I should relate a story about a kid in my neighbourhood when I was growing up. His father was a taxidermist, and the whole family loved animals -- to kill and torture animals that is. They were paid to shoot stray cats at the city landfill and they loved it. Well, these people had cats for pets. They would do what amounted to torture to them all the time. After a while, this would have a predictable effect and they they would say, "Ah shucks, our cat has gone crazy. Now we are going to have to shoot it." Which they did, with a certain amount of satisfaction.
It's not fair to use this allegory with cats compared to human beings, but the way the Israels treat Arabs amounts to the same thing. They drive them crazy with rage through their arrogance and injustice, and then when someone does a terrorist act, they respond with ten times the force appropriate, punishing innocent people and sowing the seeds for more terrorism. History didn't have to be like that, and things just keep getting worse and worse. The hate is boiling over and the Israelis are militarily invincible, so inevitably terrorists are going to look for softer targets. I can't imagine a softer target than Canada. And Mr. Harper taking the position he has is moving us way up the list for the terrorists, in a country that has let in huge number of immigrants from radical places like Pakistan and Somalia over the last twenty years. Those crazy youths on terrorist charges are going to multiply and get less and less crazy and more and more common the more unjust our positions become. We Canadians are a bunch of idiots -- first to let in so many people from radical troubled places, and second to support unjust positions like OK-ing Israel's round two destruction of Lebanon to stir people up, which we are pretty much helpless to defend against if they are anything more than idiotic rank amateurs at terrorism. |
