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He also had an action plan for the national broadband network, which was to give Billions of taxpayer dollars, to already immensely profitable companies.

Are we seeing a pattern?

mozzaok wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2011 at 7:31am:


the 'pattern' is that if howards contracts to fix the broadband network had been kept we would now have 93% of australians with broadband. paid for and actually finished!

Please delete wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2011 at 7:59am:


the situation is not simple or one-sided. The complaint is that these sorts of things are ALWAYS targetted at Israel. are the Green morons suggesting that we make a list of countries with domestic and foreign policies we dont like and then boycott all of them? no. it is israel and only israel. We trade with a lot of countires that are undemocratic. imprison and murder its own citizens and alot worse. Why not target them? I call the Greens comments anti-semitic simply because they are. If there was similar commments about turkey or iran or libya or venezuala or myanmar etc they might have a point. But for now it is nothing more than sheer anti-semitism.

longweekend58 wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2011 at 7:54am:


I will leave you to revel in your fantasies longy, and do not wish to derail this thread by going over barren ground, my point was that Abbott's answers too often, are to just throw money at the big corporations who helped cause the problems in the first place, which is a good indication of his lack of vision, and his lack of imagination, not to mention other deficiencies.

Please delete wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2011 at 8:10am:


seriously, where did you pick that up from?

"So what were Arab-Jewish relations like historically? Again there are two extreme competing answers to this question. On one view, Jews and Christians enjoyed the status of a 'protected' minority under Islam, and the Jews in Muslim Spain enjoyed a golden age of peace and prosperity. Others argue that Jews and Christians were 'protected' only from extermination and were never anything but second-class.

Muslims took control of the Middle East through [jihad ­ religious wars of conquest. The indigenous Christians and Jews were spared conversion and death if they abided by certain terms of a dhimma agreement. They had to pay a special tax, the jizya, cede the centre of the road to Muslims, ride only donkeys, not horses. They could not build a synagogue taller than a mosque, could not testify against Muslims in court, could not bear arms, and had to wear distinctive clothing. In short, their status was one of institutionalized inferiority and humiliation."

A more complex answer, but nonetheless.

http://zionism-israel.com/israel_news/2010/01/arab-jewish-relations-under-islamic.html

ernie footbru, what is the logic in going over colonial history. If we do that we might as well be honest and say that the British ought to have stayed in Africa for another hundred years to give the locals a better chance of becoming civilised.
What we've got is Israel, a functioning democracy and successful economy, in the midst of a sea of hatred, typical Arab irrationality or even in-bred lunacy if you will, trying to survive a never-ending war of terror. Remember they never attacked their neighbours, they have always been the attackees.
And then we've got these shining lights of the future - the Greens - who, contrary to what mozzaok says, have enough anti-semite sentiment among them that at least two of their species have wormed their way to the top as candidates to espouse views of which Josef Goebbels would be proud.

Well you have no argument from me on your last statement.