outrage!!
the capture of one soldier (military combatant) from an army base (military target) results in the total shutdown of Gaza, home to 1.4 million Palestinians (99% of whom are civilians).yet all the outrage in the west is about the soldier and not about the disproportionate response shown by Israel.how many innocent Palestinians have been killed in gaza these past couple of weeks.countless.how many cabinet ministers and palestinian paliamentarians been picked up?too many.wheres the outrage?nowhere to be seen. all you hear is imagine if someone captured our soldier from the homeland we'd respond in kind.this was said by a democrat senator.current crisis in lebanon was initiated not by the capture of two israeli soldiers by hezbollah but by israel capturing some hezbollah fighters.yet wheres the outrage.its hezbollah who are termed the terrorists and its the lebanese who are paying in lives and properties.beirut has been cut off.right now there are 3 israeli soldiers in arab hands whereas israel has 9000!!! arab prisoners.wheres the outrage??
i mean studying in the states i was baffled by the american public opinion about the arab israeli conflict. campuses that are usually liberal bastions usually were sympathetic to the Palestinians. Yet when Americans grow up they tend to buy into this bullshit that freedom is under attack.terrorism and freedom struggles are one and the same. i guess maybe its in their blood.cos of what they did to the native americans they can now relate to Israels attitude towards the arabs. then they have the innocence to ask why oh why do they hate us.
the arab israeli issue gets me riled up even more than india pakistan cos the injustice of it all is so blatant ones left wondering what in the world is going on here?sure there are lots of bad eggs in the palestinian cause.arab states have done shit all as well but are the palestinian nation going to be meted out this unjust and humiliating treatment for ever?its so bad that ones forced to say to hell with it!!
posted by Jerry shah at 4:22 PM
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as is my new policy, when i have nuthing intelligent to say, i stick to "blah"...
...just so you know i was here!
:)
put up pics of ur haircut!hehe!
12:03 AM
At the end of the day it's the same position as the Russian governement on hostage situations. We value the sanctity of life too much to negotiate over it, which pretty much translates practically into you can shoot them we won't give in. You can talk all you want about human lives and rights (facile ones like the right to electricity that Americans may be expected to understand when Israel blows power stations) but the process peaceful conciliatory negotiations (regardless of how much they take away of your right) supercedes any right to life.
The Jews or Israelis (sometimes I forget the difference) in Britain took out an ad in a British paper asking Israel to stop their nonsense. An analyst said it would have made more sense for them to take it out in an Israeli paper.
12:19 AM
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