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To the Westerner who "understands" terrorists

Burston in Haaretz. It begins:

Spare us the explanations.

Spare us the learned, sociology-drenched justifications.
Spare us the reasons why you "get" Palestinians when they gun Jews down in cold blood.

Spare us the chapter and verse on how the plight of the Palestinians is at the root of Islamic terrorism the world over, and if the Palestinians were to receive full justice, Islamic terrorism would pass from the world.

Spare us.

Read the whole thing.

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i hear that.

#1 buddy larsen on 2008-03-09 11:33 (Reply)

This is an amazing stance for Haaretz which tends to contort itself to understand terrorist murderers. Amazing that they published this. But on the same editorial page, another piece "explaining" the murder of these eight Torah students from a Palestinian perspective (written by a Jewish journalist).

#2 Nathan on 2008-03-09 11:43 (Reply)

it's easier to understand the american left-wing than it is to understand the israeli left-wing, which is frankly baffling.

#2.1 buddy larsen on 2008-03-09 12:17 (Reply)

Would someone please explain to me what constructive, inventive, creative things the Palestinians have done since Yasser Arafat threw his first bomb back when I was young? When I was in my early twenties, working at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, I would sometimes give lifts to young Jews who were heading out for Israel to work on the kibbutzim. They were making last visits to their parents, many of whom lived in Roosevelt, N.J where I lived. What those young idealists have done in the ensuing years, to make a technological Paradise out of a flat ugly spot in the desert is amazing to behold. What the Palestinians have achieved, as far as I can see, is to try and blow it up. Period. Toxic envy is an ugly thing.

Marianne Matthews

#3 Marianne Matthews on 2008-03-09 12:16 (Reply)

Mercaz Harav yeshiva massacre raises a question.

Why weren't these youngsters armed and ready for terror attacks 24/7?

#4 Leag on 2008-03-09 12:49 (Reply)

Leag ... are you armed and ready for terror attacks 24/7?

#5 Marianne Matthews on 2008-03-09 13:30 (Reply)

Mam, the nature of the yeshiva and it's teaching's suggests they should be.

Why aren't they?

Or weren't they.

I 'd have no sorry for them certain, if they continue to go unarmed.

#5.1 Leag on 2008-03-09 14:13 (Reply)

I agree with leag. In fact, they should have been wearing suits of 2"-thick steel armor plate, and clanking around inside an impenetrable castle fortress. So stupid of them to venture out into the street and try to live like plain old ordinary human beings.

#5.1.1 buddy larsen on 2008-03-09 15:00 (Reply)

They were massacred in yeshiva library, Mr. Peacock.

And unless, they are no longer adhere to Rav Kook's teaching, they don't think they are run of the mill human beings.

They are talmudic Jews who consider plain human beings inferior souls.

Let me know if y'all need some more help, boo.

#5.1.1.1 Leag on 2008-03-09 15:16 (Reply)

even a bird-brain like me can recognize the blame-the-victim syndrome, ill one.

#5.1.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2008-03-09 15:31 (Reply)

Didn't one of the students kill the guy - shot him in the head?

#5.1.1.1.1.1 BD on 2008-03-09 15:42 (Reply)

J.Post.com reported the Jerusalem Police Chief said an IDF officer killed the attacker.

#5.1.1.1.1.1.1 Leag on 2008-03-09 16:11 (Reply)

For Christ sake, suggestinging the boys to arm ain't blaming victims.

They'll not be so easily victimized if they use some common sense in the future.

Take your thorazine, boo.

#5.1.1.1.1.2 Leag on 2008-03-09 16:00 (Reply)

ok--i misundrstood you -- i thought you were letting the killer off the hook. sorry --

#5.1.1.1.1.2.1 buddy larsen on 2008-03-09 16:11 (Reply)

as in, say some murder cult started murdering people because they were named "leag" -- and then one day they cornered you and shot you to pieces. and then somebody wrote in and said, "look, all he had to do was change his name". I would've fussed at that person too. But yes, thorazine -- must remember to take.

#5.1.1.1.1.2.2 buddy larsen on 2008-03-09 16:20 (Reply)

For Christ sake, telling the boys to arm ain't blaming victims.

They'll not be so easily victimized if they use some common sense in the future.

Take your thorazine, boo.

#5.1.1.1.1.3 Leag on 2008-03-09 16:24 (Reply)

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To the Westerner who "understands" terrorists