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kayecy Donating Member (931 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 02:52 PM
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47. We are talking of moral equivalence ....
We are talking of moral equivalence between Israelis and Palestinians, not Hamas or Egyptians or Jordanians.

The IDF attacks Hamas and kills civilians. I can't really believe that the IDF would risk killing civilian settlers to get at settler right-wing terrorists any more than the US would kill Americans civilians in trying to kill a few US militants.

Let's face it, in asymetric conflicts, some civilian lives are given greater consideration than others.

Do you call that moral equivalence?

I suppose you think the continuation of a 40 year occupation is more moral than a few hundred kassams fired blindly into the air?



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