If you want to start a "lets be more like israel" thread, im going to have to post a very detailed reply.
Its hard to imagine a way in which israel could of pissed off its neighbors more without getting a james bond villian involved.
I suppose you're one of the "America is fighting for freedom" crowd?
3,000 people died in 9/11 but there are more than 133,000 individually recorded civilian deaths since the 2003 invasion of Iraq due to direct war related violence.
As of July 2014 Hamas rocket attacks have killed 50 people in Israel.
Then on july 8th, operation "PROTECTIVE EDGE"
Between 2,140 and 2,310 Gazans were killed (including 513 children) and between 10,626 and 10,895 and were wounded. 66 Israeli soldiers, 5 Israeli civilians (including one child) and one Thai civilian were killed and 469 IDF soldiers and 261 Israeli civilians were injured. The Gaza Health Ministry, UN and some human rights groups reported that 69–75% of the Palestinian casualties were civilians; Israeli officials estimated that around 50% of those killed were civilians. On 5 August, OCHA stated that 520,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip (approximately 30% of its population) might have been displaced, of whom 485,000 needed emergency food assistance and 273,000 were taking shelter in 90 UN-run schools. The UN calculated that more than 7,000 homes for 10,000 families were razed, together with an additional 89,000 homes damaged, of which roughly 10,000 were severely affected by the bombing. Rebuilding costs were calculated to run from 4-6 billions dollars, over 20 years
America and Israeli inflict MASSIVE damage on foreign nations. Then play victim when they get 1/50th of it back?
When Obama began bombing targets inside Syria in September, I noted that it was the seventh predominantly Muslim country that had been bombed by the U.S. during his presidency (that did not count Obama's bombing of the muslim minority in the Philippines)
And now you are suggesting to step up the tension with the worlds largest Muslim country in the world?
Im sure that would make America very happy. This whole Christians vs Muslim thing is getting out of hand. Both sides have nuclear weapons!!
We need to stop sucking up to the USA and actually work at being on better terms with our neighbours and trading partners.
This "abbot shirt-fronting Putin" business was ridiculous. Two-way merchandise trade between Australia and Russia was worth A$1.794 billion in 2013.
Abbot has no tact, no diplomacy and its obvious he wants to drag Australia into this modern day crusade.
As you might guess, i could write all day about this.
