Destruction

Submitted by Daniel Back (Netherlands), Mar 30, 2006 at 17:46

Although I fully accept the existence of Israel and it's right to defense itself and its citizens, I am always suprised that many Israelis and Americans call the arabs fight to eliminate Israel 'barbaric'. Of course it is barbaric, but the fact is that Israel already has achieved (in the past 50 years) in eliminating any palestinian state. How Barbaric is that? The first barbaric act you call terror, the second you call self- defense by a democratic state...

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