Posted on 01/06/2009 12:40:41 PM PST by AJKauf
4. Well then, why is the world supporting Hamas, and not Israel—if, as you say, Israel enjoys the moral high ground?
The better question would be, why would Israel gain world support? After all, the world is mostly authoritarian in Russia, China, and much of Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America; when has it ever been a barometer of morality? If it had been, some would have rallied to stop the murder of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust, or stopped the Rwandan killing or the Cambodian genocide. Only the US and its NATO allies put an end to Milosevic, the Taliban in Afghanistan, and Saddam—mostly to world criticism...
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
In current confrontations, Israel and their supporters must understand selective moral outrage leads worldwide condemnation. Acceptable political analysis offers the gullible a tortured rhetoric linking tightly focused visions of shattered hometown settings to fabricated motives equivalent to Sudanese militia.
Under these logics Israel is castigated for killing civilians. However, the clear and obvious reading of Articles 28 and 29 of the Fourth Geneva Convention says terrorist organizations such as Hammas are responsible for those deaths .
These civilians qualify as Protected Persons within Hammas’ physical control, and cannot be used to render certain points and areas immune from military operations. Terrorist organizations choose first to use the Arab people as biodegradable sandbags, and in death display them as props for advancing political agendas.
It’s not support for Hamas so much...
Correct. They don’t guve a crap about either Hamas or the plight of the Gazans. They’re just looking for any excuse to bash Israel.
Ah, the sweet sound of reason!
I think it would be better if the author actually answered the quest #4, instead of suggesting a better question, which doesn’t really ask the same thing.
Evil is generally supported worldwide more than good.
The holocaust was never the murder of six million Jews, It was one murder of one Jew 6,000,000 times."
Being partially hebrew, most probably right on the cutoff DNA mark to hit the gas chambers, my concern is how a small country, 1/3 the size of San Bernardino County can creat such hatred around the world. That thought written, I must believe there is G!d, there is Hell and only Jesus can set it all right in the end which seems to be getting real close despite idiots telling me I orginated from an omoeba...etc, anything, any illogical reason to "prove" we as humans with a volition have no moral rights or wrongs...
because we're all just "evolved" animals...what a crock, entropy is winning in morals, values, ferrous oxide and though our knowledge multiplies exponentially every two years O do wonder how bad the days of Noah were before the flood.
Listening to the illogical 'world' view of their hatred and "logical ' explanations of disproportionate power" is all BS...it's evil, and george Bush, for all his demonized failures in the MSM was absolutely right when he called certain countries the 'axis of evil". Abu Hussein Obama is going to need our prayers but he's got zero credibility so far and I'm just hoping the guy realizes everytime he makes stipulations regarding israel, he must remember he's either an ally of the one true and real G!D or he's poking his and ultimately our( the United States)finger in the eye of the great I AM.
Oh I trieed not to hop on the Hyde Park soap box this morning but failed...argh * humming Haktiva*
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