# Ambassador attacks art: fighting anti-Semitism, or blocking free expression?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 18, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ambassador-attacks-art-fighting-anti-semitism-or-blocking-free-expression/225133 "2004-01-18T19:21:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stoneburg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Stoneburg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoneburg)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ambassador-attacks-art-fighting-anti-semitism-or-blocking-free-expression/225133/61 "2004-01-26T16:54:01Z")

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> _grienspace:_  
> If you don’t wan’t 2 month old babies to die on either side, you might consider that the quickest solution is to avoid any semblance of support for the weaker side.

Good point. If we kill all palestinians right now, we won’t have to see any palestinians die later. But that will surely annoy many arabs so they start attacking Israel too… and there are a lot of arabs. Since there are so many more arabs then jews, how about we just kill all the jews instead?

Oh, and I have no trouble picturing the 2-month old baby. I bet it looked pretty much like all other 2-months old babies that have died to explosions. I just pointed out how it was irrelevant to the debate (you know, being a typical fallacy and all). No matter how many babies that die I don’t think irrationality and hatred will bring about peace better then rationality and empathy, it hasn’t so far,

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> _grienspace:_  
> Palistinians seem to thrive on the idea that if they continue to sacrifice lives on both sides indiscriminantly that eventually sympathetic world opinion will force the Israeli government to collapse. Only hope that eventually Palistinians will return to their homes and take control of all Israel spurs this relentless folly.

Oddly enough, of all the Palestinians I have met, none seemed to thrive on the idea that sacrificing lives was a good idea. Neither has any of the jews I met. Could it be that it’s mainly the extremists on both sides that want to kill people?

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> Funny, I read the “murderer” as the Jews that killed her brother and cousin. In any case, it’s certainly vague.

That is funny. That you would find it vague, that is. Maybe a case of reading what you want/expect to be there instead of what actually is there?

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