http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Wed, 2 Apr 2008 11:43:42 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/19/045756.php#comment-706724 firstly, regardless of the so called 'facts' which by the way you obviously need to read up on more and make judgments based on the history and not just what you have heard, no one should ever turn their backs on other people who are suffering! I strongly advise you to look at how this conflict started! It dates back to almost 90 years ago with the Balfour declaration where America AND Britain decided to play a disgusting game of scrabble with the Middle East. It was Britain and America which decided to split up 'rule' the Middle East and this is what has caused the conflict! It is America and Britain that need to work and I mean properly work with the Arab nations to formulate effective peace. When i say work i mean not force or provide sanctions for! They need to take responsibilty for the mess they have created! You referred to suicide bombings in your article. Firstly, people like us can not sit bone-idle in our comfy chairs and condemn suicide bombings in the Middle East without looking at the cause or WHY it is happening! When you have seen (again i can only imagine) your parents, your children, your family blown up into worthless pieces and you know that you may be next and you have nothing to protect yourself or retaliate with but yourself, the thought of being a suicide bomber can be understood in this context, the psychological trauma is only what we can only imagine. it just reflects the desperate situation it has turned into and the more Israel attack the more suicide bombers they are breeding by the minute as lets face it, the Palestinians have nothing to fight with but themselves! Palestinians make their own weapons; they are not funded by USA with missionary weapons and aid! However, I am not saying that suicide bombing killing innocent lives is commendable, in fact far from it. I do not support the people who carried out 7/7 hurting innocent lives when they are not a threat to you. I am simply saying that one should look into the reason of why these things happen...men who are suicide bombers and blow themselves up in a place like America and Britain because they do not agree with foreign policy need to revise their motives and intentions especially when Palestinians' themselves who don't have power in comparison are getting involved politically instead of killing themselves, they understand that once you're dead, ur dead so what use are you to do good, what power can you have...it should make us think of how lucky we are to live in a country where we can get involved politically and with it have some sort of power and greater influence than that of the palestinians to try and help places like palestine and expand to places like siera leone which homes the disgusting blood diamond trade which suprise suprise, is for the big strong economies like America and Britian and some Arab states. This is indeed a complex situation but like i said if you want to be balanced in your opinion then READ THE HISTORY! this is one of the reasons why people keep making the same mistakes where history repeats itself because we don't LEARN from history, most of us are ignorant and are closed minded because we don't care to educate ourselves before we make such swooping statements!.....i have read the history and i have seen how much of a bloody conflict it is and based on the FACTS, the Palestinians are not as much at fault as the big spoilt kids of America, Israel and britian!..Palestine are not the ones we should turn our back on! 706724@blogcritics.org Wed, 2 Apr 2008 11:43:42 EDT