Understanding Terror. posted by Richard Seymour

Harry's Place gives stupidity a bad name by allowing a devastatingly idiotic post by someone calling himself "Gene" (I'd guess he's the rogue one causing the occasional extra chromosome). Exercised by liberal apologetics for terrorism, Gene tells us:

"While not condoning Palestinian suicide murderers, Liberal Democrat MP Jenny Tonge says she understands the conditions that create them and would consider becoming one herself if she was in their place.

I've long been mystified by those who express "understanding" for even the vilest acts of mass murder when they are committed by Palestinians. What if the friends and relatives of Israeli terror victims routinely crossed into the West Bank and carried out revenge attacks on innocent Palestinians? Would they be favored by MP Tonge's understanding too?

If you can "understand" the murderers of Israeli children, why not also understand:

--Baruch Goldstein. Maddened by violence against his fellow Jewish settlers in the West Bank, he murdered 29 Palestinians in Hebron in 1994..." and so on, ad nauseum.

The "night in which all cows are black" is upon us. Apparently there is no distinction between the oppressor and the oppressed.

If you understand Algerian violence against the French, why not understand French torture of Algerian suspects? If you understand Mau Mau violence against the British, why not understand British tyranny?

"Understanding" is not a matter of desert, it's a duty and obligation for anyone interested in ceasing the tornado of violence engulfing much of our globe. An Israeli father who lost his son to a suicide bombing wrote an article published in The Guardian last year, in which he expressed sympathy for the Palestinian cause, and noted that if he were a Palestinian, he would want to kill Israelis. Rami Elhanan's 14-year-old daughter, Smadar, was killed by a suicide bomber in 1997. Elhanan is a former soldier whose father survived the Nazi's Auschwitz concentration camp; many of his relatives died in the Holocaust. He says that while he won't "forgive or forget" the actions of the bomber, people need to understand the cause of the violence. It didn't just come "out of the blue". An entire people have been brutalised and denied their rights.

“The suicide bomber was a victim the same way as my girl was, of that I'm sure”, Elhanan said.


If we, who have no murdered sons or daughters, fail to understand such elementary things as cause and effect, we have no right to cover our idiocy in sanctimonious drivel.

Shut it, Gene.