They say that in War, Truth is the first casulty. Nowhere is this so graphically illustrated as in the on-going Verbal War between the supporters of either Israel or the Arab Palestinians. Anything presented by those of more moderate minds is blatantly disregarded as “Zionist propaganda” or “Terrorist Propaganda” – posters are refered to as massmurderers, Nazis, by implication/insinuation compared to infamous Nazi doctors and had their intelligence insulted.
Every coin has two sides – and while those of more moderate minds tend to strive for balance in discussion – i.e present “the other side” when the other “other side” seem to present nothing but malicious propaganda – which is the case here. The actual FACTS are either buried in inflamatory rhetoric or attacked as lies.
The truth is always somewhere in-between two extremist points. The problem is that in this case the moderates are considered “extremist” by the Extreme Extremists… so the middle-ground is pushed and shoved at as if they were the “Extreme Other Side”.
That is not fair, nor is it conducive to a fruitful debate.
If we claim that we want a fair and just resolution to the conflict in the Middle East, ALL have to step up and stop being extremists.
Extremism is the complete opposite of Truth – it always have been it always will be. Extremism, whether Right or Left.
The Left-wing Extremism and Anti-Semitism is really no diffrent than the Right-Wing Dito – both are hard at work with Assasinating Truth, Justice, Intellectual Honesty and Objectivity.
Shalom!
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