German Hostage Found Dead

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(12-19-2023, 05:59 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Declaring your statement to be pompous is not my sharing my feelings.  

You might have a case for "pompous" if I had jumped into this thread laughing at the stupidity of all contributors or if I had told
you that I deal with street people smarter than you everyday, but I've made no such statements, here or anywhere else, to anyone in this forum, ever.

Your "evidence," then, can rest on no specific statement I've made, but only on an overall tone that makes you FEEL diminished.
When you externalize that inner feeling in a public forum, that's sharing, and 
if you attempt to disguise the source by presenting internal feeling as external fact, that's projection. 

(12-19-2023, 05:59 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Except you literally tried to draw an equivalence between the IDF and Hamas.  It's literally right there for all to see.

Criticism of the IDF is fine.  Equating their actions to the murdering, torturing, rapist, dogs of Hamas is not.

What's "right there for all to see" is this statement:

"I do consider shooting people trying to surrender a war crime, and at the same time NOT the equivalent of planned torture and and gang rape" (#117)

and this: 
"Reminding people of the IDF's sordid history of indiscriminate targeting and using women and children as human shields isn't to create "equivalence" but to break what is in effect an ideological constraint on discussion and encourage a more realistic assessment of what is happening in Gaza." 

It is contradictory to say "criticism of the IDF is fine" and then declare criticism "equivalence" to prevent said criticism. 

E.g., You mentioned "torture" this time. Many human rights groups do accuse Israel of torture. That's long standing. 
Is that criticism of the IDF also "fine," or is it also "equating their actions to the murdering, rapist dogs of Hamas"?