2/7: Man vs tank

[adamzion]

With all the accusations that Israel is violating the human rights of the Palestinian soldiers who fire at from behind children, with orders from the PA leadership to the parents to send their children out to act as human shields, there hasn't been a peep here about the US and UK dropping literally tons of pounds of bombs and similar munitions on Iraq. These bombs, while ostensibly aimed "surgically" at Iraqi guns and radar installations, likely killed more Iraqui civilians in a day than rioting Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces since their latest intifada began.

Some would argue that these two issues are not morally equivalent, and I agree wholeheartedly. The mainland of the US is, in no way, threatened by Iraq, only cheap oil prices (which were the main reason for the Gulf War in the first place). Anything which happens in Israel is, by definition, happening on the Israeli mainland, and terrorist bombs have exploded in both the largest Israeli city and its capital. Compare that to car bombs and bus bombings in NYC and Washington, DC, and then ask yourself how the US would react? Likely by bombing another third world country like Sudan or Afghanistan, ostensibly to kill Osama bin Laden again.

Oh, but the US has an excuse- it's our media which defines things as good or bad.

Just an observation,
Z