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2007-07-03 Africa Subsaharan

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Posted by lotp 2007-07-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Israel has had a good relationship with Kenya for a long time. Entebbe rescue, and all that.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2007-07-03 10:36|| 2007-07-03 10:36|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd like to train w/the Israelis. They don't b.s. around. I did not know their S&R prestige was so profound. Interesting. Maybe if they work w/some african mil's it would be some good bridge building - who knows.

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-07-03 19:52|| 2007-07-03 19:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Unfortunately, all the good work that the Israelis have done in Africa is for naught : all it takes is an Idi Amin to ruin everything, and Africa is replete with his kind. The Israelis did all sorts of humanitarian aid programs in Africa in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s - all it got them were Israelis with tropical diseases, and terrorist operations permitted and/or actively supported by the African countries. Entebbe is a prime example of that : the Israelis had built the freaking airport as a friendship gift and then Idi Amin let the highjackers takeover the airport, WITH Ugandan Army units as their protectors.
Most of Africa is a black hole, sucking down to perdition everything including light.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-07-03 20:55|| 2007-07-03 20:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Shieldwolf, I notice something wierd like that in the U.S. as well. American Jews seem to really be supporters of black Americans yet it seems to me that the black community as a whole is always suspicious of the jewish community in our country. Just my observation.

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-07-03 22:20|| 2007-07-03 22:20|| Front Page Top

#5 BH6, its been my observation that the black community is suspicious of everybody. Probably with good reason. As for the Jews, its just about a given that anybody they are nice to us going to crap on them the first chance they get.

There's something magic about that faith. If I was getting dumped on by everybody, everywhere in the world, all the time throughout all history, I would be trying to kill everything that lives. Yet somehow, they just keep living life they way it should. I don't know man, maybe there's something to being Gods chosen people.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-07-03 22:33|| 2007-07-03 22:33|| Front Page Top

#6 We don't look on it as God having chosen us, Mike N, but us happening to be the first to choose God. No special privileges for that, nor should there be.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-03 22:50|| 2007-07-03 22:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, whatever. I just know their capacity for tolerance is superhuman compared to other religions.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-07-03 22:56|| 2007-07-03 22:56|| Front Page Top

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