Suicide bombers are the appalling but inevitable result of decades of despair (gag)

The Independent (U.K.) ^ | 03/25/2002 | Sa'id Ghazali

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Suicide bombers are the appalling but inevitable result of decades of despair

Plus, the pay is great!

Saddam stokes war with suicide bomber cash ($25,000 reward for killing themselves and Jews!)

[Catspaw]

There's something wrong with the description of the writer:

The writer is a Palestinian journalist terrorist.

There, I've fixed it.

[dighton]

That damn word, as always: BUT.

[Howlin]

Robbing banks is horrible, but people are poor.

[Catspaw]

Let Arafat--like Saddam--use some of the money he's raking in from the EU, the Arab League, and who knows who else, on the welfare of his people, not for killing off Israelis and whomever else gets in his way. His goal--and the goal of the Palestinian people--is to destroy Israel and kill Israelis.

[arielb]

Clinton obstructed justice and committed perjury but it was all about sex

[mewzilla]

After the first thirteen words, the rest of this article is a waste of that paper's column space.

[Orual]

we have an obligation to ask ourselves why the phenomenon occurs

No, we don't. No, we don't. No, we don't. No, we don't. No, we don't. No, we don't. No, we don't. No, we don't. No, we don't. No, we don't. x 50.

That takes care of the first 500 times I've heard or read this nonsense.

[colorado tanker]

"Plus the pay is great." That is precisely the point the lamestream press is not reporting. In the last two articles I read on suicide bombers the bombers were not even known to be politically or religiously active. They are doing this to make big money for their poor families. Some of that money comes from US based "charities" offering "relief" to the families of bombers. The whole practice if revolting (pardon the pun).

[SevenDaysInMay]

Until their own death toll is well into the thousands, the Paliban will continue to pose for CNN while "reporters" ask Israeli how can peace be reached when they keep attacking "freedom fighters".

The IDF must get this Intefada War over with, including the great non-martyr Arafat. Utter destruction and a society bled white will happen, either to the Jews or the Paliban.

There are no longer any rules or civilians in this war.

[cicero's_son]

Yep. Rape is a terrible crime, but some folks are just hard up.

What a despicable article.

[Howlin]

LOL.

[aimhigh]

in order for this to be logical, the author would have to explain why the Palestinians are not also bombing Jordan. Around 1920, the British split their Arab territory into two jurisdictions, one for Jews and one for the Palestinians. The latter was called Jordan.

[cicero's_son]

When I read articles like this, basically excusing the Palestinians for the fact that they have become a nation of murderous thugs, I think of Presiden't Bush's phrase "the soft bigotry of low expectations."

It's a wonderful phrase, but the truth is this kind of bigotry is hard and cold. How little respect must you have for a people to tell that that it's ok for them to blow up women and children because the world is "unfair?"

[kapn kuek]

Why not move the Palestines out of Israel territory? A population shift here would do wonders for peace. Did not Israel win this territory in a war?

The Germans were removed from Prussia after they lost WWII. I don’t hear of too many Germans strapping bombs on and blowing up Russians in Kaliningrad.

[tomahawk]

Native Americans have been living "under occupation" for far longer than the Pals, plus a great percentage of them were exterminated, so I suppose it's understandable if they start launching suicide attacks to bring about an end to the occupation.

[headsonpikes]

There is no Palestinian 'nation'.

There IS an 'Arab Nation', I suppose; it already is fragmented into a number of states.

So-called 'Palestinians' should seek a home in one of these.

[tessalu]

People in the USA have seen plenty of poverty during the Great Depression, and no suicide bombers happened then, so wise up. People have been poor throughout the ages, and that is not what causes suicide bombers. They are the result of evil. Satan is going around like a roaring lion, and these suicide bombers are caught up in the evil, for without God, they do not know any better, and can be talked into anything. What this world needs is Jesus, and then none would act like a suicide bomber. God is love.

[Alouette]

Yasser Arafat has been forced by the Oslo accords to behave like a dictator.

Oh, so before that he was only pretending?