Arab League Fails To Reign In Terrorism; Nothing, Including Occupation, Justifies Deliberate Attacks Against Civilians

Once again the Arab League and oil rich gulf nations miss the opportunity to stop the spread of terrorism. Terrorism is unacceptable if it is used against them, but it is just fine if it is directed against their enemies or the nation of Israel and the Jew they hate. Hezbollah was declared to be a terrorist organization, but Hamas was not. It is not terrorism, they declared, if it is against occupation. This is their way of partially condemning terrorism, but continuing to allow and accept it, even promote it, if it is suits their political and religious purposes. The weak minded west, ever concerned with oil, money and business, fails again to uphold a minimal moral standard, and is silent as usual. Terrorism is the deliberate attacking, with the intent to harm, maim and kill, unarmed civilian populations. Terrorism is not defined by being a response, or lack thereof, to occupation. Terrorists make no distinction between combatants and noncombatants. They deliberately seek out civilian populations to terrorize and harm. Once evil is accepted, it quickly metastasizes. The world learned this only too well when Hamas suicide bombings were accepted and praised, and now suicide bombings are occurring all over the Muslim world and elsewhere. No one, no where, has the right to deliberately attack and harm unarmed, noncombatant, civilian populations. To Hamas and Hezbollah, all of Israel is occupied. It is not about the west bank, Gaza, and east Jerusalem in their minds. It is their belief that infidels, especially Jews, have to be destroyed, driven from the land or preferably murdered, and that only Muslims have the right to rule. Israel to them cannot exist even on one hectare in Tel Aviv. There are millions of people in the world today whose lands are occupied, where the original indigenous people were expelled and the descendants now live elsewhere. Many have legitimate claims and yet do not resort to violence and terror, and if they did, would be widely condemned for using terror. Would the Islamic world that selectively justifies terror like it if all the millions of descendants of people displaced from the expansion of Islam, and that had their lands taken, most often by force and violence, now start randomly attacking and killing Muslims? Would the Arab and Muslim world like it if the Jews who were persecuted by Muslims and that were driven from their lands and forced to flee to Israel now start randomly killing in order to get back their occupied lands? This includes lands in Iraq, Syria, Algeria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Lebanon,Libya, Egypt, and other places. Do Jews that used to live in Hebron and other places in British Palestine that were violently driven out, with many murdered in the 1920's by Arab Muslims, have the right to randomly kill any Arab in Hebron or the west bank, much as Hamas thinks they have the right to kill any Jew living in Israel? Do Jews have the right to commit acts of terror and claim back their occupied lands in Saudi Arabia that were stolen from them in the 7th century when Islam first appeared, and at which time the Jewish tribes living on the Arabian peninsula that is now Saudi Arabia were slaughtered? Do Hindus and Buddhists driven out or murdered from what is now Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and other places have the right to kill innocent civilians in order to recover their lands that are now occupied by Muslims? Do the Christians and Yazidis of the middle east now being slaughtered, raped, kidnapped, sold as sex slaves, driven from their homes, have the right in fifty years to return and attack any Arab Muslim civilian who is then living on their lands? Do the indigenous people of Australia, North and South America, the Caribbean and other places have the right to attack the people now living on their ancestral lands that were taken by force long ago? Do the millions of Muslims driven from India in 1948, the same year Israel became a state, and that were forced to flee to what is now Pakistan, with many Muslims having been murdered, have the right to kill anyone in India? Do the Hindus and Christians driven from Pakistan in 1948 and thereafter, with many murdered, have the right to attack and kill anyone in Pakistan? Is it okay for Jews of European descent to randomly kill Europeans that now live on the lands that their ancestors owned before they were rounded up with almost all murdered? Do the millions of non Muslim descendants of people in Africa, Asia, the middle east, that were driven from their lands, murdered in many instances, with many taken as slaves, have the right to randomly attack and kill the Muslim descendants now living on those lands? There is hardly a place on this planet where there was not violent conquest and occupation, most of it by Muslims or Christians. It is not by accident that thousands of native people and their cultures have been destroyed, with millions forced to become Muslims or Christians. Unfortunately, this is still happening today by violent Islamists. It is legitimate to resist occupation, but not by terror. It is legitimate to demand the right to full citizenship and the right to freely vote, or to have independence. But it is also legitimate for a nation not to grant statehood and not to make territorial concessions if that means their own nation will be indefensible and vulnerable to war and terrorism from a hostile enemy. Remove terrorism, and there can then be no justification for occupation. It is never legitimate to use terrorism. Terror only ensures more misery, poverty, death, repression and suffering. Terrorism is always wrong and evil, no matter who does it, without any exception, and to say otherwise and to try to justify it is being nothing but a hypocrite.