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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
Something lost on us westerners is the rhetorical nature of the Arab communication style. They use a lot of metaphors and overstatements in their communication. Sure, Hizbollah and Iran and any other power in the Middle East may have said that Israel should be wiped from the earth, but I doubt that is the literal expectation. I think if you use the Arab rhetoric-to-english dictionary you'll find that "wiping them from the earth" is equivalent to a "crushing defeat". Its kind of like when you pants the local bully in gym class and he states he's "going to kill you." He's not really going to kill you, but the rhetoric sure scares the hell out of you.
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I think you're giving some pretty serious hate speech some over the top benefit of the doubt ... yikes.
if two countries are at war I expect them both to want to win. But if one group wants eliminate a race it's a completely different matter.
One is conflict. One is hate.