Hamas win. Film at ten.

[awmperry]

More Palestine news all over the... well, news. Who really cares any more? Just posted this on the BBC's discussion about it:

I find it very difficult to care any more about the Israeli-Palestinian situation. Whenever an attempt is made by either side, something comes along - again, from either side - to derail the peace process. While the Palestinian claim to the land feels more legitimate - having actually lived on the land for a long time in living memory as opposed to a claim that "God told me so" - the suicide attacks just undermine their cause; indeed, I sometimes suspect that some of the attacks feel rather too convenient for Israel.

Similarly, while I find it hard to believe that a nation entirely based on a common religion should be necessary (it was fifty years ago but not, in my opinion, any more), Israel need to very carefully reevaluate their rules of engagement. Tank crews firing on children throwing stones? "Arresting" suspected terrorists by launching Mavericks at their cars? They have vastly superior military power, and with that power comes the responsibility to use it in a sensible and humane way.

I wonder if the region is salvagable at all. Perhaps we should just let them get on with it, if they're just going to continue squabbling like two little children fighting over the world's biggest sandpit?

Religion is a really bad reason to kill people.

Comments

[mentalmads.livejournal.com]

Hey, I was just browsing around the schools feature...so you went to Brussels II?

I'm at the Alicante school now...mind if I friend you? Always looking for more stuff to read, and I generally find European school students fairly interesting. Apart from the few pompous gits with too much money...

[awmperry.livejournal.com]

Sure, go ahead.

Yeah, graduated from Woluwe back in 2001.