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endtime on Jan 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why can't people in US watch Al Jazeera?

No, it doesn't. There's a genocide on the order of millions going on there. Not really a fair comparison to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

And for the third time, I don't think it's a good test and I don't really like being put in the position of defending it. My mention of it was descriptive, not prescriptive.

blueben on Jan 31, 2011 [–]

Yes, occupying and imprisoning an entire nation with military force and keeping them in poverty is in a totally different league than genocide.

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