Discussion: Terrorism, Israel, Hamas, etc

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ssj12 said:

Lingyis said:
well, just a reminder, back in the days, say the 19th century, "first-world" countries were often called imperialists.

we've seen great progress since then. not to say that there aren't underhanded activities by powers like US, UK or France that undermine small governments in places like Africa and South America, but things have changed a lot. indeed, we witnessed it in the almost-universal hate towards bush's foreign policies.

in my mind, terrorism pretty much has to mean the destructive action of a group of minority against the establishment. that means, in my book, a lot of things would qualify for terrorism, but when a major power commits "terrorism", i would categorize that as imperialism.

as far as enemies are concerned, i agree with you. the bottom line is, history is written by the winner. it has always been the case, and it will continue to be the case.

While it is/can be destructive, there a meaning behind the attacks something that most people in the attacked nations seem to tune out. Most of the time it isnt as extreme as Osama wants but more of a statement of that actions within a nation doesnt comply with the way we want the nation to be or how a nation feels it should be treated.

One of Hamas's reasons for attacking Israel is because they feel mistreated which is true. Israel treats them like crap. Israel has stated they only hired the Palistinians as basically slaves or low level workers. They are not even willing to give the the chance to better themselves.

 

Now i don't see anything wrong with this.  It's not like they don't hire any arabs into higher level positions.

Just Palestinians... who aren't part of Israel... and are basically an unofficial company.

That'd be like Mexico compalining that the US doesn't hire any of it's workers into management positions.