07-22-2003, 08:29 PM
"The Israelis respond to terrorist attacks with military force because they have to. No self-respecting country, hell, no self-respecting HUMANS, would simply sit idly by and let their citizens be killed over, and over, and over, and over ad infinitum without doing everything possible to kill those responsible."
"If the "Palestinian" "leadership" had the least bit of interest in actually accomplishing their goals of giving their subjects a home, peace, and prosperity, they would adopt the non-violent tactics of M.Gandhi and M.L.King Jr."
Do you honestly put these two paragraphs together without noticing that they openly contradict each other? That one side, the side you support, should be given as much latitude as needed, whereas the other, the side you don't support, should forget about everything ever done to them and adopt a strict pacifist stance?
Yikes. Either both sides have the right to "defend" themselves, and this is going to continue until Israel is destroyed and the Arabs ruined, or both sides are going to learn Mr. Gandhi's lessons, and the killing might stop.
But to perscribe different remedies for the opposing sides? That's just a double standard. (Unless, of course, Palestinians aren't self-respecting humans, a contention your arguments lend support to...)
Jester
"If the "Palestinian" "leadership" had the least bit of interest in actually accomplishing their goals of giving their subjects a home, peace, and prosperity, they would adopt the non-violent tactics of M.Gandhi and M.L.King Jr."
Do you honestly put these two paragraphs together without noticing that they openly contradict each other? That one side, the side you support, should be given as much latitude as needed, whereas the other, the side you don't support, should forget about everything ever done to them and adopt a strict pacifist stance?
Yikes. Either both sides have the right to "defend" themselves, and this is going to continue until Israel is destroyed and the Arabs ruined, or both sides are going to learn Mr. Gandhi's lessons, and the killing might stop.
But to perscribe different remedies for the opposing sides? That's just a double standard. (Unless, of course, Palestinians aren't self-respecting humans, a contention your arguments lend support to...)
Jester