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Any position in the Israel-Palestine situation that offers security for one community comes with constraints and restrictions on the other.
Yes. It is impossible not to offend someone on this issue, whatever you say, as Corbyn has just discovered.
You correctly point out that he does not voice any bias, but then are complaining that what you want is for him to voice a position that is favourable to one party and is in fact a position of bias.
You're basically upset because he's being fair and reasonable... presumably because you do not wish fair and reasonable behaviour to be any part of this, you just want a pro-Israel position at the expense of fair and reasonable.
And I seem to have offended your pro-palestine bias, despite saying I am NOT making a pro Israel point. The labour Party has built up support among the Jewish community, and there is quite an established Jewish presence in the party. Corbyn's position on the conflict is clearly different from what has gone before, how bad the fallout from this shift is will rest on how good a diplomat he is.
There are many groups of the Labour party who feel alienated by Corbyn. He talks alot about discussion, and all opinions being valid etc, which sounds good but we need to see it in action. I'm not upset, but I would be if the Labour party split over a combination of issues such as this.
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And I seem to have offended your pro-palestine bias
I don't have a pro anything bias in that geographical area. Possibly there is an anti-everything bias based on my non-religious position, but what I can say is that I do have an extremely strong bias towards good reasoning and that what your argument represented was a failure of that.
I'm not pro/anti Corbyn either, but I do respect the fact that he really does seem to not be dictating anything to the Labour party and whilst that means the debates are fierce those core principles being played out like that are really good to see. That is in fact the kind of politics I do want to exist, even though I'm not actively engaged in politics of any kind.
Velocio
Any position in the Israel-Palestine situation that offers security for one community comes with constraints and restrictions on the other.
You correctly point out that he does not voice any bias, but then are complaining that what you want is for him to voice a position that is favourable to one party and is in fact a position of bias.
You're basically upset because he's being fair and reasonable... presumably because you do not wish fair and reasonable behaviour to be any part of this, you just want a pro-Israel position at the expense of fair and reasonable.