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]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)It's neither better nor worse than Israeli Occupation. Both are oppression and both are wrong. And the Hamas control in Gaza(which may well be transitory)is neither a step up OR a step back from the previous Occupation. The story is not over there...
I'm not obligated to choose one OR the other. Can you please just accept that fact? And then can you let this interrogation end? I feel like this is the Inquisition and you're trying to force me to recant a heresy. That's not an appropriate way to discuss things here.
And I'm not a religious zealot-I constantly examine my own beliefs on a whole range of issues. What I reject is the assumption on your part that, if only i questioned myself even more, I'd accept your analysis as absolute truth, rather than simply one person's opinion from one perspective in the conflict.
It's intellectually dishonest to keep saying, in effect(and this is what you DO effectively keep saying) that an "open-minded" person would HAVE to agree with you. To argue that is to argue that YOU are as infallible as you claim I think myself to be.
I could be wrong about everything in life. OK? I accept that. It's just that that doesn't require me to accept that your position(that the previous Occupation was the lesser evil)was right.
And with that, this whole exchange should be put to rest.