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Yes, I wonder.

Here's a link put forward by WmTrevor in another thread - very useful for a quick overview of power plays in the middle-east over the millenia....5000 years of history in 90 seconds.

http://mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html

Thank you Banjo I now understand what I suspected. The insult/threat "dog whistle" is the usual attempt to smear and denigrate people who disagree with you and me. It is certainly bullying to use such a term.
Banjo I thought your original was fair and objective.
Two things, I think the Palestinians and Isralies are as bad as each other and Australia should stay well away as all we will get is trouble. I also think allowing Islamists who have shown no regard for our culture into Australia is madness. To think a man who insists his wife should be dressed in a burka whilst an Australian teenager would think it fine to walk down the shops in a bikini would then easily assimilate here is madness. Look at Europe and the Islamic oppression and murder and see what we have in store for us.

Banjo -please ,mate NEVER charge ANYONE with having fixed views or being one eyed.
Islam and Labor, your thread your name for it.
Then you, mid thread, give another reason for posting the thread.
But continue to highlight a dislike of Islam, I share that with you, but look at the other posts, even after my last.
A great difference exists here, so here it is, GILLARD wanted to back America, THEY WOULD STILL HAVE BEEN DEFEATED.
Caucus, aware both sides, not just Muslims, must give ground.
Too that Israels current leader is a war mongerer.
Labor, foul thing we are, voted with 2 3rds of the world.
Every now and again, we should cut our own track, not follow America on our knees.
Afghanistan is a stand out reason we must not let our troops die for country,s that thieve more than half our aid.

sonofgloin wrote

>>My personal view is that Israel ...stop treating the Palestinians like Germany treated the Jews of Europe pre 1945.>>

Well of course if the Israelis did treat the Palestinians "like Germany treated the Jews of Europe pre 1945" there would be almost no Palestinians left.

Just a little reality check ;-)

Have a great rest of the weekend.

"Just a little reality check :-)"

I detect a watering grin there, Steven.

Nothing to grin about as far as I'm concerned....the Palestinians have been marginalised and brutalised.

It's not by chance that the Gaza invasion brought to my mind a similar sadness to that I feel for the Jewish experience last century. I find it difficult to realise that a people once so cruelly treated could dish out a similar fate to others.

I don’t know Steven, I thought I gave a factual rendition of the situation while painting flaws and attributing faults to both sides as I see it. Palestine has Hezbollah and Israel has the Zionists, neither group in all probability represents the aspirations that the plebs have for peace, but they set the national agenda.