It's a shame that I have to threaten to ignore you before you engage in the debate, but it's good that you have.
An absence of methods through which individual Palestinians can do very much about the oppression they face doesn't make the bombing any less of a revenge attack.
No it doesn't. If the attacks were intended to improve the situation, you don't have to presuppose this, simply to recognise what nino said about the retaliation being disproportionate. Given what you've said, then it must be about revenge and a cycle of violence.It presupposes that if these attacks were to cease that the isreali governements reaction would be any different in the occupied territoires.
An absence of methods through which individual Palestinians can do very much about the oppression they face doesn't make the bombing any less of a revenge attack.
Quite possibly. So then it is in fact revenge?they wouldn't as theres an active polocicy of settlement of places like mala addumim and galilee around the dead sea... along with hebron an other areas such as the expansion of ariel settlement etc all of this will happen regardless of anything else becuase of simple economic factors and moneies changing hands so even if there were no attacks and the palestinians we meek as church mice they would still be wholesale slaightered just as the amazonian rain forest indians are by logging companies...
That's your interpretation of my opening post, as you made very clear. Some other posters agree, some disagree. So why the insults?the second failure is to assume that the is some level of hierarchy of suffering which equates on side or the other as being of more moral sigfificance than another...
No it doesn't. I'm well aware that Israelis can kill Palestinians much more easily than vice versa.the final thing is that it assume an equality of oppertuntiy which again is lacking...
Again, I don't disagree that this is going on, but again, don't agree that suicide bombing is a 'natural reaction'.it sets up the concept that attacks on palestinians only happen becuase of palestinain acitons which isn't true, they happen becuase there is a land grab going on and to hell with the people who are in the way...
