Yes, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism

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314. No, I pointed out the inconsistency of your argument

You want to cast me in the role of Israel for it, right? So you hand me a rifle.

A rifle is a discriminate weapon. It's designed to sight a target and send a bullet at just that target. It's made for small-scale precision killing of individuals. It's a good choice for the scenario at hand, which is why police forces utilize them in hostage situations.

A bomb is sort of the opposite of a rifle. It's indiscriminate. A bomb explodes and sends concussive forces, shrapnel, and fire in a sphere around. it hits everything within that sphere. Man, building, goat, kid, trees, cars, pregnant women, houses, streets, terrorists, nursing homes absolutely everything. A bomb's purpose, it's raison d'être, is mass carnage and destruction. This makes a bomb - or grenades, missiles, or any other sort of explosive ordinance, extremely bad for the situation described.

You want me to take the role of Israel, but Israel isn't using rifles, Israel is using bombs. This isn't "emotional propaganda," (...really?) but plain simple fact; Israel drops bombs on Gaza.

So back to your ethics scenario. You want me to be Israel? Then a more apt situation is you handing me a grenade and asking if I will use it to take out the target, knowing that it is certain to harm or kill his hostages as well. The answer to which, as I stated, would be no.

If I miss with the rifle and hit an innocent, then yes, that is tragic and something I would have to live with. But that risk of causing undue harm with my errant bullet is more acceptable than the certainty of causing massive harm using the grenade.

If you can't conceive of alternatives to blowing up a bunch of people with a bomb, Shira, then you have no place to be calling my ethics into question.