Lefty Lunacy

Apr 18, 2006 10:21

Behind the lj-cut is an argument I had with a lefty acquaintance regarding the recent terrorist bombing in Tel Aviv which killed nine people and wounded over 50 at a food stand. Among the ridiculous arguments he makes are:
-It's perfectly acceptable that Hamas supports terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians (in fact, it would be "unreasonable to demand that they condemn these attacks")
-Israel should negotiate with Hamas even though Hamas doesn't recognize Israel's right to exist
-It's perfectly acceptable for Palestinian terrorists to strap bombs on mentally challenged kids to send them to die in order to murder Jews ("mentally challenged people don't make choices?")

I'm presenting the convo unedited, so you'll see that I lose my cool a few times. That's the problem with arguing with idiots; they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. Here's the convo in its full glory:

Socrates374 (11:55:56 PM): hey

Socrates374 (11:59:55 PM): just wondering what you make of this quote: Sami Abu Zuhri, the official spokesman for Hamas, said it was "a natural result of the continued Israeli crimes" against Palestinians. "Our people are in a state of self-defence and they have every right to use all means to defend themselves," he added.

Socrates374 (12:00:25 AM): interesting rhetoric for a terrorist attack

Socrates374 (12:01:32 AM): they're not responsible for it, but they are not willing to create divisions among the Palestinian factions.

Socrates374 (12:01:57 AM): It seems to me that they fear infighting as much as they fear Israel.

Socrates374 (12:02:03 AM): just my interpretation

Socrates374 (12:15:02 AM): and also I can't forget to mention, george ryan the first republican of many yet to come, to go to prison.

HebrewHammer777 (12:28:01 AM): haven't been keeping up w/ the news so much so I don't know who George Ryan is

HebrewHammer777 (12:28:14 AM): but what the terrorist said is disgusting

HebrewHammer777 (12:28:38 AM): "we have the right to murder Jewish civilians while they shop for produce... in self-defense"

Socrates374 (12:30:42 AM): they didn't do it though

Socrates374 (12:30:49 AM): Hamas, that is

HebrewHammer777 (12:30:54 AM): right, Hezbollah did

HebrewHammer777 (12:31:01 AM): but Hamas supported it

Socrates374 (12:31:02 AM): no,

Socrates374 (12:31:06 AM): Islamic jihad

Socrates374 (12:31:19 AM): hamas didn't know about it until it happened

Socrates374 (12:31:42 AM): you know, there are competing factions on the Palestinian side

Socrates374 (12:32:22 AM): somebody wanted to fuck stuff up when hamas was seeking aid abroad

HebrewHammer777 (12:33:42 AM): Hezbollah *is* Islamic Jihad

Socrates374 (12:33:49 AM): because Islamic Jihad knows that we will hold Hamas responsible no matter who sends the bobmber out there

HebrewHammer777 (12:33:54 AM): and yes, I know that the Palestinians aren't united

HebrewHammer777 (12:33:58 AM): neither are the Israelis

Socrates374 (12:34:07 AM): obviously

HebrewHammer777 (12:34:13 AM): but the Palestinian terrorist groups are united on one issue: killing Jews

Socrates374 (12:34:55 AM): dude, perhaps we shouldn't look for excuses to stop a peace settlement from being reached

Socrates374 (12:35:08 AM): you can't hold hamas responsible for this attack

HebrewHammer777 (12:35:35 AM): I'm not holding them responsible for the attack

Socrates374 (12:35:47 AM): good,

HebrewHammer777 (12:35:47 AM): I'm holding them responsible for condoning and supporting the attack

HebrewHammer777 (12:36:02 AM): you can't make peace with someone who supports murdering your civilians

Socrates374 (12:36:23 AM): you know they can't do anything to start a civil war among the palestinian factions

Socrates374 (12:36:36 AM): it's a practical matter

Socrates374 (12:37:33 AM): condemning or trying to "police" Islamic Jihad would only create violence amongst each other, which is what they don't want

Socrates374 (12:37:50 AM): its unreasonable to demand that they condemn these attacks

HebrewHammer777 (12:39:15 AM): you've just reached the point of no return

HebrewHammer777 (12:39:24 AM): "its unreasonable to demand that they condemn these attacks"

HebrewHammer777 (12:39:34 AM): then it's unreasonable for Israel to make peace

Socrates374 (12:39:44 AM): considering their position, it is pointless

Socrates374 (12:40:15 AM): no its not unreasonable to make peace

HebrewHammer777 (12:41:17 AM): YOU CAN'T MAKE PEACE WITH PEOPLE WHO THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA TO MURDER YOUR CIVILIANS

HebrewHammer777 (12:41:21 AM): it's not that they don't want peace

HebrewHammer777 (12:41:29 AM): it's that THEY CAN'T HAVE IT WITH HAMAS

HebrewHammer777 (12:41:32 AM): end of story!

Socrates374 (12:41:38 AM): if you make peace, there will no longer be murder

HebrewHammer777 (12:41:59 AM): and how do you propose they "make peace"?

Socrates374 (12:42:07 AM): don't you think the palestinians want peace?

Socrates374 (12:42:22 AM): of course they do, they're the occupied people

HebrewHammer777 (12:42:26 AM): not according to what they say

HebrewHammer777 (12:42:31 AM): and you didn't answer my question

Socrates374 (12:42:46 AM): they don't say they want war, they say they are willing to wage it

HebrewHammer777 (12:42:50 AM): they don't want peace, they want the death of all the Jews

HebrewHammer777 (12:42:53 AM): there's a difference

HebrewHammer777 (12:42:56 AM): now answer my question

Socrates374 (12:43:19 AM): ok, but first

HebrewHammer777 (12:43:36 AM): no "but first"

HebrewHammer777 (12:43:41 AM): it's late and I'm tired

HebrewHammer777 (12:43:45 AM): just answer the damn question

Socrates374 (12:43:47 AM): why do you think the most radical position in all of islam is somehow commonplace?

Socrates374 (12:44:07 AM): it's a complicated question you ask

HebrewHammer777 (12:44:15 AM): because they're taught from their childhood to hate Jews and Christians

HebrewHammer777 (12:44:31 AM): well you keep saying "Israel should make peace" as though they actually had the power to do it

HebrewHammer777 (12:44:35 AM): I want to know how

Socrates374 (12:44:41 AM): there are plenty of palestinian christians

HebrewHammer777 (12:44:58 AM): just answer the question

HebrewHammer777 (12:45:03 AM): I don't care about these other issues

HebrewHammer777 (12:45:07 AM): how do you think Israel makes peace?

Socrates374 (12:45:16 AM): first of all, you gotta make the west bank a continuous piece of land

Socrates374 (12:45:38 AM): that is, make it navigable for the inhabitants

HebrewHammer777 (12:45:40 AM): it would've been under the Oslo plan

HebrewHammer777 (12:45:50 AM): next

Socrates374 (12:45:59 AM): that's israel's choice

Socrates374 (12:46:10 AM): they can make it that way any time they choose

HebrewHammer777 (12:46:14 AM): right, and the Palestinians *chose* not to accept it

Socrates374 (12:46:39 AM): if the check points are gone, the palestinians don't have to acept it

Socrates374 (12:46:47 AM): they just have to go away

Socrates374 (12:46:54 AM): unilaterally

HebrewHammer777 (12:47:20 AM): the checkpoints are necessary so Palestinians like the one today don't massacre Jews

HebrewHammer777 (12:47:39 AM): Israel can't remove them without at least a guarantee that terrorists won't come pouring through

Socrates374 (12:47:55 AM): but what's the point of chutting up the west bnk within itself?

Socrates374 (12:48:05 AM): cutting?

Socrates374 (12:48:12 AM): bank

HebrewHammer777 (12:48:29 AM): preventing terrorists from moving around

Socrates374 (12:48:41 AM): that's called collective punishment

HebrewHammer777 (12:48:50 AM): no

Socrates374 (12:48:57 AM): it creates more problems than it solves

Socrates374 (12:49:07 AM): it must be done away with

HebrewHammer777 (12:49:08 AM): not really

HebrewHammer777 (12:49:24 AM): so how do you propose Israel stop terrorists from crossing the border with bombs?

Socrates374 (12:49:54 AM): I didn't say the check points at the borders had to be removed

Socrates374 (12:50:00 AM): yet, that is

Socrates374 (12:56:07 AM): second, accept hamas as a negotiating partner, and engage in talks with no preconditions.

HebrewHammer777 (12:57:01 AM): a precondition of any talk must be a recognition of the other party's right to exist, wouldn't you agree?

Socrates374 (12:57:20 AM): absolutely not

Socrates374 (12:57:50 AM): the only precondition is to recognize that the other side exists at all

Socrates374 (12:58:17 AM): the fact that it is there, not whether that fact is just

Socrates374 (12:58:36 AM): Israel is not going to disappear and Hamas knows that

HebrewHammer777 (12:58:39 AM): oh really? because the Palestinians don't even have Israel on the maps they teach in school

HebrewHammer777 (12:58:54 AM): Hamas *wants* Israel to disappear though

Socrates374 (12:58:56 AM): they probably can't afford new ones anayway

HebrewHammer777 (12:59:18 AM): okay, now you're just being ridiculous

Socrates374 (12:59:25 AM): yeah, but they don't expect that they will succeed in doing that

Socrates374 (12:59:40 AM): they're really fucking poor!!!

HebrewHammer777 (12:59:43 AM): they fully expect that they'll destroy Israel

HebrewHammer777 (12:59:48 AM): no, they're really fucking rich!

Socrates374 (12:59:51 AM): that's absurd

HebrewHammer777 (12:59:52 AM): Arafat was a billionaire!

HebrewHammer777 (1:00:02 AM): they have BILLIONS of dollars from America and the EU

Socrates374 (1:00:05 AM): he's one man

HebrewHammer777 (1:00:14 AM): it's just that they put it all in the pockets of the thugs and the top

Socrates374 (1:00:15 AM): and he didn't spend that money on maps I bet

HebrewHammer777 (1:00:19 AM): the rest they spend on weapons

Socrates374 (1:00:52 AM): what is the unemployment rate?

HebrewHammer777 (1:00:58 AM): extremely high

Socrates374 (1:00:59 AM): 70%?

Socrates374 (1:01:06 AM): 80%?

HebrewHammer777 (1:01:11 AM): because they care more about murdering Jews than fostering an economy

Socrates374 (1:01:14 AM): something like that

Socrates374 (1:01:26 AM): commerce requires movement

HebrewHammer777 (1:01:28 AM): when Israel gave them farms full of the most advanced equipment in the world

HebrewHammer777 (1:01:31 AM): they burned them down!

Socrates374 (1:01:32 AM): wouldn't you agree?

HebrewHammer777 (1:01:38 AM): and smashed the equipment!

HebrewHammer777 (1:01:57 AM): commerce requires movement... and if they want to move, they have to stop murdering people

HebrewHammer777 (1:02:10 AM): they are reaping what they sow

Socrates374 (1:02:17 AM): that's such a minority in the population

HebrewHammer777 (1:02:33 AM): really?

HebrewHammer777 (1:02:40 AM): that "minority" was democratically elected

Socrates374 (1:02:52 AM): yeah, they could all be killing themselves

Socrates374 (1:03:14 AM): apparently not all of hamas consists of suicide bombers!!!

HebrewHammer777 (1:03:32 AM): no, they just send 17 year olds and mentally challenged kids to do their dirty work

Socrates374 (1:03:46 AM): they are a small part of Hamas even

HebrewHammer777 (1:04:07 AM): why would Arafat blow himself up when he had a few billion bucks to live the high life?

Socrates374 (1:04:14 AM): those kids chose to do it

HebrewHammer777 (1:04:26 AM): even the mentally challenged ones?

Socrates374 (1:04:36 AM): apparently

HebrewHammer777 (1:04:40 AM): wow

HebrewHammer777 (1:04:40 AM): okay

HebrewHammer777 (1:04:42 AM): I'm done

HebrewHammer777 (1:04:44 AM): you're crazy

Socrates374 (1:04:56 AM): mentally challenged people don't make choices?

HebrewHammer777 (1:05:02 AM): you're an idiot

Socrates374 (1:05:13 AM): where did this idea come from?

Socrates374 (1:05:22 AM): I didn't say he made a good choice

HebrewHammer777 (1:05:40 AM): end of story

HebrewHammer777 (1:05:46 AM): there can be no more debate after that

Socrates374 (1:06:00 AM): have you read baghdad burning?

HebrewHammer777 (1:06:01 AM): you just defended sending mentally challenged people to kill themselves and other people

HebrewHammer777 (1:06:05 AM): game over

HebrewHammer777 (1:06:07 AM): you lose

Socrates374 (1:06:08 AM): no I didn't

lunacy, israel, islam, terrorism

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