Reply #81: Sacrosanct? [View All]

[Violet_Crumble]

I'm not one of those people who hold the bizarre belief that the IDF is being honest all the time or being dishonest all the time. There's a middle ground, and unless you can give some credible evidence for why withdrawing their statement wasn't because there actually wasn't a gun on the premises of a non-violent group, I'll take the withdrawal at face value. Y'know, like Bush's backtracking on his claim in the State of the Union Address that Saddam Hussein was trying to obtain uranium from Nigeria. Accepting that he'd backtracked on a falsehood doesn't make me believe everything he says is sacrosanct...

What about the tunnel she was guarding? Didn't she know it was for arms smuggling?

Thanks for the example of black propaganda. What tunnel, Gimel? She was trying to protect a house. This was covered by someone else in this thread so I assume you either ignored or didn't see the post. Read and learn. Ask questions, even :)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=124&topic_id=15968#16935

While we're talking about the ISM, it's interesting when remembering posts from people suggesting that non-violence resistance would be the preferable way for the Palestinian people to respond. I totally agree with that, but I've wondered how successful or effective it would be. Seeing the almost frenzied attacks on ISM and its activists from some progressives on this forum, I kind of suspect that it wouldn't matter how non-violent Palestinian resistance became - Israel would still accuse them of terrorism anyway...

Violet...