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

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

[slimer]

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

This statement is typical of those who attempt to portray terrorists as victims. The truth is that suicide bombers are terrorists who choose to resort to violence to further their cause. What these people really want is attention and nothing gets more attention than the indiscriminate murdering of innocent lives, negative as it may be, it gets covered widely by the media and thus brings their cause to the attention of the world. But only to the world that is tuned in to the media which lends support to their cause by broadcasting it twenty four hours a day seven days a week.

There are many people through out the world who are quietly suffering much greater degrees of despair than these despicable creatures and they are doing so with a measure of dignity and respect for others despite their horrific circumstances. People such as these are the real heroes of this world. What if a terrorist blew himself up, killing and injuring twenty people or even a hundred people and nothing was said about it in the news? In some people's minds, the idea of "going out in a blaze of glory" gives them the idea that somehow they are going to be memorialized through history and thus they can achieve in death what seems to them unobtainable in life.

Terrorists are evil cowards that believe the only way that they can obtain recognition and respect is through martyrdom.

[CyberAnt]

Oh give it up people! Poverty does not breed suicide bombers! Period!

[Jason Gade]

mercy said:

The Arabs who did not wish to move out of what was ordained Israeli territory were invited by the Jews to be Israelis. With full rights. They chose instead to kill the Jews. They were defeated. They have no rights in Israel. They forfeited them.
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Actually after the Jewish massacre at Dayr Yasin, the Jewish forces threatened other Arab Palestinians with the same if they did not abandon their homes.

Then of course came 50 years of the Jewish state purchasing or confiscating by force Arab land and putting it into trust for the exclusive use of the Jews. Not the Israelis, but the Jews.

The problem is that having more than a certain number of Arabs living in Palestine would remove "the essential Jewish nature" of Israel, and it would no longer be a nation whose identity was defined by being Jewish which is the point of Zionism.

Admitted, their was no Palestinian nation prior to the formation of Israel. Removing the people who lived there by force was not right however. No matter whether the Europeans did the same to the Jews or not.

[mercy]

You can revise history all you want but anyone can plainly see that the Jew has always treated the Arab better than the Arab the Jew. Name me an Arab nation where a Jew can hold political office.