Suicide-Murder New Twist In Age-Old Tale (AKA, Oi, why are you still alive Yassir?)

Maybe I might feel a little differently about the young suicide bombers reflecting the desperation of the Palestinian movement if a leader of the Palestinian movement ever put himself in such harm's way.

Instead, it is teenagers and 20-year-olds sent by 50- and 60-year-olds and their lieutenants to kill women on buses and families in restaurants. While the older leaders watch, their young followers die, earning instant, mass-marketed, but fleeting, honor in their community. And permanent death.

I am posting this article for my dear friend 2Trievers who is unavailable today.

While this article is written by a leftie, for the most part it is correct in addressing the utter cowardice of the likes of Arafat and bin Laden - they are willing to send others to die, but unwilling to get in harm's way themselves. Arafat is notorious for "slipping out the back". It speaks largely of the gullability of those who serve their causes - or their outright stupidity. It also speaks loudly of the evil that Arafat and bin Laden represent.

Best Regards, Ivan

Well, without doubt the Buddhist monks were wrong. Setting yourself on fire is suicide without question. And as it turned out, they managed to persuade JFK to assassinate Diem and replace him with a bunch of incompetents, so the monks exchanged a relatively benevolent, westernized Catholic ruler for a bunch of Communist murderers. In the end, the Buddhists realized they had made a sorry mistake.

The Irish hunger strike is another matter. It's not clear whether or not it was suicide, since the Brits could have stopped it at any time. The Brits did, indeed, mistreat their prisoners, many of whom were merely scapegoats rather than real criminals. And it did serve a purpose, because it led the Brits eventually to ease up on their savage treatment of the Irish and start negotiating. The situation in Northern Ireland is still a sorry mess, especially after clinton kicked away the opportunity that he was given, but it's a lot better than it was back then. The same cannot be said about Vietnam.

As long as the Muslim suicide bombers are praised and honored by their people, they will keep doing it. They need that praise, more than they need their reward from Allah. What we need to do is to demonstrate unequivocally that their suicides are NOT productive. We have successfully done that in Afghanistan. You no longer find a bunch of naive Pakistanis running there to join the Jihad. They may be willing to blow themselves up for a glorious victory, but they are not eager to blow themselves up for no purpose, and to have their people curse them instead of praise them afterward--which is pretty much what is happening in Pakistan. Most Muslims in Pakistan think that their Mullahs were villains and fools to send those young men to suffer and die uselessly. And the young men who have returned are treated as stupid fools for having gone, not as heroes. That's the attitude we need to foster in the Middle East.

I'm not familiar with this writer Horgen, but I can certainly join him in his disgust at the spectacle of evil, cunning, old men living in safety and comfort while sending out young men and women to martyr themselves almost before they have had a chance to experience life. But still, I somehow get the impression he is more concerned about the lives of these young Palestinian "martyrs" than he is about those of their innocent Israeli victims.

I'm probably getting the wrong impression, I hope so. I suppose I'm just a little wary of anything that appears in the northeastern press.

There are no really sovereign arab nations and there haven't been since the arab world adopted that insane cult they belong to. Palestinians want only to kill Jews and destroy Israel. They don't understand or care for sovereignty, as it is an alien concept to their cult of submission and subjugation. Dignity isn't in their frame of reference either, only the haughtiness and arrogance of ignorance.

This author is as full of shit as any other communist newstwit. He simply set us up by making some solid jabs at the mullahs who all deserve to hang. Israel must evict these squatters and bar any of them from ever returning or she's doomed to perpetual war with terrorists.

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