6/24/2002: Another Palestinian child

Originally posted by Count Zero
The Palestinians aren't trying to wipe out the Jews, they're trying to live.

Palestinian terrorism is in no way justifiable by this, but it sure is understandable.

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?

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".

Nevermind the 51% of Palestinians that support the destruction of Israel.

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.

Oh, sure... not <b>all</b> Palestinians want to see the Jews killed (though apparently some 51% of them do)... but then again, hardly all Israelis are murdering thousands and thousands of Palestinians, only for the sake of it. You sure do fail to mention <b>this</b>, don't you?

Nevermind your complete lack of mention of the thousands of Israelis that have been murdered only for the sake of it.

You can't change the rules for just one side; it's got to apply to all. If the murder of Palestinians is awful and its support by the US government is awful, then the murder of Israelis is just as equally awful, and so is the support of that murder by governments such as Syria, Iran and Iraq and groups such as the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Palestinian Liberation Organization, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and however many other terrorist-supporting groups exist in the mideast and abroad.

Furthermore, I don't recall any recent news stories about Israeli soldiers walking into crowds of Palestinian civilians and detonating themselves, but I seem to recall an incident last week during morning rush hour where a Palestinian extremist got on a bus and... I don't even need to say it, because you know what happened.

Whereas Israel targets those who target Israel, Palestinian extremists target little kids.

You're right though - just trying to live.