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A corrupt international community that ignored thousands who were beheaded, incinerated, and blown apart in the Congo, Bosnia, India, and Rwanda has demonized him for a "massacre" in which less than a 100 Palestinians were killed in efforts to apprehend the murderers among them.

This is a correct point, of course. But the argument is even simpler: that international community has ignored 800 people killed as "collaborators" by the Palestinians; there is no need to look elsewhere. These 800 are just in the first intifada, which ended in 1993.

Just last week they murdered a "collaborator." I often wondered who these collaborators were: after all, the Palestinians may have uncovered someone who had indeed supplied information to teh Mossad. Well, last week, the killer announced to the cheering crowd that surrounded the lifeless body that "you are a collaborator if you tell a Jew [sic] the name of the steet he stands on."

Almost 1000 people have been murdered right in fron of the cameras of this international community. The answer? Not a word.

Hansen said much of this when he was on Fox on Sunday...about 1PM Eastern time. Democracies turn to the strong man for national salvation. For war.

Then reject him when peace comes. Hansen said this would likely happen to Sharon.

Over his long career, Curtis LeMay said ghastly things
("We're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age")

I can't remember if it was LeMay or one of his successors who had a great reply
to a reporter asking why it was necessary to have an arsenal with more than enough power to
blow up the planet.

The reply was something like "I don't just want to blow them back to the Stone Age --
I want to see the rocks bounce a couple of times".

Sounds like the kind of guy I want in charge...there's always an Evil Empire out there...
even when they haven't yet revealed themselves.

If only more people could see the middle-east conflict so clearly. I really think that what gets in the way is a determination that no one is really "bad" or "evil", so there must be two sides to the argument. The West sways back and forth, siding with whomever is perceived as the underdog (usually the palestinians).

The truth is, the fundamentalist muslims (those who go by the book - true muslims) hate the Jews simply for being Jewish, and they hate us for being Americans, or worse - Christians. And they're just as happy to slaughter Hindus as Jews or Christians. They're just plain evil, and made that way by an evil society, made that way by an evil religion, shaped by an evil book, written by an evil man.