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Originally Posted by SYMM
I really don't care about the history. My opinion is based on what I am aware of now (and I suppose during my lifetime), and they seem so bent on violence, that it lowers my opinion of their cause.
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for sixty years the Israeli
government have been launching rockets into civilian areas and blockading/imprisoning/forcibly evicting the Palestinians, interspersed with occasional genocide (with Sabra and Shatila, the Israeli people demonstrated their collective guilt by making the war criminal in question a key figure in their government and eventually Prime Minister for five years). The Palestinians have responded with suicide bombs, the only weapon available to them seeing as military might is forbidden by Israeli blockades and effective government is forbidden by..Israeli blockades. People moan and cry because the Palestinians elected terrorists to government, but the Israelis have been doing that for so much longer. The difference between the two is that many Palestinians oppose terrorism and murder perpetuated by their side.
You'd have to be very, very stupid to think this is a conflict with equal culpability, and completely insane to think the Palestinians are
more at fault than the Israelis.