Quote (newporg @ May 15 2011 01:17pm)
Many_Names got mad and started callin people names, so he left

Well theres a name for him: "Zionist"
So everything he does is no surprise.
I, and many of the rest of you, have the luxury of being born and raised in civilized western countries with freedom of press and modernization enough to see all sides of each issue and stare straight through propaganda and agitprop and euphemisms and lies.
But that is a minority in this world- those brainwashed on the zionist side and indeed those brainwashed on the arab side, are just two sides to a small conflict when the rest of the world has its own shit ongoing too.
He wasn't lucky enough to get a fair point of view, so the end result is pretty straight forward- a propaganda spewing machine.
Its not something to hate or to despise, but to pity.
For the fortunate rest of us, the facts are pretty obvious;

Quote (Santara @ May 15 2011 01:18pm)
In the United States, with a population in the hundreds of millions, we average 2 deaths per year from vending machine tip-overs.
In Israel, with a population of about 7 million, they average about 2 deaths per year from Qassam rockets, making the rockets at least 50 times more effective than vending machines.
Oh noes, the rockets are more effective per capita? Besides the bit where the vending machines kill more than twice the people
overall.
Do you see the flaw in your argument? You're talking about marginal orders of magnitude and playing around with numbers just to paint qussam rockets deadlier than giant boxes that dispense doritos.
And this was brought up in reference to someone who was comparing qussam rockets to the
blitz.
We're talking orders of magnitude here. I bet you that if you included the people who choked to death on products sold through vending machines, they'd be 100x deadlier than qussam rockets per capita too.
The point being that the entire issue is
hogwash. A pure propaganda excuse used to justify a genocide. Less people die to rockets than to coca cola machines, and the zionists use that as an excuse to persecute and concentrate and blockade and commit genocide.