Talk:Ishval

The Quote in the Civil War section
In the United States a partial quote should be cited with three periods in front of the first word of that quote, to denote that the quote is partial and not full. In this article specifiaclly the quote "...lasted seven years, until the Führer had had enough" should have the periods in front because the full quote reads, "It escalated into a full scale civil war that lasted seven years, until the Fuhrer had had enough". Just something to think about. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:04, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Named Ishbalans
I have added a list of named Ishbalans. I might have missed some though. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.91.155.164 (talk) 05:23, 27 January 2007 (UTC).

Additional interpretations of Ishbal
I'm not a Wikipedia editor, but one thing that I found somewhat confusing was the interpretation of the Ishbal Massacre in terms of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. For one, it does not match with the WWII parallels drawn in FMA. Arabs were very much allied with Nazi Germany (in the form of Haj-Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem). On the other hand, it could be said that the Nazis' "Final Solution" was precipitated from the seed that was the assassination of vom Rath (which directly led to Kristallnacht). Alchemy was condemned as "pagan practice" in the same way prewar Haredim condemned assimilation and the "ways of the nations". There are more parallels discussed at http://www.alltrees.org/anime/killing/fma.histpar.php, but since I don't have a Wikipedia account, I'm not sure if I can edit this into the page.151.201.12.211 05:47, 27 July 2007 (UTC)