From 2 threads off their first page...
basem:
"We do not support suicide bombings."
"Killing civilians (both Israelis and Palestinians) is wrong."
"The Palestinians had gone through the peace route for the past 10 years and acknowleged the state of Israel over 78% of palestine. now they find that they are not allowed to live even on the remaining 22%. During Rabin's rule there was hope but now Sharon is telling them you either surrender or die. he is reufsing to even discuss the cause of the problem: The ILLEGAL MILITARY OCCUPATION of the west bank and Gaza strip in violation of UN reoslution 242 and 338 as well as international laws."
"Quote (nitemare @ April 10 2002,13:55)
Someone asked on Anandtech what was the difference between what Israel is doing now and what America did to Afghanistan. I did not know an answer
right away, but now I do.EndQuote
There is another major difference nitmare:
America did not attack Afghanistan pre 9/11 and did not illegally occupy Afghanistan for more than 30 years in defiance of all International laws and UN resolutions. American has nto been tryign to ethnically cleanse Afghanistan from Afghanis and replace them with jews from Russia. The big picture must not be lost:
9/11 is an unprovoked terrorist attack on America
What is happending in the occupied territories is an ILLEGAL MILLITARY OCCUPATION that has been in effect for more than 30 years in defiance of all the world community, international laws and UN resolutions 242 & 338. This illegal military occupation has been upgraded to ethnic cleansing the last 10 days with systematic destruction of buildings all over the west bank and klling as many civilians as possible so the rest have to flee their homes same way that palestinains were forced to flee their homes in 1948 in Yafa and Akka."
the_pharoan:
"we dont support suicide bombings."
Zo2Zo2:
"None of us on this board believes on Sucide Bombing & Israeli State Terrorism...we condemn both"
Zamalekalltheway:
"I condem Palestinain attacks that kill civilians"
Rami:
"Nitemare,
I agree with your points.
The differences with the American operations in Afghanistan and the Israeli actions are MANY. I'll point to them ALL when I get more time, but to give you a simplistic answer, the US is not in Afghanistan to steal their land or occupy large parts of that Country to build settlements on it. The Al-Qaeda also has little resemlance of other groups. Were they striking NY because it's an occuppied territory? Give me a break!
Al-Qaeda is a terror group pure and simple and the US does not deserve to be attacked.
Having said that, I do agree that the Palestinian groups should restrict their operations to soldiers and settlers that are illegally on their land. They just see their civilians being killed and act in revenge. You see, when hundreds of civilians die from Israeli action, intentional and unintentional, this comes from the occupation.
So when people are killed in their own homes and towns, these groups want to inflict the same harm to Israelis where they are. It's a vicious cycle that may not end anytime soon, unfortunately.
To Arabs, the bottom line is that the occupation must end first. The Israelis say they won't end the occupation until there is no resistance of any kind. And so this game continues endlessly. To me, Israel must end the occupation and return the land they occupy. It's like China coming and occupying the US and say they will return only part of the land but ONLY if the US does not try to resist."
They all look like crazed Muslim extremists to me too...Their view might differ from your own, but that doesn't mean they are all terrorists or terrorist sympathsizers.