Immature Cabin Crew

keep in mind a one, very important distinction in the American psyche:

Palestinians have some legitimate grievances. However, their way of life
(religion, culture, current relevance,etc) are vastly different from the
experiences of Americans and Europeans.

Jews and Israelis, although having committed excesses in some cases, still
represent the closer of the two cultures. That is, Jews have many common
elements with Americans and Europeans (even acceptance of the Jewish
religion to some degree) and that serves as a basis of a lot of the
imbalanced support of them by the American public.

keeping that in mind, instinctively and emotionally, it's hard to identify
with Palestinians. they are greatly different to who we are and the road to
understanding them is a long and difficult one.
many, in the back of our thoughts, understand the plight of the
Palestinians, but these thoughts are overwhelmed by lack of commonality.

and the final nail in the coffin: suicide bombers.
once you can do what the Palestinians are doing to the Jews (even if it's in
self-defense) it just goes to prove how drastically and monstrously
different the Palestinian mind is.

that is why Israel will continue to receive, if not in greater ways, the
bulk of American emotional, intellectual and personal support as compared to
the Palestinians.

If Palestinians were Europeans, the Jews would not had stood a chance with
Americans.

'tis is fate,

-Avian







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However, those non-Arabs terrorists seem to attack those having some
involvement in their local
issue. The modern Arab variety seems to be convinced everybody
everywhere
who is non-Muslim
is their sworn enemy - possibly even including moderate Muslims who
they
define as "not good Muslims."


Arab terrorists are not attacking "everybody" - they are attacking those
who
they see has having some involvement at their local level. They are
attacking the US, and US interests around the world, because the US is
seen
as being anti-arab, mainly through its one-sided support of Israel (not
to
mention its invasion of Iraq, which is about as anti-arab as you can
get).
For Arabs these are very local issues.

Got to get in on this --- which came first, the 911 attack or the US
attack
on the Taliban and Iraq? Anyone forget the war the Palestinians launched
against the Israeli's about 30 years back, and lost? Iraq invaded Kuwait,
and
lost but did not give up. Losers pay more often than not.


Thus the Arab terrorists are responding to American foreign policy,
which
they see as a threat to their own people. Anyone who believes George
Bush's
ridiculous assertion that the terrorists are "jealous of American
freedom
and democracy" is dreaming.

US support for Israel is pure bad policy. Indiscriminate killing is worse
policy.


Sorry for continuing this slightly off-topic thread, but almost every
Arabic
person I have met has been warm, generous, honest, and friendly, and
they do
not deserve the bad rap they have been copping by association.


Somebody pointed out the US military Muslim members being suspected of
spying.
I am sure they, esp the Muslim chaplain, are also warm generous people. I
know
lots of friendly warm generous Arabs, and Greeks (G) and most everyone
else.

At the end of the day, who is blowing up people indiscriminately?
Restaurants
filled with tourists and civilians in Tel Aviv would not normally be
considered a war
zone, OTOH an apartment filled with fighters is one hell of a lot closer
if not
exact... I personally have nothing against Arabs or Muslims and think
they have
the short stick, but the worst thing any group ever did in the 20th
century was
to tweak the USA. Massive retallaition may not be on these days, but
there is
a unique outlook to life and the world.

The yanks choose not to understand the Arabs and the Arabs seem incapable
of
understanding the American psyche, IMO. Not a good situation!