From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 13:37:14 MDT
>From: Miriam English <miriam@werple.net.au>
>That is a little unfair. They have been serious about peace for a
>very long time.
This is a ridiculous statement. Everything they've been doing for
years, especially the last year, has been the exact opposite of
peace. Rock throwing? Terrorist attacks?
What they want is to have their way.
>Try cramming a heap of US citizens into a tiny and deprived space
>with appalling restrictions upon their normal movement, with most
>of what you would consider essential rights taken away by
>faceless, brutal soldiers and see if those US citizens would be
>peaceful. *Of course* some of the Palestinians have gone for the
>violent solution, what else could be expected? Many normally
>enlightened members of this list have been braying for incredible
>and truly terrifying violent solutions lately.
You have a double standard.
It's perfectly understandable to you that the Palestinians use
violence and terrorism to try and achieve their aims, but those who
have to use violence to defend themselves are the bad guys
I'll ignore the braying remark for now, next time it's sig file
time.
>The Palestinians are just people. They are the same as the people
>on the other side of the border. When you forget that they are
>people then you can justify atrocities... exactly the same way
>those fools who rode the airplanes into the WTC did.
I see them as people, people who won't listen to reason, people who
think they can get away with using terrorism for political aims.
>The image of them cheering is hard to get rid of.
>Which is probably why the clip was played over and over again...
>or maybe I am wording that wrongly. I should probably say that the
>viewers were played by those that screened the tape of those kids.
>It was guaranteed to get a nasty reaction. It almost certainly was
>not representative. So, why do you think they showed it?
Actually I only saw it once, but that was enough. It was being
broadcast by international media and was picked up here.
The theatrics of the Palestinians happened after we know they saw
broadcasts of American reaction to the dancing in the street bit.
Which is why it carries little weight here.
Brian
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