On 11/21/02 2:35 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
Okay, then the facts are:
- Arabs want to eliminate Israel completely.
- There are no "Palestinians" other than Palestinian Arabs
- Jordan *is* the Palestinian state.
- Propagandists like you think lying and murdering are justified.
Now that we're all agreed on that, RK and I will go ahead and ....
Huh? What's that you say? Those aren't the facts?
What are they, then? Just my opinion?
Golly, it sounds like you and I can't agree on what the facts are, even if we both agree that we should present the facts wherever possible.
So what can we do? I guess we have to agree to disagree, and just say that Source A thinks the facts are X, and Source B thinks the facts are Y.
We can also have people provide evidence for their assertions. We can only say "Mars is a planet"--and have that have any meaning--because of of how we have defined "planet", and the observational record that correlates with that definition.
Saying that Source A thinks X and Source B thinks Y is just part of that process. It is a valid starting point, but it is not the end.