More of the same?... Yeah, the same sophistry!

Submitted by Moshe (Israel), Feb 10, 2007 at 16:36

Sword, your nerve to systematically accuse me of your own shortcomings is indeed remarkable. You are outdoing even our most primitive and retarded Muslim contributors, whom till now I thought that are leaders in this field of accusing everybody else of their own retardation and of all the rest of their problems.. Sorry that you force me to repeat myself already for the third time, but again more than half of your post looks as if you were talking about yourself…..to yourself.

"Changing the subject?" Who is changing the subject? I still believe that from the start we are talking about what would have happened in a theoretical, imaginary world (fantasized by you) in which Great Britain wouldn't have been involved in the Palestinian developments. Just to make sure that you did not "forget" in the course of your brilliant "alacrity with words ", and to keep you anchored to the subject, we are still talking about your initial bombastic rant that "Without the British, the Jews would have 0% of Palestine. Fact."

Another arrogant claim made by you was that "The fundamental difference between our reasoning is that mine is based on what actually happened rather than assumptions about what might have happened, which is strictly your area of expertise." But notwithstanding, surprisingly in this case you claim expertise not only in the area of the "assumptions about what might have happened" but in fact you are trying to convince us that you actually know with certainty "what might have happened"

Sword. can you explain this brutally inconsistent line of reasoning? Or is it just another example of your "alacrity with words"?

Now regarding the subject under discussion itself, your reasoning has more and bigger holes than a Swiss cheese. The "chain of events" referred to by you is grossly incomplete, as I already pointed it out in my previous responses (Sword, what are you trying to sell us again?.....and Wrong again Sword!). The Zionist Jewish return home to Palestine started more than two decades before WW1, and it continued in spite of pro Arab British policies and blockades. You are desperately trying to take credit for cosmic phenomena which are far bigger even than your Great Britain.

Finally, are you concerned about having the last word? Sword, you will have no problems with me on this issue, in spite of your uncommon "intellectual acuity". In fact I am inviting you again to respond to my previous re. Perspective; AD NAUSEUM!; and Sword, can you explain yourself? addressed to you in person.

You only have to make a special effort to start talking sense, to try to be coherent, and above all to try to be honest……..just for a change!

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