[liberalism=failure]

Answer:

hell yes it is, and only a moron would say otherwise

[ImpBill]

It most absolutely is precisely the same. But there will be many and even some on this forum that will say either it isn't or that the Israelis deserve it. Sick people, both the perp's, their supporters, and their apologists.

[Brasil]

...and the morons called in and were heard.

[b4its2late]

Yep, and everyone, even the damn French better realize it, or they'll wake up too late.

[Mixer]

So what is the actual question. In the title it says "the same" and in the body of the message you state "equivalent"

Which is it?

[silver fox two]

.......not yet, but they're working up to it!!

[Lopeover]

Make that a double "hell yes!"

[wheezer]

It serves Bibi to frame it as such (taking the similarities and declaring equivalence). But the motivational differences are tremendous, and IMHO, America should not be hitching our goals to Bibi's. They are not the same, no way, no how.

[Cachelot]

Is what is happening in the middle east the same as 9/11?

Yes. Only on a daily basis.

Poofwell calls it "peace process", of course.

[Seti 1]

Let's hear it for the morons. If you're looking for parallels the Palestinians look a lot like the French Maqui to me. Or any other group which was willing to fight to overcome an illegal military occupation despite having nothing to fight with. The US generally sympathizes with the underdog and would probably be supporting the Palestinians except for two groups: (1) a superorganized and affluent Jewish community which owns the media, which has bought and paid for Congress and whose loyalties are with Israel not the US, and (2) the more rabid branch of evangelical Christians who would like to see the Middle East explode into nuclear war so Christ would return and raise them into rapture while burning the rest of us (especially their allies, the Jews) in Hell.

The caps lock button is on the left just above the shift button.

[ZULU]

Is this a poll or an intelligence question or something? What kind of idiots do they have at FOX that they even have to ask such a question?

As for those Muslim rats who wouldn't condemn terrorism because they couldn't define it, maybe they should go back to school and learn something about logic and some foreign language other than Arabic, like English, which can make a clear definition of it.

Targeting civilians and other non-combatants in an effort to achieve your objectives is terrorism - pure and simple. Unlike Dark Age Barbarians, civilized states attempt to restrict their violence to battlefield situations involving soldiers.

The REAL problem with Muslims is not an inability to define terrorism, its the distinction they place between Muslim and non-Muslim lives, and their relative values.

[funkywbr]

The only difference is that everybody hates us Jews. President Bush doesn't want to become a full partner with such a tiny group of people, when compared to the rest of the ME are small fries. I love President Bush and voted for him but let me tell you, his current policy SUCKS! He can not fight Terrorists and then day after day ask Israel to show restraint when they are attacked in ways that only a fool would not lable as terrorism! He is becoming muddled and may have finally given the DemoTaxRats an issue that because of his own actions and words show him as inept. I hope I'm wrong.

[The Vast Right Wing]

Yes.

[The Great Satan]

Of course it's the same. "Martyrdom" attacks by jabbering Muslim savages on innocent civilians, simultaneously denied, celebrated and blamed on the Jews by the crazy Islamic brotherhood. And, importantly, the deniability these sneak attacks give to their instigators -- Palifat, Insane, etc., -- offers them a powerful tool to wage an unlimited and escalating war on civilization itself, while still enjoying the PR services of their toadying left-wing apologists in our own media. This MO has deep roots in the Arab psyche -- historically these people were brigands and bandits, raiders and slavers, without the wherewithal to build stable, productive societies, living perforce as parasites. That cultural conditioning and the depleted gene pool in the Arab Peninsula, where the average IQ is 85 -- borderline retarded -- explains a lot, I think.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

One could argue that psychologically, the bombings and terror directed against Israel is much worse than 9/11 was for Americans. They must live in constant fear. Especially since Israel is so geographically small. In America, New York is distant for many people, and the horror of what happened on 9/11 has a kind of sterile, made-for-TV feel. In Israel, I would guess that a large percentage of the populace has been directly affected by the terror.

To put it another way, 9/11 was one big bang followed by a whole lot of payback on our part. In Israel, by contrast, they are suffering a psychological death by a thousand paper cuts, and have taken it for years.

[foreverfree]

No it isn't, exactly, it's 9/11 times 5 or more.

foreverfree

[Mr. Thorne]

I'd say otherwise; I'd call it worse. We lost, what, 3000 plus casualties out of 260 plus million. The Israelis seem to be losing proportionately more on a month to month basis.

And has anyone on the 'poor palestinians' side ever considered what these people could have gotten with a Palestinian version of MLK or Ghandi? But noooo, they don't believe in passive non-resistance (Allah must not reward you for that), so they'll go blow up a disco instead. And with every civilian they kill, the disgust toward them grows, and their support base in the west shrinks.

Oh, and one more thing.

Why, exactly, does anybody want to pi$$ us off in the first place? There is a grand total of 1 (ONE) country in this world that has nuked somebody. And we're it. It just doesn't seem prudent to attack us.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

Our country has risen in justified outrage and has gone to war to pursue those who have inflicted 4,000 casualties on us. Israel has 1/50 of the population of the United States. The about 500 Jews who have been killed by the Palestinians in the past 18 months corresponds to about 25,000 killed in the United States. Would the American people stand still for that?

[PhilDragoo]

Netanyahu was on fox news claiming that what is happening to Israel is equivalent to what happened to the US on 9-11.

Benjamin Netanyahu is accurate and incisive as always.

He was subverted by the traitor-rapist 42 who sent the alligator-alien-mutant to install Barak.

Barak made such dangerous concessions he could not reveal them to his closest advisors.

Arafat rejected peace and declared war, sending an unending stream of butchery to those who offered peace.

Osama massacred our innocents--and we responded decisively with overwhelming force.

We remain wrongheaded in counselling restraint on Israel's part, when that nation's war on terrorism predates our own, and is in fact, seamlessly joined with ours.

Israel's current decisive action is as justified as our own, long overdue, and deserves our support.