"What you miss is that one side (the Arab terrorist movement) is only attacking and the other side (Israel) is only defending."
Yeah, and occupying territory acquired through conquest. For thirty years. Against dozens of UN resolutions, or near-resolutions vetoed by the US. And setting up further and further settlements into land initally controlled by Palestinians, then claiming the right to defend those settlements, thereby annexing large tracts of land for reasons that seem to be little more than religious (Golan Heights, anyone?).
Sorry, Moldran, it's not so easy. Israel has all the sophistication and power of a modern democracy. Palestine is scarcely past the tool age, except for their expertise in blowing up civilians. Israel need not resort to methods as barbaric to attain ends that are no more justifiable. Maybe if Palestine had a nuclear detterent and 6 billion dollars a year from the US, they might pick up some of the more modern tricks themselves. Certainly they'd find the attack helicopters pretty spiffy. Fly 'em by Ariel Sharon's house, and claim the resulting explosion was "retaliatory elimination of a known Zionist-terrorist leader." I'm sure it would go over great on Al Jazeera.
Jester
Yeah, and occupying territory acquired through conquest. For thirty years. Against dozens of UN resolutions, or near-resolutions vetoed by the US. And setting up further and further settlements into land initally controlled by Palestinians, then claiming the right to defend those settlements, thereby annexing large tracts of land for reasons that seem to be little more than religious (Golan Heights, anyone?).
Sorry, Moldran, it's not so easy. Israel has all the sophistication and power of a modern democracy. Palestine is scarcely past the tool age, except for their expertise in blowing up civilians. Israel need not resort to methods as barbaric to attain ends that are no more justifiable. Maybe if Palestine had a nuclear detterent and 6 billion dollars a year from the US, they might pick up some of the more modern tricks themselves. Certainly they'd find the attack helicopters pretty spiffy. Fly 'em by Ariel Sharon's house, and claim the resulting explosion was "retaliatory elimination of a known Zionist-terrorist leader." I'm sure it would go over great on Al Jazeera.
Jester