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Originally Posted by bermuDa
Just out of curiosity, are there any Palestinian groups with any political clout that we haven't branded as terrorist organizations?
and for the record, there are no justified actions in war.
Also, if you are going to use an article to aid your position, quote a small relevant portion and include a link. the next "response" with more quoted material than actual substance is going to get deleted.
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This will render some of the content in my post unavailable to anyone who wants to retrieve and view more than the small portion of text that you will allow to be posted, in as little as a few days after it is posted here. If what I post here in support of my opinions, is intended not to be retrievable after a short time, I won't be able to justify the time and effort it takes to post in a way that avoids making one "I know what I know"..."so there..." post, after another.
Removing an option that has allowed me to attempt to share, in depth, with other members here, the influences that helped me to form an opinion that they may not have previously considered, seems to conflict with the goal of all of us making an earnest effort to understand and respect each other. We may never reach a consensus on an issue that we discuss here, but this should be a place where reasonable people can display, in detail, for each other, the integrity, substance, accuracy, and level of bias of the information sources that shaped the opinion that they've posted.
IMO these brief, undocumented "drive by" posts contribute to the heightening of polarization, rather than help us to understand where the "other guy" is coming from.
I offered examples here: