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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point of an opinion piece is to express an opinion, ideally supported with an explanation.  If you'd prefer not to read opinions which differ from those you already hold, then by all means don't read them.  If you're open-minded, read and reflect.  You may not change your mind, or you might, but exposure to alternative perspectives is intellectually healthy; deliberately ignoring other points of view is intellectually dishonest - you don't have to agree with anyone else, but it's conducive to informed discourse to know why other people hold opinions different from your own.  [/quote]

This is the only sensible and sane post in this ridiculous thread. You people really have lost it. But so predictable - in this age, people only allow in news and opinions that renforce their own beliefs. Willful ignorance and refusal to consider or even hear of any other viewpoints. We’re all doomed.  [/quote]

Bullshit. We’ve been burned by a decades-long media blackout here in the U.S. of ANY opinion that’s critical of Israel, but now we’re supposed to be open-minded boys and girls and pretend that opinion pieces about Israel from Jewish people don’t drip with obvious conflicts of interest?

Yeah, no thanks.[/quote]

+100000

It is actually more than decades long. I’m 54 and my entire life has been filled with pro Israel media coverage. Palestinians = terrorists. Israelis = moral and peaceful kibbutzers who also happen to be very strong militarily because they are so brilliant and bad ass (nothing to do with the billions we prop them up with). The land was meant for them, and those evil Arabs hate them for no reason. [/quote]

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