Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Even the World Bank Understands: Palestine is Being Disappeared [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)You're basically arguing that people who endorse or cite fuck-knuckles are themselves fuck-knuckles... except for yourself.
You judge people as being outright nazis because they belong to some organization that has a connection to FreeGaza, because of Greta Berlin misposting a video to the wrong group. Because they are within seven degrees of Greta Berlin, they are as bad as any crematoria-operating Reich fuck, according to you.
However, you directly cite the work of Caroline Glick (and demand others "admit she's right" and Nahum Shahaf. You lavish praise upon the "scholarship" of Richard Landes, which is sort of like admiring the "research" of Jerome Corsi. Your regular sources of information here are far-right neoconservative blogs like Gatestone Institute. But you, oh, you don't get tarred by the brush of the fuck-knuckles you associate with, becuase, uh, uhm, er, uh, hmm, that is, uh, because!
If you want to play with guilt-by-association, you have to realize that others will expect you to be internally consistent. That is, you are absolutely no different from the likes of Glick, Shahaf, or even John Motherfucking Bolton, because you hold them close, and believe that people should be judged by such associations. If you [o]don't want to be judged by those associations - and it seems that you don't - then you need to stop holding others to that standard. Consistency, that's all.
Which brings us to the point you try to make here. Yes, if prompted, you will sometimes lob out a criticism. I don't believe I've ever seen you do so unprompted, though. Okay, that's fine, really - you're not a dancing monkey, either, right? However, I don't think i've seen you maintain consistency even when prompted. Like on the subject of settlements. if asked, you will say that you believe settlements are a problem and an impediment to two states... but, left to your own devices, you argue that htye are an integral and unquestionable part of Israel, that critics of them want a "judenrein" even that Palestinians have no intrinsic rights to the West Bank. I'm really not sure what the conflict in your head is, which is the "Real" you, or even if they're both your rela positions and you just forget shit easily... but after all this time, forgive me if I just presume that what you say unprompted is what you really believe, and what you're prompted to say is just a fig leaf to cover for your actual beliefs.