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Thread #121678   Message #2660350
Posted By: CarolC
19-Jun-09 - 02:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Operation Cast Lead Explained
Subject: RE: BS: Operation Cast Lead Explained
I only made that comment because of something that was said in another thread about how the behavior of rabbis like this one, and behavior like this is universally condemned in the Jewish world. But I see no condemnation of that kind of behavior in this thread, nor did I see it in the other thread.

I also did not see any condemnation of the behavior of the group of people in the second link above among any members of the Jewish community anywhere. I only saw people making excuses for their behavior by saying they were drunk. Personally, I don't think drunkenness for these young people is any more of an excuse for their behavior than Mel Gibson's was an excuse for his. In fact, the very same person who was excusing the behavior of the people in my link above, in response to Mel Gibson's behavior, expressed the belief that being drunk merely has the effect of causing people to lose their inhibition against freely expressing thoughts that they would not express while sober because it would get them into trouble. So clearly, that person doesn't really believe that the drunken state of the people in my link above would cause them to express any thoughts or ideas that weren't already in their heads.