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Thread #164041   Message #3921964
Posted By: robomatic
03-May-18 - 07:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Israel's Sharpville
Subject: RE: BS: Israel's Sharpville
Jim Carroll:

Your consistent problem/ weakness in argument is your utter lack of balance. You started this thread about current events, then devolve into broad undocumented claims of many 'massacres' and then you, as a rule, cherry pick your links, such as the one you wholesale copied dating from December 1948. No one argues that any one side has been populated exclusively by angels, but you put all your weight on your claims and your quotes and you have no sense of proportion.

This is also typical of your arguments in the famine thread, where you put so much blame on the English vis-a-vis the Irish potato famine, and give all credit to the Soviets vis-a-vis both the 1920s famine in Soviet Russia and the 1930s punitive famine of the Ukrainians by the Soviets.

1948 was the year Israelis became Israelis. There was a war of Independence 70 years ago, and their were certainly massacres on both sides. You pick only one side and one bad actor and one letter to the editor defaming it. It's an element of an argument, but not an argument in itself, and not germaine to the thread you started. Congratulations for keeping it alive so long. Your friends are holding back for your sake.

You are passionate, but you are repetitive and unconvincing.