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This video is from Al-Jazeera I believe. The lady claims to not be a Muslim, Christian, or Jew, and makes some valid points. Please comment on this very interesting video. Thanks. youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WLoasfOLpQ&search=wafa%20sultan or http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=null

have them tried and if convicted, prison for life or death. there will always be incidents like this, even with U.S. forces. Thank God that 99% of U.S. soldiers are our angels in fatigues. God Bless them.

seriously dude, apply for moderator status. that would be just the antidote for that powertrip.

there were a few people in the govt, ie fbi personel, that may have been trying to warn higher ups of an imminent strike with planes, but on the whole the govt. did not know the specifics of the attack or when it would happen. if they did, they would have shut down all flights out of boston and dulles and quarintined the airports until they found the hijackers. the government would not have sat by and let its people be slaughtered. the people in the govt. are not monsters. innefficient, money-hoarding, over-taxing bastards, but not monsters.

fuck yorke - cross-eyed musicians think they know what's best for the world. what makes him such an expert. all that world travel really clears up the world's problems.

please explain how weakened steel being unable to support the weight above it is an inconsistency? and the govt. taking down the towers with explosives; there are no inconsistencies there, now are there!? wow, the govt. must have known exactly where the planes were going to hit the towers; they placed those explosives in the exact right spot!

it wasn't the PLANES that brought down the towers. it was the raging inferno caused by burning jet fuel that weakened the structural support of the steel beams. when these beams buckled, the mass of the tower above the impact point fell onto the rest of the building, destroying it. not that hard to figure out. simple physics. there have been countless documentaries proving this, even one featuring the architect of the towers, Minoru Yamasaki.

I do think they were faked in this instance, but I share your sentiments.

Did I ever say that Qana did not occur or that lots of people died? NO. I just said that Hezbollah is staging photos of the incident. Quit putting words in my mouth.

the link: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html agency rebuttal: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html Without getting too technical, it was noticed that one of the photos taken at 7:21 by the AP shows a dead girl in an ambulance. Then, in a picture taken at 10:25am ... 3 hours later .... it shows the same girl being loaded into an ambulance. Yet another picture shows the same girl 20 minutes later, being carried by a rescue worker ... with no ambulance around. In the ambulance ... out of the ambulance ... no ambulance at all. What does this tell us? The photos were staged. They're propaganda. Who would do such a thing? Hezbollah, of course. And why would the media be a willing accomplice in such a bold attempt to invent negative media coverage against Israel? Because they hate the United States and/or Israel, or because they're just plain on the side of the Islamofascists. Now that the wire services and their photographers have been called out on it, they're all dancing on the head of a pin trying to explain away the discrepancy. They've been nailed as willing participants in the Islamic terror propaganda efforts. - boortz.com see how hezbollah takes advantage of such situations?

we shall see if fox news "lies" when a major israeli or american city is destroyed with a nuclear device.

thanks. you should apply for moderator status.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1220509,00.html Actually, the Middle East Is Our Crisis Too The war is now part of the global conflict between the U.S. and radical Islam By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Something radically new is emerging in the Middle East: the century-old Arab-Israeli dispute has been transmuted from a nationalist to a religious war. And as a result, the Arab-Israeli wars are now merging into the global conflict between radical Islam and the West. The transformation was swift in coming. Hamas' electoral landslide in Palestine just six months ago marked the political death of Yasser Arafat and the secular, vaguely socialist and entirely nationalist movement he represented. Hamas is fighting not to create a 23rd Arab state but, as its charter explains, to recover "an Islamic Waqf." Meaning? Territory claimed under the Islamic precept that "any land the Muslims have conquered by force ... during the times of [islamic] conquests" more than a millennium ago belongs to Muslims forever because "the Muslims consecrated these lands to Muslim generations until the Day of Judgment." In the first period of the Arab-Israeli dispute, Israel was at war with pan-Arabism, the idea of essential Arab unity across states and the rejection of any non-Arab state in their region. Pan-Arabism was humiliated by Israel's six-day victory in the 1967 war. The subsequent death of Egyptian President Nasser, who instigated that disaster, accelerated pan-Arabism's decline. Its final collapse occurred when its last great proponent, Saddam Hussein, was swept away in 2003. The successor Arab rulers no longer dream of a single Arab state and have grudgingly come to accept a small Jewish state in part of Palestine. Hence the peace treaties that Egypt and Jordan signed with Israel. As pan-Arabism declined, pan-Islamism rose in its place. Hence Islamist Hizballah--client of Islamist Iran, ally of Islamist Hamas--provokes a war with Israel. Hizballah's motivation has nothing to do with Arab nationalism. Israel withdrew from every square meter of Lebanese territory six years ago. But legal obligation means nothing to Hizballah. Like Hamas and Iran, Hizballah views the destruction of Israel as a religious obligation. Moreover, Hizballah times its attack on Israel to suit the needs of its Iranian patron, about to be subject to sanctions by the West for its nuclear ambitions. Those ambitions, in turn, are meant to serve Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's even larger Islamist vision of a cataclysmic showdown with the infidel West as a harbinger of the return of the 12th Imam and the End of Days. But it gets more complicated still. The Iran-Hizballah-Hamas axis is not the only church of Islamism. Enter Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's No. 2, rushing to keep up with the mob, the mob that is now scandalously led by Persian and Shi'ite Iran. On behalf of Sunni and Arab al-Qaeda--just yesterday the champion of all things radically Muslim and anti-Western--al-Zawahiri last week issued a call for all Muslims to rise up against Israel. Now Palestine was never at the top of al-Qaeda's list of grievances. In al-Qaeda's 1998 declaration of war on the U.S., Palestine is a distant third. But with Iran, through Hamas and Hizballah, having seized leadership of the jihad against the Jews, al-Qaeda could not stand by and allow its Islamist primacy to be eclipsed by the mullahs of Tehran. To Western eyes, the spectacle is bizarre, not seen since the Catholic Church six centuries ago sported rival Popes, one in Rome, one in Avignon. Our only near contemporary experience of dueling churches occurred in the 1960s and '70s, when the Soviet Union and China competed for the title of most authentic communist and for the allegiance of client states and guerrilla groups around the world. On 9/11, al-Qaeda bestrode the world of radical Islam. Al-Zawahiri simply had to show up at the scene of the latest Arab-Israeli fighting lest Iran usurp al-Qaeda's hard-earned mantle. For all their medieval trappings, these two sources of Islamic fervor now vying for possession of the newly transmuted Arab-Israeli dispute confirm the Bush Administration's view that, after a holiday from history in the 1990s, the global ideological struggles of the 20th century have been rejoined with a change only in the cast. In place of the ersatz Western religions of fascism and communism, radical Islam, bastard child of a real and great religion, has arisen. Led by two rival Vaticans, one in Tehran and the other cavebound on the Afghan-Pakistani border, it raises the banner of a militant religion that will not rest until, as al-Zawahiri pledged, Islam has retaken every piece of Waqf "from Spain to Iraq." Yes, Spain--conquered by Islam in the 8th century, lost to Christianity in 1492. That's a long way from Haifa, from Lebanon, from Baghdad and even from Mecca. It's an even longer way from rationality, which is why the struggle against it will be long and painful, and enduringly surreal.

bump - the U.N. still sucks and is still limp.

yamimarik = anti-semite

waiting for an answer yamimarik. you are not getting off the hook with that comment

tell me ,yamimarik, where you get off on telling people how they ought to feel about their country being attacked by hezbollah?

when someone makes light of the Israeli's situation it is hard to calm down. in that line, "Are you 100% sure they want to kill you or is that just what everyone tells you?" you are insinuating that this guy can't even make up his own mind about what is happening to his own country, and that he is being brainwashed or something. one of the most slimy comments i've ever seen on this board. it is obvious that you have no sympathy for the Israeli people, and that comment only cemented your status as a loon.

when they make ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE, then yeah, I guess it is. you are the first person i've ever insulted on this board, so you must be really be pissing me off with your stupidity. it amazes me that you can be so lax in questioning the opinions of someone who lives in Israel. you come off as some all-knowing cocky bastard.

listen Matan_18 , this guy is clueless. That line of questioning whether you're sure they want to kill you is a load of bullshit and shows how intelligent he is. YamiMarik528, get off your pedestal, fly to Haifa, and wait for the latest Katyusha rocket barrage to fly in, and then evaluate how sure you are that Hezbollah wants Matan_18 and you dead. Once again Matan_18, ignore YamiMarik528, he is CLUELESS.

we have found the true intellectual on this board! way to tie democracy in russia to the new orleans recovery. only a genius could make that connection!

WIT --- Where Is Travis????

what's the name of the restaurant? on 316? i'd like to see that for myself. is it anyone's fault but his that he can't read? i understand the guy is homeless, and he must have gone to a govt. school to graduate while being illiterate.