I have never once said anything about hating the Palestinians or anyone else for that matter. Whenever I have posted something that was innacurate and it has been pointed out to me I have always tried to acknowledge that I was mistaken and have taken pains not to make the same error again.
Because I do not react to or interpret data the same way you do; because I do not agree with your conclusions; because I do not accept that the articles on which you choose to base your stance are the only truths about the current Middle-East problems, this in no way makes me a racist.
Am I a racist for pointing out that there are two sides to this conflict? Or is anyone who disagrees with your stand now a racist because, to you, all the victims are on the Palestinian side and anyone who doesn't give them blind, unstinting, and total support must be a racist?
There are victims on both sides Carol and neither side has a monopoly on suffering. You seem, as time goes on, less and less willing to accept that. You seem more and more willing to demonize and thus dehumanize the Israeli people and their supporters.
As I said in an earlier post, some of the links that you have posted have pointed me in directions that I had not considered before and I expressed my gratitude for that. I know that it must have come as a shock to you when I did not come over to your camp.
Life is that way; what you find to be compelling evidence another may dismiss as propaganda or as simply not germain. A racist, by the way, is defined as someone who belives that another race is inherently inferior. I really don't think that any of my posts have denigrated the Palestinian Arabs in that way.
I don't agree with their policies. Suicide bombing with civilians as the targets is wrong. Shooting innocent civilians is also wrong. There is much wrong on both sides.
I happen to believe that the Israelis have a right to live in peace in their country and a right to defend themselves against terrorist aggression. I also believe that sometimes they have stepped over the boundaries and come down harder than was necessary. And I have stated as much. But that doesn't mean that I am now prepared to abandon all support for Israel and support the Palestinian cause, which, according to the PLO charter and statements by Hamas and others, is nothing less than the complete destruction of that small nation and the death of her citizens. And I don't believe you want that either.
There must be two countries, side by side, living in peace, but it may take a generation or two of outside policing before the hatreds die.
This is all a bit rambling, I know, but sometimes the thoughts don't come in clear, concise sound bites.
One other thing. As you are aware, my wife is Jewish and I am not. I have, for years, studied Islam, and have seriously considered converting. Just as there are Jews who do not support the policies of the Israeli Government, so there are Muslims who do not support the Palestinian Authority or Hamas or Islamic Jihad. Just as I do not agree with you.
This does not make me a racist any more than it makes you one.

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