by Miki » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 13:20:28
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'Y')ou are very convinced of your worldview. From time to time you tell us how you aren't sold on black and white simplistic views of the world, but you always come back to them anyway. Israel & America = Bad, Palestinians Good.
1-I've acknowledged many times that Palestinians use terrorism in order to achieve political means, and that this approach is morally wrong. Thus, I have not portrayed them as "all good", as you claim.
2-The fact that I favor the Palestinian side of the story in my posts here is based on 3 principles:
a-Someone needs to show Americans the other side. The American media does enough to defend America's and Israel's righteousness. What's the use of me rergurgitating that here?
b-America and Israel started the atacks against the Muslim nations. This applies to Palestine, Lebanon, and Irak. This war did not start in 9/11, as most Americans seem to believe. While two wrongs don't make one right, it is worth to mention who atacked first, if only to take things in perspective when it comes to the "right to self-defense" rhetoric that Israel and America always use to justify their actions.
c-America and Israel perpetrate terrorism and label it "self defense", but when Palestinians and Arabs react to that terrorism with similar means (terrorism), self-defense is never mentioned. I am fed up of these double standards. And I'm doing my best to show them. The use of terrorism by the Palestinians and Arabs is a known fact all over the world. I am here to show the more unknown part of the story: the terrorism of the other side that is rarely acknowledged or even known by Americans.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou point to the bad guys using lethal force and ignore your sympaticos' use of coerced frightened suicide bombers.
False. I've pointed out many times that suicide bombing is a fact and it's morally wrong. It is a no brainer that it's a form of terrorism. I would be quite stupid to deny that---and I never have.
')Young Palestinian girls who had sexual indiscretions used to convince them their life was over anyway in their male-dominated society, so they could redeem themselves by killing Israeli roadside diners with strapped-on bombs.