I have addressed it but you choose to ignore it. So here it is again:
"Being a born to a Bahai family has nothing to do with the state of having prejudice toward Islam. This is again another statement that shows your own prejudice and ignorance.
I am however against any political ideology that kills and tortures others for expressing a different opinion be it a RADICAL ISLAM, RADICAL CHRISTIANITY or JUDAISM and ..."
I read it, I didn't ignore it. I just don't put much value on that statement since I do not regard you to have the requisite objectivity to believe in it.
"two parties are equally bad" ??!!! "kase zire nim case." ??!!!
Again, it seems like your prejeduce is blinding you so much that you are not able to read correctly or understand others. I am not going to play the muslim card here like you did with the Bahai but when we say both side are responsible we are not trying to quantify the responsibility of events that expand over 70 years.
I am saying that there are TWO side to the conflict and both side have history of violence and killing and ... BOTH SIDES have extremists that are benefiting from bloodshed, both side have done terrible human right violations over the years and BOTH side have moderates who are calling for lasting peace.
If anything, my view is much more balance than yours who try to make it a EVIL vs GOOD, BLACK vs WHITE and ...
We both know there is 70+ years of history in this conflict and many faces have come and go, there was ups and downs in both sides and involvement of for gin nations and ... You want to make it an absolute and give a FREE PASS CARD to one side and I am saying both side need to look within and find the solution that is offered by the MODERATES on both side.
Your view of HTAE will ONLY bring more hate and more fanaticism to the region.
You can't play the prejudiced card or the muslim card, because I'm not muslim. I'm not jewish, I'm not Israeli nor am I Palestinian. I'm not prejudging anyone.
You're too busy flailing to understand that I didn't make the issue black or white nor did I say that Hamas are with clean hands. I have simply intimated that the atrocities on one side are too real to pretend as if the real issue is a lack of coverage from both sides. No one gets a free pass, but one side is definitely far more culpable than the other. The Israelis are breaking international law with abandon, simply because they're a military power and they also have the US on their side.
Thank you for your honesty my friend
( although you questioned a known fact that Hamas targets civilians by a well placed "if").
Here you claim Hamas is targeting civilians and that is acceptable and understandable
I on the other hand, find the killing of the civilians in the hands of both side unacceptable and find nothing can justify it and hope the people who are benefiting from it be held responsible.
It's not a known fact or really, it depends what and when you're talking about. Other than that, again, you don't understand the statements being made or are too heated to grasp the nuance.
If one small people are being occupied, killed, and having their human rights violated; it's understandable that they will try to hit back at their oppressors. It's a regrettable fact, however; it's not because the Palestinians are the aggressors and Israel have simply replied in kind. What Israel has done is wrong, and it should expect some sort of retaliation. The idea that one side should sit still as it is being picked off one by one and blockaded so that they cannot exit is too insulting for any mature or serious person to countenance.
I know that and I can see your post as an example in which you came out and justified killing civilians in the hands of Hamas.
I didn't justify it, I said it was understandable. I don't like the word justify as justice is a fluid concept in which I don't think the civilian who is generally innocent of wrongdoing (apart from backing a psychotic state). There's a clear juxtaposition, however, to the occupiers who are the ones who not only are committing several breaches of human rights, but they also feign victimhood when the people they are oppressing are retaliating. The two are not the same. So pretending as if they are equally bad is either through ignorance or an agenda.
I guess terrorist killing civilians in the bus stops, markets and ... is just a small scale genocide.
No, it's not genocide at all. What the Israelis are calling for, explicitly, however, is. There's no room for interpretation on that.
The reason I can't take you seriously as an 'impartial' person is because the death toll speaks volumes. Several times more Palestinians are dying (civilians especially) and Israel are not even remotely threatened as a state by them. Yet you talk of Israel as if it is some victimised minority.
It's like someone stealing a TV, the owner punches the thief and then the thief gets his buddies and punches/stabs the other guy. And then we have someone like you in the middle trying to say "hey, let's be even here, he punched him too!"
