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Thread #66010   Message #1102035
Posted By: CarolC
26-Jan-04 - 06:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: A very Arab obsession
Subject: RE: BS: A very Arab obsession
Well, Martin baby, I would submit that civilized, intelligent, and SANE people don't oppress whole populations of fairly defenseless people and deny them any sort of basic human rights. And they don't serve in state militaries that are committing crimes against humanity. And they don't commit ethnic cleansing.

And I would further submit that the sanity and intelligence of people who strive for supremacy based on ethnicity and/or religion ought to be called into question as well.

And I would submit, even further, that it's not entirely sane for people to submit willingly to being mistreated. Any member of the mental health profession can tell you that. It is a sign of sanity for people to try to escape oppression, and even for people to lay down their lives in order to promote freedom for their loved ones. People in the US military do it all the time. Fortunately for them, they have a state run military in which they can serve in order to accomplish this. The Palestinians don't have a state run military in which they can serve in order to promote freedom for their people. They have nothing but their own lives and a few explosives.