Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Jimmy Carter Calls Corrie Case Ruling ‘Unacceptable’ [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)You can't hold everybody in Gaza responsible for Hamas, for God's sake.
And what I can't understand...please help me here...is why you can't see that destroying people's homes might actually drive people who weren't terrorists into BECOMING terrorists. Doesn't that even strike you as a possibility? Do you ever run a cost-benefit analysis in your own mind as to whether the negative effects caused by things like home demolition(I understand your superiors order less of that these days...if that's correct I congratulate them on the decision)might possibly outweigh the brief, short-term good that's done(assuming any good is done at all)?
How would you take it if a Palestinian rolled a D-9 Cat over YOUR home in your comfortable suburb? I'm guessing you wouldn't be driven to moderation by that event. It's entirely possible that you'd react in a way that some people might consider "terroristic"-and I'm not sure that many people would blame you.
Would a person have to be a bigot to be filled with rage and a desire for vengeance against someone else who did that to their home? Isn't it fairly likely that a person would act on that rage? Wouldn't any self-control pretty much be totally lost at that point?
It's probably that home demolitions gave Hamas, or those crazier than Hamas, a lot of new recruits. That SHOULD concern you, if you want to keep yourself and your comrades-in-arms, most of whom I'd probably like(even you, perhaps, if we met in person and had a beer sometime, you never know)unharmed.
The one good thing in all of this is that,, in response to Rachel's death(and perhaps to other unnecessary deaths) the IDF has changed its policies on how it handles home demolitions to at least make some effort at protecting innocent people.