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Originally Posted by Bingo
Yikes ...
I think you can hang on to your pro Palestine leanings in dealing with Israel without becoming an apologist for those that spew hatred. Why are you giving them the kid gloves?
Call a spade a spade ...
a leader can bemoan the political construct of Israel and the issues that said event has brought to his region without suggesting a nuclear bomb would end the country or that the holocaust was a myth, or that they should all be scattered around the world as vagrants.
That's all hatred all the time ... it's not a political issue at all.
The western equivelant rides horses with sheets over their heads, and I would never line up and suggest ... "ah the south, you have to live there to understand them. They don't really mean lynching".
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I'm not trying to be an apologist any more than those who support Israel are being apologists. BOTH SIDES are wrong in their actions, but that does nothing to understand the root issue. The root issue is the oppression that the Arabs have felt and that oppression was intensified with the creation of Israel. That is the root cause of the matters in the Middle East IMO and that is the matter that needs to be addressed.
I like you're comparison to the Iranian comments, but I think something more accurate is this. The western equivalent runs non-profit religious organizations, has the freedom to make what ever comments about foreign policy they like, and has a pipeline to the White House because of the massive numbers of dollars they contribute to political parties. Times have changed, and the "new" Klan is dressing in three piece suits and is hiding behind the protection that religious and political insititutions give them.