Israeli view

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Before I say anything, everyone should know that I am an Israeli, and I am living in Israeli right now. So take my bias as you will. I spent 6 years of my life In the U.S., and just moved back to Israel a year ago. Now, having lived in the U.S. for a large period of my life, I had an open mind about many topics and had absolutely no prejudices about different groups of people. Many of my friends here in Israel would say things like “we should kill all the Palestinians”, “they’re all terrorists”, But I refused to believe that the majority of the Palestinians support the acts of terror.

When the Intifadah started, I still stuck to my opinion. I truly believed that we can negotiate with them, and that it was just a VERY small percentage of the Palestinians who were for the bombings and shootings. Little by little, my opinion started to change. After seeing more and more Palestinians celebrate each suicide bombing, I wasn’t so sure that it is really the minority of them who are terrorists. Now, what changed my mind COMPLETELY was after the lynch (slaughter in English?) of the Israeli soldiers. While the soldiers were getting stabbed by the Palestinian police in the building, the people started to gather around the building and cheer them on. There weren’t just 50 or 60 people, there were THOUSANDS. After the soldiers were thrown out the window, all the people rushed like savages towards them, and scrambled to touch the soldiers and beat them some more. Keep in mind that they were ALREADY DEAD. Like beasts, the people paraded in front of the cameras and showed off the blood they managed to rub off the soldiers.

After this, and many other incidents, I realized that it is really the majority of the Palestinians who support the terror. The young kids are taught this in school by the their teachers, 10 years olds are taught how to kill soldiers, and 12 year old boys are sent out to throw stones at soldiers.

Many people on this board are saying, “well we shouldn’t hurt innocent people, we should just kill those directly responsible”.
What you don’t understand is that a very large chunk of those who are innocent now, won’t be if they are given the opportunity. They will gladly go out and try to wipe out the “Evil Zionist State”.

When it comes to these people, you can’t just assume that by attacking those directly responsible will end the terrorism, but you have to attack everyone who shares their beliefs.

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agreed.

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often the truth hurts.
and often the truth is difficult, if not humanly impossible to believe.
perhaps it’s easier to believe there are mostly good people living in these countries harbouring terrorists than it is to believe that an entire nation or a complete group of humans without outliers would want to inflict mass horrors onto so many …

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These people believe that if they die in support of a holy cause, they are rewarded in heaven. To that I say:

Kill them all, and let God sort it out.

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It is a very sad story there Driver…

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I agree completely. Its a point a government teacher at my school made yesterday. I believe we should also revoke all student visa’s of those from Palestine and Afganistan. The image of people partying and celebrating when this happened still fills me with rage and removes any remorse I start to experience.

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very similar to the Japan situation at the end of WWII, where kids wielded guns, should America invade, people say we shouldn’t have nuked them because we killed tons of “innocent” people, who is or isn’t innocent I am not sure.

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Amen.These people are taught to hate. If you are willing to cheer a horrific act, you should be prepared to die when retribution comes.

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I heard something on the radio regarding people cheering in the streets, that I thought was interesting. The person stated that if the US attacks whoever caused this tragedy, it is almost a promise that Americans will be the ones cheering in the streets. So, their point was that celebrating the death of others is not something so inhumane that Americans are not capable of doing it. Also, different things mean different things to different cultures and religons, so we may not totally understand our enemies. I really don’t want to start any arguements with this post, I just thought it was something worth sharing, since I know the celebrating is very upsetting to a lot of people, including myself. Hopefully I didn’t offend anyone with this post, as it seems there are so many different opinions on this matter, and personally, it seems like I can relate to all of them.