When is terror OK?

By Roy D. Follendore III

July 23, 2002

When is it OK to kill children for a greater end? Is it right to blow one or two of babies to pieces and burn them to death if we are able to kill one criminal? Is it fine to fire hot steel through the living bodies of nine or ten children if we also destroy an enemy military commander? What exactly is the value of innocent children? If they have any value, then who speaks for them inside your military and your political and religious systems?

America provides F16 jet fighters to Israel. Yesterday Israel used such a jet to fire a heavy air to ground missile at a home. The military had intelligence that there was a Palestinian military commander inside. The commander that ordered that attack should have known that there were innocent children involved in the area. If not then why not? It was a crowded neighborhood. Families surround the ghettos that Israel has created.

In the final analysis, fourteen innocent people were sacrificed to kill one man. Nine were children from neighboring homes. For the Israeli military objective was more important than the existence of the children and the United States Government called it "heavy handed." But it was far more than that. "This was a deliberate attack on a building where Israel knew innocent people lived." This was therefore an act of terror using American weapons of mass destruction. When human bombers kill with the military objective of civil disruption, exactly the same results are produced. This is also the massive death of innocents where legitimate military targets are replaced in an endless cycle. Women and children will go to sleep every night fearful of another deadly attack.

Citizens of Israel, I feel great sorrow for you. The military mindset of eternal unconditional war is heavy on your souls. You own and operate your giant machine war which you now feel you can never give up. The risk of peace with your enemies means that you must negotiate and cooperate. You must change. You have created your own golem from a combination of religion and technology and you will be forever shamed for its deliberate actions.

You say you turn your military out to destroy in order to change the mind of the enemy, to prevent them from destroying your nation. But turning hearts is more important than turning minds because the mind always follows the heart. You have not learned that you may have killed the only innocent hearts who would have made a difference. You have certainly spawned more children and parents who will forever hate you, and hate everything you sand for. The rhetoric you stand in is perpetual and you have not learned.

Killing women and children makes you the image of your enemy.

War never ends without peace.

What is left after war is over is what you will have become.

Get the picture Israel?

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