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• Monday, January 5, 2009 01:01 PM

  Your bias is showing

  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.

  I never mentioned the money that we give to Egypt to not attack Israel. It's not relevant to my question. My question really isn't that complicated. Are the Egyptians even just a little bit culpable for the "open air prison" or is it all the fault of the evil Israelis?

  And then you go to "But but but... Hamas is committing war crimes too!" aka another talking point to deflect criticism away from Israel.

  And then you go to "But but but... Israel is committing war crimes too!" aka another talking point to deflect criticism away from Hamas.

  See how that works?

  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.

  Yes, we all know that Israel does these things because they're evil and genocidal, and for no other reason whatsoever.

  Sure, easy for you to call it a "fertilizer rocket" because you haven't gotten hit by the shrapnel.

  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?

  You'll do anything to avoid admitting that you don't hold Egypt to the same standard you do Israel, won't you? Why are the Israelis evil jailers, while the Egyptians are not? Why does Egypt even need a wall with Gaza in the first place? The fact that you ignore these questions, and assault me verbally instead, is very revealing.

  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.

  You do nothing but use Palestine-first tactics in your arguments.

  The middle ground I would suggest is for the Israelis to withdraw completely from the West Bank and give it to the Palestinians, and share Jerusalem. Additional land claims should be handled by arbitration by an independent third-party which both sides agree to, and both sides should adhere to the decisions made in this arbitration.

  I suspect that even this will not bring peace, but it's fair and should at least be attempted.

  Since you asked, sort of.

  —Renegade Iconoclast Read Renegade Iconoclast's other letters
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