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Define "destruction" as you are using it. Do you mean they wish to see the land scorched and burnt? Or do you mean they wish to see the land where the state of "Israel" now is become some other state? What do you mean?
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again, being disingenuous. destruction means the destruction of the israeli state. among this would include the unraveling of the current israeli demographics.
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By "destruction" you mean a dramatic alteration of its demographics? Why do you reject the right of people forcibly expelled from their homeland to return to it? If someone kicked you out of your house, would you have no right to ever return to it and reclaim what is yours?
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and this is where we end the debate. you are being intellectually dishonest here. in any scenario where the right of return is part of this "two-state solution", you are in effect destroying the israeli state in return for a larger palestinian state. there IS no two-state solution in this scenario, in other words. you can talk as long as you want about forcible expulsion, and trading one forcible expulsion for another; however, if you want to be honest, just say that you support the destruction of israel and the creation of a palestinian state in its turn.
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Again, it's the pirate and the emperor. Suicide bombings are horrendous crimes, but they pale in comparison with the crimes commited by Israel. A simple look at the number of Palestinians murdered compared with the number of Israelis murdered is enough to demonstrate that point. Take the violence this summer, from the end of June through September. 43 Israeli civilians had been killed. The number of Lebanese civilians killed (not including Palestinians) was over 1000. That's around 23 murdered Lebanese for every murdered Israeli.
It's the pirate and the emperor. The pirates crimes a real, and they are horrible. But they pale in comparison with the emperor's.
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your simple look is indeed just that. the US firebombed hundreds of thousands of japanese civilians, murdered them if you will, during WWII; japan, perhaps in the hundreds (pearl harbor, american expats). hell, that's not 23:1, that's probably on the order of 500:1, if not more.
but you would be amoral idiot, at best, if you used that as a basis for comparison between right and wrong.
one looks at the goals; israeli deterrence (for the most part) vs palestinian coercion (for the most part). the palestinians use terror, and not much else, to achieve their goals. rest assured that if israel was on the same moral plane, and did the same, the palestinians would be far, far worse off than they are today.