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Iran behind attacks on Israeli diplomats

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  • #2
    Attabear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭Attabear


    wendell borton wrote: »
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/15/thai-bombers-india-terror-attacks

    What no moral outrage from the PC brigade?

    This will not end well.


  • #3
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    The PC Brigade have quietened down a bit since it was discovered they don't exist and are simply a construct of people's imagination.


  • #4
    fedor.2.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭fedor.2.


    I think we all agree that Iran needs to be taught a lesson once and for all


  • #5
    Otacon
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    wendell borton wrote: »
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/15/thai-bombers-india-terror-attacks

    What no moral outrage from the PC brigade?

    Not that I have any love for Iran but the article just mentions accusations, no proof... :confused: Unless you have some yourself?


  • #6
    grenache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    fedor.2. wrote: »
    I think we all agree that Israel needs to be thought a lesson once and for all
    FYP.


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  • #7
    Ellis Dee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,510 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    The zionazi terrorists can't really expect to murder scientists in Iran without someone hitting back at them.:):):)


  • #8
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Already being discussed in CT. :p

    Also here.

    http://www.presstv.ir/detail/226741.html


  • #9
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    wendell borton wrote: »
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/15/thai-bombers-india-terror-attacks

    What no moral outrage from the PC brigade?

    The PC brigade are all using Macs now.


  • #10
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Love this....
    Shoham said. "They are similar to the ones used in Delhi and in Tbilisi," he said. "From that we can assume that there is the same network of terror."

    Network of terror? Laughable really, especially when you consider all the Iranian scientists Mossad have been blowing up. It was only a matter of time that the favour would be returned. Assuming it is the Iranians of course.


  • #11
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Already being discussed in CT. :p

    Also here.

    http://www.presstv.ir/detail/226741.html

    They just seem to regurgitate whatever iranian propaganda press tv spew.


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  • #12
    CardBordWindow
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    Just the start of an excuse for another US-led invasion.


  • #13
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    wendell borton wrote: »
    They just seem to regurgitate whatever iranian propaganda press tv spew.
    Just like this :)


  • #14
    Sergeant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Just like this :)

    That guy hasn't a leg to stand on.


  • #15
    AeoNGriM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭AeoNGriM


    fedor.2. wrote: »
    I think we all agree that Iran needs to be thought a lesson once and for all

    The ironing is deelishus.


  • #16
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    wendell borton wrote: »
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/15/thai-bombers-india-terror-attacks

    What no moral outrage from the PC brigade?

    Congrats on starting a thread with a nice catchy title that you can't back up with facts. :rolleyes:


  • #17
    Sergeant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Congrats on starting a thread with a nice catchy title that you can't back up with facts. :rolleyes:

    Care to enlighten us with the facts?


  • #18
    wes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭wes


    Sergeant wrote: »
    Care to enlighten us with the facts?

    The person making the accusation is the one who needs to provide the facts, not anyone else. I would also note that Iran has made similar accusations against Israel, similarly without proof, and yet those accusation are rightly ignored due to lack of evidence, but the moment Israel does the same thing, we are suppose to accept it as gospel truth? Seems to me a pretty clearl double standard by some people.


  • #19
    KeithAFC
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    Another case in the long history of the Iran mission to destroy Israel. I admire the resilience of the Israeli people to not let this vicious Iranian regime intimidate them. The fight to maintain Jewish freedom is a long struggle but one which is very important.


  • #20
    Morlar
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    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Another case in the long history of the Iran mission to destroy Israel. I admire the resilience of the Israeli people to not let this vicious Iranian regime intimidate them. The fight to maintain Jewish freedom is a long struggle but one which is very important.

    Where do the rights of the Palestinian people fit in with all this propaganda spiel ?


  • #21
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Einhard


    wes wrote: »
    The person making the accusation is the one who needs to provide the facts, not anyone else. I would also note that Iran has made similar accusations against Israel, similarly without proof, and yet those accusation are rightly ignored due to lack of evidence, but the moment Israel does the same thing, we are suppose to accept it as gospel truth? Seems to me a pretty clearl double standard by some people.

    Double standards by both sides really. When Iranian scientists are killed there are no shortage of people claiming, here and elsewhere, that Mossad were behind it. Indeed, you'll find claims to that effect on this very thread. People make claims without proof on both sides, so it's a bit rich to claim that double standards exist on one side and not the other.

    Having said all that, I think it's reasonable to suspect that this was likely an Iranian sponsered act in retaliation for what were most likely Israeli sponsored attack on Iranian scientists. Both should be condemned. The problem is that one side will condemn Iran exclusively, the other Israel, and both will complain of double standards!


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  • #22
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    wendell borton wrote: »
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/15/thai-bombers-india-terror-attacks

    What no moral outrage from the PC brigade?

    You spelt "fire" wrong.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #23
    Einhard
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    Ellis Dee wrote: »
    The zionazi terrorists can't really expect to murder scientists in Iran without someone hitting back at them.:):):)

    Jesus Christ. I can understand when people compare Israeli actions to those of terrorists, and I can understand how people could have major issues with the Israeli state, but there is really no comparison between that state and the state of Nazi Germany, and to compare the two like you do seems crass in the extreme, and designed only to provoke offence and insult.


  • #24
    Zebra3
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    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Another case in the long history of the Iran mission to destroy Israel. I admire the resilience of the Israeli people to not let this vicious Iranian regime intimidate them. The fight to maintain Jewish freedom is a long struggle but one which is very important.

    Such a pity that struggle involves the ethnic cleansing of the native population from Palestine.

    Then again, ethnic cleansing and colonialisation would be traits that you admire...


  • #25
    wes
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    Einhard wrote: »
    Double standards by both sides really. When Iranian scientists are killed there are no shortage of people claiming, here and elsewhere, that Mossad were behind it. Indeed, you'll find claims to that effect on this very thread. People make claims without proof on both sides, so it's a bit rich to claim that double standards exist on one side and not the other.

    I disagree, while there are double standards on both sides, in the case of attacks on Iran, it is imho far worse, especially in the media, where attacks on Iran are not called terrorism (Iranian scientists are described as being assasinated in the main), but if Iran is suspected, then the word terrorism is used. The general double standard against Iran is far more worse in the main stream of the West.
    Einhard wrote: »
    Having said all that, I think it's reasonable to suspect that this was likely an Iranian sponsered act in retaliation for what were most likely Israeli sponsored attack on Iranian scientists. Both should be condemned. The problem is that one side will condemn Iran exclusively, the other Israel, and both will complain of double standards!

    Yes, they are the most likely culprits, as Israel are when it comes to attacks on Iran.


  • #26
    KeithAFC
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    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Such a pity that struggle involves the ethnic cleansing of the native population from Palestine.

    Then again, ethnic cleansing and colonialisation would be traits that you admire...
    It has been discussed before but the Jewish people had been on that land first. The Jewish people would know all about being forced off land and ethnic cleansing. They want the land back and to maintain it.


  • #27
    wes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭wes


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    It has been discussed before but the Jewish people had been on that land first. The Jewish people would know all about being forced off land and ethnic cleansing. They want the land back and to maintain it.

    This gives them no right to ethnically cleanse other people living there for 1000s of year, and who themselves are descended from Jews. Changing there religion and culture over time, doesn't give anyone the right to kick them out of there homes. What Israel done, and is still doing is nothing short of simple racism, and it is appaling that anyone would defende ethnic cleansing in this day and age.


  • #28
    Batsy
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    CardBordWindow wrote: »
    Just the start of an excuse for another US-led invasion.

    Hopefully that will happen. We need the US, Britain, France and other powerful nations to take action now. Something needs to be done about Iran and its despicable regime.


  • #29
    Batsy
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    wes wrote: »
    This gives them no right to ethnically cleanse other people living there for 1000s of year, and who themselves are descended from Jews. Changing there religion and culture over time, doesn't give anyone the right to kick them out of there homes. What Israel done, and is still doing is nothing short of simple racism, and it is appaling that anyone would defende ethnic cleansing in this day and age.

    It is the JEWS who have been living in the area where Israel is for thousands of years, not the Palestinians, not the Muslims.

    It was the Jews who founded Jerusalem thousands of years before Islam was even founded. Not only that, but the ancestors of the Palestinians only arrived in the area a couple of hundred years ago.


  • #30
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Einhard


    wes wrote: »
    I disagree, while there are double standards on both sides, in the case of attacks on Iran, it is imho far worse, especially in the media, where attacks on Iran are not called terrorism (Iranian scientists are described as being assasinated in the main), but if Iran is suspected, then the word terrorism is used. The general double standard against Iran is far more worse in the main stream of the West.

    As I said, double standards on both sides. One side will go for the jugular regarding Iranian actions, the other will do likewise regarding Israeli actions.

    As an example, this is the first mention of the attacks on Israeli embassies that I've seen on boards, yet if you pop over to the politics forum, there are ample references to the assassination of Iranian scientists. Moreover, the same people who demand absolute proof for Iranian complicity have absolutely no problem discarding that requirement when it comes to assigning responsibility to Israel. it's a blatant double standard, and just because it's shared by both sides doesn't make it any less so.


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  • #31
    KeithAFC
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    Batsy wrote: »
    It is the JEWS who have been living in the area where Israel is for thousands of years, not the Palestinians, not the Muslims.

    It was the Jews who founded Jerusalem thousands of years before Islam was even founded. Not only that, but the ancestors of the Palestinians only arrived in the area a couple of hundred years ago.
    Exactly. This Palestinian cause is a weak cause because it has no solid foundations behind it.


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