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Originally Posted by prinţesă nină  a peace lovin people...
i cant believe you just said that.
looking back on this thread, youve made some recent posts that really inspire dissection.
is that your serious appraisal of israel, or are you just taking the piss? |
The people of Israel are generally a peaceful people. It's the government that has some messed up things about it. Yes, the government of Israel has done some terrible things, and I'm not trying to claim anything otherwise. Maybe a better way to word this would be--in CONTRAST to people who live in Sharia Law countries, Israelis are peaceful.
I'm sure there is also some fearmongering taught to people in Israel about Muslims as well, but you don't see them sending their kids out to die for it. You don't find atrocities in Israel like women being beaten because they were raped, or people being hung for being gay.
I've changed my stance on Israel radically from what it used to be. I was one of the first people to speak against Israel in the past, but now that I really know what kind of crap they're dealing with, I think they've been relatively decent in the ways they've handled extremist Muslims, certainly better than the way the Bush administration would handle the same scenarios.
I've read too many stories about what happens in Sharia Law countries that have had me in tears for long periods of time to really be able to feel sorry for those countries anymore. I'll re-iterate: Feeling sorry for Sharia Law countries is like feeling sorry for the Nazis--sure, there are people who live in them that don't really believe so harshly, but they'll never be able to say it or live their lives according to those contrary beliefs because they'd be killed for it.