It would be really nice
if people could show a bit of decorum on here. B3ta is wholly the wrong forum for posturing on such a delicate subject.
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masakatsu best of all the burger meats, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 22:44,
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I started off rationally responding
to threads that I thought had an edge on it that was a little bit innacurate, that is to say risks swaying the opinion of the public at large with false information.
Then... posts came back like the one above, and I soon learnt that calm reason doesn't work, you have to shout stuff like "ISRAELIS EAT BABIES!"
I don't think b3ta is the right place, either, but when people start playing the champagne socialist, and treating the lives of my friends and comrades as some sort of political soap opera on which they get to draw conclusions based off 5 minutes of news broadcast and an appeal from Christian Aid in the newspaper then I can't just let it pass by, shouting out to the hundreds, if not thousands, of people that will see it, some of whom may even be taken in by it.
Nobody gives a shit about Sri Lanka, no one gives a shit about even Darfur, where are all the mass rallies calling for the end of Mugabe? Yet Israel so much as sneezes and suddenly all hell breaks loose.
My simple answer to what Israel is doing at the moment is that when someone punches you you don't punch them back, you either ignore them or lay into them - bite, scratch, tear, rip, kick, anything - to make sure they don't get back up and do it again. I want peace, but proportionality and temporary cease fire only means that either this drags on or we have a repeat performance and thousands dead again in a couple months time. When someone attacks you you get them down and make sure they can't get back up. Israel ignored them; it didn't work.
Hamas is a despicable organisation, all hamas are dogs and so should be treated like dogs; they misbehaved, they should be punished. If the whole world just stopped listening to the dog, and treated Israel/Palestine like they do the Tamils in Sri Lanka, or even with the relative neglect they afford the zimbabwe crisis, then it'd stop whining and stop bothering us all.
Sorry for the disturbance.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 22:52, Reply)