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You are right, Reffo.

Civil wars are always the worst. The Israeli-Arab conflict does not really qualify as one though.

The Israeli/Arab conflict of today has made for a rather low casualty...

Reffo, there is a good chance that you are correct. But hopefully, the Iranians would realize that war will cause too much damage to their society.

Bar-arallu, that reminds me of the movie recently that insulted the Prophet. When I saw it, I remarked that it must have been made with some motivation to incite the mercurial, impressionable Arab...

Bar-arallu, the problems in North Africa can never in the long run be solved. There will always be unrest in those countries in our lifetimes. The reason: their populations in the last three...

Bar-arallu, about this whole issue of foreign aid: I have been for a very long time of the opinion that the United States should not give aid to anyone. Private charity is OK. The reason for my...

Not with one person at a time, but one issue at a time. This thread should not become a jumbled mess, as there might be many issues that can be discussed. This is a foreign policy thread, though to...

You guys might want to discuss the demerits of Romney one at a time.

As to how the election affects Israel this is a matter of American foreign policy: In short, Obama will support Israel if it...

I have read the responses on this board, and it is striking that a lot of people have no idea why Mitt Romney was so odious to so many Americans. It is just amazing.

With unemployment as high as...

Having watched this dust-up from the that start, here are my thoughts: I think, and did from the beginning, that Mr. Bacile (whatever his other names are) made and promoted this film to affect the...

The Iranian leaders do not seem to realize that despite their policies, Iran is geographically not naturally in conflict with Israel. Their policies have more to do with a claimed leadership of the...

You are quite right, though is Israel retaliated too much against its enemies in the inevitable conflicts that would arise (for instance, with atomic weapons) the world's economy would collapse for...

Perhaps that is true. But the way the world should be, and the way it is, are not always the same.

We can both agree that Israel and the United States have a special relationship. Over time,...

No, no pardon. He rocked the boat way too much. If he is ever released, it should be when he is too old to cause further harm. He is not even yet sixty. Maybe keep him in till he is seventy five. ...

Mr. Pollard is a selfish and arrogant person, and that is why he has not been released. He damaged the interest of the United States as well as Israel, and that of the Palestinians as well. He...

If Israel built an aircraft carrier, the only effective place to station it would be in the Indian Ocean, given the geography of the region.

Curlyg, many religions, and many nations, have gone through periods of insularity. But insularity is never a permanent process. I think of it as a cycle.

It is true that it can be destructive...

Ziggy, money talks. In the meantime, other people who could help this country better are turned away.

I think the French forget that half their country did the German's bidding during the War, and everyone knew what Hitler was all about.

That's true. Americans in particular assume that the overthrow of one autocrat will result in democracy, as if that is a natural evolution. It is not. In fact, as history shows, most civilizations...

I have noticed in the past two years or so that there is a lot of brand new anti-Jewish bigotry from some surprising sources that are partly rooted in academia in the United States.

I am not...

In a very significant way this is true.

I visited this board and noted that there are not all that many brand new posts.

The other day I was noting that Middle East is actually getting to be...

Jewish extremism in Israel does exist, but there is far less of it than extremism amongst Muslim peoples. Also, it covers an area that is very limited in geographical scope, and is less provocative....

I wish to thank everyone who helped to stop this nonsense. In the United States, freedom of religion is the best thing we have. It allows Americans to put religious fighting aside. Anyone who has...

I always loved the story, especially the movie with Charlton Heston. There was never in my mind any doubt that Judah Ben-Hur was Jewish, and the movie provided a good peep, although a fictional...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad needs to realize that there are more important issues in the world than his argument with the West.