Quote Mintball="Mintball"One might well ask: terrorists according to whom? Did you accept that Nelson Mandela was a 'terrorist' because Margaret Thatcher said so?'"
Terrorists according to me. People who plant bombs on buses and scuttle away. I don’t speak for anyone but myself.
Quote MintballAnd that does not change the fact that you decided that, rather than discuss the topic, as the discussion had begun – not how you predicted it would go – you would make a post that would, straight away, discredit the OP and the topic as being discussed at the time.'"
If praising terrorists, and not just Palestinian terrorists, discredits said poster, why are we supposed to be hiding the fact they have praised terrorists?
You have focussed on a small part of a much larger post, to try and shut down criticism of a standpoint you agree with.
Besides, I didn’t say that anything in the OP was even discredited by them praising terrorist. I simply said that if this became the usual excuse for him to praise terorrists, others to sling mud at Israel and others to say anti-semitic things then defend themselves from being called anti-semitic with the ‘you cant say anything these days’ argument it would be boring.
Quote MintballGood. At least we have that clear. But there are reasons for being exceptionally clear about the issue, which using the phrase 'the state of Israel' does – hopefully avoiding (at least to an extent) precisely the kind of response that the OP was about and, indeed, the reaction that you leapt in with.'"
I didnt jump in with any response which conflated individual israeli's with the state of israel. Up until now I'd assumed we were all using anti-israel as anti-state of israel and we all were. I have no idea why you are hiding behind a possible confusion that didnt actually occur.
