Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: What REALLY Happened in Gaza is SHOCKING & No One's Allowed to Talk About it [View all]Beastly Boy
(12,094 posts)Your expectations carry a bias that would skew the polling answers in the direction you desire. No legitimate pollster with any degree of integrity would consider engaging in such quackery.
It is Mr. Feinstein, not I, who is quoted to say ""THE MAJORITY OF ISRAELI CITIZENS DON'T CONSIDER PALESTINIANS HUMAN" in all caps. And, since he does not back his statement up with any evidence, he, not I, is indeed on shaky ground. It is not on me to prove a negative. It's on him to back up what he says with evidence. How does HE know his statement is not false?
The question then is not how I know what neither you nor I nor Mr. Feinstein can confirm or deny is true or false (you can't prove a negative, duh!), it is why you, in the absence of any evidence, presume that Mr. Feinstein's statement is true. Why, given a direct quote by Mr Feinstein, are you presuming that my quoting Mr Feinstenin constitutes shaky ground? Why, in the absence of any evidence, are you presuming that the majority of Israelis support the war in Gaza? Why do you presume that "they", whoever you are referring to, support the bombing campaign? And what is the "strong evidence" that their presumed support of the war in Gaza, and consequently presumed support of the bombing campaign, "constitutes strong evidence that they do not consider the people dying by the thousands in Gaza to be human beings" That's a hell of a chain of presumptions, one conditional on the previous one down the chain being taken for granted, you are peddling here!
Meanwhile, the absence of evidentiary basis for your presumptions only confirms the bias so evident in Mr. Feinstein's statement, and the only issue remaining is whether Mr. Feinstein's statement is antisemitic or not. No need for explanation of "their" imaginary support for anything figures into addressing this issue.
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