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Thread #153638   Message #3649627
Posted By: Steve Shaw
09-Aug-14 - 11:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: BDS of Israel 'Gathering Weight.'
Subject: RE: BS: BDS of Israel 'Gathering Weight.'
So you are not one of those who blame Israel for what Arab militia did at Sabra Shatila, or US for the hundreds of thousands of killings in post invasion Iraq.

You may not have noticed that I am not "blaming". I am stating a very plain fact that many people, including you, want to deny. That if you fire a weapon, and it kills someone, it is you who did the killing. I've been very consistent in saying that and it has nothing to do with blame. You had a choice as to whether you fired that weapon. Blaming is a separate issue. Perhaps you fired because your family would otherwise have been immediately murdered (which actually happened to a number of families in Gaza, in case you hadn't noticed) if you hadn't. No-one would blame you for doing that. But there have been no such circumstances facing Israelis in this conflict. Every shell, bullet or bomb sent by the IDF that killed innocent civilians in Gaza was deliberately fired by an Israeli person who fired blind with little or no regard for the consequences. Yes that's what Hamas does as well. That is a bad thing. You will agree with that. But you are utterly blind as to the out-of-control disproportionality of Israel's response. Firing shells blind into a heavily-populated civilian area in no better than firing rockets into towns in Israel. That is because you are a racist Islamophobe. By the way, no-one has gunned down any Israeli family from behind their own kids. Yet you accuse people here of making stuff up all the time.