Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]pelsar
(12,283 posts)that your a religious type belief, that has a very limited ability to even explore different options that may disagree with your basic beliefs and zero tolerance for those who are democratic to disagree with you and while looking down upon the Palestinians as helpless victims that are not really responsible for their actions (in general).
i'm not saying you have to endorse oppression, we're just exploring the ones you do, indirectly and the ones you don't...the differences being interesting.
As far as the IDF being holier than any other army..hardly, nor is that my claim.
Criticize israeli policies, its generals, its people all you want, thats what freedom of speech is all about and celebrate it.
but as long as you make foolish and naive statements that you can't back up, i will comment. I think you should stay, but try to back them up with more than just the standard list of "i don't like violence, therefor my opinion is valid and all of the others are wrong.
I realize this is really hard for you, and i wonder if ever in your life you've had your values questioned. This is my world, where values have actual repercussions..if you want to join the I/P conflict then i think its reasonable to be prepared to backup and fight for your values......
but opinions like yours do actually do harm. It inspires naive people like corrie to go to low level war zones where they have little understanding of what is going on..... not to mention supporting directly/indirectly a dictatorship