian land. Number one, if you're Jewish, you can immediatly get citizenship and set up shop, and run a more than normal life. But if you're not Jewish, i.e., if you're a Palestinian Christian or Muslim, you would be denied many rights, especialy if you're from the two occupied regions of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, they you HAVE no rights over there, the Israeli elected government would shoot you down on suspicion alone.\n\nThis is very similar if not worse than the South African Aparthied.\n\nSo, Zionist politics is designed to serve one purpose and one purpose alone, and that is to protect one of the greatest thefts of all times, the theft of Palestine and to hush hush on it as if it was alright.\n\nI recently asked an Israeli associate, I asked her, If the Arab Israelis want to establish a Majority government, would you allow them to rule Israel? to which she responded: "NEVER! THIS IS A JEWS ONLY STATE"... i guess that sums it up. Israel is not a democracy, it's a theocracy trying to disguise itself as a democarcy, but it fools only those who CAN be fooled, i.e. the uneducated or those who refuse to see the light.\n\nKuLock: Your answer is far away from reality. Every Jew in the world who wants to make money and run away from Poverty immigrated to Occupied Palestine. Those people ran Jewish terrorist Organizations like the Haganah and the Argon, who were horrible in thier crimes, look em up, they would enter Palestinian towns and villages and kill everyone, even the baby in the woman's womb. Palestinians have lived there for thousands of years and it's all documented in Britain, Istanbul and all the old capitals. It's Zionists who claim the pathetic lie that the land was people-less for a stateless people, this is a lie you could have pulled 50 years ago, but everyone knows it's a propaganda lie now, just like Hitler's proclamation that Germans were a super or special race. All lies on top of lies, suit yourself and enjoy those lies demise. :)\n\nShalom.
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what a load of crap, \n\nif by disrespect you mean dont call you in the morning then whatever....\n\nI assume that you are muslim and you have a chip on your shoulder because you beleive that people see you as fair game for discrimination......im sorry but that is just not true. Muslims in the UK are extended the same rights as every other person, black, white, asian whatever. If we beleived that it is ok to discriminate, why would Muslim communities be allowed to worship freely in a country which is technically catholic/christian? Or be allowed to exercise their religious beleifs when it comes to cuisine etc.\n\nNow ask yourself this, \n\nWhy would certain aspects of a well integrated and generally accepted community gather on the streets of London only months after a suicide bombing attack dressed as suicide bombers proclaiming death to infadels, protesting about a series of cartoons drawn by a cartoonist from another country, which were never published in the UK. Is this not discriminating against the UK because of our free press?\n\nyou are clearly an ignorant moron, and that is the only thing you should be discriminated against for.
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Democratic is a better option if you have people in your country who aren't Islamic.  And, pretty much every country has people who aren't Islamic.  Also, the various sects disagree on certain points of Islam, so basing your laws on a specific religion like that is going to cause a lot of friction between the sects.
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I wouild say, "I am sorry that you have taken offense to this cartoon, but sometimes this is the price we must pay for a free press and free speech.  The main point is, sir, that in a free and open society if you are tolerant of what you interpret as a slur on your religion, other groups will be tolerant of your perceived slur on their religion.  Tolerance is the key.  If you find this impossible, you cannot expect Jews to tolerate a Muslim religious leader calling Judiasm a 'gutter religion.'"
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Because it is a democratic state with Western values in the middle of the Middle East.  Israel is the only democratic country that grants equal civil liberties to women and religious and ethnic minorities.  And it's filled with Jews! Yuck!  The fact is that more Israeli Arabs think that Israel is better than other countries compared to Israeli Jews! (See http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1137605866664&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull)\nBut it's not even the Jewish thing, as much as the fact that Israel, and the US, symbolize the West and corrupt values to fundamentalist Muslims.
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the pot is calling the kettle black. I guess you missed all the war rallies by hezballah. or missed all the shrapnel packed missiles lebanon fired into israeli population centers. Islamic regimes are repressive. We simply gave the iraqis a chance to be free, gamayel and rafiki stood for freedom from syria, and syria gave them freedom from breathing and staying alive. i think you have a hard time understanding what freedom from oppression is, one day you may be lucky enough to understand this concept, till then, everything western to you will be a plot to kill muslims, and the people in charge of you and your country will keep distracting you away from their own failed policies and brutal repression, so your political energy will be focused on the rest of the world in anger, instead of on your own oppressors. I pity you.\n\n\nHezballah only won that engagement because they violated the laws of land warfare and used their own population as human shields. their combatants didnt wear uniforms so they could blend into the population when they came under fire. then when the "fighters" were killed, they said "oh look the blood thirsty vampires killed more CIVILIANS!"  your people are cowards who cannot stand up in a real fight. israelis protect their civilians, muslims use them as shields and cannon fodder, i still pity you.\nall you are is a stain on the sidewalk for western cameras to the people in charge of you.\n\nمحمد رسول الشيطان
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From earlier questions I see a liberal double standard!!!!
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Because we have liberals that prevent comprehensive measures. It's all part of the democratic process, not that Israel isn't an essentially free nation. I agree with you. I like Israel's style. I like how they dealt with Hamas' last leader. They F-16'd him! Just one guy, but they sent a missile strike. They certainly don't mess around. I would be scared to death living right next to a Hamas' lead country, but the Israelis do it every day. They are tough as nails.
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The so-called Palestinians are certainly Arabs.  Their nationality was invented in 1964 in order to destroy Israel.\n\nThe current PLO and Arab claim (and mainstream media regurgitation of it) is indeed a very distorted version of `recorded history' and can only qualify as pure Orwellian propaganda. In fact, putting aside all the myths and propaganda, the only area that would qualify historically as truly Arab land, is the Arabian desert peninsula. Unfortunately, it seems that Goebbels was correct in stating that if a lie were repeated often enough, it would come to be "perceived" as truth.\n\nThere is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass. \n\nBut even that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough. \n\n"It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria." \n- Ahmed Shuqeiri, later the chairman of the PLO, to the UN Security Council.\n\nIn the words of the late military commander of the PLO as well as member of the PLO Executive Council, Zuhair Muhsin:\n"There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity....yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel."
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Until recently, Israel was the only democracy in the middle east and our only true friend there too.  Now there are two other brand new -- and admittedly screwed up democracies.  As long as we stay, the middle east will become more westernized and thus less violent, less oppressive and less inclined to be our enemies.  Right now it's all very new and there is huge resentment.  It will wear off in time though, and then we'll enjoy our accomplishments.\n\nDaniel\nTampa Web Designers\nhttp://www.ipowergrfx.com\nhttp://www.publicadjuster.com
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Kinda hypocritical, isn't it? I mean look at palastine right now. we push and push for a democratic election...we get one, a clean one...and HAMAS is elected!! HA! So NOW what do we do???? Stand for democracy?? \n\nIt is a tangled, complex world out there...and it is hard to stand up and say ALWAYS and NEVER.
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Yes it is hypocritical of the U.S to refuse diplomatic relations with Hamas! Why? Did you know that before we gained our independence from England we were considered terrorists by much of the world? Who are we to refuse relations with a democraticly elected government? You can't have it both ways.....you are either for democracy or you are not. If we are willing to go to war to impose democracy on others, we MUST be willing to accept their democratic choices.........However, we do not have to give aid to them. A gift is just that, a voluntary giving. We get to choose who we give to.
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Completely unfair.\nThey are doing to the Palestinians what Hitler did to them...
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because when it comes to democracy the americans are the king of double standards
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Please take your Propaganda to Political category.  This is Reiligions and Spirituality not for this type of crap\n\nAnd this is a common strategy of your religion, create problems and when other party retaliate, play the victim and cry loud--oh we are being persecuted for being muslims"\n\nThe blood is shed on the other side too !!  Their children are also losing parents... But since terrorist countries  want Israel to vanish...this war will continue for ever.\n\nIf Israle is against Muslim, why he does not kill Egyptians,Jordanians, saudis, UAE, and other peaceful countries in Gulf??