Awww, look what Israel did now - they hit at one of Hamas’ leaders and apparently caused Hamas to abandon the truce - Hamas Abandons Truce After Israeli Strike - I mean, it isn’t like a suicide bombing that kills kids traveling on a bus is not in keeping with the terms of the truce or something, you know…
Here is an LA Times editorial that doesn’t mince words…
How can two groups compete to say they put a man on a bus carrying a bomb with, to make it more lethal, ball bearings? Yet both Islamic Jihad and Hamas boasted that the Jerusalem bomber was theirs. His widow did not ask how she would support their children; she exulted in his “martyrdom.” The murderer was a preacher in a mosque. How twisted must a man be to find in a religion justification for slaying children? What leads another man to drive a truck into a Baghdad building filled with those trying to help people recover from war? Whether a Saddam Hussein loyalist or a foreign terrorist trying to drive out the United States, he murders people who for years have fed more than half of Iraqis and who work to put roofs on schools and to stop sewage from polluting drinking water.Posted by shanti at August 21, 2003 12:58 PM
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and look what our friend Praful has written
http://www.sulekha.com/redirectNh.asp?fromwhere=http://www.sulekha.com/hopper.asp&cid=315575
Posted by: JK at August 21, 2003 1:59 PM
Also be sure to visit the website of the Raza Academy. Read the warming welcome they’ve posted for Ariel Sharon.
Posted by: Gokul at August 21, 2003 5:39 PM
I suppose you’ve all heard that this means the truce is over.
Words fail.
(thanks, Shanti)
Posted by: Diana at August 21, 2003 8:16 PM
well of course it was a truce… a we-will-continue-our-holy-fight-while-you-abstain-from-violence-against-us-truce!
Posted by: Sameer at August 21, 2003 10:35 PM
While I am no fan of the suicide bombers (they are terrorists, plain and simple), I feel Sharon’s leadership of Israel in this situation has been pathetic. He has been unable to do anything to stop the bloodletting. Just saying that “we can’t stop men who are bent on suicide” is shifting the blame for your lack of strategy. And sending the tanks in after a suicide attack is like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.
This is a different kind of war. It needs new thinking and new tools. It seems to me that most of the innovative thinking in this war is being done by Hamas. Time for the Israelis to use those “little grey cells” which are far more powerful than tanks and aircraft to defeat the enemy.
Posted by: Yaz at August 22, 2003 12:56 AM
My co-blogger Alex has a post about this here.
Posted by: at August 22, 2003 4:07 AM
Dear Shinti, your site is wonderful..
BTW,i guess you are an indian?
Well, i love this country very much.
I hope India can get a better future,far from muslims terrorists.
As for Israel,i am a strong supporter of its cause.The only democracy in the middle east needs the free world’s support.
my blog :
italiangirl.splinder.it
Posted by: Stefania at August 22, 2003 4:36 AM
That was a good post by Alex, anonymous!
Stefania, thanks for the nice words - you have a nice blog there.
Posted by: Shanti at August 22, 2003 6:48 AM
I suppose this link is of no import
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=293336&sw=%22Empty+gestures%22
Posted by: at August 28, 2003 4:42 AM
How awesome of you, “anonymous” - great link, but did the writer or you ever stop to consider why those extreme measures are necessary for the Israelis? Maybe they treat Palestinians like animals because the “suicide bombers” and their proud families haven’t really been acting civilized yet?
Check-points are humiliating - BIG-Fricking-DEAL!!! So what? That doesn’t mean those ass-holes get to blow up babies and then distribute sweets to celebrate the occasion.
Posted by: Shanti at August 28, 2003 8:03 AM