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Originally Posted by blankall
Your idea that these aren't openly discussed in America is total BS. As is your suggestion that this incident will cause supporters of Israel to end their support.
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I think you spend too much time attributing views to people that they don't have. I don't feel that this incident will mitigate the level of support that the US provides to Israel. I don't think I've said anything either (again, you're free to find where I wrote that and I'll retract it).
As for the concept of it being openly discussed, please allow me to make the distinction between voiced and discussed. These views are voiced in America; I certainly don't dispute that. However, at the political level, they are not discussed. Discussion would almost assuredly end in decisions that sometimes favour one side and sometimes the other. In the US, discussions of Israel - Palestine unanimously end with US support of the Israeli position (to my knowledge and please correct if necessary) .
Heck, in this last incident, a US citizen was killed and Obama hasn't said a peep! That hardly sounds like discussion to me.
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Originally Posted by blankall
I don't think anybody disputes that this situation was badly handled. The dispute is over the depiction of terrorists who savagely beat soldiers as "aid workers" and "protestors".
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And they're "terrorists" because... they were on a boat in international waters? They had blankets? Used wheelchairs?
I fear you're making my point about the term terrorist being trivialized and tossed about without due consideration.
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Do you honestly believe anti-Israel speech is censored in any way.
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No, I do not. I've not said that speech against Israeli policy is curtailed in any way.
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Anti-Israel sentiment is probably the most disproportionatelly talked about topic in the world.
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I'm sure some people of muslim faith believe they can give you a run for that crowd.