[SJackson]

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[sharktrager]

They touch on the real goal of the leaders sending these fools to their deaths. They want Israel to crack down, and crack down hard. They want towns leveled. They want mass arrests. They want lots of Palestinians killed by Israelis.

They know that there is one way to win. They have got to eliminate Israel's foreign support. The best way to do that is to paint Israel as a villan. They have succeeded in those parts of the world that have been historically anti-semitic. Now they want the rest of the world to see things that way.

Their miscalculation is that Americans now understand better what it's like to be bombed on your own soil. We better grasp what it's like to have innocents slaughtered. Many of us are now amazed at Israel's restraint, not her agression.

[rs79bm]

Jeeez my old calculus textbook was shorter than this article. Excerpt please :)