KUNTAR AND THE ARAB CULTURE

Submitted by JACQUES HADIDA (United States), Jul 21, 2008 at 12:51

Your conclusion is right. Kuntar is on target and his days are counted, For how can we let him say what he says and wait for him to act?

Sadly both the govermenment and the people of Israel have changed. Their attitude is more one of ""laisser faire"" than one of ACTION. Sixty years of pain and hardship are resulting in offering the other cheek. And that is sad for it is not the Israel we came to know, respect and love.

I had a saying ""You respect the one you fear"" and Israel seems to have forgotten it, since as long as it won wars, showed their muscle, it was respected. And now, helping the Arab world discover new ""heroes"", its image has deteriorated.

As long as the Arab culture has it that you go to heaven to meet Allah after you kill a Jew, nothing will change.

This is more than a generational problem, it is sadly intrinsic to a mind and spirit of a culture that lives with standards not so familiar to the Western World.

When will an ARAB stand and let his world know about their folly?

JH

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