# Serdar Argic's cousin is a member of the SDMB

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> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> It was your own analogy.

It was actually Thomas Jefferson’s analogy. His quote about slavery is actually pretty apropos to the Israeli-Palestinian situation:

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> But, as it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

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