Things we need to stop hearing about the ‘stabbing intifada’

[shira]

Intolerable, for the same reason, are the rhetorical appeals “for restraint” and disingenuous pleas “not to inflame the street,” which, as with the “spiral of violence,” reverse the order of causality by implying that a soldier, police officer, or civilian acting in self-defense has committed a wrong equal to that of someone who chooses to die after spreading as much terror as he possibly can....

...Intolerable, again, that most of the major media have paid the grieving Israeli families only a fraction of the attention they have paid the families of the perpetrators....

..."Intolerable, finally, the minor mythology growing up around this story of daggers: The weapon of the poor? Really? The weapon one uses because it is within reach and one has no other? When I see those blades I think of the one used to execute Daniel Pearl; I think of the beheadings of Hervé Gourdel, James Foley and David Haines; I think that the Islamic State’s videos have clearly gained a following and that we stand on the threshold of a form of barbarity that must be unconditionally denounced if we do not want to see its methods exported everywhere.

And I mean everywhere."

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Things-we-need-to-stop-hearing-about-the-stabbing-intifada-430032?utm_campaign

[shira]

2. Innocents being murdered, from babies to elderly, are victims. n/t

[shira]

4. Civilian babies and elderly don't count as innocent? n/t

[shira]

11. You'd think that would be obvious on a liberal/progressive forum....

Hatred of "Zionists" tends to rot the brain, history proves it, and amazingly history is repeating itself once again.

[6chars]

5. Innocents being murdered ...what is more intolerable than that?

Anyone who can't condemn that has a moral hole. There is a *truthiness* to a lot of people who think it should be the case that Israel is forcing the terrorists to be terrorists, and they think since it should be the case because it fits with their narrative, so they just act as if it really is the case.
The people who cheer on the Palestinians to commit terror and who justify it are doing them no favors at all.

[6chars]

12. Glad to see message auto-removed

that poster was horrible

[NaturalHigh]

8. Well stated.

[PeoViejo]

9. Good example of what happens when one cannot purchase a firearm:

Rocks and knives come into play.