People on FR are expressing the idea that bin Laden just started ranting against Israel because thats what they're hearing on TV. They're not bin Laden biographers; someone's telling them that. Someone who has an agenda and is using lies to further it. Thats all I'm saying. Whats wrong with being aware that you're being lied to?
Every so often I have to return to a thread and make a retraction. This is one of those times. After giving it a little more thought, I have decided that motive does matter after all in this case. Tell ya how: if this REALLY IS about Israel, it means I have to move the Palestinians much higher up on the enemies list. Quite near the top, in fact. If what you say is true, whatever sympathy I had for their situation would vanish, and I wouldn't raise so much as a whisper of protest if they were all vaporized tomorrow.
It doesn't take a psychologist to figure out that this would probably be the majority reaction, so the "agenda" behind the claim (false or true) that Bin Laden has only recently begun to bring Israel into the equation remains a mystery. Are you sure you want me to believe that this is more about Israel than about a megalomaniac tyrant's grab for power?
Hmm, maybe our government doesn't want us to believe that either. They may still be envisioning peace one day in that region, and the truth (if that is the truth) would blow that possibility into atoms.