Freedom of Speech
I'm against the .
As unpopular as my stance might be, I have serious and good willed reasons backing it.
I'm a tenacious supporter of truth though, which is almost always absolute. When there are two opposing points of view it is because at least one of the sides lacks information or it decides to ignore it.
Take for example those who compare Israel with the Nazi regime. In order to find similarities between both, you need to ignore what happens in Israel today, what happened in Europe in the 30s and 40s, or know both very well but distort hard facts in order to accommodate your private hates.
Never the Jews challenged the existence of Europe nor embarked in a rampage of vicious killing against random civilians. Never did the Israeli army targeted Palestinian civilians nor executed a systematic mass murder of them. In decades of confrontation, the overwhelming Israeli army has killed only a few hundreds of civilians, and only while targeting armed militias who vow to kill – and too often do- Israelis. Israel has lost many of its men by trying to minimize civilian casualties among the Palestinians. At the same time Palestinians have purposely killed thousands of innocent Israelis and celebrated it throwing candy and firing AK-47s to the air.
So, when someone equates Israel with the Nazis, or denies the occurrence of holocaust when the few survivors still carry their numbers and agony in the sunset of their lives, they are disgracing the use of language, rendering it unusable.
When it is allowed to say anything, no matter if it is truth or lie, then speech has no significance. And when words are not an option, the only things remaining are bullets.
can kill, and supporting it for the sake of political correctness is a crime of hypocrisy, as would burn me alive for writing these lines.
As unpopular as my stance might be, I have serious and good willed reasons backing it.
I'm a tenacious supporter of truth though, which is almost always absolute. When there are two opposing points of view it is because at least one of the sides lacks information or it decides to ignore it.
Take for example those who compare Israel with the Nazi regime. In order to find similarities between both, you need to ignore what happens in Israel today, what happened in Europe in the 30s and 40s, or know both very well but distort hard facts in order to accommodate your private hates.
Never the Jews challenged the existence of Europe nor embarked in a rampage of vicious killing against random civilians. Never did the Israeli army targeted Palestinian civilians nor executed a systematic mass murder of them. In decades of confrontation, the overwhelming Israeli army has killed only a few hundreds of civilians, and only while targeting armed militias who vow to kill – and too often do- Israelis. Israel has lost many of its men by trying to minimize civilian casualties among the Palestinians. At the same time Palestinians have purposely killed thousands of innocent Israelis and celebrated it throwing candy and firing AK-47s to the air.
So, when someone equates Israel with the Nazis, or denies the occurrence of holocaust when the few survivors still carry their numbers and agony in the sunset of their lives, they are disgracing the use of language, rendering it unusable.
When it is allowed to say anything, no matter if it is truth or lie, then speech has no significance. And when words are not an option, the only things remaining are bullets.
can kill, and supporting it for the sake of political correctness is a crime of hypocrisy, as would burn me alive for writing these lines.
posted by David Schkolnik at 6:33 AM
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