Saturday Jul 22

Reply: In Response to “Absolutely Repulsive”.

This was a comment reply, but I felt it might as well gain it’s own entry. This is a response to Erik’s reply to me pre­vi­ous blog entry, Absolutely repul­sive. His reply can be found here.

So Pascal, on the one hand we have Israeli chil­dren writing mes­sages on shell casings and on the other we have the Pales­tini­ans coerc­ing minors to blow them­selves up. Which do you find more repul­sive?

If you were point­ing out the child suicide bomb­ings to pull-​into-​perspective the entirety of the sit­u­a­tion because you thought I was not looking at the other side of this mess, then you need not. I find both the actions by Hezbol­lah, armed fac­tions of the Fatah and so forth, all wrong as well. It would be wrong of me to denounce what those Israeli girls are doing in the photos above but not find wrong the killings that any other party in this whole con­flict.

The reason why the pre­vi­ous blog entry exists is because I found those three photos so vile and I had not yet found them on any news site or similar. I felt that people needed to see how much hatred exists in this mess, and that Israeli chil­dren are writing mes­sages on shells that will soon find their mark some­where in Lebanon.

We’ve seen the photos of Pales­tini­ans, some even kids, wield­ing small arms in the streets of the Gaza strip and the West Bank on tele­vi­sion, in news­pa­pers, online news sites - all over the place. This was the first time I had enoun­tered photos of a display of such hatred from the Israeli side.

Cheers.

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3 comments

  1. 1. Erik
    Jul 22, 11:13

    Pascal,

    Thank you.

    With this issue, I think we all have to be care­full not to get caught up in the emotion
    of the moment and to try and view this issue with some objec­tiv­ity.

    I actu­ally saw these images a couple of days ago and was dis­ap­pointed. After the pull
    out from Gaza, I felt that the Israelis had taken the moral hgh ground. However, these
    images showed again that the blame for this cycle of vio­lence is pretty equally shared.

    Cheers, Erik

  2. 2. Pascal
    Jul 22, 12:09

    It’s an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth men­tal­ity that needs to be over­come, from both sides, equally.

  3. 3. Hal
    Jul 22, 19:50

    So Pascal, on the one hand we have Israeli chil­dren writing mes­sages on shell casings and on the other we have the Pales­tini­ans coerc­ing minors to blow them­selves up. Which do you find more repul­sive?

    This is called restrict­ing the options. It isn’t an either/or ques­tion, they’re both repul­sive.

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