re: #258 Joo-LiZ

I’m sorry, Obdicut. I really don’t have the patience at the moment to go through it point by point and pull everything apart. Maybe some other people here who feel the same way as I, can help explain.

When you don’t have the patience to convince someone, don’t be surprised when they remain unconvinced.

To me, it is a matter of the most fundamental common sense that a man who risked life and limb, with much emotional duress, to help save the lives of countless Israelis and Palestinians should not have to defend his actions in a California court or risk deportation.

Why? California is not Israel. There are lots of people all over the world who have worked to save lives in many different ways. Should all of them be granted automatic asylum in the United States?

If you can’t understand that… well, we have a serious divergence of opinion.

Putting it in terms of me not being able to understand is needlessly insulting. I understand perfectly well the grounds on which you want him granted asylum in the United States. I do not understand why he is more important and special than many other people who have straightforwardly suffered and worked to save lives in this world.

Many, many in the IDF, for example, have worked and risked death to save Palestinian and Israeli (and American, for that matter) lives in the US. Should they all be granted asylum in the US if they request it?