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Re: A question of remembrance...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 6 May 2001 12:35:00 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Daniel Jassim writes:
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> > Simple question: Why do you take the side of the oppressor? Divorce that
> > from the context too.
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> 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.
Wrong:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=oppress*1+0
> - 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.
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> I'm not as interested in this particular question (of who is right or wrong
> in the mideast)
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
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4181455,00.html
Report criticises Israeli settlements
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1313000/1313902.stm
Have you shown us yet how the PLO are "far worse"? I think not.
Scott A
> 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.
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> ++Lar
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| (...) my satisfaction". However under yours: "to govern (people) in an unfair and cruel way and prevent them from having opportunities and freedom" I don't see that being the case with the Israeli governance. (...) Don't intend to try to convince (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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