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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i tend to stay out of these threads because they are useless. yet at some point i read so much shit i develop an itch i must scratch. i spent almost a year in israel in the 90s and saw lots of things. while i love israel i could see many things wrong with it and with the likud in power many many things went to shit.
HOWEVER.
i turn on the news the other day after that asshole killed those 8 religious students, and they show images of palestinian streets-- people driving around honking in celebration of the murders. that is utterly fucked up.
when that lunatic fuck baruch goldstein massacred a bunch of palestinians in a mosque in hebron, people didn't take to the streets to celebrate. (of course some right wing lunatics consider him a hero-- fuckers)
anyway. there are assholes on both sides. there always have been. differential death counts don't imply differential culpability. they simply ean one side is better at war than the other.
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i wonder how many israelies would view 1948 as a year to be celebrated?
remember that in this year a million innocent palestinians were either murdered or forcably evicted at gunpoint. this is widely hailed as a victory for the israelis.
i also think it would be interesting to, say, go to a small mid-western town in the usa and stand on the street with a big sign saying "honk to show your support for our boys in the iraq war", of which there have been a total of 600,000 casualties so far. you wouldn't be able to hear yourself think for the honking.