I feel that I need to voice my opinioninion. I'm very sickened by what is happening in
Israel and particularly by the way that
media describes it.
I'm not quite sure whether
Palestinian people do have a claim to
Israeli land or not, and that's not the point. The point is, that like in any conflict there are mo
re then one side and more then one opinion. For years, palestinians have harrased Israeli population. Remember the bombs in
Tel-aviv,
Haifa and
Jerusalem (
kids
were
murdered too
jansonm). Israel is very small.About 5 million poeple total. Yet I'm sure a huge percentage of people must serve in the army. Small landwise too.
I once travelled through it's widest point in about 7 hours. Look at the damn
map. Find Israel. Chances are the word "Israel" will be bigger the then actu
al land.
I try not to follow world events. As far as I know the latest (few months ago) outbreak of violence was caused by one of the Israeli officials walking up some holly
Ar
ab mountain. From what I've read that particular place is only mentioned in
Koran once and very vaguely too. So why go crazy about it? Is it simply an excuse for mor
e violence?
Another thing is Israel's portrayal in the news. Lately whenever I hear "Israel" and "Palestine" mentioned in one sentence is seems like there's a picture of an Israeli
soldier with an
M-16 and poor defenseless
mob of palestinians. I mean come on people! Be at least a
bit objective! For years palestinians have been t
errorizing Israel with their suicide attacks. I remember I forgot a backpack at school once and a damn bombsquad was almost called on my ass. I live in Canada now, but
I'm still warry and avoid unknown objects on the ground. I've seen bags being shot by the robot to check for
explosives. I lived in
Rehovot, that's about 20km from
Tel-aviv where people died. My uncle has been wounded numerous times in
Gaza for god's sake! What's the deal with portraying Palestinians as poor helpless people? T
hey have their share of evil in this. And recently I heard that
Bush (or someone from the office)
reprimanded Israel for their actions. Reprimanded! What the
hell! How the hell do you reprimand a country! And this, after every efort of
Barak to appease palestinians? Why?
This rant was in response to
jasonm's write up above. This is in no way a personal attack.