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Of course, they're "removing" them for the wrong reason .

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[url]http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020630/wl_nm/mideast_dc_2836[/url]
[b]Israeli Army Removes Rogue Settler Outposts[/b]
[i]Sun Jun 30, 1:26 PM ET
By Mark Heinrich[/i]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops removed two Jewish settler outposts in the West Bank on Sunday after Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer vowed to dismantle rogue settlements vulnerable to the Palestinian uprising.

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Few realize that the UN offered the Palestinian Arabs a STATE OF THEIR OWN as far back as 1948! A partition plan was put forth wherein the Jewish population of Palestine, together with hundreds of thousands of refugees from Europe and elsewhere, would be given a narrow-waisted parcel of land along the Mediterranean seacoast as the State of Israel, while the Palestinian Arabs would receive a like parcel of land for the State of Palestine. The Arabs turned down the proposal.

What if JEWISH suicide bombers were blowing up Arab buses, pizza parlors, dance halls, super markets, and weddings?
What if such had taken place in occupied Europe during World War II?
While it is BRUTAL beyond belief, the Nazis systematically carried out REPRISALS against underground fighters. When a leading Nazi officer was killed, the Germans picked civilians at random, and shot them down. On one occasion, they rounded up the entire population of Lidice, in Poland, herded the people into a barn, and burned it! BRUTAL is hardly an adequate word! What do you think the Arabs would do if the Arabs in Palestine had the tanks and armor, and if JEWISH suicide bombers were blowing their women and children to bits?
They would probably say, “For every Arab you kill, we will take TEN Jews from your towns, line them up, and shoot them!
For one, I wonder, I am amazed, at the incredible RESTRAINT shown by the Israeli government and Israeli people. What did the US do when suicidal maniacs murdered THOUSANDS of us in the trade towers and Pentagon? Why, we sent our armed forces half a world away to DESTROY THE GOVERNMENT and INFRASTRUCTURE of the brutal regime in Afghanistan which was harboring and training the terrorists!
One should only be amazed at Israel’s restraint. They have been accused, incredibly, lugubriously, idiotically, by many Arabs of being the “Nazis of the Middle East.” Arabs should give thanks every day that they are not!

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Of course, they're "removing" them for the wrong reason -- they should be forcing the settlers out of Palestinian lands because the settlers are illegal squatters who are attempting to steal land through adverse possession, not because they're "vulnerable".  But hey, whatever works.

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So, if the local "homeless" population decides to "settle" your backyard, you guys won't have a problem with that??  Cool, I'll tell the leaders of Tent City to look you up, BoomStick.  I'm sure it'll be ok with you if they "partition" your property into two pieces, one for them and one for you.  That's only fair, after all, especially since some of them are Native American and so have a ten thousand year old claim to your land.

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Cool, I'll tell the leaders of Tent City to look you up, BoomStick.

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You mean the palestinian tent city?

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Wah, Wah, Wah.  Same old tired crap from the Israel haters.

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Were you just being , or are you that far out of touch??

Since you think it's OK for the Jewish Israelis to have dropped by and enforced their 2000-year-old biblical "claim" to the land there, I'll assume that you are also supportive of a similar effort by the local Native American population here in Seattle.