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flstf · 08-24-2006, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by host

IMO, you made a reasonable statement, and then you "picked a side".
Why did you omit "extremists", after, "In the case of Israel"? Isn't anyone who kills others to take their land, or to attempt to take it back, by definition, an "extremist"?

Weren't the states of Georgia and Illinois, and the federal government, in the 1830's, extremists? If you "side" with Israel, wouldn't you also have to "side" with the descendants of the native American Cherokee and the Miami, to be consistent in the rationale of your "sidedness"?

Does the rhetoric of a "side", earn that "side" the "extremist" label, as in "we are committed to driving the zionist devils into the sea, via jihad", but the actual violence that a "side" commits, either against members of the other "side", or in the 1830's in the US, and in Israel, today.....the violence committed, both against the other "side", and against the established law on their own "side", earn an "extremist" label?

I don't doubt that the Europeans and then the Colonists did many unjust things to the Native Americans in order to take the land that they lived on. Just as I don't doubt that Native Americans also fought with each other over the same lands.

The reason I used the term extremist in the case of Israel's enemies is not just because they want the land but because they also seem to want to destroy western culture for religious reasons.