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SealLion
if Israel pisses of the majority of the world, IHMO, they're not going to care in the least bit.
actually i would say they do care about their public image since they are trying to use every means possible to portray their actions as legal and reasonable to the outside world - otherwise, for example, they wouldn't bother to come up with those laws in order to acquire palestinian land - they would've just conquered/seized it, banished/enslaved/exterminated the palestinians and be done with it
actually, according to their religious beliefs (talmud) they are allowed to harm other non-jews (aka gentiles) as long as they aren't caught doing it
there is also a saying to this:
let sleeping dogs/lions lie or
don't wake a sleeping giant
the wall was built to ensure against terrorist attacks. That's something that I can understand. But there's other ways to deal with such problems.
there may be other hidden reasons for the wall:
The wall serves purposes that go way beyond any Israeli security needs. The wall consolidates Israel's illegal settlements through the (again) illegal confiscation of land. The wall severs the ties of thousands of Palestinians from their homes, schools, families, towns, farms, and water. Future stages of the wall, carefully held secret by the Israeli government but discerned by the careful examination of military land confiscation orders (and reported upon by B'tselem, the Israeli human rights organization), indicate that the final stages of the wall are planned to completely surround the Palestinians and divide them into cantons and ghettos, permanent prisoners and refugees in their own land. The final stages of the wall don't even get close to Israel's own border on the Green line.
Code:
http://www.auphr.org/thewall/
The fact is that Palestinians need to work to earn a living, yes??
They have money.
They need money to spend...
the question is: where are they supposed to get the needed money (surely not from the israelis) and afaik they were never a 'rich' nation in the first place - imo the only ones who may be thriving are the smugglers that have the needed goods in the first place
As for the Palestinians pissing off the Israelis, they can't.
well, the mere palestinian annoying existence pisses 'em off
I'm not targeting Christian groups as a whole, only those who have their heads in the wrong places because they feel some allegiance to Israel and it's heritage faith with Judaism.
yeah, they all feel as some kind of chosen people supported by the dogmatic belief that their religion is the only right one, but fail to realize facts like that all their religions are actually derivatives or variations of other, much older beliefs, founded by ancient civilizations before them, essentially based on astrology, cosmic events & constellations with a dominant worship of the sun
if you're interested, check out this video:
Jordan Maxwell: Astrotheology
Code:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9072629460246678761&hl=en#
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