Monday, November 01, 2004

I take the same kind of view of the Palestinian attacks against the occupiers as the West takes of Israel´s constant attacks against the Palestinians. I don´t condemn Palestinian attacks but just hope that they wouldn´t use disproportionate violence against Israel.

It´s always a sad to see how western leaders declare that a occupying force has a right to defend itself against those that it´s enslaving, whereas when the victims attack their oppressors, then these same brace voices of the West come to declare their utter shock and to pronounce that they condemn the Palestinian acts of self-defense.

And if you wail about blowing a bomb on a market, then you should wail when the Israelis machine-gun the Khan Younis school etc. But usually to these people, "it´s a different thing". And bluntly, when a citizen of an occupying, brutal state dies, it´s a different thing to me too. I can´t feel as much compassion towards them than towards the victims of their country. And if you find this odd, try to feel as much compassion towards the German civilian victims of the II World War as you feel towards the people the German state murdered (of course, supposing that you feel compassion in the first place). If you can, you are a true saint.

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