Why are you trying to defend terrorists? Israel targets civilians in terrorist attacks. Is that okay to you?Fancy_Pollux wrote:
Why are you trying to defend terrorists? Hamas targets civilians in terrorist attacks. Is that okay to you?
Hamas' first use of suicide bombing occurred on April 16, 1993 when a suicide bomber driving an explosive-laden van detonated between two buses parked at a restaurant. It was Hamas' 19th known attack since 1989 (the others being shootings, kidnappings and knife attacks).
Hamas continued to launch suicide attacks during the Oslo Accords period (see List of Hamas suicide attacks).
During the second Intifada, Hamas, along with the Islamic Jihad Movement, spearheaded the violence through the years of the Palestinian uprising. Since then Hamas has conducted many attacks on Israel, mainly through its military wing - the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. These attacks have included large-scale suicide bombings against Israeli civilian targets, the most deadly of which was the bombing of a Netanya hotel on March 27 2002, in which 30 people were killed and 140 were wounded. This attack has also been referred to as the Passover massacre since it took place on the first night of the Jewish festival of Passover. Overall, from November 2000 to April 2004, 377 Israeli citizens and soldiers were killed and 2,076 wounded in 425 attacks by Hamas. (Source: IDF website.) The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs maintains a comprehensive list of Hamas attacks.
Since 2002, Hamas has used homemade Qassam rockets to hit Israeli towns in the Negev, such as Sderot. The introduction of the Qassam-2 rocket has allowed Hamas to reach large Israeli cities such as Ashkelon, bringing great concern to the Israeli populace and many attempts by the Israeli military to stop the proliferation and use of the rockets.
On November 8, 2006 the military wing of Hamas called on Muslims around the world to attack American targets. "America is offering political, financial and logistic cover for the Zionist occupation crimes, and it is responsible for the Beit Hanoun massacre. Therefore, the people and the nation all over the globe are required to teach the American enemy tough lessons," Hamas said in a statement sent to The Associated PressPalestine until just recently has rejected all proposals of peace. Even then they launched rockets into civilian neighborhoods just hours after the cease-fire started. You're obviously so set in one direction that you will ignore all fact and spew out your exaggerated interpretation of the word "terrorist".Bertster7 wrote:
The Israeli government sponsors terrorism. Do you know who made up the IDF when Israel was established as a state? Hagannah, Irgun and Lehi formed the IDF. 3 terrorist organisations. The most sucessfull terrorist organisations I can think of certainly, but still defined as terrorist organisations by significantly more nations than either Hezbollah or Hamas.Fancy_Pollux wrote:
Why are you sympathizing with terrorists? The Palestinian government is an official sponsor of terrorism. With that in mind you actually think the land in which Israel resides is morally Palestine's?
Israel is a much a terrorist nation as Palestine or Lebannon, it's just that they have bigger weapons these days.
Are you condoning Israel's bombing campaigns against the British and Palestinians?
There is no crime commited by the Palestinians that the Israelis have not already commited against them.
Two sides of the same coin. But as I have explained, Israel is historically more responsible for the situation.
You're really just demonstrating your willfull ignorance of the situation.
I think you'll find I agreed that there is absolute matematical proof that 1=0.999 recuring. I simply pointed out that this is irrelevant and merely an anomaly of the numerical system we use (which it is) and that 0.9999 recuring is not a number that could ever exist in reality and hence this anomaly is considered irrelevant in many branches of maths that deal with real quantities rather than abstract theory.Fancy_Pollux wrote:
Hell, just today you argued using nothing of substance against mathematical proof that .999~ = 1.
To which you responded "blah, blah, blah it's been proved, disprove it" (paraphrasing). Not the most sensible grown up response now, was it?
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