On 7 Aug 2002 at 17:31, Hermit wrote:
>
> [Joe Dees 1] But the Palestinians kill suspected collaborators all the
> time.
>
> [Hermit 2] Another unsubstantiated and unsubstantiable opinion and
> another attempted equation of harms.
>
> [Hermit 2] How are the mighty fallen.
>
> [Joe Dees 3] Yep, you fell flat on your ass on this one - yet again.
> What part of During the seven-year Palestinian uprising against the
> Israeli occupation, at least 1,200 Palestinians were killed, almost
> half of them by fellow Palestinians who suspected they were
> collaborators with the Israeli military government. don't you
> understand?
>
> [Hermit 4] No Joe. You are being irrational and reading what you wish
> to see, not what is written. Some Palestinians may have killed some
> suspected collaborators. That does not mean that all Palestinians kill
> suspected collaborators.
>
Of course, you know that is not what I said. I said that the Palestinians,
as a group, have done so, and to the tune of half their total intifadeh
deaths. This does not mean that every crone and infant has hung, shot
or stoned a collaborator; just that many Palestinians have, and the
practice is widely accepted within the Palestinian community.
>
> [Hermit 4] You also miss the other crucial point. You cannot equate
> harms. As an example, far more blacks were killed in South Africa by
> ANC supporters than ever were killed by the South African government
> (Refer the previously referenced TRC report). Would you have supported
> that the South African Government starve all blacks into submission in
> an attempt to prevent this?
>
Well, asode from the fact that there are around eitht times as many
black South Africans as there are West Bank and Gazan Palestinians,
so one would expect there to have been more collaborators killed, even
though, as a percentage of the population as a whole, or as a
percentage of total casualties, they might be much less, the reason that
the curfews are in effect is not to protect the collaborators from their
fellow Palestinians, but to protect Israeli civilians from the depredations
of Palestinian suicide bombers.
> Hermit
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