Peg Kerr's Journal

You sound profoundly judgmental and foolish as well. No country, ours included, could ever do anything shy of intentional genocide to deserve what happened on that day. Had they assassinated political leaders responsible for the policies that they hated, they would at least have been making an attempt at targeting their actions at the people responsible. Instead they targeted thousands of people who did nothing more wrong than getting up to go to work. They were nothing more than bigoted fools too short-sighted to see the effect their actions would have on the people that they had the temerity to suggest they represent. Even the IRA has bought a clue at this point. They've managed, as Hamas and Iran are both currently doing, to alienate many people who might otherwise be willing to come to the defense of Palestinian people over injustices that they suffer. While I support equal rights of Palestinians in the state of Israel, I can't much blame Israel for the overzealous tactics it uses in detaining Palestinians it suspects of being involved in terrorist activities. They're trying to protect their citizens from deadly explosions in malls, restaurants, buses, and hotels. If the terrorists targeting civilians would stop, they would find that the responses from the Israeli government would tone down. The same is true of the insurgents in Iraq, except they're even dumber- they're going after essentially their own people because they don't like something that someone _else_ is doing. That's like a parent punishing their own child for something that someone else's kid did- unjust, ineffective, and guaranteed to not end well for all involved.