"One final point - you call the murder a 'mistake'. Would you be so casual and dismissive if the 'mistake' happened in Israel or LA, the victim was an Israeli or an American and the killers were Arab?"
More equivalency where none exists.
The human rights record, self-examination, democratic values, political system and myriad other things do not require me to treat Israeli and US mistakes the way I would Arab ones. How would one recognize an Arab "mistake?" Most of their mistakes are in getting caught, like Hariri.
There is a reason that the US did not join the International Court of Criminal Justice. Such institutions are needed only by countries, like all the Arab ones, who have no internal justice, abysmal human rights and no press freedom. Why would a country who publicizes Abu Ghraib as if it were the atrocity of the century need external censure?
You are treading in dangerous water when you compare misdeeds by Israel or US to misdeeds by Arab countries.
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Please stop, you're scaring me.