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akuma587 on 03 November 2008
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Kasz216 said:
akuma587 said:
WiiStation360 said:
This is really sad. I used to respect John McCain, and would have voted for him in 2000 or 2004. This is a made up controversy designed to detract attention from all of the real issues we are facing as a country.

War, recession, jobs, terrorism, who cares! I want to know exactly what was said at a going away party for Obama's University colleagues.

Exactly.  The average person couldn't even tell you where Israel and Palestine are on a map, or Iraq for that matter.  Hell, I can't even tell you where Israel and Palestine are on the map.

 

Dude... that's kinda sad... I mean... it's a fairly easy country to spot and pick out if you know anything about Israels history.  If you know where Egypt is... and Lebanon you know where Israel is.

Also.  Palestine isn't on maps(most anyway)... as it isn't it's own state as of yet.

They just label Gaza and the West Bank seperatly.

Which they basically are seperate now.  One run by the PA, the other Hamas.

At current they'd probably be better off with a 3 state solution, getting things with the PA done first.  Though the PA is a bit greedy and wants to kick out the demcocraticly elected Hamas.  (Once you are legitimatly put into power you aren't terrorists anymore in my opinion, but a government.  Treating Hamas like any other government would actually probably restrict them more then just ignoring them would.)

I could tell you the general area, right near Mesopotamia, but I actually know my ancient geography way better than my modern geography.  Israel is not the biggest country in the world, so it isn't the easiest to pick out.

I could have ballparked it, but I am not going to claim I could have found it on a map with any kind of certainty.  I definitely would have picked it to be further right than it actually is on the map.  I forgot it was so close to Egypt, which I guess makes sense based on all the biblical history with the Egyptians.

 



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