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Misskittycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-06-06 03:22 PM
Response to Reply #71
79. Try rephrasing your title to something like "supporting Israel's
actions in Lebanon is not making Israel any safer, but places that country in more danger."

But the way you've phrased it does not lead to a good, productive, civil discussion. Your title is highly provocative and the phrase "actually anti-Semitic" is a bit nonsensical in this context.

Also, "the war crimes Israel is committing" is an unduly hot-button way of furthering a civil and legitimate discussion on the key point I think you're trying to make: that is, that a true friend of Israel should not blindly approve some of the actions in this current Israel/Lebanon/Hizbollah mess.

Somewhere else, in an entirely separate thread, it may be appropriate for you to calmly a) express your opinion on what is a "war crime," (b) the basis for your alleged knowledge of the facts actually going on right now; and (c) your opinion that some current actions of Israel meet that definition.

But this particular thread is hurt by the way you've presented it. You've acknowledged elsewhere that some posters' inflammatory language has poisoned the atmosphere but your continued use of language that you must know is "hot-button" is counterproductive to your main point. It instantly puts people on the defensive and detracts from your ideas and credibility.

Oh -- and you might want to lose the "idiots" reference as well.


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