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Trump suggests cleaning Gaza of people

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Seems to be a lot of claims of personal attacks recently. Cynical or slightly sarcastic sounding statements aimed in a broad sense in major disagreements at a mindset are not personal attacks. It is heated at times but that is the nature of politics.
there have been a couple of direct personal attacks.
 
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Europe and Japan after ww2 also needed to be rebuilt. That did not mean emptying the landmasses

You seem to be saying that the moving of all people from Gaza would just be temporary. I did not recall Trump including that in the news. I am suspicious of a forced displacement of what Trump's son in law called waterfront property Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ would be either voluntary or temporary? Would some Gazans stay to monitor the work? Would they have the say in what sort of building went on
Yes that is correct the US helped rebuild Germany and Japan after WW2 we did not forcibly relocate people.
 
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Yes that is correct the US helped rebuild Germany and Japan after WW2 we did not forcibly relocate people.
Quite a difference from what Trump suggested yesterday! (that the US would 'own' the real estate of Gaza etc) Hard to believe a seemingly sane man would utter such cruel dictatorial insanity
 
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Quite a difference from what Trump suggested yesterday! (that the US would 'own' the real estate of Gaza etc) Hard to believe a seemingly sane man would utter such cruel dictatorial insanity
It's hard to believe BB would let him say it without at response. Hasn't Israel always wanted full control? That won't happen if they let Trump build a resort.
 
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It's hard to believe BB would let him say it without at response. Hasn't Israel always wanted full control? That won't happen if they let Trump build a resort.
If we assumed what Trump said about the US owning it, that would be right. I suppose Israel would be happy to have all Gazans expelled no matter what. I also suspect that Israel would be right in there actually owning quite a bit if it happened at all. What seems to be happening is that Trump seems to owe a debt to Israel and is paying it at the expense of US interests and credibility as well as his own.
 
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there have been a couple of direct personal attacks.
This is off-topic, and not inline with CF rules, but I believe personal attacks can be legitimate when warranted. I can attack Adolf Hitler's beliefs and actions, but it's also entirely legitimate to say Adolf Hitler was a bad man.
 
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This is off-topic, and not inline with CF rules, but I believe personal attacks can be legitimate when warranted. I can attack Adolf Hitler's beliefs and actions, but it's also entirely legitimate to say Adolf Hitler was a bad man.
Inasmuch as Hitler is not a correspondent in these forums, that would not constitute what is considered here a "personal attack" or, more precisely, "flaming."
 
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Inasmuch as Hitler is not a correspondent in these forums, that would not constitute what is considered here a "personal attack" or, more precisely, "flaming."
Wrong. The rules prohibit flaming of public figures who are not members here, which is bizarre because, how can you flame or goad someone when they're not aware of it? Although I used an example of a dead person, so I'm not sure if the rule applies to the dead.
 
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Wrong. The rules prohibit flaming of public figures who are not members here, which is bizarre because, how can you flame or goad someone when they're not aware of it? Although I used an example of a dead person, so I'm not sure if the rule applies to the dead.
I was talking about two specific posts in which persons in the conversation on this thread were flamed. So, those circumstances count, hypotheticals notwithstanding.
 
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