From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sat Aug 10 2002 - 17:07:41 MDT
On 10 Aug 2002 at 8:42, rhinoceros wrote:
>
> [Jonathan Davies]
> Dear Combatants,
>
> Regardless of exact figures of how many Palestinians have been
> butchered by their own people, some things have been firmly
> established by this thread:
>
> <snip>
>
>
> [rhinoceros]
> You haven't read much of these threads, Jonathan, have you? While a
> discussion over an exact number may appear somehow lacking merit, many
> of the general assertions you make here have already been addressed
> along the way and we already have a much more "real life" picture of
> the situation than before this discussion. For example, you say:
>
> [Jonathan]
> Show me the images of Israeli collaborators hanging from streetlights.
>
> [rhinoceros]
> If you don't spend some time to be informed of what a collaborator is
> in this context and how they come about, then it will seem perfectly
> logical to you -- by analogy -- that there should be such a thing as
> "Israeli collaboarators".
>
> If you don't spend some time to be informed of how collaborators
> affect the lives of ordinary people, then it is perfectly logical to
> assume that only psychopaths or animals would hang someone from a
> streetlight.
>
> I won't make any speculations about what kinds of solutions can be
> suggested as a result of logical thinking by analogy rather than
> informed thinking.
>
We'll see what happens to the Israelis, some of them soldiers, who were apprehended
selling ammunitition to Palestinian militants. I'll bet they don't get necklaced or hung
from streetlights.
>
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