Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]pelsar
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and that was the reason for it..however it was not aimed at you. Now it gets tricky because, i am not apologizing for the post, not in any form shape or matter. I will however give you a more detailed explanation for it, and you can decide yourself whether or not you see it as an excuse or not.
Ken has many times accused me of mistakenly liking the Palestinians to Nazis, it doesn't really bother me, and i never bothered to "call him on it, since it was never relevant to the discussion. However it was clear to me that this is a red button for him. Hence, when ken made with his exaggeration and simplistic post, i responded with an equally simplistic post using for what i see as an "red button" for him an attempt as talking to him in his "language." Clearly you have that very same "red button" but 1000x more sensitive.
i dont....being called a nazi is pretty much "day to day." be it directly or indirectly (gaza the concentration camp- makes me a concentration camp guard) .When I'm accused of it be directly or indirectly, the images come clearly to mind and disgust me as does the accusation since there is nothing to compare...however, i have no sensitivity personally to that so i have no problem using it in reverse.
but ken does....or so i assume, hence the post....an attempt to elicit a reaction and discussion with him on what i consider a simplest naive, one sided solution.
anyway, you can take this as an explanation or an excuse its up to you...
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a side note is that i do intentionally being the discussions to be "about me"..its a bit more difficult to accuse the IDF of being mass murders or acting as nazis etc when one of them gets to respond directly to the accuser, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.