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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (307902)	10/13/2002 12:07:35 PM
From: Mr. Forthright	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

If you can't unequivocally denounce Palestinian atrocities I have a problem. If you try to equate suicide bombing to self defence I have a problem. Let me summarize for you what the Israelis want and stand for: prosperity, freedom, democracy, honest government and the friendship of neighbours. On the other hand, those who manage and support Palestinian bombers have turned morality upside down. They seek, on principle, the same outcome that most combatants (Israelis, Americans etc) try to avoid in armed conflict, the killing of innocents. Over five decades, the Palestinians have failed at every project they have undertaken, lurching from crisis to crisis, always under incompetent leadership. They succeed only in their own eyes -- and, strangely, in the media of the West and people like you. Even the US (Jewish-Zionist controlled) media is on your side: did you read the recent article in The New York Times where the (Jewish controlled editorial) said, "even people of good will argue for the morality of suicide bombings, saying that suicide bombers are a natural product of humiliation and despair." The other American (Jewish/Zionist controlled news outlet)Time magazine published an article by a Palestinian psychiatrist, Eyad Sarraj, who also depicted the killers as victims of humiliation: "Shame is the most painful emotion in the Arab culture, producing the feeling that one is unworthy to live. The honourable Arab is the one who refuses to suffer shame and dies in dignity." Let me tell you that a large part of humanity feels humiliated at any given moment, and most of those enduring this state do not wrap themselves in explosives and push the detonator in a restaurant. Suicide bombing is no hasty act of desperation. It needs organization and encouragement. Each successful murder occurs at the end of a long line of agents who select and train the killer and plan the atrocity in detail. They recruit their living bombs from among extreme patriots, those who feel themselves to be victims, those who are consumed by hate -- and, of course, the ultra-religious. (Are you an ultra religious?) And behind the participants stand organizers who provide money (Arafat, Saddam, the Saudis), a rationale, and posthumous honour, often including large cheques to compensate the killers' families. Religion has a place in all this, but no one knows what it means anymore. Certainly the Palestinians have become uncoupled from religious tradition. How else could they violate any conceivable Koranic teaching by using women and girls as bombs? Muslims should in theory consider that idea blasphemous, and no doubt many do, in private. One would expect a wave of revulsion, but it hasn't been expressed. Apparently Palestinian terrorism has become so popular that it transcends even the rules of Islam.