Argument:
Israel has a right to defend itself.
Counter-Argument:
Israel has no right to violate the human rights.
Argument:
The suicide killings also violate the human rights.
Counter-Argument:
The suicide killings are not performed by a government.
Argument:
They are, because Arafat could have stopped them.
Counter-Argument:
How?
Argument:
The Palestinians missed their chance under Barak.
Counter-Argument:
Too bad!
Argument:
As long as the Palestinians don't do this and that...
Counter-Argument:
A-wop bop a-loo ba a-wop bam boom
Argument:
The terrorists must be found and punished.
Counter-Argument:
Yes.
Argument:
HAMAS and AQSA are irrational and inhumane.
Counter-Argument:
Well, they follow the same logic as Sharon...
Argument:
There were innoscent Israelis killed.
Counter-Argument:
There were innoscent Palestinians killed.
Argument:
That's not the same. They want to destroy Israel.
Counter-Argument:
You are speaking out of fear.
Argument:
They cannot be trusted.
Counter-Argument:
You don't trust yourself.
Argument:
Before the peace the Palestinians must...
Counter-Argument:
A-wop bop a-loo ba a-wop bam boom
Argument:
Israel has a right to defend itself.
Counter-Argument:
Everybody has, not only Israel.
Argument:
That's not the same. The Jews are the chosen people.
Counter-Argument:
What do you mean?
Argument:
I mean that God has chosen them.
Counter-Argument:
For what?
Argument:
To be His chosen people.
Counter-Argument:
Good choice...
Argument:
You are being anti-Semitic!
Counter-Argument:
What?
Argument:
You ridiculed Judaism.
Counter-Argument:
How long did it take the Americans to admit the Indian thing?
Argument:
I didn't know they did.
Counter-Argument:
The Israelis did the Palestinians wrong.
Argument:
There were six million Jews killed by the Nazis!
Counter-Argument:
Yes, the Holocaust was unbelievably terrible.
Argument:
The Jews want to live without being dehumanized.
Counter-Argument:
Herzl didn't think much about the inhabitants of Palestine.
Argument:
The Jews were there before.
Counter-Argument:
Excuses.
Argument:
Like the city Meggido is one of the oldest cities in the world.
Counter-Argument:
Propaganda.
Argument:
The wailing wall and the temple... Jerusalem!
Counter-Argument:
Do you think Nathan the Wise is a good book?
Argument:
It's German, isn't it?
Counter-Argument:
What about the settlements?
Argument:
They have a tradition.
Counter-Argument:
So has the war.
Argument:
People feel at home there.
Counter-Argument:
People should read UN resolutions.
Argument:
The Israelis can do what they want in their country. Its theirs.
Counter-Argument:
So is the UN.
Argument:
You are being anti-Semitic.
Counter-Argument:
The Jews and the other peoples have the same rights.
Argument:
I don't like the way you say "Jews".
Counter-Argument:
Sharon is known for decades to be idiotically violent.
Argument:
Israel must control the Palestinians. They want to destroy it.
Counter-Argument:
Fear.
Argument:
The suicide killers are also idiotically violent.
Counter-Argument:
So you think they are equal?
Argument:
The Jews never want to be humiliated again.
Counter-Argument:
So they pass on the violence they received?
Argument:
You are being...
Counter-Argument:
...anti-Semitic, I know. Why don't you call it anti-Zionist?
Argument:
That's just as bad. Anti-Zionists are against Israel.
Counter-Argument:
Well, first, they are against Zionism.
Argument:
That is the same. Israel is in constant danger.
Counter-Argument:
Why is that so?
Argument:
Because its enemies want to kill Israel.
Counter-Argument:
Why are they Israel's enemies?
Argument:
Because they do not accept Israel.
Counter-Argument:
And why is that?
Argument:
I have no idea.
Counter-Argument:
Why does Israel not comply with the UN resolutions?
Argument:
Because the time is not ripe yet.
Counter-Argument:
The world politicians and media have a different view.
Argument:
They don't know the situation of the Israelis.
Counter-Argument:
And do the Israelis know the situation of the Palestinians?
Argument:
It is their own fault.
Counter-Argument:
Isn't it racist what this state does to the Palestinians?
Argument:
I will not talk on this level.
Counter-Argument:
Israel acts on this level.
Argument:
You are anti-Semitic.
Counter-Argument:
You already told me.
Argument:
I'm sorry, I cannot talk to you.
Counter-Argument:
Is there any remote possibility of guilt in Israel?
Argument:
There couldn't be.
Counter-Argument:
Why is that?
Argument:
Because nobody suffered like the Jews.
Counter-Argument:
You mean, I could not understand the Jews?
Argument:
That's right.
Counter-Argument:
And do you take it into account to be understood?
Argument:
Israel must do all this to show its strength.
Counter-Argument:
No more humiliation, right?
Argument:
Back then we could not really fight for our rights.
Counter-Argument:
And now you can.
Argument:
Nobody can win over Israel, not even the black people.
Counter-Argument:
You mean the Indians.
Argument:
No, the Palestinians, of course.
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