Reply #7: Not really.. [View All]

[Aidoneus]

I know what you're referencing, and I remember not giving any direct opinion at all about that except to make a point of pointing out that curious fact (I never did check back to see if that was intended or a 'lucky break' on PFLP's part). The implication in my doing so without a direct comment was probably that I approved of it, and, indeed, I did nothing either way to suggest for or against that assumption. I did think of commenting on that around an hour or two afterwards, but nobody seemed to pick up on it (and that surprised me, after the whole drama show the last time I said something truthful, I expected at least a small riot), so it was left as it was.

While I'm fine with Palestinian resistance attacks on Israeli military in the other occupied territories outside of the so-called "Green Line", I tend to disapprove of the human-bombs in Israeli cities for much the same reasons as in #3 above. It may seem somewhat trivial, but there is something inherently distasteful to me in killing people while they're just going about their day or those that are defending their homes and cities/camps (that's why the "oh, they were 'armed militants', so it's ok" line of Israeli propaganda after these invasions of Palestinian lands means exactly nothing to me). The whole "Total War" line of argument is one that I tend to not endorse in any application. I guess if Hamas was marching a column of armed men down Jabotinsky Street(***) I wouldn't have too much a problem with them being fired on, but the sort described above is a very different matter.

What do you think of shooting a guy at the funeral of his relative shot earlier in the day?

(***)--Not quite sure which "Jabotinsky Street" that I'm referring to.. there's at least 3 in major Israeli settlements that are named after that fascist ideologue that I know of--one in Tel Aviv, Netanya, and al-Quds.. but I digress.