thomas81 wrote:
no. I said if i was palestinian i would vote for them. Thats hardy the same thing.
It's sophistry on your part.
If I was American and I said I'd go to the polling station and put an 'X' in the BNP box if I lived in England, or if I was English and I'd said I'd vote for the NPD in Germany or Jobbik in Hungary, what would you think of me? You could reasonably suspect that I supported the general aims of that organisation. In Fatah's case, it's about an end to Israel, regardless of all the BS and lies they tell Western journalists.
thomas81 wrote:
Purely on the basis of their secular socialist credentials.
You expect me to believe this horse dung?
Ahahahahahahahahaha!
And a person can say they support Jobbik because they believe in its policy of getting rid of welfare benefits for criminals. A ten-year-old with half a brain could see that that person was being massively disingenuous.
Why not say that you'd vote for a Labor Zionist party in Israel instead, if it's about socialism and a rapprochement with the Palestinians? No blood on your hands that way, you don't look like you have a mindless grudge against Israel and you can assuage your "secular socialist credentials" too. These parties are big supporters of dialogue with the Palestinians, and they don't bear the hatred and fanaticism that the Palestinians do. And, if you support a left-wing Zionist party, you're not supporting an organisation which incites hatred against Israelis and praises terrorists. Almost all of those parties want to pull out of most, if not all of the West Bank. If Israel's policy in the West Bank and Gaza is all you're arguing against, you'd be better with a party like that.
Checkmate.
Oh, and there wouldn't be any need for 'incursions' into Gaza (that have long since stopped happening - Israel pulled out of Gaza nearly seven years ago now) if Hamas wasn't lobbing rockets over the border every day and trying to kill Israelis. Israel is defending itself from terrorists. Under the standards of most of the Middle Eastern dictatorships, theocracies and other hellholes that you never criticise, the Palestinians would have either been ethnically cleansed long ago. That would have ably solved the problem, but it would have been at an awful, awful price.
thomas81 wrote:
Expecting the lay arab who fatah speak on behalf of, to avidly advocate or appreciate a genocide that occured over a thousand miles away in a theatre that did not concern them is like expecting a Polish or Czech Jew to display the same enthusiasm for the victims of the rape of Nanking.
Can anyone say... 'false analogy'?
On that point I charge you with attempting to downplay and make excuses for racism.
Massive, massive difference there
thomas81 - the average Polish or Czech Jew would never deny the Rape of Nanking. They might not be especially interested in the subject, just as I'm not particularly interested in the massacre of native South American tribes by the Spanish
Conquistadores - but I'd never try to deny it and pretend that it didn't happen solely for political gain. Your attitude is shameful. The Palestinians know very well about the Holocaust. When they're not denying it, they're praising it instead. 'Mein Kampf' and 'The Protocols' are popular reading material in Arab countries.