(December 26, 2013 at 11:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Let's try it this way. When an Israeli soldier shoots a Palestinian teenager the teenager is always described as a "militant" or a "rock-thrower" and the soldier was following standard orders. A defense which did not work for the Nazis at Nuremberg, btw, but the irony is lost on the Israelis.
That, my dear sir, is propaganda. Language is manipulated to define the debate. Get it?
Which pretty much sums up religion across the globe.
*no gods required
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