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In reply to the discussion: WATCH: IDF Soldier Screams At Israeli Activists: 'You Are Worse Than The Arabs' [View all]pelsar
(12,283 posts)85. i just care about factual reporting....
Facts are slippery things. I don't believe there is anything patently false in what I've said, although I can certainly see how interpretations can differ.
actually facts are not slippery..its the interpretations that are..when facts are ignored.
Quite frankly I doubt, there's going to be any meeting of the minds between you and I. And I'm probably going to really piss you off with the following observations.
no, ignorance really doesn't piss me off...willful ignorance bewilders me
I dont understand making up facts, pretending they exist, to support an opinion that requires lies......
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two examples of your false information, i guess (you tell me) in an attempt to demonize israel, why else write it?
any particular reason you feel its necessary to demonize a whole country? or at least a citizens army?
1) Raze entire neighbourhoods in retaliation for a scorched stoop?
2) Lash back with precision munitions against glorified bottle rockets
well, which "entire neighborhoods were razed in retaliation for a single bottle rocket? (the scorched scoop) or is this a "fact" that you just made up
bottle rocket are now equal to military grade grad rockets in your world?
so i assume you believe they carry the same amount of explosive and fragmentation aspects?
actually facts are not slippery..its the interpretations that are..when facts are ignored.
Quite frankly I doubt, there's going to be any meeting of the minds between you and I. And I'm probably going to really piss you off with the following observations.
no, ignorance really doesn't piss me off...willful ignorance bewilders me
I dont understand making up facts, pretending they exist, to support an opinion that requires lies......
_____
two examples of your false information, i guess (you tell me) in an attempt to demonize israel, why else write it?
any particular reason you feel its necessary to demonize a whole country? or at least a citizens army?
1) Raze entire neighbourhoods in retaliation for a scorched stoop?
2) Lash back with precision munitions against glorified bottle rockets
well, which "entire neighborhoods were razed in retaliation for a single bottle rocket? (the scorched scoop) or is this a "fact" that you just made up
bottle rocket are now equal to military grade grad rockets in your world?
so i assume you believe they carry the same amount of explosive and fragmentation aspects?
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WATCH: IDF Soldier Screams At Israeli Activists: 'You Are Worse Than The Arabs' [View all]
Purveyor
Apr 2013
OP
Don't change the subject. You cheer on palestinian rock-throwing child militants.....
shira
Apr 2013
#6
Quite a bit takes place outside the territories, in Jerusalem, around the holy places....
shira
Apr 2013
#27
Throwing rocks at soldiers is fine, throwing rocks at civilians is unacceptable.
Donald Ian Rankin
Apr 2013
#10
Does the rock-throwing justify keeping Palestinians away from Palestinian-OWNED land?
Ken Burch
May 2013
#101
Perhaps some rock throwing, at some time, justifies any IDF action against Palestinians anytime?
delrem
May 2013
#102
You know perfectly well that I don't approve of any of the things you listed there.
Ken Burch
May 2013
#122
The problem is, you see YOUR belief(that is, defense of the "lesser evil" by any means necessary)
Ken Burch
May 2013
#135
The statement is double talk as the British Palestine mandate included all of the West Bank
azurnoir
Apr 2013
#76
i don't have the money to buy a book to get basic information about everything i'm interested
HiPointDem
Apr 2013
#67
Aww, what's the matter? Are you sad no one here wants to play your bullcrap game?
shira
Apr 2013
#25
I think you're a provocateur, and that you are everything the IDF soldier represents in this video.
delrem
May 2013
#103
It's your nature to be an internet coward, always deflecting. So I don't blame you. n/t
delrem
Apr 2013
#14
play? what kind of a retrograde are you? The OP has nothing to do with rock throwing. nt
delrem
Apr 2013
#45
If there is a war going on, and enemy soldiers arrived near my house, armed up.
bravenak
Apr 2013
#32