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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: amibent who wrote (86894)	11/6/2000 12:27:36 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Sharon's provocation was outrageous, I agree with you. I suggest that Arafat's repeated declarations of Days of Rage during this period are also outrageous, as is the teaching of hatred to Palestinian children not only at home but in their school textbooks and kindergarten songs, as is the transporting by adults of rocks, by the truckload, to convenient sites, as is making absolute heroes of parents whose children die, as are parents who provide carfare to their sons to go to the places of unrest, as are are parents who say they can "only pray" that their children will die in the fight against the Jews. One might even go so far as to say that the children are also victimized by a religious indoctrination that tells them and their parents that dying from putting themselves in harm's way not only grants hero-status in the community, but also instant admission to Paradise. I would say that those who make heroes of the parents of dead children, and transport the children into harm's way on the declared Days of Rage, and trick them with promises of instant Paradise, and provide them with rocks, and, incidentally, plant snipers with guns amongst the stone-throwers, are also an itty bit responsible for their victimization, too. Sharon and the IDF aren't the only culpable ones in this horror. Oh, btw, I see Arafat hasn't declared a Day of Rage since the offices and headquarters of his personal security force were struck. He suddenly got a lot more moderate. Up until that point, he'd been talking about the Palestinians marching on Jerusalem. Gee, I wonder why he wasn't so worried when it was just hundreds of other-people's-children he was encouraging into the line of fire. Well, why should Arafat feel guilty, since they are all in Paradise? It is my belief that the use of the children by the Palestinians is a cynical, evil political PR strategem-- and one that has worked quite well for them. Now it is extremely fashionable in the U.S., and certainly in New York, to pretend that the deaths of the children are entirely the fault of the Jews. It is very un-PC in New York to mention the stage-management of this tragedy by the Palestinians. Let them send adults to fight and keep the children home. (Oh, they can't keep them home, I forgot! They can keep their daughers home, but not their sons! Right!) But it wouldn't play as well on the evening news if the children didn't outnumber the snipers, would it?