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When Israel chose to indefinitely occupy Gaza and the West Bank, it itself created the Palestinian problem of vast numbers of newly dispossessed...
This isn't actually a bad suggestion. If the PM simply didn't publicize his visits and no one knows about them, then no one could know to care. I...
The thing to realize though is that not crimes are the same or equivalent. There is a difference between a person, say Alfredo, who crosses...
This would be only true if Mao had committed mass atrocities on Japanese on the order of what Japan had done in WWII. In that case, then I think...
Well to be more specific, it isn't the mere existence of the Japanese Yasukuni war shrine but the fact that the leader of the govt of Japan visits...
Yes you are making the comparison and it should be clear while it is offensive to people. You were the one who said something to the effect...
There seem to be a large range for the number of deaths of the various events so it may not be too accurate. It is also not clear how responsible...
Do people watch sports on TV when you have no rooting interest in the player/teams in a given game in any sport? I find that if I am watching a...
I think that the right-wing LDP Japanese PMs are doing this to play to the right-wing nationalists which is unfortunate. Its sort of reminds me...
Like assessing most historical figures, I agree it is rarely black and white but some shade of gray. Its clear that Mao's policies caused a lot of...
I don't think that he starved people to death intentionally though. In my mind that makes a difference. Just like there is a difference between a...
For people wanting to discuss the Japanese PM Shrine visits, continue here. For those wanting to discuss Mao, I suggest this new thread Assessment...
For those people wanting to discuss Mao Zedong, I recommend using this thread not the unrelated Shrine threads.
I recall a while back this very thing happened and I spoke out then and I am speaking out again now. Whatever human rights violations Mao and the...
Ultimately the only true solution to the problem is for Mexico to become a developed first-world nation. When that happens we can even have open...
This whole issue about trying to compare atrocities and wrong-doings and victimhood is pretty distasteful and silly. Both the Nazis and the...
Consider all of the casualties suffered by China from Japan during WWII from the early 1930s to 1945, 30 million does not seem to be an...
How is it not "common sense"? The people most complaining are the Chinese and Koreans because they suffered the most atrocities under the...
I'm sure many of the Chinese people protesting against the Yasukuni Shrine visits suffered under Mao and have not and have no reason to lie about...
Lieberman's Independent Run Questioned By Democrats Critics asked a New Haven election official to remove Sen. Joe Lieberman from the...
