The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117493   Message #2624664
Posted By: CarolC
05-May-09 - 11:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: Israel Moves in.
Subject: RE: BS: Israel Moves in.
There are just as many young Palestinians (and not so young Palestinians) who want it to stop, too. Because the consequences suffered by the Palestinians are far, far greater (by orders of magnitude) than those suffered by the Israelis.

There are just as many YouTube videos showing Israeli hatred of Palestinians. Israeli soldiers regularly shoot at children. Israeli soldiers use Palestinian children as human shields. Israelis went and picnicked near the border with the Gaza strip while Gazans (women, children, old people, non-combatant men, along with Hamas fighters) were being bombed to smithereens, and they celebrated what they were watching, saying they wanted to see it with their own eyes. Young Israeli soldiers left piles of excrement in many of the places they occupied in Gaza during the incursion, and left graffiti on the walls saying "Death to all Arabs".

To only see the problems with the Palestinians and to ignore the same things done by Israelis, and to use this to suggest that Palestinians are inherently worse than Israelis is a manifestation of the same racism that characterizes Israeli treatment of the Palestinians.