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Reader comment on item: Elsayed: Suicide Bombers are In-House Business

Submitted by Ian, Nov 15, 2009 16:03

"In this video two pieces are put together."

This is clear from the transcript. In English, when a writer is quoting someone and she wants to quote two different parts of the same speech, book, essay or what have you, she writes this "[...]". The Investigative Project was not hiding anything and everyone reading this knows that it was two pieces put together. It doesn't change the fact that Mr. El-Sayed is engaging in apologetics in favor of murderers of kids. As decent human beings, we reserve the right to call killers whatever we want. People who kill themselves in the act of bombing are suicide bombers, it's as simple as that.

Three points regarding your last two paragraphs. First: the Palestinians were offered a state in 1937, 1947, and 2000. The first suicide bombing occured during the Oslo negotiations, when the Palestinians had alternative to violence. The objective of suicide bombers is the destruction of Israel, not the liberation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Second: if the "honor of the people are violated" (whatever chavanistic, macho definition you have for "honor") it is no excuse for killing noncombatants, including kids. People across history have suffered much worse than the Palestinians and did not resort to such inhumane brutality. Even people fighting just wars must follow international law. Finally: the vast majority of houses demolished did not have people inside them. Most of these homes are used to smuggle in weapons used to kill both Israelis and Palestinians. These weapons banned by the Oslo Occords. If the PA wants to lessen the instances of house demolitions it must simply stop the flow of arms.

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