Originally posted by toastman
Jose, you have it all wrong. This thread is not to dehumanize people, it is just a rebuttal to the repetitive claims of Palestinians and their supporters that they are the same people that have lived on the land between the river and the sea for centuries.
If I could just make a suggestion..if you are not sure what the intention of a certain thread is, why don't you just ask the OP for an honest answer ?
When FY says Palestinians are a "made-up people" and you agree with him 100% you do not leave much to the immagination, toastman.
Even with all the good will in the world I'd still have to conclude you joined him in dehumanizing the palestinian people.
Listen, I can say freely:
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The modern jewish people are not descendants from the ancient jewish people who lived in the Middle East before the diaspora."
You can say without any fear:
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Palestinians do not descend from Canaanites, Philistines or any other biblical people." (if you say this I will be the first poster to side with you on this one).
We won't be dehumanising neither the modern jewish people nor Palestinians because pointing out the fact that
MITHOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF PEOPLES are indeed the product of the human imagination is not dehumanization, it's not an offense, it's telling the truth and the truth cannot be dehumanising, offensive.
If there are thin-skinned Jews and Palestinians who find this fact offensive, this is their problem not ours. They are the ones who have to find a way to come to terms with the reality of their ancient ancestry and not try to shout us down or intimidate us into not talking about a uncomfortable, painful truth.
But if I say:
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The modern jewish people is a made-up people".
or you say (as FY and you really did):
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Palestinians are a made-up people".
then we are definitely crossing the red line and entering the realm of the dehumanization of a group of human beings through the denial of their national identity.