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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostI havent read the goldstone report, but I gather from the gist that it equates the Israeli activities (that include invading Lebanon) as no more morally wrong than the hezbollah or hamas bombing of Israeli civilian targets that initiated the Israeli invasion.
The fact that Israelis do not deliberatly target palestinian citizens whereas Hezbollah and Hamas do- they even hide by using their own civilians as shields-, is of no consequence in the argument.
But building bloody big walls, knicking their land, denying them economic opportunities, assassinating their leaders with no due process etc. They're not exactly innocent in all this either.
That's not to say I agree with the Palestinian approach of bombs and rockets etc (Seems kind of counter productive to me) but ask yourself - what would you do in their shoes?
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Originally posted by TinTrump View PostIts clear where you stand. Fair enough. But the peace process there requires an honest broker, which I don't think Blair is. And as for who Israel targets:-
"The report concludes that the Israeli military operation was directed at the people of Gaza as a whole, in furtherance of an overall and continuing policy aimed at punishing the Gaza population, and in a deliberate policy of disproportionate force aimed at the civilian population."
Ref: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/mobile/middle_east/8257446.stm
Which was the point I was making, whether you agree with it or not. My view is that Blair's silence was morally wrong.
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostI havent read the goldstone report, but I gather from the gist that it equates the Israeli activities (that include invading Lebanon) as no more morally wrong than the hezbollah or hamas bombing of Israeli civilian targets that initiated the Israeli invasion.
To people like you there is no differential morally between the activities of either side.
"The report concludes that the Israeli military operation was directed at the people of Gaza as a whole, in furtherance of an overall and continuing policy aimed at punishing the Gaza population, and in a deliberate policy of disproportionate force aimed at the civilian population."
Ref: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/mobile/middle_east/8257446.stm
Which was the point I was making, whether you agree with it or not. My view is that Blair's silence was morally wrong.
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Originally posted by TinTrump View PostMy argument? I think I just stated it and also what the Goldstone report concluded, which you've totally ignored.
What is your opinion on this?
If you agree with that then it is therefore not unreasonable to argue that all killings however motivated are on a par morally with each other.
The fact that Israelis do not deliberatly target palestinian citizens whereas Hezbollah and Hamas do- they even hide by using their own civilians as shields-, is of no consequence in the argument. To people like you there is no differential morally between the activities of either side. Even worse for Israel is that they are if anything more in the wrong because more palestinian civilains are killed than Israelis.
The fact that Hamas and Hezbollah have openly declared that they wish to wipe Israel out, as against the different view of the Israelis - which recognises the existence of its oponents and a desire to live peacefully with them- is neither here nor there.Last edited by DodgyAgent; 21 October 2009, 14:39.
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My argument? I think I just stated it and also what the Goldstone report concluded, which you've totally ignored.
What is your opinion on this?
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Originally posted by TinTrump View PostIt did. I think Brits are more sensitive to these issues after 30+ years of exposure to terrorism. I'm not an apologist for either side.
Consider the just released Goldstone report which points to war crimes by both sides. Yet as usual Palestinian civilians suffer 10x as much. That's why Blair should have called for a halt. Or don't you agree?
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostAnd presumably it didnt really bother you that Hezbollah were raining missiles on to Israeli citizens prior to that invasion.
Consider the just released Goldstone report which points to war crimes by both sides. Yet as usual Palestinian civilians suffer 10x as much. That's why Blair should have called for a halt. Or don't you agree?
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Originally posted by NoddY View PostWhen God himself has spoken to you, such comments are water off a ducks back.
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Originally posted by TinTrump View PostQuite apart from the Iraq fiasco, his silence during Israel's 2006 invasion of Lebanon made me ashamed of my country's government.
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When God himself has spoken to you, such comments are water off a ducks back.
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Quite apart from the Iraq fiasco, his silence during Israel's 2006 invasion of Lebanon made me ashamed of my country's government.
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B'Liar has always reminded me of that scene in B5 where Vir says:
I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this.
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