georgephillip,
et al,
- (W)hich country has been the greatest instigator of death on this planet during your entire lifetime?
- Which country has maimed, murdered, and displaced millions of children from Korea to Kosovo?
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These are one and the same question. I suppose that I would have to say either:
- Khmer Rouge and the Pol Pot Regime in Cambodia, 1975-1979, 2,000,000 killed.
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- Hutu militia killing 6,000 to 10,000 a day, a total of about 800,000 deaths in Rwanda in 1994.
Which country has propped up Israeli terror in Lebanon for two generations.
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This presupposes that Israel instigated some terror operation against Lebanon.
The Israeli-Lebanese disputes are part of the longer and larger Arab-Israeli conflict. It starts with the 1948 participation of Lebanon in the invasion of Israel when it opposed the Independence of Israel.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), cross-border raiding invited violent retaliatory raids. Israel understand that the local inhabitants of South Lebanon, which openly supported the PLO, suffered; but, it was an inevitable consequence - one that was expected.
The introduction of the muslims in support of PLO operations against Israel was a major contributing factor to the civil war. However in about 1975, tensions between the Lebanese Christians, the Lebanese Muslims, and the PLO ignited a into a bloody civil war. Then (only when it was relatively safe) Syria sent a 40,000 "peace-keepers" into Eastern Lebanon on the side of the Muslims and PLO and opposed the Lebanese Christian.
The 1978 PLO attacks from southern Lebanon into northern Israel provoked a series of responses that continue even to today.
So Syria was the major force behind the combative behaviors in the Muslim+PLO versus Lebanese Christian fighting.
Which I understand why someone as ignorant and ill-educated as Hoss believes an accident of birth makes these questions academic
Why do you?
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I believe these kinds of question are not about the answers. No matter what the answer truly is, it will not satisfy the questioner unless the answer condemns Israel
(a prerequisite condition for the respect due the answer). It is not really about truth - justice - accountability - human rights, but about an active adversarial defense to support a counter-position to justify continued hostilities on the part of the Palestinian.
I'm not entirely sure that your characterization of "Hossfly's" position does him justice, or gives fair hearing to his thesis.
Most Respectfully,
R