Comments | caliban18: This I condemn.

caliban18

This I condemn.

Dec 29, 2008 18:31

I offer my total and complete condemnation. These horrible acts among Palestinians by Israeli ordinance is wrong. It is wrongheaded. It is completely contrary to everything that I believe makes me a Jew. If there is a place for it in our Law, I am ashamed ( Read more... )

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happyduck1979 December 30 2008, 00:45:54 UTC

My god I wish I could still agree with you. I used to. For years I could not understand how violence could solve violence ( ... )

caliban18 December 30 2008, 02:43:04 UTC

You want this to be the solution, because you are willing to believe that this can be a solution ( ... )

happyduck1979 December 30 2008, 07:30:09 UTC

I have never claimed that our side was blameless. But we need to look at where things are not where we wish the would be. When you are dealing with people whose stated desire is to wipe you off the face of the map, I am not so sure that the fear of what you might become takes precedence over the ability to live to become it ( ... )

caliban18 January 1 2009, 01:42:50 UTC

"You say there are worse things than death- for whom ( ... )

posteverything December 30 2008, 18:31:57 UTC

I've wondered aloud if this recent action has less to do with the routine "missiles" being fired into Israeli territory, as it is that now that we are in the waning days of the Bush administration, Israel is doing what it can with the (silent) blessing of the United States before a new and slightly-more-critical administration takes over next month. I'm aware that it's a very Washington-centric view of things, absolutely, but going from what I've read: the only reason Israel hasn't attacked nuclear targets in Iran at this point is because Bush has discouraged them from doing so. That was in the news not long ago, but it didn't get a lot of attention from the press ( ... )

caliban18 January 1 2009, 18:02:58 UTC

Actually, I think this could be a perfectly inevitable response to having missiles and explosives tossed at your cities for months on end. Israel is quite right in her frustration. In any other country, if this kind of brazen provocation had gone on at all, the country would have gone in and flattened the source of the provocation long ago. Completely. What I am asking for is Israel to do something that is not inevitable. I believe in her ability to do so, because frankly I feel there are few nations filled with citizens as sensitized to violence ( ... )