At 11:53 PM 1/26/02 +0100 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>> >You mean, attacking a country on a religious holiday is vicious? I would
>> >call it brilliant. You see, John, if you want to attack your enemy, you do
>> >not do that when he is wide awake and on full alert. Rather, you wait till
>> >he lets his guard down and *then* you attack. That way you can do
>> >substantial damage to your enemy before he gets a chance to do serious
>> >damage to your own side.
>>
>>Ooooh....... this one is for the archives Jeroen!
>>
>>Let's see, the Arabs launched a surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur!
>>Does Jeroen criticize the Arabs for this? Nooooooooooo!!!! Instead,
>>Jeroen calls the "attacking a country on a religious holiday...." and I
>>quote, "brilliant!" ROFLALALALALALAL!!!!!!!!!
>
>Note that I did not say anything about that attack being justified or not.
Yes, Jeroen, but your silence is golden.
Almost every American I have ever talked too agrees - we consider the
attack on Yom Kippur to be one of the most craven, dishonorable, vicous
acts of war committed in recent history. The fact that you could comment
on the situation and call it "brilliant" without any sort of condemnation
speaks volumes.....
Anyhow, let me give you another chance:
Do you believe that the Arabs were justified in attacking Israel in 1948?
Do you believe that the Arabs were justified in attacking Israel in the
manner that they chose on Yom Kippur?
>>Of course, I have a very interesting question for you Jeroen - on what
>>basis is Israel the enemy of the Arabs who attacked it in 1948?
>>
>>And again, on what basis is Israel the enemy of the Arabs on the day of the
>>Yom Kippur War? (note: two separate questions)
>
>The answer is in the Koran, somewhere in the first three or four Sura's (sp).
And so, you side with the Palestinians on the basis of this?
>> >With a Palestinian to Israeli death ratio of 3.5 to 1, and a child-killing
>> >ratio of 3.75 to 1, I think you should be complaining even more loudly
>> >about Israel targeting children. Yet I do not hear you do that. Are the
>> >lives of Palestinian children of less value than the lives of Israeli
>>children?
>>
>>Uh Jeroen, there is *no* evidence that Israel targets children.
>
>Ah, so Amnesty International is making it all up, right? Anti-Semitic as
>they are, they are just filling their reports with anti-Semitic lies, right?
I have read your posts from AI, and have seen nothing to indicate that they
kill children.
Rather the evidence from AI seems to indicate that Palestinian children are
highly likely to throw rocks and use small arms against Israeli troops -
which makes them armed combatants, and results in their deaths.
Likewise, the evidence from AI also indicates that Israelis superior
military forces is giving them the advantage in the current war, and as
might be expected, the losing side in a war tends to suffer far more
casualties than the winning side.
Again, however, I have not seen AI accuse Israe of *targeting* innocent,
civilian, children going about their daily lives.
And finally, let's return to the unanswer questions department:
1) Did the entity of Palestine attack Israel on four occasions?
2) Is the entity of Palestine attacking Israel now?
3) Do you see a difference between Israel trying to minimize civilian
casualties in its attacks, and Palestinians blowing up crowded market
places, night clubs, and bat mitzvah parties?
4) Jeroen, do you believe that the entity of "Palestine" is exhibiting
goodwill towards Israel?
>Then you have not looked hard enough. Hint: it is in a reply to an other
>poster than you.
Nope, not there!
JDG
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