03-16-2024, 12:04 PM
(03-15-2024, 11:10 PM)Dill Wrote: The oversimplification here--I just can't let it pass. You've equated Hamas to the Soviet Union--both "evil."
But we allied with the Soviet Union during WWII. I.e., we chose to "align" with them, believing we knew their "exact intentions."
Ahh, someone has never heard f the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Let's also ignore the sentiment, most exemplified by Patton, that the Soviets should have been next after Germany fell.
Quote:Few believe that made the US "Communist apologists/supporters."
Because they weren't.
Quote:But that whole analogy is out of kilter because no one in this forum has "allied/joined" with or "defended" Hamas "knowing their intentions."
You mean no one except you.
Quote:You just claim "plenty of evidence" for that because people introduce reporting and other information which doesn't obey your rule:
TRUST everything the IDF says and DISTRUST anything which contradicts them, whether it comes from Hamas or not.
Incorrect, as I have stated repeatedly. I distrust anything that comes from Hamas because I don't think trusting a terrorist organization is ever a good idea.
Quote:The "Hamas apologism" you see everywhere up and down the forum you've implicitly defined as any challenge to the IDF version of the war.
Again, incorrect. I see continued and strident attempts to equate Hamas to the IDF or Israeli government as Hamas apologism.
Quote:I have "zero issue" with labeling you as "GOP supporting," given your extensive and repeated support for GOP policies and Trump SCOTUS choices and constant attacks on something you call "the left." I'd call that behavior "aligning" with the GOP or "Right wing apologism."
Resolutely attacking "the Left" and defending right wing politics while disavowing that you are right winger doesn't make you a Republican or conservative any more than it makes you some kind of impartial, centrist "independent" who avoids extremes.
Thank you. You literally just stated why my calling you an apologist for Hamas is both accurate, by your own standards, and allowable.
Quote:You do "cry" about being labelled though, as you exempt yourself from the standards you apply to others.
Someone doesn't know the definition of the word "cry".
Quote:And applying labels like "Hamas apologist" and "terrorist supporter" to people in this forum looks rather like an emotional, way-over-the-top attempt to generate "fear of causing offense"; so people will "tip toe" around Israeli behavior they would "lambast" in anyone else. You are quite alone in the extremism of your rhetoric here.
Not to people, to you. You are quite alone in the extremism of your rhetoric here.
