Palestine is now part of an arc of Muslim resistance

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Palestine is now part of an arc of Muslim resistance: Across the Middle East, western-backed occupations are fuelling terror.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1177331,00.html

"Ariel Sharon's decision to incinerate a 67-year-old blind quadriplegic cleric outside his local mosque will certainly go down as one of the most spectacularly counter-productive acts of violence in the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Quite apart from the morality of assassinating Sheikh Yassin, it is the Israeli people themselves who will suffer from certain retaliation. Israel has the right to defend itself, President Bush declares, while apparently denying the Palestinians the same luxury. But the killing can have no military value at all. Whatever his authority as the founder and figurehead of Hamas, the idea that Yassin was involved in planning armed attacks is preposterous. When Israel rocketed the apartment block he was visiting last September, the ailing sheikh was reported not to have even realised that an attack had taken place. And regardless of the domestic political calculations of the Israeli government, such attempts to destroy a popular movement by decapitation are doomed to failure." (More)


People crushed by law have no hope but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous...: Edmund Burke

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1. Good quote at the end, Axel

One of history's most valuable lessons.

[aquart]

2. Am I supposed to feel sorry for the "quadriplegic blind cleric"?

Because I don't. He was very big on getting other people killed. He used God as the Angel of Death. You can worship with him, and pray for him if you want. I'm not impressed.

My objection is that it made things worse, not better. Although I understand the point of view behind it, I still don't think it worked.