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Old 02-05-2007, 02:57 PM   #3
PurpleXVI
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Join Date: April 6, 2005
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Short version: "Oh noez, Palestine has a lot of gunmen and terrorists, watch as we exaggerate the issue and subtly suggest that Palestine is a hellhole that would be better off not existing."

And as much as I support Israel, it's rather hard to blame the Palestinians entirely for their hardship. A lot of the deaths there, at least in the past, have been because of Israeli attacks and assasinations, both botched, succesful and somewhere in between. Israeli politics and lack of care in military operations have allowed organizations like Fatah and Hamas to reach the top in Palestine and take control of it.

Finally, blaming all of Fatah or Hamas for the actions of some of it's members(Without proof that it was ordered from the top.) is like saying every Republican is a murderer if one of them shoots his wife. Both organizations are most likely so decentralized and anarchic that half don't know what the other half are doing.

Oh, wait, one addition. If you want an example of the exaggerating, inflammatory language used in this article, note how it refers to an attack in Eilat as a "massacre." It was a single bombing that killed three people. That is not a "massacre" unless you're trying to make it sound worse than it is. Of course it's bad, terrible, horrifying, but hardly the call to arms that a "massacre" would be.
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