Posts by Jack Walker3

I suppose I might be in the minority here—maybe I am—but regardless, I fully support Israel's right to exist. Now, don't get me wrong, I certainly don't condone the occupation of Palestinian territory or any violations of a neighboring country's airspace, but as long as the Arab world keeps calling for the total destruction of Israel, I just don't see what other options are being left for the Israelis.

Let me try to address those questions.

1. Personally, I don't see any sanctions coming.
2. Syria isn't going to retaliate against Israel; they simply don't have the military muscle to go toe-to-toe with them. If they did, they would have reclaimed the Golan Heights by now.
3. This news hit the American media, but most Americans are pretty distracted right now—I mean, NFL season has kicked off, so people aren't exactly glued to global affairs, much like how they often overlook the war in Iraq.

Brian Moore67 said:Well, here is another one for you...

Ayad Tariq—just a fourteen-year-old kid, an American Christian—went off to work like any other day. Suddenly, this group of armed, masked individuals rolls in—supposedly "freedom fighters," I suppose—and starts checking everyone's IDs. When they saw the boy's ID and realized he was Christian, they asked him if he was truly a "Christian sinner." He answered them quite simply, "Yes, I am Christian, but I am not a sinner." The reaction from these so-called "freedom fighters" was immediate; they started screaming about "filthy Christian sinners," grabbed the boy, and decapitated him while shouting "God is great."

http://www.aina.org/news/20061029141418.htm

I would love for some American to explain this to me—what is actually the difference between those extremists who slaughter Muslims in Canada and these types? And honestly, how can someone who has spent over ten years mourning the tragedies in Srebrenica and complaining about war crimes support these "freedom fighters"? Doesn't that make certain people bona fide Hypocrites?

I am not entirely sure if this news report is accurate, mostly because I couldn't find much corroboration from other major news agencies. But, really, it almost doesn't matter whether this specific incident occurred or not. These folks in Iraq, much like Osamin's gang, are essentially the same as those extremists who were killing people back in Canada or America.

People tend to be rather shortsighted—they assume that someone who spends their days murdering members of another nation won't eventually turn around and raise a hand against their own kind.

Besides, most of the Arab world seems to possess a worldview more akin to, say, 10th or 11th-century Europe.