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Oh no, I said 'steamed hamas'. That's what I call Palestinians. (lemmy.today)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/politicalmemes

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks, that's pretty much the standard answer.

You are asking for a factual answer to what is basically a philosophical question.

but the thing is, you brought "Israel's right to exist" up.

I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on why Israel doesn't have a right to exist.

I never said nor implied that Israel has or doesn't have a "right to exist", and what does my opinion matter on that anyway? I think the "Israel's right to exist" argument is some kind of ad hominem fallacy, like "poisoning the well" or "appeal to motive" or some other discrediting tactic used to defend Israeli exceptionalism. Case in point: this meme (which turned out to be pretty powerful after all)- the response to "is Israel commiting war crimes" is "well you must think Israel doesn't have a right to exist (and therefore you're a bigot so I can ignore you)" which is complete cognitive blindness to the simple idea of investigating possible war crimes. It always goes to ad hominem or whataboutism. For the record I'm not arguing with you, I just wanted to know what you think.