Why do Palestinians openly support terrorism?
A new poll has found that the number of Palestinians who support attacks against Israelis continues to rise and more than half of them favor suicide bombings. The poll, published this weekend, held over April 8-13 and conducted by the Palestinian Arab, eastern-Jerusalem based Jerusalem Media & Communications Center (JMCC), covered 1,190 Palestinians from Judea, Samaria and Gaza, shows that the percentage of Palestinians who support “resistance operations” against Israeli targets rose from 43.1% in September 2006 to 49.5% at present. Palestinians who support bombing attacks against Israeli civilians rose from 44.8% in June 2006 to 48% in September 2006 and to 50.7% now. (Khaled Abu Toameh, ‘Palestinians’ backing for terror rises,’ Jerusalem Post, April 21, 2008). Several past polls indicate that Palestinian past support for terror has, at least on occasion, been higher in the past than the 43.1% in September 2006 that the JMCC cited here, including according to its own September 2006 po
I wouldn’t speak for all of the Palestinians but the leaders they elect certainly do Support and Promote terrorism. Every chance they’ve been given to have any kind of a state they’ve turned down. Even when Israel offered them 99 % of what they were asking for they said no. I think that pretty much speaks for itself.
To describe any people who violently resist a foreign invader or oppressors as terrorist is to render the word meaningless. The Palestinians did not invent terrorism. They found it already institutionalized, a policy employed against them. The important question is whether the violence employed by the oppressed tends toward the terror or toward its self -perpetuation. The goal of the Palestinian people is not terror but the establishment of a state for Palestinian people. “What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offense and has turned a deaf ear to the victims” Arnold Toynbee – The Transformation of Palestine (Northwestern University Press 1971,p.viii) Israel and its supporters tend to define terrorism in such a way that acts describable as “terror” are applied mostly to resistance groups and rarely to states. For instance, the raids conducted by the Palestinian resistance groups are called “terrorist raids” whereas
If Israel can say they are not involved in terrorism for killing 1400 in response for 3 Israeli deaths, then should not Palestinians (who suffer higher causalities than Israelis) be granted the same? Or if Palestinians are terrorists, than shouldn’t IDF reprisal attacks, settler attacks and illegal land expropriation be counted the same? If terrorism is only defined in attacks against a civilian population, then Israel is at least at fault itself of the deed-not just for Gaza either. There have been more incidents of violence AGAINST the Palestinians than BY them. That being said, terrorism is down in the West Bank, even the IDF acknowledges this. Not just because of the wall (rockets and mortars could easily fly over and into some of the most populace areas of the occupied territories or Israel itself) but because of a will to try peace. Try to empathize with somebody who has had their land or house expropriated to make way for a “Jewish only” settlement. A farm that has been in the f
Personally I think terrorism in all its forms is despicable…..the random , indiscriminate killing of innocent human beings is beneath contempt & does no one’s cause any good.. I also believe that to indiscriminately bomb or shell a civilian population , no matter what the supposed justification is equally beneath contempt & unjustifiable.. My hope is that one day , cool heads on both sides will realise the stupidity & futility of what they are doing …that it accomplishes the exact opposite of what they are trying to achieve & just prolongs the slaughter … The sooner the justification coming from both sides in this category stops & the point scoring from supposed historical charts & religious misquotes stops , then maybe WE can at least make some progress …
