Jäeger wrote:It's the equivalent of posting a "Negroes for the KKK" website
Oh, I get it. This is a little test of critical thinking, to see if I can identify a totally absurd analogy. It would only work if it was
Palestinians applying Jim Crow laws, doing the oppressing, segregating and lynching, not Israelis, with some of the settlers playing the KKK role. Or if these European Jews were actually Palestinians, urging the Israeli state to come down harder on them.
These people pointing out the dangers of the occupation and growth of West Bank settlements and asking politicians to step up the pressure for an urgent resolution of the conflict for Israel's sake are more like white Americans active in the civil rights movement, or white South Africans abroad active in the anti-apartheid movement than "Negroes for the KKK". Plenty more European Jews are voicing their concerns after the flotilla affair, just as more started speaking up after the invasion of Lebanon in 2006, and the assault on Gaza in 2008-9. These things have a cumulative effect.
I don't suppose anything, I'm about as epistemologically sure of your hatefullness as I am of gravity.
More closely analogous to being sure of the essential goodness of god, I'd say, given the evidence. (Though at least we both know I actually exist.)
Pretty rich coming from the person who has driven off more interesting and debatable persons than I can care to count.
Come on, you'll be blaming me for the absence of Rob Krott next (and for the record, he'd long gone before I ever set virtual foot in the place). Of the posters you used to like debating with, as far as I remember, flipflop, coldharvest, redharen, Ultra Swain, marie-angelique, Vincent, Farmdog, kilroy, seektravelinfo, Woodsman, friendlyskies, Tarkan, Bobby Sands, Q, among others, all either never left or have come back. Even nowonmai has put in an appearance, which I didn't expect. Yes, I miss ROB, Stiv and dim too, and to the extent that I was or may have been partly or wholly responsible for their leaving, then I'm sorry, as you know, and have been trying to make amends. I hope one day they will come back (if they haven't already, under different names - and clearly some of the "new" posters are familiar enough with the board and its members to be old hands).
Who else of these so numerous "interesting and debatable persons" could you list if you did "care to count"? Are you really missing denise? Jefe and Jumper, perhaps, as you seem to have a particular affinity for these gung-ho military types.
Still, I'd better not distract you further from following my suggestion (excellent! More, please) that you start engaging in other topics with people you like debating with, rather than wasting your time with me.
Shes never interfered with me. I have no complaints about her.
Same here.
Mega ditto.
I met her once and I found her to be a nice lady. Not kookey in any way.
Penta has always been gracious, kind and very sane in all my interactions with her.