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Originally Posted by flylock shox
It's amazing how polarizing and emotionally engaging this conflict (not just the immediate one, but the longstanding one) really is. You can peruse all sorts of forums and comments pages under news articles, and the speed with which reasoned argument devolves into emotional mudslinging is staggering. I don't think anyone is immune to it, and its inevitable that, if you hang around the debate long enough, you're going to say something you wouldn't if you were thinking with a cool head - myself included. No wonder there's no end in sight to the conflict. Can you imagine the fury those directly involved must experience? Very very hard to put that aside.
Maybe we should have a ceasefire in this thread and a cooling off period...  |
I definitely agree on how easily this gets heated. For some reason this conflict above all others attracts people's attention and symptathy. I've always thought that kind of bizarre given the scale of many of the other tragedies in the world. A conversation concerning Sudan or Rwanda would be ignored by both sides, in a relative sense to the attention given to this conflict.
For the record that comment I deleted wasn't directed at you or didnt contain any mention of Muslims/Arabs/Palestinians. It was directed at teh "canada is a secular state" comment and on second reading it was obviously exaggerated and influenced by the general tone of the thread. In short I didn't think it expressed how I actually felt about the topic and wanted it down.