[lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn on Ted Honderich

[Shane Taylor]

andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> 1. You know this how? I could, with as far as I
> know an equal knowledge base, pronounce, they
> are expression of desperation and rage by people
> so oppressed and ground down that they feel that
> life is not worth living, and who seek to daamge
> their prerceived oppressors any way they can.

Because of who they kill and where.  Deeds speak volumes; tactics betray
a great deal about aims.  Previously, you've said it's because of
unexamined assumptions that I read this as such, but they intentionally
kill Israeli civilians within Israel, not just in Gaza and the West Bank.

 How is that *not* collective punishment?  How can this be reconciled
with acceptance of Israeli's right to live *anywhere at all* between
Jordan and the sea?

The ANC didn't use wholesale slaughter of civilians to end apartheid. 
Such a response is not a given, not a natural outgrowth of the situation.

 Putting suicide bombers in the context of "desperation and rage"
obscures more than it explains.

-- Shane

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