September 15, 2003

In Cold Blood

The Israeli Deputy Prime Minister has openly told the press that the Israeli Government is considering assassinating Yasser Arafat. They have decided they will get rid of him. It is only a question of how.

What progress has been made toward a Palestinian state? How is the leader of the Palestinians treated by his Israeli overlords? In the words of Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, "His expulsion is an option, his liquidation is another option. It is also possible to confine him to prison-like conditions." And they wonder why the Intifada continues?

The Israeli Government acts like it is convinced that Arafat is the reason the suicide bombings continue. I can't believe that they are so stupid as to not get that the continued mistreatment of the Palestinian people might just play a teensy-weensy role in this. They have taken an land settled by other people, shipped most of them off into the exile of refuge camps, and created the remaining group as legalised second-class citizens. They have bulldozed the Palestinians ghettos and consistently taken away ownership of Palenstinian land for citing the need for Jewish lebensraum.

There just may be something to the psychological theory that victims of abuse tend to become abusers themselves. At least it appears to be vaild on a sociological scale.

Posted by david at September 15, 2003 12:59 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Supremely sad isn't it. The irony is almost overwhelming. The great Holocaust museum in Israel is built on the rubble of a bulldozed Palestinian settlement...in the course of bulldozing they happened to slaughter 3,000 Palestinians. Ho-Hum.

On top of all this i know first hand the absolute blindness of Evangelical Zionists. I was a card carrying member. I recall cringing at certain news reports about Israel's "bull whipping" of Palestinian's. Yet, in my eschatology at the time i could only reason such cruel thoughts as, "Maybe they deserved it...God promised Israel this land didn't He."

Much repentance for those years.

aaron

Posted by: aaron at September 17, 2003 01:26 AM

One question though...lebensraum?

Posted by: aaron at September 17, 2003 01:27 AM

Lebensraum: living area (elbow room). It is a German word used by a certain German government (and Leader) to justify the taking of lands adjacent to Germany where there was a German population (e.g., Czechoslavakia and Poland).

Posted by: David Holford at September 17, 2003 10:01 PM

Ahh...i see!

Posted by: aaron at September 17, 2003 10:51 PM