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Reason why palestinian children die
They want to.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/733742.html
More to the point their brutal leaders brainwash them into seeking death.
How can we create a state for a people that seeks the death of its own children? It wouldn't survive very long would it?
Submitted on Mon, 2006-07-03 01:27
Re: Reason why palestinian children die
Sole62,
No matter how much you brainwash children in my country, they will not desire to get killed. There is a lot more going on than just brainwashing, there are specific living conditions that create such problems.
I sympathize with Israel plight, but also with the Palestinian situation. Both sides are to blame on this conflict. However, the occupier force is Israel and the military might is on Israel side. That means that Israel has more responsibilities in the way that it wields its power.
It is therefore simplistic to state that Palestinian children die because "they want to". It is simplistic and morally wrong. It echo's the Nazi's justifications that Jews brought the persecution on themselves.
In the same article you provide there is this comment, using a speach much at your style, and not at my liking:
To my surprise
"How can there be peace in the land of the jewish god of war when children are born in jails with their mother handcuffed, when children see their fathers humiliated by zionist soldiers, when children hear cousins stories of torture in Israeli jails, when children cant sleep because of Israeli plane noises, when children see their little friends been killed by mercy or confirmation, when children are attcked by settlers onthe wayt o school. Wake up cynics, you are teaching Palestinian children to hate you. You have not learned to live among the civilized for thousands of years. Now you have you own country and once again you dont know to co-exist with those who are different from you. The only way you know to releted to any one different from you is through conflict and war. You are the only ones to be blamed for being hated. Ask your god of war why you dont know to leave among anyone different from you."
An old IDF soldier
I agree with the substance of this comment, but I desagree with the form. I beleive that generalizations and qualifications are inherently wrong and harmfull. They are the source of all that is evil.
Therefore I condemn the qualification of "God of war", the generalizations of "Zionist soldiers" and the "[Jewish impossibility to] relate to any one different [] through conflict and war". I condemn such terms the same way I condemn your idea that "Palestinian children die [because] they want to".
Re: Reason why palestinian children die
>No matter how much you brainwash children in my country, they will not desire to get killed. There is a lot more going on than just brainwashing, there are specific living conditions that create such problems
Re: Reason why palestinian children die
Saentanju,
Precisely. But no matter what the evidence suggests, some are much rather project their own prejudices and causes onto suicide bombers.
Palestinians and Muslims don't hold monopoly on human suffering. There is more to this dreadful culture of martyrdom than avenging injustices and righting the wrongs.
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