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Re: A question of remembrance...
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Sat, 5 May 2001 12:57:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Daniel Jassim writes:
> Simple question: Why do you take the side of the oppressor? Divorce that
> from the context too.
Three part answer:
- I'm not taking sides when I say one side is worse than the other... we are
talking shades of black, after all, not black vs. white.
- Oppressor is such a loaded word, really. You haven't demonstrated that
either side in this instance is an "oppressor" to my satisfaction.
"oppressor" requires an egregious preponderance of firepower against an
essentially unarmed foe.
- That said, I don't ever *intend* to take the side of an oppressor. You
won't hear me rooting for Stalin against the kulaks, for example.
I'm not as interested in this particular question (of who is right or wrong
in the mideast) as I am in the questions of what terrorism is, what can be
done about it, and if it is ever legitimate to initiate the use of force.
++Lar
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Then, my friend, you are chosing the PLO to be the "far worse" shade when, factually and morally, it is totally opposite. Stop lumping things together and believing the Zionist propaganda about the Intifadah (the uprising of Palistinian (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Wrong: (URL)- That said, I don't ever *intend* to take the side of an oppressor. You (...) Others are. As I understand it, a report is about to be published which will lay much of the blame on Israel: Report condemns Israeli expansion (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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