Egypt might go to war for 100B$?!?

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by David Floyd
Hopefully they get it, I'd love for Israel to get it's ass kicked.

It would be more like seeing the Egyptians getting an ass kicking. Then the Syrians, then the Pals.

[Lorizael]

I cannot stand the Israel supporters who say it is all Palestine's fault.
I cannot stand the Palestine supportes who say it is all Israel's fault.

Both countries, both peoples, have done terrible things to each other in the past couple of decades.

But the ultimate cause, the original reason for the conflict between these two nations, is thousands of years in the past.

And now they both fight simply because they were raised to.

The violence needs to stop, completely and totally. Violence serves no purpose. It is most definetely the easiest way to solve a problem, but it is a short term solution that ends up causing more problems then it solves. It does not matter that Israel or Palestine say they are simply defending themselves. They are still killing.

Ugh, organized religion... Ugh, a group of people that forces a belief on another... the cause of so many problems in this world.

[Cookie Monster]

Bravo Lorizael!

There needs to be peace in the ME. Both sides must stop this nonsense. Both sides do not want to yield anything to the other. If they don't do it soon they are going to drag the whole world into war. I don't want this.

Felch X:

You say that Israel is one of the best friends we have. What have they ever done for us? Why does the media, Israel, and the politicians keep beating into our heads that Israel is the best friend we ever had. As an individual American citizen where are the benefits of this friendship? I don't see any in my day to day life. All I see is a massive amount of my paycheck going over to a country which cannot live in peace because they don't want to live in peace. They want the war, so that they can keep extracting money from us. There will come a point when the american people can't take the financial burden anymore and put a stop to all economic aid to countries. This is killing our economy. Let's take care of our problems first. Then worry about the world. If you don't think we have any problems then look out the window. We're the richest nation in the world yet we have a high homeless population.

[The diplomat]

It feels like life imitating civ!

When you asked the AI to declare war on someone, it would always say something like:"I would require 2000 gold to declare war on this civ!"

[Sirotnikov]

1) To the best of my knowledge two american investigations into the Liberty attack proved it was an honest mistake.

2) Israel is America's partner because:

a. we cooperate in bussiness (guess where all your intel chips are being invented?)(guess where all microsoft products are being invented?)(guess where PHP was invented?)(guess where ICQ was invented?)

b. we cooperate in science - Israel has huge scientific knowledge potencial. many medicine and technology firms are cooperating.

c. we cooperate in military - Israel has used it's scientific ability to design excellent weapons, most often together with american scientists and with american support.

d. we cooperate in intelligence - the Mossad is one of the best intelligence organizations and shares it's information with the CIA and NSA. Very often, they cooperate. During the 60s the Mossad delivered top-secret KGB reports to the desks of CIA officers.

e. we, like america, are a democracy, with many different camps and opinions. with many minorities and many civil and social problems. we view america as a prime example of a great democracy.

[Asher]

Not to be picky...

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
a. we cooperate in bussiness (guess where all your intel chips are being invented?)

By "all" do you mean Banias, the low-cost Pentium 4-based mobile chip due out this year that Intel is only developing there because of intense Israeli-government lobbying and tax-breaks? They also have 1 fab there, I believe. AMD has their low-cost fab in Ireland, Intel has theirs in Israel.

(guess where all microsoft products are being invented?)

Redmond mostly, but the Cambridge UK campus is the 2nd largest development complex. Microsoft has offices in most countries, probably including Israel.

(guess where PHP was invented?)

PHP is freeware, not business. Not that that matters, since ASP is leapfrogging it in functionality now.

(guess where ICQ was invented?)

Aye, that's pure Israel. It was good until AOL bought them too. Now it's one of the worst IM clients out there (AOL's fault, though)

[Natan]

Firstly, the amount of aid sent to Israel is negligable as portion of your tax dollars, and secondly, most of it gets spent buying weapons from American factories. If we didn't have allies like Israel and Egypt to buy our weapons, our defense industries would have trouble staying afloat in times of peace.

Secondly, Yasser Arafat personally ordered American diplomats to be shot - yet we give the PA foriegn aid. Also, IIRC, and correct me if I'm wrong, no one was actually in the Liberty life boats - the boat didn't sink.

[Imran Siddiqui]

our defense industries would have trouble staying afloat in times of peace.

So?

Someone got $100 Billion to give to Egypt?

[nationalist]

Originally posted by gopher
And I hate Great Britan because of the Chesapeake incident.
Blasted Limeys.

LOL... obscure history lesson in Apolyton

[gopher]

Hell, I'll do it for $4.59 and a Big Mac.

Just kidding Israelis, please dont send the Mossad

[Sava]

Originally posted by David Floyd


Basically - I hate the State of Israel, because of the USS Liberty incident and various other things.

Because you're a racist, anti-semitic, ultra conservative. ZIG HEI

I apologize if anyone finds this remark offensive. So do I.

[Sava]

Israel would whoop Egypt. Plus, the US would make sure Israel survived.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Lorizael
I cannot stand the Israel supporters who say it is all Palestine's fault.
I cannot stand the Palestine supportes who say it is all Israel's fault.

Both countries, both peoples, have done terrible things to each other in the past couple of decades.

But the ultimate cause, the original reason for the conflict between these two nations, is thousands of years in the past.

And now they both fight simply because they were raised to.

The violence needs to stop, completely and totally. Violence serves no purpose. It is most definetely the easiest way to solve a problem, but it is a short term solution that ends up causing more problems then it solves. It does not matter that Israel or Palestine say they are simply defending themselves. They are still killing.

Ugh, organized religion... Ugh, a group of people that forces a belief on another... the cause of so many problems in this world.

is not an issue in this conflict

JonMiller

[Imran Siddiqui]

Because you're a racist, anti-semitic, ultra conservative.

Floyd is a racist and anti-semite because he disagrees with Israel. They keep this up, anti-semite is going to be a badge of honor .

[Eli]

What happens if the Asuan Dam... ceases to exist?