Re: The End of Israeli Democracy?


little_people wrote:
> vesuvian.doppelgange@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > vesuvian.doppelgange@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > little_people said:
>
> > > ....you cannot address what the aforementioned debunkers have argued
>
> > Maybe you would like to tell me which
> > U.S. Congressional committees held
> > hearings dedicated to the attack on
> > the USS Liberty and issued reports
> > which exonerated the Israelis. Weeks
> > insists there were five of these
> > investigations, but he is unable to
> > name a single one which issued a
> > report which held Israel blameless.
>
> Unable or unwilling? In any event, Israel was *not* entirely "blameless", and I doubt
> that there exists any U.S. committee which holds them in such regard. The central
> question is (and has always been) whether or not the attack, however recklessly
> conducted, was an intentional action against a vessel which was known to be American.
> And there exists no U.S. Congressional committee which has ever concluded that such
> was the case.
>
> But we were talking about the machine-gunning of life rafts, weren't we?
>
> > > because,
> > > apparently, you yourself are lacking in facts and logic when it comes to the USS Liberty
> > > Incident.
>
> > We can see that you are lacking the
> > facts yourself. Please name the
> > alleged five Congressional committees
> > which issued reports which exonerated
> > Israel in the attack on the Liberty.
>
> Since I'm not the one who made this assertion, I fail to see why I'm now being expected to
> defend it. Just because I acknowledge Weeks as a debunker of myths concerning the USS
> Liberty Incident does not mean that I agree with *everything* he says (if he did, in fact, say
> what you said he said).

<snip>

It's an old trick by "vesuvian.doppelgange" and others -- making up
statements claimed were made by others -- especially when they are
unable to deal with the points which had been raised in response to
whatever myth is being repeated.

MW

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