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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (148606)7/22/2002 11:18:27 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1575715
 
Ted, you exaggerate the situation. But then if you are looking at the thoughts of some of the people who would become suicide bombers, rather then the actual facts, then your post might be accurate.

Tim, I did not exaggerate the facts nor do I think I understated them.........I think I told them just as they are. Remember, the footnotes for my comments would be the CIA and the Library of Congress.

It also servers the purpose I mentioned in my post. Looking at it from the radical Palestinian's viewpoint may help give you more understanding of the situation but it doesn't change the fact that the suicide bombers and those who lead them are terrorist murderers and should be treated as such. There is usually a cause that terrorist murderers fight for. But the tactic is unacceptable, and the cause it is used for doesn't change that even if it the situation really was the way the radical Palestinians portray it.

If what you got out of that post was that you were seeing things through the eyes of a Palestinian who had become radicalized then I did not accomplish what I intended. Americans were radicalized after the events of 9/11, meaning we are now radical in our views re terrorists and the ways to deal with them. The middle class Moslem university grads who flew the jets into the WTC had been radicalized and were radicals.

However, I do not believe the suicide bomber is a radicalized Palestinian teenager but rather one borne from despair much like American teenage suicides. The difference is is that the American suicide is too young to know that his/her despair may be temporary, very personalized and has not learned how to draw in hope from the greater environment. For the Palestinian teenager, hope can not be drawn in from the greater environment because there is none..........and without hope, there can not be a future. These are not radicalized soldiers of Islam......they are too young to fully understand the politics of hate. These teenagers are not the ones dancing in the street after the death of an American like Daniel Pearl. They are the quiet, thoughtful ones who keep to themselves. You can't suicide in the light but only in dark places.

And we all know there is nothing acceptable about suicide whether its the taking of one's life or multiple lives. Nothing is gained and everything is lost. But I believe we need to stop judging and condemning these suicide bombers....its become too easy and acceptable. Instead, we need to focus our energies on understanding the cause of these suicides so that we can prevent them in the future. And we need to do it soon......suicides have become a way of life in Palestine.

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