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Palestinians Humiliate Themselves

In a March 16 editorial in the New York Times titled, As If That Fire Needed Fuel, the Times writes:

"Israeli Army officials ordered inmates to strip to their underwear, which many did, marching out with clothing on their heads, an embarrassing and completely unnecessary provocation that trampled the dignity of any Palestinian watching that spectacle.

Given the humiliations that ordinary Palestinians suffer merely by trying to get through Israeli checkpoints every day, the prison raid just reinforced the already degrading reality of living under foreign occupation."
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated, “What happened without a doubt is an ugly crime which can not be forgiven and a humiliation for the Palestinian people.”

Palesinians should feel humiliated. A majority of Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem support suicide terrorism. A 2001 poll by Dr. Nabil Kukali and the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (PCPO), found, "a substantial majority [of Palestinians] (76.1%) support suicidal attacks like that of Netanya [in May, 2001], whereas 12.5% oppose, and 11.4% express no opinion." A 2006 poll taken by the Jerusalem Media & Communication Center after the recent Hamas political victories found, “56.2% [of Palestinians] strongly or somewhat support suicide bombing operations against Israeli civilians whereas 40.7% oppose such operations.”

Considering that the majority of Palestinians support suicide terror, and considering that Israel prevents suicide killings on a daily basis, it should come as no surprise that captured Palestinians are asked to remove their clothes during the process of incarceration. Why should any Israeli take a chance of being blown up? Why should Israel present Palestinians with opportunities to commit suicide killings? Palestinians should feel humiliated about their culture of death and they should be asked to strip naked during the process of incarceration as long as their population continues to support, condone, and commit suicide killings.

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Well, I was against the war in Iraq before Blair decided to support the illegal American invasion, but now we're there, we can't just pull out having stirred up a hornet's nest. We must stay until there is some stability - which may be years - and every British death shouold be on Blair's conscience.
Let's hope he has learned something from this, and doesn't support an American attack on Iran - since that country relies so heavily on imports, and since there already exists in that country a great will to reform, the threat of sanctions may be enough to stop the move to develop nuclear weapons.
And if the Israelis were to give back the land they have stolen from the Palestinians, then there may be some hope for peace there, as well.
Oh, and the BBC link didn't work :)
 

Thanks Byronb. Can't find anything wrong at this end with the link - it's working here so don't know what happened. Hope it's OK now.

I take your point about an immediate pullout from what you rightly describe as a hornets nest, but simply comment on the will of the people, around the world and, indeed, in Iraq.

I agree with your views on Iran - and the warning to Blair delivered Saturday - and indeed, without the bringing to heel of the Zionist state that is Israel, and the return of all stolen land, there is little hope for peace any where in the region.
 

As for Why Palestinians Get It Wrong, this is SPAM by someone who hasn't got the cojones to leave a name, either on the many blogs where this diatribe appears in the comments, or on the anonymous persons own blog.

Being SPAM mail, I should delete it as I normally would such hateful rubbish but, purely out of interest, and although the comment has nothing to do with the post it is attached to, I leave it as a monument to those Jewish people who, when criticized, raise the well-worn charge of anti-Jewishness as an excuse for the Gestapo tactics of the Israeli State.

Gestapo tactics by people who should know better, given that they never stop reminding the world about the holocaust and their eternal suffering because of it.

If a lesson needs to be learnt from that, it is one of humanity and the wrongs of discrimination, the stealing of other peoples land and the rights of other people.

This anonymous spammer has a lot to learn.
 

And I should add that I have posted back to the anonymous spammer with the above comments, and that any other spam WILL be deleted immediately.
 

Said spammer searched Blogger for the terms "Rachel Corrie," and spammed everybody. I'm pleased to meet you because of it.

Signed, with my actual name, as an American who opposes the war, Israeli occupation of Palestine, and the Bush regime in general.
 

Thank you Kirstin, and I'm delighted to meet you too.

Our spammer obviously has plenty time on his/her hands.

Hope to hear from you again soon.
 

It seems he [Why Palestinians...] started doing this before the spiteful Rachel Corrie post. He spammed his first post several times over at my place.

It seems humanity has trouble abiding by a few unwritten rules of courtesy and fair-play...
 

Thanks for that, Gert.

I guess it's the only way some people can find to put forward unreasonable points when they would prefer not to hear the opposing view.