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Thread #71709   Message #1229996
Posted By: CarolC
20-Jul-04 - 01:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mideast: View From the Eye of the Storm
Subject: RE: BS: Mideast: View From the Eye of the Storm
GUEST, if you do some fact checking yourself, you'll see that those numbers have been increasing steadily over the last several years. There used to be only a minority who advocated suicide bombings, but as things get more desperate for the Palestinians, more and more of them embrace that practice. It would be a much more realistic comparison in this case, to compare the numbers of Palestinians who support suicide bombings to the number of Israelis, or even Jews worldwide, who support extra-judicial assasinations, or the bombing of Palestinians villages in retaliation for Palestinian acts of violence. I think in that case, you would find the numbers of Israelis supporting such violence significantly higher. Probably about the same as the number of Palestinians supporting suicide bombings.

Suicide bombings have nothing whatever to do with religious extremism. They are an attempt on the part of the Palestinians to get the Israeli occupying forces out of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.