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To: Brumar89 who wrote (7446)	3/3/2004 5:01:30 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

All oppression is not equal to genocide I didn't say it was. seems wrong to me to equate lesser forms of oppression as being equivalent to Nazi Germany's genocidal policies and practices Nobody talked about no "equating". Parallels are SIMILARITIES - i.e. oppression of a whole people, in this case. Do you understand what I am talking about? Please say you do. To move just a little further away from Palestine Let's not. That is the subject, and we are not done talking about it. there are Kurds and Greeks currently being oppressed by Turkey Pray tell how (1) the Kurds and (2) the Greeks are currently being oppressed by Turkey. Careful. A couple of links from Google will not help you get the upper hand in this subject :-) Does this mean it is appropriate to compare Turkey and Nazi Germany as parallel situations. There was a time when the parallels were demonstrated, yes. Not recently, and definitely not "currently", though. they are certainly there in the Arab world right down to the very same anti-semitic material being fed to the masses And so what if there is? Does that justify Israeli army occupying Palestinians' land and killing them one by one, denying them access to their jobs, schools, and hospitals, at times dropping bombs from the sky??? No it does not. There is an Israeli Arab city named Umm al Fahm which has been a center of Palestinian unrest within Israel proper. So since it is near the border the idea of letting it be annexed to the Palestinian Authority was floated. (...) Now try to imagine a Jew or Gypsy in Nazi Germany turning down the opportunity to escape. So much for the "parallel I have not said Arab citizens of Israel are being oppressed. I said Palestinians in the Palestinian territories currently being occupied by Israel are being oppressed. If you don't see the difference, I don't know how we can possibly debate on the subject. Or, alternatively, you know exactly what I am saying, but instead of confronting the issue itself, are creating nonexistent issues to attack. I believe that is a logical fallacy called "straw man".