Aswad
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl I do see where you are going. I also believe we, as a country, should do something about the issue. Just as they should. A major difference being that their general population is illiterate teenagers who wouldn't know research or international politics if it bit them on the ass, which makes it a lot less reasonable to expect them to succeed, or even to see that they need to. Bit harder to deal with that for them than to deal with school shootings for the US, and the US has been unsuccessful at that so far. Overall, though, most of the missiles fired so far have constituted virtually no threat, and have resulted in 2‰ of the deaths that the IDF has inflicted in Palestine, which I agree is primarily a quantitative difference, but if we posit that the IDF is responding, then it's clearly a case of- qualitatively- a disporportionate response (and the assumption that quantitative differences themselves cannot constitute a qualitative one is fallacious in itself). I slap you. You slap me. It's all good. Eventually we lose track. We should just call it quits and screw who started it. Agreed. But if you're slapping me 500 times as often, and with a spiked glove to boot, well, there's something going on with that which kind of puts us in two different games altogether, isn't there? The Palestinians are harassing Israel, and occasionally someone dies. The Israeli are massacring Palestinians in an ethnically segregated labor camp; not quite the same thing. IWYW, — Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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