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Originally posted by dhamsaic
Do you truly actually believe this? I mean really? I fail to see the correlation between "trying to live" and blowing oneself up in an effort to murder innocent citizens. Is there something I'm missing here? One is trying to live by taking their own life? Huh?
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Very few of the Palestinians commit any type of terrorism. They neither have the will or the resources.
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Furthermore, how do you explain Fatah's previous unwillingness to concede Israel's right to exist and Hamas and Islamic Jihad's constant efforts to derail the peace process and destroy Israel? This is their <b>stated goal</b>. It's not a side effect of "trying to live".
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You're taking the actions of a few to represent the will of the majority, and that's ridiculous.
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Nevermind the 51% of Palestinians that support the destruction of Israel.
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Of course. They're being massacred by the Israeli army for generations. Completely understandable. Keep in mind that you can't compare the killing done by the Israeli army to the killing done by Palestinian suicide bombs. Not by the longest shot.
What you said is just tabloid argument.
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I guess "trying to live" nowadays means killing little girls on buses or shooting them point blank in their homes. What about the Israelis that are just trying to live? Where's your argument for them? Rachel Levy was just going to the grocery store for some food. <b>That</b> is "trying to live". She got blown up by a suicide bomber. <b>That</b> is murder.
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First tabloid argument, then cheap sentimentalism.
How about the hundreds of little kids and innocents civilians killed by Sharon's army during one of it's mass murders? Can you do simple math? Is Israeli blood better that Palestinian? The US government apparently thinks so.
Of course the murder of Israelis is awful, but the point it that the
overwhelmingly bigger number of deaths is on the Palestinian side, and the
overwhelmingly majority of civilians.
Nothing justifies this. Certainly not the "fight against terrorism". Total annihilation and ethnic cleansing is the worse form of terrorism, and is the one the US is most familiar with in terms of support. Does Turkey ring a bell? Probably not...
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Whereas Israel targets those who target Israel, Palestinian extremists target little kids.
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Oh, please...
How can a
whole settlement, with not enough food or water, target Israel ?
Look. You are _very_ uninformed about the whole business. I'm certainly no expert, but here are a few texts that were very enlightening to me:
http://www.zmag.org/content/Mideast/chomlateline.cfm
http://www.zmag.org/content/Mideast/chomskyconstr.cfm
http://www.zmag.org/shalom-meqa.htm
http://www.zmag.org/content/Mideast/pilger_june19.cfm
I suggest you take a look at them, and at everything else at
www.zmag.org for that matter.