Monday, February 9, 2009

War crimes are in the eye of the beholder...

“The kids in first grade in Sderot were born when rockets were being fired at Sderot. They have lived their entire lives having to think that when they leave the house, when they’re walking down the street, when they’re playing ball, that they have fifteen seconds to hide from an incoming rocket. And it’s not only the kids, it’s the parents. I have a friend who won’t drive with two kids in the car. If the alert goes off he doesn’t want to have to ask himself which of his kids he is going to save.” If the Israelis were doing this to Palestinians, it would be a war crime . . . .

And that is a big part of the problem. Too many people see everything that the Israelis do as a crime and everything that the Palestinians do as self-defence whereas reality is pretty much the exact opposite and no amount of proof to that effect will change their minds. Unfortunately until that happens or the Israelis are eradicated, there will not be peace in that region. The Palestinians are too brutal and the Israelis too civilized for this to end any other way.

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