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aranthus

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11. No. You are bringing in irrelevant assertions.
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 10:12 AM
Feb 2018

To review. You claimed that the soldier was part of an occupying army, as if that made the girl's slap legitimate resistance. I pointed out that that would mean that a German after World War Two could legitimately slap an Allied soldier. You have no real answer to that, so you have to make up that the Allied occupation of Germany was the result of German attrocities. Except that it wasn't. Germany was occupied because the Germans started a war to conquer other countries and lost. The Palestinians started a war to conquer the Jewish state, and so far they have lost. That the Palestinians have not committed attrocities on the scale of the Nazis is irrelevant.

It seems to me Israel loses the high ground here if they imprison an unarmed girl for slapping an Nitram Feb 2018 #1
Like Shitler, anything that can be ignited for use as a racial flame will be doused with gas. Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #2
seriously? Mosby Feb 2018 #3
Isn't the soldier part of an occupying army that has invaded this girl's homeland? Nitram Feb 2018 #4
So hypothetically aranthus Feb 2018 #5
Interesting analogy. Nitram Feb 2018 #6
The Palestinians started the war. aranthus Feb 2018 #7
The Palestinians have not committee the atrocities that the Germany did. But Israel Nitram Feb 2018 #8
It's not about atrocities. aranthus Feb 2018 #9
You narrow the topic to suit your beliefs. I stand by my previous post. Nitram Feb 2018 #10
No. You are bringing in irrelevant assertions. aranthus Feb 2018 #11
The occupation of Germany was by inernational agreement to keep the peace after a World War Nitram Feb 2018 #12
International agreements? aranthus Feb 2018 #20
If the Arab Armies sabbat hunter Feb 2018 #14
"They can have their capital in the western sections of Jerusalem, outside of the old city." Nitram Feb 2018 #15
If you notice sabbat hunter Feb 2018 #17
I see your point. I agree. Nitram Feb 2018 #18
I think it's much worse than that. aranthus Feb 2018 #19
I think that sabbat hunter Feb 2018 #21
Maybe, but it's hard to explain two things. aranthus Feb 2018 #22
I agree sabbat hunter Feb 2018 #23
First off sabbat hunter Feb 2018 #13
Sabbat, you are a little confused. Aranthis was comparing Palestinians to Germans, not Israelis. Nitram Feb 2018 #16
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