okie wrote:Cycloptichorn wrote:
In this case, your analogy is terrible, because Israel was never in any real danger as a nation. Their response is the equivalent of you killing or maiming someone who threw a pebble at your front door. Sure, it'll stop their actions, but will it make you safer in the long run?
Cycloptichorn
So blowing up buses, suicide bombs in markets, lobbing missiles into cities, kidnapping soldiers, etc., and threatening to wipe the country off the map, is like throwing a pebble at their front door? Are you mentally okay, cyclops? You are trying very hard to be a terrorist apologist. I think you are succeeding. I suppose Hitler was simply throwing pebbles at other peoples front door too? He was simply misunderstood, is that it?
This is not that complicated. Simplify the problem, which is, do you believe Israel should survive and have a right to defend itself, or perhaps you do not? Again, which is it?
Yes, minor provocations and acts of terrorism are like throwing pebbles or small rocks at your front door.
You don't seem to understand that none of those acts threaten the integrity of Israel. None. They ruin people's lives, individually, but in no way is Israel threatened with non-survival by pinpricks such as this.
9/11 was a greater example of the same thing. I've said it before: countries
cannot be taken over by terrorism! Terrorism is not the same thing as armed incursion by a force into one's country! At best, they can damage the country and scare the populace.
To compare this to having a grenade thrown into one's house (which will blow your house up and 'destroy' your country) shows that you don't understand the nature of terrorism nor of this conflict, Okie. The rest of your hyperventilating in that post I'll ignore rather than ridicule you about.
Cycloptichorn
