Reply #39: It seems to be you who ignores reality... [View All]

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Yr posts since you arrived at DU are full of stuff calling others haters, so this might be a case of putting the mirror down and stepping away very, very slowly. Seeing as how yr so big on bringing up genocide, I recently studied the biggest genocide of the 20th century, and I'll tell you why 'oh, I've got heaps of friends who are (insert name of ethnic/racial/religious group that's just been dehumanised) means bugger all. In Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, once Germans realised what was going on, Goebbel's office was deluged with letters from Germans pleading for their Jewish neighbours, workmates and friends to be spared, not coz of any concern for what was happening to the Jewish people, but because the Jews they knew apparently weren't evil like all the others were supposed to be....

As for some supposed fantasy world where Israel can do no right, only 24 hrs ago in this forum I posted my view that Israel was the victim of the Hezbollah attack and as any other state does, has a right to respond. As with every other state, that response must not violate international law, and my criticism is with how Israel has chosen to react, not that Israel has reacted...