Friday, May 23, 2008

Suicide Update

clipped from www.jpost.com

These cases, while unprecedented in the annals of history, should not be that
surprising. If you glorify individual suicide, if death is the key to a happy
afterlife, if war itself is sanctified, why not extend these ideas from the
individual to the collective? To the regime itself ? Suicide is the path to both
individual and national salvation.

Luckily, not all Arab or Muslim regimes are like that. The vast majority of
Arabs seek life, liberty and happiness. But when it comes to the hated Israel,
madness rules, and not only the Iranians. It is a fact that Iran's explicit aim
"to wipe Israel off the map" and its implicit threat to use nuclear weapons for
this purpose are supported by many Palestinians - even though they too would be
"wiped off" in the process.

Suicide in the struggle against Israel has acquired a degree of legitimacy
the West cannot even fathom.