On 20 Aug 2002 at 0:01, Jkr438@aol.com wrote:
>
> > [Joe Dees]..such as getting their children to blow
> > themselves up in crowds of Israeli kids,
> >
> > [Mermaid]Children? You mean to say that Arab children are sent to
> > blow up crowds of Israeli kids by their own parents? Where exactly
> > did you read this? Can I see?
> >
> [Joe] There has been testimony from Palestinian parents of successful
> suicide bombers who stated that they were proud of their dead little
> assassin progeny and that they hoped that some of their siblings would
> join them.
>
> [Jake] Oh!! I see. So we aren't really talking about children, except
> in the figurative sense in that we are all children of our parents.
> That was far from clear in your initial depiction, but then without
> children, you can't bang your rhetorical drum as loudly. Really, Joe,
> you should just skip all these pretenses of rational debate. Just cut
> the crap and say what you mean, that everyone who disagrees with you
> on Israel/Palestine is simply a Jew-hating child killer. You've
> already slipped down to this level several times today in your rapid
> fire two minute response-turn-around. Why continue pretending?
>
Most of the Palestinian suicide bombers are in their teens or early
twenties, and are recruited in mosques by those much older than them
who will not suicide bomb themselves, but instead specialize in
convincing the younger and more malleable to do so. If they're not kids,
they're also not far from it.
>
> -Jake
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