Originally posted by Ragnorak
Exhibit A
From http://www.timeforchess.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=15986
In response to my post:'Any ideas on why Israel released a news story that Arafat had died, when in fact he's still alive and kicking. Well maybe not kicking, but he is still alive. '
Ivanhoe posted:' Because Arafat is indeed dead. They, the Palestinian authorities, ...[text shortened]... have abided them to the letter.
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[EDIT] Hey, no fair. 2Bit beat me to it. Twice. 🙁
Exibit One: You sure use a lot of words to come to the conclusion that your interpretation was indeed a misrepresentation of my words. You're using mathematical symbols to give it a mask of objectiveness and now you call it a "parafrasing". Beautifully said, but I guess that proves my claim, that I never stated the quote you gave.
Exibit Two: IvanH: "'The majority of all these protesters were imported from Syria for the occasion. They were all Hezbollah supporters, these bigoted Islamists, also known as "Les Barbes".
Ragnorak: "Unfortunately, as the first part of your statement doesn't make any sense, I had to try to make sense of it."
"You had to try to make sense of it"
Would you please try and make sense of it in the future without misquoting me ? As you have implicitely admitted I did not say "ALL the protesters came from Syria." This is indeed a laughable statement, but I never said it. No1 claimed I said it and you believed him. If you are interested, there were among others also protesters from the south of Lebanon. We can all see how no1 is twisting my words to make them appropiate for the plan he has in mind before he even read one word I wrote and that is to ridicule me .... and you chose to swallow his words without investigating things yourself.
Ragnorak: "Like, how can any sane debater say this:'They were all Hezbollah supporters'
Because they were ! Hezbollah organised this manifestation, nobody in possession of all his faculties will attend a manifestation in support of Hezbollah if they don't support it. Hezbollah speakers adressed the crowd. Hezbollah is an Islamist terrorist organisation, financed by Syria. People protesting there are supporters of Islamist rule, supporters of Hezbollah. In the Arab world the political Islamists (mind you NOT the Muslims in general before you jump to any ridiculous conclusions) are also known as "les Barbes" (the Beards).
It seems you misunderstand many of my statements because you lack the knowledge of interpreting my words and placing them in the correct perspective. Because you cannot make any sense of it or simply because you don't like the tone of it, you jump to comfortable conclusions instead of trying to find out more about the facts of the situation. You could do some research of your own instead of waisting your time dismissing my views or "tone".
Ragnorak: "There is no twisting of facts, or misrepresentation."
After my explanations and elaborations you hopefully can understand and accept why I do not agree with you.
About the Darfius thingy: You have not been following the relevant events. So please be carefull in making any statements about this.