General Discussion

What you were not willing to clearly state is that you align with 'Team Palestine' against 'Team Israel', and consider the succor or victory of Arab Palestine to be the preeminent interest in the Near East, and resent anything else being dealt with before it is. If anyone is going to be helped, you say, let it be the people I have adopted as a cause, they should come first! Why your preference should guide anyone else is, of course, none too clear.

That is what muddles up your reasoning regarding a person who has done wrong before choosing to do a good. You say such a person should not chose among goods available to him to do. But that is simply nonesense. It is said a Buddhist monk must eat whatever is dropped into his begging bowl, as his portion in life that day ( which has led to some grim tales indeed ), but humans are hardly required to chart their course among available actions by that same code. If a person who has done nothing but good were faced with the same choice, between two possible goods, you could not state he is required to do both --- he is free to choose evil, in either or both instances, just as he is free to choose good, in either or both instances. The same choices are there for someone who has done previous wrong. He can choose to do both goods or one of the two goods, and if the latter, he has still done less wrong than if he had chosen to do both wrongs.

"Simple arithmetic is the beginning of wisdom."