> So where, when and how does he defend terrorism? I have read the entire > report and haven't come across a single statement that would count as > defence of the terrorists? >
I think he fails to recognize that use of terror, even in pursuit of otherwise understandable goals, negates those very goals. And sometimes the goals are not in any way laudable. For example, the use of terror against Israel is not a protest against Israel's refusal to permit a separate Palestinian state. The terrorists launching the suicide bombers on their evil missions don't want a Palestinian state. They want to provoke Israel to an ever harsher occupation in the hope that this will further radicalize more and more Palestinians against the very idea of peace. They believe they will eventually overwhelm Israel and create their Islamic women-suppressing gay-suppressing freedom-suppressing state in what is now Israel. (There are Israelis who don't want a Palestinian state, either, but what we're talking about here is the goal of the terrorists.) So, Dr. Williams, how is the Palestinian terrorists' use of terror against Israel "unspeakably wicked means to pursue an aim that is shared by those who would not dream of acting in the same way, an aim that is intelligible or desirable"? Destroying Israel is "an aim that is intelligent or desirable"? For him not to see this is, in my opinion, coming very close to a defense of terrorism. Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last." - Dr Jerry Pournelle _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
