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kayecy

(1,417 posts)
9. I suggest your position is untenable and you know it........
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 12:22 AM
Apr 2012
I do not do anything to stop the settlements at all, nor will i, until i believe the Palestinians can develop a stable western democracy, until them my moral duty is to do what i can to protect the israelis from their attacks.

You agree settlements are immoral but you still do nothing to stop them?.......Why?

You claim it is your moral duty to protect the settlements because you do not believe Palestinians can develop a stable western democracy......... Withdrawing settlers from the settlements would remove a major complaint of Palestinians.....No settlements means no attacks on settlements, so why don’t you take steps to stop settlers expanding the settlements?


I suggest your position is untenable and you know it........Your military duty as a soldier requires you to protect settlements but your conscience tells you that settlements are immoral......You are trying to justify what you know is unjustifiable.....Settlement expansion contibutes nothing to the development of Palestinian democracy....... On the contrary, by withdrawing the settlers, Israel could change the whole dynamic.


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i believe NATO's interference was foolish and stupid, nor do i believe the tribes fighting each other will result in anything resembling of a democracy, so why would i even consider going there and risking my life for something i don't believe in?

Let me remind you what you have written in the past:

In fact all dictatorships in my mind should be threatened with removal from the very day the dictator takes power. Dictatorships by their very existence are immoral and must be removed...one way or another.

You seem to have changed your mind about dictatorships........NATO was only doing what you wanted and you now claim it was foolish!

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