Re: Hamas and Fatah Killing One Another
dangerous argument. Israel already beat the crap out of its arab neighbours, if thats your criteria for legitimacy it can do so many more times.
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^ big difference. US did not come up to mexicans and said...we used to live here 2000 years ago and are here to take the land that is rightfully ours. We beat the crap out of them in a war and took it from them.
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Re the thread: if you create conditions where people are displaced, ghetto-ized, and fighting for whatever scraps they have, you do deserve the blame for creating those conditions.
Seminole... if millions of Native Americans were alive today and living in pitiful squalor as refugees displaced from their homes your analogy would make sense. And yes, any principled person/country would demand that America fairly deal with these people before it is regarded anything other than a criminal state.