Our Heroes and Theirs

[rini]

Yesterday's murder made me wonder(not the first time),what makes a murderer? Perhaps an explanation that may shed light on this is:

Israelis (indeed the western world as a whole) honor and name schools and streets after scholars, doctors, men and women who gave to the world through good deeds.

Palestinians appear to name and honor schools, camps, and streets after murderers, and suicide bombers. Those who take away life rather than honor and perserve it are the heroes.

Please don't whine about refugees, the number of refugees in the world is legion. Jews were refugees but not murderers of children. Cambodians, Vietnamese, and others have been and are refugees, they don't make war on innocent civilians. Instead look to the leadership in the Arab (not just the Palestinians) world, leaders who honor and revere immans who teach hate; governments that publish textbooks, set up camps, and use the newspapers to enhance hatred these are the problems.

I have come to the conclusion that the question is not what causes hate, that is self-evident, the question is is how to change the culture?

[Mairead]

1. You're employing selective interpretation

We have plenty of monuments to people who killed or ordered others killed, two important ones being right near the Capitol in DC: the Washington obelisk, and the Lincoln memorial. Both those men ordered killings. Washington, when younger, might well have killed people personally.

'Murder' is a legal term, not a description of an act. The same killing might or might not be deemed a 'murder' depending on who owns the court. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were, legally, 'traitors and knaves' to the Crown, and had a price put on their heads just like any pirate or highwayman.

So step back and look at things in a less-biased way, unless bias is part of who you are.

[Devils Advocate NZ]

2. I am tempted to point out...

Meir Kahane Park and the monument to Baruch Goldstein in Kiryat Arba (since knocked down, but it did once exist, and it would again, given the chance).