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Thread #119993 Message #2606822
Posted By: CarolC
07-Apr-09 - 04:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: Death Penalty by Palestinian Authority
Subject: RE: BS: Death Penalty by Palestinian Authority
Well, unlike those in this thread who appear to advocate ethnic cleansing, I tend to view the Palestinians' law as a desperate attempt to prevent their being ethnically cleansed, and while I'm not a big fan of capital punishment, I definitely understand where they're coming from. They don't have the luxury of making easy decisions, like whether they want to go to Outback or McDonalds for dinner. They have to find a way to be able to have a place to live while they are systematically being cleared from their homes and farms, and cast out with nowhere to go, while their homes and farms are being systematically destroyed so that they can be taken over by Israeli Jews.
The government of Israel is helping Jews privately buy Palestinian land as a part of this process of ethnic cleansing, because many Palestinians are unable to continue to make a living as a result of Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. These desperate Palestinians are easy prey for the Israelis who are working with the help of the Israeli government to buy up land in the West Bank and make it permanently unavailable to Palestinians.
Some people think the Palestinians should be the only people in the world who are not allowed to defend themselves against being ethnically cleansed. I don't happen to be one of those people.