Halupovich Ilana wrote: > > I wrote about houses demolished in Rafiah > <<Those 21 houses *were* empty. How do I know? I spoke with one of the > soldiers who was there. He was very mad that instead of doing some fighting > and, just may be, as a bonus, killing some of the group that killed their > friends, they got to level empty houses. > Ilana from Israel, not politically-correct > > Jeffrey Miller wrote > <<No, certainly not politically-correct if you praise the desire to continue > a cycle of violence through revenge killings - but then, the definition of > what is or is not politically correct is to all tests quite different in > Israel.>> > > I am not praising, but I very much understand him. :-( I think it is easy to > talk about "stopping cycle of violence" when it doesn't touch you > personally".
True indeed, and my apologies. I think it is far too easy for some observers to criticize. However (you knew it was coming ;D) I don't think that the difficulty of a task (ie - not escalating the tit-for-tat assasination policy that each side is engaged in) is adequate moral absolution from striving toward a goal. > Jerusalem" it would be not politically correct to say "woman on the way to > her friend's wedding was murdered by Palestinian terrorists on gas station". It might not be, by what if people were to say that? What if they were also to say things like "Young boy threw a rock at a passing APC and was shredded by machine gun fire?" Hyperboly aside, putting a human face on tragedy might help each side to learn to respect the other as possessing some qualities of common humanity. -j- -- Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.
