Thanks for pointing that out, Dicho, because that was the whole point of the article. In my opinion it doesn't have anything to do with censorship or Canadian publishing politics, but with humanity. I don't like what Sharon is doing, and I don't like what Arafat and the other Arab leaders are doing, and I don't like what Bush and his cronies are doing. I do like the people in Israel who are teaching in schools where Jewish and Arab kids study and work and play together successfully. But they don't make the headlines, because peace doesn't sell papers.

It's easy to hate. It's hard to see a human face in the "enemy", because we're all biologically "programmed" to make it easy for us to see some people as "enemies" and therefore as somehow not human. Makes it easier to kill them. Now American kids are getting dressed up to go out and kill Filipinos and Yemenis and Iraqis and Afghans and Chechens and anybody else our government says is a "terrorist"--even the ones who were "freedom fighters" just a year or two ago.

I don't know what the answer is. I just know it's not more killing. Call me a simpleminded fuzzyheaded pacifistic left-wing liberal asshole, if it makes you feel better. But more killing is still not the answer.

Aloha,
Mark