Devasahayam, you won't be able to use logic in your dialogue with Debanjan...

Submitted by Leonid Tokman (United States), Apr 12, 2010 at 19:57

...even though you make a very valid argument.

The reason Debanjan is looking for "specks" in Israel is very simple -- he hates Israel and Jews, and so in a good time-tested tradition of all antisemites, tries to find "the rational reasons" why he hates.

A few hundred years ago, he would have said that Jews prepare their holiday bread out of blood of Christian babies -- by the way, some Arab leaders claim that even today! (e.g. Mustafa Tlass, Syrian Defense Minister) .

But Debanjan wants to be "sophisticated", unlike those coarse bigots. So he finds other reasons, like claiming that Israel is an apartheid state. And, of course, nothing could be further from the truth -- as a matter of fact Israel is the only real democracy in that region of the world, surrounded by many countries that heavily discriminate against their citizens. But those happen to be Muslim countries, and so Debanjan does not worry about them. His focus is on the most evil country in the world -- Israel.

So, Devasahayam, don't waste your time on this discussion anymore, and neither will I. You can't change a bigot -- he starts out with hatred and is not looking to find the truth -- he only wants to collect "evidence" supporting his hatred, regardless of whether that "evidence" is true or not.

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