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Merrick
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Re: animal rights campaigners jailed
Jan 23, 2009, 22:38
handofdave wrote:
But the tactics used against Israel tend to turn off many who might otherwise be much more sympathetic, and willing to put more pressure on Israel. Suicide bombings and missile attacks may be the only asymmetric options for them, but at a very great cost, and at the risk of alienating world opinion.


It's peculiar that world opinion doesn't really move against Israel until something like the current attacks. Really, what's the difference between an Israeli helicopter firing missiles into Palestine and a Palestinian suicide bomber blowing up a bus in Israel?

Yet the media and much of the world sees one as legitimate defence (of occupied lands!) and the other as a terrorist outage.

I suspect some of it comes from the Western individualist way of thinking; we cannot engage with deliberate self-sacrifice, so we are mesmerised by things like kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers.

I wonder, if Palestine had the helicopter gunships and Israel relied on cack rockets and suicide bombers, how different would things be?
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