Bart, you wrote;
> Todd, I agree with that, but as far as I know, Israel doesn't target
children.
> This isn't directed at you, this is directed at the religiously-insane
person who's about
> to write and say "Israel kills kids with rockets," which is probably
true, but I put target
> in bold and underlined it for a good reason.
If it's true that Israel's army kills kids
with rockets, which can be shown to be true, since it
happened today, then how can it possibly
be rational for you to assert that anyone who
writes and notes the fact is insane?
It cannot be. What YOU say MUST be irrational.
I ask you to note today's news where more
than 20 Palestinians were killed or were
seriously injured, many of them children.
I believe the word target means what it means.
The meaning of any sentence ever written
can be totally changed be adding, subtracting or ignoring a certain
word in that sentence.
Unless I'm missing something, which happens a lot, you took target
out of my sentence
and then said I was irrational to say something I never said.
You wrote;
> "Palestinians use kids to kill other kids. Israel doesn't do that."
Why is an 18 year old Jew who is a part
of the IDF, which is common, in Gaza or the West Bank
any less a kid than an 18-year-old Palestinian?
The Israeli Defense Forces are routinely used not
simply to defend Israel to occupy Palestinian
villages. And the IDF personnal consist in large part
of 18-20 year old teenagers. Quite
simply, Israel DOES do that, and to assert otherwise in the
face of the facts is, well, irrational
- it makes no sense.
There you go again with how irrational *I* am..
I'm guessing that you get very emotional each time this subject
comes up.
Do you really mean to say there's no difference between putting
on your country's uniform
and strapping dynamite to your body and then go looking for a
busload of kids to blow up?
You see everything with crystal clarity but your eyes aren't telling
you the truth.
And anyone who doesn't agree is an irrational, irrational person.
On this issue you are avoiding the truth
and an opportunity to represent the truth.
I thought you had a unique ability to see
the truth and to speak out for it.
You have lost touch.
You've climbed out on a limb that's seconds from falling..
Now I'm able to understand that you merely
have convinced yourself that you always understand the
truth of a situation, and that when two
people disagree then one of them is wrong and one of them is right.
What a shame to see the world in mere black
and white.
If I said, or left the impression, that I know anything
about the Middle East, I take it back.
The only thing I know about that area is they'll die for that
stupid sand for no logical reason.
Well, all I can say is thanks for the hundreds
of other web sites that, unlike yours, actually bother to
give us not only opinions, which are a
dime a dozen, but also give us real news, insight and factually
provocative analysis of today's events.
It's the difference, I guess, between a mere blog and the
wonderful new phenomenon I'll refer to
as Internet Journalism.
Gene M
Damn, I was hoping you'd go out with something classy at the end.
You change my sentence and then said I was irrational to write
such a thing.
You can't understand the difference between serving your country
and certain suicide
and once again, I'm too irrational to see what your lying eyes
aretelling you.
Then a few more insults, then a closing cheap shot at the website.
It's kinda weird how I knew you were going to write.
I just thought you'd be more pleasant.