Well, my normal response to something like that is no one is an omnibus. They get to choose the issues that matter to them.
Well, normally I would agree. But we have established here that if Israel's treatment of the Palestinians is something that matters to you then you are either anti-Israel or anti-Semitic or both.
The only thing you've established is your proclivity to erect strawmen.
No one put forth that opinion.
You need to take better care of your posting. The meaning behind your accusation that bodiddley has a dark “unspoken agenda” was clear enough and when he clarified your meaning you didn’t disagree. You said “others might disagree with me” that Israel has a right to exist, and that nukes should be kept out of the hands of (Muslim) crazy religious fanatics as though posters here do.
And you are not alone. Both you and Josh, posters I might otherwise respect, seem to have spent the last few days here arguing “of course Israel deserves criticism, but if you criticize it, it’s because you don’t like Jews.”
Layered on to the many problems with that line of argument, its intellectually dishonest. I put it in the same category as Republicans who renamed the Freedom Fries because if the French are against our war in Iraq then of course they are against Freedom.
My posts are clear, pointed but nuanced. People have agendas and biases. There is nothing wrong with that. I support Israel. But I am a troubled and conflicted supporter and started the recent forum topic with a post that was critical of Israel and Bibi.
And as I recall Bo did not respond to the suggestion of an unspoken agenda, but rather told me he was a critical but paranoid critic of China, and was upset that Enes Kanter couldn't take a road trip as a Knick, but not much on his leanings on the matter under discussion. He may be a Paestinian supporter, wholly neutral, or like me, a conlicted Israeli-supporter, all good, and all opinions welcome. But nonetheless his agenda remains unspoken, which is fine, thats his right, but it remains a prism from which I will view his posts on the subject.
And before lecturing me on what you deem intellectual dishonesty, perhaps you should not be so quick to jump to a false narrative. So clean-up your own bullshit, or you can contine to to play with yourself and your transparent strawmen.
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