h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

>>"With regards to Israel each side is as bad as the the other but the Jewish Israelis do hold the mechanisms of state."

This is a bit disingenuous, even euphemistic.<<
I just wanted to give a response to this but the thread has gone on by more than 50 posts so I thought I'd come here. I don't think it matters how you kill somebody, be it with rocks or bombs or heat-seeking missiles or tanks, what matters is that you are killing somebody and when you kill someone in the way the Israeli's and the Palestinians are killing each other I don't think I could take any side, each is as bad as the other.
Iago

Fair enough.

I stand by my point, however, that I think there's a qualitative difference between an oppressed, displaced people desperately resisting treatment as second-class citizens in the land of their ancestors, and the oppression of them by immigrants using the full mechanisms of a nuclear-equipped military state equipped and backed financially by a superpower.

What it comes down to is the difference between an ill-educated young person strapping explosives to their own body and killing themselves and a few others, and a highly trained professional sitting in a helicopter gunship calmly sitting in his hovering chair and flicking a switch to demolish a row of homes at absolutely no risk to himself whatsoever.

There's a moral equivalence to the deaths, but I don't think there's a moral equivalence in the act of causing them.

H.

Definately, but I think that would have been to fine a point for the troll, and I didn't really want to get involved in that argument as I find it hard to be objective because I can't help but sympathise with the Palestinians and I know that'd arouse an awful lot of venom, another thing I don't want to deal with

Cool. Thanks for bringing it here.

H.