Someone Explain To Me..

[Berk]

Whats going on Between Israel and Palaistine?

[margin0walker]

the jews hate the arabs and the arabs hate the jews














lol

[Berk]

Did the Arabs kick the jews out like 1k years ago?

[Smokey D]

No.

[Berk]

Then what happen?

[Smokey D]

The Romans kicked the Jews out in the first century AD. 600 years later, the Arabs conquered the region. In 1948, after a century or so of private Jewish migration back into the area, a new state was proclaimed following the UK giving up land under their mandate to these so called Zionists.

[A Spoonful Supreme]

and the arabs dont want that state to exist

[margin0walker]

tbh im jewish so im like go israel yea

[Berk]

And is there any posibility that this will cause WW3?

[Smokey D]

Probably not.

[Berk]

My history teach said it might happen in like 10 years.

[Smokey D]

I don't think so. World war 3 needs a lot more than two sides that hate each other.

[Independent_CA]

My history teach said it might happen in like 10 years.

Not simply because of this. Nobody actually gives a crap enough about either side to start a major war over it. In order for anything like that to happen in the middle east, oil supplies would have to be involved. So, if a country like say Iran was one of the primary aggressors, you'd probably get a big regional conflict out of it but I don't know about world war 3.

[Berk]

Im ****ing scared of Drafts.

[Independent_CA]

Im ****ing scared of Drafts.

There's not going to be a draft. No US politician is willing to commit career suicide by actually getting one going. The soccer moms and hippies of this country would unite and run them out of town.

[A Spoonful Supreme]

I don't think so. World war 3 needs a lot more than two sides that hate each other.

yeah arent they like throwing rocks at eachother or somethin

[Smokey D]

Total war needs two roughly equal industrial capacities, or its not a war its walkover.

[Independent_CA]

And those are always fun.

[Berk]

I don't think so. World war 3 needs a lot more than two sides that hate each other.

But didnt like us and like other peeps tell like palistine not bomb that other place.

(im being vag because im un educated about this)

[Smokey D]

Yeah, but no one's committed enough to start ww3.

[Independent_CA]

But didnt like us and like other peeps tell like palistine not bomb that other place.

(im being vag because im un educated about this)

The actual area of land that both sides occupy is smaller than some US counties. The only reason it's such a bid deal is because it happens to be considered the "holy land" by three of the world's major religions.

[Berk]

Yeah, but no one's committed enough to start ww3.

I see,


more of a giant civil war?

[Reaganista]

My history teach said it might happen in like 10 years.
your history teacher is a drooling baboon

[Berk]

Hes has a PHD in History

[A Spoonful Supreme]

theres no shortage of bafoons with phds

[Smokey D]

I see,


more of a giant civil war?

More like a low grade one.

[Berk]

Can you give me an example of a high grade one?

[Smokey D]

Democratic Republic of Congo, for one.

US civil war as well.

[White]

Anyone here feel there is a way to solve the conflict, I personally think it's impossible I'm sure a lot of you do too, but I'm just seeing if anyone has any ideas, I propose we make Jerusalem a seperate country on it's own, like Vatican city, and the government would be run be half half arabs, half Jews. so if they can't come to an agreement then the UN comes in and makes the decision for them, and for the rest of the country we divide it into two. thats what I'm sayin lol.

[lfantwister]

Anyone here feel there is a way to solve the conflict, I personally think it's impossible I'm sure a lot of you do too, but I'm just seeing if anyone has any ideas, I propose we make Jerusalem a seperate country on it's own, like Vatican city, and the government would be run be half half arabs, half Jews. so if they can't come to an agreement then the UN comes in and makes the decision for them, and for the rest of the country we divide it into two. thats what I'm sayin lol.

since the UN has done such a good job dividing it before...
and everyone adheres to its resolutions

[Iscariot]

except we have no authority to split the state into smaller factions and the un has about as much authority as a four-year old with a slingshot

edit: beat

[White]

haha true there is some faults, but meh, it's the best I can do at the moment lol. Yea is there a thread on the Future of the UN? cuase I think that would be interesting.,

[Iscariot]

the future of the un is no different than the future of it's predecessor eventually a large scale conflict will bring all eyes upon the inability of the institution and it will be replaced with something "better" that will end up making the same flop

[White]

it's sad because I think you are pretty much 100% correct lol.

[Iskandar]

I have no idea what's going to happen to Jerusalem in the future. Both sides want it for a capital. It's ethnically divided, but splitting it in half won't do because of the limited access to holy sites that would entail. Logically they should just share it, but like that's going to happen....

[lfantwister]

one group should just decide they dont want it anymore. Then the other group won't want it because who wants a city that's already been rejected? and the residents of jerusalem can live in peace while they fight for another city

[Rosca]

There's not going to be a draft. No US politician is willing to commit career suicide by actually getting one going. The soccer moms and hippies of this country would unite and run them out of town.

True that.

[White]

one group should just decide they dont want it anymore. Then the other group won't want it because who wants a city that's already been rejected? and the residents of jerusalem can live in peace while they fight for another city

oh yes this is just soooo going to happen :rolleyes: haha

[lfantwister]

but wouldnt it be cool if they decided they wanted like santiago or something

[AmericanWeiner]

it's hard to deny that there's the beginning of a drift to a world government though

NAFTA and EU will eventually lead to something like that probably

[Smokey D]

The EU is distinctly non-world government because it has entry qualifications based on geography.

[AmericanWeiner]

that doesnt mean it cant be a precursor

[Smokey D]

Only in a very abstract way like maybe providing a model for some world government institutions.

But the EU can't function as a world government because its self-limiting.

[pedro durruti]

Maybe Western statesmen will, after being seduced by the idea of a "clash of civilizations," form a trans-Atlantic government, dissolving the EU, and create a Western Union. Oh my goodness.. hehe

[UpperDecker]

They're throwing rocks at eachother, or maybe like a brick or something.....

[drewhet]

what's going on in Lebenon right now? i remember in like august there was all this news covereage and now there is nothing. did all the conflict just end or does nobody care anymore?

[AmericanWeiner]

LOL

That conflict will never end.