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Hamas attacks Israel: Yom Kippur War, 50 years on

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by basso, Oct 7, 2023.

  1. Buck Turgidson

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    US is 65ish% of Israel's military imports. The others are, in order:

    Germany
    Italy
    UK/Canada
    France
    Spain

    ...there's a whole lot of parts and equipment that go into making an army and airforce functional. So "oh no" is not totally wrong. I guess they can get some cheap Chinese knockoffs, based on stuff they stole from the US and sold to China a decade or so ago. Because Israel are our Friends!
     
  2. StupidMoniker

    StupidMoniker I lost a bet

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    Or they can get by with whatever the US, Germany, Italy, and Spain provide them. I don't think they are depending on the UK, Canada, and France for military superiority over Hamas, especially given the fact that Israel is a major weapons design/manufacture power in and of itself.
     
  3. Buck Turgidson

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    Well, no kidding. It's not like the IAF is running a bunch of French Mirage fighters out there. Everything they have is American, but we don't make all the parts, was my point.

    They might like to trade with those countries in the future.

    Using all of the tech they stole from the US (which nobody talks about) and sold for cash to....yeah
     
  4. StupidMoniker

    StupidMoniker I lost a bet

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    I think they are less concerned about trading with those countries than they are about Hamas murdering their citizens.
    Some of it, yes. Some they developed on their own and shared with/sold to the US. Isreal is a major global weapons designer/manufacturer.
     
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  5. Buck Turgidson

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    The Brits post WWI really kind of ****ed this all up. So did the French and Dutch in SE Asia.

    Why did the US let them be in charge of anything?

    eta: you could have carved out a whole bunch of land for the Jewish people smack dab in the middle of Central Europe. But religion, Zionism, Catholicism, Protestantism, would have again been a problem, as religion always is.
     
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    Israel didn't need Nukes to defeat TMTHT in 1948, 1967, or 1973.
     
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  8. basso

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    in the middle of Cetral Europe, where?
     
  9. Buck Turgidson

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    Eastern Germany, more or less
     
  10. basso

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    a jewish homeland in eastern Germany?

    ::not sure if serious dot gif::
     
  11. Buck Turgidson

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    Poland...Central Europe...where millions of Jews lived for centuries
     
  12. basso

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    behind the iron curtain too.
     
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    Woke people are cowards
     
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    Israel needs to defeat the woke
    Woke people hate jews
    They are antisemitites
    @CrixusTheUndefeatedGaul
     
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    I don't know anything about this Elias Rodriguez dude, except that he's made the world a worse place. If he wanted to help Palestine, he's done the opposite. If he wanted to help US' Free Palestine movement, he's done the opposite. He just murdered 2 innocent people, threw away his own life, and made persecution of Palestinians in Gaza worse and suppression of free speech in the US worse. Good going, dumbass.
     
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    @Salvy
    @Space Ghost
    @basso
    Apparently the free Palestine movement suddenly moved ahead of the anti Gun movement
    Just like the stop oil people disappeared and are now the attack people’s non gas Tesla cars

    Wokeness is real

    and yes I hope they crack down on these woke groups and throw them in jail or deport them
     
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    who would have thought that committing a genocide would backfire!

    Woke vs Apes Chapter I
     
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