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Palestine - 'End the Occupation' and 'Right the Wrongs' : Comments

By David Singer, published 13/12/2011

It is time for international law to be resurrected, debated and enforced as the only basis for ending the conflict in former Palestine.

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Imajulianutter:

Several incidents in Australia in recent years have occurred wherein missiles have been thrown from highway overpasses. Those instances that were noted as newsworthy resulted in death and permanent catastrophic injury. Those boys, also, were merely "Throwing stones".
Posted by Prompete, Monday, 19 December 2011 5:37:02 AM
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Prompete,

You might ask David how the processes applied to the Australian boys differed from the processes applied to the Palestinian boys and which processes he as a lawyer which he thinks just and fair.

You might also like to compare motivations ... as such things are allowable in our courts.
Posted by imajulianutter, Monday, 19 December 2011 7:30:12 AM
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Imajulianutter

Both your points are well taken and appreciated.

I cannot be an apologist for the mistreatment/abuse of children at any level or under any circumstances.

Watching your dad/uncle/big brother fire rockets into a school bus would enable a young lad to consider throwing rocks to be no big deal. School curriculum and texts extolling the virtues of suicide bombing and violence are equally abusive.

The point I make is that the simplistic and one sided labelling of right or wrong of either disputant gains us nothing.
nothing
Posted by Prompete, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 10:40:02 AM
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Isn't conscription more reprehensible. It teaches all Jewish Israeli kids to kill ... legally.
Posted by imajulianutter, Thursday, 22 December 2011 5:56:24 PM
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