[ftqwhbvxlcfop]

Israel is gonna make it rain

[leyliana]

I am reminded of King Canute yelling at the waves.

[WhonyGataxott]

If the Arabs are going to demand money for Arab refugees from 60 years ago why shouldn't Israel demand money for Jewish refugees from 60 years ago? Turn around is fair play.

"turn around is fair play"?

Someone tell me this is an Oerdinism and not another bastardized phrase the Americans butchered ("I could care less!").

[GZFL2tDA]

WTF? "Turn around is fair play" is a common phrase. Just Google it.

[grosqueneen]

WTF? "Turn around is fair play" is a common phrase. Just Google it.

The correct phrase is "turn about is fair play". "Turn around" is a queer bastardization, probably from ignorant Americans.

[NEronchik]

It doesn't alter the meaning of the phrase, so who cares?

[Obenuearema]

Yeah, because anyone who chooses a different phrase from Asher is wrong even though the phrase is correct and common usage.

Your Oerdinism is neither correct nor in common usage. Asher...

[Wahwlsnt]

The correct phrase is "turn about is fair play". "Turn around" is a queer bastardization, probably from ignorant Americans.

Its not my fault. I also know that it's I couldn't care less.

[Fluivelip]

You must have some of the English language's **** on your dick given the way you've been raping it.

[GreesyBeeva]

No, it isn't. Please stop trying to defend your idiotic linguistic errors by falsely claiming that they're in common use. You're making all Americans look like morons when it's really just you.

[VYholden]

"Turn around is fair play" has about 312,000 results on Google.
"Turnabout is fair play" has over a million results.

[blogwado]

"Turn around is fair play" has about 312,000 results on Google.
"Turnabout is fair play" has over a million results.

Still pretty common.

[tramdoctorsss]

We need to promote a new idiomatic expression: "Oerdin is always wrong"

[gWhya5ct]

Dude, there is pages of "turn around is fair play".

*are pages
(also technically the period is supposed to be inside the quotes, but that's pretty trivial)

[SpeavaJap]

IIRC in 1941 Baghdad was under British rule and Libya was under Italian rule. If Libyan Jews were sent to Bergen Belsen they were probably sent there by Italy's WW2 ally, guess who? It should also be mentioned that from 1948 onward Israel has spent a fair amount of money aimed at presuading Jewish people around the world to immigrate to Israel.

[GOLAGLULT]

oops

[MasTaBlau]

This also explains the complete dearth of Jews in the United States.

Dearth?

So you're placing the blame of the holocaust squarely on the shoulders of the Danes, Norwegians, Belgians, French, Italians, Poles, Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Czecks, Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Yugoslavians and Greeks?

There were Holocaust collaborators throughout Europe.

[Nfxutkpa]

So you're placing the blame of the holocaust squarely on the shoulders of the Danes, Norwegians, Belgians, French, Italians, Poles, Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Czecks, Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Yugoslavians and Greeks?

Yes. Of these groups it is fair to say that in some cases, entire societies participated in the extermination of the Jews. You've named a lot, but to give some examples--
Vichy France and its supporters were complicit in the Holocaust.
Polish society--most of it, with the exception of *some parts* of the Polish resistance, were complicit. In Poland one could witness the spectacle of Polish children fingering Jews out.
Lithuanians. They had their own SS unit. Need I say more?
Ukranians. SS unit again. One acecdote says it all--You'll see memorials for Soviet forces, Nazis and Ukrainians in Ukraine, but (until recently, thanks to an English or Irish Catholic priest whose name I forget) you won't see any for dead Jews. Better to airbrush them out of history as the Germans wanted.
Italians. Again, pro-Mussolini means pro-extermination.
The Danes were quite protective of their Jewish population and, as a society, did their best to save the Jews from extermination. Most Danish Jews survived the war.

I don't know about the others offhand.

[Grewlybreekly]

There are currently 5 million Palestinians living in exile abroad and a further 2 million internally displaced living in the occupied territories, so if the Arab world owes Israel $300 billion to compensate for 800,000 Sepohardic Jews, then Israel owes these displaced Palestinians around $2.6 trillion.

If you read the OP, you'll see that the UNRWA uses a different definition of refugee for the Arabs than it does for the Jews. If they used the actual definition of refugee instead of their bullshit propaganda definition, there'd be a lot less than 7 million Arabs who qualify. Also, the compensation is for assets, not human beings. If the Palestinians didn't have 2.6 trillion in assets, then why should they be compensated?

Finally the only reason there are any Palestinian refugees is because Arab countries started a war with Israel. Let the Arabs pay the cost of their aggression.

[deandrecooke]

Sorry Oerdin, but you are wrong. The proper phrase is "reach around is foreplay."