Reply #171: Interesting response...

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From yr post: 'For every link you have showing how 'oppressed' the Palestinians are, I can find one about how murderous they are.'

I didn't ask you to get into some linking competition. I asked you what sort of books you'd read because I was actually genuinelly interested to know what you've read to make you come to a conclusion that showing sympathy for the plight of the Palestinian people must equate to being on their 'side' and Israelis are the bad guys. I asked because not all that long ago I really didn't know anything else about the conflict but what I read on the front page of the newspaper and I held a completely different stance to what I do now. I'm not entirely sure why yr so opposed to discussing what sort of stuff you've read, but seeing you are so opposed to it, I'm sorry I bothered asking...

So why bother. I am not going to change my mind on this, neither are you.

Psst. Yr doing it again. Trying to tell me what I think and getting it abysmally wrong. How about we stick to you telling me what YOU think and I'll fill you in on what I think? I find that approach works real well most of the time...

Only two posts ago you were saying you were willing to change yr mind based on facts, yet now yr saying you'll never change yr mind. I must tell you I'm in awe of meeting someone who is in possession of all the facts on the I/P conflict. I, and I assume quite a few others, come to this forum because we actually learn about the conflict from what we read here. So when yr ready to bestow facts, as opposed to opinion on us, I'll be waiting eagerly ;)

History teaches us a lot of things, and so does commonsense. And commonsense is telling me that it's incredibly simplistic to approach this conflict by neatly placing Palestinians and Israelis into boxes labelled 'Bad Guys' and 'Good Guys' respectively. To act as though being opposed to attacks on Israeli civilians (which I am) means that one must then ignore or loudly make excuses for the wrongdoings done to the Palestinian people is a ridiculous approach. And to be honest, if yr approach is to treat the conflict in such a one-dimensional, Good Guys vs Bad Guys style, then I very much doubt you and I will see eye-to-eye on very much at all...


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