Reply #2: That article is drool... [View All]

[Violet_Crumble]

The Palestinians are celebrating what they see as the end of the occupation and the dismantling of the illegal settlements that caused them so much misery, and Elie Wiesel bags them out for it and tries to make out that they're less sensitive and caring than Israelis? Maybe Elie Wiesel needs to open up his eyes and read some of the things that have been in the media these last few days. I've seen articles where Palestinians express their sympathy for the settlers because they can see it and relate in a way to what happened to them in 1948...

Elie Wiesel is talking about the removal of extremist settlers who removed to leave voluntarily as heart-rending and unbearable. Yet these same people are the ones who attacked soldiers and police, and who generally see the state of Israel as their enemy because of its democratic nature. They're the same sort of people who wouldn't think twice about attacking Palestinian civilians and/or kicking them out of their homes and discriminating against them. So I'm at a loss as to why I'm supposed to feel a shred of sympathy* for them in what is really just a big PR game. I know the more secular settlers were screwed over by Israeli govts, but the secular settlers have long gone, and they're not the people Wiesel is talking about when he speaks of angry settlers being dragged onto buses etc. Let's not forget that these settlers are getting compensated by the Israeli govt for moving, and I bet a large chunk of them will head straight to the West Bank, which leads me to almost believe they have some bizarre allergy to living in Israel itself...

Violet...

* In hindsight, I did feel sympathy when I saw settlers being forcibly removed on the news. My sympathy was for the Israeli policeman/soldier I saw on the news who had acid thrown on him. My sympathy was also for the police/troops I saw who had to endure a Nazi-saluting settler moron goose-stepping his way past them. But not one shred of sympathy for the settlers - they don't deserve any...