> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Halupovich Ilana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: Thursday, December 20, 2001 14:17 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Tragedy in Israel
> Mother/father/grandmother that are saying, how proud they are of shahid > son/daughter and how they hope that their other offsprings would do the > same thing - are guilty of harboring terrorists in *my* book. I can understand that they would feel proud of their offspring. What you call "terrorist", they call "freedom fighter". Sharon�s family will probably be proud of him, but Palestinians applying your line of reasoning will say that Sharon�s family is harboring a war criminal. You are proud of your brother. Since the Israeli army commits what I consider war crimes, and your brother serves in that army, it follows from your reasoning that when he comes to visit you, you are harboring a war criminal. > And in case you didn�t pay attention earlier - the house of shahid that > blew himself in Naharia is in Israeli village Abu-Snena. Israeli - here > means "not on territories" and that most of males in Abu Snena serve in > Israeli army. The house stands - his family was very much against what > he have done. My guess is that the fact that the house still stands has more to do with it being in an Israeli village than with the man�s family being opposed to his actions. It is one thing to go to some distant Palestinian village, blow up a house, and then go home. It is an other thing to blow up a house in your own village -- because then you are stuck with all that rubble in your back yard. If the family had said they supported his actions, Israel would probably have deported them, rather than destroy the house. FYI, destroying homes by the Israeli army was a topic in a documentary on German television a few days ago. After a Palestinian fired at an Israeli settlement (without killing or injuring anyone, BTW), the Israeli army sealed off an entire village for 15 days, searching for the shooter. In the process, they destroyed the homes of several families who had nothing to do with it. The Israeli response: "Oops, wrong house". No apologies, no compensation, no nothing. <sarcasm> But then, of course, everyone knows that Europeans are anti-Semitic, so these are all lies and anti-Semitic propaganda... </sarcasm> Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
