It's funny how that works, isn't it? What's even stranger is watching more and more people come to the same conclusion, and how very uncomfortable it makes them.

At least out here on the Left Coast.

I'm ashamed that it took the 9/11 atrocities to wake me up to the "Palestinian" antics. But after that, I lost all sympathy for "insurgents" and "militants" everywhere.

I don't care "why they hate us". I just want them dead without them taking other people with them.

My 'conversion' can be summed up in just about exactly the same words as yours. However, usually my criticism was more in the lines of questioning along the lines of 'why can't the Israeli's just arrest them rather than target them for assassination'. Now I know.

I watched the Beslan massacre documentary recently, and could not stop my self from thinking ‘Kill them, kill them all’ over and over (referring to the Chechnyans). I hate how bloodthirsty these bastards are making me.

To say nothing of the Moscow Theater Incident.

Yeah Coulter was right. Either Kill 'em or convert 'em to Christianity.

Or the Russian hospital seige.

The kids at the club in Bali had it coming....

Or the three separate bombings of Apartment buildings.

I would have to say though that if you did not realize who was on the right side of the issue after the 1972 Olympic massacre, you were not paying attention.

But those pre-schoolers at Ma'alot - now THEY asked for it...

Go BIBI!

The Brit's are a puzzle. Stiff upper lip 'n' all, but they'll probably need it with their attitude towards hosting terrorist leaders.

Also, saw a Reuters article yesterday where they ran down the list of nations who had been victimized by suicide bombers. Conspicuously absent from the list: Israel. Probably because they deserve it.

"but they'll probably need it with their attitude towards hosting terrorist leaders"

Yeah, not to mention passing religious hate laws designed to protect muslims and punish those who point out the whole kill infidels thing. Christ, they haven't even buried the dead from last weeks Islamic terrorist attack, or as it is known at the BBC 'secular bombing', and they are eager to give these asswipes for room to destroy the country.

Fucking Blair should end up in prison for the shithole he is running the country into.

Perhaps they've told themselves, over the years, that the Jews must be doing something to provoke the Palestinians; otherwise, why would assumedly-rational people keep blowing themselves up in restaurants?

Good point, and deeper than it sounds. For the Liberal psyche, when confronted by the real possiblity of danger, will always try to rationalize and justify their own presonal cowardice by blaming it all on someone else, other than those who threaten them. This way they don't have to face the danger directly or actually do anything about it. And one of the ways they accomplish this mighty feat of insanity is exactly outlined above.

I have just come to the conclusion that we are experiencing a world war, we just haven't had the courage to call it that. We call it a "war on terror", but the reality is, at least from my Israeli perspective, that it is a war perpetuated by those who have come to learn that terrorism will eventually get them what they want.

Terrorist should not be rewarded; especially with a country of their own.

Rachel Ann

it is a war perpetuated by those who have come to learn that terrorism will eventually get them what they want.

Yes, and their casualties are amazingly low, especially when compared to those of the west. And when one considers how much they've already gotten out of Isreal and cowed whole nations with a single railroad-bombing, what conclusion can anyone come to?

It is only when we deny them their goals, stop rewarding them and instead make them all pay a price for each terrorist incident that they will turn on the terrorists.

I am not suggesting that we should lob a cruise missle into the middle of the marketplace at noon every time they strike. But they must be made to pay some sort of price, and nothing, and I do mean nothing, should be off the table. We must learn to think outside the box. What has worked or failed for the Isrealis? We must begin to think everything and anything, even the unthinkable, or lose our civilization and all the greatest acheivemnts of mankind to a world that future historians (if any are ever free again) shall call the Dark Age of Islam.

Why can't the IDF do counter-battery fire on these things? Say a regimental-sized response using MLRS.

Pretty sure I'd sloughed off my youthful anti-Israel stance well prior to 9-11, having at some point finally acknowledged visceral disgust at the slaughter of innocent civilians, whomever they may be.

But more to the point - is there any doubt why so many of us ever sided with the murderers? Take a very hard look at how the issues are filtered and spun -even today - by the MSM, and then decide who has blood on his hands. And the MSM is in shock/denial because this realization is spreading.