Reply #27: Quoting Piglet To The Hephalump Will Get You Nowhere Better, Sir [View All]

The matter of the unfortunate Ms. Corrie has been worried over at great length here. It does not seem to me, on the various reports of witnesses and the driver, that the death was intentional: you may well disagree, and we are unlikely to settle the matter between us today. My own view of Ms. Corrie is that she was a courageous and principled young woman, and that her death is most regrettable. It is an unfortunate fact that, for the Ghandian gambit to achieve any political impact, such things are required.

Your reference to "target practice" indicates you have little understanding of shooting in combat. Targets do make themselves rather scarce, you know, and hands do tremble: what can be done on a target range cannot be reproduced in action. Your refernce to intentional killings is unclear: members of Hamas, et al, are combatants, and liable to being killing at any instant, just like any other combatant in a war. There other instances of killing by Israeli soldiers that are murderously criminal, such as the use of lethal force to enforce curfews. Those things do nothing to advance the cause of Isral, but rather undermine it badly. So does the continued confiscation of land, and expansion of settlements in the lands overrrun in '67.

What you most pointedly ommit to engage, Sir, is the quantity of crimes conducted by the military factions of the cause you support. You would be well advised to do so.