Wolverine,
This is where you are wrong I think. They have portrayed it as good versus evil. I will give you an example of how we have been misled cleverly, and then tracks have been covered by politicians saying, “well I never said it, now did I?” Shame.
Here is an analogy: 9/11 and Iraq were continuously juxtaposed until people assumed in their heads that the two were intrinsically linked, if not the same. The 2001 anthrax threats (which have mysteriously gone out of the picture…odd because all facts point towards this being homegrown terrorists…) have also been juxtaposed with 9/11 until people started to believe that Middle-Easterners must have been the cause. So, to ask me to provide you with evidence of the “exact words that describe the Israel-Palestinian conflict as good and evil” is somewhat, forgive me for this, juvenile (not that you are juvenile as a person, but I am saying what was said or asked for was).
I can list a million despicable things that the Orthodox Jews and Christians have done too, taking into mind that you have insinuated that the disgraceful things Muslims have done are “telltale signs”. The following I am deeply sad to list because I adore Jews (being of this heritage) and Christians (being of this heritage due to my step-mother) I am not fully sure of this and have not researched this, but my Grandfather tells me, and a Jewish professor of religion I knew, that Jewish Orthodox men still say in some of their prayers “Thank you God for not making me a woman”. Christians burned women for being witches, Christians continue to believe that women are not as important as men (straight from the former Pope’s mouth: John Paul). What about the 65-page report on Israeli war crimes violating the Geneva conventions that Israel doesn’t even recognize (again, you can research this outside the American media, like on the BBC which covered this). Christians have a high rate in molesting children in the house of God…to the point that some less educated people just think it’s a ‘priest thing’; how awful. What about the ethnic cleaning of thousands of Palestinians by Jews in Deir Yassin? What about the relatively recent and absurdly disproportionate measure Israel took against the south of Lebanon; demolishing it? There are also many manipulative facts out there like, “how the current Pope was a former Nazi”. This fact, although irrelevant because he’s not a Nazi now, could be used one day to shun Christians. And yes those buses are privately owned, but they function within Israeli law, which also allows torture in their jails.
Oh yes, those buses do make women move to the back, so you must be talking about an entirely different bus when you say that you have been on some that only divide men and women down a straight line…I wasn’t aware that those existed in addiction to the ones the news is covering, so thank you for bringing that to my attention…I guess we both learned something from each other.
Those Jewish buses make women go straight to the back and have beaten women who don’t obey. Here are some links showing that indeed women have to go sit at the back, and men get to sit at the front…I wonder why many Americans are not aware of this and other countries around the world have covered this:
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel's 'modesty buses' draw fire
Women fight ultra-Orthodox bus ban | The Australian
Bus Beating Puts Orthodox Women on Online Alert
Religion is suppose to bring people together, so we should stop empowering those who use it to divide and make us believe that it is “inherently” bad, and start to get together as “good” brothers; whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim. Please never insinuate that any religion is bad, especially when it is so close to our own Jewish one.
I don’t buy it one bit…to have us fight and cause bloodshed does not benefit the average religious person, so who does it benefit? This isn’t benefiting the average man, so who is benefiting?
