Lebanon just had some 'splinter groups' launch an attack on Israel, forcing zion to fight a war on two fronts. France and Egypt are trying the diplomatic route and the US is still giving Israel more money than it gives every other country combined, thanks to military ties like Project Jericho. Meanwhile, a handful of people are taking up slingshots in a modern day David and Goliath to fight for the right to not live in refugee camps, but their homes. They don't fight for the right to control oil or global expansion, they fight for their families, their freedoms. They are outnumbered, outmanned, outgunned, outfunded, but they still give their lives. The media portrays them the same way it portrayed native americans, as savages who use dirty fighting methods. The same way slaves that rebeled where seen as gruesome murderers, Palestinians are lumped in with Al Qaeda in the minds of Americans. But when all you have to fight with is a shovel, a pickax, a slingshot, or a stick, every kill is going to be gruesome, every kill is going to make you look like you've lost your mind.
Stick me in a refugee camp for decades, marginalize my existence, take away my basic freedoms, and kill my family and i will lose my mind. Of course, one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. But if it's all about perception, maybe Hamas and friends just need a new PR firm to represent them. Remember when R. Kelly got busted peeing on a 13 yr old girl and then released Remix to Ignition and everyone was instantly cool with the peeing thing? Maybe Palestinians just need a hot album.
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