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Originally posted by umairfoo
It comes from a report written by B'Tselem, an Israeli group.
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I don't care that it's an Israeli group! It could be a Palestinian group, a Russian group, a bunch of researchers from Antarctica. <b>I don't care</b>. What is important to me is that the information is reliable, period. And it just so happens that it's more reliable if it comes from more than one source. <b>I believe you that those accounts are true</b> - I am just <b>interested</b> in hearing more.
Again, my request is <b>more accounts</b> that <b>over 50% of Palestinian civilian deaths</b> are <b>caused</b> by <b>boredom</b> on the part of Israeli soldiers. That was your assertion. Back it up! One guy saying Israeli soldiers fired without justification, even <b>most of the time</b>, does not mean that boredom was the motivating factor.
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As with all criticism of Israel, the argument ends with the criticizer being labeled an Anti-Semite, which is what dhamsaic has virtually called me. Criticize Israel, automatically you are an anti-semite.
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Two part reply.
1) No, I haven't. See explanation in final response to Xugamad. Sorry about the poor choice of words and lack of previous explanation.
2) I agree that this is absolutely re-fucking-diculous. If someone says something minorly critical of Israel, you have a bunch of fucking retarded Israelis jumping on you for being a Nazi. I know, because I've openly criticized Israel in the past and <b>I have been accused of being a Nazi</b>. Go figure.
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It also does not regret killing civilians, though it should.
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Then it has something to regret. I guess that was just poor word choice on your part.
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Under your definition of terrorism, Israel is guilty as charged for using violence as a means to intimidate palestinian society.
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Right! We agree! <b>But not in this case</b>. The intention was very clearly not "to intimidate Palestinian society". It was to eliminate a terrorist.
The event that I can continually refer to is the firing of the tank into the market. It could very easily be argued that it was done to intimidate Palestinians. But when there is an obvious and legitimate target to an attack, I refuse to call it terrorism.