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Originally posted by Cowperson@Nov 4 2004, 06:11 PM
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@Nov 4 2004, 05:24 PM
Nothing like wishing death on another human being to perk one up in the morning.# Better than coffee... or so I hear.
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We're talking about someone who would smile in the morning after learning the young people he encouraged to strap bombs to their bellies had successfully blown up people sipping coffee in restaurants.
No sympathy for him. Dying of old age is an amazing ending for him. Its already the ex-Arafat era.
Cowperson
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I suppose.
I've got a hard time taking a look at my life and seeing all the good I'm doing that justifies me looking down on others. Sure there are people out there that do evil, and many that do good. Who am I to pass moral judgement on sh*t I know almost nothing about? I've spent 5 years at University minoring in Middle Eastern politics, and I can tell you that the nuances to this conflict are infinite, simplicity absent. In reality, most of us know next to nothing about the realities of this, and most conflicts, because we sit reading about it at home, or have it delivered into our brains by the media. I think we'd have to sit in a war-zone, have our families killed, kill others, etc., to really get a good enough grasp of the conflict to begin passing moral judgement.
To wish death upon someone that you don't know doesn't sound right to me.
Though I suppose all the armchair judges out there know enough to convict and condemn, highly selectively, based on mainstream media, which always gets the facts right.
If you're happy he dies, that's one thing. If you wish he dies... well, I guess I consider that another. [/b][/quote]
Just to be clear then, I'm wishing he dies.
There are other barriers to peace, including those on the Israeli side, but this guy is one of them on the Palestinian side.
He's also a crook robbing his people blind, profiteering on their hardship and has an obvious motive to deter any efforts for a lasting peace for them which is probably why they continue to fight a hopeless conflict against an opponent they can't defeat and an opponent with a demonstratable track record of trading land for peace.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/07/...ain582487.shtml
Cowperson