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]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)And are you EVER going to stop interrogating me about my beliefs? This is tiresome and pointless, and I don't deserve it.
I never go after you as an individual. All I've done is question some of the acts of your country's government...which doesn't justify your tactics towards me.
I'll take a stab at your loaded question, to humor you. Freedom, democracy, social justice and self-determination are equally important to me. I support them all equally.
Now I've answered all the trick questions you're entitled to ask of me. Just stop. This is abusive and I never abuse you.
And I'd like to point out a contradiction in your argument...you keep saying that lack of full democracy in advance justifies denying independence to Palestine, yet you admit that the Occupation has never been about getting Palestine to democratize and that keeping the Occupation in place is unlikely to cause democratization. Those two thoughts run into and derail each other.
Had it ever occurred to you that YOU might be wrong? That perhaps, if what's been done since 1967 hasn't worked yet, then there's a good possibility that it never will? The U.S. didn't even take this long to admit that it was silly to keep pretending that Taiwan wasn't the home of the real government of China.