But even supposing that Israel’s defensive posture is nothing but posturing, is there any reason for us to feel sympathetic toward the Palestinians, other than the fact that they’re the underdogs in this conflict? I don’t mean to suggest that the Israelis aren’t crass, ideological religious nuts, because they all might be, but there are a lot more suicide bombers coming out of Palestine than Israel. Maybe that’s a sign of how bad things are for the Palestinians, and we should pity them, that they can’t even afford jet fighters to kill people with, so they have to send their bombs by martyr instead. At the same time, if an elected party of theirs is advocating suicide as a religious duty against their enemies, aren’t we vulnerable to that also for its PR value, even if we concede that Israel’s PR has more finesse? Holy self-destruction, carried out at the hands of a powerful enemy, seems to have been an attractive symbol for the Christians, who make a big deal about J.C.’s martyrdom, and people around the world think that he can’t be a bad guy if he voluntarily gave his life for what is best.

If a political party is elected that advocates religious suicide against enemies, then, and experience shows that religious martyrdom is often an effective way to gain a sympathetic audience, then isn’t it possible that these attacks by Israel aren’t unprovoked, and since this provocation, in the past, tends to bring eventually the same response as always from Israel, is it impossible that some people might even invite this kind of thing? Again, this isn’t to accuse Israelis of being anything other than barbaric and outrageous, but I can’t see anything that shows Palestine as a whole to be acting any differently. Even if Israel is purely conducting an offensive war against Palestine, and more violently because better equipped, does anyone believe Palestine wouldn’t be making exactly the same offensive and bloody extermination against Israel if it was wealthy and Israel was poor?

If there’s no reason to advocate Palestine’s behavior as good or just, simply because Israel’s savage and unwarranted behavior is better armed, then why would Palestinians be any less sick than Israelis, after allowing (and, for fewer people, sending) rocket attacks against Israel since last week? Doesn’t that only makes Palestine every bit as contemptible as Israel, since these ongoing rocket attacks obviously aren’t intended to accomplish a military objective? Is anyone surprised that Israel responded to a week of rockets by killing a lopsided number of Palestinians? What else were these rocketeers hoping to gain, then, if not the slaughter of other Palestinians, followed by worldwide condemnation of Israel?

No doubt the Chimp approved this as one of his many goodbye gifts to President Obama.

Huh, I missed that headline when the Paki’s attacked Mumbai?

http://www.democracynow.org/20…..lockade_of

Where is Pastor Warren? The Palestinians lived on this land walked by Jesus. Where are all the right wing evangelicals? This land is Palestinian, not Israeli. There was no Israel sitting there 2,000 years ago. The League of Nations Mandate of 1922 was responsible for Israel being formed….not God.

If Obama defends Israel on this atrocity, you will all know what his foreign policy is going to be like.