Cikgu's Comment to Anonymous

hello cikgu, can you please write on whether it's safe to have a violent organisation, like hamas, as the ruling party of a neighbouring country?? I think I'm missing on a few details. Because I feel Israel is right to bring the war onto the strip after all that is happening with the muslim-branded rockets being fired randomly into their zionist land. If Hamas cared about their people, they wouldn't even think about throwing a rock over the wall anymore.

January 9, 2009 1:29 PM

I assume you're an adult, unlike the 12-17 year old kids I used to teach. As a Che'gu I would advise you to do your own reading and not shoot from the hip.

You may have a problem reading Muslim web sites and comments from Malay Muslims. So do look up sites like Counterpunch, www.counterpunch.org . John Pilger and Robert Fisk are extraordinarily sharp and brilliant analysts. And of course there's Noam Chomsky - who has written many books on the the Middle East. There's one particular article by Uri Avnery, " An Apology" in Counterpunch (June 16, 2008) which I highly recommend. And by the way the last two are both Jews, though I do not see why that should matter. ANYONE who is concerned about justice should be able to separate the perpetrators from the victims.

Finally a word of advice from Teacher: People who live in glass houses should not throw powerful American-Judaeo Bombs and Rockets at people who can only throw stones and small missiles.

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