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The establishment isn't interested in any middle ground, it is full on 100% in support of all things Israel.
I didn't realize that I had to side with the establishment. I thought I explicitly disavowed it, but maybe my language was vague somehow?
I make no apologies for refusing to try and find some middle ground where war crimes are considered civil and debatable. There is no debating things that are just wrong, like blockades engineered to punish civilians, a war crime, which the apologists ignore while crying "Hamas' Rockets are a War Crime".
Simply put, Hamas' rockets are war crimes. So is being out of uniform, and so is conducting military operations from civilian areas. Shall I quote the Geneva convention?
My point again is not to say that Israel is blameless, but that there is blame to go around, and you're employing quite a double standard.
Israel has the 4th largest military in the world and hundreds of illegal nuclear weapons. It uses its powerful military to rain bombs on an open air prison, to fight a resistance movement it grew and nurtured, all sponsored by a Government in the US that covers up crimes through UN Vetos, and you want to try and find a "middle ground"?
I simply stated that there is a middle ground between abandonment of the region, and unflinching support of Israel.
And this is why I don't take you seriously, you fall back on the typical trite talking points of the Irsael-first propaganda troll army. This talking being a variation of "Look at Egypt! They are REALLY bad!".
Nonsense. I'm pointing out a double standard, and once again you are putting words in my mouth. You can mock it, but you can't explain why it isn't a double-standard, because you know very well that it is. Mockery isn't one of the accepted forms of logical argument. What would you even call that? Argumentum Ad Derisus?
