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To: the_second_moon
One man's trash is another's treasure just as your terrorist is somebody else's patriot.

Cool the rhetoric, get out of the settlements, open Jerusalem and stop the target practice.

President Bush has put off moving the embassy to Jerusalem...that is a good sign. Tel-Aviv has served Israel well.

39 posted on 12/18/2001 10:50:01 AM PST by harrowup
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To: harrowup
get out of the settlements

Any other places Jews should be prohibited from living?

63 posted on 12/18/2001 11:08:41 AM PST by BenF
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To: harrowup
Now that is a stupid comment, in fact that is false. A terrorist is someone who attacks civilians with the goal of terrorizing the population. There is no space here for debate, if you attack with the intent of killing innocents, you are a terrorist. The targets of the criminals in the middle east, are not military therefore they are terrorists period.
137 posted on 12/18/2001 1:24:32 PM PST by veryconernedamerican
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To: harrowup
your terrorist is somebody else's patriot.

While there are some gray areas, for the most part this is just not true. The Patriot defends, or attacks the attackers. A terrorist goes after innocents. Often as not, to deliberately provoke a response in order to rally it's own people against "the others". Young folks out for a Pizza are not soldiers of the oppressor. People going to work in a skyscraper or taking a plane trip are not soldiers or oppressors either. While the Pentagon might be considered a military target, if one is at war with the United States or desires to be, the people on the airplane were not military targets at all, nor were they simply collaterall damage, since killing them was an inherent part of the "action".

The statment above can be said often enough that some people will actually believe it, but not all people.

157 posted on 12/18/2001 2:35:09 PM PST by El Gato
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To: harrowup
One man's trash is another's treasure just as your terrorist is somebody else's patriot.
Clearly what you say here is a true statement. Mohammed Atta was Bin Laden's patriot. The audience that roared here are Arafat's, and vice versa. Gerry Adams has his fans.

These are handy bright-line tests. If one considers those involved in terrorism patriots, then one is a blight on the world.

The attempted moral relativism is mind boggling.

327 posted on 12/21/2001 2:56:33 AM PST by Hugh Akston
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