On Dec 11, 2:19 pm, Billy > wrote:
> In article >,
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> "Sanity" > wrote:
> > "Jack Schmidling" > wrote in message
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> > > sherwindu wrote:
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> > >> You ought to check your facts before you spout off. Israel never
> > >> got
> > >> any technology from the USA on how to build an atomic bomb
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> > > That is not even worth responding to. It is abject ignorance of reality.
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> > >> Israel doesn't threaten to destroy her neighbors as does Iran.....
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> > > It doesn't have to. It has the bombs. It will just do it when the
> > > opportunity arrives. Iran is impotent and has to rely on ranting.
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> > >>Nor does
> > >> she give aid and comfort to terrorists fighting our troops in Iraq.
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> > > Tell that to the 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israel's
> > > Guantanamo.
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> > > js
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> > Is a person that gets caught firing a rocket into Israel called a 'political
> > prisoner'?
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> No. They are called a resistance fighters which is allowed under the
> Geneva rules for war.

So then the "political prisoners" are prisoners of war. No?

> Jailing children on the other hand is illegal, as
> if the Israeli government cared.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMb1Ye3qpWE

Just wondering... why did you decide this would be your crusade? Do
you live in the US? We actually execute minors here from time to time,
not just imprison them. And of course, the judicial practices of the
various Middle Eastern countries excluding Israel are, in general, not
particularly nice.

And if you want to keep discussing senseless slaughter of civilians,
honestly I don't think Israel is anywhere near the top of the list of
countries; ironically, most of them would be the other Islamic and/or
Arabic countries. I have no doubt that any kid in Darfur would swap
places with a Palestinian kid in a second, and that no Palestinian kid
would reciprocate.

So why have you decided that, rather than spend ten minutes trying to
get the country in which you live to stop executing minors; or failing
that, to see if you could pressure another country to stop
slaughtering women and children in staggering numbers for no reason;
that you would best use the time and effort to see if you could get
Israel to stop jailing however many children they do and presumably
turn the other cheek when attacked, since you seem to be so persuasive
regarding convincing people that they deserve it? I mean, don't ge me
wrong, I'd be more than happy if there were no children in Israelis
prisons, but 1) there are powerul reasons the kids are being put in
prison other than just that the Israelis are acting badly and need a
good talking to "you just stop putting random kids in prison right
now!!" "Ok, I'm sorry", and 2) in terms of reducing human suffering, I
think my time, effort, and outrage are much more productive in other
directions. Heck, even in terms of ending Palestinian suffering, I
don't think encouraging them to keep dropping rockets on Israeli towns
because they are "freedom fighters" is really doing them a good turn.