perfidy

Does anyone else find it darkly ironic (that is, incredibly sad) that the (now) most senior leader of Hamas is a pediatrician? Because you know, children need to be healthy before they commit mass murder and discorporate violently.

That same article also notes that another senior Hamas leader is a doctor. Well, I guess the Christians have one thing right... humanity is depraved and base by nature.

Now the bastards are using the mentally challenged, though unsuccessfully so far. This New York Post article is a sobering look at how Palestinian groups are indoctrinating children from birth to be suicide bombers. According to the piece, 3 out of 4 Palestinian teenagers say they want to become martyrs (that is, become 'splodeydopes themselves), but also notes mounting outrage among Palestinians at these tactics. This article covers the same ground, focusing on the family of the mentally-challenged 16 year old who surrendered yesterday at an Israeli checkpoint wearing a suicide vest.

I don't know much about the Israel/Palestine conflict. It's not my field, and I haven't spent very much time schooling myself on the long history of murder, reprisal, terror, occupation, and rancor. From my lay perspective it looks like this: I know Israel has done some ugly things in the past but it's really hard to muster much outrage when the people trying to eradicate them have fallen so far from reason, decency or humanity.