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On 2025-07-21 10:51 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 23:14:48 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
> <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Melanie Phillips, a British-born Jew, explains why so many
>>> liberals/"progressives" find themselves bound and determined to support
>>> Hamas in the current conflict in Gaza.
>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDBlatl0C5Y [5 minutes]
>>
>> I guess.
>>
>> I'm just going with traditional anti-Semitism.
> 
> So am I - and another related thing in the present conflict is the
> attitude of presumption of "equivalence" where it is claimed that both
> sides are equally barbaric.
> 
> Israel has court-martialed several officers and non-coms who have
> misbehaved in Gaza. Has HAMAS court-martialed anybody?
> 
> Israel has also court-martialed those charged with rape. Where are the
> HAMAS rape court martials?
> 
> My point is that the whole discussion of "equivalence" is absolute
> bollocks. (I could of course use a less acceptable term but why?)

You'd like Douglas Murray's take on equivalence. He pointed out that it 
was absurd to even propose that the response to the Oct 7 attack would 
be for the IDF to rape, murder, behead, or kidnap exactly as many people 
as Hamas did.


-- 
Rhino