>Nice try but there is no comparison between the two.
>
>Using unconventional military tactics against a superior military force is
>not terrorism.
>
>Strapping a bomb to a teenager and sending them into a crowded bar to kill
>themselves and any civilians present IS terrorism. The fact that the
>families then put there hand out to Saddam for payment makes it a sickening
>crime against there own flesh and blood.

The Israelis(in uniform) kill as many, if not more innocent people in
Palestine.  Just because they wear a uniform doesn't mean they are any
different from the guy blowing up a restaurant in Israel.

I saw a programme on BBC1 not so long ago, that showed the Israeli army
smashing up a kindergarten and smearing excrement all over the walls.  No
doubt they were preventing terrorism.

Anyway I would like all you right wing war mongers out there to ask yourself
one question: Why ?

Why does someone give their life to destroy.  Why does someone train for
months and kill themselves flying a plane into a building.  Do you think
they are all 'nut jobs'.  Once you answer that question there will be no
more terrorism.  Address the injustices of world and listen to the people,
then you will find that they will be your friend and not your enemy.

Unfortunately the easy thing is just to become intolerant and just somehow
solve the problem in 5 minutes, by blowing a few people up.  The hard thing
is to have patients and tolerance.




-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Ryan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11 February 2003 22:27
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Terry Jones (from Monty Python) on War


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fred White [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 2:54 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: OT: Terry Jones (from Monty Python) on War
>
>

<snip>

> The fact that the Palestinians resort to unconventional means to
> battle, is not attributed to the fact that, unlike the Israelis, they
> do not have support of the most powerful nation on Earth. Instead, we
> just write them off as "terrorists" who "get what they deserve".
>
> If you recall our own revolution, the British red coats marched along
> in military formation while we resorted to ungentlemanly (terrorist)
> tactics such as ambush. We didn't  possess a trained military with
> comparable weaponry so were forced to adopt a strategy which seemed to
> have the best chance of success. That's what today's terrorists have
> been forced to do.
>

Nice try but there is no comparison between the two.

Using unconventional military tactics against a superior military force is
not terrorism.

Strapping a bomb to a teenager and sending them into a crowded bar to kill
themselves and any civilians present IS terrorism. The fact that the
families then put there hand out to Saddam for payment makes it a sickening
crime against there own flesh and blood.

Revisionist history aside, I still believe that the Arab world will in no
way permit peace with Isreal no matter what peace plan Isreal agrees to. The
need that conflict far to much for them to let a little thing like
Palestinian lives get in the way.

Comments are my own, not my employer's... etc.





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