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Kerry may be right, but I suspect he may also be trying to impart a sense of urgency by naming a timeframe; a task with no deadline never gets done. It also makes sense that he wants to get a peace deal during Obama's last term, hence 2-3 years max. It's understandable that the Palestinians...

It's premature to declare the two state solution dead. I think claims to the contrary are more or less threats to force a resumption of negotiations ("I don't want to light this fuse, but I will unless..."). I've heard for a long time that everyone knows the real endgame. A state for the...

What would make this the "best" solution? Different nations exist for various reasons, and the reasons would seem to apply double in the case of Israel. Forcing them to live as one state would likely be the recipe for a different set of neverending problems.

I don't understand the logic of a one state solution. Surely if you could draw just one lesson from the last 70 years or so, it would be that the Arabs don't want to be dominated by the Jews and the Jews don't want to be dominated by the Arabs. A single state would be victory for one side, not...

But doesn't that leave you with the opposite problem? If the method is all that matters, then the Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy are no different from the Germans rolling into Poland. Doesn't the "rightness" inevitably come in to play, even if it can't be quantified in absolute...

I would fight back, but not "any" way. For example, I wouldn't kill the wives and children of invaders, nor would I murder non-combatants in their homeland. I wouldn't torture or massacre helpless prisoners, either. What about non-black and white examples? If I'm in the FLQ, can I blow up...

Posting to an Israeli-Palestinian issues thread is always asking for it, but... I have no commitment to either side, I think I'm reasonably neutral. A two state solution is the only one that makes sense to me. However, the reason I see the Israeli-Palestinian issue differently from the Ghaddafi...

Generally speaking you're correct. The problem is, people can draw the boundaries of "my" any way they choose. A man could beat his kids and say, "how I treat my family is my own business. Don't mess with me and I won't mess with you".

From Wikipedia, on the Munich Treaty: Though the British and French were pleased, as were the Nazi military and German diplomatic leadership, Hitler was furious. He felt as though he had been forced into acting like a bourgeois politician by his diplomats and generals. He exclaimed furiously...

Didn't Chomsky at first refuse to believe the reports of Khmer Rouge atrocities, claiming that it was all just propaganda by right wing powers trying to discredit a left wing government? Eventually the evidence became overwhelming, but I don' t know if he ever made a formal acknowledgement. It...

And before that, Jean Chretien won multiple majorities solely because the right of center vote was split. Funny, I don't recall anyone suggesting that made the Liberal governments less legitimate.

"Conservative commentator, former Marine Colonel Bob Pappas has been saying for years that bin Laden died at Tora Bora and that Senator Kerry's claim that bin Laden escaped with Bush help was a lie. Now we know that Pappas was correct". I read the article, and I don't see any actual EVIDENCE to...

I would suggest a greater variety of pictures. You mention that you have a schoolgirl uniform, maid uniform, etc. so why not show what you look like in them? I'm surprised how even some professional-seeming web sites make this mistake; a dozen pictures and only two different settings, poses or...