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McKim

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6. False Equivalency

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue May 18, 2021, 09:37 AM

May 2021

There is a prevalent and mistaken idea that there is a false equivalency between Israel and Palestine. Actually Israel is the proportionately much stronger force with nuclear weapons and a well equipped police state against Palestinian small rockets and rocks thrown by youth. They are not equivalent.

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