No. I do not.
Here's the opening of the letter:
"We the undersigned student organization, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence."
1.) There's a glaring omission: at no point in the letter, nowhere, are the terrorists condemned for slaughtering innocent people.
- This shows the students are clearly siding with the terrorists, and their atrocities.
2.) Israel is disallowed from defending itself, and Israel is culpable for anything further done by Hamas:
- How? By clear implication of the text:
a.) What would be "unfolding violence?"
b.) Anything subsequent to the initial attack, any action of future tense, after the initial attack, would constitute "unfolding violence".
c.) Therefore, if Israel takes any action AFTER the initial attack, any military or policing action of any kind, that results in any violence, then Israel, by implication, is morally culpable, and in the wrong.
d.) Even if Israel were merely to harm the direct perpetrators of the attack, just them and no one else, that would still constitute "unfolding violence", future tense, and Israel would be considered morally culpable and morally wrong.
e.) Furthermore, if any "unfolding violence" is perpetrated by Hamas, then because "unfolding violence" is not specified by party, and is left vague on purpose, then THAT TOO is Israel's fault.
f). The way this statement is written, any violence of any kind, for any reason, by either party, AFTER THE ORIGINAL ATTACK, is 100% ISRAEL'S FAULT, and PUTS ISRAEL ALONE IN THE MORAL WRONG.
g.) These are the clear and simple implications of the text, which was intentionally and specifically written in just this way, by some of the brightest minds, who knew exactly what they were saying.
Conclusion:
A.) This all seems simple and clear enough to me.
B.) And it was simple and clear enough to so many others, even the liberal media, that the students came under such pressure they had to renounce their signatures and backpeddle from their position.
C.) The students knew exactly what all the implications were, and so did the entirety of the press.
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