Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: WATCH: IDF Soldier Screams At Israeli Activists: 'You Are Worse Than The Arabs' [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)You're trying to make me make a choice that I don't HAVE to make....and you have no reason to try to make me do that, because making either of the choices you insist I choose from would mean I could never stand for anything progressive or humane or positive in ANY debate. You can't be stragegically repressive on one issue and still be civilized on any others at all.
I already proved that the options aren't limited to backing jihadis or defending the Occupation(since I proved that the Occupation does nothing to stop jihadis and can't ever make them go away). So give this a rest already.
You make it sound like the survival of your country depends on forcing me to give in and give up my humanity on this one. It doesn't. Hamas is bad and the Occupation is equally bad . The fact that the Occupation has never produced previously non-existent liberal Palestinian groups proves already that it never can. To believe otherwise is to follow the sign line of lethally false logica that causes ancient U.S. militarists, to this very day, to argue that South Vietnam would eventually have become a real democracy if only the U.S. had kept slaughtering the Vietnamese people.
The answer is to try to work for a more humane world, not settle for lesser evils. Lesser evils have already been proven to never lead to a greater good.