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Any 'pro-Palestinian' atheists here?

Yes. The point is that the "human rights in Palestine" folks are inevitably mysteriously silent when the human rights violations cannot be blamed on the evil Jooooooooz, which shows the real motivation behind their facade.

It is just like during the heydays of the Oslo accord: the same folks who would constantly go on and on about human rights violations by the IDF in city X would mysteriously, and immediately, go utterly silent about any human rights violations in the same city the minute it was tranferred to Palestinian control.

A Palestinian state would mean the end of human rights for Palestinians, not their beginning, since there are practically no human rights in most Arab or Muslim countries. It would also be the end of the concern of the "human rights" folks for the Palestinians whose human rights are violated. So long as there are no Jews / Americans to blame, they just don't care.
 
As far as I can tell, the position of the pro-Palestine people is that Palestinians aren't fully human, and therefore can't be held to the same standards of human rights as actual human beings.

Therefore, we have one standard for actual human beings (like Israelis) and another for sub-humans (like Palestinians).

Therefore, it's acceptable to be outraged outraged outraged over a proposed loyalty oath for new Israeli immigrants, while Palestinians can throw their political opposition off of 10 story buildings after torturing them for days with hardly a ho-hum.
 
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Thunder said:
well for one thing, it doesn't mean that I consider Palestinians to not be human beings.

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Stop fluffing your post count and say what you actually mean.

When you claim to 'hold Israelis to a higher standard' what, exactly, does that mean?
 
Undesired Walrus said:
Surely nobody is 'anti-Palestinian'?
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No. I certainly am not. I'm quite happy to contribute to the Palestinian economy when I can and I wish them the best of luck creating their own state.

I'm guessing that the words "pro-Palestinian" are being used in inverted commas because really those "pro-Palestinians" about whom the OP is talking are really, at best anti-Israelis! Then again perhaps many of them are deeply involved with the cause of independent East Turkestan, Abkhazia, Western Sahara etc... etc...
 
IDB87 said:
When you say you hold Israelis to a higher standard, what does that mean?
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It's a cute name for "I am using a double standard but somehow it's a GOOD thing".

The truly odd thing is that usually a double standard is unfair to ONE side. Parky manages to use a double standard that's unfair to BOTH sides: holding the Israelies to such impossibly high standards they are condemned no matter what, and holding the Palestinians to such pathetically low standards they are obviously considered no better than beasts in his view.
 
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Undesired Walrus said:
Surely nobody is 'anti-Palestinian'?
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I am.

It's an ideology not a nationality.

Their ancestors left in 1948 on the strength of Nasser's promise to exterminate the Jews.

But other Arabs stayed and have been living more or less in peace in Israel ever since.
 
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