--- Shane Taylor <s-t-t at juno.com> wrote:
> 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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