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• Monday, January 5, 2009 12:39 PM

  More deflections

  Why is it a double standard? Money talks. AIPAC talks. You want to find a middle ground between bad guys and worse guys, or bad guys and other bad guys. You want a metric. Money. Weapons. But, oh wait, the US gives money to Egypt too! Yeah, and so what? As if that somehow justifies everything that Israel is doing. Like the typical Israel-first propaganda amplifier, you ignore all sense of scale when framing the issue. How much just doesn't matter. Civilian Deaths on both sides, money given to all parties, scale is irrelevant.

  And then you go to "But but but... Hamas is committing war crimes too!" aka another talking point to deflect criticism away from Israel. You make an equivalence between fertilizer rockets and the war, while completely ignoring the blockade, the "ceasefire", and the amount of control Israel exerts of people that it "stopped" occupying three years ago and call it QED.

  You cry "double standard" while your favored country drops us-taxpayer funded bombs on an open air prison that it has blockaded for months, and use rockets made out of fertilizer to back up your claim, you really expect your cry of "double standard" to hold water?

  Pathetic. Get back to me once you've deprogrammed the propaganda and resolved your cognitive dissonance. You claim to want a middle ground then do nothing but use the usual Israel-first tactics in your arguements.

  —Chris Sinnard Read Chris Sinnard's other letters
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