Hey Castle, I see you just posted and i just happened to log on real quick. Hope you're still there.
I don't condone what the Palestinians are doing/have done as far as suicide bombings, telling Clinton to f*** off, etc. I think those things are horrible. I know I seem incredibly biased towards the Pals, but I'm really not. It's just that I feel Israel is trying to commit what we committed when we exterminated the Native Americans. The Israel/Palestine is definitely two-sided, but the Palestinians were there first. I also feel that Israel acts with race in mind and I can't stand to see that. Of course the Palestinians are racist towards Jews, but again, they were there first. The Israelis of today are immigrants mostly from Germany, Poland, and Russia. The Palestinians have been there the whole time and their land, homes, and olive and fig orchards were forcefully taken by Israel. That does not justify the killing of innocent people via suicide bombs, but the Palestinians obviously have no other means to fight back. If you study ethics and know about Double Effect, it tells us that the taking of innocent lives is justified only when an entire populations very survival is at stake. I don't really agree with thig (innocents should NEVER be killed), but it's the only reference we have to go on. That said, the very survival of the Palestinians is at stake. They've been forced into slums with very little food coming in and get hammered with apache helicopter rockets. The Israelis suffer from people blowing themselves up at Starbucks. While both scenarios are horrible, its pretty obvious that the Palestinians are much closer to extinction than the Israelis. Furthermore, in my opinion, the Israelis can stop this mess if they wouldn't be so arrogant and allow a symbiotic culture to exist among both sides. Also, about Hezbolah, I don't agree with them kidnapping or firing rockets into neighborhoods at all. But, if I had to choose sides, I would have had to pull for Hezbolah on that war last year. If a group of my friends and I went to China, popped off some rockets, kidnapped some soliders, and killed a few in the process, would China have the right to declare war on the U.S. and pummel the entire country with cluster bombs? I'm not trying to downplay what Hezbolah did, but it WAS in retaliation for Israel firing artillery shells into Lebanon for no reason whatsoever. With that said, I strongly feel that Israel had no right to pummel Lebanon like they did and I think they're worthless for it. They're way too intelligent not to realize that 99.9% of the Lebanese population they killed or displaced had nothing to do with Hezbolah. I feel that, in this case, Hezbolah were fighting for their country, although it was not wanted or requested by Lebanon and their tactics were unethical according to our standards.
