<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by benoit:
The greatest terrorist recruiting tool is the Israeli bulldozers taking out palestinian homes in the middle of the night.
You just created homeless people with nothing to lose, and where their home used to be, they see a new foreign settlement or road where their home was -- well what is more dangerous than justifiably enraged people with nothing to lose? There is a reason these people have been radicalized, a good part of it is a sense extreme injustice, helplessness and desperation. Of course some of these poor people just become pawns for rich people with grand evil schemes, but they wouldn't be pawns if their lives weren't already a living hell. It may be convenient and expedient to dehumanize and demonize palestinians, but there is a reason they have been radicalized in recent years. None of this implies I agree with what the extremists do, but knowing the reasons may help to prevent it in future...
I think we should retaliate fiercely again bin laden and his cronies wherever they are (afghanistan, Chechnya, pakistan, etc..), but lets be honest about the causes of hatred. It didn't come from nowhere...</font>
Benoit - Rich Saudi young man goes to Afghanistan to fight against Russians, finances the groups that evolve into the Taliban. Returns to Saudia after Russians leave, becomes royally p/o'd that US troops are still on holy ground and starts to take actions against ruling Saud family, leading to freezing of assets in Saudia and expulsion. Goes back to Afghanistan and continues, escalating into attacks on civilians. (CNN's web site has a decent summary on Bin-Laden this morning).
1. What's the connection to Israel and the Palestinians?
2. Even if by some remote thread of logic you do make a connection, where is the basis for the kind of crappy post you made?
3. Within your post there is so much nonsense I don't know where to start. Maybe with the fact that some of the houses were built w/o permits, maybe some of them were used as sniper posts? Maybe with the fact that they are not replaced by roads or settlements, but left as they were?
Once you start looking for reasons to "understand" terrorism you can't stop. There is always going to be someone out there that's not happy with the way things are and feel they have to change the system by violence. Reasons are not needed.