I agree that the vast majority of Palestinians want peace. The problem on both sides is with leadership and refusal to look forward.
Given blame on both sides, who is really to blame? You say one thing, I say another. I'd prefer that everyone decry terror tactics and go to the negotiating table.
I don't agree blindly that Israel is always right. However, I also understand that what I say from the safety of the US is easy. I'm not sure I could be as "objective" if I were living with the terror on a daily basis.
Quite frankly, the terror tactics do not help the Palestinians and many Arab leaders are starting to realize this. Their position, no matter how one measures it, is worse now than it was prior to the beginning of the latest jihad and ramping up of suicide tactics.
Your use of "your ilk" may have some personal meaning to you but it is an expression of bigotry, would you not agree?
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As to Russians identifying religious groups - I don't know enough about it. However, given anti-Semitism and hatred of other groups under Stalin, I wonder why anyone would defend this practice. Why is it necessary to identify anyone by a religious belief? It can't lead to anything good. I agree that it is not an example of something happening just to Jews.
The holocaust happened and it must never happen again. The horrors under Stalin (not just to Jews) happened and we can't look away. It should be memorialized and remembered constantly. (I'm not demeaning other terrors such as Kosovo, Liberia, etc., but OT for this thread.)
As far as the Stern gang, I'll admit that I have studied the issue from one side. From what I've read, and a poster "cut and pasted" the Isreali version today, they at least tried to warn civilians before blowing up the King David Hotel. But again, I would not want to have to defend what happened. Certainly, there were atrocities on both sides, actually all sides when you consider some actions of the British. There was much blame to go around.
Bringing up these actions in a way to somehow justify the intentional targeting of civilian targets by leadres who coerce other people's children to become suicide murders just doesn't make any sense to me and shouldn't to you if you are a member of humanity. |
