and we had no enemies before them, now we have no friends.

There was a terrorist attack there today and people here actually supported the terrorists and blamed Israel for the attack.

Explain to me how Israel bashing is not neo anti-Semitism wrapped up in nice policy disagreement language.

...or jingle their keys saying, "look over there!"

Although a lot of people supported the occupation. Rhetoric is just that. Plenty of American and Scottish anti English rhetoric out there. We don't take it seriously.

Real classy agenda you've got there. Or are you suggesting we shouldn't take you seriously? Poe's Law may apply, but you seem so sincere.

And my point shot over your head.

I'm talking about the anti English rhetoric on the internet that we, the English, don't take seriously.

Is there someone you could ask to explain things to you? It would save a lot of time.

Anyone who's read your posts can see that it's not true.

And test firing missiles designed to carry nuclear warheads is a real threat, the added rhetoric just clarifies the obvious intent which you seem so desperate to ignore.

But when I see someone repeatedly spamming screen after screen of absurd but hateful propaganda, I have to wonder to what extent they really mean it and to what extent they're just being deliberately disruptive. Maybe you can explain that to me.

I have better things to do than waste time on those who struggle with basic English. Nobody is supporting the terrorists, neither are they buying in to the loathsome suggestion that some deaths are more tragic than others. And that's what upsets you, the fact that thinking people reject your nonsense. Your posts are a mixture of hysteria, half truths and downright lies. Your last one being a prime example.

The important news coming out of Iran is that moderates are gaining ground, not what may have been scrawled on some test fired missile. Iran needs to be encouraged to join the international community and that's clear to anyone who can see the futility of the last thirty odd years.

I'm not going to entertain your paranoid fantasies any longer. Take your fear mongering nonsense to those who are similarly challenged. As of now you're on ignore.

I recognize your de facto admission of defeat, now go run away and hide or else I will taunt you again!!1!

(I'm tempted to make the obvious comparison to an ostrich hiding it's head in the ground, but that would be unfair to ostriches:they actually lay eggs in underground nests and look in to check on them, you just can't face up to anyone calling you out on your hateful bullshit.)

It seems likely he's trying to defend THIS: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141372444#post8

and THIS: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141372444#post57

You're deliberately misrepresenting what happened. Putting the murder of one person in the context of the greater tragedy of the occupation is supporting the terrorists. All deaths are tragedies not just the ones you care about.

Maybe you should be addressing them.

He's trying to trivialize Iran's repeated threats to destroy Israel by equating them to lingering Scottish resentment of England. Looks to me like he has personal issues with both and can't tell the difference - or thinks we're dumb enough not to.

Plus he's attacking two posters in this thread for things other people said in another thread - see post #24.

fuck you to President Obama and everyone else that thought the Iran deal would moderate their rhetoric and their actions.

Previous missiles have born the utterance from their Great Leader "Israel must vanish from the pages of history" (or was it "of time"?).

Which essentially means it has to be wiped out.

Oddly, people go completely context-blind when it's important to preserve their idee fixe. So you put that phrase on a missile, couple it with phrases that the missiles can now reach Israel, and somehow it's a peace overture.

"See, they're putting emblems of peace and love on their missiles. They love Israel."

The only danger with this report is that it'll be hard to see if the photos that will inevitably surface are of the previous missiles or the current batch.

were in Hebrew. This was reported on an Iranian news source (FARS) so nobody is mistranslating anything:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/03/09/reports-iran-fires-missiles-marked-israel-must-wiped-out/81517488/


Iran test-fired two ballistic missiles, one of them with the phrase "Israel should be wiped off the Earth" written on it in Hebrew, Iranian media reported Wednesday.

The country’s semiofficial Fars news agency said the missiles were fired at a target 870 miles away.

The deal was to keep them from getting nukes, not getting them to like Israel.

It's just the Mullahs playing to their "base".

they should not be tolerated

They very much would like to be, and make no mistake about it, the Iranians are very civilized people. But their religious dictatorship is not part of the civilized world.

weren't we assured they would moderate once the Iran deal was reached and they were free to take the money that had been frozen here in the US and give it to hezbollah?

i was trying to explain the death to israel thing and wiping out of jews from the middle east to a family friend once. She was very interested in learning about iran and felt that iran got bad press and she was being super nice to me because i guess she thought i would be supportive of the regime in iran or something but of course i hate them so it never bothers me when someone is critical of the gov there.

but anyway i was trying to tell her that irans leaders had every intention in the world if they ever got the chance to destroy israel. and she responded with no that its not true that if you listen to the original transaction its only symbolic and they only mean in a political symbolic way..

i was shocked.. i was like you know i can read and write farsi write? there is nothing symbolic about this there tone of language and how they say the words means without question they would destroy israel the first chance they got.. but the family friend was insistent that it was just a mis understanding.. i was truly shocked..