montelatici, et al,
You and I may not agree with praising bombers, but you try to claim that somehow the Palestinians are doing something extraordinary when they praise the bombers when in fact every national liberation organization has done the same in the past.
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I'm not making an association between any two organizations, or comparing similarities. I am saying that it is that --- no matter who you are --- if you advocate the deliberate targeting of defenseless women and children
(no matter you justification), you are a coward. I don't care which movement you are associated with, there is NO CHIVALRY in the murder of defenseless women and children; no matter what the cause.
That's why you are a racist, your hate for the Palestinians makes it impossible for you to recognize that the Palestinians are behaving in the same manner as other people in the past have behaved when in a similar situation.
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I did not say that I "HATE" the Arab Palestinian. But I did imply that I look down upon them with contempt, ethically weak minded, and totally unable to develop their own original thought (plagiarizing their action and motives from other cultures); regarding them as intellectually negligible to the development of humanity, worthless as an example of ethical and moral characteristics, and very much distasteful in form or manner in demonstrating a righteous cause.
For example, how is the Hamas praising of the bombing different from Gerry Adam's (IRA) praising of the Oct. 12 bombing that wiped out most of Thatcher's cabinet? It has nothing to do with the race, ethnicity, religion or other characteristic. It has to do with the situation people are in. That is the catalyst. No people that have found themselves in the situation the Palestinians are in have behaved much differently than the Palestinians. In fact, among all these groups, the Palestinians have been the least violent.
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POINT OF ORDER: Gerry Adam's
was not a Provisional and
was not involved in the bombing plot. He was an opposition party politician in the
Sinn Féin, and eventually worked his way through the chairs to become the Party President in 1983. The Brighton Bomber was Patrick McGee
(Provisional Irish Republican Army) that planned, organized and was responsible for the attempted murder of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Cabinet.
(But like most of the facts relative to the even, they are still sealed under the Official Secrets Act by HM's Security Service and HM's Secret Intelligence Service.) BUT I actually understand what you are driving at here.
It will not be uncommon, during your travels in Northern Ireland, to come across remembrance memorials dedicated to members of the Irish Republican Army and those of the Ulster Defence Force (UDF) and the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF), as well as the brave of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). The pain and anguish over the casualties on all sides are equally sorrowful.
As far as the level of violence, the Conflict Deaths (Northern Ireland) between 1969 and 2010 was less than 4000. But the conflict over the Partition dates back to 1920. Almost all the parties to the conflict, in some measure, used political violence and territorial terrorism to impose their will and achieve objectives. But there was a real internal conflict within a number of these parties concerning the death and ill treatment of women and children on both sides. Even in the conflict over Northern Ireland, there were both internal and external debates relative to the moral and ethical considerations affecting the region. It is probably why there are so many fewer casualties to that conflict than those of the Israeli-Arab Palestinian Conflict.
NOTE: The various parties to the conflict adopted a ceasefires in Northern Ireland --- The Good Friday Agreement of 1998, which saw direct rule of Northern Ireland being placed in the hands of locally elected government, a much more peaceful era had emerged. But it wasn't until 2005 that the Provisionals decommissioned their weapons and announced the formal end of the IRA Campaign. The British Loyalist disbanded in 2009.
While there were over the 8 decades of fighting, incidents in which innocent civilians (including women and children), neither side argued that they had a right to target and kill women and children in the same way as the Arab Palestinians do. And over time, the number of inadvertent killings of innocent women and children diminished.
Most Respectfully,
R