[Bob Burnett]

The amazing thing about this thread is not once do we read about 'kill 'em/ nuke 'em', the validity of targeted killing, and nasty rag-heads. And notice also, the IRA are, to some, the good terrorists, their terrorism being so focused, so controlled. Especially amusing was the talk about only limited innocent victims by the IRA! Everyone was polite and didn't bring up the attempted killing of Margaret Thatcher and her government or the murder of Lord Mountbatten. Wouldn't Sharon have become absolutely unglued were that to have happened to his people?

Lots of erudite and profound understanding of positions on both sides which was very nice. Lots of tut-tut my cause is better than your cause and cluck-cluck my religion is better than yours.

The enlightened discussion would even go back to our revolution, and thank heavens nobody pulled out the infamous bibical map to choke off rational debate.

But when it comes to Israel vs. Palestinians notice how things revert back to black and white primeval orgasms of simple minded and racist hate against Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims.

What a difference when the antagonists are Western.