Phoenall, montelatici, Challenger, Roudy, et al,
For most of my time participating in the "Israel and Palestine Forum" the general process involved has been adversarial; more concerned with resolving sport and narrow controversies than with finding the ultimate truth and a workable solution. There has been a plethora of sources used in this forum; anywhere from papers written by prisoners, to designer dissertations by ever well respected personalities. One of the unique problems of this forum is that it is adversarial in the conventional sense
(pro 'versus' con); but, the two principle opponents
(pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian) are both on the positive side of the same question. Yet in the reality of the situation is that they both are 180º out of sync with each other and with their interpretations of reality being blinded to evidence in fact. One aspect that is seen more than any other is the concept of "propaganda." Each side professes to claims that they
condemn all forms of propaganda which is either designed or likely to provoke or encourage and threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression.
Propaganda is a systematic effort to persuade; not unlike a debate; with each opponent attempting to use the art of persuasion to their advantage. Thus the issue is not the truth or falsehood of what is said. Depending on your perspective or approach to the Israel-Palestine Forum, you might observe
(through powers of deduction) the two general ways in which both sides use the techniques:
- Propaganda is the spreading of information and ideas to advance a cause or discredit an opposing cause.
- Propaganda is spreading of information and ideas to advance a cause or discredit an opposing cause.
Both of these techniques attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognition, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the agenda, using what evidence and logic there is to project the image towards the expected outcome.
In learning the craft of rhetoric, . . . critics have deliberately drawn distinctions between rhetoric and propaganda. On the other hand, evidence of the conflation of rhetoric and propaganda, under the general notion of
persuasion, has become increasingly obvious, especially in the forum, where forum participants seem incapable of differentiating among the suasory forms
(both out of Necessity and dangerously close to Paradox) of communication pervasive now in our heavily mediated society. . . .
never yet came across a terrorist arse licker or a leftist moron that could utter more than 2 words truthfully.
Now that's funny. You are a pathological liar. I haven't see you post one fact on this site. All you do is repeat Zionist propaganda.
So all your links are Zionist propaganda are they Abdul, because I have used thos to prove you wrong and to be a RACIST LIAR.
Want to post table 1 again that tells the truth about land ownership?
99% of my links are to UN archives, academic archives or similar and represent fact. All you have proven is that you are a poor propagandist and even less capable liar.
(COMMENT)
It is important to note that the label
“ad hominem” is ambiguous, and that not every kind of
"ad hominem" argument is fallacious. But as I have said before,
"There is no universally accepted definition of lying to others. The
OED definition of lying is as follows:
To lie =df to make a false statement with the intention to deceive.
There are several problems with this definition. According to it, a person who makes a statement that she believes to be true — a person who makes a truthful statement — with the intention to deceive another person, is lying, if, unbeknownst to her, the statement is false."
SOURCE: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"Questions central to the philosophical discussion of lying to others and other-deception (or interpersonal deceiving) may be divided into two kinds.
- Questions of the first kind are definitional. They include the questions of how lying is to be defined, and how deceiving is to be defined, and whether lying is a form of intended deception.
- Questions of the second kind are moral. They include the questions of whether lying and deceiving are (defeasibly --- meaning capable of being annulled or invalidated) morally wrong, and whether, if either lying or deception, or both, are defeasibly morally wrong, they are ever morally obligatory, and not just merely morally permissible. SOURCE: SEP
You will notice that I nearly always choose to challenge questionable or incorrect data with evidentiary remarks from an unimpeachable source; the is the capable of being annulled or invalidated by verifiable sources.
EXAMPLE: We have a member who is quite fond of saying:
General Assembly Resolution 181(II) "never happened." I do not counter with "You are a pathological liar" OR that You are a "Zionist propagandist" OR You are a "RACIST LIAR."
(Bad form and bad behavior.) In stead, I counter with a very strong public statement that take the form of a
UN Press Release PAL/169 17 May 1948, which says: "In fact the resolution of last November 29 has been implemented."
I make a difference between good manners and good breeding; Politeness works everywhere, all the time. Even in this discussion group and forum.
Most Respectfully,
R