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McFly — (archived)

A terrible tragedy, in a place where tragedy appears to be a daily occurance.

If we allow that she was intelligent, and passionate about her beliefs, and that she miscalculated the situation and that mistake cost her her life, then I think based on what we know, perhaps we can allow that the driver of the bulldozer was also a passionate beleiver in what he perceived as his duty, and that her death came about in part because he lost track of the situation, rather than because he's a cold-blooded murderer.

Someone, in the last couple of weeks, wrote that it's sad that Israel's had to become the toughest bully on the block in order to survive.

It appears that if the Palestinians get their way, Israel will cease to exist, and if they don't get their way, the suicide bombings and anti-Israeli violence will continue.

Israel, in turn, uses it's powerful military to shed enough Palestinian blood to ensure that misery lives on both sides of the conflict.

And astonishingly, nobody seems to tire of the violence. Peace is unthinkable. It almost enough to make one wonder if war is humanity's natural state.

So how does one "choose a side?" How does one decide that bulldozing houses is more awful than setting off a bomb on a crowded bus? How does one decide that dead Palestinian children are more horrific than dead Israeli children? Is it numbers, pure and simple? Is it just a matter of accounting?

How could anyone pick sides in this madness and decide one side is more right, or perhaps just less wrong, than the other?

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