|
|
| Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won (1437972) | |
 |
|
| Home > OTChat | |
[ Post a New Response | Return to the Index ]
|
Page 10 of 20 |
||
|
| (1636589) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jul 2 06:33:11 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 06:20:51 2019. It wasn't formed for the blacks, it wasn't formed for the Indians, it wasn't formed for anyone else except for those who war in their Social Circle,I.E. other people of British stock. Now yes, there were Irish, Dutch, Jewish, German, and other Europeans who were scattered about here and there at the time, but they were on the periphery. |
|
|
| (1636590) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by TRAIN DUDE on Tue Jul 2 06:33:26 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 2 06:29:01 2019. But you live in a state that had slaves through the 1840s. Why don't you move to Vermont? |
|
|
| (1636591) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jul 2 06:34:19 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by TRAIN DUDE on Tue Jul 2 06:28:32 2019. It was a toy gun, unbeknownst to the cops and unbeknownst to the people who had it pointed at them |
|
|
| (1636592) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by AlM on Tue Jul 2 06:34:20 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 2 06:29:01 2019. But if the Brits hadn't been distracted by rebellious activity in the south, they would have clobbered the north. There wouldn't have been an independent country over here for many more years. Probably, because of the vastly larger size of the colonies, the British North America Act would have been passed sooner than 1867, but not in the 18th century. |
|
|
| (1636595) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by TRAIN DUDE on Tue Jul 2 06:38:02 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jul 2 06:34:19 2019. Well then in the dark, SP should understand, that a toy gun looks like a real gun or maybe a real gun might look like a toy. How would a cop know? |
|
|
| (1636597) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by cortelyounext on Tue Jul 2 06:46:56 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 2 06:26:36 2019. I have already stated unequivocally that I lost this thread so this is sort of like those stupid quote unquote friendly tilts in s-ccer; that is, it is meaningless and counts for absolutely nothing but here goes:One thing I do not lose sight of is the fact that all of us are influenced by behavioral genetics and our environment. It is always easier to sit here on our throne and question the motives and morality of those from an earlier time. I have given thought to what if I lived in Nazi Germany? Is it remotely possible I might have been mesmerized and swept up by Hitler's soaring rhetoric, whether his economic message or political angle or ideological bent? Would I have reacted as a card carrying member or been enlightened enough to see through it to the evil undercurrents? It is an admittedly poor analogy but when a pilot is involved in an incident or tragic accident I hesitate to join in the chorus of those who engage in criticizing without having been in that environment. What appears to be clear to the uninformed is often not the case. Go through the stress and rigor of a Maneuvers Validation or LOE and then we can talk; at least, that's what the pilots tell me. |
|
|
| (1636598) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Mtk52983 on Tue Jul 2 06:49:29 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by AlM on Tue Jul 2 06:34:20 2019. Not to mention loyalist Southerners would have helped British surround the northern colonies. They would have been fighting Revolutionary War and Civil War all in one. |
|
|
| (1636599) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 2 06:53:11 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by BILLBKLYN on Mon Jul 1 22:03:22 2019. "In bourgeois society … the past controls the present; in communist society, the present controls the past."That's an actual quote from the Communist Manifesto's second chapter. Orwell was not the originator of the idea of erasing history; Marx thought it up long before. And today, thanks to people who think in Marx's fashion but with some variation, slavery is more prevalent than at any other time in human history; we're the last bulwark against it. |
|
|
| (1636600) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 06:56:10 2019, in response to Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by DAnD124 on Mon Jul 1 18:30:52 2019. This is one the most stupidest, most ignorant things I have heard of in my life. Fuck nike, fuck that racist semi colin kaepernick, and fuck anyone else who agrees with this anti American decision.Not a damn thing wrong with this flag. |
|
|
| (1636601) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 2 06:57:50 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jul 2 06:33:11 2019. "We hold these truths to be Self-evident, that all men are created equal"Where in that passage does it specify Brits only? |
|
|
| (1636603) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by cortelyounext on Tue Jul 2 06:58:31 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 06:56:10 2019. Semi colin? That's pretty good. |
|
|
| (1636604) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by AlM on Tue Jul 2 07:04:58 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 2 06:53:11 2019. Yep. Those poor Europeans subject to social democracy are as much slaves as blacks working on the plantations in the 18th century, right?Or let's pick a more unpleasant country. Would you rather be a factory worker in Vietnam today, for all its misery, or a slave on an 18th century plantation in Barbados? |
|
|
| (1636605) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by cortelyounext on Tue Jul 2 07:08:45 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by cortelyounext on Tue Jul 2 06:58:31 2019. If memory serves, my only wins on this board in recent memory were threads about sports and lawnmower engines. That is pretty much it. I am not too bright but there is nothing I can do about that now. Even if graded on a curve, I'd still lose. The breadth and depth of knowledge I see here is frightening. |
|
|
| (1636606) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 07:12:30 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 2 06:29:01 2019. LOL! |
|
|
| (1636608) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 07:14:14 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by TRAIN DUDE on Tue Jul 2 06:18:03 2019. Toy gun is not a gun. |
|
|
| (1636609) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 07:14:45 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jul 2 06:33:11 2019. The first Speaker of the House was not British. |
|
|
| (1636612) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:18:49 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by cortelyounext on Tue Jul 2 07:08:45 2019. For the umpteenth time, I am not here to win or lose anything. I am here to vent and have fun. |
|
|
| (1636613) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:19:27 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by LuchAAA on Mon Jul 1 22:31:38 2019. Me too. |
|
|
| (1636614) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:20:15 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 2 04:49:35 2019. False narrative. |
|
|
| (1636615) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:21:24 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by TRAIN DUDE on Tue Jul 2 04:59:28 2019. And that's one of the nicer things to call him. |
|
|
| (1636616) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:22:13 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 2 06:08:49 2019. Who's Becky? |
|
|
| (1636617) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 2 07:23:35 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:22:13 2019. Becky is "white female". |
|
|
| (1636618) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:25:05 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 2 05:15:25 2019. I had people like you in mind when I made this post. |
|
|
| (1636621) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:26:55 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by cortelyounext on Tue Jul 2 05:34:33 2019. There is no such thing as "plight of the Palestinians". As a matter of fact, there is no such people called palestinians. |
|
|
| (1636625) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by TRAIN DUDE on Tue Jul 2 07:29:12 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 06:56:10 2019. ISAWTP |
|
|
| (1636626) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:29:14 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 2 05:58:01 2019. WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU STILL LIVING IN THIS COUNTRY IF YOU HATE IT SO MUCH? |
|
|
| (1636628) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 07:30:00 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 2 06:26:36 2019. This is naďve bullshit. The south (besides some Virginians) was generally lukewarm to the idea of independence and would have remained loyalist before abandoning slavery.Independence wasn’t as popular as you think it was. Despite their lukewarm support for independence, the South fought for its independence thanks to the compromise you decry and without their support, independence would have been dead. |
|
|
| (1636629) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:31:03 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jul 2 06:19:13 2019. |
|
|
| (1636630) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:31:50 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jul 2 06:18:05 2019. iawtlp |
|
|
| (1636631) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:32:04 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 06:20:51 2019. BULLSHIT |
|
|
| (1636632) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with ‘Betsy Ross’ American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 2 07:33:30 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 06:56:10 2019. I heard way back in the 90s that it cost Nike a mere $7 per pair to make their sneakers that they sell for hundreds of dollars. Even with transportation costs factored in, that's still way, way over 1,000% profit, perhaps in the 1,300% range. |
|
|
| (1636633) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by TRAIN DUDE on Tue Jul 2 07:33:51 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 07:14:14 2019. Non-sense. A pellet gun can injure.i can put a 4" framing nail through the thickest skull with my nail gun and burn a person severelyri withy glue gun. In the dark a water pistol will look as real as a Baretta. |
|
|
| (1636635) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by TRAIN DUDE on Tue Jul 2 07:34:35 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 07:14:14 2019. Non-sense. A pellet gun can injure.i can put a 4" framing nail through the thickest skull with my nail gun and burn a person severely with glue gun. In the dark a water pistol will look as real as a Baretta. |
|
|
| (1636636) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with ‘Betsy Ross’ American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 07:35:53 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with ‘Betsy Ross’ American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 2 07:33:30 2019. So? |
|
|
| (1636637) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 2 07:36:54 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 2 07:23:35 2019. Actually, a generic term for anyone who calls the police on people of color engaged on ordinary, everyday activities. |
|
|
| (1636638) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 07:36:56 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 06:56:10 2019. I used to look at Kaepernick’s protest with sympathy, and thought that those who opposed it were overly concerned with propriety and honoring symbols over people. Not anymore.What a fucking shithead. |
|
|
| (1636639) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 07:37:12 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:26:55 2019. IAWTP |
|
|
| (1636640) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by TRAIN DUDE on Tue Jul 2 07:41:40 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:29:14 2019. Because if he was in any other country, they could tell him that "if you don't like it here, leave." |
|
|
| (1636641) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 07:42:24 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by TRAIN DUDE on Tue Jul 2 07:33:51 2019. He wasn’t carrying any of those things. |
|
|
| (1636642) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:42:37 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 07:36:56 2019. You agreed with his kneeling during the national anthem? |
|
|
| (1636643) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 2 07:42:38 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 2 07:36:54 2019. No. Black men might say "don't date a Becky".Like "Chad or Tyrone" as masculine men Becky is generic white female. There are a lot if Becky's in Williamsburg. |
|
|
| (1636644) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 07:43:00 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by Chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:42:37 2019. I didn’t but I supported his right to do it. |
|
|
| (1636645) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:43:28 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 07:37:12 2019. Well Thank you! |
|
|
| (1636646) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with ‘Betsy Ross’ American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 2 07:43:30 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by TRAIN DUDE on Tue Jul 2 07:41:40 2019. The way things are going, any other country he wouldn't be safe in. Particularly those countries he's ideologically aligned with. |
|
|
| (1636647) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with ‘Betsy Ross’ American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 2 07:44:46 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by Chicagomotorman on Tue Jul 2 07:42:37 2019. Anyone who does is as dumb as Krappydick is, since he knelt over a complete lie on top of disrespecting the Anthem. |
|
|
| (1636648) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with ‘Betsy Ross’ American flag Re: This is why Trump will win again |
|
|
Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 2 07:46:20 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 2 07:42:38 2019. Off your meds again today?Surprised you didn't link "Becky" to evangelicals since it's short for Rebecca, another Hebrew-derived name (from Rivkah). |
|
|
| (1636649) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with ‘Betsy Ross’ American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 07:49:00 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with ‘Betsy Ross’ American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 2 07:44:46 2019. See? Your only argument is “disrespect” over a symbol. Fuck that. |
|
|
| (1636651) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 2 07:49:54 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 07:37:12 2019. "Palestine" and "Palestinians" have a long histiory, for things ad people that "don't exist".History Learning Site "Palestine is the name (first referred to by the Ancient Greeks) of an area in the Middle East situated between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Palestine was absorbed into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 and remained under the rule of the Turks until World War One. Towards the end of this war, the Turks were defeated by the British forces led by General Allenby. In the peace talks that followed the end of the war, parts of the Ottoman Empire were handed over to the French to control and parts were handed over to the British – including Palestine. Britain governed this area under a League of Nations mandate from 1920 to 1948. To the Arab population who lived there, it was their homeland and had been promised to them by the Allies for help in defeating the Turks by the McMahon Agreement – though the British claimed the agreement gave no such promise. The same area of land had also been promised to the Jews (as they had interpreted it) in the Balfour Declaration and after 1920, many Jews migrated to the area and lived with the far more numerous Arabs there. At this time, the area was ruled by the British and both Arabs and Jews appeared to live together in some form of harmony in the sense that both tolerated then existence of the other. There were problems in 1921 but between that year and 1928/29, the situation stabilised. The main problem after the war for Palestine was perceived beliefs. The Arabs had joined the Allies to fight the Turks during the war and convinced themselves that they were due to be given what they believed was their land once the war was over. Clashing with this was the belief among all Jews that the Balfour Declaration had promised them the same piece of territory. In August 1929, relations between the Jews and Arabs in Palestine broke down. The focal point of this discontent was Jerusalem. The primary cause of trouble was the increased influx of Jews who had emigrated to Palestine. The number of Jews in the region had doubled in ten years. The city of Jerusalem also had major religious significance for both Arabs and Jews and over 200 deaths occurred in just four days in August (23rd to the 26th). Arab nationalism was whipped up by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haji Amin al-Husseini. He claimed that the number of Jews threatened the very lifestyle of the Arabs in Palestine. The violence that occurred in August 1929 did not deter Jews from going to Palestine. In 1931, 4,075 Jews emigrated to the region. In 1935, it was 61,854. The Mufti estimated that by the 1940’s there would be more Jews in Palestine than Arabs and that their power in the area would be extinguished on a simple numerical basis. In May 1936, more violence occurred and the British had to restore law and order using the military. Thirty four soldiers were killed in the process. The violence did not stop. In fact, it became worse after November 1937. For the Arabs there were two enemies – the Jews and the British authorities based in Palestine via their League mandate. For the Jews there were also two enemies – the Arabs and the British. Therefore, the British were pushed into the middle of a conflict they had seemingly little control over as the two other sides involved were so driven by their own beliefs. In an effort to end the violence, the British put a quota on the number of Jews who could enter Palestine in any one year. They hoped to appease the Arabs in the region but also keep on side with the Jews by recognising that Jews could enter Palestine – but in restricted numbers. They failed on both counts. Both the Jews and the Arabs continued to attack the British. The Arabs attacked because they believed that the British had failed to keep their word after 1918 and because they believed that the British were not keeping the quotas agreed to as they did little to stop illegal landings into Palestine made by the Jews. The Jews attacked the British authorities in Palestine simply because of the quota which they believed was grossly unfair. The British had also imposed restrictions on the amount of land Jews could buy in Palestine. An uneasy truce occurred during the war when hostilities seemed to cease. This truce, however, was only temporary. Many Jews had fought for the Allies during World War Two and had developed their military skills as a result. After the war ended in 1945, these skills were used in acts of terrorism. The new Labour Government of Britain had given the Jews hope that they would be given more rights in the area. Also in the aftermath of the Holocaust in Europe, many throughout the world were sympathetic to the plight of the Jews at the expense of the Arabs in Palestine. However, neither group got what they were looking for. The British still controlled Palestine. As a result, the Jews used terrorist tactics to push their claim for the area. Groups such as the Stern Gang and Irgun Zvai Leumi attacked the British that culminated in the destruction of the British military headquarters in Palestine – the King David Hotel. Seemingly unable to influence events in Palestine, the British looked for a way out. In 1947, the newly formed United Nations accepted the idea to partition Palestine into a zone for the Jews (Israel) and a zone for the Arabs (Palestine). With this United Nations proposal, the British withdrew from the region on May 14th 1948. Almost immediately, Israel was attacked by Arab nations that surrounded in a war that lasted from May 1948 to January 1949. Palestinian Arabs refused to recognise Israel and it became the turn of the Israeli government itself to suffer from terrorist attacks when fedayeen (fanatics) from the Palestinian Arabs community attacked Israel. Such attacks later became more organised with the creation of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO). To the Palestinian Arabs, the area the Jews call Israel, will always be Palestine. To the Jews it is Israel. There have been very few years of peace in the region since 1948." |
|
|
| (1636652) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won |
|
|
Posted by SLRT on Tue Jul 2 07:51:26 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 2 07:36:56 2019. Kappy gets free publicity and it's Nike that looks like a--holes. |
|
|
| (1636653) | |
Re: Nike pulls sneakers with ‘Betsy Ross’ American flag Re: This is why Trump will win again |
|
|
Posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 2 07:51:55 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with ‘Betsy Ross’ American flag Re: This is why Trump will win again, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 2 07:46:20 2019. In the blacksphere they are not referring to religion.But considering how many blacks live in the South and how popular the name is with Evangelicals it makes sense so kudos to you seeing the connection. |
|
|
|
Page 10 of 20 |
||