Worth emphasizing:
“Part of the goal of organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas is to gain moral legitimacy for their terrorist tactics by having them equated with the conventional military tactics used by democratic regimes. Only the morally obtuse–or perverse–cannot recognize the difference between a terrorist group that targets civilian population centers with anti-personnel weapons designed to maximize civilian casualties and a democracy that seeks to prevent terrorism by employing smart bombs designed to minimize civilian casualties.”
and humorously
-(on the subject of the GROSS VIOLATIONS of international relations by the UN itself):
(WITH A hat tip to Abban Eban)
‘..as the late Abba Eban, the early Israeli ambassador to the UN, once put it: “If Algeria proposed a resolution that the Earth was flat and that Israel has flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 120 to 3, with 27 abstentions.”‘
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0607250113jul25,0,1381784.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed

Do you honestly think that, on balance, the prisoners Israel takes in have done no more wrong that the soldiers their enemies captured?

And, as a bonus, it proved how blind, biased and butt-headed the Left is.

If they don’t get you on moral eq, they’ll get you in the exchange. Either way, catch 22. If they are morally equivalent, it justifies fukushou, revenge. If it is not equivalent, and Israelis are worth more than terroists, then when exchanging prisoners, 1 Israeli is the same as 500 hundred terroists in jail.

It’s kind of geometrical in a way.

As for occupation - I don’t know if you’ve been readin the news , but there is no occupation in Lebanon, and hasn’t been for six years. And, maybe you also missed this one, but there’s no occupation in Gaza, either;

You underestimate the power of doublthink and human self-denial if you believe that that actually is a reason for people to change their minds about occupation. I have first hand reports from the Left that it is still an occupation, because Israel controls access to Gaza. Catch 22s are designed to trap reason using people.

EIther way, catch 22s are designed so that you are dead if it is equivalent, and you are dead if it isn’t equivalent. Death by grenade or death by suffocation, either way, they win, and you lose.

There’s a way to beat catch 22 traps however, but most people lack the willpower to enact the solutions.

It’s late, it’s hot, I don’t even have the energy to be tolerant of your ignornat, lame, whining, naive, boring, childish, whimpy, but OH-SO-TOLERANT-OF-EVIL-PERSONIFIED reply to On Moral Eqivalance. It just really sucks.

In fact, Kuntar is about it as far as Lebanese prisoners in Israel go, since the rest were released in the last prisoner deal 3 years ago, when Hezbollah captured an Israeli civilian in Europe and the bodies of three fallen soldiers on the border, and Israel exchanged hundreds of prisoners for their return.

As for occupation - I don’t know if you’ve been readin the news , but there is no occupation in Lebanon, and hasn’t been for six years. And, maybe you also missed this one, but there’s no occupation in Gaza, either; Israel withdrew from that territory about a year ago (and doesn’t even control the border crossing into Egypt, from whence Hamas gets its arms). Yet the terror against Israel keeps coming from Gaza (not the West Bank, where Israel still maintains an occupation) and Lebanon (not Syria, which actually has territorial claims to press against Israel).

But thanks for playing the Hate Israel First Game.

Outside the pea-brain of Kofi Annan, the democrat party, and the NY Times, that is.

I personally find them all easily dismissable.