Major Daniel Sjursen closing aruments on Israeli-Palestine Conflict Soho Forum debate
"I came to a place of respect for the vast major of people in the middle east, and I realized there were both strategic and ethical reasons to care for both sides in this conflict"
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"He's missing the fact that just liking the Israels democracy more than the secular Arab regimes or Islamist Arab regimes does not make it any more likely there will be a military or political victory coming in the occupied territories, me I'm through which such fanciful make believe it died with 8 of my soldiers in Baghdad and Kandahar, Israel can no more defeat the narrowly defined Palestinian movement than massive American military machine could win any sort of military victory in Iraq or Afghanistan." - Major Sjursen speaking on his experiences in the Iraq war.