nazaguy

Do you mean that im not hosting a party? But i made rice crispy squares and everything....

Did anyone actually play the second one? I actually still play the first, but I always end up created a communist country, no matter how I intend the Island to be like. No matter, Vive La Tropico III! (and lets hope its similar to the first in general awesomeness)

Sarcasm Warning - This is more then just development towards missiles with greater range and the like. The evil bearded clerics of Iran plan to send up a inflated goatskin to blot out the sun in the western world! I think they plan to achieve this after Ahmadinejad's meeting with the frozen brain of Hitler and David Duke. See? All the more reason to bomb Iran back to the stone age! - Sarcasm Warning Over Lets think about this logically, and none of this 'oooh, the Iranians are evil and plan to destroy Israel' stuff. Yes, the Iranian leaders hate Israel. Yes, many of its leaders call for it to be wiped off the map. Anyone ever heard of rhetoric? The Israelis have the most powerful war machine in the middle east, along with enough nuclear weapons to make Iran glow in the dark, so I think that they can take care of themselves. But, more to the point, its a telecommunications satellite. Its not exactly if they've got the bleedin' death star up there, ready to guarantee the death of whoever the Ayatollahs disapprove of.

Originally posted by: duack Im entering this forum a little late . But here's my opinion. No matter what they do, Isreal is better and I think that this is because in Isreal, there's freedom and protection of human rights, the kind you would see in any other developed country. Palestine on the other hand, is run by terrorists, who are in violation of human rights and dont even care about the safety of their own people. Isreal is more interested in peace than Palestine, even if they are the invaders. Its pretty evident with the casualties. IMO, this seems like the kind of problem that can easily be solved with a couple of nuclear bombs, before hammas gets hold of some. Its not neccasarily a bad thing I mean, it worked in Japan 60 years ago.quote>I Think that Hamas is about 10,000 years away from building a bomb. I mean, they control a 7 mile wide strip of land. What the hell kind of nuclear power would they be?!?Plus, while Hamas are a bunch of stupid idiots who cause alot of harm to Palestinians with their unwinnable wars, i find the statement "no matter what they do, Israel is better" to be slightly unsettling. If you look into any conflict, there are no good guys and bad guys. Nothing is black and white, just different shades of gray. And please don't tell me that murdering 100,00s of civilians is "not neccasarily a bad thing". I don't care if the people Arab, or Japanese, or Israeli for that matter. Murder is wrong! I hope that some day people will realise this...

Originally posted by: manticorefan Originally posted by: nazaguyThirdly - The Palestinians are of Greek decent? Actually, this sounds a bit like something lifted off a obscure, questionable history site. quote> The link in my post has been fixed, and here is a link for the 'about this site' FAQs. Here is the link I originally posted. quote>I believe that it states that the name Palestine comes from the philistines, not the the people we call Palestinians now are decended from the philistines. And After looking over the website, i've concluded that it is biased in favor of the Israelis. Really biased. Although im Arab, and thus will probably percive a greater bias then there actually is, i'd prefer to have someone whos niether pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian to state their opinion on the site. I just find articles discussing a Arab plot to "get as much land as possible carved out of Israel "by peaceful and diplomatic" means, so as to make Israel indefensible and softened up for the final assault" to be a little far fetched. Just as far fetched as talk of the "Jewish controled media", which, im going to say now, is not only false, but bordering on schizophrenic. The problem with the whole Israel-Palestine thing is propoganda, in some cases, so far from the truth the Geobbels himself will be in hell thinking "i should have used that one". The problem is that no-one trusts anyone to try and establish some god-damned facts!

Palestinians never had their own state? True, But Ireland wasn't a independent country until the 20th century. Does this mean that the British should be able to heard them into ever shrinking parts of their country? (the answer is no!) Second - 1948 war happened after the Palestinians rejected a U.N resolution splitting the area into seperate Jewish and Palestinian states? True. Did the treaty propose giving 55% of the land the the 30% of the place that happened to be Jewish and of western decent? True Thirdly - The Palestinians are of Greek decent? Actually, this sounds a bit like something lifted off a obscure, questionable history site. Its a statement from a similar strain such as "all ancient Egyptians were white" and "Arabs are savages who will kill us all!". Its common sense to see, its just not true. Ethnically, the Palestinians might not be Arab. But then niether would the Syrians, Egyptians and Mahgrabis be. Oh, and for the record, most Jewish inhabitants of Israel come from Europe. Its like me going to India because my ancestors may have come back from their thousands of years ago, pushing a Indian guy out of his house, and throwing stones at him occasionally. Its called neo-colonialism, and its not very nice.

I think Hamas is being a bit stupid. Israel managed to beat Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria in 6 days, i don't think Hamas has much chance. I think their trying to get sympathy from the west with dead Palestinian civilians, which to me is a bit, well, deplorable. It ain't gonna work anyway, as western governments (not citizens though) have a bit of a track record for support Israel almost unconditionally. Though i know how the leaders of Hamas feel, they are never going to get their land back because a group of Europeans thought that their ancient ancestors came from there.

I suppose its a good thing. Still, it doesn't really make up for 1,000,000 Iraqi civilians (although the majority weren't directly killed by US forces). Still, bush should remember, two wrongs don't make a right. But 3 rights just cover them up. Can he do two more rights in 20 days?

It seems to me that Germany and Japan should not have brought the USSR and the US into the war. While they both had early successes against their respective enemies, the sheer weight of the resources and manpower of the US and USSR was certain to crush them. Maybe if the Nazis didn't let their earlier victories go to their heads, they would have done something different. But they didn't and that's for the best

Its a threat! Does this t-shirt look good on my cat?

Easy, we all get scuba diving costumes on, go the the edge of the different land masses, and push really hard!

Just for the record, Arabs have not started all the wars, its been about 50/50. The ones i know of are the 1948 war (Arab started), Suez war (Israeli started), 1967 war (Israeli started) and the Yom Kippur war (Arab started). Its a common mistake to think that the Arabs have been the main agressors in all wars. And theirs a reason the Palestinians rejected the UNs proposal for 2 states. To look at the whole Arab-Israeli thing, you just have to look at the history behind it all.

China will fall as soon as the rest of the world does. They have been a unified country since the time Rome was a small village with a well (well, mostly anyway). I don't think China, or even the current Chinese government will fall.

The region looks alot more like a developing country now. Good to see Khaled back

I actually like The Building. Looks Kinda futuristic. Don't know if i'd care for looking down from the top floor though