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Dear Felix,
I am astounded that the "Palestine" society is surprised that people such as Gillian have expressed disgust at their recent showing of the Hamas/PLO propaganda film at IC. The apologists for the film and PLO terrorism in general, write (Felix April 29th) that a "single quote" was taken out of context. This is disingenuous at best, as the entire film, as indeed are most of the activities of the aforementioned society, are a thinly disguised pretext for demonising Israel and the Jewish people and furthering the myths espoused by the totalitarian dictatorships that make up the Arab world today. Indeed the human "suffering" that the PLO sympathiser alludes to in her letter is the direct result of racist ideologies that don't accept the presence of a non-muslim democracy , an island of civilisation, in a sea of repressive Arab regimes. These 22 states, which have waged no less than 6 wars against Israel (a country the size of Wales) in their quest for domination of the entire region, are the root of this suffering and not the Israeli people defending their country and their women and children . Half of the Israeli people today are refugees or descendendants of refugees from the Arab world who were ethnically cleansed from their ancestral lands.
The recent massacre of the entire Hatuel family where the pregnant mother and her four young daughters were murdered in their family car bears testament to the depths of barbarity of "Palestinian" Arab terrorism. While the Arab masses remain hungry and illiterate their governments continue to spend their vast oil-wealth fuelling the fires of war and terrorism. Perhaps their society should consider hosting an event that deals with the vast human rights abuses in the Arab world, including the repression of women, minorities and the few seeking dialogue and democratic reform.Instead of concentrating on the real problems of the Arab world, those inherent in totalitarian societes, they seek to spread myths and half truths to demonise the "little satan" - Israel and deflect criticism away from the Arab regimes themselves. As Josef Goebells said, "if you repeat a lie enough times people will start to believe it ", and so it seems that this is the strategy adopted by the film's producers and the apologists for "Palestinian" Arab violence.
yours sincerely
David Shalom
UG 4 Chem/Management
Dear Felix,
Whatever Gillian said about PalSoc inciting terrorism, only shows that she is one of many ignorant people who do not know the difference between terrorism and legitimate war. In fact current global events and attacks (and hatred) towards America and its allies should not be that surprising.
Firstly it's a bit of a joke to see how fascinated people are with the American abuse of Iraqi civilians, when it has been happening in every country America has been to or (not been to!).
The fact that weapons of mass destruction (and I can't believe how overused the term 'WMD' is) have not been found is something that I'm sure everyone is tired of pointing out.
Iraq is in chaos, so is Afghanistan and don't think for a second that these people have been liberated.
Personally I don't see much wrong with suicide bombing, and this is a moderate view.
It's pretty straightforward to justify when the Israeli military (terrorist) has unbelievable support from America. There is not enough space in a thousand pages to start discussing that.
And as for September 11th, I don't know why it is such a huge deal, as this terrorism is the same as American terrorism. Only the Americans have done it slowly so we wouldn't notice through the sanctions that killed half a millions Iraqi children, through the sanctions that crippled Libya (disgusting that a nation suffers for one plane bombing, and the money paid to the victims, ludicrous!), the blatant, blatant one-sided attack on the Palestinians, the list of course goes way on.
You may think I am being insensitive, but the fact is 1 American is NOT equal to 5000 Somalis, Iraqis or anyone else. It's 5000 times worse, and the consequences will be 5000 times more.
Sincerely,
Aadil
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